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Let’s have a big debate about settled science because idiots don’t understand it.
Social Security chief data officer Charles Borges has stepped down after submitting a whistleblower complaint claiming that DOGE personnel uploaded the private information of hundreds of millions of Americans to an unsecured cloud server.
We can't even play basketball 🏀 🤬
Disgusting.
Fellowship and Love.
BREAKING: DENVER (AP) - Conservative network Newsmax agrees to pay $67 million in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims.
"A Russian tank that was going to storm Ukrainian positions there in eastern Ukraine was waving two flags above it, a Russian and American, side by side. It tells you what the Russians think about the state of play."
Not a word about this from Democratic leaders today
NEW: Video shared with me from a bystander in DC shows multiple masked federal agents (at least one of whom appears to have an ICE badge) violently attacking and handcuffing a delivery worker in the street outside Bluestone Lane cafe near Logan Circle this morning. Please take care when watching.
It's worse this time - Our guy invited him HERE.
The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.
Alan Dershowitz Sues Farmers Market Vendor For Refusing To Sell Him Child
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What happens if you don’t do background checks or training for thousands of people and you give them all total authority? ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles /
New York Times, Jan. 10, 1939: "BERLIN, Jan. 9.-In his first public appearance since New Year, Chancellor Adolf Hitler today dedicated the monumental extension of the Reich Chancellery, which now becomes the political center of the Third Reich." {gift link} www.nytimes.com/1939/01/10/a...
Trump engineered a recession for no good reason at all.
A little like when Trump wanted to just stop testing for Covid because there was too much Covid and so he wanted to just suppress the numbers.
Exactly. www.thedailybeast.com/team-trump-p...
Reminder that the US has a signed and ratified trade deal with Korea that an international treaty & part of US law, & here is wildly illegal & we should stop sanewashing & normalizing of it & simply enforce the damn law even for this One Special Boy.
Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kirsti Noem, Joseph Mazzara, Emil Bove, Drew Sargent, and everyone else involved in planning, executing, and obstructing justice around the CECOT imprisonments are responsible for Andry's torture and rape. Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.
Were they trained by the Uvalde police?
This thread contains excerpts from the government’s June 2022 sentencing memorandum in 𝙐𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝘼𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖 𝙫. 𝙂𝙝𝙞𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙭𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙡, No. 20 Cr. 330 (S.D.N.Y.).
"...reaching with one hand to embrace his young child who is in the back in his car seat. “Mommy’s coming,” he said. The video doesn't show the child exiting the car. But in a later clip, Khanbabazadeh is alone in the vehicle when ICE agents break his window..." www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Good journalism.
Today's private meeting between Trump's defense lawyer and one of his DOJ coverup organizers, Todd Blanche, and Ghislaine Maxwell, stinks to high heaven.
The trumpification of all levels of the federal government requires a robust cleansing after he's gone.
Trump is gonna be so, so sorry when we talk about nothing but kitchen table issues in response to this.
Great article.
Yiiiiiikes
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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"I would like people to freaking approach this issue with the same zeal and commitment that they approached Joe Biden's age. That's all I'm asking from our mainstream media sources." @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social in the latest episode of The Next Level with @jvl.bsky.social and @timmiller.bsky.social
i give it a year tops before some administration account is tweeting pro-slavery propaganda
The main thing to remember when thinking about and talking about Trump's ever-changing tariff policy is that the jury found he had raped E. Jean Carroll, but New York State law prohibited it from returning that verdict, so it had no choice but to instead find him liable for sexually abusing her.
I think you’re referring to the incident in San Carlos CA about 18 months ago.
No lies told here.
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Trump's argument for the elimination of the estate tax is that the heirs of the super rich will no longer have to go beg a predatory Jewish banker for a bridge loan to overcome cash flow problems associated with the $15 million dollar estate they're about to get.
If you consider this searing then we’re already toast.
Phang: Where are Americans supposed to go now to get their news? They come here. They come to independent media because we are not controlled by corporate overlords. This is the place you have to come now—because mainstream media is showing that it’s too scared to stand up to Donald Trump.
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In the race to power the world, China is far ahead of everyone on clean-energy technology. Its lead is growing fast.
ICE blasts through door using explosives, armored vehicle & drone—all 3 people in house were U.S. citizens. Agents did not knock or give warning—immediately set off explosives & flew in a drone. Then at least 10 agents who were crouched behind an armored vehicle stormed the house.
“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines” ktla.com/news/local-n...
Tariffs. Stock market down. Medicaid slashed Secret police throwing anyone who looks Latino in unmarked vans. National guard and marines deployed in LA. No end to the wars in Gaza or Ukraine Bombing Iran This is the worst first six months of any presidential term in my lifetime.
This is insane. Utterly insane.
Concerning…
A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Via Sam Stein on twitter
Santa Cruz No Kings > Peter Brady party in DC.
“Raising questions…” Way to NYT.
HUGE CROWDS
Please don’t let this be true, if for no other reason than the safety of the children.
The military is arresting civilians.
ICE abducted Moises Sotelo today. He is a trusted vineyard management business owner from Newburg, Oregon, who has been in the US since 1994. He has a wife, three children, and five grandchildren who need him to be returned safely to them.
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You gonna do more than make speeches. Take meaningful action. Let’s go JR
You gonna do more than send out tweets and make speeches. Let’s go Swalwell
You gonna do more than send out tweets and make speeches. Let’s go Sen. Smith
Yes. According to Army protocol, congressional staff are VIP Code 5, with a rank equivalent to a two-star general/admiral. Members of Congress are of course significantly higher. I have never seen USCP, FPS, or any other federal LEO treat any Member with anywhere near this disrespect and violence.
“You see plenty of elected officials getting into it with each other. You do not see the FBI or secret service dragging their colleagues to the floor and cuffing them…It is the ethos of this administration to treat people not as colleagues, but enemies." - @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
Hey Gov - keep up the fight. I’m with you.
Violent raids with no due process, snatching people off the streets, and kids being left at schools because their parents disappeared. I don’t know how any heart can’t be broken. This is Trump’s America.
Just in the last few hours *Trump admits his deportations are hurting economy *GOP Senator triggers Stephen Miller's fury by attacking his deportation math *Kristi Noem's goons throw Sen Padilla out of presser about LA No, Trump is not in the catbird seat here, pundits and Dems
I’m thinking of the 49 people tragically killed at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando nine years ago today during Pride Month. Every gun violence anniversary is a reminder that we must do more to end this epidemic and protect innocent lives.
Let’s fuckin go.
This seems bad
President Trump is sending tanks rolling through the streets of the capital not to honor service, but to celebrate power, @eliotacohen.bsky.social writes:
i've been trying to see what the right wing platforms (even outside of X) are showing people regarding the protests in LA and i am not sure it can be overstated just how much the AI slop is being used to reinforce the idea that downtown is a post-apocalyptic war zone
“Pretty much wherever you are, you’re probably less than 30 minutes away from your closest No Kings event.” - @leahgreenberg.bsky.social with @democracynow.org We hope to see you at your local #NoKings Day mobilization on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
Clash between protesters and federal agents at ICE raid in Omaha
Trump says anybody who protests the military parade on Sunday will be met with “very heavy force”
The No Kings protest map will help you find a place to exercise your First Amendment rights this weekend. (It's also a pretty good argument against the Electoral College.) www.nokings.org
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Absolutely disgusting. Luckily, we’ll all be at #NoKings demos across the nation and won’t have to watch the toddler’s spectacle. www.nokings.org
In preparation for next week’s parade/demonstration, tanks are being moved into Washington, DC today. Unprecedented. (Photo from a colleague in DC)
By the way a military parade when we’re not celebrating a war victory is something a dude who never served would do.
Clown show
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"I meet new people every day, and I try my best to make their day a good day. No matter [if] they come in the restaurant sad or angry, I would want that when they left the restaurant they’re happy." @gregsargent.bsky.social's moving interview with Carol Hui. newrepublic.com/article/1959...
A permanent injunction for Wilmer, Cutler. The score is now: Law Firms That Didn’t Cave 3 Trump 0 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
He’s a fucking traitor!!!!!!
Exactly this.
Like the temporary Covid price increases that never changed?
MAKE NOISE ON THIS ONE‼️ They didn’t just deport him—they sent him to CECOT in El Salvador. Agelviz came here legally through the refugee resettlement program—fully vetted. But when he landed in Houston, CBP snatched him over a tattoo: a clock and a rose. No charges. No record. Just a suspicion.
The Trump administration has agreed to pay nearly $5 million to the family of Ashli Babbitt, a pro-Donald Trump rioter who was shot and killed after breaching the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, according to a person familiar with the matter.
“If Musk is moving fast and breaking things, as the Silicon Valley dictum goes, Vought is taking the shattered pieces of the federal government and reassembling them into a radically new constitutional order,” @mckaycoppins.bsky.social writes:
I read about this guy in the Baltimore Sun.
Jesus... the racism is just right there... overt, unashamed, and vile.
Autism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/autism-...
Our trade deal so far is no tariffs on Rolls Royces and Bentleys and our refugee policy is white South Africans only.
Brutal account of what it’s like to teach at the University of Florida right now in the NYT—extraordinary climate of fear. People afraid to say intersectional and talk about lynchings. Fake students trying to entrap Muslim faculty or just making things up altogether. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/o...
The Trump budget in one chart: Cut programs that help families and make America a leader of the world, pour money into kidnapping grad students and deporting toddlers.
As a Bay Area resident, this will be much more convenient for me and my family when I get sent away.
Hardcoded credentials in the Signal archiving tool used by the White House is a five-alarm security dumpster fire.
And yet every step of the way for 10 years, once credentialed and respected voices like yours give him a pass. You call it hubris, unconventional, disruptive, etc., but never what it is. And then you happily move onto your next piece of content to feed the outrage machine.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Elon Musk may be stepping back from the federal government, Julia Angwin writes, “but his legacy there is already secured. DOGE is assembling a sprawling domestic surveillance system for the Trump administration — the likes of which we have never seen in the U.S.”