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I used to be a ninja, but now I'm just a concerned Texan.
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I spoke too soon. What a tragedy. utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/06/15/m...

To Trump this is aspirational.

"ICE is not too big to fail. It is too dangerous to continue. We don’t need a gentler deportation force. We need a government that refuses to criminalize protest, weaponize immigration or suppress dissent," writes Omar Suleiman. religionnews.com/2025/06/10/a...

I made a quick video about media literacy and the misleading Wall Street Journal headline I highlighted this weekend TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@molly0xfff/... YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYkR...

“Authorities arrested and charged 57-year-old Vance Boelter on Sunday night after he allegedly shot and killed House Democratic leader Melissa Hortman and her husband in their Brooklyn Park home and shot and seriously injured state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife in their home in Champlin.”

For many years, ICE has focused its attention on people with some kind of interaction with the law enforcement system (statistically a low-level offense). Being fingerprinted gets people on ICE’s radar. Detaining people with clean records was a fairly low priority. Under Trump, that’s changed.

This is a harbinger of unrest; it blesses Stephen Miller’s decision to force ICE to hit insane quotas. The vast majority of undocumented immigrants are not criminals, they are hardworking people trying to make a better life for their families with no way to “fix their papers.”

Presently the most sensible member of Congress

this is obviously something to take seriously but i am also struck by how the white house’s only move is to double down, no matter how unpopular or politically disastrous it might be

He’s gonna send the troops into our cities to create violence as a pretense for shooting us to control the violence.

It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

A bit of help -- take a look at The Steady State (www.thesteadystate.org). We are on Substack (@steadystate1) and Twitter (yuck) @steadystate2025. 🔹 go.bsky.app/DgbptUU 🔹 go.bsky.app/8WJ7XW7 🔹 go.bsky.app/RXFLYri And, we do try to answer DM’s – there are lots of important questions.

"What we do not need is to pivot our political conversation away from the most pressing outrages of our time and toward a billionaire-friendly focus on efficiency instead of justice," writes @currentaffairs.bsky.social's Nathan Robinson. www.currentaffairs.org/news/abandon...

Great @pkrugman.bsky.social piece. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/this-is-no...

"The way to think about the Dem Party and how to win influence in it is imagine a contest to come up with the most progressive-sounding agenda that does not involve welfare expansions, tax increases, unionization or public ownership," writes Matt Bruenig. www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/06/09/a...

"This victory will be historic, not just because of who I am, a Muslim immigrant and a proud democratic socialist. But for what we will do: make this city affordable for everyone," says @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

"We can never get past Donald Trump if we continue to elect the same people and make the same decisions that got us here in the first place," says @aoc.bsky.social. Her remarks were officially rebukes of Cuomo but sounded like shots at some Democrats in DC too. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

"Trump’s birthday parade and his attack on LA are all part of the same agenda of fascist theatrics, divide and conquer politics, and the consolidation of power. Trump wants to look strong. What he doesn’t understand is that true power comes from the people."

The implication he is making here is that Israel can *only* exists as a Jewish ethnostate, and that's fascist.

political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics

New financial disclosure filings highlight the expansion of a political cottage industry that revolves around President Trump, one that has been quite lucrative for some of his closest aides.

"The Israeli prime minister’s lust for war as a solution to his myriad problems is nothing short of a threat to us all," writes author and professor Moustafa Bayoumi.

Trump’s chief tariff negotiator still doesn’t know who pays for tariffs

Since becoming President, Trump has imposed the largest tariff hike in modern American history and is continually threatening further escalations That trade war is costing the US billions—and breaking the country's trade flows in important ways🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/how-tariff...

The rule of law lives or dies on our willingness to act—occasionally with grim resolve. It’s time for people who value justice to screw their courage to the sticking place. https://trib.al/8yrhf4O

NEW: Gaza Health Ministry: Tens of Thousands of Patients Face Death as Medicines Run Out

Saturday’s military parade in Washington celebrating the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army was sponsored by at least four brands that have strong financial and political ties to President Trump, raising questions about whether the event benefited his allies and supporters.

Stephen Miller is deliberately choosing to focus more resources on non-criminals—and thus away from dangerous criminals. Law enforcement insiders have leaked word of their anger over exactly this. https://trib.al/XxEuHPU

Trump didn’t need to invoke the Insurrection Act in L.A.--he’s already acting like he holds emergency powers. This is a moment of decision for the nation, says @hartmannreport.com -- Autocracy or resistance. #Velshi www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...

Forcing people to work for no pay is very on brand for the president. The thousands of National Guardsmen President Trump sent to Los Angeles in an authoritarian power play are working for free. https://trib.al/7tS6NOP

NEWS: Two Gulf sources told Reuters news agency that "at least 14 nuclear scientists were assassinated in Israeli attacks, including car bombings." Earlier, the Iranian news agency IRNA reported that "Israel detonated five explosive devices in various areas of Tehran.

America is under siege, and its attacker is seated in the Oval Office. From Harold Meyerson, the echoes of rebellion amidst tyranny. https://trib.al/2XMXfJe

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.

A group in San Diego is patrolling neighborhoods to identify potential ICE presence. They keep watch for vehicles that may belong to federal agencies, and use livestreams, radios, and social media to keep communities informed. boltsmag.org/how-vol...

The 60-year-old institution could leave hundreds of students and staff in the lurch.

More aid distribution Video from @ ramabdu / X

It’s not just Mike Lee — Bernie Moreno is pretending that a registered Republican evangelical anti-abortion Trump voter who assassinated a Democrat and had more on his hit list is a representative of “the extreme left”

Meanwhile in Russia: pundits on the channel Solovyov Live sneered and snickered at Trump's unimpressive parade. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7sH...

Given the fact that Republicans are actively pushing the insane lie that the deaths are on *Democrats’ hands* it really is important that political leaders and the press make this case clearly.

The spectacle was billed as honoring the U.S. Army’s 250th birthday. In reality, the event was just one part of the Trump administration’s vast, billion-dollar government effort to make the leader feel good about himself.

learning cop budgets regularly include tanks but most EMTs make less than a living wage radicalized me and it should radicalize you too budgets are value statements

Lee is a real "we are what we pretend to be" cautionary tale because he's way too educated to sincerely be this stupid but he just spent so much time throwing slop to the hogs that I think he barely even knows he's lying anymore

I doubt anyone will see me post, but this needs to be known... if you have a visible following please repost 💙🔥💙 Admitting he wants "his people... aka US " to behave like north Korea for Kim Jong Un.🤬

More than 200 people remain locked in prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration, without any right to trial.