News just broke that the Venezuelan boat that Trump struck was not, in fact, headed to the U.S. with drugs. But this story is disturbing for other reasons, and you need to know why. It's another sign of Trump's growing lawlessness. And it's bad counter-narcotics strategy.
The boat full of civilians Donald Trump mass murdered in the Caribbean had already turned around by the time the US decided to kill them. Rear Adm. Donald J. Guter: “If someone is retreating, where’s the ‘imminent threat’ then?” “Where’s the ‘self-defense’?"
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Korea Herald editorial: "Three South Korean battery companies are constructing plants at 10 US locations. Their combined investments amount to $43 billion. If it remains difficult for employees to travel to the US ... investment plans will be frozen or put off." www.koreaherald.com/article/1057...
Trump had a bad week in court last week: 1. Broad Tariffs without Congress - illegal 2. Harvard funding freeze - illegal 3. National Guard to LA - illegal 4. Alien Enemies Act - can’t use 5. Cutting $12 billion in funding that Congress already approved - illegal
Today we learned that in June the US economy lost jobs for the first time since 2020. We haven’t seen this kind of net job loss since - well, since the last time Trump was in charge.
🚨🚨🚨No words, just watch and listen! Holy shit. 1/2
SEN. CASSIDY (R) : “Do you agree Trump deserves the Nobel Prize for Operation Warp speed?” RFK JR.: “Absolutely.” SEN. CASSIDY: “But you just told Senator Bennet the COVID vaccine killed more people than COVID.” RFK JR.: “….”😬 🤷🏻♂️
Palestinian students barred from returning to school after Israel shuts down six UN-run schools in East Jerusalem
The Trump administration in a nutshell (from www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...)
the democratic party's bias to normalcy is gonna kill us off. the gop is literally talking about a military junta and the democratic leader is operating like he can just cut a deal with republicans like its normal times.
I reiterate that immigrants should NOT go to immigration court. They can comply by setting up a Zoom meeting. Call 888-462-5211 for help completing and submitting a Motion to Change Hearing Format form. Please pass on this information!
Jim O’Neill is a tech investor, former CEO of the Thiel Foundation, and co-founder with Peter Thiel of the Thiel fellowship. He has no direct medical education or experience. It’s hard to get away from the feeling that they really are trying to kill us.
This is kidnapping. Outright criminal kidnapping. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Molly O'Toole: "On way 1st day teaching journalism course on covering immigration, met by ICE in Mt.Pleasant at Lamont - agents appear to take father driving young daughter, likely to school. Agents shoving bystanders, daughter sobs it’s her fault-she’d seen car parked for 2hrs. Trump’s America"
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.
As kids return to school, another mass shooting has stolen young lives. Children shouldn’t fear their classrooms. Teachers shouldn’t risk their lives. Parents shouldn’t wonder if their kids will come home. We are the only country with more guns than people—and this is the devastating result.
Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
As you watch the extraordinary spectacle of Trump's government attempting to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, let's not lose sight of just how lawless and indefensible Trump's misconduct has been all throughout. Here's a thread recapping all of it. 1/
I would urge against referring to what is happening to Kilmar as a deportation. When people are deported, they are sent to their home country or "country of origin." What is happening to Kilmar and many others under the Trump administration is... something else entirely.
These fucking ridiculous "conservatives" will spend a billion dollars to paint a fucking fence, but shut down community Food Banks and Meals On Wheels The level of hate I am feeling today towards them is unhealthy
Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
Gov. Pritzker: "There is no emergency that warrants the President of the U.S. federalizing the Illinois National Guard." "Trump is attempting to manufacture a crisis, politicize Americans who serve in uniform, and continue abusing his power to distract from the pain he is causing working families."
It’s wild, absolutely wild, how for EVERY. SINGLE. CITY. Trump wants to militarize I can post data showing how crime is plummeting in all of them without any federal invasion… … and the press KEEPS stenographing the naked bad-faith claims about “fighting crime!” in the headlines. Infuriating.
An idea:
Good morning!
“What Trump and his allies seem to want from our museums is self-glorifying kitsch, the aesthetic lingua franca of all authoritarians.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/o...
Another test for America’s businesses and where they stand. This has Chinese Communist Party vibes: The White House “created a scorecard that rates 553 companies and trade associations on how hard they worked to support and promote President Trump's” so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill.”
This video from Fairmount Bagels in Montreal from their Instagram is the most impressive thing I've ever seen
DC Union Station tonight. Unreal.
In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies. (Published April)
NEW: In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned. Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.
I wonder if the MAGA tariff mental gymnastics is as exhausting for them as it is for me watching it
Omg. Because he’s Muslim? Give me a break. We’re in this mess because half of the American public are too selfish and undereducated to care about the other half. With a side of cult worship for the conman.
the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back
The District of Columbia is under attack today — not from violent gangs or thieves, but by the President of the United States. The President's weaponization of the Home Rule Act is a direct attack on the 700,000 residents of DC and we will not stand for it.
Trump seizing D.C. when crime is at a 30-year low isn’t about safety — it’s about the Epstein files.
Violent crime is at a 30-year low in Washington, but that doesn’t stop Trump from lying he needs to take over the city because of all the violent crime. Meanwhile, expect his Republican accomplices to remain silent while he builds his police state. Each of them is accountable.
Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
More journalists murdered in Gaza than in WW2: Vietnam : Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing. Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYC’s program helping people move out of shelter. Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. 🧵 x.com/andrewcuomo/...
$142,000 will get you almost nowhere in NYC. It’s just not a lot here.
This.👇
“A coding error.”
ICE raided the Westlake Home Depot in Los Angeles this morning. LATU organizers snapped some photos from the raid—one sticks out: ICE agents rolling up in a Penske rental truck. Wonder where they got the idea😬 Trying to avoid detection? Is this policy now? Are they now doing roving gangs in this?
OLIVER: "Gaza is starving is a sentence that's objectively true, but it's also slightly misleading because it's too passive — Gaza is being starved by Israel."
🔥 @aoc.bsky.social : “Every Republican at every level of government should be challenged, even running for dog catcher… They should be challenged fighting for health care as a human right for every American… let them know there are consequences for taking away people’s health care…”
I am baffled by the Washington Post's sanitized framing of this story. The Supreme Court is clearly going to "rule on the law" -- that is what courts do! The news is that SCOTUS signaled that it might gut the VRA entirely. Compare WaPo and Democracy Docket's headlines. Which source do you trust?
You can’t afford food and you’re losing your healthcare. But good news a 200 million dollar gold ballroom is being built in the White House. Aren’t you overjoyed?
It’s time to get ruthless🔥 If California holds a special election on redistricting, I’m voting “yes” for new maps. And I promise you I’m bringing friends and family with me to vote. The Supreme Court already made it clear it’s fine with gerrymandering. So screw it. LFG.
I am so incredibly tired of his threats, his demands, the narcissism, the endless babble of nonsensical word salad and repetition, the anger, cruelty and hate, the extortion, the corruption, the loss of our rule of law, the loss of everything we know to be honest, caring, and good.
Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.
I don’t want to say I immediately had a visceral reaction when I saw the DHS post but … yeah… I did … Right on cue with the fascism.
The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it
CNN put together a supercut of Pam Bondi being for releasing Epstein files before she suddenly turned against it
Rümeysa wants us all to know that together we have the power to defend our immigrant communities. She shared five actions people can take to make a real difference. www.aclu.org/news/civil-l...
I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared.
This former Green Beret, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who was working for a humanitarian aid group in Gaza, witnessed an IDF Merkava tank fire its main gun into a crowd of unarmed people. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
“After years watching Hungary suffocate under the weight of its democratic collapse, I came to understand that the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence.” (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
“Trump’s secretary of state, Marco Rubio, signed off on the committee’s findings at the time, when he was acting chair of the Intelligence Committee. ... www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
"He's in the process of establishing a dictatorship." It's a simple 8-word sentence. News media could tell the public that. They know it's true. They report on the various steps toward autocracy every day. But they're afraid to utter that 8-word sentence. Which is more evidence of how true it is.
NEW -- Donald Trump is on his way to Scotland to promote a new course at one of his golf resorts. American taxpayers are footing the $9.7 million -- at least -- travel and security bill so that he can make more money at his family business. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
"How can you have a university course where ideas are not up for discussion or interpretation?” apnews.com/article/colu...
So the bonus is a Florida sign on bonus which is 30k in some instances.
A Texas man is suing a California doctor over his girlfriend’s alleged abortion across state lines — the latest in a string of cases meant to test the laws that have helped people get care.
If you’re looking for a place to do it, join @israelispeaceny on Sundays at 5pm in Union Sq – where we cry out for a ceasefire & the return of the hostages, hold up pictures of those killed in Gaza, read the words of hostage families, and pray for an end to starvation & war.
July 1: Paramount agrees to pay $16 million to settle Trump's personal lawsuit against CBS. July 22: Trump and Paramount dismiss the case, formalizing the settlement. July 24: Trump-appointed FCC approves $8 billion Paramount merger. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...
BREAKING: President Trump signed an executive order directing states to criminalize and institutionalize people experiencing homelessness, addiction, and mental health disabilities.
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
Did UC San Diego researchers just help solve global malaria problem? Researchers from UC San Diego and Johns Hopkins University have developed a CRISPR-based gene-editing method to prevent malaria transmission by mosquitoes. This innovative approach alt…
NEW: On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been taken away. These are their stories.
The clerks where I get my lunch said a man came in last week and asked them where the public entrance to 26 Federal Plaza was. He locked his bike outside, and it’s been there since.
Again, think about what would need to be in those files for this to be Republicans' least bad option.
"They falsely stated that I, a U.S. citizen, have no Constitutional rights at a point of entry, and officers became increasingly agitated as I continued to assert my rights regardless."
MORE NEWS --> Last year, Sen Ron Wyden sought to subpoena the release of Epstein financial transactions on file with the Treasury Department. He asked GOP senators to join him in backing a subpoena. None of them agreed, a Wyden aide tells me: newrepublic.com/article/1982...
Holy shit the FDA panel on antidpressants seems wild to me. I am not an expert, but apparently depression is a useless term and that is preventing us from feeling emotional distress. We should experience everything as a signal and learn to pay attention to it.
🚨 BREAKING: new video shows ICE is operating a detention facility on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, where people are being held for days or weeks at a time without showers, medication or a change of clothes, sleeping on the floor, and with minimal food and outside contact.
Thank you for doing this. Can you add a donate button to the web site? I’ll happily donate, albeit a modest amount.
🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website! Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14
Final CBO score of the "big beautiful bill" is out Largest Medicaid cuts ever - in fact, at least 4 times the size of the previous largest; $894-$990 bn cut Kicks 10 million off health insurance Largest SNAP cuts ever, $197 bn cut Still increases the deficit by $3.4 trillion from huge tax cuts
This is what fear looks like.
These stories are horrific, as is the realization that around 35% of Americans would respond “GOOD!”
Last month, the IRS' acting general counsel Andrew De Mello refused to turn over the addresses of 7.3 million taxpayers sought by ICE, saying he'd identified multiple legal “deficiencies” in ICE's request. Two days later, De Mello was forced out of his job.
"I'm Donald Trump's 27th sexual assault victim... Jeffrey Epstein walked me into his office to be sexually assaulted by him." — Former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Stacey Williams in February 2025
I decided to make a long blog post combining general sociological things I am aware of with personal observations of cultural and lifestyle differences between the UK and USA. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/07/comp...
EPSTEIN-Trump is playing games. He’s seeking disclosure of grand jury material but that requires court approval which the law is VERY hard to satisfy. But the government TODAY can disclose all the other investigative material on its own without court approval. Why isn’t it doing that?
🚨TRUMP COMING TO THE UK It would be such a shame for Donald if this photo of Trump with Jeffrey Epstein appeared absolutely EVERYWHERE on his tour of the UK. It would truly be such a huge shame if everyone donated to make that happen 👀 link in bio x
I think people aren't describing the Emil Bove corruption adequately. He blew off an order from a judge SO THAT he could send hundreds of mostly innocent men to a concentration camp, based on false claims of gang ties.
Cognitive decline, or does he lie so much he can’t keep it straight? Trump in 2025: “He’s a terrible Fed chair. I was surprised he was appointed.” Trump in 2017: “It is my pleasure and my honor to announce my nomination of Jerome Powell to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve.”
The Army vet was held for three days on suicide watch in federal lock-up, unable to shower or call a lawyer, before officers freed him uncharged.
So moving.
Fair question! Wild that more aren’t asking this.
Just a quick reminder of what the One Big Barbaric Bill is going to do unless the Dems work to immediately undo this shit
Why is there no mention of Bill Barr in these renewed Epstine discussions. He shut it all down initially.
Another flight of third-country deportees has now landed in Eswatini, a small country in Southern Africa. Via @haleaziz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/u...