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Here are Facebook posts from Cody Balmer, the man who attempted to burn down Governor Josh Shapiro’s house with his family inside Threads

After watching 60 Minutes tonight, Trump calls on FCC Chair Brendan Carr to revoke CBS’s broadcast license.

Oh, holy sh*t. Enjoy.

Hate intrudes on the governor’s home on first night of Passover. Subject in custody. Analyzing subject’s social media to confirm the connection: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...

Hey Secretary Rollins, you can claim whatever you want on Fox News. That doesn’t make it true. You cut $1B in food assistance. Shipments at the Food Bank of the Hudson Valley have already been cancelled. If it’s truly “fake news,” come join me and tell the hungry kids yourself.

the two max muncys need to highlander fight this is getting too serious

Just insane stories from the graduate school communities, students getting kicked out of the country - medical and science researchers - because of trivial, decade-old violations, like speeding tickets, long ago, paid in full

Of course they are, because this administration is composed exclusively of people who copied their entire educational career directly from the internet.

Canadians, among others, shouldn’t go to America any more. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

BREAKING: Days before she was detained by ICE, the State Department had determined Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk did NOT engage in antisemitic or terrorist activities. Rubio revoked her visa anyhow. Gift article: wapo.st/4j8d5Uh

EXCLUSIVE: A woman last month flagged down a Houston police officer to tell them about a car crash. The officer responded by calling federal immigration authorities on her. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Agreed, with warmest regards your neighbor to the south.

“This is setting us back decades,” Huang said. “Everyone should be extremely concerned about what’s going on.” www.propublica.org/article/whoo...

For whatever reason this part of the 'kid who killed his parents and wanted to assassinate Trump story' doesn't seem to be getting as much play. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Last July, Project 2025's Kevin Roberts said “the second American Revolution ... will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” It was a declaration of war against the American people, a demand for our surrender. Some cowards in law, academia and business have submitted. Many of us never will.

"Great" sci-fi is when they're dating

Oh. We’re so, so fucked. Beyond fucked. Incredibly fucked.

Multiply this by millions

The Trump admin *secretly revoked Rümeysa Öztürk's visa.* Öztürk couldn't dispute it. *She wasn't even told about it.* From a State Dept. memo: "This revocation will be silent. The Department of State will not notify the subject of the revocation." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Whoever did this—buy them a drink. ☠️🤣

Karoline Levitt is closer in age to her baby than she is to her own husband

When telling the truth requires courage— when sticking to the truth requires heroism— when having spoken the truth paints a target on your back— there's something very wrong with your polity.

UPDATE: ICE has awarded a new contract worth up to $3.8 billion for the company to operate a migrant detention camp on Fort Bliss — its largest contract yet. It's the first time ICE is moving ahead with plans to detain thousands of people arrested on U.S. military bases in tents before deportation.

Louis CK still goes on comedy tours, Johnny Depp was forgiven by the vast majority of people, Bill Cosby got out of prison on a technicality, Cuomo is running for mayor of NYC, Trump is president for a second term, Jonathan Majors is being welcomed back into Hollywood, etc. And this was WITH MeToo

This motherf––er, a former secretary of housing and urban development, relied on a digital plagiarism machine to write his housing policy. Do not rank Cuomo, New Yorkers.

Why would the President meet with (and allow into the country) a head of state who refuses to return a person sent to their custody in error?

"Right now, the company is sitting on $200 million worth of unsold Cybertruck inventory. "

The only reason to hold crypto is if you need it to commit crimes. And don't try to change my mind, it won't be changed.

Do not rank this man, New York City.

republicans are disappearing people under the guise of fighting antisemitism and can’t even pretend to give a fuck when a jewish governor’s house gets firebombed on passover

I’m not a lawyer or anything but I feel like you can draw a pretty direct line from John Yoo being allowed to slip back into the comforts of tenure and the occasional NYT oped to what’s happening with the CECOT and doj

I hate to be that guy, but this is the five-alarm fire, and every elected Democrat and frankly, every Washington reporter should be ringing the bell. If it can happen to him, it can happen to anyone. Nobody with a voice should give this administration a moment’s peace about it.

Holy shit—the fire damage inside the Pennsylvania Governor’s Mansion is terrifying. Thank God Shapiro and his family got out. The federal government better be taking this investigation seriously.

Awww look how goofy Jake Shields is interacting with serious CNN journalist. He’s a normal guy, and has no idea what he’s doing with his chatting with literal white supremacists. They’re just playing around! Fuck this terrible fucking shit. Do better Donie.

I’m assuming Trump’s “antisemitism task force” is going to get right on this shocking attack on the household of a Democratic Jewish governor and potential 2028 presidential candidate on the first day of Passover Any minute now www.npr.org/2025/04/13/n...