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Would love to see governors mayors sheriffs (Democratic ones especially) challenge these raids formally, at a minimum refusing to assist and possibly pressing charges against ICE for harms

It's wild how the existence of ICE, created by George W. Bush in the wild police state policy push after 9/11, is now just taken for granted as something that obviously has to exist. It doesn't! It's barely 20 years old! It was made by the guy who held the previous record for the dumbest president!

weird that these were taken as fighting words — being a total fraud seems the one absolute and universal qualification for being part of this white house

The trick on Bluesky is - DO NOT argue with sockpuppets, burners, bots, or otherwise ill-intentioned accounts with 5 followers, nothing good can come from it - DO argue with actual people with 5 followers because you have something emotionally that makes you do it, this is poster’s code

cops lie. COPS LIE.

What we witnessed here on Tuesday in Minneapolis and what we are seeing now in Los Angeles we are going to see replicated in every blue city and blue state in the country because the federal government is at war against democratic power and the states.

ICE really does gotta be delenda est. we need to delenda est the shit out of it

This doesn't sound good if can be confirmed

is there a second source for this around here?

this is going to be an ugly summer.

don't print lies in the newspaper. even if you weasel 'trump said it' and put the scare quotes in, printing 'government has very easy case against kilmar abrego garcia' in headlines and social media posts is creating the opposite impression of the truth in your audience.

This article links tech layoffs that started in 2022 to a Section 174 change in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which ended immediate R&D write-offs. The assumption was companies using savings from the tax cuts to cover the increased tax bill on R&D spending. Instead they’ve cut headcount.

One thing is for certain after this week: Local cops in sanctuary cities—Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York—are working in lock step with DHS and ICE.

The real reason Democrats cannot compete for 60 Senate seats like they once did isn't just due to the presidential coalitions. It's because ticket splitting has basically evaporated over the last decade due to a series of choices and structural effects. split-ticket.org/2025/06/07/t...

It's a mistake to back down

Recognition of Israel's right to exist has actually been used to prevent criticism of this throughout the entirety of US politics despite it being done with our money

not everybody is rich. not everybody got straight a’s in high school. but everybody can graduate from the best public university in the world if they are given a second chance.

as a former reporter for institutions like Politico, i’d like more readers to ask the following question: “Are politicians actually doing the things in these articles by their own volition, or are reporters asking them to do them?”

Genuinely evil. No possibility of triangulating with these people. We have to win and permanently run them out of public life.

Picked up antibiotics, from "ante" or "before", "bio" or "story of somebody's life", and "tick" or a type of insect found in the woods. This is because antibiotics came from studying the life cycle of the tick that spreads Lyme disease.

Big mood

So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president. And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict. This should be *the* story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

it is sort of fascinating that there is a direct line from the election of the first Black man to the presidency to Trumpist hegemonic suicide

The NoVA Republican who still to this day is angry that Obama just didn't roll over and lose to Mitt Romney and thinks it's the greatest crime in history is a fascinating group

Then @liberalcurrents.com is for you!

Not the best environment to have jobless claims at an 8-month high — and Challenger layoffs running 80% above last year.

it's sort of interesting how Trump is essentially just the Bush administration but with a national-populist voter bloc instead of the GOP's previous voter bloc

The challenge for Dems is to figure out which parts of this poll best and adopt just those parts

Thinking about how the car-centric nature of Mario Kart World hurts its residents. Toads have to cross a road where there is racing going on just to get from the lifeguard station to the water.

Discover tab on here keeps trying to show me Krassensteins Kontent

On some level, it’s simple. Students want what we all want: to feel seen. They want someone they respect to look them in the eye and say, “I see who you are and what you’re capable of and I believe in you.” The problem is, I increasingly feel like I’m fighting my university to get there.

they took a detour to rescue a boat full of migrants yesterday. this right here should be more popular than the goddamn stuck shipping vessel thing, this should be everyone's page-refreshing major event right now

Caroline Ellison, Sam Bankman-Fried's ex and partner in crime making a cameo in this Curtis Yarvin profile is simply too on the nose

hello! She's making a very stupid point and REALLY misusing history to make a lazy, contemporary moral argument. me & @lollardfish.bsky.social wrote about it just a couple days ago! buttondown.com/ModernMediev...

Lol but I guess it is true that not even this FDA would approve combustible heart tents.