I keep coming back to this James Baldwin quote these days. "The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
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I keep coming back to this James Baldwin quote these days. "The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
This part can’t be repeated enough. Does anyone actually think this was a coincidence?
He doesn’t remember nominating Jerome Powell.
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I almost feel like why bother... nothing is ever gonna change with these people. Get. Rid. Of. Them!
Went live on Substack with my buddy Officer Mike Fanone, if you would like to see the recording of it, it was a good one: adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/recorded-l...
Someone prove this wrong.
I need this book! Lol 😅🤣😂
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"As violence erupted, his charging document said, he told other rioters who were attacking law enforcement officers, 'Kill ’em! Kill ’em! Kill ’em!' He then raised his arms in celebration after breaching the Capitol in a face mask... and escaped through a window..." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...
Joe Neguse now wants to know why Mike Johnson continues to leave votes open indefinitely for hours every time they don’t have enough votes.
Yeah. He looks like a douche.
the stories that come out of the ICE camps are going to look like the stories that come out of every camp system; rampant corruption, epidemic disease, physical and sexual abuse on a vast scale, a death rate far higher than normal, and medical abuses.
Rep. Dean: "The senators voted on this not knowing exactly what was in the bill. I bet they loved the part about no sales tax on silencers. Really, folks? We want to make silencers more plentiful in this country at the behest of the representative who owns gun stores? Conflicts of interest abound."
Well, yeah. It’s exhausting being that cute.
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Someone seriously needs to start the 'we will tax excessive wealth and look after vulnerable people' party because that's who I'm voting for next time round.
So do I.
Important to know that these cuts kick in right after the 2026 midterms. That’s how you know they know it’s bad.
NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia offered his first account of the “severe beatings” and other abuses he says he suffered while jailed in El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison. He says in a court filing that he lost 31 lbs in two weeks. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
Former Navy SEAL, (R) Rep. Derek Van Orden said, "...we're not a bunch of little bitches," regarding Republicans and the budget bill. That's not true; every elected Republican has demonstrated over and over again...that they are, in fact...a bunch of little bitches.
"With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost." William Lloyd Garrison
What standing up to ICE looks like. #Resist
RFK Jr., who's supposed to be all about "facts and logic," is out here removing members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee?!? Y’all, these aren’t political appointees. These are public health experts—people who’ve spent their careers working to keep Americans safe from disease.
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Just ask Florida who lost 12 billion in their first year of their anti immigrant policies and is facing defict state budgets starting next year…. 🤔 Florida Loses $ 12 Billion Plus In Year 1 Of Its Anti-Immigration Law www.forbes.com/sites/andyjs...
I’m not sure why Gavin Newsome doesn’t activate the rest of his army guard to prevent the president from it or force him to overrule it…. Then fight on the second amendment guaranteeing a state a right to a militia. How can a state have a militia if the president can simply federalize it
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
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Hypocrisy knows no bounds with this regime. #Noem
BREAKING: LA solidarity protesters in Austin are occupying JJ Pickle Federal Building, which houses local ICE processing center
It’s obvious but worth drawing out what raids of Home Depot’s of all places is about. It’s rounding up people who are really eager for work and for whom there is work, peoples whose labor is in demand. We know this but shows just how far it is from rounding up just the bad guys.
Everyone should say it: The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism. Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy. But that's not what's interesting about Miller. It's not brains. It's bile.
Wellman: When I served in Iraq.. I heard about how Saddam Hussein divided them. Different sects fought each other. But you know -- Saddam and his family sat laughing at all of them. They divided them against each other and kept their power for 35 years. Does this sound familiar to anybody?
By the way a military parade when we’re not celebrating a war victory is something a dude who never served would do.
ICE agents or bounty hunters? A raid at Home Depot on Wilshire in Los Angeles earlier today. What’s disturbing is that they’re wearing masks and vests you could buy on Amazon. They’re in unmarked cars, and I don’t see any IDs on the officers — regular SUVs with standard plates.
This was posted 15 minutes ago from here in Los Angeles: LAPD conspiring with I.C.E. agents, advancing on people protesting local I.C.E. raids. I don’t mean to seem harsh, but this is a TAME version of the forces those of you white ppl who wanna take back your country from MAGA will be up against.🇺🇸
Good morning rebels...
This has to stop.
Bondi DOJ has a problem. On left: DOJ Indictment and Detention Memo allege Abrego Garcia lied to officer by not revealing he was coming from Texas On right: DHS Referral Report: "Subject stated he was driving 'three days ago' (11/27/2022) from Houston, TX to Temple Hills, MD (via St Louis, MO)"
ICE raids hit across Los Angeles today—and locals are rising up. This is what resistance looks like. ✊🏾 This was about an hour ago…
Bondi‘s quote about Abrego Garcia? “He now will meet the full force of American justice.” Well, that’s good. Because he already has met the full force of American injustice!
Excellent Question! Answer: It Was Always A Lie!
"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...
Thinking of a hero I knew and admired.
Crowds of brave people have surrounded the ICE detention centre in Los Angeles. They are trying to liberate victims kidnapped by Trump’s regime forces. Victims were abducted and thrown into the basement of the building without due process. #3E
They also love to throw out treason while ignoring actually treason.
Russia has carried out more terrorist attacks on Kyiv, Ukraine, even targeting first responders who were trying to save victims. This is what Ukraine endures daily. Ukraine hits military equipment with 0 civilian casualties, Russia hits innocent men, women and children.
DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America
Really shocked that an admin filled with podcasters, social media influencers, reality TV participants, indicted felons, crypto bros, drunks, Fox hosts, drug addicts, weirdos, and unqualified ass kissing toadies can’t keep their shit together for 24 consecutive hours.
Trump’s dream of a deportation machine is a nightmare reality. 18-year-old honors student Marcelo is one of many examples. This administration is detaining high school volleyball players. ICE should be going after terrorists, human smugglers, and drug traffickers. Let’s be serious.
A girl fight on social media? That’s how “men with balls spar?” Lol.
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
She is unbelievable.
AOC: “The girls are fighting, aren’t they?”
Home Grown American Bananas!!!
DEAN: Did your department have any worry about the president growing his own business while on the job? LUTNICK: My trip to the Middle East was extraordinary. It was amazing. DEAN: I'm sure. I'm asking you, did the question of conflict of interest come up? LUTNICK: No DEAN: It is grotesque
open.substack.com/pub/steady/p... WHITE MALES ARE OPPRESSED??? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??
reputable medical journals keep saying that RFK and his pro-disease friends are full of shit and so naturally they must be shunned www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
Guys, it's the oligarchs. If you want to blame someone for 2024, blame the oligarchs. Anyone telling you to blame someone else is part of the oligarchy. Dark money has been to blame since citizens united.
The Death of Restraint: Why the Democratic Party’s Timid Fight Against MAGA May Doom Democracy www.jackhopkinsnow.com
Exactly.
Phang: We don’t need the Ten Commandments hanging in Texas schools. What we need is common-sense gun legislation—so the kids can live. If my kid goes to a public school in Texas and they can’t come home alive, I don’t give a shit about the Ten Commandments being posted on the wall.
love that the diet section of "eastern gray squirrel" has this extensive image gallery
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” – George Washington
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He’s right that hearings are performative, but what he’s wrong about is that those performances matter, helping set the debate and provide opportunities for oversight and clarifying issues for the public.
The $150 billion to DHS, which includes over $71 billion for ICE, will transform the agency into something new in U.S. history; the tendrils of federal law enforcement extending into every community in the country on a daily basis, simultaneously more visible and less accountable than ever.
Monitoring channels report the takeoff of at least six russian Tu-95 bоmbers, which likely means Ukraine will be under another massive combine аttack. I understand that it will be another sleepless night. I’ll go to the kitchen, drink some mint tea, and eat some candies.
Shame on West Point for inviting a draft dodger, who views the US military as merely props to be used for his own glory, to give its commencement speech. With no respect, the tacky wheezing fool wore a campaign ball cap and rambled on about yachts and trophy wives to the bored graduates.
Jong-Fast: This would be the largest cut to food assistance in US history—and it will result in hungry kids. It’s also important to mention that this bill grows the deficit. I don’t know how it manages to do the two things you absolutely don’t want—starve children and grow the deficit—but it does.
“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” — Treaty of Tripoli, signed by the United States in 1797.
In times like this, integrity matters. Well done 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 Top lawyers walked out of Paul Weiss to start their own firm—right after the firm cut a shady deal with the White House to dodge an executive order that would’ve limited its business. Some folks still have a spine.
Wise words from Mr. Rogers. We are all in this together. Let us all renew ourselves to strive for the common good.
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What?!?! The EPA has drafted a plan to eliminate all pollution controls from coal and gas-fired power plants. The agency claims these plants “do not contribute significantly” to dangerous pollution or climate change, arguing their emissions are a small and declining share of global totals.
He's a liar.
Phang: It’s time for federal judges to acknowledge that they have lifetime appointments—and that should give them the courage to uphold the rule of law, but also to put some damn teeth into the court orders they’re issuing. it’s time that we start seeing action from the judiciary. Grow some balls
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
Are we great yet?
End he joins Cricket.
The GOP Tax Scheme represents the largest wealth transfer from the poor to the rich in American history.
The fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. It may not be the battle we wanted, but it is the one we face. The state of our democracy and the future of our country depends on our willingness to take risks, ignore the naysayers, weather setbacks and fight fiercely for democracy.
Hidden in the GOP Tax scam is a provision to take away the tax on..... gun silencers. #StopTheBillionaireBailout
Boyle: We just verified with the congressional budget office and of 13.7 million Americans who will lose their health care because of their bill, exactly zero are undocumented immigrants
Red congress forgets they work for the people.
If the GOP Tax Scheme is so beautiful, then why are they voting on it in the wee hours of the morning? Maybe because it’s irredeemably ugly and cruel.