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City of Seattle capitulates to ICE and Trump's police state tactics. www.richardsilverste...

If more people decline face scans, TSA might rethink “whether it’s actually effective to roll out programs like these,” EFF’s Saira Hussain told @huffpost.com. Without pushback, they're "just going to keep instituting more and more invasive techniques.”

Pay up chump t.co/CgCGdz7kDv

the contrast between the journalists at 60 minutes who are risking their careers for their independence and the white house correspondents chuckling at nerdprom about how they helped trump get elected is pretty jarring and infuriating

1) this is gossip. It’s quite clear what these networks of association are and have been ON MAIN for anyone paying an iota of attention 2) these group chats are a sop to ego and a HUGE waste of time 3) these people are fucking losers. Chatterton Williams??? Sacks? LARRY SUMMERS?? Touch grass, folks

There's such a huge body of reporting at this point proving this argument false that DOJ should be sanctioned for even trying to admit it

🇵🇸 #Palestine - 🇮🇱 #Israel: Helmet cam footage depicting IDF personnel ambushed by what is believed to be Hámas militants in Khan Younis, Gaza. The war in Gaza is ongoing despite several attempts at a ceasefire. (via spicebag32)

Not a single international cargo ship at the Port of Seattle. The port is dead. The last ship from China will dock at a West coast port on the 29th, and the last Chinese ship will dock on the East coast around May 10th. After that, there will be no more shipments arriving from China. We’re screwed.

Biden, 52%: “low end approval” Trump, 39%: proceeding “as expected”

Huge, huge news: after spending 26+ years on Angola death row, maintaining his innocence throughout, Chris Duncan's conviction has been overturned by a Louisiana judge. He told me he was in shock & called his lawyers heroes. "I'm scared to have full joy." boltsmag.org/chris-duncan...

the woke f-35

The son of France’s national police director founded a Fascist group in the western city of Nantes www.streetpress.com/sujet/174541...

What the fuck do you mean they had a judge arrested

Some more detail on the arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel www.jsonline.com/story/news/b...

A New Mexico judge and his wife have also been arrested, for allegedly hiding a TdA gang member in their home. Given recent history, it’s probably best to take the “hiding” and “gang member” allegations with a fistful of salt. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

A judge was arrested by the Feds for allegedly obstructing immigration enforcement abcnews.go.com/US/judge-han...

Soooooomeone has been mainlining Islamo-Gauchisme discourse….

Seems like 1775 all over again

“A rising wave of white nationalism in many parts of the globe could threaten the progress that has been made in science — and broader society — towards a more equitable world As scientists and members of the public, we must push back against this threat” 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The department’s chief officer is from a family at the center of the Israel lobby and got her start at Ray Kelly’s intel division I’m sorry but this goes all the way up the chain of command jewishcurrents.org/training-nyp...

President Trump has personally ordered the Justice Department to open an investigation of Democrats' primary ways for raising donations. It is the third time he has personally ordered an open-ended criminal investigation, each against a perceived political foe. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

The schizoid who shot up a 4th of July Parade 3 years ago showed up to his hearing today with a Trump tattoo on the side of his dome We are well and truly through the rabbit hole

Repealing the Civil Rights Act - yep, 2025 is at that point www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Hard to track the logic behind this www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Mike Davis’ ghost is gonna haunt you fuckers

At the time, I concluded this was likely NOT a "slip-up." Right wingers do this ALL THE TIME (just ask people like @noupside.bsky.social & @ninajankowicz.com, or 51 former spooks). And, as @gregsargent.bsky.social noted, they DID redact the name of the cop prosecuted for misconduct subsequently.

Gestapo shit

"I sold my soul to 764..." Awful but vital work here by @awinston.bsky.social writing about the grim rise of militant ultra sadism.

If I had to see it you do too

It was national news: Proud Boys stormed the Drag Story Hour at the San Lorenzo public library. Everyone thinks they know the story. But what happened then? A new film at the Roxie this week, "After What Happened at the Library,” picks up the tale. missionlocal.org/2025/04/drag...

How much Botox was in the bag

Le Monde ran a piece describing JD Vance's brand of Catholicism as a blend of Charles Maurras and Elon Musk Charles Maurras is the founder of Action Française, a cornerstone royalist, anti-Republican group that is the bedrock of the French Far Right

Ben Smith really knew how to blow the bottom floor out of journalism

White House releases new photos of suspected MS-13 members with tattoos on their hands:

FUCK YES BARBARA LEE EAT SHIT SENECA EAT SHIT ABID SYM PHIL DREYFUSS CHRIS MOORE CLEAN MY GUTTERS

Same as it ever was - I wrote this in 2017 theintercept.com/2017/06/16/h...

Huge scoop and absolutely crucial info from @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

So, covid.gov now redirects to, uh, this... www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-tru...

They are gonna start deporting citizens now. Starting to look a weeeeee bit like ethnic cleansing here www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

Literally the first article of impeachment against Nixon and prohibited by law

Why should Bluesky comply with this order? Seriously. It’s pure censorship

He’s relying on the FTO designation here. That has flown entirely under the radar

NEW: A company has created custom AI personas for cops to use to target people, from suspected human traffickers to "college protesters." @jasonkoebler.bsky.social & @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social w/ the scoop for @404media.co copublished w/ @wired.com www.wired.com/story/massiv...

It's the full Chris Rufo playbook with DOGE as the spear “We have watched this administration try to kneecap academia, law firms, media, and now they are coming for the non-profit sector" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...