Saaaaame
Saaaaame
Weird, putting tariffs on construction materials and throwing day laborers in concentration camps should have solved the supply problem by now
lol tfw things are fine
Too real
Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.
MORE: Sparkle Sooknanan is still awake -- and she wants a fourth status report from DOJ. The judge orders the government to update her when all putative class members have been returned to ORR custody.
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
So genocide
A message for JD Vance and anyone else in this Administration that is pretending they care about the safety of our kids. They don’t. All they care about is the political approval and profits of the gun industry. And they show it every day.
Once again, we are in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history
It’s been that kind of week
Yikes
Oh good. Picks. Because this front office has been so good at building a roster
Overnight, this extremely well-funded tech company run by a billionaire has gone from “There’s no way we can possibly stop our plagiarism machine from convincing children to kill themselves” to “If you type anything we don’t like, we’re calling the cops.” Either way, they take zero responsibility.
Her incompetence likely surpasses her malevolence. It’s stunning how unfit she is for this role
Because it’s a propaganda network
New: In 7 months, Kennedy has broken the CDC, perhaps irreparably. For all he’s done with mass firings, gutting expertise, and attacking vaccines, Wednesday’s loss of its most senior and competent leaders—truly the CDC’s backbone—is the most consequential attack yet. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/c...
Matthew Yglesias is a joke
Mike, it’s not about documents. It’s about skin color. Jesus
They already are falling short of hitting Stephen Miller’s deportation/detention targets. I hate being a broken record but it’s going to get so much worse
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Yes, the one pictured
So many adults have to fail a child before he ends up 10 years old telling CNN about the mass shooting he lived through this morning
Cool. We may not have elections - or more accurately may have elections like Russia has elections
Pure dystopian shit. But it’s real
Well and at DuPont Circle they can protect the populace from tourists, drag races, or hill interns too afraid to walk in to Adams Morgan. They better be careful about PTSD - it’s basically Afghanistan
Children are starving. Hospitals are bombed. Journalists are killed. Trump and Congress must stop all military aid to the extremist Netanyahu government. No more excuses. We cannot continue to be complicit in these war crimes.
“We are not in normal times, or even times that are abnormal but within boundaries, with dangers and damage that could be ameliorated or reversed with an election or two… It requires different thinking and different responses. Now, not after it is too late.”
The party that claims to care about law and order sends the military to pick up trash in DC but has nothing to say about the regular massacre of children in schools under than ‘thoughts and prayers.’
Thank you
Undermining the Fed to get lower rates now is like ripping the batteries out of your smoke alarm because it’s beeping. It’s quiet for a bit. Then your house burns down. Credibility anchors expectations; expectations anchor inflation.
She’s brown and comes from the wrong type of country. This is exactly the intended result of this administration- It’s terrible but millions literally voted for “Mass Deportation Now”. this issue and tariffs were the two clearest policies articulated by Trump during the election
I still am amazed at the utter failure by much of the press to meet this moment. The very First Amendment to the Constitution was precisely to protect the press against an authoritarian government and a lot of the time they just transcribe what the White House tells them
Things are so incredibly stupid
These are the most influential thinkers behind current administration policies and actions
Clicks are up, visibility for trash articles probably through the roof. Authoritarianism is good for their business, until you get taken to a concentration camp or bombed in a hospital
Note that sandwich guy was charged via criminal complaint, not indictment. For now, that allows the government to initiate the case & arrest him. But DOJ will eventually have to seek an indictment by grand jury. He’s charged w/ a felony & the 5th Amendment requires indictment by GJ in such cases.
Once again, there is a class of Democratic officials in DC who are fundamentally unsuited for the current political moment. They can't see that the fascism is the signal, not the noise. And they are unable or unwilling to change their pre-authoritarian approach to politics. It is deeply revealing.
Bad things happen in Philadelphia
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
I am sick and tired of the nonstop political content on here, so today's Low Quality Ad is for this "Is He Dead Yet?" mug. It's a good apolitical mug that could be referring to anyone. We all didn't immediately think of one specific person when we saw this. collabs.shop/hi0k4r
After all the fancy constitutional arguments & faux historical glosses, this is the practical endpoint of the unitary executive theory. Because when presidential power is effectively unchecked, the only thing preventing it from devolving into authoritarianism is the decency of the officeholder.
We cannot have this
Trump & Bondi versus the Rule of Law: This is why we Americans live in fear today The Honorable Thomas Cullen, the judge from the Federal District Court in Virginia who was brought in to decide Donald Trump’s and Pam Bondi’s corrupt and unprecedented lawsuit against the Federal Court in Maryland,
*one of whom paid $11M before receiving his pardon (which is a real thing that happened)
It will be a miracle if we don’t have military and DHS officers at polling stations in 2026
The Trump regime wants to end freedom of speech and competitive elections. They want to make it illegal to oppose them. I understand that sounds nuts, but that’s how dictatorship works. That’s their goal.
Hard to convince younger generations, but for decades, Republicans went on and on about how two of the worst things imaginable were (1) state intervention in the market and (2) DC using federal troops against US states; both so bad the people should be ready for armed rebellion in case it happens.
Just received this statement from Lisa Cook: "President Trump purported to fire me 'for cause' when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022."
I’m like a broken record but it’s going to get so much worse
He’s not wrong?
But also it was through emergency docket rulings and not, you know, an actual Opinion. Then they chided lower courts for not respecting an Opinion they haven’t yet ruled on
It is vital to keep working against this administration
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
I spent a quarter century being lectured by libertarians and republicans about how minimal government oversight of large companies was radical socialism and if you mentioned nationalizing stuff like telecom for the public good they'd have a six week embolism
This isn’t new. He’s been saying shit like this since before the election
It’s wild that this has to be pointed out. Congress makes laws and these are not royal decrees
So, like, even if there hadn't been two Supreme Court decisons in living memory directly holding that flag burning is protected under the First Amendment, *new criminal laws cannot be created by executive order.*
Agree. We’re over the line
METLIFE: “.. The share of unemployed Americans who have been unemployed for more than 15 weeks has passed 40%. .. the highest share since just after the pandemic .. “.. there is a group that is having an increasingly difficult time the longer they stay unemployed.”
Irony of all ironies
80 million people voted for this
🎯”to then criticize lower-court judges—who, unlike the justices, are moving heaven and earth to provide lengthy, written rationales of their decisions—is not just profoundly disrespectful; it is further enabling an increasingly loud (and increasingly dangerous) anti-judiciary narrative on the right”
👏👏👏 well done, Gov Moore
lol oh sure
The road to fascism is littered with people telling you that you are overreacting
Don’t worry it will be worse
“We don’t use the term ‘incarcerated people’ anymore”
@rokhanna.bsky.social: “Only 3% of the documents given to the [House] Oversight Committee are new. The rest are already in the public domain. Less than 1% of files have been released. DOJ is stonewalling.” khanna.house.gov/media/press-...
the city I live in is occupied by armed federal agents checking people's papers at random public transportation stops and people are still doing this
"The United States paid nothing for these Shares"
Yeah but that was in Trump’s first term and the DOJ is now filled with partisan hacks
ridiculous gate keeping when the current admin has thrown the constitution in the toilet. Can’t wait to be lectured on what words I use on my way to a concentration camp with no chance to challenge my detention. What words can we use to describe fascist military deployments on US citizens?
Literal socialism! And a horrifying pattern in light of the US Steel “deal”
4. End the rampant corruption enabled by Trump 5. Abolish ICE 6. Hold everyone accountable to fullest extent of the law
Crucial to remember that Trump installed Kash Patel as FBI director *for this very purpose.* The very thing that recommended Patel to Trump was that he expressly said in 2023 that enemies of Trump/MAGA must be prosecuted. newrepublic.com/article/1994...
Embarrassing
We did not put John Bolton’s name in the headline for a reason. It’s not about him, per se; it’s about the numerous people who Trump wants the government to destroy because they hurt Trump’s feelings www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
@monacharen.bsky.social on the Bolton raid: "It is just an obvious attempt to, use the power of the state in a completely corrupt and, and unjustifiable fashion...This is becoming the kind of country that you have to flee from if you're a critic of the government."
Fascist bullshit
Awful
When there was positive economic data under Biden, the New York Times told us to worry, with headlines like: “Why a Strong U.S. Economy Is Making Stock Investors Jittery” and “Inflation Has Been Easing Fast, but Wild Cards Lie Ahead” But when there is worrisome data under Trump, NYT reassures us:
He has a huge white nationalist tattoo on his chest. He’s been overt for a long time
The president of the United States is trying to steal congressional seats so I don’t give a fuck about the Cracker Barrel logo discussion. Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow.
Wow! Some good news here
BREAKING NEWS: Federal judge in Miami orders Alligator Alcatraz, the concentration camp in the middle of the Everglades, to be dismantled within 60 days and blocks any new detainees from being brought into the facility. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
“Calvin ball” in an official dissent! Telling us exactly how it is
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
Active shooter reported at Villanova University in Pennsylvania. www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/v...
We are 8.5 years from Trump’s first executive orders, and journalists still think they’re doing their job by pushing out stories about Trump actions before we get the actual text of what they’re doing based on the narrative White House press people tell them about what will be in orders. Why?
Trump's wealth has DOUBLED since he's become President. AND the taxpayers pick up the cost of his luxury lifestyle. And you're paying more for everything. Not because of natural economic factors, but because he's INTENTIONALLY driving prices up for you.
It’s going to get so much worse
This is a fancy way of saying what Walmart said on their earnings call this morning.
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