Trump reduced Social Security staffing to a 60 year low. Now, over a dozen field offices are closed to the public. It’s like an old car clanking down the highway as it leaks oil and gasoline. Every day, it is getting harder for Americans to access their hard earned benefits.

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

Donald Trump is the only person in the world who doesn't realise that the expression "Is the Pope Catholic?" is a joke

this is a boring take but if we want this from a Dem President in 2029 we need to deliver the type of huge legislative majority Magyar just achieved and not the razor-thin one that Biden was forced to work with.

The MINIMUM. There needs to be accountability if we have any desire to rebuild a democracy.

The difference between these two is racism

CHANGE OF PLANS—WE NEED YOU TO STAND AROUND AND DO NOTHING AT TERMINAL B

BREAKING: 49 Senate Republicans just VOTED DOWN our simple bill to pay TSA workers. Republicans have now blocked TSA pay SEVEN times. It’s a slap in the face to the men and women who have been working without a paycheck for weeks.

the media is now telling people to work from home to save on gasoline, immediately after their years-long crusade to tell us why returning to office is best for everyone. this isn't a gotcha, it's an example of how contradicting demands allow the ruling class to blame us no matter what we do

perhaps, justice roberts, the president wouldn't feel such license to denounce the courts if you didn't give him a grant of nearly unlimited impunity

They made them take down the videos because they would cause "reputational damage" to people like this young man, Nathan Cavanuagh, so definitely don't post this all over the internet with the name Nathan Cavanaugh attached, or this guy might suffer reputational damage. This guy, Nathan Cavanaugh.

I dunno man, I think precipitously canceling people's funding caused a lot of damage to other people's careers and lives and reputations and maybe they should live with the blowback. They come from a media ecosystem that makes public lists of insufficiently bigoted professors.

"social issues" are not distinct from economic issues, part ten million bsky.app/profile/the-...

"Jews don't belong in American society." Imagine a sitting member of Congress tweeting that. You can't. Thankfully, it'd never happen. And *if* it did, it'd be the end of their career and the biggest story in America. But Ogles can say this about Muslims without any censure.

Ongoing “lol” at every entity that cuts a lopsided deal with this guy rather than telling him to fuck off

there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true

Again, the ongoing claim that the 2026/8 elections are going to be just fine, because the authoritarians don't have the power to stop the actual voting, overlooks all the ways that competitive authoritarian regimes put their thumbs on the scales of democracy short of outright cancelling elections.

The president, who drones on about protecting women’s sports, publicly mocked the women’s gold-medal hockey team. A reminder this was never about protecting women’s sports and it was always about transphobia and misogyny.

YES! they won't bc leadership is weak but they should

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

A Valentine’s Day reminder that even the president has bad dates

Again, it is not close, on either policy or personnel, but one could start by looking at fiscal policy, then judicial appointments, then WH/Cabinet appointments, then drones & 🇦🇫, then immigration, then climate, then student loan debt, then etc. etc. etc. etc.

over the next 3 years, be ready for seeing a lot of coverage of Republican lawmakers, business leaders, university leaders who did absolutely nothing to stall Trump (on the contrary) — about how *actually* they were wringing their hands all along. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...

this is a good one storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Eternal glory to the reporter who blurts out "Jeffrey Epstein's best friend says what?" and gets Trump to say "what?!?" in a very confused way

trained, body-camera equipped agents are doing the murders? Maybe we should revise our asks so they match the reality of the problem, and would make meaningful difference in existing capacity for violence.

i am happy to fight for freedom with the libertarians but also, we don’t really need to *talk*

I don’t know if I’ve ever read a judicial ruling that radiates this much righteous contempt for the executive branch in my lifetime: “Apparent also is the government's ignorance of an American historical document called the Declaration of Independence.“ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Take his personal army away from him while you can, you stupid, stupid assholes. You’re like an armadillo playing dead in the middle of the road so the semi won’t hurt you

This is accurate. Trump has not changed course. He is trying to contain political damage. That's it. There is not pivot. There is no shift at this point. Past experience shows the "new tone," if you can call it that, will be temporary. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

If whistles are outlawed, only outlaws will whistle.

Exactly

americans hate it when they're shown on tv doing something cool

The testing ground for Bovino’s Operation At Large was Los Angeles. A California judge initially prohibited ICE/CBP’s most flagrant constitutional violations. SCOTUS overruled her 6–3, handing Bovino a blank check to inflict unspeakable brutality on Chicago and Minneapolis. The 6 bear so much blame.

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

On the execution in Minnesota: Obviously, the individuals involved should be held accountable. But responsibility goes to the top of ICE and CBP, and DHS. Their appropriations come up next week in the senate. Not a cent for DHS without pulling ICE and CBP off the streets, in MN and everywhere else.

Wow -- Fanone coughs "go fuck yourself" to Trey Nehls as Nehls blames Capitol Police leadership for January 6

there are plenty of reasons Air Force One would suddenly turn around. for example, they may have forgotten Kevin

My statement on funding DHS: The proposed Appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security released today puts no meaningful constraints on the growing lawlessness of ICE, and increases funding for detention over the last Appropriations bill passed in 2024.

also a clarification based on people’s comments: the driver wouldn’t give us his name but he was apparently French (at one point a passenger even started arguing with him in French thinking he just wasn’t understanding lol)

Outstanding

No. We don’t need to “modify ICE training.” We need to close DHS. Dismantle it. It’s an outdated expensive bureaucracy that’s been usurped by violent white supremacists. Shut it down.

Brilliant 👏

WILL CAIN: I'd be careful if I were you. I believe you're liable for defamation MAXWELL FROST: I am not going to be careful in terms of calling out what so many people saw. Renee Nicole Good did not get the due process she deserves.

If Dems say "Abolish ICE" it will thermostatically swing on the other direction. Just say "These things are bad and we oppose them!"

It is shameful that we have to talk about the President of the United States this way. But it is who he is. He is behaving exactly the way you would expect a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist who was granted immunity by John Roberts to behave. Know your enemy.

It is impossible to overstate the degree to which the entire national political media's coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign, especially once Harris won the nomination, was deeply, fundamentally, shamefully unserious about the stakes & the candidates.