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🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

submitted 3 hours ago • 682 comments

Next week is a parade for Trump. Today is a rally for the people who served, and want to keep serving, and ask simply not to be disowned and disrespected. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

@profgalloway.com’s #CupOfJoe is so deliciously on point. Even Piers is silenced. Pay attention.

submitted 7 hours ago • 37 comments

This tweet aged like milk in the sun

submitted 21 hours ago • 863 comments

Miller has handed Democrats a messaging gift and they're cowering in the corner instead of pressing the attack

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Stephen Miller is privately raging over deportation numbers he deems too low. So he's shifting huge amounts of law enforcement resources away from fighting serious crimes and into his immigration crackdown. If voters knew about this, they'd recoil. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1961...

submitted 1 day ago • 1132 comments

🚨 Trump’s Bedminster golf club flagged for 18 health violations in latest inspection—earned lowest grade in county (32/100) Among the violations: 🤢 Expired milk 🤢 Raw meat stored above cheese 🤢 A hand-washing station without soap me, for @forbes.com

submitted 2 days ago • 192 comments

I had no idea Jake Tapper joined the New York Times

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

It's good to see the OPM hiring memo has started to get the attention it deserves. We're going to sorely miss the smart, hardworking, career federal workers who serve the public--not the party in power--when they're gone. Let's break down what this means and why it's a major concern: 🧵⬇️

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

It does suck that "AI" now means both generative AI (boo hiss) and a whole basket of incredibly useful machine learning techniques.

submitted 3 days ago • 43 comments

All the people complaining about Pride parades, parades they don't pay a penny for, are predictably silent about the US's Most Costly Parade Celebrating Pride (Donald Trump's), which they will be paying for. theintercept.com/2025/05/29/t...

submitted 4 days ago • 63 comments

“As many as 2.7 million households would lose food benefits, with the average blow to the family grocery budget totaling $254 a month… “By design, the Trumpy Medicaid changes will remove 10.3 million people from their health insurance, according to the CBO…” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 5 days ago • 285 comments

It’s better than even odds that Trump shared this dumb post because he didn’t have his glasses on and he liked the photo and now the White House press secretary will have to be like “Experts agree that it’s quite possible cyborgs walk among us, no matter what the fake news claims.”

submitted 5 days ago • 138 comments

Text NOKINGS to 50409 to find your nearest June 14 protest. It takes seconds to find it. Pass it on. 🚫👑

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

Stunning details now emerging: this was an operation planned a year and a half in advance, involved smuggling drones into Russia, placing them in containers on top of trucks, arranging for them all to open simultaneously and to strike.

submitted 5 days ago • 166 comments

Vought is lying. 60-70% of Project 2025's executive action proposals have been initiated or implemented — like gutting education and environmental laws. 30-40% is currently proposed as legislation — gutting healthcare, banking deregulations, voter suppression, and more.

submitted 5 days ago • 73 comments

Trump blows past the Patriot Act to erase the very concept of privacy by handing your most vulnerable information to a company literally named after magical surveillance cameras of the eye of Sauron.

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

Last week, Marco Rubio insisted no one has died because of his USAID cutoffs. But these two kids, ages 5 and 8, were being kept alive thanks to US-funded antiretrovirals. Then they lost access to the drugs. And now, they're both dead. Via @nickkristof.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

I’ll say this as many times as I have to. No tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself. Not a one.

submitted 7 days ago • 208 comments

"[T]he most persuasive reason why Musk decided to eliminate USAID appears to be that he believed social media conspiracy theories that it was full of criminals. And so now USAID no longer exists, and credible estimates suggest that 300,000 people have died as a result, two-thirds of them children."

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

"I repel Stephen Miller. I have felt the breath of Bret Baier. I have grazed Ron DeSantis’s nipples during an awkward hug at a prayer breakfast. RFK Jr. has used me to draw fault lines in the finest Colombian snow of West Palm. Lindsey Graham clutches me during thunderstorms."

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Yes, it’s satire but… 🤔😂

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I remember writing a couple a years ago on Twitter about how this would happen. More AI slop published online means the AI itself consumes more AI slop as source material, which causes the AI slop to become even sloppier. futurism.com/ai-models-fa...

submitted 7 days ago • 21 comments

It's like a death cult

submitted 6 days ago • 494 comments

DEMOCRACY: “We need to become a powerful majority to turn back bigotry & inhumanity amid this fierce urgency of now—not as a coalition of humanity that agrees all the time, but one united to save democracy & to finally realize the dream of so many who gave their lives to save us,” Donna Ladd writes.

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

Unbelievable! Today, San Diego witnessed a government-sanctioned kidnapping. ICE stormed Buona Forchetta in military gear ripping workers away, then unleashing tear gas and smoke on the terrified community. Full on police state, fascism now used on American citizens. Stay aware. #OnYourSide

submitted 6 days ago • 481 comments

We tend to focus on Trump—which is understandable because the extent of his corruption and the severity of his character pathology are unique—but Palantir, Thiel, Musk and others will have surveillance databases with of all our personal information even after Trump somehow eventually leaves office.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Huh, weird, this is inconsistent with the Trump admin's claimed interest in combating antisemitism, which has been their basis for detentions and removals without due process as well as illegal attacks on universities and their students.

submitted 6 days ago • 34 comments

Joni Ernst on Medicaid cuts: “we all are going to die” JD Vance on school shootings: they are a “fact of life” Donald Trump on toys for children: two dolls are enough And Trump after a school shooting: “…get over it, we have to move forward” These people are incapable of governing. Or humaning.

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

Trump’s dystopian plan is already underway: collecting data on every American, potentially to wield surveillance powers over us. And the administration has been very quiet about these efforts. https://trib.al/IYmRKt2

submitted 6 days ago • 24 comments

It’s baffling that Trump can justify tariffs against Mexico by citing the cartels while simultaneously cutting a deal with Sinaloa allowing 17 cartel family members safe harbor in the United States.

submitted 6 days ago • 318 comments

Pope actively counterprogramming Donald Trump's birthday parade on the same day. Some real WCW Nitro shit, I love it.

submitted 7 days ago • 77 comments

AI Susie asked for cash and pardon requests - little wonder so many Republicans thought it was real.

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Unelected, egomaniac Elon Musk (Leaves his minions in place, leaves DC with our Data) READ @anntelnaes.bsky.social SUBSTACK: open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." -FDR, 1937

submitted 8 days ago • 149 comments

I can’t stop laughing about the fact that the Pope is now holding a huge event in Chicago on the same day as Trump’s small-in-the-pants birthday parade.

submitted 8 days ago • 236 comments

If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime.

submitted 10 days ago • 112 comments

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments