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Is this Riker’s first time petting a dog??

Aaaand there it is.

Pedro Pascal reshares video which says the U.S. has become a police state A state where there is no higher authority

when i tell people i'm afraid to leave the country and they ask why, well, this is why:

It’s amazing how this 25-year-old system was working fine *right* up to the point where DOGE started fucking with it, and then it suddenly broke. They’re like arsonists who set fires so just they can rush in and save people

Aside from the repugnant corruption reflected in the 747 “gift,” the fact that POTUS would be willing — for the sake of his fragile ego — to put US natl security at risk by allowing a foreign nation-state to provide a plane *for the US’s nuclear-war-level command & control* is peak level stupidity

THAT CONCLAVE KNOWS WHAT'S UUUUUUP. 👏🤌

Crockett debuts a new game called "Trump or trans," then displays a gigantic placard of Trump golfing

Ok, Il Papa isn't Pizzaballa, it's Prevost (Leo)--a Chicago native. So we got DEEP DISH anyway.

if it's not Pizzaballa God has no sense of humor en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierbat...

it's like the 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 he's supposed to do.

WELKER: The 5th Amendment says everyone deserves due process TRUMP: It might say that, but if you're talking about that, then we'd have to have a million or two million or three million trials

WELKER: Your secretary of state says everyone who's here, citizens and non-citizens, deserve due process. Do you agree? TRUMP: I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know. WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution? TRUMP: I don't know

And if you haven't seen it yet, this week's episode, "How to Fight the Concentration Camp Tendency," ties together so much of what Andrea has been discussing since the election.

I really wish Terry Moran or any other journalist would just say "y̷o̷u̷'̷r̷e̷ ̷a̷ ̷f̷u̷c̷k̷i̷n̷g̷ ̷i̷d̷i̷o̷t̷" "why are you lying?"

Dear god let this man cook.

Wow. UPS announces they will cut 20,000 jobs this year because of the economic conditions under Trump.

i n s a n e

WTF

flashback to how americans acted the last time federal agents started kidnapping their neighbors

This is some sick shit

"Every government lies now and then, but authoritarian regimes go further. They don’t just stretch or hide the truth. They look you in the eye and tell you that what you just saw didn’t happen." Propaganda is now part of our politics. New from @saletan.bsky.social:

If you would like to be scared shitless, this Bloomberg editorial is the financial market equivalent of Hostel. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The Ezra Klein Show: "The emergency is here. The crisis is now. It is not six months away. It is not another Supreme Court ruling away from happening. It’s happening now." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

We are sending people to the Salvadoran gulag for nothing at all. documentedny.com/2025/04/14/i...

this is just a horrible, pathological liar. we know that. but they know they've lost the public on this one. the escalation is the giveaway

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

That the vice president of the United States is an absolute POS is not news, but it's always worth repeating.

There’s just no plausible way you can describe the U.S. as a free country anymore.

State Terror open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

They continue to violate a court order to retrieve someone they illegally deported. We’re now well beyond a constitutional crisis. If they’re allowed to do this, their secret police can sweep up anyone, for any reason, deport them & refuse to bring them back. That would be the end of democracy.

There’s been a lot to be upset about in the last few months. But as an American, this truly disgusts me. The USA’s closest ally now is a guy who calls himself the “coolest dictator” — this Oval Office meeting is like a huge F.U. to the judicial branch and the Supreme Court’s 9-0 decision

A plot to enslave Americans while they loot the country. Intolerable.

they can come for any of us. an absolutely intolerable situation for a free people. trump is now promising the same treatment for us citizens. a plot to enslave america