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It is the official position of ICE that this very real event that did, in fact, happen was not them. Vigilantism is worse. It would be nice if federal agents had means to identify themselves as legitimate law enforcement.

Desperate to see the Venn diagram of AI boosters and folks who went crazy about school lockdowns in early covid. I'm sure they're desperately concerned about this 🙄

IYH

Don’t send me an unsolicited picture of your peewee cocktapus unless you want me to… A: find your mom’s Facebook B: find a picture she uploaded of you reminiscing about what a nice young man you were C: badly photoshop that into a locket D: convince you I’m your daughter. Happy Father’s Day Daddy.

Counterpoint: Women are ahead of the curve on knowing AI is bullshit. www.ft.com/content/7f0f...

EXCLUSIVE: Myles Lewis-Skelly agrees new Arsenal contract. Huge boost to Arsenal and Mikel Arteta. Full story 👇 charleswatts.football/news/exclusi...

🚨❤️🤍 Myles Lewis-Skelly has agreed to sign new long term deal at Arsenal, all done and set to be confirmed soon. The player only wanted to stay at Arsenal and talks have been advancing for months, as reported. He’s staying and new deal is confirmed, as @charles_watts reports.

Every year that passes, I come to better appreciate just how traumatic members of the US elite find it to be yelled at by progressive young people. It is *vastly* more upsetting to them than being yelled at by reactionaries. They warp their entire identities & ideologies around it!

transition care for trans people is life saving healthcare. the only regret with my transition is that i didn’t start when i was younger. fuck everyone who is cheering on the destruction legal trans healthcare, and fuck those indifferent to it

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

“Morality and principle are distractions from what we focus-grouped” is basically the Democratic leadership in a nutshell.

the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

I wonder if what the Atlantic deems “impractical” versus what it deems “sensible” might be related to ideology?

Surely there will be an emergency @westernkabuki.bsky.social

Don't tease me like this, always trustworthy Turkish media sources

Whoa! NYC mayoral candidate and current city Comptroller Brad Lander seemingly arrested at the NYC immigration court while attending to escort someone attending their hearing.

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.

Awful. But there's no bipartisan-savvy, cautiously centrist way out of this. The Republicans are unleashing full police state fascism, throwing the Constitution in the trash and not pretending otherwise. Appeals to their good nature have been rejected for YEARS. What now, Democrats?

Some very welcome good news! There's never been a better time to support our worker-led local newsroom! 51st.news/we-received-...

i was distinctly told that elon musk was an environmental hero who was single handedly saving our planet from imminent doom

I want to say something to my Jewish community on this: The US government is rounding people up based on their skin color, and many of the old guard Jewish organizations that have been most vocal about feelings of abandonment from other ethnic minority groups are nowhere to be found. Total silence.

wtf alsobrooks. My last vote in Maryland was for a crypto shill. Better than trone but come tf on

Now that we’ve seen the full Senate text, we can say for certain: either the House or the Senate version would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history. Each have the largest Medicaid and largest SNAP cuts ever. And each give huge tax cuts to the rich.

So here’s a thing I do: I know that I am fighting a losing battle, but I regularly pay good money to get my name scraped from data brokers. I use a variety of services. I hate that people can find addresses so easily. Public officials. Regular citizens. Me. It’s awful. It’s dangerous. It’s scary.

It takes effort to be less principled than fifa.

Idk man Jews for sex pests just doesn’t roll off the tongue. I think they should reconsider

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

The advice in this article simply isn’t true in our current environment. The expert quoted here: “And there’s nothing wrong with asking for some identification. A real-life police officer is going to be more than willing to take that extra step to identify themselves.”

Weirdness of losing this game aside, this pitching line is LLWS stuff. 15 of 19 outs are strikeouts? wild

ice officers are herewith ordered, by notice of this TRUTH god this is grim. it’s just insulting that the fascist decree comes as a social media post on a platform with a stupid name & that he owns.

This isn’t surprising but this NYT piece is precisely what happens when you take conservative bad faith critiques of liberals and democrats at face value. “Don’t do the things that you weren’t doing but that people paid to hate democrats say you were doing.”

The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency. The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?

The bodies weren't even cold before MAGA spun up a conspiracy theory, deflecting blame for the Minnesota shooting and saying no, it was actually Democrats who did it. To themselves. It makes no logical sense. But it does encourage more MAGA violence. www.salon.com/2025/06/16/c...

The Boston Red Sox are actually the NL West’s Triple-A Affiliate.

He’s gonna send the troops into our cities to create violence as a pretense for shooting us to control the violence.

So in awe of this courageous young woman. ❤️

All snark aside about the terrible Atlantic piece in favor of the fascist parade or the general downplaying of #NoKings, if you're going to take action, it's helpful to know that MSM orgs rarely support acts of protest. As a rule, they dismiss protestors or paint them as violent thugs. Be prepared.

This is how you know that #NoKings really got under his skin.

They’re reveling in it. I hate this so much

We won’t amplify it, but the president posting that Dems are “sick of mind” and “hate our country” immediately after 2 Dem lawmakers and their spouses were shot in their homes is the opposite of leadership. Gas on the fire.

Trump declares war on the American people.

If I were a Red Sox fan and they simply “reinvested” that money in Anthony, Campbell, and Mayer, I would be pretty upset! Those guys are under control for at least six years at below market value no matter what they did with Devers!