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ICE threatening to arrest congresspeople exercising oversight authority over them is full shark-jumping autogolpe territory

Dems in Congress's fun reward for not expelling all the disqualified insurrectionists who voted to overturn the 2020 election (as the United States Constitution requires) is that Republicans in Congress are now demanding their arrest.

Sorry to sound Woke but I don’t think the feds should be bragging on live tv about their abilities to disappear an elected public official, for fun

this is the most devastating burn I’ve ever seen in all my life and only Chuck Schumer deserves it

Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.

dolan came out right away and was like “i don’t know this guy, he’s not one of ours” and i was sold on the new pope right away. all it took

NEW: A member of the board that oversees the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum wrote a blistering letter to the board condemning the institution's silence and invoking the lead-up to the Holocaust. It has sparked a flurry of responses. W/ @katieglueck.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.

NYT: Protesters arrested.

Dementia Donny, they’re calling him

What we witnessed was a political kidnapping of an elected official and I don't know what more to say than that.

THEY ARE ARRESTING ELECTED OFFICIALS FOR PEACEFULLY OPPOSING THE REGIME’S ILLEGAL ACTIONS. DO NOT ALLOW THEM TO OVERWHELM YOU. THIS IS NOT NORMAL.

“Well, we’re doing a shitty job running it, so it must not be that great”has basically been the Republican m.o. for the last forty years.

When they are arresting sitting mayors for legal protests of ilkigal kidnapping by the government you are well past the point where strongly worded letters or statements are going to do anything to stop this and you are going to have to put yourself on the line in the same way that that mayor did.

Last fall Niall Ferguson chastised me on Xitter for suggesting Trump could turn fascist, asserting, "fascism was all about state control of the economy and militarisation in preparation for war, pretty much the opposite of Trump's philosophy." Just thinking about that for no reason whatsoever.

Genuinely has anyone *ever* been owned so badly as a man who converts to a new religion as an adult and sorta makes it his whole thing only to see the literal head of that religion rebuke his entire deal and then they choose the NEXT head of the religion specifically because he doesn't like you

The new pope is younger than 13 members of the Senate Democratic caucus

Whatever impostor syndrome you may have once had, dispose of it fucking immediately. If these people run the country, you deserve that promotion, you can run for city council, you can start that business. If this is the baseline, shit, you can do surgery drunk in an alley and you will do less harm.

One thing that Trump will not tolerate is the heads of agencies saying publicly that their agency should exist.

Star Trek is very aggressively and explicitly political, and has been since its inception, in the precise way Star Wars was not. Characters would do monologues about democracy and stuff

Loving all the non-Catholic conservatives who are insisting that the cardinals “made this all about politics.” Yeah, they’re the ones doing that. Good job.

Boom.

The U.S. is on track to have the worst whooping cough outbreak since 1948. Some regions are reporting that they are struggling to do contact tracing of cases because they are ALSO managing measles investigations. And, of course, funding cuts to public health have resulted in fewer resources.

At which point she will have spent nearly two months behind bars for the crime of writing an op-ed.

Not AI. Just quality photo journalism

This would’ve generated twenty op-eds in the NYT and articles of impeachment if it’d been Biden

no he didn't that's not him what the fuck is wrong with you freaks

Bugs makes this case accurately and eloquently. what happened is not "man speaks from beyond the grave" what happened is "they showed an expensive cartoon in court"

Pretty crazy that deporting US citizen pediatric cancer patients just a week ago was like a half day microscandal, to the point where noem feels totally comfortable lying to congress that it ever happened

We need educators like this

So that's what Big Balls did with the terabytes of data he stole from the National Labor Relations Board a few weeks ago.

we just straight up can't have the World Cup here honestly. or the Olympics. it's not safe for the teams, coaching staff, fans, nobody

Your School House Rock moment......

Don't concede an inch to these people unless they have an actual warrant signed by an actual judge.

objecting to letting the democratic party be controlled by a handful of opinion journalists in a groupchat is pretty close to the opposite of "shrinking the tent"

BREAKING: Newark Airport is a full-blown disaster—800+ flights canceled, 5-hour delays, and the FAA bleeding staff like a severed artery. This isn’t just Newark—it’s a nationwide meltdown in real time caused by a rotting, underfunded system. And guess what? It’s about to get worse.

the right is absolutely itching to say it. not long now until they are doing it openly I judge www.thebulwark.com/p/she-called...

A good rule of thumb Democrats should use to figure out how to interact with Trump is to imagine you’re addressing Jabba the Hutt. Do you sound tough? Defiant? Or are you some pandering slimeball who is obviously going to be double-crossed and fed to the Sarlacc?

the story all but says it but hegseth is very clearly trying to purge the leadership of the military of black people and women