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Woah
hrmnlashtray (@hrmnlnrml.bsky.social) reply parent
Woah
As an aside, I'm told multiple major outlets were not interested in this story and passed on covering it. Mind-boggling.
2.977 people died on 9/11. The daily quote for ICE is 3000. I think putting it in terms like that puts it into perspective. They want one 9/11 every day.
Let's review: 1. Iran was not building a nuclear weapon 2. US intel said that if the US bombed Iran, it might push Iran to build a nuke 4. Trump bombed Iran anyway 5. Trump claimed the bombs "obliterated" Iran's nuclear facilities 6. Iran's program was set back only a few months, US intel says
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HA! You know what, let's do that and see how many of you people are drugged tf out. I bet it'll be mostly Republicans, they have trouble processing their emotions and probably use copious amounts of methamphetamines
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Is she high!?
Congratulations to those who implemented Trump’s illegal order.
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Yo wtf? Did someone in the administration fake a phone call with Newsom for Trump, or for themselves? If Trump genuinely imagined this convo with Newsom, why isn't anyone in the admin telling him the truth? Does the admin want to use Trump to continue brainwashing Americans? Like what the actual fck
We should never let ourselves get desensitized to this. It can’t be overstated how outrageously unpresidential and un-American it is for Donald Trump to speak to the US military like they’re his partisan personal army.
Some grim Memorial Day reading: a recent ruling in the 9/11 military commission reveals descriptions of one of the CIA’s most sadistic black sites — like, well,
The United States Institute of Peace has been resurrected. Its staff, reinstated by a court ruling on Monday, have taken back their building. It turns out not all DOGE damage is permanent
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The police departments in question were Phoenix, Arizona, Trenton, New Jersey, Memphis, Tennessee, and Mount Vernon, New York, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Never going to these places, ever
Reuters: JUSTICE DEPT CLOSES ALL INVESTIGATIONS AND RETRACTS FINDINGS OF WRONGDOING AGAINST SIX OTHER POLICE DEPARTMENTS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES
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I think they want to set up justification to roll back Biden policies/laws/etc.
I remember that story www.npr.org/2025/05/14/n...
This is FOUL. What's next? Does the U.S. pay reparations to every descendent of a Confederate soldier who died in the Civil War? It is the same premise.
Trump on India-Pakistan: "Everyone was stronger, stronger-- to a point where the next one was gonna be you know what. The n word. You know what the n word is, right? It's the n word. That's very nasty word, right? In a lot of ways. The n word used in a nuclear sense."
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Van Hollen is still there and just spoke to El Salvador's VP, since the President was apparently away on a trip. Check his YouTube page
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The defense really had to go this low. I get why the first lawyer left, very hard to defend this shit
AOC: We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces — and, in many cases, their identification… The idea that we’re going to allow a paramilitary force to bloom, one that isn’t accountable to the Constitution… we’ve got another thing coming.
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So what now? Is everything going back to normal? What does this actually do
hrmnlashtray (@hrmnlnrml.bsky.social) reply parent
Because he can't read, per Pete Davidson and I'm sure his former staff
I didn't catch this little gem from Donald Trump yesterday: "Now I have military pilots, but prior to that, I have very good pilots, great pilots. They would land and I won't tell you which country, but they would use the system of another country." Was it Russia?
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He is so fucking stupid it's scary. Unbelievable, really
What may have the potential to be the most significant international crisis for the 2nd Trump administration so far. The killing of 32+ civilians in a terrorist attack in Pahalgam is the worst Kashmir massacre since the February 2019 Pulwama suicide bombing. 1/
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Certainly not going to win any type of war against China and Russia in the (near?) future now 😒
NEW — I’ve obtained audio of new acting FEMA head David Richardson threatening staff in an all hands meeting this morning. As first reported by Reuters, he told those who resisted change in the agency, “Don’t get in my way…I will run right over you.” Listen to the clip here:
Pirro is the 23rd former Fox employee Trump has named to his administration. She's wildly unqualified to be DC's top prosecutor and was been described by her former executive producer as a "reckless lunatic." Gonna thread some of her lowlights.
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Like you can't tell me that he doesn't know that he looks ridiculous!! 😂😂
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tells Democratic House Rep. Maxine Waters that he met her in the Bahamas one year doing the Electric Slide. Democratic Rep. Nydia Velazquez laughing and saying "he didn't make an impression" cracked me up! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Very interesting! Folks fighting back? Who knows 🤷🏾♀️
This cabinet has to go on Fox News to talk to each other.
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Insane stuff here. Are these Republican Reps being threatened? Are they cowards? Spineless? Bootlickers? Why aren't they speaking? Journalists seriously need to figure out why because it is 1. Alarming and 2. An example of a Dictatorship. Very North Korea.
"We are now in a position in which Republican colleagues are not allowed to say whether or not they support or oppose an amendment" -- bizarre scenes at the House Committee on Natural Resources as Republicans refuse to engage with Joe Neguse's questions & instead sit in silence
Wow, wow, wow Declassified National Intelligence Council, Sense of the Community Memorandum: "The Maduro regime probably does not have a policy of cooperating with TDA and is not directing TDA movement to and operations in the United States." Now consider: DOJ lawyers saying opposite to courts!
I've spoken with multiple Mundo Verde parents who tell me they're taking turns camping outside the school to observe, another likely deterrent.
A secret report from U.S. intelligence agencies made public severely undermines the Trump administration's rationale for deploying the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan men to El Salvador. The memo is a direct contradiction of Trump's argument for using the law. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...
we need to talk about the pathological culture of hate that millions of americans raise their children in
The people who shouted we were snowflakes for asking for pronouns are bragging about kidnapping human beings because their fragile ears couldn't handle hearing another language spoken in a cab.
BREAKING NYT: Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer. The info included the flight schedules for the F/A-18 Hornets targeting Houthis. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...
My response to the Deputy Assistant to the President:
SCOOP: sources tell me that the State Dept plans to eliminate its only office to counter foreign disinformation, as soon as today, delivering a win to foreign governments like Russia, Iran, and China—and the office's mostly conservative critics. www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/16/1...
per Van Hollen, El Salvador wouldn't let him into CECOT, which seems notable given that multiple House Republicans have photos of themselves inside grinning and giving a thumbs-up Abu Ghraib-style
We knew this, of course, but the government of El Salvador isn't shy to admit – boast, really – that the US government is paying them to detain these people. The Trump Administration's claims that this is a state secret are ludicrous on their face.
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Works fine on my end
This is exactly what Democrats should be doing!! You’ve got power and status so leverage it. More of this!!!!
That’s illegal. FYI. No - Pam Bondi won’t do anything.
For nearly four years, the mainstream press AND right wing propaganda talked non-stop about the pain Americans were feeling because of the covid inflation. I surely hope we get just as much coverage of the Trump's tariff "transition cost" that's already being felt on main street.
hrmnlashtray (@hrmnlnrml.bsky.social)
It's just so funny how they are saying all this LIVE. Great evidence if you ask me
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NBC explains here that Trump used Whitmer (the governor of MI, in blue here) as a prop. She still should have called him out on his stupidity, imo www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
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What the fuck is this
This is a blatantly unconstitutional statement. The states and Congress have constitutional power over elections.
Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
Claim by the White House: The Supreme Court ruling made it “very clear” that Trump was “well within his constitutional authority” to carry out deportations under the Alien Enemies Act. What the Supreme Court actually ruled:
Again, impeachable actions by the minute. For example, the President of the United States bragging that he is extorting law firms.
This is smart—Johnson won’t accept a debate with Jeffries because he’d get murdered on live TV. He’ll very likely chicken out. Wise of Hakeem and his team to put them in this position.
At this point, you can’t convince me they aren’t manipulating the market. As soon as the indexes started peaking today, the White House started talking about tariffs on China, and everything is in the red again.
LUJAN: Do you agree w/ President Trump that families are gonna have to feel a little pain? GREER: I'm not gonna speak for POTUS L: I know none of you have the courage to stand up to him. Do you agree that what the president said about people having to feel pain? G: Of course I agree w/ POTUS
Trump refuses to introduce Senators Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla. No man has ever been this small.
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Now that Muskrat is done taking our data from the government, he has no use being there anymore
🔥 Neguse absolutely dog walks Newt Gingrich during a hearing about "judicial coups" today
Two U.S. officials tell WSJ that Trump national security adviser Mike Waltz has created and hosted *multiple* other sensitive national-security conversations on Signal with cabinet members — including separate threads on Russia-Ukraine and military operations. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
"The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction to order his return from the megaprison where he’s now locked up."
NEW: @aclu.org obtained ICE's "Alien Enemies Act Validation Guide," confirming all it takes to be sent to rot in prison in El Salvador is being Venezuelan and 1) having a tattoo an ICE officer says is a "gang tattoo" and 2) displaying "logos," "symbols" or clothes an ICE officer says are gang signs.
Day 68 into the GOP takeover: Prices are going up. Consumer confidence is plummeting. Classified info is being leaked. Social Security is being dismantled. Residents are being arrested for their political views.
New in PN: All the laws flouted during SignalGate "There’s no excuse they can come up with that will be believable, bc the truth is obvious — they recklessly defied numerous laws by discussing war plans in a Signal group. And once they got caught, they made things even worse by incessantly lying."
as with most authoritarian propaganda, the point is not to actually present a coherent narrative, it is simply to raise enough doubt that people give up trying to figure out *what* is true and tune out
Happy One Month Anniversary to this story.
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
There are like 5 scandals every day that would have broken any previous Administration.
Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.
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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
Patel is an unqualified extremist who probably perjured himself, receives money from Russia & China, and has made clear he will weaponize the FBI to pursue Trump's political enemies. The only Trump appointee who did not make is Gaetz, seemingly for being an insufficiently loyal Republican.
The DHS will use polygraphs to question employees about communications with the media or nonprofit organizations in an effort to root out members of the resistance.
Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."
The employee is Gavin Kliger. He’s been named by multiple large news orgs. Not sure why NBC won’t.
For years it was considered gauche to call Trump’s guys Nazis and now his government is led by literal Nazis.
This week, approximately 200,000 federal workers have been let go.
This is what a government led by Elon Musk looks like
How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
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He didn't stand up to shit. McConnell is not up for re-election and he knew there were enough votes to confirm her, so he allowed himself to vote No. He's still a traitor to this country
It appears our entire national security apparatus is now owned by Vladimir Putin As Trump waxes poetic about Russia The Senate confirms Tulsi Gabbard-who spouts Russian talking points And Pete Hegseth sells out Ukraine This begs the question What will be the long term ramifications for NATO
Today's a great day for Vladimir Putin. He finally has an asset at the highest level of US intelligence, and he’s laughing. Tulsi Gabbard, known in Russia as "Putin's Girlfriend", is now in charge of our intelligence apparatus. America is being weakened by Trump and his administration.
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Y'all can find this information and details on USAspending.gov btw!
no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
This is specifically because they don't want people to know that AKASH BOBBA LUKE FARRITOR ETHAN SHAOTRAN GAVIN KLIGER GAUTHIER COLE KILLIAN and EDWARD CORISTINE have been unlawfully given complete access to the US Treasury and are attempting to reneg on 100s of 1000s of contracts
NPR has identified dozens of Jan. 6 defendants that Trump pardoned with prior convictions or pending charges for crimes including rape, sexual abuse of a minor, domestic violence, manslaughter, production of child sexual abuse material and drug trafficking. www.npr.org/2025/01/30/n...
I'm so old, I remember when Obama signing ONE executive order was tyranny
Perfectly captured.
