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"If they get you asking the wrong questions, they don't care about answers." Gravity's Rainbow. "Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards." Kierkegaard I have my moments. Proud dad of a rocket scientist. 🖖🇺🇦♟️🥍🎵🕎🎾🙀📜🍳
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We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.

New: A DOGE staffer developed an AI tool to review Veterans Affairs contracts. But there was a slight hitch. It hallucinated the size of those deals. For example, it concluded that more than a thousand contracts were each worth $34M, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.

1/ New lawsuit takes direct aim at US-El Salvador rendition agreement. Among strongest arguments: Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments.⤵️ CECOT is punishment (without trial) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights vs. Department of State storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

That’s an expression that says “you can’t PROVE that was a roofie.”

DeLauro uses her opening statement to tear Russ Vought a new one

The Department of Homeland Security is NOT making our country safer. They're ignoring immigration laws. They're handcuffing moms, zip tying children and disappearing them without hearings or due process. They're weaponizing DHS to purge people from the population. They're hiding their faces.⬇️

MURPHY: Did you worry about what your decision would do to these kids where you've ripped away their counselors & social workers literally in the middle of the program? McMAHON: I certainly worry about mental health MURPHY: It's a really cruel thing to do M: I can't evaluate every program

Trump keeps using Mafia-like threats to get firms "not to publicly attribute price hikes to tariffs." When Mattel's CEO talked of this, he responded: “We’ll put a 100% tariff on his toys, and he won’t sell one toy in the United States... I wouldn’t want to have him as an executive too long.”

CSPAN could go public and become the media play of the century if it started covering Congress like this. ht: @repmoskowitz.bsky.social

I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE. Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it. Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.

📄 NEW: Mass media is pushing the false narrative that Musk has 'left' government to focus on his companies. But the reality is that Musk fronts a cartel of related and accelerating interests. My latest. america2.news/musk-isnt-go...

Chance is still learning to live in a house. She spent 10 years in the jungle and got abused. Her comfort mechanism when I’m out or asleep is my shoe. She doesn’t chew it or destroy it. She just gently gets it and always has it beside her She likes it here now ❤️

"Tech is neutral!" they scream, as they keep winking obsessively at the DoD www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

(1/2) Upsetting news. AZ officials now say that a family of Mexican gray wolves removed from southeastern AZ last week was in poor condition, + 1 of the pups was euthanized. Officials said the mom + 2 remaining pups were underweight and in poor condition at the time of capture.

“There are only two kinds of society in which armed agents of the government routinely conceal their identities: (1) Lawless failed states… (2) Authoritarian states… Stable democracies do not allow agents of the state to operate under cover of concealment.” www.thebulwark.com/p/the-secret...

We still can’t get straight answers on why ICE agents are masked and refusing to ID themselves. On top of all that they appear to be lying about cause. Congress, do you see what’s happening? Don’t be silent! Call your Senators & Reps. Demand an investigation. ☎️ Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

Castor: They told Heidy Sánchez, ‘Come in early—we want to check on your status.’ And she did the right thing… And at that ICE meeting, they took her. They took her away from her child. This is a breastfeeding mother. They flew her to another detention center in Miami, and then onto a plane to Cuba.

A Trump intermediary tells CNN’s parent company that they can buy peace with Trump by making a highly flattering documentary about Melania Trump or a TV show about Trump Jr, which would involve paying the Trump family large amounts of money. The move appears to meet the legal standard for extortion.

Communities aren’t staying silent about ICE… 18-year-old Massachusetts high school student Marcelo Gomes was taken by ICE on his way to volleyball practice Saturday morning. No word on where he’s being held. Marcelo missed graduation today, so Milford HS graduates marched to rally in solidarity.

The worst people on Earth coming together to make everything worse for everyone

Marilyn Monroe, born 99 years ago today. When Ella Fitzgerald couldn’t get booked at the Mocambo Club because she was Black, Monroe (at the height of her own fame) called the owner and told him if he booked Ella, she would take a front table every night. And she did. #RIP

ICE is now posing as the electric company to get access to people’s houses. tucson.com/news/local/b...

When Kermit told 2025 grads to "keep pretending," he may have meant the job market. The rush to AI robots is already crimping entry-level jobs; a top CEO warns of 10-20% unemployment in 1-5 years How the AI threat launched a Summer of Hallucination. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

I was reading about the "miracle of Dunkirk," 85 years ago, and it occurred to me wonder if there's anyone still alive who participated in the operation. Here's a captivating and moving account of perhaps the last survivor, who passed away a couple of weeks ago. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Chris Murphy on Joni Ernst: "I think everybody in that audience knows they're going to die, they would just rather die in old age at 85 or 90 instead of dying at 40. And the reality is that when you lose your healthcare, you are much more at risk of early death."