The federal government
took $4,049 from the average taxpayer to fund war and weapons in 2025.
When you compare that to what went toward programs that actually help us…
the gap gets hard to ignore: 🧵
This is an absolute scandal; the United States government is deliberately consolidating all deportation cases of an ethnic minority that the President has called "garbage" in front of a handpicked group of judges and with dramatically accelerated timeline.
A lawsuit was filed yesterday against it.
Dispatching three Long Island finance guys who look like they should have ponytails but don't, two 67yo Florida real estate developers named Steven and Stephen, and a nephew I don't think very highly of to negotiate an advantageous peace in the war I started.
“Nathan Hansen, a right-wing attorney and influential X user who has amplified racist conspiracies and fringe legal theories, will make decisions on which immigrants will be deported in his new job as an immigration judge at Fort Snelling.”
I’ve been thinking about this guy almost daily for ten fucking years. essentially my entire 30’s. when he finally croaks I imagine I’ll let out a sigh so deep it realigns my fucking spine
A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois
Brutal.
The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office.
The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office.
Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children.
Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future.
If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it.
So must you.
Posted on TikTok by argw6 who says this was SFO airport in San Francisco, 10 pm, Sunday, 22 March 2026.
A woman is grabbed by (presumably) ICE agents. The 2 men have no visible insignia. Onlookers ask for a badge. A small girl sobs watching her mom be manhandled.
URL: www.tiktok.com/@argw6/video...
today’s guy was a 46-year-old imam from Eritrea and the thoughts I’m having right now after reading this cannot safely be posted on this website
HE FUCKING. TRIED. TO TELL YOU.
📍 𝐓𝐄𝐗𝐀𝐒:
ICE detained a DACA recipient father on his way to deliver milk to his premature baby in the NICU, leaving his U.S.-citizen wife and children behind while he was taken to a detention center.
#AbuseOfPowerWatch
“It began with a fever… Her breathing grew strained & wheezy."
A mother watched her 18-month-old become seriously ill at Dilley. "By the time that detention staff decided to get Amalia to a hospital, she had to be treated for pneumonia, Covid-19, RSV & respiratory distress."
✍️ @tusk81.bsky.social
The extent to which every single one of these guys has absolutely no idea what the fuck they're talking about is frankly stunning. You should be embarrassed to go out in public and spout shit like this. It should scar your soul and make you weep in shame, but that requires introspection, so...shit.
![From the Star Tribune: “The damage to Harper's body was so severe, we were not allowed to see her, hold her, or be with her body ever again," [her mother] said. "And then, months later, as the pews were removed from that church, more of her remains were found. We had to cremate our daughter a second time. Imagine receiving that
phone call. And then tell me, what is this gun for? Hunting?
There are other tools. Home defense? There are other tools.
What is this one for?"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2yhglxsi2owchryafic2gmr3/bafkreigo5t6pjbjhqjffbrx4rif5nmmg7le4rno7qnz2svqgx3g74kitky)
From the Star Tribune: “The damage to Harper's body was so severe, we were not allowed to see her, hold her, or be with her body ever again," [her mother] said. "And then, months later, as the pews were removed from that church, more of her remains were found. We had to cremate our daughter a second time. Imagine receiving that phone call. And then tell me, what is this gun for? Hunting? There are other tools. Home defense? There are other tools. What is this one for?"
Absolutely gutting story on Annunciation parents pouring their souls into enlightening legislators, knowing they’d the GOP brick wall. But the piece contains one of the most horrifying paragraphs an American parent could read; it will stay with me: www.startribune.com/in-living-ro... (gift)
Oh wow, a country where they shoot protestors? Yikes, sounds like a bad country
I have never met anyone who is more adept at tracking every last cent they have than people who live or have lived in poverty
it is a skill developed out of necessity and it never leaves you
Trump attacked Iran after markets closed on Friday because he thought it would be over by Monday.
12 days on, the world faces a shortage of oil, fertiliser & food, 200 children are dead, a capital city is poisoned & global capital flows are at risk.
He started it but can’t end it.
Cataclysmic.
Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.
"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
brass solidarity band, made up of community members around george floyd square, covering sam cooke’s “a change is gonna come” last night at the abolish ICE festival in minneapolis across the street from where feds murdered alex pretti in jan. amazing performance
m.youtube.com/watch?v=8TZW...
I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.
I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them.
I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.
They cut Meals on Wheels for seniors, doctors for the VA, and food for American children - but send billions of taxpayer dollars to the Middle East for an unnecessary war of choice.
“We need to evict people to help them!”
What would you say you do around here?
Every Democrat in the House should sign on to articles of impeachment for Kristi Noem. This is fruit so low-hanging it's practically below ground.
$300 million mistake
That's the same cost as 25,000 Head Start slots
Bloody backpacks. Your tax money at work.
We are the Capitol today to say that ICE officers that are still in our community. Our immigrant community is still suffering while trying to repair from the large scale damage done. We need action from the City and the State to help our neighbors.
Minnesota superintendent details just TEN MINUTES under ICE occupation
Border Patrol released Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a 56 yo man, nearly blind with serious medical conditions, at "an old address & his family had since moved" in Buffalo, NY in the winter. "His family was not initially notified." He was found dead. @news4buffalo.bsky.social
www.wivb.com/news/local-n...
