The reason they fired all the existing attorneys for immigrant children in ORR detention is bc lawyers under the most recent contract refused to violate attorney-client privilege. The government receives appointment information, but wants the attorneys' private files to deport children more easily.

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Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · last yr.

horrifying thought that Tucker Carlson could lead a dissident right movement in 2028 if the Trumpist right implodes over Iran

As I was saying

Ed Burmila@edburmila.bsky.social · 4w ago

At some point we are going to have to reckon with what percentage of the Thought Leadership we get from this class of people is just drug addiction. Either a lot of credulous reporters have never listened to someone tooted out of their mind go on a monologue or they're afraid to call it out.

NEW: An ICE flight headed for Moldova turned around over the Atlantic Ocean yesterday and flew back to an ICE hub, returning 15 hours after it left. We don’t know why. Video I obtained from the scene shows 11 exhausted and shackled people disembark. gillianbrockell.com/why-did-this...

Why did this ICE flight turn around over the Atlantic Ocean?

Video shows 11 exhausted and shackled people arrive back at ICE camp airport 15 hours after they left.

gillianbrockell.com

RFK Jr. is the most Everyone Is 12 Now person in politics today. He doesn’t care about health. He cares about not eating his vegetables because you can’t make him.

jdm@jdm0079.bsky.social · 3h ago

I've seen a lot of things where people are like, "RFK is just promoting healthy eating," and it's amazing what branding can do, because as far as I've seen, the main dietary things that RFK has pushed are the importance of eating fast food fried in a particular animal fat and drinking raw milk.

US and Brazil are in a big feud, refusing diplomats - this is because Lula, correctly, says the Trump administration is aiding his opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro (former Pres Jair Bolsonaro's son), and helped interfere with the previous Presidential election

US revokes Brazil ambassador’s visa in escalation of diplomatic feud

Move is retaliation for Lula’s government refusal to approve Trump’s nominee for ambassador in Brasília

theguardian.com

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Waiting for Carville to leave the party like

Spongebob Can't Wait

Alt: Spongebob vibrating with excitement

static.klipy.com

this man should get combat pay bc he was FIGHTING here

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 18h ago

The extension of the National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C. until January 2029 will cost roughly $1.4 billion, according to a Defense Department estimate provided to Congress. https://to.pbs.org/4pVAKf1

Had an incredible interaction with a guy over the weekend who went to see The Odyssey and told me he was pissed that Elliott Page played Achilles, a character Elliott Page did not play that was not in the movie

oh absolutely the fuck not do not fucking add meta messenger spam to the fucking repertoire insta-block

this hit me like a big pizza pie

@pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 20h ago

moon eye

i don't think the occupation is driven or even backstopped by EDM, no

Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2d ago

socialists 🤝 liberals "what, exactly, is that current affairs article"

It’s Amy Coney Barrett all over again. Collins, facing reelection, will vote no on an anti-abortion nominee who gets confirmed anyway

Alice Miranda Ollstein@alicemiranda.bsky.social · 21h ago

BREAKING: Susan Collins cited our report on Blanche's promise on a private call with religious activists to restrict abortion pills in announcing today she will not vote to confirm him. www.newscentermaine.com/article/news...

It is 2006. I am 22. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance. It is 2026. I am 42. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance.

They know voters hate this shit. So they wait until Blanche has the votes for Collins to come out against him. So she can claim to be a moderate. So she gets reelected. So she can spend the next two years voting for more Todd Blanches.

Collins Watch@collinswatch.bsky.social · 21h ago

Susan comes out against Todd Blanche now that he's got the votes. So tiresome. (We called it: tinyurl.com/3bepafkz) #MEpolitics

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

Here there Delilah What’s it like over in The City Heard you don’t like IPAs But girl tonight you look so thirsty Yes you dooo Don’t let them give you ribbon blue This Bud’s for you

What they mean is they want camps for anyone they fear and loath and this is how they'll declare it righteous because they were nearly put in them. Which never happened not even close and they know it but fascists love these lies doubly so when they serve fascism.

Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · yesterday

These guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.

How are there so many beloved BBC journalists who look exactly like this and are also wildly racist pedophiles? At least I only have to learn about them when they die, but that seems to happen every couple of months now.

The latest poll for Saxony-Anhalt has the far-right at 41%. If some of the smaller parties (SPD, Greens, BSW) don't clear the threshold to enter parliament, the far-right may gain an absolute majority in September.

Trump is entrenching his power. This is what that looks like in real time. It's tempting to call this money "a waste," but Trump has a clear reason he wants to spend this money on the National Guard's presence in DC. When January 6 comes around again, this time he'll have an army on call.

Trump’s National Guard deployment in D.C. set to cost additional $1.4 billion

The estimate, provided to Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren, covers the period from Oct. 1, 2026, through the end of the president’s term.

washingtonpost.com

Good framing.

Kindergarten girls targeted for invasive exams by new GOP-led ballot measure

Washington State voters will decide the fate of a ballot initiative that would require girls from kindergarten through high school to undergo sex-verification testing before playing school sports — a ...

rawstory.com

New Yorkers had to subsidize the $117 million that the NYPD paid out for misconduct lawsuits in 2025 alone, even though most of them were never personally abused by a cop. Where's your worried op-ed on that one?

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

My thoughts on Bluesky not being welcoming to Republicans is Trump blocks disaster relief to states voting blue, & is also legally codifying anyone who opposes him as a terrorist deserving violence, & his kidnapping brute gangs terrorize the streets, & there's much more but I'm out of characters

Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨@ciaraioch.bsky.social · yesterday

"Bluesky is a political echo chamber" okay but I'm mostly here to chat with fun internet people and post art and make jokes, I cannot stress how much I don't care

Many say this leaves no path to redemption; I will note that paths to redemption exist, but they are for the offender to walk, not for others to deem it walked on their behalf. And a Nazi isn't walking a path of redemption if they remain in the Nazi party. Nothing stopping them. Path open.

Everywhere should be a hostile place for Republicans. They should not be able to find a friend anywhere. They should lose all their professional and familial relationships. They should be blocked from signing up to social media platforms, clubs, and yard sales. They should be ejected from fairs.