Today the Big Balls Goon Squad snatched people off the DC streets * In front of a library * Off a public bus * At traffic stops * After causing a car crash This has to stop
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Today the Big Balls Goon Squad snatched people off the DC streets * In front of a library * Off a public bus * At traffic stops * After causing a car crash This has to stop
I love our city and its residents. All of DCers would have welcomed serious intervention where crime is problematic. But troops are deployed where crime is not and where thriving business and Latinos are. As a result, our economy is decimated and our people, terrorized.
@teenvogue.com remains the bravest publication in America. Read this article and learn how to fight against ICE surveillance. www.teenvogue.com/story/ice-wa...
It isn't until the 26th paragraph that there is mention that what Trump is doing is being challenged as illegal. And it accepts Trump's stated rationale to act. Here is what I think: Trump is illegally deploying the military in blue cities to set the stage to interfere with the 2026 elections.
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.
In other words: They lied.
Imagine living in Washington, DC and having armed federal agents terrorizing your family and neighbors. It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt. And we are hurting badly
(ht: @normornstein.bsky.social)
Nailed it
Florida man recently found roaming on the roof of the house he's squatting at holds press conference to announce imaginary numbers
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Let him. Please, Democrats, be brave.
Just after midnight, the House passed Trump’s rescissions package by 216-213, killing $9 billion in public media and foreign aid. USAID is killed. The US pulls out of @who.int. @usip.org is killed. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is killed. This is a murderous act.
Wilt thou conceal this dark conspiracy?
"... a condition usually caused by damaged leg veins that struggle to send blood back up to the heart.” In fairness to those leg veins, Donald's heart isn't easy to find.
Stay brave, @kairyssdal.bsky.social. You’re one of the few independent voices left in the media.
What shaky faith I have is bolstered by my desire to believe in a hell for folks like these.
Reporting live as a mom of disabled kids: private schools will not admit my children; public schools are all they have. Now, what education will they receive if the laws re accommodations are not enforced?
I agree. Follow the money. The solution is to make it too expensive to detain immigrants.
Trump doesn't talk a lot about abortion, but he's putting anti-abortion zealots in positions where they can do immense harm. Read this thread and the linked article.
The evil that men do lives after them
The only thing I have to say, hinge whatever hopes you wish on the 2026 and 2028 elections, but recognize that the highest-funded paramilitary in American history - soon to have over 40,000 masked soldiers - & which is beholden only to Trump, is simply never going to allow him to be voted out.
Does Sen Markowski understand her role and the scope of her office?
To quote @kairyssdal.bsky.social, immigration is an economic matter. In this case, bad immigration policy is equally bad economic policy.
This is the number that keeps me up at night
Please see what is happening: we are stripping people of their citizenship; we are dehumanizing our fellow Americans; we are turning one against another.
Adding to the Trump/Musk body count, as predicted. Glad Bezos had a nice wedding, though.
This obvious implication of the Supreme Court’s ruling today is why they’re acting like they think Democrats will never hold the presidency again. They want Trump to be a king to ensure no Democrat can wield that same power
Now Canadians are dying in ICE detention. I wonder if this adult’s death will garner more attention than the deaths of Central American and Haitian children.
Savor today. It may be the last many Americans are American.
Reproductive rights are civil rights.
Reproductive rights are civil rights.
She’s just trying to justify her abortion by blaming others for it. “It wasn’t I who aborted! The Democrats made me.”
And multiple women have been hurt. Maternal morbidity - health harm caused by pregnancy and childbirth - is common and not spoken of. Somehow, we think permanent incontinence, organ prolapse, and disfigurement is the appropriate price of womanhood.
how does this entire thread not mention that multiple women have died
www.cnn.com/2025/06/18/u...
Wag the dog: Texas signed into law the State Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. H/t Jamie Kester
That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they? Hello?
Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
I wanted to know why. Now, I do.
Hey folks. I know there's a lot going on right now, but I'd really appreciate it if you read this piece I wrote on the perils of raising an autistic child during the era of RFK Jr. and his campaign of insane conspiracies and cruel scare tactics geared toward people on the spectrum.
Another slide into a monarchy. Rule by fiat.
BREAKING: U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk has issued a ruling striking down the 2024 Biden-era HIPAA rule protecting reproductive health information from disclosure to law enforcement investigators when it was legally obtained, such as in another state.
I want the deets on every single Texas male politician with erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation, and enlarged prostates. Names and pictures on the front page of the paper. Every day until this ends.
Also, the preference category is Unavailable. This is very bad.
International organization (IO) employees are in this same category, right? We should push for advocacy from the World Bank, UN, and other IOs.
Awful, awful, awful. They are planning on a SIJ kid hunt. Mark my words.
After all our effort to keep neglected and abused immigrant kids safe with SIJ, now this: @austinkocher.com
Sorta on the nose, given Trump’s attendance at Les Miserables, which is about justice for a man who stole a loaf of bread.
Beating up senators. Torturing immigrants. www.vox.com/scotus/41616...
What about Padilla did not look like US senator to DHS? Could they please specify?
Tracking human beings is against American values and redolent of the slave trackers of the 1860s. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
I hate this so much. I hate them so much. I hate that they have made me hate.
Florida welfare authorities have turned over a 17-year-old foster child to ICE. He has already been separated from his mother, who was deported. He may have been the victim of labor trafficking. Yet, he was taken from his foster home in shackles. A minor. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
This will soon happen at other schools in DC and, I’d bet, NYC and Chicago.
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) pleaded with National Guard troops not to use their weapons against protesters.
What happened last night and today was manufactured propaganda by the Trump admin to justify using the military against Americans. Let us be clear: the military should never police civilians without a request from the state. So much for the so-called party of states’ rights and law and order.
"Remember... even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."
I’m frightened to know what we are about to learn
ICE abducted and imprisoned a family including two children and a mother with a high-risk pregnancy in a basement overnight with no beds and limited access to food and water. But ICE wants to you know that its stormtroopers are ‘real people’ with families. K. www.cbsnews.com/news/immigra...
I guess that autism registry is happening after all.
What’s the latest on the autism registry, please?
🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
Just like the autism registry and trans bans, the Trump regime is saying one thing, doing another, and most media is taking them at their word.
This feels like Alien vs Sexual Predator
Correct analysis.
As if I couldn’t love Kai Ryssdal more
Hi! I specialize in medication toxicity. All available, real-world data has proven mifepristone is actually even safer than many over the counter medicines. Mortality rates: Mifepristone: 0.65/100,000 Penicillin 2/100K Viagra 4/100K Pregnancy in the US: 22/100,000 (some states see rates >60/100K)
The US Institute of Peace Digs Out of Under DOGE’s Weed Stash and Tries to Rebuild talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-u...
Joni Ernst’s fight song: And it's 5, 6, 7, open up the pearly gates well there ain't no time to wonder why whoopee! we're all gonna die m.youtube.com/watch?v=F_p1...
and it's 5, 6, 7, open up the pearly gates well there ain't no time to wonder why whoopee! we're all gonna die
When the face-eating hyenas begin to devour themselves.
Ordinarily, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. But Leonard Leo is not a typical enemy
TACO TACO man. You know I want to be A TACO man.
Flaunting the rule of law now is an American disease
Sour grapes, 2025 edition
I keep saying this, I know, but if we must have religion, let it mean something. Let it be a force for compassion and justice.
I always thought “Lying Eyes” was a Joyce Carol Oates novel put to music. Turns out, it’s also contemporary non-fiction.
During Trump I, CBP’s treatment of newborns and their mothers shook my belief in god. The cruelty - providing no diapers, formula, or baby food for the most vulnerable and innocent - was sickening. Here we are, again. www.wired.com/story/cbp-re...
I wondered why. The answer was obvious all along.
Make it make sense
For adoption via the for-profit agency of a governmental official.
This is why you always join a union!
Gooo unions!
The DC legal environment is about to get weird. youtu.be/TEbtOSXmY0c?...
Amen!
This is insanity. The U.S. is collaborating with Libya to deport Vietnamese there. Since when do we collaborate with Libya?
Trump gave billionaire Elon Musk & DOGE access to sensitive taxpayer data like social security numbers. Your data is not safe with DOGE. Identity theft will likely increase because of this access and could potentially impact tens of millions of working people: www.epi.org/publication/...
Disabled children are particularly at risk for lifelong privacy harm. HHS has proposed scraping data from private insurance companies and doctors, compiling these data with info from Medicaid, Medicare, and other gov’t programs, and tracking and registering autistic kids.
An actual Enemies List of journalists and academics is circulating around the State Department. It appears to target, in part, anybody said a bad word about Alex Jones or Glenn Greenwald.
Uniter 9-year old Teddy “Recently…RFK Jr. made false comments about autism, like people with autism are broken, that autism caused by vaccines, and that people with autism will never have jobs or families. But that’s not true! “I have autism & I’m not broken.” @nj.com, www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjSfAeVL/
Thank you, Teddy, from a mom of a kid with autism. My kid is as awesome as you are. 💕
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Follow the Two Rogers Rule: Don't do what they wouldn't. Absolutely do what they would. #BeAGoodNeighbor #PunchANazi
I along with other privacy scholars have been warning of this privacy dystopia for decades. And it's here! I long for a world where privacy scholars can stop singing the chorus of "I told ya so." www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Public health research shows paid parental leave and childcare improve women’s workforce participation (and their health). But proposing these while eliminating contraception and abortion access feels threatening of women’s liberty.
Hey @austinkocher.com, be sure to connect with the International Institute (www.iistl.org), re SIVs for Afghans, & Catholic Charities (ccstl.org/services/ser...), that provides amazing immlaw representation.
I think babies dying in their sleep is bad, and research to prevent babies from dying in their sleep is good. Sorry to get so partisan, and I apologize for offending any pro-life people when I say that babies suddenly dying in preventable ways is bad, but that's how I feel.
One of the travesties of the last 100 days is DOGE running roughshod over all data privacy rules and protections