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If you prefer to read this thread on our site, here’s the link: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/emer...
We are literally becoming a police and military state under this administration, when chalk at a memorial is treated like a crime, it’s not about “safety.” It’s about this administration having complete control on the American people.
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
"HPD Detective Kyle Stringer noted that real officers do not wear ski masks" Okay well someone should tell that to lots and lots of the current Real Officers
the people of America cried out "IKEA is too cheap Mr. President! It is too easy for me to find affordable and utilitarian home furniture!" and the President lept into action
A woman who criticized Ghislaine Maxwell’s transfer to their facility in an interview has been transferred out to another facility which houses violent offenders. Trump’s DOJ is now punishing people who criticize his sex offender friends. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
That wasn’t a summit. That was a debacle.
There’s a DHS check point a block away from my apartment and I cannot express how horrifying it is to no longer feel like I am free to leave my building and be sure I’ll be returning later that day.
this is like if a far side cartoon grew up to be a real boy
Seems bad
Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
God. God. God. Anas al-Sharif was one of the best humans this world has ever produced. So kind, so brave, so relentless. The occupation has killed so many of his relatives and tried so hard to kill him, and they finally fucking did it, and he kept reporting right up until his last breath.
Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered…Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” - 1984, George Orwell
the decades-long project to make sure nothing like Watergate can ever hurt a Republican president again is one of the most successful political projects ever enacted, to our everlasting detriment
$170 billion could end homelessness. It could fund Head Start or pay for nutritious school meals for our kids for well over a decade. But it’s instead going to Stephen Miller so he can build his mass deportation army to target our immigrant neighbors: americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/stephen-mi...
$500 fee just to have application reviewed, plus a $100 credit check fee. The owner is probably making more money up front on fees than they are on rent. How many applications do they get to review, I wonder.
Elon Musk's DOGE wasted more than $21 billion in just six months. Other studies have found that in the long term it may cost the government more than it saved, while resulting in millions of deaths. www.commondreams.org/news/doge-wa...
NEW: I spoke with a woman named Andrea about her experience being detained by ICE after calling the cops for help during a domestic violence incident. She was recently postpartum, breastfeeding & put in an all-male facility. She was detained for 2.5 months.
The Trump administration plans to destroy more than $9.7 million in birth control intended as aid. Belgium, the U.N. and NGOs say their offers to save the supplies have been rebuffed Maham Javaid @joyceshlee.bsky.social and @megkelly.bsky.social have more wapo.st/3H81kiV
what's keeping you going?
Epstein accuser Maria Farmer on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I’ve never met a more predatory, terrifying human being in my entire life. She’s a very dangerous person. The woman is not a victim, she’s a victimizer.” via @msnbc.com (ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social)
The State Department has shuttered the team involved in South China Sea security, getting rid of top experts on the subject at a time when the administration says security in the region is a priority.
“This is madness. We are running out of words to describe it. And the people of Gaza are running out of time,” says Chris Hayes on the dire aid situation amid Israel’s war on Gaza.
“See you in September." Absolutely bonkers developments in the House tonight as the GOP scraps a week's worth of business and votes, just to avoid a simple rules vote on Jeffrey Epstein-related materials. They are stopping their agenda cold just to protect Trump. www.politico.com/live-updates...
EXCLUSIVE: Not only does an Excel spreadsheet of Trump mentions in the Epstein files exist, but so do training videos explaining how to flag the files for Trump mentions. Plus, the number of people who had access is larger than previously known. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-epstei...
Meiselas: Here's audio of Maria Farmer, one of Epstein's victims, who came forward early on...She speaks about an incident where she was going to Epstein's office building. Trump was in the office building, she says, and Epstein tells Trump, “That one's not for you. Yours is in the other room.”
Sources: - The Guardian - “Trump administration to destroy $9.7m in contraceptives rather than send them abroad,” July 18, 2025 Source: State Department confirmation and interviews with aid organizations; reports that contraceptives-primarily IUDs and implants-purchased by USAID are being destroyed.
I see we’re at the “OK, Nixon will release his own transcripts of some of the Watergate tapes” stage of this story.
Narrator: Noem is saying FEMA will look like a mass casualty event.
I feel like everyone memory-holed the fact that RFK Jr. admitted he flew on Epstein's plane and then tried to joke it off by saying he also had Weinstein, Bill Cosby, Roger Alies, and OJ Simpson all over at his house. www.yahoo.com/news/rfk-jr-...
Ruh roh
And now that we have decided to reverse generations of conservation efforts via crypto, we have decided to double down with AI which is Imagine if you had your car running 24/7 to send bananas on a conveyor belt to a room full of monkeys trying to copy work done over the past 1000 years
The calculus they made was that raping kids was worth putting up with to advance the larger goal of destroying our country and enslaving us. All worth it to them.
NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
The Trump regime is about to burn 500 tons of USAID emergency food. Why? Because it expired after its shipment was delayed. 1.5 million children could have eaten for a week. Now, taxpayers will spend $130K for it to be destroyed. This isn’t just inefficient – it’s cruel.
A California bill to bar law enforcement agents from wearing masks to conceal their identities was passed by a key legislative committee Tuesday. Senate Bill 627 prohibits law enforcement at all levels from engaging in extreme masking to conceal their identity. www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/b...
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Will. Move. On. To. The. Next. Group. He. Hates.
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
Crockett: Earlier someone was talking about cities being hellholes. Los Angeles contributes almost 20 billion in taxes. That’s more than all states in this country except for four.
They're literally burning food because they didn't want to give it to starving black and brown people.
This is not the act of a legitimate government.
Attorneys for DHS argued that it was normal for people, including DHS/CBP/ICE agents, in a “post-COVID” environment. Some chuckles in the courtroom at an attorney for the DHS under Trump arguing that face masks are normal.
On this date in 1776 the statue of King George III was pulled down in New York City. Because America didn't want a king who lived above the law.
Grotesque.
Didn't prevent a whole bunch of law professors and legal pundits to argue exactly that - all just casually insisting we ignore all context and pretend every action of the Supreme Court happens in a vacuum, completely detached from the political realities - "What if we were goldfish though?"
Federal judge, Joseph Laplante, in New Hampshire noted when granting the nationwide injunction blocking Trump's executive order: "That's irreparable harm, citizenship alone...It is the greatest privilege that exists in the world."
I almost can't believe that Elon Musk's AI called for the extermination of the Jewish people yesterday, and today not a single Congressional Democrat announced they were leaving his media network. A party that often claims to act against antisemitism didn't do jack shit about straight up Nazism.
NEW from me — I wrote about FEMA Acting Administrator David Richardson, who has been completely silent and out of view since deadly floods devastated Texas last week, and spoke to staffers about what it's like to respond to a disaster with no leader. Read here:
The tariff letters Trump has sent to foreign leaders this week have been the ravings of a complete and total mad man. Our country avoids the conversation about his fitness to serve at our own peril.
The United States is seeking to steal the sovereignty of Brazil, there's really no other way to describe this. It's an effort to overthrow their domestic political institutions.
The media coverage of the Biden administration’s FEMA response to Hurricane Helene was FERAL. Now another tragic disaster has struck, this time under Trump, and no one seems to care that his head of FEMA is barricaded in his office. I know standards are different, but what gives, people?
It’s been five days since floods in Texas killed at least 111 people and FEMA’s Acting Administrator David Richardson still hasn’t made a single public or internal statement.
At least 161 people are still missing in Texas Hill Country after the deadly floods and the FEMA Acting Administrator is going to Peru, per an agency source.
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What Vance's comments indicate is that if you don't show loyalty to American whiteness, they will denaturalize you-- no matter how long you've been here, and no matter what you look life. It's citizenship based on whether you align with THEIR beliefs.
Concentrate in a camp, you say?
Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social. Mar-a-Lago Bathroom Today
With the updated RCV totals just released by the Board of Elections, our campaign has officially earned the most total votes in a primary in New York City history.
This is true, and as much as Americans are comfortable and eager to avoid confrontation with their own government, it doesn't matter if their government wants a confrontation with them
It's a concentration camp.
While Kristi Noem’s out here blaming everyone but herself, here’s her own April press release bragging about clawing back $882M in disaster resilience grants. The kind that could’ve helped in Texas. They’d rather wage culture wars than actually protect human lives.
Hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. The Navy has decided to stop sharing the data.
The people who lost children and other loved ones in the Texas floods are owed honest answers from officials. They should be told why flash flood warnings issued hours earlier were not conveyed to people in the path of the water. They don’t need more prayers from politicians. They need answers.
In a horrifying article about the dangers of Teslas, one point stands out: Teslas automatically disengage self-driving mode <1 second before an imminent crash--not enough time for the driver to react, but enough for Tesla to deny responsibility for fatal crashes, since self-driving "wasn't engaged."
This. All of this. They way things are headed now, it's going to be a white ethnostate where white women are handmaids, and the rest of us are slaves. Please stop saying "politics doesn't matter". It does. It does so so much.
Trump’s approval rating on deportations is currently lower than his approval on the economy www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data
What a fine establishment. The alligator camp got flooded.
Total surrender
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"The DOD held up a shipment of US weapons for Ukraine this week over what officials said were concerns about its low stockpiles. But an analysis by senior military officers found the aid package would not jeopardize the US military’s own ammunition supplies ... it was a unilateral step by Hegseth."
Damn, it looks just like the photos of the disappeared that were put up by relatives in the South American dictatorships
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.
These people think they’re at the end of a story — that they ARE the end of a story — and they are wrong. More than that: the story is changing around us all the time, in the ways that people who think they will always have the power to write it cannot even begin to anticipate.
There is no way we will be hosting the Olympics or the World Cup. Why would any country willingly put their people through this?
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯
Jim Jordan in 2010: "Within a couple years we'll be paying a billion dollars a day just to service the debt...America understands the budget path we're on is unsustainable." We're now spending $2.6 billion a day to service our debt and Jim Jordan added $4.1 TRILLION to the debt.
Gotta say: really appreciating Hakeem Jeffries taking the Republican Party to task over what Christ actually said and taught in the Bible. It's nice to see the actual nature of the Gospel expressed as opposed to the nonsense the GOP erroneously and constantly claim.
Leader Jeffries ends his 8 hour and 44 minute floor speech: "No matter what the outcome is, on this singular day, we're going to press on." "Press on for the rule of law. Press on for the American way of life. Press on for democracy. We're going to press on until victory is won. I yield back."
The bill adds $3.3 trillion in debt. That violates the statutory paygo law of 2010 that requires across-the-board sequestration cuts. Many accounts (like Social Security and some low-income programs) are exempted from that. But Medicare is not. Here's the breakdown:
Helen Keller and LL Cool J were alive at the same time. We don’t know what to do with this information, but we thought we should tell you.
I had to read this twice to believe it...Meloni, who ran for office on an anti-immigration platform, has now announced plans to let in hundreds of thousands of immigrants, in order to deal with the Italian labor shortage www.reuters.com/world/italy-...
“Republicans killed health care.” Don’t over complicate it.
Can't argue with this, either...
Sharp new response from Zohran Mamdani, hitting back at Trump's threats: "His statements...attempt to send a message to every New Yorker who refuses to hide in the shadows: if you speak up, they will come for you. We will not accept this intimidation."
This
Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 109 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
Why would any sane person believe the economic data released by the Trump regime? The regime officials are forced to release data that pleases Trump. The economy is not getting better- it’s getting worse as polls show.
“Trump is about Trump. Which means three things now: monetizing the presidency through the kind of corruption that will stain the GOP for decades, advancing his personal legacy even if it means political disaster for his party (and its followers) and enacting retribution against his enemies.”
There is SO MUCH POWER in the people of this country. We outnumber them 3 to 1 at least. Get off your ass and get to a community meeting. Show up to an immigration rights org or a food bank. Get out from behind a screen and talk to your neighbors. We are so far from done.
Here's the view of the DIE-IN in front of Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick's office building in PA-01, as seen from above. We want him to VOTE NO on Trump's Billionaire Bailout Budget Bill! Thank you to Ava Redmond for her drone work!
This is Nick Begich (R-Alaska). If he votes for the bill, 37,000 of his constituents lose access to their healthcare. 27,000 of his constituents lose access to their food assistance. 578 energy jobs in his district will disappear.
As the GOP prepares to enrich the mega rich by adding trillions to the debt and cruel budget cuts, it’s worth noting that a Democratic admin probably would have made them even richer through sound economic policy and by not by throwing the markets into a panic every few weeks.
