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Democrats should make crystal clear that whether it is high level Trump officials, commanders carrying out illegal murders, or ICE/CPB goons, investigations and indictments are coming—referring to state AGs if Trump blanket pardons for federal crimes.
Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 10mo agoDipshit is smashing out a car window with his gun, barrel first. Just rogue, cowboy stiff. There were two US citizens in the car. They were apprehended and detained for “obstructing” ICE by honking their horn to let people know ICE was in the neighborhood.
their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 10mo agoThe USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
If there is any silver lining to this whole foul era, I hope it at least persuades progressives that this strain of thought that views restricting trade & immigration as some kind of boon to the working class has always been dumb and ugly.
Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · 11mo agoHey Bernie, quick question, what the fuck is wrong with you? www.newsweek.com/bernie-sande...
"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown." Source: old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...
Not sure this looks much different from how it would look if Trump had flown the Lolita Expresss into the White House
Jeffrey Lewis@armscontrolwonk.bsky.social · 11mo agoThere it is.
NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants. "What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...
In light of new information, I, uhh, withdraw my objection to the 77 year old white lady who does *not* have a Nazi tattoo on her chest. I will be submitting all relevant forms to the bureau of retractions and submit for my flogging.
I can't really explain fully why this is the thing of all things that got my jaw on the floor but I guess it's such a literal symbol and also such a jaw dropping amount of money while small businesses are struggling to survive the tariffs Such a visible "go fuck yourself"
Jonathan Edwards@jonathanreports.bsky.social · 11mo agoScoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11mo agoTrump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
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The Corrupt Supreme Court Must Be Reformed: Dems Must Champion It
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all of these videos are horrifying. what feels so singularly striking and scary to me in all of them is the individual seething contempt and rage of these agents
Hegseth writes "narco-terrorist" because someone begged him to use "terrorist" to fit with their new claim these are enemy combatants, but he's not very bright, so his description makes clear they just murdered more civilians because they thought a boat was carrying drugs. That's a crime.
Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · 11mo agoPete Hegseth: “Earlier this morning, on President Trump's orders, I directed a lethal, kinetic strike on a narco-trafficking vessel affiliated with Designated Terrorist Organizations in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility. Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed..”
It was better - with all its flaws - to live in an America governed by the constitution.
More than anything, they want to be patted on the head and told they're a good boy by the liberal elites
"'My main takeaway is that America is not a safe place to work,' Mr. Park said. 'I don’t think I would go there again to work.'" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/w...
South Koreans Describe Fear and Anger After Georgia ICE Raid
Some of the workers arrested this month at a Hyundai-LG factory said that although they had entered the United States under murky circumstances, they had always planned to return home.
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it's super unsubtle the way center-right corporate media thinks progressive good faith popular reform is a bigger threat than the complete demolition of democracy at the hands of authoritarians
No doubt because at this point it’s too much of a stretch to imagine that these people wouldn’t already be in cabinet positions
DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 12mo agoApple TV+ has indefinitely delayed the release of their new TV show ‘THE SAVANT’, starring Jessica Chastain. The series follows an undercover investigator who infiltrates hate groups online to detect & prevent domestic extremists before they act. (Source: Deadline)
Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"
I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".
The total attack on encampments and firing anyone going against the line on Gaza was the beginning of this red scare, the habits of thought and action are now being applied to Kirk, both repress speech and build authoritarianism, but while institutions continue, societal support has collapsed
Schumer needs to say that when Ds take congress they will hold hearings on whether Disney needs to be broken up since it is essentially bribing Trump for preferential treatment re mergers.
Chuck Schumer@schumer.senate.gov · 12mo agoAmerica is meant to be a bastion of free speech. Everybody across the political spectrum should be speaking out to stop what’s happening to Jimmy Kimmel. This is about protecting democracy. This must go to court.
A good day to launch a Democratic Party-aligned think tank devoted to attacking the ACLU.