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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6mo ago

RUBIO: “Imagine if Iran spent billions on its people instead of weapons... They’d have a much different country.”🤔😕 Unreal. @marcorubio Do you even hear yourselves? Your shameless hypocrisy is killing us

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Again, the first Tea Party rallies in April 2009 -- heavily promoted in advance by Fox News -- only had about 300,000 attendees across 750 cities, but the media treated it like the Second American Revolution. There will be multiple *individual* No Kings rallies today that have more people at them.

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · 6mo ago

There's a long, bad journalistic tradition: All conservative grass-roots political movements are fascinating heartland phenomena, all progressive grass-roots political movements are ineffectual bleating. This one is written off as powered by white female college grads--the wine-moms slur, basically.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · last yr.

Last year, a majority of voters in Missouri passed a ballot initiative enacting paid sick leave. Yesterday, Missouri's Republican governor signed legislation repealing it. Do Republicans ever listen to the will of their voters? https://www.commondreams.org/news/missouri-paid-sick-leave

'A Slap in the Face': Missouri's GOP Governor Repeals Voter-Approved Paid Sick Leave | Common Dreams

"The governor's action today demonstrates the absolute disdain Republicans have for working Missourians."

commondreams.org

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Brooke Rollins on farm laborers: "There will be no amnesty. The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way. And we move the workforce toward automation and 100% American participation, which with 34 million able-bodied on Medicaid we should be able to do fairly quickly."

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last yr.

The Trump admin's new talking point on the Big Beautiful Bill: we're going to deport all the farm laborers and make people on Medicaid work in the fields to earn their health insurance.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Brooke Rollins on farm laborers: "There will be no amnesty. The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way. And we move the workforce toward automation and 100% American participation, which with 34 million able-bodied on Medicaid we should be able to do fairly quickly."

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · last yr.

Stephen Miller has gone from giving a speech about how janitors should pick up his trash in high school to yelling at federal agents to go to Home Depot and round up brown people

emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · last yr.

¶¶1-6 of a long WSJ article draw the line directly from Stephen Miller's wails that ICE is not meeting targets to the Home Depot raid to the protests. This whole thing is just really good journalism, and in an outlet reasonable right wingers might trust. www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...

Even with the high-profile arrests of suspects by masked immigration agents and the plane loads of migrants swiftly ferried out of the U.S., President Trump was falling short of the number of daily deportations carried out by the Biden administration in its final year. So in late May, Stephen Miller, a top White House aide and the architect of the president’s immigration agenda, addressed a meeting at the headquarters of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE. The message was clear: The president, who promised to deport millions of immigrants living in the country illegally, wasn’t pleased. The agency had better step it up. Gang members and violent criminals, what Trump called the “worst of the worst,” weren’t the sole target of deportations. Federal agents needed to “just go out there and arrest illegal aliens,” Miller told top ICE officials, who had come from across the U.S., according to people familiar with the meeting. Agents didn’t need to develop target lists of immigrants suspected of being in the U.S. illegally, a longstanding practice, Miller said. Instead, he directed them to target Home Depot, where day laborers typically gather for hire, or 7-Eleven convenience stores. Miller bet that he and a handful of agents could go out on the streets of Washington, D.C., and arrest 30 people right away. “Who here thinks they can do it?” Miller said, asking for a show of hands. ICE agents appeared to follow Miller’s tip and conducted an immigration sweep Friday at the Home Depot in the predominantly Latino neighborhood of Westlake in Los Angeles, helping set off a weekend of protests around Los Angeles County, including at the federal detention center in the city’s downtown. On Saturday, Trump ordered 2,000 National Guard troops to Southern California, despite objections by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
jon rosenberg@jonrosenberg.bsky.social · last yr.

A thing that helps keep my mind off all the fire and burning is readling career retrospectives about historically underappreciated Brad Dourif www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

Whatever happened to Billy Bibbit? The extraordinary life of actor Brad Dourif - from Cuckoo’s Nest to Chucky

He was Oscar-nominated for his unforgettable work alongside Jack Nicholson, in one of the greatest films of all time. It was the start of his career as the ultimate character actor. He discusses David...

theguardian.com

Atrios@eschatonblog.com · last yr.

any time CNN's ratings fall you get several pieces about how it's because it's "too liberal" and what fucking CNN have you all been watching for 25 years

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last yr.

Inspecting an ICE site fir compliance with national laws is not, in fact, “being complicit with gang violence against our law enforcement,” Congressman Bootlicker

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Rep. Michael McCaul on if ICE should be arresting or threatening to arrest members of Congress: "We can peacefully protest in this country, but you cannot be complicit with gang violence against our law enforcement. And I think perhaps that's what it comes down to." (That's not a "no")