Ryan Thomas Johnson

MAGA descending on Disneyland on the same day their dictator starts a war is more American than cheeseburgers.

The Handbasket 100% independent journalism by Marisa Kabas

Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media.

Off the top of my head:

www.thehandbasket.co
404media.co
www.garbageday.email

Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.

They found him. He died.

Another murder by our immigration goon squads

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

My favorite irony of 2026 is that we can't wait for the longevity gurus to die.

The past year has had knuckle draggers gargling beef tallow. So I won't be surprised by anything anymore.

Local zoning is the way! A lot of these are being stopped or stalled by neighborhood organizing.

These warehouses often need to be purchased, permitted, approved for occupancy and specs. Each one of those steps can be interrupted.

Ppl are pressuring corps not to sell, counties to deny permits, etc

Idk why I'm surprised, these mfs aren't good at much but they've got grifting down to an exact science

Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court.

Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business.

As well as everyone else who stepped up.

Hmm...hm...

And before you think it...No goddamned podcasters either.

Before Stephen A. Smith makes any announcements, can we all agree to a moratorium on TV hosts running for federal office? They're terrible at it.

Just got a text from future me. I said “we have run out of champagne. Tell everyone to stop drinking it and save it for last night. Also, plant more grapes, as we plan to make this an annual international holiday.”

🤷🏻‍♂️

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

I assure you, IRS website, you do not want my feedback.

This is the first government shutdown I've experienced where the public vibe seems to be, "Can we leave it turned off?"

i‘m using it for a column but i want to share here this line from lincoln on jefferson because it is applies to our situation as well. you can find it in his april 6, 1859 letter to henry l. pierce.

May this one day happen to them.

Call this profiling if you like, but I think we should stop letting puffy white men with visibly red eyes at 9am Congressional hearings have important federal government jobs.

I gotta say, "the Pentagon uses a high powered laser to shoot down a party balloon" feels like enough symbolism for awhile. all full up thanks

People are going to inevitably focus on the headline, but the Reformer story correctly focuses on the reality of what this terror campaign against an American city and its residents has actually consisted of.

You've all noticed that no one has told Kid Rock to stop the politics and stick to the music, right? We all know this is as good as it gets with him.

Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.

Page 1 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Colorful doodles of a rainbow and hearts are found throughout the page. Translation: “I am Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya and I have been 113 days in detention I miss my friends and I feel they are going to forget me. I am bored here. I already miss my country and my house, I came on vacation for 10 Days and they took me into an ice office an officer interrogated me 2 hours without my mom, I was traveling with flight attendant because my mom lives in new york, they only wanted to arrest my mom, because my mom didn’t have documents to live in U.S.A., I always traveled with my tourist visa but ice used me to catch my mom and now I am in a jail and I am sad and I have fainted 2 times here inside. When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”

Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Translation: “They don’t give me my diet I am vegetarian, I don’t eat well, there is no good education and I miss my best friend julieta and my grandmother and my school I already want to get to my house. Me in dilei [Dilley] am not happy please get me out of here to colombia.” Below the text is a drawing of the girl and her mother in the government-issued gray sweatsuits of the detention center.

6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”

9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.

For years...YEARS...I have been trying to place who Bad Bunny reminds me of and it just hit me like a bolt of lightning.

I grew up listening to metal. You will never, ever find me complaining that I can't understand the lyrics.

Tragedy for Kid Rock, Brantley Burbis and Analeigh Bulpo.

Who can save this declining institution of journalism? Surely it's the head of current unparalleled juggernaut No Boobs Blogland!!

Will Lewis is resigning as WaPo CEO, former Tumblr CEO Jeff D’Onofrio is the paper’s new acting CEO and publisher, per memos to staff

Vice President JD Vance gets roundly booed at the opening ceremony of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympics. "Those are a lot of boos for him, whistling jeering," says the presenter. US athletes receive a warm welcome from fans, though.