Liberals are starting to say shit like, "trans people asked for too much too fast," and I'll remind your souless asses that we actually didn't ask for anything. we were minding our own business and quietly improving our healthcare and you (cis) decided to do a pogrom against us for no reason.
I am once again begging the Sparta fanboys to read up on how Thermopylae ended for Leonidas
Massie: "The Speaker of the House just offered a fig leaf to my colleagues. They're gonna vote on a non-binding resolution today that does absolutely nothing ... they're allowing the DOJ to curate all of the information that the DOJ is giving them ... the perpetrators are being protected"
The US military will conduct a flyover of the White House and wider DC at 11am tomorrow (Wednesday). Epsteinâs victims will be holding a press conference on Capitol Hill around the same time.
Over the past three years, cases have more than doubled, with over 230,000 cases and nearly 5,000 deaths so far this year on the continent. Those cases are spread across 23 countries, up from 15 affected countries in 2022, according to Africa CDC.
If the U.S. military isn't going to release details on the justification for killing 11 civilians in a civilian boat who weren't posing a threat to anyone, then we have to conclude the "justification" is: the U.S. military is willing to kill civilians to give Trump social media content.
Students being progressive is not a bigger problem than a sustained assault by an authoritarian president, please get a grip www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Pritzker: "We've gathered information from unauthorized, patriotic officials inside the government and from-sourced reporters about Donald Trump's plan, which is to deploy armed military personnel to the streets of Chicago."
đ¨NEW: AG Bondi uses her authority as AG to reinstate two precedent decisions from Trump's first term (Matter of A-B- and Matter of L-E-A-) that aim to end asylum for victims of domestic violence from countries unwilling or unable to protect them, and asylum for people targeted for family ties.
Pritzker: "He has no idea what's he's talking about. There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops. He is insulting the people of Chicago by calling our home a hellhole, and anyone that takes his word at face value is insulting Chicagoans too."
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?"
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
Weâve spent more time talking about nonexistent crime in đşđ¸ cities in the last month, even as weâve totally erased actual political violence from the National Conversationâ˘ď¸. Hard to overstate how disheartening & deeply unserious this has been.
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
O'Keefe to Noem: "At least 20 people who signed this letter were current FEMA employees & they've been placed on administrative leave. Is it now the policy of DHS that anytime an employee puts their name on something criticizing you or POTUS, they should anticipate being put on leave or fired?"
The lies' laughable implausibility is a feature, not a bug. They're not trying to convince discerning, skeptical, fact-based people. They're trying to give supporters a fantasy that validates their feelings and creates a sort of loyalty test, while flaunting the absurdity in everyone else's faces.
Some context: The USPP restricted vehicular pursuits after two officers chased, shot and killed a driver named Bijan Gisar in 2017. The government settled with Gisar's family for $5 million, but neither officer was charged nor lost his job. (www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...)
âILLEGALSâ MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. Heâs a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
Those willing, by contrast, to trade away the rights and dignity of transgender people or the poor cannot be considered friends of democracy any more than those who were willing to countenance second-class status for blacks and Jews.
This is phenomenal messaging. Hello Democrats? Knock knock, anybody home?
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. đ Marlon on Snoop:
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
Felt like a pie chart was in order. Number of mass shooters since 2018: 4197 % of mass shooters since 2018 that were transgender? 0.095% % of mass shooters that were cisgender: 99.905%
NEW: my office has received disturbing whistleblower reports that the Trump administration plans to separate 700 children from their families, lawyers, and support systems. Disappearing vulnerable children beyond the reach of American law and oversight is beyond depravity.
"His mother told NBC4 that the agent told her son they had confused him with someone else, but to âlook at the bright side: youâre gonna have an exciting story to tell your friends when you go back to schoolâ." WTF www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
ATLANTA: âThe city is opening a grocery store to clear up a downtown food desert⌠City leaders say the market will help those in the area who have not previously had easy access to healthy food.â (cc: everyone acting like @ZohranKMamdani is crazyđ¤) www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
After Illinois Democrats abolished cash bail crime went down significantly. Jail for low level offenses is criminogenic. It CREATES MORE CRIME.
only so many words you can put in a headline but the whole response is loud and proud support for the trans community and worth reading
If the Democratic Party intends to win this fight, it must stop functioning solely as a party & instead step into its moment in history: to lead a pro-democracy movement capable of confronting this authoritarian threat. https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/stand-up-america-the-time-for-a-pro?r=2lckc
According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.
Understatement of the fucking year right here.
People have gotten more time for stealing baby formula He got 4 months. I'd do 4 months for $150k www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/10/auth...
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.
We have 30 departments at my #hospital looking for #nurses right now, and they are deporting nursing students
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or canât afford. Itâs about priorities.
RUSSIA. STARTED. THE. WAR. YOU. LUNATIC.
Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."
Kristi Noem says the administration is "going from city to city around this country and pressuring these politicians to get on board with keeping their people safe. What is going to be the story here in Washington can happen in Chicago, Boston, San Francisco ... "
And his private army.
Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
A federal judge in D.C. says the District has unlawfully detained a woman charged with spitting on a National Zoo police officer after she was arrested for entering a staff-only area at the zoo's Bird House. The city jail "has chosen not to comply with this Courtâs Order."
Trump: "The line is that I'm a dictator, but I stop crime. So a lot of people say, 'You know, if that's the case, I'd rather have a dictator.'"
RFK Jr claims that windmills are "wiping out the whale population" in the Atlantic
As the U.S. government takes a 10% stake in Intel, Forbes has learned the tech company partnered with sanctioned Chinese surveillance firms Uniview, Hikvision and Cloudwalk.
What do you call a circle jerk when everyone tugs the leader?
Lori Chavez-DeRemer: "Mr President, I invite you see your big beautiful face on a banner in front of the Department of Labor because you are really the transformational president of the American worker, along with the American flag and President Roosevelt."
Witkoff: "There's only one thing I wish for: that that Nobel committee finally gets its act together and realizes that you are the single finest candidate since that Nobel award was ever talked about."
When the seditionist ex-leader of the Proud Boys says they've mostly given up on street demonstrations b/c, "Honestly, what do we have to complain about these days?," isn't that a pretty clear indication that *we* should be out demonstrating in the streets daily?"
the DC US attorney's office says that christian enrique carias torres, the moped driver arrested violently by logan circle, is a danger to the community because they saw him commit an unspecified traffic violation storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
CNBC: So we should expect the US government to be taking more equity stakes in businesses around the country? KEVIN HASSETT: It's possible, yeah. That's absolutely right.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
native washingtonian here. i've lived in this area my whole life. i've never felt less safe than i have in the past couple weeks.
You want to stan someone as a potential presidential candidate? Here you go.
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
âNo one is watching, no one will hold them accountable, so they can just do what they want,â said one HUD attorney. âThe civil rights laws that people marched for and fought for, ... itâs not happening. And people are really being harmed by it.â By @jessecoburn.bsky.social (Published May)
The corruption of the US Supreme Court has arguably been the most serious single contributor to the US's transformation into autocracy
Trump: "A lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator."
US popularity and reputation at all time low, yes, even lower than the Bush years. China is now more popular and the US is tied to Russia by now, reputation wise.
In any form
Q: During the campaign, you called Kamala Harris a communist, but the Biden-Harris admin never called for nationalizing a private company like you're proposing with Intel. Is this the new way of doing industrial policy? TRUMP: Yeah. Sure it is. I want to try to get as much as I can.
Trump signs an executive order tasking Hegseth to establish "specialised units" within the National Guard to "deal with public order issues" across the US. Using the US Military against the American public.
Mariam Dagga, assassinated this morning by the IDF
First Brazil, now South Korea. Trump will use American power to punish those that defend their democracy against election deniers and would-be autocrats, at home and abroad.
Hey so just fyi, if you're abandoning trans rights you're abandoning all civil rights At that point what the fuck is the point of the democracy you're willing to sacrifice trans people for This actually isn't hard at all, quit making it pretend hard because you finally feel scared too
ABC-7 reporter: "The campaign printed 500 cards and made the announcement at 7 last night. About 3,000 people showed up, many of them lining up here in Astoria to meet the candidate."
if the mad king dangled your freedom above your head, would you beg for it? would you debase yourself like a dog?
Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year. Y'all this isn't sustainable.
Your suggestion that this is a possibility, that capitulation and flattery will allow you to stay alive and perhaps regain power denotes a lack of understanding both of history and our current situation. Rim whoever you want. But donât expect bending your knees for a dictator will give you power.
A prime example of the need to watch what Trump does, not what he says: Since the spring, Trumpâs administration has prohibited Ukraine from retaliating against russia with long-range missilesânot only US-made ones but also European ones that rely on US targeting data
Ok. I donât know anything so I easily defer. My entire vibe lately is burn it all, burn it more⌠so Iâm not sure I should be advising anyway đ
The US Administration is now deleting its internal communications, in brazen violation of the Federal Records Act, in order to conceal its other illegal acts. Those entrusted to enforce our Congressâs laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.
California needs to do 10-15âŚ
âForget trying to pass for normal.â âDonât aim to be civilized.â âGet weird. Get way weird. Get dangerously weird. Get sophisticatedly, thoroughly weird, and donât do it halfway.â All of this. A great battle cry. â¤ď¸
"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
Iâm honest. I was willing to make small concessions in purity in order to SAVE it⌠as it meant sustaining the mechanisms of law and practice that allowed a continued fight forward. But we didnât save it. And Iâm not willing to start over and rewrite law & tenet on the backs of the most vulnerable.
Trump plans to send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda now that he was allowed to return home. âWe are not going to stop coming after him,â a senior Trump administration official tells Rolling Stone. âHe isnât getting away.â www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
This isnât education, itâs indoctrination. The Trump administration gutted PBS and NPR not to save money, but to control the narrative. In their place, PragerU is moving into more classrooms. Already in Florida, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Idaho schools.
Perfect. No notes.
Trump on the Oval Office: "You see the way this is looking. I can't tell you how much that gold costs. A lot of money. This beautiful office needed it."
JUST IN: Kilmar Abrego Garciaâs lawyers say the Trump administration is trying to coerce him to plead guilty to the charges he is facing by promising to deport him to Costa Rica â and threatening to deport him to Uganda if he doesnât. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The Coast Guard works for ICE now. Coast Guard planes previously used for search and rescue have done hundreds of secret ICE flights in recent weeks, including two I watched from a public parking lot near BWI. My exclusive for Rolling Stone: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Important. Clear, concise, imperative. Please watch.
When I see people on here unknowingly join moral panics around child safety and technology, I think about how the future of this very platform hangs in the balance of this legislation that is designed to force us back onto big tech platforms. Itâs not about the kids. Itâs about all of us
You can tell yourself we are not living under a personalist authoritarian regime or you can listen to the spokesperson for that regime
In June, Latricia Green pleaded for a protection order from her ex-husband. It was denied. She asked again in July. It wasnât served. She was shot and killed by her ex-husband this morning inside a Detroit hospital
Virginia Giuffreâs lawyer Sigrid McCawley reacts to the Maxwell transcripts, saying Maxwell ârepeatedly and brazenly liedâ to the government and is trying to ârecreate history.â Full statement
Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.
âSomeday, I hope, weâre going to have a reckoning over the horrors of this moment, but I donât think we can do it without a clearer understanding of how this fits into U.S. history. Thereâs a tendency to say, âThis isnât who we are,â and I get the impulse, but history is never that simple.â
Just realized the day I usually spend with massive amounts of volunteers to register new college students must be coming up and I donât even know when it is. Iâve been consistent volunteer and I just have no desire to continue to prop up wishy washy enablers.
UPDATE: Fox News reports that ICE told Kilmar Abrego Garcia they are going to deport him to Uganda on Monday.
Hereâs what appears to be a little girl shackled at the wrists and ankles boarding an ICE flight on Avelo Airlines yesterday. Seattle (Boeing Field) to Mesa, AZ, an ICE detention hub. Not one of those men helped her up the stairs. Courtesy @lalabote.bsky.social
NEW: Leaders of a small Arizona city ramped up affordable housing & services like soup kitchens for homeless people. In response, a former mayor got angry & tried to recall them. But they survived the recalls this month. Bolts reports on what's happeningâ& the warring responses to homelessness:
The White House listed an exhibit on LGBTQ history at the Smithsonian as objectionable and something to be removed.
It's like a nesting doll of civil-military crises. Just today: 1. Head of DIA fired 2. Trump threatens to deploy Army to Chicago + NYC 3. Blurring of police + military in DC 4. Use of FBI in political attack on Bolton 5. Goons in DC curtailing basic civil rights
Interactions from the last few days show ICE officers running their mouths at witnesses of their lawlessness. Now theyâre directing violence at them, too.