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New data show that ICE is pulling record numbers of people off the streets who have no criminal convictions of any kind. This is not just a change from the Biden admin. This is a radical tactical shift compared to Trump 1.0. These arrests are up over 1,000% from 2017. www.cato.org/blog/ice-arr...

submitted 9 hours ago • 62 comments

This is the use of the military for domestic law enforcement; I don’t see any other way to describe it.

submitted 13 hours ago • 56 comments

Trump just hit a new all-time low of -11 (among adults) in our approval average. He's underwater on pretty much every issue, and in all the swing states. Underwater in Ohio, and nearly negative in Texas and Florida. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data

submitted 9 hours ago • 15 comments

always nice to be reminded that the President of the United States consistently uses “Palestinian” still as a slur At least (no I’m not handing it to him) Bush talked about islamists or people in “league” with Al qaeda, it would be like bush going out there and calling people Iraqis as an insult

submitted 15 hours ago • 16 comments

Amazon buying farmland, "de-watering" it to lay cable, creating energy demand double what state currently needs, getting $8 billion in tax breaks. All for whatever Anthropic's next AI model is going to be. This will never be worth the tradeoff.

submitted 15 hours ago • 15 comments

Breaking NYT: A senior Justice Department official, Emil Bove III, told subordinates he was willing to ignore court orders in order to fulfill Trump's deportation campaign, according to a whistleblower complaint by a department lawyer who has since been fired. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...

submitted 17 hours ago • 100 comments

one way to make sense of the position of the republicans on the supreme court is that they do not believe there is such a thing as a legitimate objection to the actions of a republican president, no matter how deranged, depraved, or anti-constitutional www.stevevladeck.com/p/161-the-co...

submitted 1 day ago • 175 comments

I don't understand how this can be legal. I don't understand how this can be ethical.

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

Donald Trump is the most powerful enemy of America's free speech rights in our country's history.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

1. Our reporting displeased the world's richest man. 2. He spent $288 million to elect President Trump and other Republicans. 3. Trump's FTC has now launched a meritless investigation targeting us. 4. We're suing to protect the First Amendment. www.mediamatters.org/justice-civi...

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Any corporate executive who signs off on a bribe to Trump should be prepared to explain their crimes in front of Congress and to the public when Democrats retake power

submitted 4 days ago • 274 comments

The US denied a visa to a French lawmaker who is critical of Trump policies. Can you imagine how much the GOP would never shut up if the French denied a visa to one of them? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w...

submitted 5 days ago • 42 comments

No American outlet would hesitate to describe them as pro-regime paramilitaries or an irregular militia and similar terms if this was happening anywhere else.

submitted 5 days ago • 117 comments

I asked ICE where the “413% increase in assaults” justification for its officers using masks came from. They didn’t answer. So I dug into it, and what I found … did not boost their argument. Gift link: wapo.st/4l7a1ch

submitted 5 days ago • 441 comments

It's infuriating how 99% of the coverage of this new war doesn't bother to mention that it is happening because we had an agreement to limit and monitor Iran's nuclear program, which even Trump's own aides said was working, and he blew it up because it was negotiated under Obama.

submitted 6 days ago • 41 comments

Duckworth to Hegseth: "You are blowing through money like my fellow cadets and I did in our first liberty after basic camp. Luckily I didn't end up with a questionable tattoo ... you're just an unqualified yes man who can't tell the president how to keep Americans safe."

submitted 6 days ago • 762 comments

The cruelty of this is, genuinely, staggering. This is a policy that saves virtually no money whatsoever whose success is measured in the number of children it kills.

submitted 6 days ago • 35 comments

SCOOP: The "Appeal To Heaven" flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.

submitted 7 days ago • 644 comments

gotta love these America First guys outright selling citizenship. we have no principles we won't sell to the highest bidder, get your filthy lucre out folks www.ft.com/content/468b...

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

This reporter was targeted. He had a huge following, bigger than CNN. They damn well knew it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

NEW: It looks like Palantir is helping Trump build a mega-database of Americans' private information so he can target and spy on his enemies, or anyone. @aoc.bsky.social and I are demanding answers directly from Palantir.

submitted 7 days ago • 71 comments

America is one of those countries where if you host a global sporting event, inclusive messages have to be censored to so as not to anger the central government. In this case the message is “racism is bad” www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...

submitted 7 days ago • 467 comments

Either the Director of National Intelligence lied in her testimony before Congress, or Trump is lying now. It is that simple. Will any Republicans in Congress say a word? Nope. Will media splash huge stories about it and lead with it? Nope. Just another day in Trump’s America.

submitted 7 days ago • 184 comments

An Afghan man who worked as a translator for the U.S. military during the war was detained by ICE after showing up for a hearing inside of a federal courthouse in San Diego, his attorney says. He fears that if he returns to Afghanistan, he would be tortured or even killed, @nbcsandiego.com reports.

submitted 8 days ago • 857 comments

After stumbling up plane stairs and dropping his papers, confusing Justin Trudeau with Stephen Harper and the UK with the EU, the elderly, confused Trump is going home early to rest, using unhinged threats to declare war against Iran as cover.

submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Via Sam Stein on twitter

submitted 8 days ago • 141 comments

Trump looking absolutely inconsolable at his fascist-themed 79th birthday party which no one turned up to other than those who had to because he's their boss.

submitted 10 days ago • 2175 comments

Unreal levels of Trump's America here.

submitted 10 days ago • 52 comments

It’s intolerable that Minnesota Democrats not only has to endure the brutal murder of political leaders, but the far-right faction that did it insists that we somehow did it to ourselves. Our society cannot operate inside the ocean of lies that Musk and his neo-Nazi cronies have created

submitted 10 days ago • 72 comments

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

submitted 10 days ago • 51 comments

As an exercise, try to imagine Ron Johnson being wrestled to the ground in Wisconsin; or Tommy Tuberville in Alabama; or Lindsey Graham in South Carolina. Yeah, neither can I. charliesykes.substack.com/p/no-kings-n...

submitted 11 days ago • 96 comments

🚨New: “Trump Org Keeps Bringing In Foreign Workers To Staff Its Clubs And Winery” It’s sought to import 1,880 foreign workers since 2008, per Labor Dept. records—including 31 farm workers for its vineyard this year. me, for @forbes.com 1/

submitted 11 days ago • 47 comments

Donald The Dove, the Peace President bsky.app/profile/mich...

submitted 11 days ago • 25 comments

More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

There's been a tendency by Very Smart People to dismiss all our yelling that Trump was doing something damaging/dangerous because the sun rose the morning after with no apocalyptic consequences. The thing is: mostly, we were right. The consequences just didn't hit us the very next day.

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

This is not journalism. This is stenography for power.

submitted 12 days ago • 250 comments

If Senate Democrats like @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social @gallego.senate.gov and @schiff.senate.gov are still collaborating with Republicans to give Trump a crypto gift after this - they all deserve to be primaried. At this point there should be no collaboration w/ Sen Republicans. None.

submitted 12 days ago • 12 comments