An important detail of today's shooting is that Utah is one of only two states in the country that allow campus carry. I hope that this decision is revisited.
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An important detail of today's shooting is that Utah is one of only two states in the country that allow campus carry. I hope that this decision is revisited.
When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.
Like all conservatives, Charlie Kirk thought random politically-motivated violence was hilarious and awesome as long as it was against people he hated. We are simply commemorating him in a manner he would appreciate, in accordance with his beliefs and values.
It would be irresponsible not to assume that the amount of violence the president, intentionally or not, will be prone to urging his most unstable followers to embark on...in retaliation for the assassination of Charlie Kirk...is something every U.S. citizen should hold in their mind as high risk.
there was never going to be a world in which the right didn’t claim the left was celebrating the death of charlie kirk, no matter how respectable anyone tried to be.
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
the media is pathetic. they will gleefully cover the fall of democracy for a seat at the table of access journalism.
Biden's Cabinet had very little turnover, another reason the media found his whole administration SO BORING, but this palace intrigue, Game of Thrones shit? They eat it up with a spoon and ask for seconds.
if this vampire comes anywhere near my child, hold me back before I catch a felony.
I’m so confused by the folks who said that raising the minimum wage would increase the price of every day goods while also being okay with tariffs raising the price of every day goods… I reckon they are okay paying higher prices as long as it doesn’t help anyone making a minimum wage.
People are NOT understanding what empty cargo ships from China means. It means no work for dock workers. No work for truck drivers, no work for retailers, fewer dollars circulating. The cascade effect is just mind boggling.
You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.
*Of course* advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this. The Secretary is unfit to lead.
Hegseth should’ve resigned when the military helicopter hit the commercial airplane in January. But I guess 3 scandals is the new floor for these ghouls.
At some point, Pete Hegseth is going to lose his job. And when that occurs, Donald Trump should get absolutely no credit for it. He knew this would happen the moment he nominated Hegseth. Donald Trump owns every bit of this mess.
Van Hollen: "If the president gets to shred the Constitution and ignore the Supreme Court in this case, it is a very short path to the president ignoring court orders in other cases. So every American should care about this."
I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.
none of that matters because the issue is he was denied due process. all these people need to have their day in court. every last one of them in this administration is a criminal.
He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. He’s defying the Supreme Court. Don’t you see what’s happening here?
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
ok and? the american govt is fleecing the american consumer by imposing tariffs on us why are they so unbelievably stupid 😩
LOL they are trying to reframe the american consumer as the bargaining chip. babe no, they have what we need we are not in the drivers seat, the stupidity doesn’t cease to astound 😩
We knew exactly what this administration was going to do because it was written in Project 2025. Folks can be surprised at how quickly it has moved, but no one can act like they didn't know.
If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name. It is blatantly unconstitutional.
we all would like you to stop talking actually.
yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past
This was three months ago.
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.
I am begging Democratic lawmakers to understand that trying to highlight any marginal upside for tariffs as a way of finding common ground in this moment is like making the argument that a compound leg fracture is good for building character. No one wants to hear that shit. Stop.
literally what the fuck is he talking about 😭
Not convinced this is reserved just for our elders, unfortunately.
dont put this on my TL put it on theirs 😭
You effin’ dummies who voted for him trying to spin this shit show all because you can’t simply admit you were wrong are pathetic.
Bingo
Man it is really hard to be living in the USA right now and getting news about how South Korea deposed their president for staging a coup and then their Supreme Court just said yup, definitely the right thing to do there.
There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers. Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.
Also I hope we're all on this same page EVERYONE needs to be brought out of that El Salvadorian hell hole they were ALL wrongfully deported. I mean it's good to focus on 'And this guy was here legally and not ever a gang member AND they're Venezuelan' but NO ONE should've been sent there
something tells me this does not include the government as an employer, considering they’ve let go of thousands of employees
How much untold pain and disgrace could have been avoided had a handful of GOP Senators had the guts to convict after the second impeachment? They utterly failed the test of history.
Don't let up on Signalgate. The Mueller report cited rampant use of Signal as a means of obstruction of justice. The entire discussion is fait accompli. Also guarantee it is how everyone inside this thug WH communicates. Which means the law is being knowingly & deliberately violated every day.
Hate to be millennial about it all but it is just mental that my whole working life has just been a series of recessions and “economic shocks”, underpinned by stagnant wages
how quickly they are shifting the narrative to 20% tariffs are a good thing, actually. it’s insanity.
Where are the Russian tariffs?
CNBC anchor on Trump’s tariffs: “This… is worse than the worst-case scenario.” There was zero reason for these tariffs—we’re not at war, the economy wasn’t struggling and we had strong trade partners. This is economic sabotage, plain & simple. Folks on the right not to stop pretending he’s helping.
Maybe everyone can see it now, but the world's richest people have tanked it all to restock assets and get liquid after years of illegally playing with funny money. They used "the wokeness" as a cudgel and it worked. The next Disney princess WILL be white, as we all eat beans under the highway.
It only makes sense if you realize that none of this is meant to help our country. It is done in service to Putin and the oligarchs.
ty for your service
agree, i am offering a counterpoint to the oft quoted phrase “do not attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence.” this is beyond incompetent, which they also are, this is bold faced malice.
@infinitescream.bsky.social please clock in
Maybe voting for guy who was a complete disaster last time was a mistake?
It’s as if he’s a Russian asset, trying to destroy America from within.
well, a very big congrats to the idiots on Wall Street that ignored every single sign that he was going to do this
ALL of this was predicted. To all the pundits, reporters, business tycoons, and other “serious people” who cast the truth tellers as hysterics, this mad king insanity is also on you!
Harris Faulkner's Fox News show has been on for 20 minutes now. She has not mentioned tariffs or stocks once and a stock ticker isn't being displayed. Strong state media vibes.
The Civil Rights Act of 1965 will become the Civil Rights Act of 2028 The ERA of 1927 became the ERA of 1972 It will now become the ERA of 2028 The John Lewis VRA of 2023 will be the John Lewis Voting Rights Act of 2028 Make Roe v Wade the Law in 2028 Understand the assignment… Do not fail
Yes, the stock market may be tanking and our national security apparatus has never been more vulnerable and we're on the verge of both economic collapse and war, but it was all worth it to keep pronouns out of email signatures.
also with companies like Gillette who price men’s and women’s razors identical (under the guise of erasing the pink tax) men’s razors are far superior in quality.
Trump’s tariffs will have to be in place for a looooong time if they are meant to force companies to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. That takes years. But if Trump uses them for extortion and corruption, a whole bunch of them will be dropped with a quickness.
The last time the US set tariffs this high, it was 1930 -- and it sparked a global trade war that caused international trade to PLUMMET. By 66%.
Yes he and his ilk are stupid but they are also evil. Many advisers are not so stupid they didn’t know the consequences of these tariffs. But they want the pain. They don’t care if people suffer because somehow they will benefit. Never seen more conflicts of interest.
It's not a bad idea to go to the local Walmart or big box retailer and buy lots of consumables now. From toothpaste to soap, anything you can find storage space for, buy before they have to replenish inventory. Even if it's made in the USA , they will jack up the price and blame it on tariffs.
BREAKING: A federal court ruled that Alabama cannot prosecute people for helping others travel across state lines to access abortion care. This is a win for our freedom of speech and our right to travel freely.
We’re going to annex Canada and invade Greenland but we can’t request return of an innocent man from El Salvador.
A federal judge has ruled that Alabama's attorney general cannot prosecute people and groups who help Alabama women travel to other states to obtain abortions.
"You can't lead the people if you can't love the people." We're all with you, @booker.senate.gov
That asshole’s admin admitted that it mistakenly deported someone to El Salvador due to an administrative error, and won’t do shit to bring him back. That kind of “admin error,” means literally anyone who isn’t white could be disappeared into a hell hole for no reason without any recourse. ANYONE!
next up: dental insurers completely pull out of the state
“The Trump regime, like every despotic autocracy before it, is making examples of a few to terrify the many. Into what? Silence, compliance, submission? Anguish?”
Confederate monuments were *quite literally* an effort to “perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history” by promoting the Lost Cause work of white supremacists who wanted to rewrite the history of the Civil War and, yes, Reconstruction.
We should all be terrified to live in an America where legal residents can be detained, held at gunpoint, or deported because of the color of their skin or because the President disagrees with their views.
Benghazi this shit. Make this Senate investigation last months and drag them in for questioning every day.
Brazil’s Supreme Court unanimously rules Jair Bolsonaro will be tried for attempting a coup. Don’t you wish our judiciary wasn’t corrupt? www.bbc.com/news/article...
Government abductions are unconstitutional. Denying anyone the right to due process in America is unconstitutional. If you’ve rationalized your silence or support for any of it because it’s happening to those you disagree with, give it a minute… They’ll get to you soon enough.
the fact Democrats haven’t aptly framed Trump’s failure to can everyone on the Signal chat as a sign of weakness because they made him look bad is more proof they are not an adequate opposition party for this moment in history. It’s so easy to get in this guy’s head.
we really need to stop saying “arrested” by ICE. the word you’re looking for is “kidnapped”.
The lesson from this whole Signalgate catastrophe? This administration will never, ever take responsibility for their mistakes, even when they endanger people. Especially when they endanger people. And it's the American people who will suffer.
That Kristi Noem video with the detainees is so upsetting and the fact any sizable fraction, let alone a majority, of our society would endorse it is evidence of a deep rot in our entire culture. Like until you answer what fuels the appetite for that kind of thing it will only get worse
I know it bothers you as much as it does me that journalism as an institution can’t process that what it’s seeing on a daily basis is evil people doing evil sh*t Not incompetence, not naivete, not negligence, not mispeaking, not mixups, not miscommunications: straight-up evil people doing evil sh*t
They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.
Castro: "The idea that this information, if it was presented to our committee, would not be classified, you all know is a lie. That's ridiculous."
journalists should assume the admin is lying. judges should assume the admin is lying. Dems voting on appointments should assume the admin is lying. like, we should not be extending the benefit of the doubt ever here.
Himes: "Apparently all this mayhem is cheered by the president of the United States and by 20-somethings with laptops and names like Big Balls. But I've been doing this for a long time, and I know that Moscow and Beijing and Tehran and Pyongyang cannot believe their luck."
Pete Hegseth is a f*cking liar. This is so clearly classified info he recklessly leaked that could’ve gotten our pilots killed. He needs to resign in disgrace immediately.
NBC News: The Espionage Act contains a provision making it crime to disclose national defense secrets "through gross negligence." The law does not require info be classified, because it was written before the classification system existed. The law refers simply to "national defense information."
Well, they lied. Obviously.
After the Atlantic published the texts this morning, Tulsi Gabbard is confronted today on why she lied in her testimony to the Senate yesterday. She says she misremembered.
In a normal world Waltz and Hagseth would be fired for leaking the info and setting up the chat. Gabbard and Ratcliffe would go for possibly misleading Congress yesterday.
They continue to slander Jeffrey Goldberg on state media, thinking he won’t release transcripts of the signal group chat and risk their wrath. Let’s see how it plays out.
They’re not going to get out of this by playing semantics. Sending detailed information about an upcoming military strike on unclassified channels (and even to the wrong guy) is wrong, reckless, and obviously a threat to American troops.
anyway calling these "war plans" when they were actually plans to blow up an apartment building full of civilians because the girlfriend of a guy we don't like lived there sounds more like "terrorism plans" or perhaps even more accurately "terrorism factory creation plans"
This is what happens when you have an entire cabinet full of folks who would NEVER pass a regular security clearance. Led by a president who would never be able to pass one either.
The most obvious lesson to draw from the leaked Signal chat is that these people really are morons. It's not a public act, it's not a schtick, there's not some secret back room where they drop the facade. They are genuinely stupid, incompetent people.
If these men had any sense of honor, they would already have resigned. The fact that they are all still in their jobs is just as damning as their terrifying and lawless incompetence.
with this group, can we even be sure they aren’t willingly giving it to russia? anyone check tulsis phone lately?
The fact they were using Signal for this discussion is grounds for impeachment. That an unintended contact was added to the chat is a whole new level of failure and incompetence. We’re in danger.