These paragraphs from @winterjessica.bsky.social are very chef's kiss www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...
Stockholm, like the syndrome
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recovering litigator, compulsive baker, reluctant apiarist. she/her
🧵You can't talk about Natalie Harp w/o talking about how strange she is. This isn't making fun of physique or bearing. It's about obsessive/creepy behavior. And it matters on policy. As a former Republican media consultant, I can tell you that this attack is astonishingly effective w/the public...
It’s going to be amazing in the last scene of this movie when she talks to her handler in fluent Russian, just like in No Way Out www.ms.now/news/trump-a...
Trump aide Natalie Harp worked at the White House without security clearance for a year
The close aide to the president, known to filter much of the information reaching the commander-in-chief, ultimately relented in recent months after pressure from White House staff.
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I also want to add that every single time ICE has physically hurt me, they have grabbed me by my chest. Most of my femme friends have said the same. I will not be surprised if / when we find out about twisted sexual assaults conducted by ICE agents with these gloves.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d agoWow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.
These gloves don't cause neuromuscular incapacitation the way that a taser does. In fact, they only work when applied directly to bare skin. These aren't made for apprehending anyone. These have one and only one use: causing extreme pain to already-restrained captives. In plain language: torture.
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 7d agoZero surprise that these are explicitly designed to cause pain without leaving a mark, not to incapacitate. Yes, we're spending $20M to buy ICE agents torture devices.
$1.4B to deploy the National Guard into cities? On top of: -$1.5T for the Pentagon -$240B for ICE and CBP -$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet -$300M for Trump's ballroom -$100M for Trump's golf outings But nothing for working people.
Warren Decries $1.4 Billion Cost of Trump's National Guard Deployment in DC | Common Dreams
Cost of National Guard deployment in DC under Trump projected to reach $1.4 billion by 2029. Sen. Warren criticizes spen
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it's heeeeeere, you may now read my essay about how i achieved the millennial dream of home ownership and immediately lost my mind on nextdoor. thanks to the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org crew for their ongoing support of me being Like This
How I became the villain of El Cerrito’s Nextdoor
“I had a panic attack. Then I wrote an apology letter.”
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Mike Waltz -- the same guy who accidentally added the editor of the Atlantic to a top secret Signal group chat about US strikes in Yemen -- says that people who expose military secrets need to be in jail.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w agoWELKER: Is America backing away from a larger attack bc our stockpile has been depleted? WALTZ: We have to take a step back. A lot of our stockpiles were depleted because of Biden WELKER: But you acknowledge they're depleted? WALTZ: No. And the people leaking this nonsense deserve to be in jail
More evidence Trump is totally not serious about getting a nuclear deal with Iran. This agreement will set off a nuclear race in the region, further disincentivizing Iran from limiting its own program.
His father-in-law (and the grandfather of the white appearing baby he’s holding) is Dinesh D’Souza, who was born in India and first set foot in the US at the age of 17.
Trans women have been allowed to compete in women's tennis for nearly fifty years since Renee Richards won her case in 1977. It hasn't been an issue in all that time. Now they're mandating these invasive genetic tests to screen out trans and intersex women. www.devdiscourse.com/article/spor...
Gene Tests Set to Shape Future of Women's Tennis: Debates on Transgender Inclusion Intensify | Sports-Games
The WTA updates its eligibility policy, requiring tennis players to undergo a one-time gene test to compete on the women's tour. The SRY gene test aims to verify biological sex amidst ongoing debates ...
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Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 5mo agoIt bears repeating, cis men do not have to go through this. This entire genetic testing regime and concomitant anti-trans legal campaign will result in hundreds of thousands of intersex women being stigmatized and pushed out of society along with trans people. That is eugenics.
The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.
Every other president in history would offer to send American firefighters to help, form a long term joint task force, ask Congress for more funding for an elite force of firefighters, whatever. Trump just complains and does nothing.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Trump on Canada: “They should pay us some damages or something”
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.NN: Should networks air Trump's speech? CARR: Of course. Any time the president delivers news or content in primetime, broadcasters should make sure public can see it N: Do they have a responsibility in terms of TV licenses? C: Broadcasters have an obligation to operate in the public interest
BREAKING: Federal judge finds that Trump's IRS suit was improper because Trump controlled both sides of the litigation. Judge Kathleen Williams also sanctions Trump's lawyers, issues monetary sanctions, and harshly criticizes DOJ's "untenable" conduct. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com
It’s not just the “experts” who say this. The trump admin has their secret collection of intel and data shared at the White House, pentagon, elsewhere that our sources tell @premthakker.bsky.social and me that says this The trump WH knows their murder spree isn’t “working.” They’re doing it anyway
Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · last mo.
Kavanaugh-stop evolving into Kavanaugh-hit-jobs against suspected immigrants
Dan Nguyen@dancow.bsky.social · last mo.“RESEMBLED”…?!
New research indicates that state voter registration lists — a common administration target — are actually accurate and up to date. And both blue and red states are largely doing a good job maintaining their lists. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
State voter registration lists largely accurate and up-to-date, new research shows
Most of the states with higher active registration rates utilized cutting-edge methods to get voters to register, like automatic voter registration, same day registration, and online voter registratio...
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People keep supporting mediocre men and insisting we overlook their flaws. But what if we just held men accountable for their misdeeds and let vastly more competent women with unblemished records have a seat at the table
Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑@emilylhauser.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhat if we made it socially, culturally, & politically untenable to be a man who hurts women? What if we valued women JUST ENOUGH to value women's lives over men's power or talent?
260. Two hundred. And sixty. This is an indefensible misuse of government resources and, in any other administration, an impeachable offense. Even if Trump's claim wasn't complete fiction, the statute of limitations has run and the FBI has no business wasting time investigating this.
Peter Baker@peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 2mo agoKash Patel's FBI has assigned 260 analysts to search files in Georgia to try to prove Trump's baseless claims that the 2020 election was rigged. @nytnickc.bsky.social Alan Feuer Dustin Volz @richardfausset.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/u...
Last year ICE said a man tried to murder a female ICE officer while she was trying to arrest him. They swore under oath he grabbed her by the neck and tried to choke her to death. He was even indicted for attempted murder. Problem is, it never happened! Bystander video unraveled the lie.
A Venezuelan man was accused of attempting to choke an ICE officer to death in Bellevue. Bystander video tells a different story
Gabriel Hurtado-Cariaco was referred to by DHS as a “criminal illegal alien” and a “known Tren de Aragua terrorist.” The agency said he “violently attacked an ICE agent” by slamming her head into the ...
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He could strangle a teenager on camera and they would say he “defied a long-held tradition of presidents not doing that”
Donald Trump is a very stupid fucking person who genuinely has no idea how anything works and the U.S. press should never be allowed to live down their failure in communicating this mercilessly and clearly to the U.S. public
Kevin Collins@kwcollins.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt's a retrofitted Boeing 747, so the US did, in fact, build it
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of birthright citizenship because they “wander[ed] in
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Pennsylvania within my recollection was an invasion very
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I'm sure parents will feel their kids are *much* safer now that some random adult is empowered to examine their genitals before they can play soccer with their friends
Lexi Koren@lexikoren.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe’re currently fighting an initiative in Washington State that has genital exams as part of the enforcement mechanism. www.kuow.org/stories/tran...
The Supreme Court today addressed one of the most pressing threats to the nation today: banning this high school sophomore from playing school sports with her friends 🫡🫠🙃
I hope someone tells his it looks like the end of his tie is his weird wiener peeking out of his trousers
Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 2mo agoWelcome? This witless chowderhead doesn't know that passports are issued to US citizens for use traveling abroad? Welcome? Christ, he's so relentlessly stupid.
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts