This is a must-read for anyone who thinks "mask off, cameras on" is the answer to the lawlessness of DHS. The Trump administration has built such a sprawling infrastructure of surveillance and terror that if we don't tear it down it will become entrenched -- even when we defeat MAGA.

Andrea Pitzer@andreapitzer.bsky.social · 2h ago

I wrote for @ms.now about Stephen Miller's new gig and how a US concentration camp system you've never heard of underlines the importance of dismantling DHS. (For the record, I tried to get the headline "Miller's Crossing" for this, but got shot down.)

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Jenna Tonelli@jennatonelli.bsky.social · 40m ago

🚨 Gotham will be playing its semifinal matchup against Kansas City at Icahn Stadium located on Randall’s Island in Manhattan this Sunday. Despite the stadium being technically available that day, pitch conditions at Sports Illustrated Stadium, operated by the Red Bulls, continued to be a concern.

ICE agents blocked the emergency entrance of an LA hospital for two full hours, forcing ambulances carrying people who needed emergency care to go elsewhere. This isn’t law enforcement. This is a reckless abuse of power that put innocent people’s lives at risk.

WE CAN DO BOTH FFS🤦🏻

I know better than to get rage-baited by a Politico summary, it’s important to see what he actually sai—oh

Politico@politico.com · yesterday

Sanders warns Democrats about spending too much time investigating Trump politi.co/3UqmM9H

Ask Not What Your Billionaire Pedophile Cabal Can Do For You, Ask What You Can Do For Your Billionaire Pedophile Cabal — theonion.com/ask-not-what...

Ask Not What Your Billionaire Pedophile Cabal Can Do For You, Ask What You Can Do For Your Billionaire Pedophile Cabal

On this, the momentous anniversary of our nation’s founding, I wish to devote a few words to the pivotal juncture at which our great republic now stands. Decisions made today will determine what kind ...

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If we get on Snapdragon, we gotta get on SI. Idc if they're leaving after next season. This can't happen.

Jeff Kassouf@jeffkassouf.bsky.social · 24h ago

Confirming what Laura Harvey said postgame: Gotham FC was fined $10,000 for last week's field conditions at Sports Illustrated Stadium. The pitch for today's quarterfinal drew the ire of both teams. Juan Carlos Amoros felt "the obligation to almost apologize." Harvey told ESPN the field was "shit."

not only is prosecuting Elon Musk for one set of crimes after the other until he is out of the way for good one of the most efficient levers for broad social benefit available, it would also be an opportunity to reframe "law and order" rhetoric for a generation

Worth noting that Amorós also claimed that “our club, Gotham Football Club, did absolutely everything in their power to make sure that [a professional-quality pitch] was the case. Unfortunately, it wasn’t.”

Jeff Kassouf@jeffkassouf.bsky.social · 24h ago

Confirming what Laura Harvey said postgame: Gotham FC was fined $10,000 for last week's field conditions at Sports Illustrated Stadium. The pitch for today's quarterfinal drew the ire of both teams. Juan Carlos Amoros felt "the obligation to almost apologize." Harvey told ESPN the field was "shit."

This asshole needs to be behind bars.

Anil Dash@anildash.com · yesterday

Jake Lang attacked a Diwali celebration while CHILDREN were performing. This is just after we were only a jammed gun away from a mass murder at a Hindu temple. And *zero* Republicans were asked to disavow their ties to these J6 bigots during this campaign. www.thestatesman.com/world/deport...

“Social Security and Medicare will force painful choices for the party in control.” No. Let’s try that again. “Social Security and Medicare will force painful choices for Mr. Veto.” Dems can pass meaningful fixes and make Trump veto them until 2029. Make the GOP suffer from “Mr. Veto” in 2028.

It's the tax cuts, stupid.

You close down all the culture sections and features departments and de-jobbed all the critics and you wind up not actually understanding your fellow Americans at all because you decided art was ancillary and unimportant when in fact it's vital to democracy b/c politics is emotional and so is art.

Vaccines are one of the greatest discoveries humanity has ever made. None of us would here without them--literally. The number of our ancestors who would have died before we could exist is staggering.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · yesterday

Fifteen public health experts had a meeting at the CDC to discuss what needed to be done when we officially lose our measles elimination status on Tuesday. They agreed that vaccination is the key. But attendees said they don’t know if CDC Director will be “authorized” to publicly endorse vaccines.

lol, what a time to be alive

This is so wrong The reason “Trump didn’t steal the elections” is because we & the pro-voter coalition stopped him EIGHT times over the past 21 months Here’s how: a thread (1/x)

this is exactly it. Conservatives are treating all girls -both cis and trans - as if they were trans until they submit to a privacy evading, state sponsored sexual assault.

sudden-bowsprit.bsky.social@sudden-bowsprit.bsky.social · 4d ago

What worries me is that this group, and others like it, are essentially accepting the fascist premise that all girls are “trans until proven otherwise”. The issue for cis girls isn’t really about being trans or not - fascists are reinventing a type of acceptable misogyny in a post-feminist world.

double that number and make mark & the board work it off mining rare earth minerals by hand

Brett Shaw@brettshaw.bsky.social · 2d ago

Remember Lenore Taylor, editor of Guardian Australia, who said that just one of his press conferences, seen in person "helped me understand how the process of reporting about this president can mask and normalise his full and alarming incoherence?" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... A lost moment.

As a foreign reporter visiting the US I was stunned by Trump's press conference | Lenore Taylor

Despite being subjected to a daily diet of Trump headlines, I was unprepared for the president’s alarming incoherence

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This is the Ku Klux Klan's same slogan and the WH knows it. The Germans first modeled their eugenics efforts after those in the U.S. See the Ku Klux Klan pamphlet from the Wisconsin Historical Society.

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2d ago

“Germany for the Germans” was the slogan of a political organization that existed about 100 years ago.

A kangaroo in the wheat crop. Kallora, South Australia.

Since the government doesn’t track the number of citizens detained by immigration agents, we did — and counted more than 500 Americans who have been held against their will. Now, 40 lawmakers are demanding answers from DHS head Markwayne Mullin.

After ProPublica Investigation, House Democrats Demand Answers on U.S. Citizens Detained by Immigration Agents

ProPublica found that over 500 U.S. citizens have been detained by immigration agents. Forty Democratic lawmakers are now asking the Department of Homeland Security to explain why Americans have been…

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I haven’t seen a single piece about how the President needs to moderate to get closer to American voters. They cover him like he’s a hurricane others have to react to, but they’re also constantly downplaying the damage and assigning positive motivations to the hurricane.

Make him do it. Veto a minimum wage bill. An anti-corruption bill. An end the war bill. A stop ICE bill. A save medicaid bill. A lower prices bill. Make him veto everything people want. Create the contrast, electoralize it, win in '28, and then make it all law in '29. cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_ful...

Monsters Among Us

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d ago

When I first saw this clip I thought she was referring to Charlie’s favorite brand of hot sauce. But no, as it turns out they are selling Kirk Hot Sauce for $8.99.

"GIVE HER A F***IN' RED!"

one of the most insulting thing that elites tell us is that left-wing people live in bubbles and don't understand conservatives. we've been putting up with these people telling us that they want to murder us, take away our rights and enslave us for our entire lives, we understand all too well.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 3d ago

right, the GOP made it very clear to me from the moment I became aware of its existence that they hated people like me.