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This is so important… Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles. In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected. REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. @governor.ca.gov 🧵
What happens if you don’t do background checks or training for thousands of people and you give them all total authority? ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles /
“De-turd”
Everyone in DC knows that if you want to hide something, announce it on a Friday in August. Better yet, make it nearly impossible to track down. That's exactly what SCOTUS did last week. But the news is too staggering to hide for long: SCOTUS has decided it's time to destroy the Voting Rights Act.
The student newspaper. This fell. To the student. Newspaper.
To the other countries of the world…begin lobbying your leaders…NOW….to skip the 2028 Olympics in the United States.
Today we learned Andrew Cuomo is directly coordinating with Donald Trump, even as this President sends masked agents to rip our neighbors off the streets and guts the social services so many New Yorkers rely on. It’s disqualifying and a betrayal of our city.
Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?
Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
Rep. Bryan Steil (R-WI) —dragged at his own town hall. He should have known when it kicked off w/constituents reciting the Pledge of Allegiance w/extra emphasis on “justice for all.” Then came the truth: “I don’t think you’re the right fit for us anymore.” Even telling him it’s time to step down.
Not to mention those democrats also have their power from voting (whether or not they exert it *gives senate the stink eye*)
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This is what I came here to say. The cover up is egregious and the crime is still much worse. I think (hope) that’s why it’s sticking
Dem leadership’s job is to make sure republicans (ie our corporate overlords) win while maintaining a façade of democracy and left-of-far-right voice in government. They lose elections on purpose. They sabotage the left because they put profits over people. Change my mind.
This looks like France, which is cool, but it looks like it was filmed in fall, which makes me think it was filmed months ago, which is misleading
If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
Creates a profit motive to not be such shitheads
WATCH — @anakasparian.bsky.social unleashes on Shabbos Kestenbaum: “No, I’m gonna let you filibuster, b*tch… I can’t stand it. It’s unbearable.”
We didn’t know how good we had it with Stephen Colbert @colbertlateshow.bsky.social Oh no, wait, we totally did.
Columbia University has handed over its undergraduate admissions process to Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, who will now decide at their sole discretion whether the university has admitted enough white people. It's no longer an independent institution.
NPR had a quick, upbeat mention about how farmwork could function as healthcare with people "prescribed" to do it and it feels maddening that a significant swath of elite opinion seems to be trying to soft relaunch serfdom.
Bonus points to whoever can find the relevant Josh Lyman gif that’s in my head that I can’t actually find
17% don’t disapprove of trump’s policy but do think immigration is a good thing?! Is critical reasoning at an all-time low? Are people feeling pressured to answer a question dishonestly?!
Sounds like ICE killed a guy and then held american citizens hostage at gunpoint until they agreed to destroy the evidence
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.
Even knowing this is where fascism was headed, it's still haunting and terrifying to the core to see the fully built camps
Introspection or PR 🤔
A corrupt system is when you need 60 Senate votes to protect voting rights, universal healthcare, reproductive rights, climate justice, lgbtq rights, immigration justice, and a living wage—but only 51 votes to strip them all away. #BigScamBill 1/3
His re-election was unconstitutional in the first place
The. Why on earth did you vote against impeachment?!?!?!?!?! History will not be kind to you for that cowardly choice
Leavitt without a trace of irony: "When you have a totalitarian regime, you have to save face. I think any common sense, open-minded person knows the truth about the precision strikes on Saturday night. They were wildly successful."
Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪
“I promise you, it would have been a war crime.” that’s what Alejandro Barranco told me what would have happened if he treated a detainee when he was deployed to Afghanistan with the Marines like federal agents treated his father.
This is an image maga is posting to stoke fear of Mamdani. A list of things that sound awesome
It’s like he’s saying: “see, when you lets migrants into your city, they help create a world-class metropolitan that national and international tourists can’t get enough of” And pretending that’s a bad thing
A reminder that the @nytimes.com told New Yorkers to not rank Mamdani at all, & instead endorsed former hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson. Tilson sits at a whopping .8%. Corporate media trust is dead. They killed themselves by failing to fulfill their promise of holding the powerful accountable.
Surprising? How??
“Stunned” is such a revealing verb choice
Stunned cuomo perhaps but didn’t stun regular people like me. Because cuomo is awful and mamdani ran a brilliant and positive campaign about things real humans care about
What’s more, they are our employees. Government workers work for the people. That’s why it’s called public service. So positioning themselves in opposition to the public, as a broad, default status, is kind of the whole problem, put in a different way
Wow: ICE Has Deported at Least 70 U.S. Citizens
To all those who said boycotting Target was a waste of time. It wasn't. Keep it up, y'all!
"No republic has ever survived this level of inequality for long and remained a republic." - Pete Buttigieg
We need more of this or we’re cooked.
Frost: And if you're here and you voted for trump in the past, my message is simple. I'm sorry you were lied to, but welcome to the team.
No, @slotkin.senate.gov — Dems shouldn’t stop using the term “oligarchy”. They should make it a household term. And they should be wary of anyone telling them otherwise. People know what it means. And if they don’t, tell them. That’s what leaders do.
Bondi declares war on the courts: "What has happened to our judiciary is beyond me ... they are deranged ... we are sending a very strong message today ... we will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you."
There’s a reason they started this almost immediately. In a couple years, half of the population will be “over” it. They’re masters of shifting the Overton window
LET’S. DO. THIS. 😎✨
The FBI is arresting judges. We just blew through Constitutional Crisis and into fascism.
Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private server or Pete Hegseth using the nuclear codes as his password on Pornhub, both parties have ignored our nation's security.
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Horrific
75%
The economy was bad then too though
It's time to take action!
ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: It has come to my attention that several agencies are now offering WiFi for you to use with your PERSONAL devices. If I were you, I would NOT use that WiFi. I suspect it's a way for DOGE to monitor your personal communications.
Thought this was a weather map at first glance
Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich
🚨BREAKING: The Democratic Party is suing President Donald Trump over his sweeping executive order last week that attempted to wrest control of elections from the states. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Things Democratic Senators could do that would be useful: - Withdraw unanimous consent from all Senate business until constitutional rule was restored - Refuse to vote for any legislation until constitutional rule was restored - Boycott as a caucus until constitutional rule was restored
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Note to editors and producers: If an executive order demands action that is illegal or outside of the president’s authority, then you should not describe it as ordering something. You should say it seeks to achieve some outcome and then note it is illegal or beyond the power of the president.
Marco Rubio just made the argument, bold faced, not a mistake an intentional statement, that at any time the US can revoke your visa and then you are instantly here illegally and they can arrest you, deport you, torture you, all without any due process. That means the United States is simply unsafe
HUNT: Do you have Signal on your phone? NAVARRO: You guys beat that story to death on the campaign trail HUNT: Wait, this story wasn't on the campaign trail. It started on Monday.
I think the quote makes it clear that terror is the intention
Yes, and also we’re at least in 1938 somehow already. Maybe because the OG nazis had already written the playbook
Funniest, scariest Potayto, potahto
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.
a cage full of shaved men in bunks stacked up to the ceiling is the modern day death camp. they are invoking the cruelty, the sadism, the AESTHETICS of Nazism and turning it against young Latino men. it is disgusting and it offends me in my deepest self.
Is there anyone who can confirm that this is super fucking illegal? Because that’s my gut but I suppose it’s possible that it’s so egregious it never actually occurred to anyone to make sure legislation covered it. But it feels super fucking illegal
uhhhh it looks like Dems just flipped a R+17 Pennsylvania State Senate seat in Amish country…
What actual action steps are you taking to bring this and maximum senate obstructionism about?? 👀👀👀
When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.
The face Reed makes as the clip’s end is exactly the right face
Obviously this is dangerous, but my first reaction is to laugh!!
Fired? Chelsea Manning was sentenced to THIRTY FIVE YEARS in prison
I really want this to be true. Surely it’s true for some of them. But clearly they have enough competent people in their corner to be dangerous… I think the challenge is in determining the ratio
Meiselas: Steve Witkoff, was allegedly in Moscow while he was on this group chat. Do you believe the Russians now have all of that information and potentially more? Rice: Well, yes—the Russians have whatever Witkoff was doing or saying on his personal cell phone. The Russians undoubtedly have it.
What are you going to do to move the needle????? 👀👀👀
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Jessica Aber worked on a DOJ case that charged Russian military personnel with war crimes, a first-of-its-kind case. Just saying. www.justice.gov/archives/opa...
Former US attorney for Eastern District of Virginia Jessica Aber found dead at 43
literally every day is going to provide more evidence that the "let's provide some votes for the least bad trump nominees out of respect for the presidency" was a boneheaded strategy. any idiot could have told senate democrats that any vote for any of these people was going to make them look bad.
Our prisons are particularly inhumane, we’re particularly likely to throw people in prison, or lack of social safety net keeps most people too overworked and downtrodden to have the energy or risk tolerance, we’re geographically dispersed/or cities are proportionately small, I’m sure there’s more
It is extremely pathetic that this is dated to 2022
I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.
Don't be afraid to call things by what they are. MAGA is a terrorist organization, ICE is a secret police force conducting Ethnic Cleansing, Elon Musk is an oligarch, and Trump is a foreign backed coup d'état figurehead. This is not an administration, this is a regime, and your country is occupied.
What exactly are senate dems doing to mitigate LITERALLY ANY LITTLE THING AT ALL. Nazi enablers are nazis. You need to internalize this and act accordingly
“Wait guys, P. Hegseth is typing…”
It seems generous to take for granted that it was a fuckup & not a coordinated plan with/by Russia …and/or that using signal was, even if adding a random reporter wasn’t They’re evil, & maybe incompetent, but they I don’t see a clear basis for ruling out faking incompetence for plausible deniability
just found out about this. if you are distributing information under this government be very careful
Chamberlain would fit right in in today’s Democratic leadership