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“The appeasement of fascism led to everything” said a holocaust survivor. History is repeating itself before our eyes. I am a GA voter from a war veteran family. Message to anyone voting Republican: you’ve been conned. Lied to for decades.
This piece has a lot of other data, too, detailing how Trump and tech are trying to buy power despite their unpopularity. Take a look!
Philip Bump@pbump.com · 22h agoThat $366 million Elon is spending to try and convince voters that Congress should stay Republican? It's more money than McCain's 2008 campaign spent. But it's also, relative to Musk's net worth, the same as a household at the median income spending $32.
I’m sorry, did a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate just ‘Won’t somebody think of the neo-Nazis?’ during a live TV debate?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 17h agoMike Collins makes apologies for white nationalists like his son in law: "These people feel like they've been forgotten. And they're just lashing out."
We scoured social media, court records and local stories for instances of immigration agents holding citizens against their will. The administration doesn’t track these cases. So we have. We’re sharing our database with you.
More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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WOW. Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, among others, "chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an impeccable record of public service. ... The attacks against Ms. Comans were based entirely on false information" and many officials "knew [they] were untrue."
Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · 23h agoJUST IN: Mag. judge in EDVA clears former FEMA CFO Mary Comans of claims she directed tens of millions in payments for housing undocumented immigrants in NYC. Judge: Statements by Musk & others were 'little more than state-sanctioned intimidation.' Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
Wow. This Eastern ICE flight has made a fourth stop, to another third-country removal “host” country. This may very well be the first quadruple TCR. Migrant passengers onboard have been shackled for at least 25 hours. (Deleted and reposted to fix a broken thread.)
My probe into how local cops in Pa.'s York County teamed with ICE to bust 500-plus immigrants on busy highways, terrifying the Haitian community and shattering families over a busted headlight 287(g) has made York the worst place for immigrants in the eastern U.S. www.inquirer.com/opinion/york...
How York County became the most dangerous place for immigrants in the eastern U.S. | Will Bunch
Local cops working with ICE in York County, Pa. have made hundreds of arrests, with many more afraid to leave home.
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3/ “In July, ProPublica reported that **Samuel Samson**, a 27-year-old deputy assistant secretary overseeing the new grants, was linked to senior members of VOC through his studies at the Christian conservative Hillsdale College graduate program.”
Again, we don't need chapters about "what DOGE might have been if the people involved had had any decency at all." We need to send these people to jail forever for unprecedented crimes. We really need to <not> spend anytime on "right idea, wrong execution" right now (bsky.app/profile/mcop...).
The Guy Behind The Big Short and Moneyball Is Back to Take On Elon Musk and DOGE. It’s a Roller Coaster.
Michael Lewis’ Blockers tells the stories of good public servants driven away by the Trump administration.
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Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 2w agoIf the lessons Democrats (& democrats) draw from DOGE is “right idea, wrong implementation,” we are doomed. Everyone involved in the unprecedented crime that was DOGE needs to go to jail forever, & Democrats need to rebuild all of the programs & agencies first, not do digital management consulting 🤦♂️
🚨 WTF! Trump's new White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia has been EXPOSED promoting Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracy theories—including claims that Democrats are child-eating cannibals. And her posts about Trump's secret signals are even more bizarre.
Trump's New Press Secretary Exposed as Pizzagate and QAnon Conspiracy Peddler
Katie Zacharia pushed claims about child-eating Democrats, secret Trump signals and stolen elections before landing the White House podium.
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Umar Kremlev, who helped pay for Trump Jr.’s wedding, is tied to a group accused of abducting Ukrainian children and was honored by Vladimir Putin a month before the wedding. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/russian-wh...
It's deeply irresponsible to treat anything Trump says as credible. He's flailing and desperate to save face, and he knows he can lie because the corporate media will dutifully parrot his words and spread his propaganda. There's a good chance Zelenskyy has no idea what the hell he's talking about.
Warrantless stops and violent roving patrols by masked federal agents across California, especially the Central Valley, have been terrorizing farm workers for the past 5 days. The chaos is escalating. full statement: www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.
Jared@jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 6d agoThings got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.
Again, I will simply point out that Democrats do not get to talk about human beings or Americans like this, & everyone in the Democratic Party, including our former President, that keeps saying the Democrats are the ones with the language problem are not serious people: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoTrump on Letitia James: "That disgusting Letitia dog. She's a dog."
Trump: "It's interesting -- China makes the windmills, but try finding a wind farm in China. There is no such." (China has the largest wind power capacity in the world!)
Trump suggested Iranian missiles should hit American cities. Pete Hegseth announced a public execution would be livestreamed. And Republicans are abandoning Senate races as Democrats expand the map. A consequential and, at times, deeply alarming week. Start here if you need to catch up.
Trump says Iran could take out CA cities. Pentagon to livestream execution. GOP abandons races as Democrats expand map.
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The President of the United States, in front of a crowd of his supporters, during a televised rally, admits to a Quid Pro Quo pardon, which is a felony and impeachable offence. And absolutely nothing will happen, because his party, which controls congress, are fascist collaborators and sycophants.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d agomoments after saying he didn't expect anything in exchange for pardoning Cueller, Trump admits "I guess I expected maybe he wouldn't run or maybe he'd run as a Republican"
Reagan really did a number on white America with his "Black welfare queen driving a Cadillac," and now they CANNOT believe it was BS then and still. www.rawstory.com/arkansas-wel...
MAGA's frothing demands for a Black 'welfare queen' ad collapse under red state's own data
Conservatives who blasted Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders for casting a white man as her Medicaid freeloader ran into a problem, as a new report pulled her own state's numbers.About 60% of people...
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Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former
The US President just said that having one of the largest cities in our country destroyed by IRAN would be a “small price to pay.” The man is an absolute idiot - always has been. A crook, perv & buffoon. Never forgive any Republican pol for supporting him. Vote tbem all out. #GA @ajc.com
Jason Concepcion@netw3rk.bsky.social · last wk.Nice good idea, let em take out the US Third Fleet, various air craft carriers and submarines , the marines at Pendleton, the Navy Seals, let’s see what else…
Truly, the American press is failing us. Trump/Vance Admin outright murderous. Every Republican pol told their constituents to vote for a lifelong crook, but buffoon & perv over a former 1st lady & highly accomplished US SOS (Clinton)…it’s been all downhill from there. @ajc.com #GA
Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · last wk.👀 In Aug, Fernando Cerimedo—a far right Latin American troll farm operator & ally of Brad Parscale & Roger Stone—was arrested in Bolivia for attempted femicide. But in Sept, the Trump admin accused the *prosecutor* of bribery, triggering his arrest in Bolivia in what some call US interference. 1/
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“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
Inside a Billionaire’s Paradise With Crypto’s Most Powerful Ex-Convict (Gift Article)
Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.
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Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.
J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'
J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
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Mr. Dan Zak@mrdanzak.com · last wk.A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Unchecked AI threatens our humanity. Those developing the tech admit they still don't fully understand the speed or depth of the calamities we might face. Strong safeguards and sensible guardrails aren't a threat to that progress — they're essential.
March Us Toward the Summit, Not the Chasm
By Governor JB Pritzker
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In 2020, Ken Paxton stole Texas for Trump by blocking 2.5 million mail-in ballots in Harris County [Houston]. And he can do it again. The attack on mail-in ballots and drop boxes, unseen by the media, will determine the midterms nationwide. gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com/p/how-paxton...
How Paxton Will Steal Texas
The Senate candidate stole it for Trump, he can do it again.
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“The Bannons and Millers and Hegseths; the grifter Cabinet members and empty GOP suits on Capitol Hill, pledging fealty to a lifelong sexual predator and protecting him from the Epstein files and his own past - to keep their own crimes and endless corruption hidden.”
Noel Casler Comedy@noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 2w ago“You would be hard-pressed to find a week that has done more damage to the integrity of international diplomacy than the one we just watched the Trump administration engineer.” noelcasler.substack.com/p/last-flowe...
