So what you’re saying is maybe Trump should get the Nobel…
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So what you’re saying is maybe Trump should get the Nobel…
The award ceremony will be in front of a truck stop sub shop.
SMH… weird how the same language evolved naturally in Europe, Africa, and Asia.
The Defenestration of Washington?
I think your name would clear up any ambiguity!
Don’t worry, I got what you meant.
Oh really?
WTF…
It’s people’s use of AC that kills me. No one should be making their house (or office) cold enough in the summer that they need sweaters and blankets. It’s such an absurd level of waste. It’s ok to be *a little* warm on a hot day, or to need a sweater on a cold day.
Which town are they in now? I assume they must be leaving soon.
I was going to say, all you need is a prism!
I feel like they first started showing up in Newmarket or Exeter or something like that. I remember going to see them about 20 years ago, but I haven’t been back to look since then.
The community should just overrun the city with chalk rainbows EVERYWHERE. Put down more chalk than they can keep up with.
The Florida Department of Transportation removed the painted crosswalk earlier this month and has since stationed officers and crews at the site to stop the community from re-creating it with chalk.
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BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children — perhaps within a matter of hours — granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
It’s probably trying to divest before a global backlash about PFAS exposure or some other equivalent shit hitting a fan.
I sometimes engage in minor, petty acts of resistance. Like this display in Barnes and Noble for a book series that includes Accomplice to the Villain and Apprentice to the Villain. My minor modifications to the display seemed fitting.
I made this shirt for myself, but if others appreciate this message, this is where you can get one.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has started deportation and transfer flights through Pease Airport in New Hampshire. Sign the petition to stand with our immigrant neighbors. www.change.org/p/stop-ice-d...
One thing this video makes very clear, is that a full beard was the right choice for this guy.
I hope this guy has surgery performed by a parking attendant, or charters a plane flown by a roofer, or lets a barber fix his brakes.
Trump's insane beef with clean energy is going to wreck both planet and economy www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
“BBQ9701” - that sounds fun for them… 🙄
What are the tail numbers on those planes? (Or call sign or hex?)
Is that an Obama campaign logo on his shirt?
Meiselas: Stop both-sidesing it, media. Stop trying to sow division within the Democratic Party when we literally have military invasions into American cities, aided and abetted by red state governors, who, again, are the takers who wouldn't exist without the blue states
I don’t know if what I’m doing will make much of a difference, but I’m trying, and I sure as well won’t be complicit. I’ll be able to tell my grandkids I didn’t just look the other way.
In other words, anyone intending to go to DC via train to protest, will have to pass through the ICE-stapo.
May we all have the courage to throw a $5 Foot-Long for America. 🇺🇸 🥖💥🥷🏿
This morning: MPD and ATF conducted a massive paramilitary operation, with officers in masks and camo, in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood of DC within 500 yards of an elementary school while neighborhood children were heading to school. On their third day of classes.
I was about to say “Hey, there was a remake!” And then I remembered that even the remake is 30 years old. 😔
We don’t have to live like this. The NRA facilitates weapons trafficking and the murder of children while masquerading as a civil rights organization.
If there’s anything you want to say, I’m sure I could pass it along…
May we all have the courage to throw a $5 Foot-Long for America. 🇺🇸 🥖💥🥷🏿
If he’s going to go after desecration of the flag, I hope he includes these people. “Never use the flag as decoration.” “Do not use the flag as clothing.” - US Flag Code, via VFW
Spent two decades chronicling this in Turkey. Now I’m watching it happen in the U.S.—but this time dumber, more brazen, and much, much faster.
Think of the kind of spiteful, wretched person someone would have to be to throw things away that could save people’s lives, rather than give them to the people who need them.
Thanks SCOTUS. Every fascist needs a complicit court system, and you’ve shown you are up to the job…
Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?
Immigrants pursuing lawful pathways to live here are being snatched from ICE offices and courtrooms immediately after routine check-ins and court hearings. Arresting and deporting people legally seeking asylum is illegal, unconstitutional, and un-American.
WTF… EOs aren’t laws, and SCOTUS already decided many years ago that it’s protected speech. If he’s going to go after desecration of the flag, I hope he includes these people. “Never use the flag as decoration.” “Do not use the flag as clothing.” - US Flag Code, via VFW
It’s the demon patterns showing through… IYKYK
NOW: There is a hearing happening now for Mr. Abrego's Writ of Habeas Corpus. Here's what his lawyers are asking for: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-mr-abr...
Breaking: Kilmar Abrego García has just been detained by ICE after arriving at the agency's Baltimore field office as part of a required check-in, according to his attorney. "The only reason to take him into detention was to punish him."
Donald Trump's threat to bring the National Guard to Chicago isn't about safety — it's a test of the limits of his power and a trial run for a police state. Illinois has long worked with federal law enforcement to tackle crime, but we won't let a dictator impose his will.
We’re watching in real time as he plays out the script of his reality TV show “Destroy America, Get Rich, Become King.” But these fascists have always lived in a distorted reality, and because of that, they don’t understand what we the people want—freedom—and just how hard we’ll fight for it.
Reminds me of the roach guy from Men in Black.
The U.S. now owns 10% of INTEL. MAGA communism is real.
Oh, so there’s a military leadership purge happening? If only Democratic leaders had any history to draw from to know what that means and usually precedes, they might have cause to sound the alarm.
Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...
“African American ladies - beautiful ladies - are saying PLEASE, President Trump, come to Chicago.” Sounds legit.
Have you ever known anyone in your whole life, who is of sound mind and has full mental capacities, who would wear this hat about themselves? Anyone? Sister, brother, neighbor, cousin, friend, boss? I definitely don’t. Only someone with a developmental disability or mental illness would wear it.
It will be 17 wars by Monday.
I think a chariot would be more practical.
That’s a fair point. I’m not saying it’s true because Wikipedia says so, but this page has many links in one place, for many experts who believe what I said. But you are right that “most” is hard to prove. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_ge...
I’m no scholar of genocide, but most of the people who are, think this is a genocide.
“Genocide is an internationally recognized crime where acts are committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.” It’s hard to argue this isn’t met by indiscriminate bombing and forced displacement, and most of the world agrees.
do you know the rate of civilian to military deaths in Vietnam? I don’t, I’m honestly asking.
Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war. “Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians”.
there’s nothing that says it’s only genocide if you succeed in killing a certain percent of the total population. The point here is that Israel’s goal is just to kill Palestinians.
What Danielle said. According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2% Let me put that another way. President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%
Are you trying to tell me you’re just eating heirloom tomatoes at 3:30 am? That’s the NPR’est thing ever.
Ossoff: "There is at some point is going to be a reckoning for all of this. These folks who are working at these private prison companies who are on Kristi Noem's staff right now, they are at some point going to have to testify under oath about what is happening in the facilities they're running."
How do Democrats still condone this? Why is the United States subsidizing it? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/w...
The numbers are in. The new maps republicans just passed in Texas reduce Hispanic Texans to one-third of a white person and Black Texans to one-fifth of a white person.
Humiliating loss for Mr. Mangina.
This is a terrifying, sadistic, dangerous group of fascists running this country. The vampires knocked on the door and 51% voted to invite them into the house.
That’s easier said than done. They didn’t have the right to deport Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, and he did sue, and he won. But he still spent a few months in the gulag in El Salvador first, and REQUESTED to stay in prison in US upon returning because he expects they will deport him again upon release.
We've officially reached the "show me your papers" phase of Trump's fascist takeover.
Six Republican-led states sending National Guard troops to D.C. under the guise of a fake crisis. Texas Republicans using police to impose a rigged map on Texans and steal an election. Congressional Republicans funneling taxpayer dollars into kidnappings and concentration camps. This is fascism.
The White House is mobilizing red state military forces to occupy a Democratic stronghold and let me tell you: No one has ever pretended something isn't happening harder than Democratic leaders are pretending this isn't happening right now.
Excellent article that combines cold reality with concrete recommendations—a highly recommended read:
There’s no longer any pretense this has anything to do with crime (there are cities or parts of cities in SC and Ohio that have higher crime rates than DC — send the troops there!). This is about establishing a precedent for Trump seizing control of the nation’s capital when he wants to.
A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.
This can’t be something we get used to in America.
This is my concise #gerrymandering explainer. bsky.app/profile/jeff...
Trump has taken over the police force in #DC, and brought in the Army, and he’s talked about doing the same in other Dem-run cities like Chicago. He is going to have all the groundwork in place for martial law by the next election. #Trump #Fascist
JFC, he just took over the police of a major US city.
My momma is suing my childhood friends for dozens of counts of libel for all their lies about how fat she was (she could never sit AROUND the house).
My take is that senior officers are completely unprepared for this moment. When demo is healthy, there is little tension btw adhering to civilian control & serving democracy Faced w/ the manifest clash in principles these missions present, they are doing what's familiar--following orders.1/
Fuck it. I’m releasing these. The police seized all of my lasers during this operation. I have a court date in my future. #FreeLordLaser #FreeLadyLaser I will tell the whole story later. But it was all worth it to release these images on this day. “Good men must not obey the law too well.”
One cool way to solve homelessness that isn’t an authoritarian take over of a city is to give everyone homes
The military takeover of Washington is not a “distraction” from Epstein. It’s a military takeover of Washington, which is an even bigger deal, and those of us who kill brain cells reporting on this stuff knows it’s been an explicit goal since before the election.
Remember, when this violent crime was happening in DC, not only did he not call up the National Guard, he encouraged it. But all it took was for one of Musk’s DOGE hackers to get mugged and now DC needs to be “liberated” under martial law. This is fascism.
I continue to believe that the executive branch loudly proclaiming a mission is to "liberate" American cities from their elected governments is bad.
BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif. He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza. Speechless.
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#Gerrymandering aka #Redistricting aka cheating: In a democracy, if you have 30 people, 18 Ds and 12 Rs, the Ds should win. If there are 3 districts electing Congressional Reps, you’d expect 2/3 to be D. Gerrymandering is how you make the losers win. #TX 🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔵🔵🔵🔵=🟥 🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔵🔵🔵🔵=🟥 🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵=🟦
#Gerrymandering is one of those topics, like the filibuster, that causes lots of people to glaze over because it sounds arcane, wonkish, and hard to understand. It would be better if we just called it “cheating”.
People should read Ministry For the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. It’s a great near-future novel by a sci-fi great, about the world trying to deal with the worsening effects of climate change.
Fuck these fascists. What is wrong with the people who support this shit?
This kind of lawlessness and coercion by Trump seems like a good way to push states to secede. I know that’s drastic, but logically speaking, why should a state that’s bigger and wealthier than most countries, send tax revenue to a federal government that only makes their problems worse?
Has everyone read Ministry For the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson?
Well fuck. There really is no check on Trump at all. His stacked SCOTUS says he’s immune, his stacked Appeals Court says he doesn’t have to obey court orders, his crooked lawyer in DOJ tells the agency to ignore the courts and the GOP Congress gives him a judgeship anyway…
Remember “drain the swamp”, when MAGA was supposedly against corruption? Just today, Trump: paused a Medicare reg after a payoff from a health insurance exec, fired an FBI agent that investigated J6, and ordered that banks can’t reject customers just because they’re traitors.
Trump is cutting over $200mil from the National Park Service budget, while also making plans to build a $200mil golden ballroom next to the White House. He is taking away protection and services for property and resources shared by ALL OF US, to build more luxury that none of us will ever enjoy.
🧵 Dear Republican lawmakers, Canada has the largest intact boreal forest on the planet. An increasingly hotter world due to #ClimateChange makes longer dry seasons, far larger wildfires & yes, more smoke. No amount of "raking" fixes it. The scientists warned of exactly this for a very long time /1