Trump’s Handpicked Arts Commission Approves Gold Coin With His Face on It

🤔An 1866 law called the Thayer Amendment states: “Only the portrait of a deceased individual may appear on United States currency and securities.”

This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis.

Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

Gov. Newsom at Davos rips into world leaders who think they can appease Trump: “I should have brought a bunch of knee pads for all the world leaders.…this is pathetic”

Jury finds D.C. ‘sandwich guy’ not guilty of assaulting officer Sean C. Dunn admitted he flung the hoagie at a federal agent. His attorneys called it a “harmless gesture” of protest as Trump commandeered D.C. police.

Long live the jury trial in America.

“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’”

@reuters.com #Chicago
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

DHS Gives Local Cops a Facial Recognition App To Find Immigrants The app, called Mobile Identify and available on the Google Play Store, is specifically for local and regional law enforcement agencies working with ICE on immigration enforcement.

We've found DHS is giving local cops a new facial recognition app to find immigrants. Point camera at face, tells the cop to detain person or not. The app is available on Google's Play Store. Google took down apps that report ICE sightings but now hosts this app

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Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

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This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.

I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

Federal Agents Are the New Proud Boys It used to be far-right groups who flooded cities wearing masks and military gear, looking for a fight. Now it’s anonymous federal agents who are violently attacking people on the street.

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Trump’s $464 Million NY Civil Fraud Penalty Vacated on Appeal A New York appeals court struck down a $464 million fraud penalty against President Donald Trump and his company in a civil suit over his asset valuations, but upheld his liability in the case, handin...

oh good i was worried he might face the tiniest amount of consequences

Rainbow crosswalk outside Pulse nightclub removed overnight “We did everything according to state law, everything was compliant,” said Patty Sheehan, the city’s first openly gay elected official. “FDOT never moves that quickly with anything.&#82…

They have to show up in the dead of night and without notification, because they know it’s wrong. Effing monsters. Gift link: www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/08/21/r...

The Sudden Panic That SCOTUS Might Overturn Marriage Equality Misses the Real Threat Kim Davis’ case will not be the vehicle the court uses to eradicate the equal dignity of same-sex couples.

Recent panic that the Supreme Court might soon overturn marriage equality is unwarranted—the justices are highly unlikely to take up the case that has people worried. And this freak-out risks diverting attention away from the court's subtler, ongoing attack on gay rights. slate.com/news-and-pol...

1. Everything is fucked
2. because of republicans
3. we have a lot of work to do

A DOGE kid gets beat up in DC and it’s DefCon1; hundreds of bullets into federal buildings with officer killed in Atlanta and it’s crickets; violent mob attacks Capitol wounding dozens of officers and it’s pardons for all.

Oklahoma authorities investigate reports of explicit images on state education chief's TV Authorities in Oklahoma have opened an investigation after two members of the State Board of Education said they saw images of naked women on a television screen in the office of state School Superint...

In The Handmaid’s Tale, the Commanders preach purity but sneak off to brothels. It’s not fiction, it’s a mirror.

The most repressed are often the most controlling. If they just let themselves enjoy life, maybe they wouldn’t burn the world trying to punish everyone else for enjoying it.

And all it took was totally selling out

A remake of the GOP logo with the text: Pedophile Protectors. There is a red and blue elephant in the middle of the logo.

A @jenniferjenkins.bsky.social run would be incredible! She did great work in Brevard and that would undoubtedly continue if we sent her to Washington!

Where are my hometown bitches??!! #Cleveland #Epstein

The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.

1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS

Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows

How did the city do it?

Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue

So naturally the United States Senate will absolutely confirm him to a lifetime appointment

Next up: sue this administration!

A disabled vet says he was wrongfully detained in last week’s Camarillo raid, despite being a U.S. citizen.

• Reporting for his security job at Glass House Farms
• Told them he was a citizen
• No charges. No phone call. No lawyer.
• No care after chemical exposure

There's something about the way men use LLMs that feel like those men at the strip club who believe that the dancers like them for their personality and wit.

They just want a toy that makes them feel good.

How “The First Homosexuals” Shaped an Identity A timely exhibition dissects the emergence of modern ideas about gender and sexuality—and the backlash against them.

Same-sex relationships have existed since time immemorial. What’s newly visible is the notion that engaging in them might be an exclusive preference and defining quality.

Albuquerque, NM - a man was filmed being tazed in a Walmart by
unidentified people wearing ICE and
HSI vests.

DIDN'T TAKE LONG: One group suing over Trump's birthright citizenship order has refiled its lawsuit as a class action, noting that the court left open this option for nationwide relief. They're asking a Maryland judge for an emergency restraining order. www.politico.com/live-updates...

all of the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence about executive power - all of it - can be replaced with a simple flow chart. is the president a Republican? if so it’s ok. if not, it’s presumptively not ok.

Anyway it's our country, not theirs.