NEW: Roger Shoffstall spent three years in prison for evading income taxes. It hasn’t stopped the FCC from sending him $1 million a year to sell obsolete internet service in Alaska. The money comes from a special government subsidy program. You help pay for it. w/ @adn.com

This Convicted Felon Gets $1 Million a Year to Sell Obsolete Internet Service. You Pay for It.

Roger Shoffstall spent three years in prison for tax evasion. Still, each year the federal government pays his Alaska company, Summit Telephone, for internet service that’s slower than in most of the ...

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what do you call it when the president steals an unfathomable amount of wealth from the treasury and then declares it illegal to investigate him

Prisons are for people who've been CONVICTED of crimes. Most people in these warehouses - without proper food or sanitation or worse - haven't even been CHARGED with crimes. And thousands are CHILDREN. This will be another of America's greatest shames.

This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

This is sickening. For comparison, this is more than the Department of Energy spent for all solar power and wind power R&D for the whole country.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8mo ago

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer

Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...

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AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

Warning And advice In the thread #Mm

MELLYmed@mel-med-larson.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This is what I’m saying And what HE A tactical psychological Warfare specialist Is saying Do you get it yet MINNESOTA IS BY DESIGN #Mm

'Four days before Trump’s '25 inauguration, lieutenants to an Abu Dhabi royal secretly signed a deal with the Trump family to purchase a 49% stake in their cryptocurrency venture for half a billion dollars.... The buyers would pay half up front, steering $187 million to Trump family entities.'

‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company

$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips.

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Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

No Kings march Durham

I think the use of chatbots for stuff like this is intended to train people to use it to avoid everything that’s painful or hard. It can write the obituary, the breakup text, the complaint letter. It’s meant to separate humans from their difficult feelings. Seems bad.

Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · last yr.

New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg

#ShouldBeFrontPage but isn’t 8/2/25 Billionaires via their Republican minions have terminated the CPB (Corporation for Public Broadcasting). The last major media system not controlled by media oligarchs or profit-driven model. NYT Grade: F 1/n

“The data, obtained through public records requests, show that at least 60 percent of the centers analyzed had reported serious pregnancy complications, suicide attempts, or sexual assault allegations.” Beyond haunting. How do the ghouls doing this sleep at night? www.wired.com/story/ice-de...

NOTE this is "Trump's War on Iran." Not "with" - that implies mutuality. And not simply "war" nor "attack."

ICE arrested Job Garcia while he was running errands in LA. Job is a US citizen, a scholar, and a brilliant photographer. He’s also my friend. But none of that should determine his humanity. ICE must release Job Garcia immediately.

(90% is not hyperbole)

EXCLUSIVE: A GOP congressman from N. Carolina appears to have violated the STOCK Act by failing to properly disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of "Liberation Day"-timed stock purchases from which he profited after quickly selling. From me in @fortune.com: fortune.com/2025/06/16/t...

Exclusive: Congressman Tim Moore failed to properly disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of personal stock purchases made around Trump's 'Liberation Day' in a potential STOCK Act violation

Moore did not publicly disclose a dozen stock trades that he made throughout April until Friday, which is well after a federal deadline for doing so.

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A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Via Sam Stein on twitter

I really really needed to see that people hadn't given up and accepted this shit as inevitable, or (even worse) embraced it. And today showed us that beautifully. No one wanted in on his tank show, but people WERE HUNGRY to tell him to go fuck himself.

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

Really important story - army officials asked soldiers to identify themselves if they don't agree with Trump's politics that way he'd get only supportive soldiers in uniform during his political rally on base. Heavier soldiers were also barred from participating.

Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance

As Trump viciously attacked his perceived political foes, he whipped up boos from the gathered troops directed at California leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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Hi, pardon me, hello: mass protest in the face of fascism is a great idea and in fact the only thing that works to actually combat it. anyone saying otherwise is an idiot. sorry, i cannot anymore with this shit. do the fucking reading!

I don't like it when @profjessblankshain.bsky.social freaks out. Not a good sign for the health of civil-military relations.

Jess Blankshain@profjessblankshain.bsky.social · last yr.

Candidly, as a civ-mil watcher, this scene at Bragg is freaking me out more than anything else that's happened so far. Just an absolute collapse of professional military norms.

just absolutely insane that this is what Trump accused Biden of doing, and now he's done it himself.

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · last yr.

Congratulations, North Carolina. You’re on your own and your FEMA request is “not warranted.” Read ⬇️

We're not celebrating until it's officially official, but this is GREAT news!! As the (conservative, Trump-appointed) judge writes, "You establish the rules before the game. You don't change them after the game is done."

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · last yr.

HUGE ruling—by a conservative judge—that is almost certain to be affirmed by the 4th Circuit and is unlikely to be disturbed by SCOTUS. Justice Riggs’ final victory draws much closer.

Justice Allison Riggs won her race for NC Supreme Court, and with this ruling she is one step closer to having her victory certified. And, we will NEVER FORGET Jefferson Griffin's cynical attempt to disenfranchise thousands of voters. Free and FAIR elections Foreverrrrr⚖️

FLIP NC@flipnc.bsky.social · last yr.

We're not celebrating until it's officially official, but this is GREAT news!! As the (conservative, Trump-appointed) judge writes, "You establish the rules before the game. You don't change them after the game is done."

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:

“When a prison camp opens in your town… When a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom… When the president* destroys what’s left of the Constitution… They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” @aoc.bsky.social

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2y ago

AOC 🔥🔥🔥