New York Knicks with Zohran Mamdani in City Hall after their NBA Championship parade. Photographed by Ali Imam.

it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Breaking: the DOGE deposition videos have been taken off YouTube. On Friday the government asked a judge to intervene, said the videos could cause reputational damage, death threats. Judge agreed, ordered them removed: www.404media.co/doge-deposit...

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports

Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

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This article is a very good example of why "more training" and "more vetting" isn't the answer. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez joined Border Patrol in 2018 and 2014 respectively. These aren't new agents. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting

The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

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Abolish ICE and prosecute everyone who stays in it from this day forward as members of a criminal conspiracy to commit murder.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Tim Walz: “Minnesota’s justice system will have the last word on this. … The state will handle it, period.”

DOJ lies. DHS lies. ICE lies. That has been established. Do not repeat their claims as fact. Their claims are arguments or, often, misleading propaganda — when not outright lies. They are seeking to make a case for their lawlessness (and to please Trump), not seeking to inform.

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.

MAGA and ICE don't have the numbers. Yes, they have power, money, and the government. But they don't have the people. Every week, they are hated more and more and radicalizing white folks, veterans, independents, and conservatives.

Just saw the video of the ICE shooting in Minnesota. That’s murder, full stop. You don’t shoot someone in the head for trying to flee the scene.

Trump: “I am pleased to announce that the Interim Authorities in Venezuela will be turning over between 30 and 50 MILLION Barrels of High Quality, Sanctioned Oil, to the United States of America. This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President”

Reporter: Did you speak with the oil companies before the operation? Did you tip them off? Trump: Before and after. They want to go in and they’re going to do a great job.

This story brought to you by the @democracydocket.com reporters sharing painfully obvious errors we found in DOJ filings so freakin’ often we were like “we gotta write about this, don‘t we?” www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...

Trump DOJ’s Campaign for Voter Data is a Master Class in Incompetence

Read more here.

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The President of the United States has the exact same power to pardon a state-court conviction that you or I have—which is to say, none.

NEW: The DOJ has launched a sweeping civil rights investigation into Colorado’s prison system. And it’s signaling that the probe is part of President Donald Trump’s effort to free the election denier Tina Peters. ✍️: @mattdcohen.bsky.social, @yuniorarivas.bsky.social

in case you're wondering yes i am very much on the brink of asking an etsy witch to summon the TX redistricting SCOTUS order

To be clear this is insane

Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com · 9mo ago

BREAKING: Escalating the fight over Missouri’s GOP gerrymander, AG Catherine Hanaway posted on X that she has referred the grassroots referendum campaign to ICE, without providing evidence for her allegation that it is “employing illegal aliens.”

BREAKING: A federal court blocks Texas’ new congressional gerrymander, which could net five more GOP seats in Congress, from being used in the 2026 midterms. Texas Republicans will likely ask the Supreme Court to weigh in on the case. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Federal Court Blocks Texas Gerrymander for 2026, Appeal Expected

Read more here.

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“Unauthorized immigrants, you say?”

Jeong Park@jeongpark.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Breaking from us: As the Trump administration searches for more space to detain immigrants, it is approaching Washington tribes to see if they will participate. Nisqually Indian Tribe is saying no. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Keep in mind there is no law saying bagels are only for the morning. If you want a 9PM bagel, that’s fine. You can just do that.

Yeah, I'm sorry, but you do not keep the government shut for more than a month and then NOT get a deal on the main item you have been messaging on without completely shifting the blame dynamic.

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Major concession from Democrats here is enhanced ACA funds aren’t extended. Preserving them was Dems’ central demand in this fight. They secured a promise of a vote (which Thune has been offering for weeks), but that could still fail. Even if it passes, Johnson has made no promise of a House vote.

They apparently didn’t even get past the opening paragraph of Leverage for Dummies.

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ProPublica@propublica.org · 9mo ago

NEW: Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state. By @dougbockclark.bsky.social

What a dipshit. Deserves to be heckled mercilessly.

N.C. GOP spokesman urges reporter to drop news story, citing Trump ties

Communications director Matt Mercer later said in a social media post that Trump should “feed ProPublica to the USAID wood chipper.”

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