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ICE agents waited until this woman’s attorney went to the bathroom to quickly grab her. She faints over and over from the stress. A bystander yells, ‘Wait for her lawyer! She’s in the bathroom!’ The agents ignore his pleas and drag her into the elevator as if she’s a violent criminal! 🤬
Nope. He can say it. He can sign all the executive orders he wants. But I think the law is pretty clear on this. At least, the laws we used to have when laws mattered.
Oh good. So we're talking nationwide CRASH, Scorpion or GTTF type units, only with soldiers specially picked by a DefSec who thinks he's on a mission from God and defends war criminals, and no one involved has any law enforcement training whatsoever. Sounds like a foolproof plan.
Must be nice to have no oligarchs on your supreme court.
Legalizing Wolf Hunting in the US West Does Little to Prevent Livestock Loss
The Trump administration isn’t just “to the right.” It’s a white nationalist comfort zone. And they’re trying to pass it off as business as usual. Check this out…
PEG - Profanity Embroidery Group, Whitstable, UK, a group formed by women for stitching and swearing #WomensArt
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Not enough skilled cowboys to monitor and treat livestock, says Reuters.
This doesn’t feel very free speech-y
GOP new voter registration crushing Democrats @democrats.org pay people to register voters!
ICE just posted this video to Twitter with the caption: "TV’s former 'man of steel' Dean Cain runs through the obstacle course during training to become an ICE officer at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Georgia. http://Join.ICE.gov"
From the Guardian…
The US Administration is now deleting its internal communications, in brazen violation of the Federal Records Act, in order to conceal its other illegal acts. Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.
Sen Eric Schmitt is sending the FBI to St Louis. The St. Louis Police Department was just taken over by the state of Missouri. I don’t feel safer knowing either of those facts.
The last time troops policed America was in the 1770s. We fought a revolution against that king, and wrote into the Constitution the Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments to prevent it from ever happening again. Pass it along…
The Trump administration will move to pull the COVID vaccine off the U.S. market “within months,” one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s closest associates has told the Daily Beast. www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
Another thing I tried to warn y'all about, but folks don't want to hear international news...
GOP: government so small it can invade all the crannies of your private life.
For the Pritzker fans (like me), this is a great speech he made:
Intetesting take from a ... {checks notes} … forensic pathologist
The most impressive thing about this campaign is how *creative* they are. They’re trying new stuff! Multiple times during the last few months I’ve thought “wow, I’ve never seen a campaign do that.” Much more of that needed everywhere.
Bill Maher calls it a “slow-moving coup” and predicts Trump will use the army he’s amassing in D.C. to maintain power even if the Democrats win.
"HPD Detective Kyle Stringer noted that real officers do not wear ski masks" Okay well someone should tell that to lots and lots of the current Real Officers
Well spoken sir
Just now…
Sure sounds like “Taxation WITHOUT representation” to me. Hmmm 🤔
Yes please.
Because nothing says “you should feel free to come visit Washington” like standing in front of dozens of armed soldiers next to a guy who thinks women shouldn’t be able to vote 🙃
The White House’s official X account has a long thread in which they’ve posted pictures of people arrested during the feds’ occupation of the city. Every single person in the thread is a person of color.
The energy last night at the Iowa State Fair Parade was unmatched! 🎡 Can’t wait to see you all on the fairgrounds today!
Nobody forces anyone to be an ICE agent. These thugs have all willingly chosen to do that job. They could quit any time they want. Remember that.
Albuquerque, NM - a man was filmed being tazed in a Walmart by unidentified people wearing ICE and HSI vests.
Scumbags!!! www.axios.com/2025/07/22/h...
Let that sink in for a sec.
uh…hunter biden for president?
Wow wow wow. Gentlemoops, I give you Missouri State Representative Raychel Proudie. Serving up some truth, piping hot, to her GOP colleagues on their BS tax-break bill for the wealthy. Testify, sib. www.youtube.com/shorts/MdqCs...
He has no fucking clue what’s in the big ugly bill…
“In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself…”
Every once in a while I suddenly remember that just two men, Louis XIV and Louis XV, ruled France for *130 straight years* Really underscores that if ever a nation lets a king take power there's really no guarantee that they and theirs won't reign through the lives of your great-great-grandchildren
Responsible leaders of American institutions must deal with the tyrant in the Oval Office by saying unequivocally “no” and unambiguously refusing to do what he demands. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-not-to-submit-to-a-tyrant
Can you imagine what would happen if this had been Senator Lindsay Graham under the Biden administration?
WATCH: Sen. Padilla pushed to the ground, handcuffed for demanding DHS not lie
A man with a green card said ICE agents arrested him in #Lynn, Mass then took him to a detention facility—but first made a detour to a cemetery, where they took him out of their vehicle and beat him. #mapoli #Massachusetts
Nobody respects Trump….
In case you’re wondering how wrong what happened to Sen. Padilla was, international news outlets around the world are covering it. That’s how bad it looks.
Blue cities being targeted. Where are their ID’s ? Why are they allowed in the hallway in front of the courtroom?
This. 🎯 Deportation is a legal process the Trump administration is pointedly evading. It is rendition. It is disappearing people. There is no due process. The US also can’t deport US citizens. Don’t say “deport.” Don’t say “wrongly deported.” Say “rendered.” Say “kidnapped.” Say disappeared.”
We need to keep repeating that US Citizens cannot be deported. Only trafficked out of the country. ICE and the Trump Administration trafficked a child to a foreign country.
This isn't a deportation, then. Citizens can't be deported. This child was kidnapped by the US government.
This is a horrific story about the failure and tragedy when it comes to inmate healthcare in the United States.😒
You don't get credit for breaking things just so you can fix them. That is a scam. It's illegal. It's abuse of power. Trump must be removed ASAP.
this is so frigging insane. we're worried about hardened Japanese tourist/business traveler radicals destabilizing the the US during their visits?
Can't believe we're all going to be replaced by this
The house revealed a budget plan that eliminates the Head Start program. There are currently almost 780,000 children enrolled in Head Start who will suffer the loss of this program. This shows republicans never cared about children but controlling women. #MomSky #Voices4Victory
Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:
Tariffs will be lifted on penguins who agree to be completely white. by Stephen Miller
It really is a cult of the dumbest dumbfucks who have ever dumbed.
New Yorker Who Has Been in US Over 50 Years Held by ICE, Faces Deportation https://twp.ai/4imNBy
Day 2 of the Golden Era.
1/ The number of protests planned for tomorrow is enormous. Given what Trump has done to the economy, and everyone's collective ability to pay for household expenses/retirement I'd expect them to be huge. Find out more at handsoff2025.com
Solved the microplastics problem
🚨Judge Xinis orders the Trump administration to bring back Kilmar Abrego, the Maryland father who was deported to El Salvador, the one place it was outright illegal for the United States to deport him to. Now the question of compliance comes up. How will the admin respond? How will Bukele respond?
NEW: The Trump Admin has been "covertly" withholding FEMA funds from Democratic states, seemingly as retaliation for sanctuary laws, a judge ruled. Hawaii is missing $6 million for widlfire aid. Oregon is waiting on $129 million for disaster prevention.
Also, Smoot-Hawley was when trade was approx 12% of US GDP. Today it's closer to 30%.
The Lithuanian president showed up to honor dead American soldiers as their remains departed his country. The American president did not show up to receive their remains as they arrived in the US. He had a golf tournament to get to.
The burning of Alexandria
Chat, is this good?
This feels like the defining image from this year’s Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting. The National Science Foundatipn paid for a booth in the exhibit hall. But the booth sits empty, because NSF has been DOGE’d, and there is no one left to send.
Linguist John McWhorter notes that pronouns have always evolved, including the capital "I." He suggests that pronouns to convey specificity about identity are part of that evolution and to avoid confusion about "they" referring to a person or a crowd to capitalize it to "They" for an individual.
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back in the 80s every pop song featured a mandatory sax solo and we liked it that way
We’re entering a critical period of time reminiscent of the period that followed the J6 Insurrection. The difference, this time the damage will be reoccurring. And worsening every day. His base will not be spared by this destruction.
Boo. Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson in dissent.
Upcoming US Federal holidays are going to be pretty awkward.
To be fair he has been really busy…
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⚡️UPDATED: 16 killed, including 6 children, over 50 injured in Russian strike on Kryvyi Rih. Russia launched a ballistic missile attack on Kryvyi Rih in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on April 4, hitting a residential neighborhood, setting buildings on fire and causing severe damage.
HUNT: Is this Donald Trump's economy now? BURCHETT: Well, I don't know that I'd call it that HUNT: Really?
Indeed.
Good point. The problem with Trump’s plan that doesn’t get talked about enough is that Americans will not work for $6 an hour.
#CarneyForPM #CanadaStrong How Canada is retaliating against US tariffs - www.reuters.com/world/americ...
I never thought the leopard would eat my face… “ I feel like a sucker.” - Jim Cramer
My god, even knowing everything he’s done and he’s capable of, I still can’t believe he did this. Setting the whole world on fire for NO REASON. Incomprehensible that his loyalists are sticking with him. For what??
Senator Jim Banks (R) isn’t sorry he told a fired federal worker “he probably deserved it”. He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”. The job was helping people with disabilities.
The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.
Where’s the mad king while the market crashes? Golfing in Florida.
www.youtube.com/shorts/YWEWN...
Tariffs for penguins and seals but not Russia.
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