NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.

ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests

Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.

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it is too late, for i have portrayed myself as the smiling young man and yourself as the seething florida retiree

This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.

Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy

The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.

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Whiny billionaire's closing message to Ohioans struggling with rising costs? Celebrate me and my billions.

of fucking course it was Target

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 4h ago

My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️

He makes a good point.

Tax billionaire wealth. I frankly don't care if a billionaire can make a second billion. I'd rather have the average person be able to make their first $100k.

Ossoff's superpower is that he correctly thinks his opponent is a contemptible piece of shit and he is willing to explain why in clear and direct language. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8h ago

Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"

What a tremendously constructed debate question from the moderator.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8h ago

Q: Many feel you have not addressed the fact your son in law is a white supremacist influencer. What have you said to your family? COLLINS: That's my family OSSOFF: Imagine running for Senate while neo-Nazi propaganda is disseminated to an audience of millions from your home. That's Mike Collins.

It’s about time the Democrats started calling Republicans what they are: Nazis. 

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8h ago

Ossoff says that Mike Collins has "hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office"

Democratic candidates up and down the ballot take note: when your central thesis is "i have scraped dogshit off my shoe that has more moral fiber and respect than my opponent" you can land some real body blows on the other guy across a VARIETY of topics

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9h ago

Ossoff: "Tonight, a united Georgia will hear the trial the Mike Collins. Mike Collins has brought dishonor to our state through his personal bigotry and his widely documented ties to white nationalists. And he's sold out Georgia in his pathetic child-like devotion to Donald Trump."

Pretty rough start of the debate for Mike Rogers in MI Senate….

I'm not sure these bozos (with 30% approval and dropping) fully understand what lowering public sensitivities about these kinds of things might mean for them. Sort of like Marie Antoinette cutting baguettes with a guillotine.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 11h ago

The Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan

I really don’t think a public execution by firing squad of a guy in a wheel chair is going to look how they expect it to look.

The last public execution in America was in 1936. A young black man in Kentucky was hanged by a drunk executioner; a news story said "They Ate Hotdogs While a Man Died." Was such an embarrassment that the governor outlawed it 18 months later www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Fort Hood shooter’s execution will be live-streamed, Defense Dept. says

“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.

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This is a moral atrocity and it needs to be loudly condemned as such. There is a reason that democracies *don't* do publicly televised executions (and why many don't execute people at all): it inculcates and rewards bloodthirst, which corrupts the spirit and corrodes the foundation of the polity.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 11h ago

The Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan

fwiw if you want to make a strategic case for congressional democrats trying to impeach trump if they take majorities, i think the first step is impeaching hegseth, the bar is lower and the likelihood of success is probably much higher

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11h ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed in December.

It's unreal how poorly California is governed relative to the size of our economy. We're going to tear out the copper wire on train service for a region of about 20 million people because our extremely dumb state thinks that Orange County Republicans should be able to veto mass transit for everyone.

Californians for Electric Rail@calelectricrail.org · 13h ago

Metrolink finally has a budget after 6 months, and it includes 29% weekday, 40% weekend service cuts, with no weekday service to Oceanside. Click the link for more info. Speak out TOMORROW at 10 Metrolink and other meetings later in the month to fight back. calelectricrail.org/metrolink-an...

Weirdest fuckin' people man. (although if it is really going to be a $70M remodel I might have questions, I don't have an issues with the design)

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 12h ago

INSANE: (Bathroom layout that is in a lot high-end restaurants)

Hail satanists

404 Media@404media.co · 14h ago

Iowa city council debates proper time in meeting agenda to "undo the curse that was just put on our city."

there were 12 people in that room and we're on our fourth leaked audio

For Portland parents following the extraordinary plan to close 14 schools, the district doesn't seem to have done some very basic homework. A lot of this is being done in the name of cost savings, but the district hasn't released any projections on that front.

IN-5???????????????

Polling USA@usapolling.bsky.social · 15h ago

Polling USA House Rating Changes: 🔵OH-9: Tilt GOP -> Tilt DEM 🔵IN-5: Tilt GOP -> Tilt DEM 🔴KY-6: Lean GOP -> Tilt GOP 🔴TN-18: Lean GOP -> Likely GOP unitedstatespolling.com/p/democrats-...

the guy interviewing hegseth once held up a "rape melania" sign at a rally to try and blame democrats and he was one of the main people pushing the pizzagate conspiracy theory that inspired a would-be mass shooter.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 13h ago

Hegseth on Nidal Hasan: "He's gonna get a firing squad of soldiers. As it should be. We'll make sure that people are able to watch it. That it's public. Because people need to understand that there's serious consequences for these types of things."

There is so much about the MAGA movement that lines up exactly with cults, and one of the things that starts people leaving cults is seeing that it’s *possible* to leave.

AkivaMCohen@akivamcohen.bsky.social · 12h ago

The floor has cracked. He used to have a hard core of 32-36% approval, people who would stick with him no matter what. Even those people are now starting to bail, and when THAT happens a trickle becomes a flood

Tom Cruise Salutes in Top Gun Maverick

ALT: Tom Cruise Salutes in Top Gun Maverick

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Drew Magary@drewmagary.bsky.social · 12h ago

“Every oval that Americans fill in on the D side of a ballot this fall is them saying Fuck Donald Trump as loudly and clearly as possible. And Hakeem Jeffries wants to check his swing if he dares to utter it himself? Sit on a gavel, you fucking clown.” defector.com/a-blue-wave-...

Nothing says a country is serious about science than vanity science awards for the president who has launched a war on higher education

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 14h ago

this shit is beyond parody, man. It truly is the make a wish presidency. now Trump is getting an award!

I'm just going to remind peeps that the estate tax over Bezos right now would net the Treasury around $100 billion. Just saying.

Gianmarco Soresi@gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 15h ago

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon