Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.
Don't let them lie to you about Senator Padilla. DHS is claiming the agents DID NOT KNOW he was a senator. He CLEARLY says (BEFORE he is tackled and cuffed) "I am Senator Alex Padilla and I have a question for the secretary."
Weird how he didn’t call up the National Guard on January 6th.
"Washington has become the court of Nero, an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers, and a jester high on ketamine in charge of purging the civil service.
This is a tragedy for the free world, but it is first and foremost a tragedy for the United States."
Omg so true! I didn’t even notice that.
It’s comically gendered. “don’t you worry your pretty little head about the dolls and the strollers, we’re focused on manly gasoline.”
You can have 5 pencils
"Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so called great, or in the behalf of any of their friends, either father, mother, brother, sister, wife, or children, or any of that class, and suffered and sacrificed what I have in this interference, it would have been all right. Every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment."
A disgraced former Milwaukee cop with credibility issues helped seal the fate of a gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to El Salvador's notorious prison. Cross was fired from his position as a Milwaukee Police Sergeant in 2012 after driving his car into a family’s home while intoxicated.
People don’t matter to them.
Come on, man, keep it going 👏
18 hours and 45 minutes in, and Cory Booker is still going strong! 🔥
When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
Holy shit! Check out how angry the crowd is at Republican Rep. Keith Self’s town hall in Wylie, Texas today.
That’s another huge angry crowd in a deep red district!
Now THIS is true leadership on the world stage. In stark contrast to the weak, ignorant clown we currently have in the White House.
#SlavaUkraini 🇬🇧 🇺🇦
To borrow a turn of phrase from @therickwilson.bsky.social: everything Trump touches dies.
Many have made a Faustian bargain with Trump to get some sliver of power.
Almost all of those people have come to regret that bargain as they join the long trail of bodies Trump leaves in his wake.
This is why they get so upset when we fact-check them. It's why fact-checking has been replaced by community notes. It's why the right rejected most media. It's why Trump is suing CBS, Axios, etc.
We're not injuring their right to free speech. We're injuring the effectiveness of propaganda.
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This is what oligarchy looks like.
Musk and Trump
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from the goose.
The law demands that we atone
When we take things we do not own
But leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who takes things that are yours and mine.
There's a Crisis of Masculinity in this country and the only way to solve it is to let me act like a cross between a baby and a movie villain
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler
Bernie Sanders: "They will use the enormous media operations they own to deflect attention away from the impact of their policies while they entertain us to death."
Great point.
The MAGA agenda relies on fear and chaos. So when Kendrick Lamar uses a platform as big as the Super Bowl halftime show to say no, we are not afraid, that, in fact, we are a collective moving with a common purpose, it’s a direct hit to what MAGA needs to survive.
Chris Murphy: "I think this is the most serious constitutional crisis the country has faced, certainly since Watergate. The president is attempting to seize control of power, and for corrupt purposes ... he's trying to crush his opposition ... this is a red alert moment ... our democracy is at risk"
"DISOBEDIENCE, IN THE EYES OF ANYONE WHO HAS READ HISTORY, IS MAN'S ORIGINAL VIRTUE. IT IS THROUGH DISOBEDIENCE THAT PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE, THROUGH DISOBEDIENCE AND THROUGH REBELLION." Oscar Wilde
Brilliant
