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Here’s a cybertruck getting booed at Orpheus to brighten your Lundi Gras:

submitted 21 hours ago • 56 comments

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Tuesday that she will not attend President Donald Trump’s address before a joint session of Congress, joining several Democrats who are opting to boycott the speech. Instead, she'll be live posting and chatting here on Bluesky as well as going on IG live.

submitted 3 hours ago • 52 comments

So I know not all of my followers are American but just so it isn't clear Canada, Mexico, and China are where America gets certain goods and materials like "Everything" and "All of it" and "Jesus christ dude like you're actually going to crash the economy."

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

“Layoffs are rising. Consumer spending — the backbone of the economy — unexpectedly dropped in January. Consumer confidence has plunged. A key GDP forecast suddenly turned negative. And extreme fear is back on Wall Street, with stocks sliding last month.”

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

TFW you realize Trump was not bluffing on the tariffs and that the US economy is headed toward recession.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The stock market is in freefall over Trump insisting that tariffs on Canada and Mexico will go into effect tomorrow.

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

Moody’s cutting Q1 GDP growth from 2.3% to 1.2% in a week is a pretty bad warning sign. Retail sales, manufacturing, home sales, and consumer confidence are all trending down. Trump’s unsteady leadership is taking a serious toll — the economy is losing steam.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

The Dow Jones is down over 675 points right now after Donald Trump announced he will be implementing the 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico tomorrow. Bro is tanking our economy.

submitted 1 day ago • 104 comments

I wrote about the reconciliation bill which passed last night; and what an unprecedented sum for immigration enforcement might mean.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

The federal budget reconciliation bill could include an unprecedented $175 billion for immigration/border enforcement, 6X the annual budget of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) & Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) combined. Read more from @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social: immcouncil.co/3XeDp6h

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

I feel so sick. Enough with the lies, enough with the games. They know exactly what they're doing. This is a neo-Nazi movement. Proudly so. The only reason they've kept it coded up until now was to take advantage of those who didn't want to believe it. No more looking away. Face up to what it is.

submitted 11 days ago • 235 comments

Be smart about where you get your immigration analysis. Short-list this conversation between Greg Sargent and Latin American expert Adam Isacson. Greg's essays at TNR and Adam's weekly newsletters are both at the top of my reading list. (links below) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

“For the record, actual policy experts have made clear that simply being undocumented in the U.S. ‘is not, standing alone, a crime.’ What is a crime, however, is falsifying business records in order to conceal an illegal scheme to corrupt an election.” americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/trump-admi...

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

Required reading from @tusk81.bsky.social out today 🔥🔥🔥

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze. I worked at an organization that -helped veterans who have lost a limb -Assisted elderly and disabled people -Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs

submitted 25 days ago • 940 comments

I will never yield a nanometer in my open contempt and disgust for the drones and useful idiots who called Musk a free speech hero.

submitted 25 days ago • 92 comments

Please remember something: if you had said a year ago that Trump would do even a fraction of these things, you would have been mocked, belittled, accused of “Trump derangement syndrome,” and dismissed by certain people. Identify those people and block and shun them.

submitted 24 days ago • 347 comments

Here are links to 197 articles about the border and migration over the past week. It's what I'm reading through right now as I prepare this week's Border Update. And it's why I'll probably be quiet here, and slow to respond, for much of today. adamisacson.com/files/2025-0...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

This discussion of the Trump-Mexico dynamic on migration turned out well: we covered a great deal of ground. Thanks to @gregsargent.bsky.social for inviting me. Hope you'll give this a listen.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

TRAC is back. tracreports.org

submitted 27 days ago • 5 comments

In 2016, Russia fucked with our elections to help Trump win. Trump tried to shut down our investigation into it. In 2018 in Helsinki, Trump sided with Putin over America. Now as President again, Trump is purposely making it even easier for Putin to fuck with our elections again. Well done America.

submitted 26 days ago • 21 comments

Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections. Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.

submitted 26 days ago • 2288 comments

[waking up to see thousands of people quoting the Rule of Goats] ok guessing this is not good

submitted 39 days ago • 40 comments

Yes, there is a crime of "improper entry" under 8 U.S.C. § 1325(a)(1) that makes it a misdemeanor to enter the country illegally. But: A: That offense doesn't apply to visa overstays, and; B: The statute of limitations is 5 years, and most undocumented immigrants have been here for 15+ years.

submitted 34 days ago • 4 comments

How can you sanction a country you can't even spell.

submitted 37 days ago • 152 comments

In 1953, Eisenhower signed an order banning queer people from working in the government. Agencies encouraged employees to report colleagues they suspected of being queer based on how they acted, spoke, dressed, or had masculine/feminine characteristics like wide jaws in women or small hands in men

submitted 40 days ago • 27 comments

Come ON

submitted 59 days ago • 28 comments

Here's a clip of my favorite exchange during yesterday's hearing, where Senator Kennedy grilled me about a 2022 tweet and then appeared to malfunction after I expressed initial confusion and then answered his question — multiple times. Further context about that the tweet in the next post.

submitted 83 days ago • 24 comments

Trump made similar statements in the lead-up to taking office the first time. Obama even took the time to make a personal plea to him on Dreamers, and he said Trump was initially responsive. But Stephen Miller and others browbeat him into trying to kill DACA, and also cratered a Senate compromise.

submitted 84 days ago • 2 comments

"Simply put, when immigrants come to a place looking for jobs, they also demand goods and services—thus creating jobs for native-born workers… The question has always been which effect is bigger." @jerusalem.bsky.social and Rogé Karma brilliantly review research including mine in this podcast—>

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

On the plan to seize & deport millions of unauthorized & authorized immigrants, +associated US citizens—> “That gargantuan shock will cost trillions of dollars in economic growth, eliminating hundreds of thousands of jobs held by U.S. natives,” I told @lydiadepillis.bsky.social of the @nytimes.com