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There’s going to be so much peace, you won’t be able to stand all the peace. Peace the likes of which nobody has ever seen before.

🚨THIS STORY IS INSANE. The Trump administration shipped a guy to be imprisoned in El Salvador without trial, in conditions worse than we treat even convicted serial killers, because he was in a picture standing next to someone with tattoos. LITERALLY NO OTHER EVIDENCE.

Trump has moved from saying you need a photo ID to purchase groceries to barfing out a conspiracy theory that China sent people here with fake license *plates* they used to cast fraudulent votes. Anyway, this escaped dementia patient has the nuclear arsenal at his command, have a great weekend.

It's official: every Democratic Senator is united against tax handouts for billionaires and billionaire corporations. We believe nobody in this country should suffer so that Jeff Bezos can buy another yacht.

Seems legit. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/count...

Very normal! 🤦‍♂️ Feels like 110 in Alaska. Meanwhile the #MadKing has defunded climate science, killed green energy incentives, and removed all climate change language from govt sites. Sticking your head in a hole, MAGA, won’t stop what’s coming. 🔥

It took Netanyahu 29 years, but he finally found an American president who was itching to go to war with him against Iran.

We should all be screaming this from the rooftops: “anti-woke is just racism” Federal judge “explicitly called out the Trump administration for its “palpably clear” discrimination against racial minorities and LGBTQ+ Americans” Read @lizdye.bsky.social: www.publicnotice.co/p/william-yo...

Reagan-era judge *finally* calls out the wildly obvious racism in the DOGE cuts to the NIH

“A U.S. citizen!” And now he’s missing. Adrian Martinez tried to defend a man ICE was harassing. Video shows six agents swarming him. He struggles but doesn’t lay hands on them. They take him to the ground & shove him into a CBP vehicle. Abuse of power. Keep recording. Don’t stop. (1 of 2)

Sure, just cancel all the green energy incentives Biden passed, bc, well you know vindictive POS. Sorry about your planet.

I refuse to watch two of the biggest assholes on the planet. Period. Fuck off "Ted" and Russian Tucker.

This guy should have been VP. Maybe Prez some day.

It’s like Dr Strangelove in slow motion.

Man Arrested At No Kings Rally Had A Cache Of Pipe Bombs At Home https://twp.ai/4iolFm

Haberman. 🖕

Exactly. The JCPOA is a nuclear agreement reached in 2015 between Iran and world powers, including the US, aimed at limiting Iran's nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief. Trump WITHDREW the US from it in 2018 & Iran began ignoring limitations on its nuclear program a year later.

They’re kidnapping people as they follow the rules and attend court or kids in school. They’re dressed like bank robbers. #FuckICE

Well, he’s like two decades behind, but maybe he’ll influence some. Rubio was for it before he was against it, when he sold out to the racists in the Republican Party.

Let's be clear: this is a red state healthcare executive telling people that rural red states will be gutted. “The further the cuts that are made, the more devastating it is,” said Shantel Krebs, president and CEO of Avera St. Mary’s, a hospital in South Dakota. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

I remember when Hillary coughed once during the campaign and all the right wing rags said she had 6 months to live. Maybe #JakeTapper, health detective extraordinaire, can get to the bottom of TACOs well-being. @cnn.com www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Senate Passes Massive Cryptocurrency Bill, Ignoring Risk To Financial System talkingpointsmemo.com/news/senate-...

Right-Wing Agitation For Violence Against Protesters Swells talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Acting President Stephen Miller's vile mass deportation operation is actually showing everyone how vital immigrants are to the country, our communities and the economy He's forced a reckoning

Why should we believe these men are actually ICE agents and not J6 criminals, thugs, or human traffickers? I want to hear directly from immigrants and citizens who were taken by people like this, hauled off in unmarked cars by masked men with no ID…

Oof. You knows it's bad when Tucker Carlson makes you look like the dumb one.

SIXTY federal agents kitted out like they were taking on Osama Bin Laden to raid a swap meet. The ONLY people they ended up arresting were to people already going through immigration court proceedings, seemingly rearrested because ICE agents didn’t want to go home empty-handed.

Honor Sophie & Colin Hortman’s parents by doing something in your community to make it a better place for someone else. What a statement from two kids whose parents were just assassinated for being Democrats.

Gov Gavin Newsom’s TikTok page is 🔥

This asshole is still mayoring? NYC?! What are you doing?

Welcome to the new "homestead act". But insteqd of stalking tribal lands they are selling public lands to the highest bidder. Since these lands must be "nominated", expect absolute corruption and greased wheels for the nominations.

Having a bit of a hard time with the concept that if a guy in a police uniform who has a police vehicle shows up I should lock the doors and call 911, but if a guy in a ski mask with an hGH gut appears to be kidnapping my neighbor, I shouldn’t ask who he is if I don’t want federal charges.

they’ve gone from “clearly uniformed” to “partially uniformed” to “in no way identifiable” in like three weeks

Tariffs redux. #TACO

Put me down as Fuck No!!! #Iran #Israel #MAGA #2547

New Economist/YouGov data. Trump's approval has dropped from -4 to -13 in the last two weeks, and it's clear now has 2024 coalition is unraveling. Dude is in a degraded place. More here - www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/dropped-pa...

In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.

#TACO TikTok

Thank you for this, @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Manipulative neocons exploited Trump’s jealous hatred of Obama to convince him to rip up the JCPOA, precisely so we’d arrive at the crossroads we’ve reached today. He’s giving them what they used him for, because he’s exactly the mark they thought he was. www.offmessage.net/p/18-thought...

#2547 #trumpIsCrayCray #Iran #NetanyahuIsAWarCriminal www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Every single Senator who voted for this, including plenty of Democrats, just helped make Trump’s crypto grift more profitable

Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee takes down social media posts mocking Democrats after assassination in Minnesota via @minnesotareformer.com wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/06/17/s...

If you cast yourself as a change agent and then basically do the same shit that Republicans always do—slash critical programs like Medicaid, crash the economy, and then get us into another stupid forever war in the Middle East—you deserve the massive political consequences that are coming for you.

I miss having a Congress and a Supreme Court.