BREAKING: Trump's border czar Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
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BREAKING: Trump's border czar Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
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Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
đşđ¸ Our health care system is expensive and broken. #MedicareForAll
In good news, the Trib picked the correct front-page photo today:
The shame of America is realizing that the ICE Gestapo is torturing the people they place into custody. South Korea has opened a human RIghts investigation into the United States. We will have to apologize to a lot of people when this nightmare is over. www.scmp.com/week-asia/pe...
This is it, but people are too gullible and mindless to realize it.
There goes the First Amendment.
i donât think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.
As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesnât compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. Theyâre committing crimes against humanity there."
TRUMP: That's why I sued the New York Times two days ago for a lot of money KARL: A judge just threw that out TRUMP: I'm winning. I'm winning the cases.
This will be called "evidence of consciousness of guilt" in subsequent criminal trials.
That pepperoni distribution needs a little work, though. 3 slices definitely got shorted.
IYKYK
I locked my X account rather than deleting it so that someone else wouldn't take my name maliciously. I just went on over and reposted Will's thread. Seemed like a defensible reason to do something on that platform.
Yes, where has all the leadership gone?
Taps sign..
OMG - the judge in Florida just sua sponte struck the complaint in the Trump v NYT case for -wait for it - violating Rule 8. Lawyers, tell the folks at home how hard it is to get the complaint struck outright for something like that in fed eral court. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Wow. The judge all but said, âIâd show you what I really think of your complaint, but youâd have to print it on softer paper.â
THIS is the kind of order judges should be issuing against performative complaints.
The upshot is, the Powers That Be really shouldnât underestimate kids. Kids are smarter and tougher than they think. Not to mention that a cartoon rat on their TV screen is a whole lot less scary than a mass shooting drill in their freaking schoolroom.
My generation was traumatized by Artax in the swamp, the Mouse and His Child being stoned by Manny the rat, and General Woundwort vs. Bigwig. On the flip side, we learned to sing the Preamble to the Constitution, our multiplication tables up to 12, and the function of Conjunction Junction.
Say his name n remember Trey Reed! He was found lynched n police r claiming it was a suicide! #treyreed
I couldnât tell Disney why I was canceling, because it was a bundled perk on my Verizon account. But I not only canceled my subscription, I deleted my whole Disney+ account, which has existed since the service has existed. I think I got the message across.
Saying a Mi Shebeirach for you, wishing you a speedy and complete recovery. And as for the ICE goons, may all their teeth fall out but one, and may that last give them a toothache!
Wake me when he gets to blaming Biden for COVID, 9/11, the fall of the Shah of Iran, the Black DeathâŚhey, if you squint a little, maybe he was the snake who tempted Eve with the apple?
When I talk about The Vile One (and increasingly, certain minions) Iâm pulling out the klole mit beyner, the curses with bones. âMay his name and his memory be blotted out.â
And when I say âcursed,â I mean in the old meaning, not regarding the overuse of 4 letter words. There are the famous Yiddish âjokeyâ curses: âHe should be transformed into a chandelier, to hang by day and to burn by night.â "He should swallow an umbrella and it should open in his belly."
Iâm not so much a hater as an IDGAFerâmostly. Itâs significant that in my whole life Iâve never cursed someoneâand meant itâas much as I have That Guy since 2015. Iâm actually angry that he makes me hate him that much.
Oh, and something about the Apollo 12 backup crew pasting Playboy centerfolds into the main crewâs notebooks, where they were supposed to record their observations.
Like, the biggest issues Iâve ever heard of are a guy on Gemini III smuggling a corned beef sandwich in his pocket, a Skylab guy making a recording of his wifeâs voice and then playing it over the radio, pretending sheâd just dropped by for a visit, and two ISS astronauts who hid they were married.
Weâre protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility and an agent came out to tell us to go away. We said weâre exercising our First Amendment rights so he shot the ground with pepper balls and said, âYour First Amendment rights are on the sidewalk.â
Some of these cabinet officials are acting like presidential immunity applies to them. They might need to read that case.
if you want to understand tailoring, you only need to watch mid-century movies, when actors were dressed by tailors, not brands. in the 1944 film cover girl, gene kelly's suit drapes beautifully, moving with him, not against him. collar stays on his neck, even as he dances.
Looks like a jury in LA saw through one of the most noxious CBP figures in Stephen Miller's mob squad (the same guy who tried to intimidate @gavinnewsom.bsky.social when he was announcing his redistricting).
ICE continues to assault us. We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.
Who happens to have a song called â23.â
This rock queen, for one.
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy. Not a selfie.
IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.
Holy shit. And what horrors are they hiding?
The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.
Experts say the FCC commissioner's conductâtesting how far the agency can go to limit speech without ever quite formally censoring itâis flatly unconstitutional. That won't make it stop. www.wired.com/story/brenda...
THIS is the original ANTIFA logo from WW2. THIS is their mission. They have been the good guys for 80 years...until Sean Hannity decided that you can't have a resistance to right wing fascism.
omfg
Iâm guessing that, one way or another, there wonât be a trial. If nothing else, theyâre going to want to keep up the hysterical rhetoric about the âviolent far left,â and any inconvenient facts about the actual shooter would just get in the way. So, down the memory hole he goesâŚ
Iâm a huge MCU nerd, a big Disney fan, and my wife and have both enjoyed âOnly Murders In The Building.â Iâve had a Disney+ account since the service started. That ended today.
Late night hosts criticizing the president isnât new. Having a thin-skinned dictator wannabe who canât take it is.
It would seem a relatively easy thing to ID some Fox pundits who misrepresented the politics of Melissa Hortman's killer, to package for an FCC complaint?
The greed never ends!
Folks, I donât know what end is up right now.
I feel like someone just did that famous âstrap a buttered slice of bread to a catâs back and drop themâ experiment, and now the whole worldâs spinning.
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My son was 1 when leaders gathered in Paris & pledged to keep warming BELOW 1.5C. Heâs now 11, & weâre spending our second year ABOVE 1.5C. Theyâve doomed all our children because preserving a suicidal economy is more important. We. Should. Be. Furious.
Jimmy Kimmel should have stuck to acceptable comments, like suggesting that homeless people be executed
Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.
I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior
Goddamn. You canât even have principles and make ice cream because people are too afraid of Trump
The aggravating aspect is that the Democratic âleadershipâ is either in the âfoldâ faction or, just as bad, the âweâre smart and weâre right, so we donât have to do anything; people will naturally just come flocking to usâ faction.
I'm sorry, I get that we all have our own s**t but it's incredibly weird that anyone ever thought this quote was meant to stoke the embers of violence, found it to be a radicalizing moment in their life, or is still angry about it a decade later.
lol new clown car just rolled up
The âsearchlightâ is whatâs required to find any people this could possibly appeal to. Tom Tomorrow should replace his Very Serious Woodchuck sketch with that guy in the middle.
according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
mass shooting at minneapolis homeless encampment days after a fox news host calls to kill all homeless people
If they cared about a single child this much we would have seen some movement on gun legislation. đ¸ VC @saadia---m.bsky.social
Heâs like Saruman but dumber.
THIS!!! If you're going to award a Presidential Medal of Freedom to a shooting victim, how about the 10-year-old KID who was shot in the back after throwing himself on top of his friend in the Minnesota church school? You know...for ACTUAL selfless heroism & bravery!
This is why theyâre deleting studies
Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.
Iâm sure Jean Smart is wishing that modern accessories included fans or, even better, hatpins.
Ain't that right?
Ilhan Omar was part of one of my last good memories of TheOldTwitter, just 4 years ago this week:
Join me in condemning this kind of statement and this kind of hate.
Hiding the truth.
Yes, release the Epstein files!!!
Not chain restaurants, mind you; my rule of thumb is that the quality of food at a restaurant goes down in proportion to the number of locations it has. Not that every hole in the wall is good, but every McDonaldâs is bad. Iâm also still horrified at finding a Pizza Hut at 84 Charing Cross Road.
My own twisted fun comes from, say, going to Paris and then eating at Sacha Finkelsztajn, which does one of the best damn bagel sandwiches youâll find on that side of the Atlantic.
Education is the enemy of fascism.
A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who havenât seen yet because itâs barely made it out of local news.
Kroger will lay off ~1,000 employees. In December, it announced $7.5B in stock buybacks â which juice stock prices, enriching shareholders and boosting CEO pay. Just so happens that Kroger's last CEO was paid 457x its typical employee in 2024. Textbook corporate greed.
Maybe Gen Z can start the trend, but I for one am too damn old to try to make like Leonardo diCaprio in The Man in the Iron Mask. Iâd probably end up looking more like Hugh Laurie in one of the middle Blackadders.
Why? Who the hell knows. But Rachel was just pointing out in one segment how utterly inept so many of this administrationâs operators are, and yet thisâŚ*this* is being done with skill and pinpoint precision.
Americaâs cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives, is under threat in one of its most productive moments. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
If I were going to invent a juicy new conspiracy theory, this is probably where Iâd do it. Like, this is the government equivalent of The ABC Murders, where random hack-and-slash spending cuts and medical quackery are meant to cover up the systematic destruction of vital medical research.
all of this makes me want to scream, but the part I'm going to be up all night rage-spiraling about is accusing her of "potentially endangering the physical safety of our staff" just flippin' those narratives right around so the Black woman, a TARGET of violent hate speech, becomes the aggressor
The truth is, theyâre all on each otherâs lists. The right is made up of backstabbers, cannibals, and parasites; and while they get a thrill out of âowning the libs,â thatâs not how they climb the ladder. The rungs on the ladder are their fellow bloggers, influencers, pundits, and advisors.
He really is such a vile little toad.
I spoke with the NYT Magazine a while ago but have now heard that an editor said they can't quote me because I'm "too liberal" to be a trusted source. You know what's always the first example conservatives use to claim I'm "too liberal"? My work in the 1619 Project, organized by the NYT Magazine.
I suspect the internet has made smart people smarter and stupid people stupider.
The internet is a lot like religion in that you get what you go looking for.
Hereâs to hoping that cancer is like right-wingers, in that the thing that burns it the most is laughing at it!
Heâs been a disappointment for a long time. Done with that chump.