🚨 #BREAKING (CHICAGO SUBURBS) ÏCE agents pulled a GUN, and a TASER, on unarmed U.S. citizens for recording them from a public sidewalk… while threatening, “you aren’t going to like the outcome.”
calamity jim
@calamityjim.bsky.social
fan of writers, dogs, small children, bread, islands, stars, popcorn, candy corn, and sleep. fyi: I'm a woman using a guy name, b/c why not. hitchhiked over here from balloon juice. not a fan of willful ignorance, malice, or black licorice.
Man I hate this shit
Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 20h agoJudge Wise finds that ICE coerced a 20-year-old Tongan man — admitted legally to the country three years ago — to sign a document accepting deportation, despite no criminal record or immigration proceedings against him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This is true. I see it every day here in DC.
Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social · 21h ago“The extension of the National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C. until January 2029 will cost roughly $1.4 billion, according to a Defense Department estimate provided to Congress.“ This is insane. You can’t walk four blocks without running into a group of them standing around and doing nothing.
I am so triggered by RJK Jr's comment about ICU's being empty during #COVID. I re-read what I wrote after one of the surges. How do others forget. The trauma was--and is--real.
I'm An ICU Doctor. I’m Haunted By What I’ve Seen During The Recent COVID-19 Surge.
“I can’t stop thinking about the 40-something man who told me, ‘I can’t die like this. I just got engaged and have a 6-month-old baby.’ I encouraged him to be positive, but that didn’t stop him from d...
huffpost.com
Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says
Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...
bloomberg.com
James Talarico tells Rachel Maddow that if Democrats win the Senate seat he is running for, "I think we can build the political will to restore the Voting Rights Act." Watch:
Yup. You did. And cancer research for children was first to go.
A 39-year-old El Salvadoran man, who was being held at Delaney Hall, has died, the man's family says. He's the father of a 12-year-old US citizen daughter and has lived in the country for nearly 20 years. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/03/s...
El Salvadoran Man Held by ICE at Delaney Hall Dies, Family Says
The detainee had an extensive medical history, including epilepsy, according to a lawsuit. He had complained about his face and hand going numb just before his death, his mother said.
thecityreporter.nyc
The world of CRISPR is bursting open! Another application for CRISPR- To target mutated proteins that were previously deemed "undruggable" or difficult to target. This has been applied to treat HPV driven head & neck cancers. The goal is to take this to a clinical trial. 🧪 archive.today/n4QAc
Bizarre CRISPR enzyme kills cancer cells by shredding their DNA
Early tests suggest the protein can be aimed at targets with tumour-causing mutations.
nature.com
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
What she doesn't say is that data centers, to the public, are scary because no one knows for sure what it will mean to allow the tech bros to force their latest we're-rich agenda on the rest of us. We don't like being at the mercy of their good intentions. "Don't be evil?" Sure. Pull my finger.
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 3d agoDems are campaigning against wildly unpopular data centers. Here’s why that’s bad for Democrats. Lol substack.com/redirect/2/e...?
This New York Times article, which ran a week before Christmas last year, didn’t get the attention it deserved. It detailed Trump and Epstein's predatory behavior toward women – “a game of ego and dominance” in which “female bodies were currency.” Here’s a gift link and a thread. 1/6🧵
‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women (Gift Article)
The president has tried to minimize their friendship, but documents and interviews reveal an intense and complicated relationship. Chasing women was a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were cur...
nytimes.com
RFK Jr and wife had a soiree at their Hollywood mansion during COVID and required proof of COVID vaccination with RSVP. Watch what they do, not what they say. –Rachel Maddow
Billionaires Are Proof That God Doesn't Exist And That They Shouldn't Either. End The Oligarchs.
3 September 1878 | A Czech Jew, Bohdan Winter, was born in Prague. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 28 October 1942 in a transport of 1,866 Jews deported from #Theresienstadt ghetto. He was among 1,619 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.
While this reply is getting attention— if you have teacher training/educational experience and you want to volunteer 2-4 hrs/week as an online teacher for girls and women in Afghanistan, message me!
Thread (1 of 5). Time to set the record straight, MAGAs will say “fake news” but it’s not, and the truth is the truth. A thread on US assistance to Ukraine. Total U.S. defense spending from full scale invasion to today: (Feb. 2022–mid 2026) ~$4.2–4.5 trillion Cont...
Common loon coming in for a landing TT: @harrycollinsphotography
I mean ... how much more stupid can things get?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoTrump: “The Winning Shot in the Bedminster Club Championship! Thank you very much to all of those who participated. I won with a 70, & am so honored in that, unlike the rest of the field, I’m given very little time to practice, bc I’m focused on many other things. It’s called TALENT, and I have it”
