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A father screams for his child from a tiny interview room within a basement waiting room inside LA federal building. The space is not a holding area. No food. No water. No diapers. Those initially detained include a 2-year-old US citizen and a woman with high-risk pregnancy.

In preparation for next week’s parade/demonstration, tanks are being moved into Washington, DC today. Unprecedented. (Photo from a colleague in DC)

The money being spent on Trump’s ego parade could feed every single homeless veteran in America for more than four months.

Red-shouldered hawk breaking up the party at the San Diego community gardens. 🪶🌿

ICE raids hit across Los Angeles today—and locals are rising up. This is what resistance looks like. āœŠšŸ¾ This was about an hour ago…

Man, I'm so glad that anger, huffiness, pettiness, and vindictiveness aren't officially recognized as emotions, otherwise this whole display would yet again expose sexist stereotypes about leadership.

To live in a country where two rich assholes can have a public slap fight that will have major implications for federal policies.

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

Those white South African refugees are going right back lol.

I dug into Trump's budget over the weekend and here are 3 things you might not see in the news that I think are really important to know about.

When the drug-addled, billionaire, South African nazi who torched our government finally admits that Trump is a useless dumb fuck…

JD Vance Rushed To Walter Reed After Inner Hillbilly Returns

What Republicans call their ā€œBig Beautiful Billā€ includes $286B in SNAP cuts—the biggest attack ever on the program that helps millions of working families put food on the table. There’s nothing ā€œbeautifulā€ about handing billions to the ultra-rich while working people go hungry.

Adorable Egyptian Goose gosling checking out a feather. šŸ˜ Taken a couple of nights ago at Chew Valley Lake in Somerset. 😊🐦 #Birds 🪶

BREAKING NEWS:

When traveling overseas, simultaneously giving props to Paddington 2 and also letting the locals (and tourists) know you’re from the United States and on the right side of history.

GOP pulled support from a rural library in WA for flying a Pride flag. But the community is fighting back, defending LGBTQIA+ rights, access to books, & protecting a vital hub for their town! GOP Sen. Shelly Short needs to get with the program & help her community or they will elect a Dem who will!

The divide in America is between left and right. It's between people who think it's okay for Trump to post dumbshit and paranoid conspiracy theories (Biden was executed in 2020 & replaced by a clone/double/robot!) and those who say, WTF?

Tim Walz takes a shot at Susan Collins: "She's always 'deeply concerned' about things. Well do something then, about being 'deeply concerned.'"

Can we all agree that presidents shouldn’t have the power to pardon people convicted of crimes that involve… 1) Violence 2) Harm to children 3) Large sums of money Asking for both parties

Donald is creating a database of private personal information about every American -- literally hundreds of data points each. This is a far deeper and more dangerous breach of privacy than just about anything we've seen. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...

President Zelensky, at the Kyiv Arsenal book fair, having just been handed a copy of AUTOCRACY INC, in Ukrainian

Nailed it.. šŸ˜‚

My 19yo is on an absolute bender of auto-didacticism -- just devouring books. (He insists on paper books, too.) This is the pile he brought home from the book store today.

This guy has murdered hundreds of thousands of people this year, most of them children.

"If the proposal is enacted, Americans today and tomorrow will be sicker, poorer, and die youngerā€ an $18 Billion cut Only 3 NIH Institutes will remain in place, and even they will have their funds markedly reduced www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/n...

This was today… Sotally tober… NYT clearly way off base…

The fucker is hallucinating in the oval office

Breaking WaPo: PBS just sued the Trump admin — alleging that the government violated its First Amendment rights when Trump's executive order targeted its federal funding. www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...

Travelling salesman. What's he selling?

VOTER: ā€œBut people will die!ā€ (if you kick them of Medicaid) ERNST: ā€œWell, we all are going to die.ā€

definitely not something an authoritarian government would do