is this a good time to remind people that JD Vance appears to be owned by the world's weirdest billionaire and that guy funded his book and oh yeah he goes around the country making jokes about how he might be the Antichrist
UPDATE: @SenatorHagerty and the Republicans just voted to let Trump take the Qatari jet with him when he leaves office.
Insane corruption. There is no bottom.
“The origins of private schools receiving public funds were with the segregation academies,” one historian said.
(Published Nov. 2024)
I don't understand why the administration keeps saying that other countries pay our tariffs. This is simply not true even in the most optimistic scenario (e.g., a US importer negotiates something with their foreign partner). If the policy is good, why lie about it?
This case should be getting more attention. Remember that Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs were declared illegal by the U.S. Court of Trade. The Federal Circuit Court stayed the mandate until it could fully hear the case.
So much tariff talk - but lost in the sauce is their illegality.
The heartbreaking statement from Jonathan Joss’s husband about his death.
WHCA believes it's not the appropriate time for a comedian to ridicule a President and that proper respect must be shown to a man who deports little kids with cancer to other countries with no medicine. Tonight, an opposing view: www.meethook.live/not
Statement from ACLU. It reads: ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation Families disappeared and isolated without legal access; one child with cancer deported without medication and pregnant mother deported as well FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 25, 2025 CONTACT: media@aclu.org New Orleans, LA - Today, in the early hours of the morning, the New Orleans Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Field Office deported at least two families, including two mothers and their minor children - three of whom are U.S. citizen children aged 2, 4, and 7. One of the mothers is currently pregnant. The families, who had lived in the United States for years and had deep ties to their communities, were deported from the U.S. under deeply troubling circumstances that raise serious due process concerns. ICE detained the first family on Tuesday, April 22, and the second family on Thursday, April 24. In both cases, ICE held the families incommunicado, refusing or failing to respond to multiple attempts by attorneys and family members to contact them. In one instance, a mother was granted less than one minute on the phone before the call was abruptly terminated when her spouse tried to provide legal counsel's phone number. As a result, the families were completely isolated during critical moments when decisions were being made about the welfare of their minor children. This included decisions with serious implications for the health, safety, and legal rights of the children involved - without any opportunity to coordinate with caretakers or consult with legal representatives. These actions stand in direct violation of ICE's own written and informal directives, which mandate coordination for the care of minor children with willing caretakers - regardless of immigration status - when deportations are being carried out. Both families have possible immigration relief, but because ICE denied them access to their attorneys, legal counsel was unable to assis…
🚨New day, new horror.
ICE deports two families, including 3 children that are US CITIZENS aged 2, 4 & 7.
The families were snatched & blocked from communicating with attorneys/family.
One mother is pregnant. One child has cancer & was deported without medication or any doctor support.
INHUMANE.
I totally agree that they have to be the ones to destroy this system. We are on the outside of the American system so us rebelling against it is anticipated.
White people killing the very system they keeps them in power is unexpected and they are not prepared for that
National security ain’t supposed to be a family affair, but apparently Pete Hegseth missed that memo.
Leaking classified military plans—TWICE—the second time on a personal Signal chat to friends and family? That man has no business being Defense Secretary. He’s a threat, not a leader.
The cash was reported missing, but not the gun she claims to always be carrying?
Everything. Is. A. Lie.
A distraction.
Pope Francis’s "Urbi et Orbi" Easter speech:
“How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants...I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility in our world not to yield to the logic of fear which only leads to isolation from others.”
Understand your social impact and act on it:
If all black & Hispanic people went & bought guns tomorrow— there would be strict gun laws by the end of the week
If all white people refused to go to work and didn’t say when they were coming back they would bring back DEI
we have power in numbers
THREAD: Last year, ProPublica started receiving tips from an unusual kind of source: flight attendants. They said they'd worked on deportation flights for ICE, and they could tell us what it was really like on board. 1/
@ylepidemiologist.bsky.social
is right. You can humiliate and fire us. But we will not stay down. Because we truly believe in our mission. We fight for people. We fight for kids. For the right to survive and the hope to thrive.
Goodnight friends. Get some rest.
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Anyway, he just lost.
not many people can say that they were, at some point, the single coolest person on the planet. RIP to one of them
you will never actually "understand how oligarchs think" until you recognize that they very sincerely believe 99% of humans are NPCs and can't comprehend why the NPCs keep resisting the player character's commands, they do not have thoughts more complex than "I pushed button and nothing happen"
Val Kilmer as Stewart in Palo Alto
There are so many incredible Val Kilmer performances, but I’m particularly sentimental for PALO ALTO because it was his son Jack’s first feature film. You can tell Val’s giving it his all in his role because he wants to do right by his kid. An underrated, endearing performance. #RIP
The US has some of the lowest tariffs in the world. Trump is now threatening to reverse that with reciprocal tariffs, due to take effect on April 2.
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Valuable info in these times, as we watch violence enacted on others, and are also sometimes caught in the fray. www.ucdenver.edu/offices/equi...
as others have noted there's a connection between these deaths and right wing "Antifa" paranoia. musk designed and advertised this thing as apocalypse proof which in his smooth brain meant "able to protect riders from dangerous hordes of poor rioters". this also makes rescuing passengers impossible
A New Hampshire man with a green card was detained by immigration officers at Logan Airport and is being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Donald W. Wyatt detention facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island.
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Jacob Lawrence, The Libraries Are Appreciated, 1943 philamuseum.org/collection/o...
The US is running a Stanford Milgram experiment on a societal scale.
"How The Trump Administration Is Weaponizing Antisemitism to Undermine Our Democracy"
The most antisemitic Administration in modern history is using Jews as a battering ram to dismantle free speech, weaken college universities, & crush pro-Palestinian activism.
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I hope the book tanks.
#ImJustSayin it’d be a real shame if it got flooded with negative reviews.
These are bold and wild allegations from the FBI, which is moving to criminalize organizations like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the EPA.
In a court filing, Citibank disclosed that it had been directed by the FBI to freeze the bank accounts of these groups.
