"A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless." James Baldwin
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BREAKING: ICE reportedly told Kilmar Abrego Garcia that he may be deported to Uganda, saying that if he pleaded guilty to criminal smuggling charges against him, Donald Trump’s administration remove him to Costa Rica, if he didn't then he's be removed to Uganda. This is coercion
New in PN: Trump’s targeting of Black communities is not a coincidence "Trump has never even pretended he’s the president for the entire United States. He’s the ruler of an overwhelmingly white sub-nation that seeks to subdue the country’s racially diverse urban centers."
All of this makes Watergate look like a charming little gaffe. We are never going to untangle all of this bullshit.
Before joining the Justice Department this year, attorney Jonathan Gross said Jan. 6 prosecutors were "evil people. They will put you on a cattle car to Auschwitz without batting an eye."
The whole power structure from Trump and Noem on down that isn’t firing this Nazi is also responsible. The US newspapers and tv stations that are treating it as a nonstory are responsible too.
Jimmy Carter - Nobel Peace Prize. Barack Obama - Nobel Peace Prize. Donald Trump - Epstein Piece Prize.
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Senator Whitehouse asked the BOP for Ghislaine Maxwells sex offender waiver, custody level, transfer code, and security point score. I have them. She's also been granted the ability to leave the facility for work assignments. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
"Let me be crystal clear: crime in DC is ending and ending today."
But I was told by everyone on the right that the only person who could deploy the National Guard (or prevent the deployment of the National Guard) was Nancy Pelosi.
First Donald Trump cleared the field for Mike Rogers. Now the same far-right oil baron billionaire backing the Texas gerrymandering scheme just gave five MILLION to his SuperPAC. Michigan voters will decide who wins this race. Not the highest bidder.
🔥 “How much does it cost for fascism? How much does taxpayers have to pay for a fascist country?” Nebraska Republican @USRepMikeFlood gets the raucous reception he deserves at a town hall.
Whoa, Alabama. 💥 Birmingham-area activists put up a Trump–Epstein billboard on a busy highway: “What’s the big secret, fellas?”
Excuse me…. But isn’t this exactly what Speaker Mike Johnson and Republicans did in DC to avoid voting to release the Epstein files? Yes, yes, it is. 🚨 Texas Governor Abbott’s warning: If House Democrats do not return by 3 PM today, he will move to declare their seats vacant and replace them.
Drowned out: While Texans beg for help, the GOP redraws the map to cheat. The purpose of the special session wasn’t about flood relief. It was about stealing elections. Let me make it plain: Over 100 dead. Flood victims plead for help. Republicans were busy rigging maps for Trump.
This is moving. Kamala Harris feels the pain we feel. Not just from her loss, but from the trauma and abuse our country is living through. What could have been…
She’s confused. And so am I. This is nuts! My wife just said this is straight out of The Handmaid’s Tale. Anyone know more about this?
Human rights org director Noah Bullock points out Kristi Noem posed with Salvadorian inmates with gang tattoos on their faces, who were held in other prisons & moved to CECOT. She picked the scariest looking men - NOT the ones she deported! The photos are a LIE.
Overheard: I'm surprised the nickname “Pedofuhrer" hasn't caught on yet.
If you don't already, watch Colbert. He is a man with no more f*cks left to give. And it's glorious. Check out this song parody from last night's show: Mike Johnson Delays House Epstein Vote Until September
If my taxes don’t pave my roads or fix my bridges or keep my schools open 5 days a week or pay local teachers a living wage or help keep my hospital open or help my neighbor’s kid eat lunch or fund public television or my healthcare… Why the f’ck should I pay taxes?
Yesterday, Maurene Comey, who prosecuted the Epstein case, was summarily fired from SDNY. Her letter to colleagues pulls no punches. "Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought." h/t @msnbc.com
Speaking of pedophiles, guess who gets deposed tomorrow? www.nbc4i.com/news/local-n...
Elect a pervert, expect perversion
He doesn’t remember nominating Jerome Powell.
If we had sufficient education and mental health care in this country, MAGAt would go extinct within a generation.
We can see your voting record.
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The Elmo account on Twitter/X appears to have been hacked
Tech bros don’t want to save the world. They want to own it, brand it, license it, and charge you a monthly fee to visit.
Why so quiet, JD?
“We have Texas, we have this, we have all of the things, and are people still talking about this guy, this creep?” Children died because he gutted the weather service. Donald Trump is using the death of 28 children as a shield against questions about his ties to a child sex trafficker.
She took off her cross for this big fat lie.
Thou shalt admit that the president is a rapist who destroyed the Epstein list to cover up his crimes.
Can we just fast forward to the part where we get excited about the inevitable lawsuit only to have our dreams (and constitution) dashed by this Supreme Court? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
Breaking NYT: Crucial positions at the local offices of the National Weather Service were unfilled as severe rainfall inundated Texas — prompting experts to question whether staffing shortages made it harder for the agency to coordinate with local emergency managers. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
Wow! France gifted her to us, and now they’ve captured what so many Americans are feeling on Independence Day. The values the Statue of Liberty stood for are no more. 📌 A stunning mural of the Statue of Liberty covering her face was unveiled in Roubaix, France, on July 3, 2025.
And Trump is an evil man.
In today’s episode of What Are They Thinking: “If you don’t see a hurricane coming… does it really exist?” 🚨 The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season. Brilliant timing.
Warnock: A budget is not just a fiscal document. A budget is a moral document. Show me your budget and I'll show you who you think matters and who doesn't. And if this awful budget were an EKG, it would suggest that our nation has a heart problem and is in need of moral surgery
Not just excess, it’s a system built to keep people hungry so the rich can keep feasting. But the masses are waking up. Powerful video…
But…that’s exactly what you are doing
They are sending roving bands of masked thugs with the stated goal of kidnapping 20 million brown people to transport them to any country they can pay to take them. All this has been cleared by The Stolen Court. This is not deportation. This is ethnic cleansing.
UPDATE: “The man who impersonated ICE to intimidate the employees of a Philly auto repair center — and steal about $1,000 — will face numerous felony and misdemeanor charges…”: www.phillyvoice.com/philly-robbe... Fake ICE agents were inevitable. How can cities be proactive about this?
True on all counts!
Just a few days ago, Speaker Mike Johnson, the puritanical pixie twit, refused to rule out arresting Governor Newsom. He added that Newsom should be “tarred and feathered,” a form of torture popularized by vigilantes. He is a reckless hypocrite.
You can't call immigrants lazy moochers looking for government handouts and then round them up at Home Depots where you know they are looking for work. You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules. Get your lies straight.
JUST IN: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka sues interim US Attorney Alina Habba for "false arrest and malicious prosecution." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
SERIOUS QUESTION: What is going on with all these “officers” in tactical gear for a routine traffic stop—with no clear identification? They seem like imposters. And what’s up with that ball cap?
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This slippery slope is steep as hell. Justice Sotomayor called it: if the government can strip birthright citizenship from kids born here, what stops them from stripping gun rights too? Remember this later; Trump and Republicans opened the door. Watch til the end…
"Saudi Arabia 'masterminded and funded the worst attack on American soil, ever. If you worked that day, you remember what you went through… well, [how do you feel] when the president is in bed with the people that attacked us?” New York City firefighter Adam Lake
What’s supposed to happen? If my daughter is out and masked men grab her, claiming they’re ICE, drag her away w/out letting her prove she’s a citizen… w/out calling me, her dad… what is she supposed to do? Does she not have the right to fight back, as we have taught her, to free herself. Run? 1.
AOC: The math is not adding up. Their claim is that one million undocumented people are on Medicaid. So why are they trying to cut 13.7 million Americans off their healthcare?
Tommy Tuberville says his wife's homestead exemption established his residency in Alabama, but election records show both of them voted in Florida after that. And that's only the beginning.
Listen to Black women… “The attacks are not random. They seem designed to intimidate those of us who serve in this critical capacity” “The threats & harassment are attacks on our democracy, on our system of government. And they ultimately risk undermining our Constitution & the rule of law” - KBJ
Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.
This isn't hypothetical. The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.
Fascism isn’t coming. It’s here. Anyone telling you you’re overreacting is complicit.
i genuinely want to know what the hell is wrong with this guy. he is a total monster and i am a little interested in how he got to be this way.
“He is granting audiences to people who buy his meme coin. When the sitting president of the United States is selling access for what are effectively payments directly to him. There is no question that that rises to the level of an impeachable offense.” Sen. Jon Ossoff
Katie Phang: And now that my time here at MSNBC comes to a close, I am taking that fight back to a familiar place… I hope you'll follow along with me as I continue to meet you where you are at places like Substack and YouTube with fellow truth tellers like MeidasTouch…
NEW: A prison-owned chemical company in China brazenly offered dangerous drugs to U.S. and Mexican customers — boasting that “100% of our shipments will clear customs” — a congressional probe and records obtained by ProPublica show.
One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum: “We are going to change the law to prohibit foreign governments from carrying out political and ideological propaganda in our country.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/w...
lol
True ✅
Resist! ❤️🔥 #HandsOff #USprotests #Resistance
They have our business!
Mine too!
This is what happens when people speak up.
Hiring your brother is the original affirmative action for white people.
Perfect 🤣🎯
Gosh. If only there were an historical analogue we could study to learn about the horrors of rounding people up without due process and sending them to torture camps in other countries.
Just got my measles vaccine! I got my first before 1968, so it turns out I needed a new one. The measles outbreak is ongoing, be careful out there!
My. Gawd. Dude is oranger than an Oompa Loompa.
Kristi Noem billed South Dakota taxpayers more than $640,000 in personal travel-related costs, including a six-day trip to Paris, a bear hunt in Canada, a trip to Houston for dental work to fix her smile, and a book tour. But she can afford a $50,000 Rolex for a prison porn photo op in El Salvador.
X is not worth 33 billion. He basically just paid himself $33B from another company, presumably to pay off his debts from the initial buy because he knows he'll never be able to raise the capital from X itself. He is his own ponzi scheme.
IT GETS WORSE Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brought his wife, a former Fox News producer, to two meetings with foreign military counterparts where sensitive information was discussed, according to multiple people who were present or had knowledge of the discussions. New via @wsj.com:
Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator. In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”
As a reminder, war plans were shared with a journalist on an unsecured app and several members perjured themselves when confronted including the Russian Asshat and Pete Kegseth.
RFK is a eugenics freak first and foremost and everything falls downstream from that. he *wants* excess deaths. he thinks that only the "fit" should survive.
Layoffs at NOAA, which warns us about severe weather Attacking NIH, which finds cures for illnesses Dismantling SSA, which administers Social Security payments Terminating food inspectors and food safety committees at the USDA... The "specifics" of DOGE put us all at risk.
Trump has issued an executive order to remove funding from programs at the Smithsonian that promote what he calls an “improper ideology.” The White House put out a statement that criticized The National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Grassley: "We want to cover up-- or, overcome some of that problem."
RFK Jr. wants to gut the very agencies that protect us from pandemics, approve life-saving drugs, AND help our most vulnerable get healthcare? Y’all… this isn’t reform, it’s reckless. www.cnbc.com/2025/03/27/r...
Keep the Congressional switchboard number handy these days: (202) 224-3121
New in PN: Why the Wisconsin Supreme Court race is a big deal "Voters by now have demonstrated their ability to choose diarrhea forever over everyone gets a puppy, & to vote away their own rights and democracy. But the WI election is a chance to start turning the country away from authoritarianism"
BREAKING: 34,000 people have showed up in Denver, Colorado this evening to see Bernie Sanders and AOC fight oligarchy and authoritarianism.
Sanders: I'm not a mathematician but I do know that 99% is a hell of a lot bigger number than 1%. I do know that if we stand together, we are the vast majority of people. We can defeat trumpism
Board member Kimbal Musk sold $27.6 million in Tesla stock last month. Tesla's board chair, Robyn Denholm, dumped $117 million in Tesla stock over the last three months. Yet Elon is pleading with employees not to sell their stock.
Killing three dozen elementary school children with an AR gets "thoughts and prayers," but vandalizing a Tesla is "domestic terrorism?" This country is broken
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Aren’t Cubans part of Trump’s base in Florida? I wonder how this will go over.
if the democratic party had a functional propaganda arm it could make a lot of hay of the fact that a non-trivial number of MAGA personalities and politicians are child sex offenders
Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.