"You, the moderate man, may be used for wrong, but are useless for right."

Goddamn, Melville could really cook.

1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Ted Cruz Newsroom Press Releases Published:11.25.2025 Sens. Cruz, Cornyn File Amicus Brief Backing Texas’ Emergency Application to Implement New Congressional Map WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights, and John Cornyn (R-Texas) filed an amicus brief in support of the State of Texas’ emergency application to the U.S. Supreme Court for a stay of the district court injunction that barred Texas from implementing its new congressional district map. The Senators did so in part on the basis of the Purcell principle, which holds that courts should not change election rules shortly before an election. Sen. Cruz said, “The Constitution entrusts redistricting matters to the states and to state legislators. The federal district court’s preliminary injunction was not made on the merits of the case, runs counter to precedent and to principles of federalism, and undermines the prerogatives of Texas lawmakers and the will of Texas voters. The Supreme Court should stay that preliminary injunction, and do so expeditiously in order to provide certainty in our election maps and rules as we approach deadlines for the 2026 election.”

Newsweek: Ted Cruz has proposed that Texas extend the state's Republican advantage in the U.S. House of Representatives to a full Democratic wipeout if Gavin Newsom goes ahead with a proposal to redraft congressional maps in his state in response to a similar plan by Republicans in Texas.

@tedcruz on X: A brazen abuse of power & an insult to democracy. 47% of VA voted Trump. They will now get just 9% of the seats. 52% of VA voters voted Harris. Now they get 91% of the seats. (By comparison, in TX, 56% voted Trump; GOP gets 79% of the seats.)

@SenLouiseLucas on X: You all started it and we fucking finished it. @tedcruz on X: A brazen abuse of power & an insult to democracy. 47% of VA voted Trump. They will now get just 9% of the seats. 52% of VA voters voted Harris. Now they get 91% of the seats. (By comparison, in TX, 56% voted Trump; GOP gets 79% of the seats.) 06 Feb 26

Like his Confederate forebears, Ted Cruz talked a big game, started a fight, got absolutely dog walked, then cried about how unfair it all was. A story in four images.

This is monstrous. ICE can't be reformed, it must be dismantled and its thugs prosecuted for their crimes against humanity.

Disgusting

Look at this ghoul.

AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.

Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

Armless lemons can still receive hugs, though, right?

Penn and Teller on Vaccinations YouTube video by UltraMiraculous

Vaccines don’t cause autism.
No matter what the 🧠🪱 says.

For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.

U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

"US Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, an emblem of fascism and white supremacy inextricably linked to the murder of millions of Jews and that more than 400,000 US troops died fighting against in World War II, as a hate symbol, according to a new policy that takes effect next month."

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

This week I had someone tell me they're not worried about SNAP being cut off because "that's illegal, so it's impossible Trump could do that, so obviously it's just media sensationalism." Another person told me they weren't worried about ICE because "they can't detain you if you're legally here."

A handful of maga Chuds have shown up on my Instagram post from today's march. Their talking point appears to be "Um, ACTUALLY, there isn't a king, so neener neener, libs!"

They really are the dumbest people to ever exist, and they LOVE their white Jesus.

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

The image is taken from an angle, and you can see the ocean tilting 30 degrees in the distance, with a huge crowd in front of it. In the foreground, you can see the giant American flag that is being held up by hundreds of protesters clustered around its edges.

This is the human banner from the air. It's sign made from masses of people standing together to form letters. It reads "No Kings Yes on 50." There is an American flag in the middle and a thick border around the banner. (Prop 50 is a California state proposition to gerrymander the state to create more blue districts, in order to combat the Texas law that gerrymanders their state to create more red districts.)

I joined the "human banner" at San Francisco's Ocean Beach. This flag was at the center. It was a gorgeous day with enormous waves. #nokings

1. He can do this himself
2. The war of red states on their own blue cities is accelerating

Actual HUD website right now: 🔗 hud.gov
⁉️😵‍💫

AND here’s the Hatch Act 👇

"The Hatch Act generally prohibits federal employees
from engaging in partisan political activity while on
duty, in a federal facility, or using federal property."

🚨 For those in power: yes, it applies to you. 🚨

We have to strike, yet everyone keeps saying how they can't, so instead it'll get worse and the bank accounts will get slimmer and we'll all be even worse off than ever and then people will say they still can't afford to strike

We have to make our stand sometime, why not now?

generalstrikeus.com

In Paramus, New Jersey, their spreading the Truth ✊🏼 #iceout #newjersey

Florida Cops Turn Traffic Stops Into Deportations A ride-along shows how the state’s police force has become integrated into the federal government’s enforcement efforts.

Florida Cops Turn Traffic Stops Into Deportations @wsj.com

🥰 awwww

Explain to me like I'm five how soldiers enforcing law in an American city is not martial law

didn't mrna vaccines almost literally save humanity a few years ago

what am I missing

The woman petitioning SCOTUS to overturn marriage equality in the name of the sanctity of marriage is on her fourth husband.

Hard of Hearing Leppard

No Kings San Francisco!

Los Angeles: don’t take Trump’s bait.

Trump wants chaos and he’s instigated violence. Those who assault law enforcement or cause property damage will risk arrest.

Stay peaceful. Stay focused. Don’t give him the excuse he’s looking for.

More than 10,000 people in Los Angeles, California marched against the Trump regime and his ICE ethnic cleansing operations targeting US communities and families nationwide. #3E #StopICE (🎥 @btnewsroom.bsky.social )