No reason offered. Called them, they asked to email. Emailed, they asked to call. Will continue tomorrow again. This is despicable. I have 27 events/meetings arranged at and around UNGA80.
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No reason offered. Called them, they asked to email. Emailed, they asked to call. Will continue tomorrow again. This is despicable. I have 27 events/meetings arranged at and around UNGA80.
Pritzker: Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
Is it the mitochondria-face?
The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)
Shocking moment of the russian missile strike on an apartment building in Kyiv this morning 🤬
Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadn’t happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.
If Cracker Barrel sets them off, imagine how they’ll react when they hear I went woke in the New Testament — turning the other cheek, feeding the poor, all that radical stuff.
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
Estonians and Pols and Romanians and other people in E. European countries belong to Moscow, so it’s, like, totally unfair for them to decide their own foreign relations, therefore Russia has to murder thousands of Ukrainians, it’s not Russia’s fault, you made them. I still don’t buy that logic.
The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good
The buses look like they are from 1950! Nothing else looks the same as 1950, how did the school bus design get frozen in time?
The next Democratic administration needs to strip all the gold and icons out of the White House like radical Dutch Calvinists in the 1500s
Kharkiv tonight. People chanting “Putin Khuylo”, which essentially means Putin go f yourself
That, and Trump got eaten for lunch in Alaska.
Morning Bluesky. Ukrainian drones have hit Novatek export oil terminal in Ust Luga on the Baltic Sea. The facility is critical to Russia’s economy. It’s burning. #explodey
Artem Morozov hoped that the war in Ukraine would end on his 16th birthday, when President Trump welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska. Instead, Russia killed Artem and his entire family.
Is there a Derek Guy of interior architecture here? What did we just… he went from Neoclassical to Faux Baroque? What is the origin and meaning of those chalice/trophy thingies? Gift from Putin?
A year ago today… God how different it could have been.
Double down on him: let’s ask for everyone’s passport! The Best and Most Secure Option of Voter ID! People who have set foot abroad are an overwhelmingly democratic voting block.
If a member of your hiking group is attacked by a bear, and you are carrying both bear spray and also a gun, and the course of action you choose is to just very quietly hide behind a rock at a safe distance… I think that’s shameful. That is US for the past 3.5 years.
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“Putin would eat you for lunch.” Today, exactly that happened.
Heinrich: And what was really stunning to me as someone who has been in a lot of these press conferences a few things very unusual. You had Putin come out and address the press first. We are on U.S. Soil here
Alaska I wasn’t familiar with your game
There would be an immediate cease fire if Russia immediately ceases firing.
After nine years in Russian captivity, civilian hostage Bohdan Kovalchuk has returned to #Ukraine. Bohdan's grandma, Tetiana Hots, shared that her grandson had already called her and told: "Grandma, I’m coming home." Tetiana is now preparing to travel to #Kyiv, where she will meet him
What are they teaching in schools these days. Are they still saying that the government has three branches and all that
6 days after Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, a Prague paper published these “10 Commandments”: ‘When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU: 1. Don’t know 2. Don’t care 3. Don’t tell 4. Don’t have 5. Don’t know how to 6. Don’t give 7. Can’t do 8. Don’t sell 9. Don’t show 10. Do nothing’
Many who were sent to Gulag were close to power and had lived in prime real estate prior to their arrest. The housing authority would reassign the apartment to the next up-and-coming civil servant who knew how to work the system.
In Stalin’s USSR that’s exactly how it worked. Millions of tons of steel - apartment in central Moscow. And there were always new vacancies popping up in central Moscow because of, well, Gulags.
Sophia, Mykyta,their 2-year-old son Lev &their unborn baby were killed by the Russian strike on #Kyiv on July 31. The family was from Sloviansk,fled to Kyiv from the Russian invasion.The Russian missile hit the residential building's entrance where they rented an apartment Deepest condolences...
Today is my birthday (turning 29), which is the only time all year that I ask for a repost 🌿 I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮
What a dark day for Ukraine — russia murdered 22 civilians last night. Among them: 23yo Diana, pregnant woman in a maternity hospital in the Dnipropetrovsk region. russians also deliberately struck a civilian penal center, killing 17 there. In total, 85 people were injured. 💔
The original sin was failing to send trump to prison for the rest of his life," for mounting a violent coup to overthrow the election of 2020. He should have been charged and jailed, period.
I get two extra dollars, and the IRS, would know about it, where I got it and who I got it from. Yet no one knows where, and how Epstein acquired all this money, and properties. It's ridiculous
I think the reality is worse than the graph shows, because the metro areas in which it’s realistic for a median family to earn 90-100K are not the same where houses cost $450K.
Help us redefine what the stars and stripes truly represent. Watch the full documentary here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldUN...
I remember when Putin clearly had his thumb on the scale in 2016. And everyone went, “well, we don’t have a mechanism for dealing with that… so let’s just pretend it didn’t happen!”
This is MAGA Magadan. More people should know about Magadan and other Soviet Gulags, which were set up in inhospitable terrain for the purpose of inflicting extra suffering on the prisoners. The US has the Eighth Amendment - no cruel and unusual punishment - why are we not talking about this?
I hoped never to see concentration camps like the ones I grew up in appear again in this country. Reading this breaks my heart.
Gator Gulag
Epstein invited girls to “science camp”.
A prisoner of “Alligator Alcatraz” the concentration camp, wrote to CBS (Miami 7/8/25) and their letter was able to get out, here is that letter being read:
At this point I could be convinced that a time traveler keeps going back to 2016 to try and fix it and just keeps unwittingly making it worse
Unexpectedly, during broad daylight, Ukraine is under russian missile attack. Alert everywhere. Missiles in our airspace.
Cartoon by @claybennett.bsky.social. Birthright Citizenship
Mark and Melissa saw the humanity in everyone. Let’s honor them by doing the same.
If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.
a baby's citizenship status now depends on which state it was born in and whether or not the parents have a lawyer on standby to sue the federal government from the maternity ward it's fucking madness
As of June 15, 71.8% of the 56,397 people in ICE detention had no criminal conviction. It costs taxpayers ~$165/day for a bed in a detention facility. So we're now paying ~$6.7 million/day to keep people who haven't been convicted of a crime locked in prisons. Sources: TRAC Immigration, DHS
Derek for President! People with no ambition for power should run for office more often!
all i want is to one day own a modest sized home in a walkable neighborhood and raise money for shelter animals. wear an outfit i like, walk to the grocery store, buy some nectarines, feed cats, and live in peace. just don't understand why achieving this is so hard
In Belarus, the husband of opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya,Syarhey, has been released,along with several other prisoners They had been sentenced following the attempted overthrow of Lukashenko in 2020 Their release coincided with the visit of Kellogg to Belarus
Kind of weird our SecDef spent all this time talking about lethality and war fighters and the Marines’ first deployment is to Westwood.
An Afghan man who worked as a translator for the U.S. military during the war was detained by ICE after showing up for a hearing inside of a federal courthouse in San Diego, his attorney says. He fears that if he returns to Afghanistan, he would be tortured or even killed, @nbcsandiego.com reports.
These are the people that make America great 🇲🇽🇺🇸
Ok UFW throwing down. Is Trump in charge, or are immigration agencies rogue? Prove it, man
Covered countless press conferences in 20+ yrs in journalism. I've seen critics, including elected officials, show up to question/confront speakers. I've never seen anything like this in response.
MADDOW: “What is this country going to allow him to do? This is an attempted authoritarian overthrow of the 🇺🇸 Constitution and Government… imposition of a dictatorial regime. The strength of the movement against him is what will determine our fate as a country.”
Those who say (X) should be deported: Those who have committed violent crimes: 87% Those who have committed non-violent crimes: 47% Those who have young children who are US citizens: 26% Those who came to the US as children: 22% Those who are married to a US citizen: 17% YouGov / June 9, 2025
3rd & Spring, Downtown Los Angeles, 1937
Of all the things I don’t care about, I care about this the least: Headline: “DOGE Staffers Fear Getting DOGE’d Themselves”
📌NOTE: Sending the Marines into ANY U.S. city would be the greatest, anti-American insult TO THE MARINES I have seen in my entire lifetime. 📌This is weak, disgusting and NOT THEIR MISSION. Be about time for retired Marines to start speaking up, because you KNOW you are better than this. -Navy guy
I mean this guy explains at least 50% of the Trump phenomenon. No joke!
Perhaps investors can demand that Elon Musk email them every Friday explaining what he accomplished in the past week.
If you are an ally, if you care about this, I thank you. I thank you for your courage and bravery because the hate is so pervasive, now, that it does take courage to speak out. If you're on the fence, I encourage you to think deeply about how words cause radicalization & how hate leads to violence.
@adamschiff.com @padilla.senate.gov @gallego.senate.gov My daughters' birthfather was taken from Otay Mesa this morning. He was told he was being sent to Louisiana but was taken to AZ and was told he is being deported although his lawyer was told there is a stay. Anything you can do?
Just to add, they took his shoes. When he asked for them back, they hit him and threatened to turn the cameras around and hurt him more. @adamschiff.com @padilla.senate.gov @gallego.senate.gov
I should think the Russians can exit the same way they came in
They snatched up a guy who lives a block down from me. Five unmarked cars, 10 plainclothed agents for one guy. Another neighbor walking his dog called the police because he thought it was an abduction. Nothing about it looked official
U2 frontman Bono appeared on the red carpet with #Ukrainian soldiers. At the premiere of a documentary based on his autobiography late on Friday, May 16, he stated that the world is once again threatened by fascism, just as it was when the festival was founded in 1939
President Declines Gift (1925)
Fuck this little turd invoking the soldiers at Normandy. Those people fought for this country. This little fascist fights against it.
Oh, another one: let’s have a contest where the winner gets health care! Like if the kid can balance on logs, maybe they will get treated for cancer.
Good news is that there are some in the Chinese and Indian immigrant community who support trump, and these images help them see who trump is. It’s common for legal immigrants to spend more than a decade waiting for a “visa number to become available.”
Ironic for all the people who have tried to navigate the byzantine US immigration system for years. I should have just written “white” in every cell of those forms. Why bother with the degrees and job offers? Is there a first preference category if I am extra pale white?
True story: a 40 year old married CEO bought a car for his 23-year-old newly hired employee. “I heard you didn’t have a car yet. Here you go. Don’t get me wrong, no strings attached.” It was a new car. She accepted the keys and drove it around. Guess what happened next in their relationship?
Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.
Accepting a private jumbo-jet from a foreign nation is a clear violation of our Constitution, which plainly prohibits U.S. officials from accepting gifts from foreign governments.
#ResistanceRoots #Voices4Victory I'm reminded of the U.S. embassy in Moscow that was built in the early 1980s using Soviet workers and materials. The Soviets embedded bugs right into the bricks. The building was a giant microphone. The bugging was so extensive, parts of it had to be torn down.
Remember when people thought Presidents making cash on book deals and speaking fees after they left office was vaguely corrupt?
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The russian army disguises mines as toys and household items. Children, animals, and civilians find them in fields, streets, and playgrounds. No place is truly safe. Watch the video and try to spot the mine👇 u24.gov.ua/step-by-step...
Warnock: Don’t lecture to me about meritocracy while I witness you nominate the most unfit unqualified people we’ve ever seen. You cannot lecture me about merit while nominating Pete Hegseth…
Musk really makes Zuckerberg look good. In his first decade of being a billionaire, Zuck got around to funding a Chan-Zuckerberg medical center. Musk just didn’t get around to it. He got around.
Elon and his chainsaw… This was the most classic case of someone sawing the branch that he was sitting on. The masses of tech workers are a 90% dem crowd. That branch has been sawed off and it won’t grow back in the same place.
5th Amendment: No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law 6th Amendment: The accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy & public trial...and to be informed of the nature & cause of the accusation 8th Amendment: ...nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted
What happened to this American family has got to be illegal on so many levels. 20 armed men raided their new home, terrorized them and stole all of their money and electronic devices. Since no govt agency will take responsibility they dont know who has their belongs. kfor.com/news/local/w...
"It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research." J.B. Pritzker
2-year old was the wrong color anyway. MAGA is generally a MAWA movement, they make no secret of it. For them, the regrettable part is that she was a citizen in the first place.
Friends, With a heavy heart, I came here to tell you that a miracle didn't happen... The boy's body was taken out of the debris. He was 17 years old, and had his whole life ahead of him. His classmates are mourning the loss of their friend. Russia killed him. #Kyiv #Ukraine
Morning from Kyiv. It was a terrible night here. As of now, there is information about nine people killed in Kyiv; 70 others were injured. Some people are still missing. I will have a #warcoffee and a sip of life.
They’re not up to the task, not meeting this moment. The tone is all “Trump is a bit of an oddball... and what to cook this weekend.”
Census Community Survey. I couldn't stop thinking that Stephen Miller wrote the questionnaire. Besides the invasive sexual orientation questions they never asked if we were retired. Almost 2 pages of questions asking if we worked, even an hour, etc. Smacked of the "work for benefits" GOP policy.
An amazing video about Ukrainian women and their strength. Repost if you still stand with Ukraine! youtu.be/ZFkuLfA9E_c
Russia struck a residential building in Kharkiv at 5 a.m. Missiles are too fast, and Kharkiv is too close to the border for any solid warning. People were sleeping in their beds..