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The inmates are running the asylum!!! You literally can't make this stuff up... abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

Trump pardoned this drug dealer and now he’s making him the head of prisons. No. Really 👇👇 www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

The Supreme Court decision allowing DOGE full, unfettered access to the public's most sensitive personal data is a loss for all of us. No one in history -- no commissioner, no president, no one -- has ever had the access that these DOGE minions have.

Bondi DOJ has a problem. On left: DOJ Indictment and Detention Memo allege Abrego Garcia lied to officer by not revealing he was coming from Texas On right: DHS Referral Report: "Subject stated he was driving 'three days ago' (11/27/2022) from Houston, TX to Temple Hills, MD (via St Louis, MO)"

This ⬇️

No offense to anyone, but if you don’t instantly see how straight-up evil the Trump administration is being here you weren’t raised right This man isn’t in a gang, has no criminal record, was never charged with crimes pre-Trump, and everyone involved in this *scam* well knows it

Dan Rather: Hegseth skipped NATO meeting on Russian escalations in Ukraine. Musta been too busy stripping civil rights leaders' names from Navy ships

Watch Trump's DOJ award the Proud Boys the $100 million they are suing for as a way to channel them taxpayer funds to expand their Brown Shirt-like militia before the 2026 election

For some perspective, the federal government funds *over half* of all scientific research and development conducted by the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social -- and UC is collectively responsible, in turn, for over 8% of all academic research conducted in the United States.

Something tells me that when the Deputy Chief of Staff at DHS tweets to his 1.3M followers that Abrego Garcia is a criminal terrorist monster who will serve a long prison sentence, that might taint the jury pool. @aclu.org

So it seems like Bukele *is* willing to release detainees if there are pending proceedings in the U.S. The habeas/due process the courts have ordered for the Venezuelans are pending proceedings. So when are they coming back

NEW: Buyer With Ties to Chinese Communist Party Got V.I.P. Treatment at Trump Crypto Dinner The warm welcome for a technology executive whose purchases of the $TRUMP coin won him a White House tour illustrates inconsistencies in Trump's views toward visitors from China nyti.ms/4mUDTtG

The Chief of the Criminal Division at the US Attorney’s Office/Middle District of Tennessee RESIGNED the same day the Acting US Attorney signed the indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He writes: “do the right thing, in the right way, for the right reasons.” There are no coincidences.

Abolish ICE

Around the time that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was indicted in the Middle District of Tennessee, the chief of the criminal division in that district posted this on LinkedIn: “Earlier today, after nearly 15 years as an Assistant United States Attorney, I resigned…”

Wow. What a sign that criminal case against Abrego Garcia may be politically cooked up. "Schrader’s resignation was prompted by concerns that the case was being pursued for political reasons" Schrader spent 15 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville and was chief of the criminal division

If you think he's mad now, wait until he finds out the resale price for Teslas.

What would Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill mean for Americans? 50,000 more deaths each year because of huge health care cuts and higher drug prices. All to pay for tax giveaways for billionaires and billionaire corporations. We’re fighting back to stop it.

One after another access journalist is reporting a convo with Trump where Trump says Musk has a problem. None asked why Trump let him have unfettered access to the govt, and our data, for the last four months, then. And what he'll do to make sure Musk didn't do permanent damage.

Bondi literally plane loads of innocent men to slavery.

Every charge against Garcia could be deserved, but viscerally, I just assume every time Bondi steps up to the podium she’s lying to please Trump, because that’s all she’s ever done.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is finally returning to the U.S. after being wrongfully deported to El Salvador. But now—surprise!—he’s facing charges for alleged human trafficking in TN in 2022. Wild how those charges didn’t exist until April 2025, just after ICE shipped him off to El Salvador. What timing.

Jackson's dissent is exactly right. There is absolutely no reason the Supreme Court needs to jump in and bless these unprecedented actions. These extraordinary interventions are manifestations of their ideological commitment to unchecked Presidential power (cf. Trump v. United States).

A billionaire who profits off the presidency is feuding with another billionaire who bought access to the government to line his own pockets. Neither should have ever been able to amass so much power. What we're witnessing is a failed experiment in billionaire governance.

In my lifetime I would never have imagined this in America. Many of these men have no criminal record.

This is because when Steve Bannon & the Republicans were social engineering MAGA they misinformed & miseducated people about immigrants. They told people immigrants were running around raping & pillaging. After election, they couldn't find any. So they raid work sites and immigration service sites.

Good point! Was yesterday staged so the The Recision Package which the House & Senate have JUST 45 days to pass & with just a simple majority,

I'm not the most unbending person politically speaking. I understand strange bedfellows and big tents and all of that practical stuff. But you have to have some principles and no principled person can look at Musk and RFK and say "if only we embraced them things would be better." Fuck this guy.

ICYMI: Here’s what’s really important. Not two billionaire babies bickering.

So then Elon goes "Kill the Bill!" and Trump goes "Elon has TDS!" so Elon goes "I'm the reason Trump won!" so Trump goes "we waste billions on Elon!" so Elon goes "Epstein!" and a corpulent flunkie goes "Deport Elon!" and Elon goes "Impeach!" And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.

FEMA has a long history of failing to help those who need assistance the most after disasters. Biden-era changes meant to fix some of those problems now face an uncertain future.

NEW: We obtained records showing how a DOGE staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wrong tool for this,” one expert said. By @bxroberts.org, @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social

Let’s not forget that earlier today, this day was known as “we cannot build bananas in America” day. That is, until everything went bananas

What different words and sensibilities might be getting used in discussion if it were a female president and female former top adviser having a vicious, vindictive, messy public breakdown of their relationship?

This very emotional, impulsive, messy, and amphetamine-fueled Trump/Musk fight is exactly why we need to elect more women at the highest levels of government.

Sickening. 🤬

SCOOP: A deputy U.S. marshal was mistakenly detained by immigration agents inside the federal building that houses Tucson's immigration court, U.S. Marshals Service officials confirmed on Thursday. @tucson.com tucson.com/news/local/b...

Are we clear now a private businessman shouldn’t be in a position to control the space program—that this richest man in the world fueled by drugs, ego & hate shouldn’t be partnering with a malignant sociopath in the WH immunized by the SCOTUS & bent on pocketing billions & flouting the Constitution?

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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

DEAN: Did your department have any worry about the president growing his own business while on the job? LUTNICK: My trip to the Middle East was extraordinary. It was amazing. DEAN: I'm sure. I'm asking you, did the question of conflict of interest come up? LUTNICK: No DEAN: It is grotesque