JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

It’s funny people used to celebrate our religious freedom as what makes us morally superior to the Taliban

And now it seems the gop ideal society culturally is aligned with the Taliban

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.

They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

It’s nuts how they can be openly racist against Ilhan and it raises zero public or institutional ire

We have not progressed as a country much farther than the 1970s

New day, same fake story. 👋🏽

Donald Trump is an embarrassing, racist, and corrupt liar.

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Post Traumatic Disorder Adam O’Neal says he’s bringing “intellectual diversity” to The Washington Post’s opinion pages—but the moves he’s making behind the scenes tell a different story.

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

Well before all of this I binged Clarkson’s Farm on Amazon and it was fascinating to see how much planning and predictability was required for farms to function and stay solvent

Makes me believe things are far worse for our agriculture industry than we’re understanding right now

I've been taking this for near-granted, both military and ICE etc. goons. The question is if they'll do anything more than stand around relatively harmlessly, or actively interfere in some worse way. Also a question of how big a scale it'll be on. But they absolutely intend to do some form of it.

With each passing month it’s crazy to think how much better things would have been if Kamala were elected instead of Donald

Bondi’s non-denial, here, should generate front-page, bold-letter headlines.

Frustrating that Sen. Whitehouse didn’t respond with a harder-hitting soundbite. It would’ve been better for him to say, “That’s not a no”, rather than his inaccurate remark, “you don’t know anything about that?…ok”.

“.. Lower population growth as the president presses ahead with mass deportations will knock between 0.5 and one percentage points off America’s GDP growth between mid-2025 and mid-2026, according to S&P Global Ratings.”

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The thing about Iran-Contra and Watergate was that they WEREN’T flagrant: they had to be exposed.Trump literally does stuff five times worse than Watergate every day, and then tweets an openly neo-Nazi meme about it from the official White House account. It’s a difference in kind, not just degree.

This is a good demonstration of the asymmetry between democratic and republican voters too

Republican voters want immigrants and transgender people hurt, or people living in cities, they’d be gloating about policies that hurt them even if it causes economic harm for everyone

Yep. Look at voting patterns. Democrats win all groups except white people (they win educated white people just barely if you split them out)

Just the fact the country is 65% white means GOP wins on white racial grievance which whites demographically prioritize over functioning society & government

“Greater certain “

Good luck

Sorry for our morons

Yep. As a Democrat aligned voter I know never to take any of the patriotic constitutional bullshit seriously from republicans anymore

They have no principles except white supremacy and/or Christian nationalism

Not all that long ago, 100% of right-wingers would have been against using federal troops this way, sending them in, uninvited, to a peaceful city. Now, just about 100% of right-wingers are just fine with it. Tells you all you need to know about them & their commitment to American liberty.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Supreme Court to decide if states may ban attempts to ‘convert’ gay and transgender youth | CNN Politics Matt Salmon remembers getting into a circle with the other teenagers in his group therapy session and shouting obscenities at a gay boy forced to stand in the middle.

The Supreme Court is poised to overturn 32 state bans on conversion therapy and explicitly legalize the abusive and torturous process.

They don't care how many LGBTQ people this traumatizes and kills.

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Same tactic for manafort. Manafort lawyers said he was singing, trump floated idea of pardon, manafort stayed quiet and got his pardon

Probably why they keep whipping the auto pen story

When it eventually comes out it’s been miller all along they’ll say “but the auto pen”

This has always been a extremely tiny screeching minority demanding that their bigotry dictate that no one else's children can learn of the existence of LGBTQ people.

GOP would have been making national news out of this if the tables were turned

I don’t think I’ve seen any national dem talk about this. And they should be

I find it fascinating and troubling that when the 🍊💩 attacked Jimmy Kimmel, the public united in outrage, fought back, and won. But when he attacks the rule of law, truth, and democracy itself, that powerful unity disappears. Why do we defend personalities more fiercely than
our democracy?

David Ellison, the head of Paramount/CBS, is a Nepo Baby son of billionaire psycho Larry Ellison, who just bought TikTok and wants to buy Warner Bros/Discovery (CNN, HBO).

He's the biggest private donor to Israel, hard core right wing Zionist and Trump supporter.

Bari Weiss is their Luca Brasi.

Immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

Rodrick Johnson, a U.S. citizen who was briefly detained, said agents broke through his door and placed him in zip ties.

“I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer,” the 67-year-old told the Chicago Sun-Times. “They never brought one.” https://to.pbs.org/4pWhXzN

We can’t out-Republican Republicans, nor should we want to.

Democrats need to say what they believe — and actually believe in something.
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It’s sickening that they don’t cite excellence or competency or rigorous investigation as values for news, but “balance” which in news means eschewing excellence in favor of rightwing bad faith claims or just delusion and conspiracy

What is “balance” for Jan 6 or great replacement theory?

I’m trying to think of a person of color who was handed so much influence on a silver platter, while being to epically mediocre