It's a rout.
Let's start with "absolute power is a terrible idea," and move quickly to "free speech and due process are basic rights of all persons in the United States" and close with "sycophants and courtiers are nauseating." Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
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It's a rout.
Key to joining the administration is not paying taxes.
They loaded up those planes with children - some as young as 10. I don’t believe they had a safe place to go in Guatemala. And the government did not care. This admin is the least compassionate of any in my lifetime.
RFK Jr., driving away with Rudy Guliani tied to the roof of his car
As long as he gets his embalming fluid replaced, he’ll be good to go.
This man is an authentic American hero A Black man facing armed federal agents to stand up for his youth baseball team. Brave. www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...
we hope so.
True. But MAGA states get money funneled in from the Blue metropolis, too.
that's been on my mind.
“ILLEGALS” MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. He’s 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.
banger
The Justice Department had once argued that Ghislaine Maxwell should be sentenced to at least 30 years in prison. Now its second-ranking official—and Donald Trump’s former lawyer—is aligned with a woman whose crimes the department had called “monstrous.”
JD Vance: “Trump is a really bad candidate and frankly, I think, a really bad person.” { ht: @patriottakes.bsky.social }
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.
Dean Cain went from Superman to Gestapoman and didn't last even a week.
has crossed my mind.
Oh boy, one of the truly great ones.
Shit loads of our tax money. Like a gushing Lincoln tunnel’s worth. We’re going to subsidize Reverend Billy Bob’s creationist schoolhouse.
MAHA!
More or less universally a country seeking to limit foreigners studying in that country is a sign of a society, culture, great power in severe decline.
Floss 'em!
you've been one-upped!
Maybe we can just stop the Black Mirror series on this one. Geez....
Don’t look away
I think all of those other options are worse than Ivanka, but can much more easily imagine Don Jr. being nominated. But Trump isn't going to get tired of being President.
“Imelda” namesake vibes are strong
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)
He's got nothing on Trump there. But he's a menace to society.
someone who helps people from getting burned alive. That should be good enough.
“Do not offer thoughts and prayers as you systemically enable such tragedies. Do not claim prayers are sufficient when children die as they pray. Do not pretend you do not understand.” — Lydia, 16, Minneapolis
TLDR training: do anything, we'll back it up.
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.
Look, I know this salesman is covered in blood and there are screams coming from the back room, but he says he can get us a great deal on this truck.
And with what I imagine is extremely easily proved mortgage fraud on multiple occasions.
ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?
Yeah, go ahead and drink the water with the fish in it buddy.
Keep snorting the ivermectin, buddy.
Invented name, why don’t you lay out your degrees in immunology?
Dude, you're doing groupthink enemas.
Update: it got funny again
Wormwood
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
I’d take my chances with the chicken and trails readers before this lunatic.
OMFG! But also it’s an Occam’s razor situation with Trump.
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.
Is he going to hold 2 jobs at the same time?
please be true
This is a stunning—and fascinating—rebuke to DOJ from the people of DC. The message from the Grand Jury is clear: The takeover as illegitimate. As I wrote residents know this takeover is being *done* to the city, rather than to *help* the city. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
Have thought this since Nov. 4 2016.
turning the national guard into a insanely expensive Americorps
If you've been following my reporting and stories from the ground in Iowa, you would know that Iowa will flip seats. This had a lot to do with the anger at Trump, but mostly with the organizers doing the hard work on the ground. Contest every seat. Run everywhere. www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
Thank you.
this stuff is such a disgrace. a free citizen of a free country should be ashamed to engage in it.
This seems like an entirely obvious play by them. Moses will lead the way.
Stuart Stevens on National Guard deployment: "The murder rate of Jackson, Mississippi is 3 times that of D.C.... the whole thing is complete fraud"
This is "The Onion," right?
Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet
This should be a leading line in the attack, the utter disregard for people who signed up to help their country and communities, not terrorize them.
Also, hard to do interior construction when there are no roofs put on buildings.
He cried, “Why are you doing this? I was just eating crabs!” as ICE & DC cops smashed his head into pavement, blood streaming down his face. FIVE armed agencies to gang up on one unarmed man. It’s cowardice, it’s thuggery, it’s fascism flaunted in the heart of our capitol. Contact your reps.
Bolton’s home raided, Gen. Kruse fired, Epstein coverup proceeds, seizure of 10% of Intel another step towards state capitalism. Just one day in the somewhat chaotic but directionally purposeful march towards…despotism. Does anyone think they’re doing all this so they can hand over power in 2028?
Remember how the Trump administration claimed that Kilmar Abrego Garcia had to be brought back to the United States to "face justice"? That it wasn't about the deportation case, they just HAD to prosecute him? They lied! The whole thing was a lie! And they don't care at all that you know that.
REPORTER: Have you spoke to Vladimir Putin about the fact that a big US factory was hit in an airstrike in Ukraine? TRUMP: I'm not happy about anything having to do with that war. I settled 7 wars, and actually if you think about pre-wars, add 3 more so it would be 10.
On the road to a zombified America, Smithsonian visitors react to Trump calling education and history centers “woke”. Erasure of events of the past, erasure of truth, erasure of education, erasure of symptoms and treatments, all because it doesn’t align with this Christian Nationalism. /
It’s not Bolton that’s being defended, it’s the rule of law.
Workers under cover of night removed a rainbow crosswalk outside of the former Pulse nightclub, apparently as part of state and federal transportation officials’ aim to wipe “political banners” from public roadways. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/21/r...
1000%
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
Tremendous crossover move right here:
6 months later: Your research--which has now been totally destroyed--can go ahead. Unless it gets challenged on some other ground.
Alina Habba says the federal judges should "just be doing their job -- respecting the president"
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
Autocratic and tacky to boot: “Immigration and Customs Enforcement is seeking to spend millions of dollars on SUVs and custom, gold-detailed vehicle wraps emblazoned with the words ‘DEFEND THE HOMELAND.’” www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
The media is failing voters in Texas. They didn’t just make new maps that ‘favor Republicans’, they made new maps without the voice of the voters that further disenfranchise large communities of Black Texans. These are racist maps through and through.
Why is mommy going to all of his meetings?
She’s going to have hers outfitted w Imelda Marcos-sized closets with Cosplay outfits, 24-hour on-demand hair and make up crew, and God I don’t wanna know about her and Corey’s bedroom. $50 bet she takes the plane w her when she goes.
They can’t find people to take the kidnapping-hardworking-moms-and-dads-off-the-street-corner jobs, even with the offer of a $50k bonus and the opportunity to dress like a member of a drug cartel.
Sounds like the vagrants can stay if they have AR-15s?
while napping
Two more women murdered by the Texas GOP interactives.dallasnews.com/2025/texas-a...
“I want you to overturn this” texted Maria Bartiromo to Rudy Giuliani about the elections in 2020
not even a week after Sandwich Guy caught a federal felony assault charge for the use of a sandwich
Great Ratings! Sick, sick, sick.
He's self-posterizing poster child.
Meanwhile, we'll get the Melania series that everyone's been clamoring for, and finally the Lauren Sanchez trilogy.
NEW: McCarthyism returns to immigration law, as @USCIS announces that it will begin screening applicants for immigration benefits for "Anti-America ideologies or activities." The term has no prior precedent in immigration law and its definition is entirely up to the Trump admin.
One thing I know for sure is that if *I* called the cops and said “some guy just threw a sandwich at me” they would consider me to be a huge baby and think I was wasting their time.
Missouri AG Andrew Bailey, one of the most aggressive anti-abortion AGs in the country, has been named FBI co-deputy director. Quite possibly the worst abortion-related news we’ve seen from the Trump administration yet.
Great reporting from @wired.com and @davidgilbert.bsky.social here, building on our reporting from last week: www.wired.com/story/twitte...
"[A] 15-year-old Manhattan high school student [was] deported to Ecuador after a secretive detention that involved days trapped inside hotels." Roger Iza: "We couldn't call or go on the web to ask for help." #NewYork #USA #Ecuador #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
Surely the same people who are upset about migrants in hotels under Biden will be upset about this too
The D stands for Holiday.
75% of the National Guard troops deployed to Los Angeles said they will not re-enlist due to the deployment davisvanguard.org/2025/07/trum...
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