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Holy shit: Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. www.hcn.org/articles/fir...
Just 6 years ago anti-vaxxers were a laughable fringe group. Now their victory is so total they're setting government policy. This is like if schools started teaching Flat Earth. A complete failure of education and science comms. Kids will die because we couldn't convince their parents of the truth.
seems he went as far as possible without creating, however tenuous, the argument that his state was rebelling against the feds, which would permit troops to be deployed and more
One of the definitive days of this admin imo was the WSJ identifying racist posts from a DOGE staffer - the kind of stuff that would be read out loud to you as HR explains why you're not getting severance - and Vance saying no, we won't let the media cancel people anymore.
52 of 53 Republican senators voted to confirm him.
Not a very long path from "Why wouldn't you want the regime to deploy federal troops in your city when it reduces carjackings?" to "Why would you be opposed to the erection of internment camps for deviants when it reduces crime?" And a good chunk of mainstream media will just follow along.
This is why Trump’s Big Ugly Bill increased ICE’s budget by $170.7 billion More than the military spending of most countries, and more than the US appropriated for the FBI, DEA, ATF and Marshals-combined Trump is amassing an army to employ against Americans in blue states And Illinois is up first
You know things are serious when David Brooks is explicitly asking why we don't have a formal coalition of Democratic leaders working to resist the authoritarian regime. (Some of us have been asking for months, now.)
good
Flock seeks to add data from private car dashcams to its massive surveillance network. At minimum it seems like data from random cars driving around is going to be added to their system www.404media.co/flock-wants-...
@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social: It's not backsliding, it's a march to dictatorship. Only @thebulwark.com
The obvious next step in this war: The Am. Academy of Pediatrics suggested that patients & providers should listen to them about vaccines rather than to RFK & the CDC. So now, RFK is threatening doctors that they might get sued if they provide covid shots. 1/4 www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/v...
At one level, it’s comical. Donald Trump is the biggest crybaby in human history. But at another level, it’s dangerous. He continues to use the powers of his office to intimidate, harass, threaten, defund, and try to destroy the livelihoods of individuals and companies. Do not normalize this.👇
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration will move to pull the COVID vaccine off the U.S. market “within months,” one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s closest associates has told the Daily Beast.
and here I am remembering when using a blue or green screen was cool
Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.
They aren’t trying to erase history because they’re embarrassed by it. They’re trying to erase history because it’s their current playbook.
"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
“Instead, the FBI enlisted the local police and stormed Bolton’s house at dawn. To send a message. Not to Bolton. But to the rest of us. If you are not nice to President Trump, he will bring the full force of the state down upon your life.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
"If you want to have a coup against the constitutional order, you want to control the capital city. And if he has control of the policing in the city of Washington...Who's gonna tell him to leave the White House?" @gtconway.bsky.social joins @jvl.bsky.social:
Law students should not interview with these firms.
tell me more about conservatives and big government www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
So this is happening
does that mean a gang can now open carry?
“We all know what’s coming. Trump is experimenting with using military force to occupy cities. He has said—explicitly—that he intends to expand this program from Washington to other cities. He will attempt to use these tactics to manipulate the 2026 elections.” www.thebulwark.com/p/a-modest-p...
We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.
The officers refused to identify themselves.
We were within inches of a vaccine for several cancers, flu, the cold. Inches.
Issue-specific targeted checkpoints like DUI checkpoints can be constitutional, but a generalized roust-everyone-for-anything checkpoints are definitely not. There may be an exception for a special purpose to help a career sex pest and rapist evade attention to his connection to a serial pedophile.
RFK Jr. Mandates All Americans Drink Mysterious Glowing Liquid
It's taken the New York Times a decade to finally realize how the far right works. They amplify a handful of random posts by nobodies as a characterization of the entire left and then get outraged by it. That in turn drives media coverage and takes over the media cycle for weeks.
Well, that’s an illegal waste of taxpayer money and law enforcement resources. It’s also a sign that their election rigging coup project is more important than their ethnic cleansing project.
if congress sued, they could get this person removed. they have no authority as the library of congress is a legislative branch agency
The Library of Congress website briefly removed the several sections from the online US Constitution * habeas corpus (due process) * prohibition of nobility titles (e.g. appointing a King) * banning foreign gifts to officials This was reversed when it hit the media. Blamed on a "coding error"
Graff, quoting Louis Fischer: “He [Hitler] would destroy democracy. Yet democracy tolerated him and helped him take office in order to destroy democracy. This peaceful death of German democracy is one of the strangest chapters in history.”
This is awful. Reliable economic data is a key strength of the US economy. When Argentina and Greece faked economic data it contributed to major crises. I don't think Trump will be able to fake the data given the procedures. But there is now a risk plus an awful appearance.
someone played a stupid game and is going to win a stupid prize
californians really like the current set up. I have a hard time seeing them vote to do this
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.
They waited *more than an hour* to enter the Hortman home after watching Mark Hortman get shot in the doorway Unbelievably tragic & heartbreaking And, of course, they publicly congratulated themselves on a great, lifesaving police response when they’d let a lawmaker bleed out. Uvalde is everywhere
We're in the Orbanization of our media system now. It's happening. CNN's Brian Stelter drew this assessment from Gábor Scheiring, "who experienced Viktor Orbán's autocratic power plays in Hungary firsthand as a member of the Hungarian parliament." view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/175...
Good intervention from @brianbeutler.bsky.social demonstrating that liberals need to internalize and act on the idea that right wing bad faith actors "view liberal freedoms as loopholes to exploit in their pursuit of power." www.offmessage.net/p/how-libera...
Forget about what year it is. What century is it? nashvillebanner.com/2025/07/20/d...
Julio González Jr., released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said he was beaten, robbed of thousands of dollars and denied a lawyer. “I practically felt like an animal,” González told The Post.
(Politico) - The president can sue you, but you can’t sue him. It seems like an absurd thing to say but that’s effectively the reality of our legal system today ..” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/magazin...
NY Times showing how to both sides the secret police abduction squads story
EXCLUSIVE: Not only does an Excel spreadsheet of Trump mentions in the Epstein files exist, but so do training videos explaining how to flag the files for Trump mentions. Plus, the number of people who had access is larger than previously known. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-epstei...
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
The same company that's buying CBS (and needs Trump's approval to do so) is also trying to buy Bari Weiss' website. It's a political decision.
We just went through a half-decade of sham censorship hearings in Congress, but it certainly seems like the government forced a comedian to get fired as a bribe to ensure a merger goes through. Is that true? Let's have a hearing and find out.
They held him like this for 100 days.
Trump introduces 18th century mercantilism for the US to a 21st century global economy while congressional Republicans abdicate all authority over trade. If this ever goes into effect without him TACOing for the 3rd or 4th time, the hardest hit will be median earners and below.
Bold move by Texas to say that the First Amendment only applies during daylight hours.
We now know that an “830% increase” is an increase from 10 assaults in 6 months to 93 assaults in 6 months, at a time when DHS has *massively* increased at-large arrests and officers deployed in the community. For comparison, NYPD is averaging 194 assaults on officers per MONTH.
I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.
we're gonna get the stupidest possible version of skynet
According to this Supreme Court, President Biden's Department of Education was exceeding its power by trying to forgive peoples' student loans. President Trump, on the other hand, has the power to just completely dismantle the entire Education Department.
Scoop: Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired her personal ethics chief, Joseph Tirrell. Without explanation, she removes DOJ's career ethics office director who advised the most senior political appointees (such as Todd Blanche, Kash Patel) on conflicts. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
I don’t care what side of the aisle you’re on, the President of the United States even joking about revoking someone’s citizenship should be met with universal condemnation.
Sounds like ICE killed a guy and then held american citizens hostage at gunpoint until they agreed to destroy the evidence
I feel like people aren’t hearing me: We had four ‘1000 year floods’ in 4 different states last week and Trump’s passed budget completely defunds NOAA’s Severe Storm Research Lab.
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised when they move diagonally to the left
“It depends if you look Hispanic.” From Forbes: www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
“ICE will have twice as many agents as the FBI and will have its own huge and growing prison system (which it operates independently) as its masked and un-uniformed officers continue to snatch people off of the streets and mete out violence as they see fit.” www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
Reports that a Canadian citizen who has resided in the US since age 10 was abducted at a green card interview. Her husband is begging ICE to let him fly her back to Canada and they refuse to release her.
if theres a group crazy enough to build a new T1, theres gotta be a group crazy enough to build a new Hudson
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya used sickle cell disease research as an example of something he would not call DEI and cut. It's being cut. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/n...
Welcome to Step 4, folks. bsky.app/profile/pete...
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
Bondi's "reasoning" if you can call it that, is, essentially, the end of separation of powers. There is not just a unitary executive — there is a unitary government. Congress's determination in the TikTok law — signed by the president and upheld by SCOTUS — is meaningless if Trump says otherwise.
Hours after ICE became the highest federal law enforcement agency in America history (and likely in world history), the Supreme Court lifts the last obstacle to ICE deporting people to any random country around the world, even in conflict zones or where migrants are enslaved.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
3. Corporations that publicly endorsed Trump's megabill: 3M Altria AT&T Charter Communications Chevron Cisco Comcast Delta Airlines Door Dash Great Clips Hair Cuttery T-Mobile Uber United Airlines UPS Verizon
Here is my earlier coverage of the Supreme Court order staying the injunction in the case. www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-s... I have been saying that was the most alarming ruling of the year. Today, arguably, is worse.
We know too well the devastating consequences of such action—families torn apart, livelihoods destroyed, and multigenerational trauma inflicted on a community for decades. #AlligatorAlcatraz #NeverAgainIsNow
thats the kind reading. Im convinced hes actually a eugenicist and is happy to see the weak die
MAGA Mike Johnson still doesn’t have the votes to pass Trump’s Tax Scam. Keep lighting up the phone lines of your GOP representative: indivisible.org/resource/cal... Or join a phonebank to contact voters in key Republican districts: www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
You live in a country that is establishing concentration camps & soon will be stripping citizens of their papers.
I really don’t understand how anyone in this administration, or anyone who supports them, sleep at night.
two intereting things in this photo 1 body cameras, meaning footage of what they are doing may exist 2 the front guy is so afraid hes wearing the dick armor panel
If you think ICE is bad now, just wait till they hire 10,000 more agents and open more concentration camps.
the world now knows the bunker busters are not as S tier as it was led to believe
All that’s wrong with our government, in one tweet.👇
Remember Collins and Murkowski could have stopped this. People who lose healthcare coverage will die because of them
he knows how to fight
Pam Bondi fires two more Jan. 6 prosecutors. This administration is destroying the professional, apolitical federal workforce over Trump‘s hunger for revenge and disinformation about an imaginary deep state. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Inexplicably very on sale today, thanks @raygunsite.com.
so the president is effectively immune from everything, including following the law, but judges are on occasion prevented from imposing the law upon that executive. what madness is this? its basically saying "the court only has so much power over the king"
“You know what would help a lot? Some elite disapproval—publicly and boldly expressed. While a successful democracy depends on some degree of reasonableness from voters, a successful liberal democracy also depends on responsibility and even courage from elites.” www.thebulwark.com/p/the-public...
KBJ, in dissent, calls today's ruling "profoundly dangerous" and an "existential threat to the rule of law." She expresses her "deep disillusionment" with the court and suggests that the conservative supermajority continues to crown Trump a king above law. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
I want to reiterate that countless conservative judges issued universal injunctions against the Biden administration, and the Supreme Court never halted the practice. Now, barely five months into Trump's second term, the court puts an end to these injunctions. A brazen double standard.
(🚨) WAIT... WHAT?? Agents of Red Sea co-conspirators and Trump business partners MBS, MBZ, and el-Sisi were secretly in the White House as Trump agreed to go to war with their enemy Iran? How is this not the big news right now? How is this not bigger than every other story major media is covering?
Yikes: "Around 315 Guard personnel were deployed to assist DEA in executing a federal search warrant"—a deployment that "appears to be unauthorized" even under Trump's memorandum federalizing National Guard units.
NEW: Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding. Unpaywalled from @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social:
This is madness. Political entry screenings…
