So many good performances:

The Great Santini!

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

It is absolutely a choice.

FRAN SKAFA and the METSKAMORPHOSIS emma alice johnson

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This is great, and I have only one caveat:

I don’t think there can be a final overcoming of state authoritarianism and racial violence. We will have to keep fighting, forever.

GEORGE RETES: “My name is George Retes. I was born and raised here in Ventura, California. I’m 26 years old and I am an Iraq combat veteran. I was going to work like normal. I show up. ICE is there. There’s kind of like a roadblock. I get out. I identify myself — that I’m a U.S. citizen, that I’m just trying to get to work. I’m trying to leave. I’m getting ready to leave and they surround my car, start banging on it, start shouting these contradictory orders. Even though I was giving them no reason, they still felt the need to — one agent knelt on my back and another agent knelt on my neck. And during that time, I’m just pleading with them that I couldn’t breathe. I was in isolation. I was in basically this concrete cell. I was stripped naked in like a hospital gown. And they leave the lights on 24/7. They just came out and they said that I was violent and that I assaulted agents. Why lie when it’s on video of everything that happened? Why lie?”

PBS News Hour: U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents describe how they were treated.

Watch the segment here www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMgC...

I'm clipping transcripts of the citizens speaking in this thread 1/3

This entire piece is a MUST READ.

David Leonhardt, the "Popularists"--their analysis of how the politics of immigration plays out is simplistic and, as Greg shows, belied by reality.

Morally decent politics around immigration ARE ALSO politically expedient.

Completely agree

“.. I suppose I could have simply, unilaterally, ordered the military to go into some red state and harass and intimidate a governor there or cut off funding for states that didn't vote for me... but that is contrary to how I think our democracy is supposed to work."

(via No Lie with BTC)

I realize media doesn’t think it’s a big deal that Trump, Vance & Hegseth continue to give partisan political speeches to troops, evidenced by the fact that they are never asked about it nor are members of Congress, but it is one of the most dangerous things happening right now.

Rubio plays good cop with Europe, speaking with old school positivity about the Western alliance, even as he chastises Europe on immigration causing civilizational decline and skips a meeting about Ukraine.

European leaders sigh with relief, as if the Trump/Vance/Hegseth bad cops aren’t in charge.

BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.

The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Please read this long but important thread from an immigration defense attorney.

If this administration is permitted to scale its current abuse, neglect, and inhumane treatment of immigrants to the breadth and scope for which they’re currently planning, we’ll all be witness to mass atrocities.

He clumsily read his speech from the page without hardly looking up and told everyone in the room to follow the US's lead or suck it. He accused Europe of managed decline by not being racist enough, and if it doesn't fall in line then America won't be there for it. Not sure how reassuring that is.

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Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers Genetic study finds domestic pigs’ year-round breeding sped gene flow into wild boar Back in 2021, in the thick of pandemic mania, The Register gleefully reported that "radioactive hybrid terror pigs" were thriving in Japan's Fukushima exclusion zone.…

ICYMI: Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers

“.. using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought ..”

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

cool, cool. so we are sort of like citizens, but not really?

NEW: Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons told Congress today that local law enforcement in Colorado leaked word of a raid, allowing gang members to clear out of apartments.

Those apartments were being cleared out weeks earlier.

Tonight, ICE deleted social media posts with the claim.

He's not America's banker! Knock it off with that!

He's a bog standard banker who got incredibly lucky.

Bovino advanced all the way to within eyesight of Paisley Park, but his supply lines were stretched too thin and ultimately his frozen troops were encircled by Will Stancil and wine moms with whistles

Contact Your MOC

The so-called Save America Act will force 21 million American citizens to produce passports or birth certificates just to register to vote. Most do not have them ready. Turning paperwork into a barrier is a poll tax by another name. #HandsOffHerVote social.demcast.com/s/L9X3k1fQ

I remember reading an account of his sister, Mona Simpson, begging him to get treatment and Steve rejecting it with "I know my body better than any MD" more or less.

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She's worried about not getting her pardon when this regime ends.

It would be so delightful if Drumpf decides not to pardon all his lackeys when he leaves.

image from today's hearing

Epstein survivors raise their hands to signal they've been ignored by Trump's DOJ as AG Pam Bondi refuses to look at them

(Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)

💯TY, Garrett

..."If you read between the lines of comments and complaints by Miller, Noem, Homan, and Bovino, you can almost sense their frustration at how peaceful the national resistance to ICE has actually been — they have done everything they can to provoke violence, and it’s all fallen short."