Senator Patty Murray 4 A @Patty...3h X There is no excuse. None. Republicans have the votes, they have the power —and tonight they are choosing, deliberately, to do nothing for families and everything for ICE. It's past 3 AM and they're jamming through $70 billion for ICE and $O for families. Spread the word.
At least 17 people have already died in ICE custody this year—outpacing every other past Administration.
ICE has a shameful & egregious record of violating people's rights, traumatizing children, & killing our neighbors.
Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"
![Star Trek The Original Series scene. We're in a CORRIDOR! A room door is open, and we see two crewmen spilling out into the hallway in red and blue uniforms. They are otherwise indecipherable tho because they are entirely enveloped in a big cloud of smoke. It's pouring out all around them and into the hallway area, like there's a Phish concert in there. Closed caption reads, "[COUGHING]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:i6ocendj65mmddfndihajsky/bafkreid4y3gbxwc5dg4mbzycsbij2lkhte22722ei7rupowkzm7juimqvy)
Star Trek The Original Series scene. We're in a CORRIDOR! A room door is open, and we see two crewmen spilling out into the hallway in red and blue uniforms. They are otherwise indecipherable tho because they are entirely enveloped in a big cloud of smoke. It's pouring out all around them and into the hallway area, like there's a Phish concert in there. Closed caption reads, "[COUGHING]"
Not enough people are talking about this.
The head of the FAA, the person whose job is to oversee the airline industry, failed to divest his MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR stake in an airline company his agency regulates.
Trump has destroyed federal guardrails meant to ensure secure and fair elections.
Some fear his actions are aimed at making sure the upcoming midterms go his way.
If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?
Stephen Miller almost says that Trump is seeking a "final solution" in Iran but then catches himself
"She’s been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide..."
"One of her children recently enlisted in the military...
www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...
A photo of a tray with three sections empty. One has chopped carrot in it. The other has what can only be described as a posit of brown dog vomit and an insole liner of a sneaker (or a used panty liner from the mid 1700s). The kind of meal that would have you happily tossing yourself overboard.
NEW: Growing fears of food shortages on USS Tripoli & other US ships in the Middle East.
This photo is the kind of meals now being served. It was sent by a sailor to her family.
Families are now trying to send food parcels to the ships.
Full story 👉 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
"Marvel Studios Moves Film Production from Georgia to UK's Pinewood Studios"
"Reasons for the move include cheaper labor and studios not being required to subsidize workers’ medical expenses, as the U.K. has universal healthcare."
France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.
Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars
The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.
Why aren't we doing this?
April 2: guards cut all phone access in the housing units without warning. When detainees protested, CRS officers allegedly punched a man, threw another to the ground, kicked him in the head, and pinned him by the neck. A third detainee's wrist was broken. The entire cage was pepper-sprayed.
Viktor Orban accomplished so much of what the Trump movement wants to accomplish here
he ruled for 16 years and rewrote the rules in his favor
and still, they threw him out
and you know what? they did it by voting
don’t let anyone tell you voting doesn’t matter
Old US newspaper comic showing a carnival sideshow with two men on stage and an announcer describing them. A crowd looks on. The 2 men on stage are joined at the ends of their long beards. One is labeled America First and the other has a large swastika on his torso. Annoncer: "And on this platform folks, those most perplexing people...the lads with the Siamese beard! Unrelated by blood, they are joined in a manner that mystifies the muddiest minds in the land!"
US capitalist democracy is fascism, and has been for a long time.
Trump: "We want Greenland. NATO doesn't want to give it us. And I said, 'Bye bye.' Okay, thank you very much everybody."
Trump ignores a question about "what about rising gas prices for Americans?" as he wraps up the press conference
Q: Why would Iranians want you to blow up their infrastructure, to cut off their power?
TRUMP: They would be willing to suffer that in order to have freedoms. We've had numerous intercepts -- 'Please keep bombing. Do it.' These are people that are living where the bombs are exploding
Trump on his military advisers: "I was told this is a very dangerous mission. They didn't say it's a foolish mission, they said 'We're gonna be sacrificing hundreds of people to do this.' I just felt it was worth it."
New in PN: Trump's Total War Budget
"It points the way clearly toward a distinctively Republican vision of America — one where there's endless money for bombs while the populace is transformed into an impoverished mass of hunger and disease, emitting hoarse pleas for castoffs from oligarchs."
Unbelievable. ICE detains spouse of servicemember who’s about to deploy when they show up at base so he can start basic training.
@nytimes.com reporting at the link in first comment.
Star Trek First Contact scene, and if you haven't watched this one you should cancel all plans and view immejietly. (Also has a Mark S from Severance cameo) Ok, it's nighttime and we're close in on 2 dudes, closest is Zefram Cochrane, and just behind him is William T. Riker, famous tromboner. Both are in civilian clothes, Riker a leather jacket, and Zefram in a bomber type coat with the white fluffy wooly stuffing around the collar. Zefram is also wearing a weird black hat that is sort of like a bandana in form and function, but instead of fabric it's bedazzled leather. He's speaking, and looks kind of dumbfounded or stumped. Closed caption reads, "You're all....astronauts .. on some kind of Star Trek" Happy First Contact Day 🖖🏼
Alt in pic 1
Happy First Contact Day 🖖🏽
Star Trek The Search for Spock scene. Our Lord Spock is pictured in a white robe. He stands surrounded by his shipmates who are all older here than they were in the TV show. Sulu is smiling and touching Spock's chest for some reason. Uhura, Chekov, Scotty, and Bones stand close and all seem thrilled to see him, but are otherwise practicing self control and not feeling his chest. Despite being surrounded by friends, Spock is staring only at Kirk, for obvious reasons.
He is risen
If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment.
This is completely, utterly unhinged. He's already killed thousands. He's going to kill thousands more.
We invaded Venezuela, kidnapped their leader and installed a puppet, and are now pillaging the country's resources just like the fascists in the 1930s did, and somehow this has already been normalized and isn't being treated as the crime it is
The grift will not stop til he and the entire bloody lot of grifters are extracted, then banned from ever holding a governmental position again. This once great nation has never witnessed an entire admin with such brazen corruption & utter incompetence.
They all must be held to account.
Looks like it was a narco trafficking compound in exactly the same way Alex Pretti was a domestic terrorist.
"The best example of the news media deciding somebody is unfit for office, because of their mental fitness or unfitness, is how they treated Biden in 2024. Biden was old and rational. Right now, Trump is old and irrational, but he’s not getting the same kind of treatment." — @markjacob.bsky.social
ICE violently detain father legally working in U.S.—injure daughter's leg & rip out her nose piercing.
"I told them that I was a U.S. citizen," she said.
"We don't care," agents retort. "That doesn't matter.
Agents were "dressed in everyday clothing"—and refused to show ID.
Lebanon, Tennessee
