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The Trump regime is deliberately deploying ICE agents at immigration hearings so they can more easily detain migrants. Armed, masked men abducting people from courthouses —and arresting those who ask why — is the stuff fascism is made of.

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

I've said it many times before and Andrew Cuomo is making me say it again: we don't have a cancellation problem. We have never had a cancellation problem. To the contrary, we have a problem that "disgrace" is a very temporary embarrassment— an brief entr'acte more than an intermission.

Yet another elected Democratic official violently arrested and detained by Trump’s ICE Gestapo. This isn’t frog in boiling water. This fascism is happening quickly, clearly, brazenly.

The regime has now arrested, handcuffed/decked: • Judge • Member of Congress • US Senator • Mayoral Candidate/city official of NYC/ A Trump supporter just assassinated a Dem leader in MN. And Sen. Dems are about to vote w/ Republicans to give Trump a gift on crypto - as early as maybe today.

This photo. ICE is a gang.

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant. This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

@msnbc.com reporter at the 1:15 mark. “The chaos you’re seeing is not the result of peaceful protestors, it’s the result of actions of law enforcement, specifically the Los Angeles sheriff’s department.” #nokings

Minnesota’s flags will fly at half staff in honor and remembrance of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman. She woke up every morning determined to make Minnesota a better place, and she will be greatly missed.

Reminder: Republicans are facilitating a massive transfer of wealth to the richest Americans while making cuts that would rip away healthcare and food from millions of people. It's Robin Hood in reverse.

It’s Ollie’s world. We’re just living in it.

"This Week in Democracy – Week 21: Are We in a Police State? Or Under Military Rule?" Zeteo's project to document the ongoing, week-by-week growth of authoritarianism in the Trump second term. Read/share/subscribe/donate:

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As we resist Trump’s tyranny, we gain solidarity.  As we gain solidarity, we feel more courageous — and we weaken Trump and his regime.  Today's protests are about standing up to Trump, but they're also about standing with each other.  Be safe. Be peaceful. Be strong.

There are no words. This is heartbreaking and infuriating.

Let’s be clear: this is Trump’s war.

Next time he's on the Hill for an oversight hearing, perhaps some one should ask him under oath when the last time he had a drink was

If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, and to day laborers throughout California and across the country. We will hold this administration accountable.

You can play an owl dude?!

For four long years I was told not to call what’s coming our way fascism but here we are:

I can’t think of a presidency that has done more open and undeniable damage to this country, and the wider world, in such a short space of time, than this one. Shocking, despicable:

New Jersey transit workers have walked out in the biggest rail strike in over 40 years. The commuter line is now shut down after the state failed to reach an agreement with the union (BLET). These workers have gone 5 years without a new contract.

The Los Angeles City Council has voted to raise the minimum wage for most workers in the tourism industry in $30/hr by 2028.

BREAKING: The EPA says it will reverse most of the drinking water standards aimed at protecting people from toxic "forever chemicals" known as PFAS. Even low levels of the chemicals known as PFAS are linked with cancer and other health problems. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

It’s 2 am and we’re still marking up massive cuts to Medicaid. While their constituents are asleep, Republicans are trying to take away health care from 13.7 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. They want you to tune out. Don’t ⬇️ x.com/i/broadcasts...

Me on hour 14 of dragging Republican Medicaid cuts for filth and giving them no end in sight

Republicans are saying that these cuts will be reinvested into Medicaid for people who "deserve" it. If that were true, the budget would stay the same. But that's not what's happening. Why? Because down the hall, they are trying to finance tax breaks for billionaires.

Trump’s border intimidation is coming for US citizens too – ask streamer Hasan Piker | Owen Jones

Trump is proposing a $1 trillion military budget. Roughly half of US defense spending goes to private military contractors, with investigations finding that these companies routinely price-gouge. Oh, and the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits. "Fiscal responsibility."

BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts. Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.

Trump doesn't have “conflicts of interest” anymore. A “conflict of interest” sounds like an unfortunate situation where Trump might choose his own interests over the nation’s. But Trump isn’t conflicted about anything. He's the most corrupt president in American history.

Meanwhile the people of Gaza are starving

This NBC News story is about my interview with Ms. Rachel. The headline to the piece is fair (‘doubles down support for children in Gaza). This tweet language though is embarrassing, shameless even. Racist too. Watch my full interview with her btw, she’s amazing: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

Cue multiple op-eds and editorials in our leading newspapers questioning the President's age and fitness for off-.... oh. Wait.

If there were ever a time to call your members of Congress and tell them to vote NO on a bill, now would be the time. 202-224-3121

Thanks to DOGE’s spending freezes: -EPA labs have halted critical research -Social Security staffers are rationing paper and can’t pay translators -NOAA has lost internet and phone services -National Park workers can’t buy medicine for visitors or rangers’ horses "Efficiency."

Just a random reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.

Reminder: when Sean Duffy was a congressman, he and other Republicans voted against upgrading air traffic control systems. Now, he’s trying to blame those systems for Newark airport’s outages – while claiming DOGE’s cuts of critical support staff at the FAA had nothing to do with it. Hello?

RFK Jr. criticized me during a press conference this morning for saying that Trump is on the side of the oligarchs. Maybe he needs a refresher on what oligarchy actually means.

Even if you're on private insurance, the Republican budget will screw you over too, @aoc.bsky.social explains. #NoMedicaidCuts

WATCH: @aoc.bsky.social explains how the Republican bill will: - Gut Medicaid - Increase premiums for private health insurance - Force rural hospitals to close All to give a giant tax handout to billionaires.

AOC: The math is not adding up. Their claim is that one million undocumented people are on Medicaid. So why are they trying to cut 13.7 million Americans off their healthcare?

it’s wild how the democratic party is not going to change and will continue embracing the tired centrists after a decade of losing power on all levels

It’s incredible that the President of the United States is openly flirting with suspending Habeas Corpus, disappearing people left and right, arresting judges and politicians, accepting ludicrous bribes from foreign countries, and people are still trying to normalize this shit.

“Hasan Piker detained at the border and questioned for hours over politics” The free speech party is really the fascist party.

AOC: "We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces