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Nichols: Even though these guys come across as clowns, they're clowns with flamethrowers.. They have the machinery of government behind them. These are people that normally would be struggling to hold on to middle management jobs in a department store somewhere
The State of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from the federal government asking if we need assistance, and we have made no requests for federal intervention.
Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"
Canadians ARE SMART....No one should visit right now.....NO ONE...
WTF
Kristi Noem lied about this multiple times in press conferences & TV appearances. This confirms the 3 day delay was solely caused by her. It’s an absurdity that the person who leaves govt is this man & not her stupid, incompetent cosplaying ass traveling with her (alleged) lover.
total mentions this morning on Maria Bartiromo's Sunday Morning Futures on Fox News Obama: 18 Epstein: 0
On Feb. 15, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas called his wife from inside a Texas immigration detention facility. He asked her to record a message, “just in case something happens to me.” Thread 👇
Why Colbert's cancellation marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large
Ruh roh
Potential evidence tampering?
Insurance companies should sue Big Oil. California property owners and taxpayers shouldn't shoulder the burden of Big Oil's devastating impacts. Enough is enough.
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.
Breaking: per FEMA sources Kristi Noem was responsible for THREE DAY DELAY in deploying search-and-rescue in Texas Fire her. Blood on her hands.
🚨🚨🚨 IT GETS WORSE 😳 "Kristi Noem didn’t authorize FEMA’s deployment of Urban Search and Rescue teams until Monday, more than 72 hours after the flooding began, multiple sources told CNN." Story: www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/p...
Kristi Noem didn’t approve FEMA rescue teams for over 72 hours after the Texas floods, following a rule she imposed that required her personal sign-off on any operation over $100K. This is inexcusable. She should resign.
NEW: Read Mr Abrego's account of unthinkable torture inside CECOT prison in El Salvador. My latest: content warning: www.muellershewrote.com/p/mr-abregos...
If you want things to change, YOU have to earn it.
Regimes like these and the sociopaths who run them only get worse, not better. www.salon.com/2025/06/24/b...
If you can take away a country’s health care, raise the cost of their education, send them off to fight oil wars & convince them that it’s all “the illegals fault”, you can make a lot of very rich men even richer.
This is the number that keeps me up at night
Those of you celebrating Independence Day this year, whose independence are you celebrating? #July4th
The GOP just passed a bill most of them vehemently disagree with — and that they know is going to harm their constituents — because they’re afraid of Trump. Pretty pathetic stuff.
We now have a concentration camp in Florida. Stop pretending any of this is normal. If you claim to be a good person and you're not outwardly opposing this regime, you're not a good person. Be human.
Chris Murphy: "This is the most deeply immoral piece of legislation I have ever voted on in my entire time in Congress."
Van Hollen: "The real problem is Republicans refuse to ask billionaires to contribute more to the overall good of the country ... they have an obsession with giving tax cuts to very rich people and big corporations and everything else is sacrificed for that cause."
“This is how you kill an industry,” said Bob Keefe, executive director of E2, a nonpartisan group of business leaders and investors. “And at a time when electricity prices and demand are soaring.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/c...
is this bad
This is the darkest time in our nation since the Civil War. The right is radicalized at Berlin 1941 levels and many Americans are celebrating cruelty and lawlessness masquerading as power. It is time for an awakening of morality, decency and public resistance to evil.
Round one fail.
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There’s something deeply wrong with a society that watches people get snatched by masked men in unmarked cars & looks the other way. Rep @kamlager-dove.house.gov, describes an alarming system of relocating detainees, making it nearly impossible for their families to find them or get legal counsel.
What a disgusting person. Crooked and evil. ProPublica finds that Noem hid $80,000 in income she diverted from her own PAC. www.propublica.org/article/kris...
The reverse Robin Hood: take from the poor to give to the rich.
If there was ever a time to call your Senator, this is it. Voting has begun on the GOP plan to cut off health care for working-class Americans and slash taxes for the wealthiest.
Warnock: If I'm honest, there are days when I have to ask people of my faith tradition as a Christian, are we reading the same book? The book I know says I was hungry and you fed me. I was sick, I was in prison and you visited me, I was a stranger and you welcomed me….
Warnock: "We are engaged in Robin Hood in reverse ... this is socialism for the rich."
Well, this we can agree on, even Senator Thom Tillis is calling out his own colleagues: “Too many elected officials are motivated by pure raw politics who don’t really give a damn about the people they promised to represent on the campaign trail,” the North Carolina Republican wrote.
US sees spate of arrests of civilians impersonating Ice officers www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Apathy is the enemy. No matter what happens in D.C. focus on local elections. Sheriffs, commissioners, judges, school boards, tax collectors - they all matter. Every election is the most important election.
More fake ICE agents doing horrible things. Everyone should be speaking up about this. Masks and no ID required is a ridiculous recipe for horrors. @MarshaBlackburn & @SenJohnson & Sexton should be banning it, not protecting it.
Imagine being so fragile that inclusion feels like a threat, but authoritarianism—just another Sunday.
Thom Tillis is retiring, which means we probably pick up that seat with exceptional organizing (North Carolina has exceptional organizers, among the best in the country), so at least there's a spot of good news.
NASA is being told to cancel 19 *active* missions to save $6B, which looks to be less than the ICE *hiring/retention* budget going forward. I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.
Senate interrupted by someone screaming: You people are awful
"brown shirts"
A corrupt system is when you need 60 Senate votes to protect voting rights, universal healthcare, reproductive rights, climate justice, lgbtq rights, immigration justice, and a living wage—but only 51 votes to strip them all away. #BigScamBill 1/3
Orwell was right.
Remember Collins and Murkowski could have stopped this. People who lose healthcare coverage will die because of them
1/ If Justice Barrett thinks we need to go back to what the Founding Fathers intended, I’ve got news for her. Their biggest concern was avoiding tyranny. So they created 3 branches of gov’t & divvied up the power the people (that’s us) were allowing the gov’t to use to create order for all of us.
@robertgarcia.bsky.social: "We've gotta be talking about Donald Trump's corruption every single day. It is beyond what anyone has ever done. He has essentially turned the White House into an ATM for himself and his family."
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.
Welp
Hey @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty y’all see this? 😕
More Jan 6 prosecutors have been fired. Per a memo sent to one of them .. the termination is “effective immediately” (Reminder: Justice Dept prosecutors secured a 100% conviction rate at jury trials)
Surprising.... Said no one ever www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
why would they do this?
This makes sense when you recall that Donald makes EVERYTHING about himself. And Donald doesn’t know how to drive.
Abolish the Supreme Court.
This sentence, typed in her dissent, should scare the living fuck out of everyone in this country. "This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law." – Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
WTF
We were just suspended without warning from threads and Instagram. We have no idea why. If any of y’all are on those apps and want to let them know to fix that we would be appreciative.
What are we doing? 😕🇺🇸 www.nola.com/news/politic...
ICYMI — “FRIDAY evening theSenate rejected a war powers resolution that would have blocked Trump from making further attacks on Iran, despite widespread disapproval of last week’s strikes… Rand Paul (R) voted for it… Fetterman (D) voted against…”
Johnny Noviello, a 49 year old Canadian man, has died in custody in Florida, after being detained by ICE. He's the 10th person to die in ICE custody this year. (The ones they admit to, anyway.) www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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We’ve talked about “Alligator Alcatraz” before. Here are more details. Starting the first week of July, when South Florida’s heat index regularly hits 100°F, they plan to detain up to 5,000 people in tents. No A/C. No real shelter. Just suffocating heat, choking humidity, and swarms of mosquitoes.
Yet another ICE impersonator caught. How many are they not catching? As @MarshaBlackburn @SenJohnson & Sexton try to protect masked unidentified vigilantes with legislation— we should be banning this dangerous insanity instead.
Your dose of sweetness 🥰🥰🥰 Good morning friends!
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Phang: Immediately after being appointed… Habba said, quote: “We could turn New Jersey red, and I think New Jersey is absolutely close to getting there. So hopefully, while I’m there, I can help that cause.” Doesn’t sound like somebody who is trying to be, I don’t know, a fair arbiter of the law—
So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?
Yet it's the straight white able-bodied men of this country who are the biggest crybabies about getting 'replaced,' or rejected by women because they're too manly, which 'forces' them to work against all those other categories of people. Disclaimer, I'm one of them. I could not be more disgusted.
A 49 year old Canadian has died while in ICE custody.
You know, Europe has lots of Democratic Socialists in their parliaments. Oh and free national healthcare.
Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance
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People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
Who's gonna win the D NY Mayor race tonight?
youtu.be/GyaoJ2_FFsQ?...
"But they'll get over it"
Shameful. I expect they will be sued.👇 "Nearly 100,000 North Carolina voters will be required to take an additional step to verify their identity or risk being disenfranchised under a plan approved by the GOP-controlled state board of elections Tuesday." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
🚨 LA: “Fake ICE agents targeting the schools” It was only a matter of time. How is anyone supposed to tell the difference? And now @MarshaBlackburn Jack Johnson & Speaker Sexton are codifying masked Secret Police vigilantes into law?
Mitch McConnell has an opinion about people’s worry and unhappiness about the Medicaid cuts in Trump‘s Big Beautiful Bill. He says that “they’ll get over it.” They wanna vote on this by the end of the week. Trump is pressuring them to get it pushed through. They’re such a bunch of heartless pricks.💔
He's ODing on whatever the WH doc is offering
Trumpism is bad, he doesn’t want to end foreign wars and he’s not gonna make things cheaper. Democrats, this is your moment to narrate what’s happening.