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Anti-ICE poster seen in Sodo, Seattle

Dreamers Face ‘Greatest Threat’ Yet in Trump Immigrant Crackdown The DACA program has survived years of political siege—but recent arrests have dreamers shocked and worried.

Deaf guy tried to show ICE his ID. An agent grabbed it and didn't return it.

So he tried to type a message about his disability but an agent grabbed his phone.

He was left w/ no way to communicate w/ the men seizing him.

He was a DACA recipient (a "dreamer"). He spent nearly a month in detention.

As the piece notes, the PragerU propaganda is being used in schools in Louisiana, Florida, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Montana, Arizona, South Carolina and Idaho.

Check with your district to see if they're using this garbage to brainwash your kids.

The billionaire CEO of the third richest company on the planet gives the President an actual block of gold so his company is exempted from US Government tariffs. And the whole thing is broadcast live on TV.

Anyone who can't see what is happening to this country is unsalvageable at this point.

BREAKING: The US government has just removed sections 9 and 10 of Article I of the US Constitution from their website.

Note that sections 9 and 10 deal with:

- Writ of Habeas Corpus
- Congresses ability to control tariffs.

See screenshot below: Notice that 9 and 10 are gone.

The entire supply of fire retardant, the vital liquid dropped from planes to combat wildfires, is controlled by one company.

That company, Perimeter Solutions, charges 20-30% more than it did four years ago.

So our government pays them more and more in an effort to save lives.

Trump say the FBI “may have to” arrest Texas Democrats who broke quorum

From a report today on @npr.org: People held at Alligator Auschwitz have no legal path out. ICE says they're held on state charges, so Federal immigration judges can't hear cases for bond or anything else. The state hasn't charged them, so state judges can't hear the case because there's no case. 1/

i have been thinking a lot about how the entire concept of “the deal” is antithetical to transparency, fair play and rule of law, as larry notes. the deal is necessarily nonstandard, ad hoc and dependent on the whims of the dealmaker

FRIEDMAN: “If the behavior this administration has exhibited in just its first six months continues and is amplified for its full four years, the America you know will be gone. And I don’t know how we will get it back.”

‘1984’ is upon us.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...

More of this, please.

Texas Dems to flee state amid national redistricting battle They will head to Illinois, where Gov. JB Pritzker has expressed sympathy for their plight.

TEXAS: “Dozens of Democrats plan to flee the state amid a special session Sunday afternoon, making a last-ditch effort to disrupt a mid-decade redistricting attempt forced by Trump… their second act of breaking quorum since 2021…”

Heads up: the Bureau of Labor Statistics also calculates the Consumer Price Index.

And here we go. The plan seems to be to go full 𝕾𝖈𝖍𝖚𝖙𝖟𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖋𝖋𝖊𝖑, to turn the nation into a military police state. They’re telling each other to be careful what they write down, but they’ve already written down too much. 🧵:

Detainees at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” are on a hunger strike over what they call inhumane, dangerous conditions.

Some haven’t eaten in 10 days. One of them, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized and still refuses food until they are treated with dignity.

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

James Talarico, Texas state representative and actual Christian.

IRS Chief Says Direct File Is ‘Gone,’ Other Audit Tech Is Coming The Biden-era IRS free filing tool, Direct File, is “gone,” IRS Commissioner Billy Long said.

Last year, Direct File saved taxpayers $5.6 million in tax preparation costs by allowing people to file their taxes for FREE.

That’s why tax preparation companies like TurboTax and Intuit lobbied to get rid of it.

Trump just gave them their wish.

news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...

‘1984’ is upon us

Ask yourself this: if the numbers were actually bad, would whoever he installs tell us?

Answer: of course not

This is where the train leaves the tracks

Trans kids are not
•disposable
•the reason Dems lose
•a threat

Trans kids are
•deserving of basic human rights

Trans kids should be
•protected, always

it is beyond the pale to view the existence of trans people as an acceptable sacrifice to “beat fascism”

if “beating fascism” leaves trans people exiled from society you did not actually beat fascism at all

How John Durham and Chuck Grassley Covered Up Getting Ass-Handed by Russia - emptywheel John Durham (with Chuck Grassley's help) tried to obscure that on the same day as the Russian spy report that drove his entire investigation, Russian spooks discussed seeding conspiracies about "dark ...

I've long believed 2016 Russian operation in US was most successful intelligence operation in recent history.

With disclosure that Durham investigation all predicated on disinformation, I double down on that opinion. Russia completely destroyed the United States.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/01/h...

“Why are you taking my father away from me?” 💔 (New York)

@sandibachom.bsky.social films Trump’s ICE Gestapo

These questions have been closely considered for many years, and the answers proved uncontroversial and socially just - until the radical right saw an opportunity to exploit hatred.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

We are going to have the fun thing happen again where a dozen cisgender female athletes discover they have Y chromosomes.

A high school senior who was detained by ICE in Florida in May is speaking out about the violent altercation in which he was told — despite being an American citizen — that he had no rights.

"You got no rights here. You're an amigo, brother."

Laynez was born and raised in the United States.

I’m a lawyer who’s worked with unhoused clients; acquiring a govt ID is by far, the most common task/obstacle unhoused clients face, usually at the outset.

So of course, ICE is raiding homeless shelters. They hit the Women’s’ Shelter across the street from our bldg, yesterday. Cruelty is the point.

Excuse my language but what fucking business is it of the united states government whether Brown undertakes this kind of medical care for parents and their kids who fully consent to it and desire it? Insanity! Pure discrimination in an agreement trollingly cloaked in preventing discrimination.

This Tuckahoe home won a $1.26 billion contract for an ICE detention center. The owner isn't talking. The company’s website is dated and largely accessible only via login.

how much of the money from the ICE/tax cuts bill is just going to go to scammers, do you think? www.richmonder.org/this-tuckaho...

The truth here is so ever relevant, is so simple and profound. I think I might pop it into my next book. Sharing yet again: