Thomas Worth

Amazing 🧵, any one of these would have embroiled any previous administration in months of controversy, hearings, resignations, etc.

We're *currently in* the Golden Age of TV: Severance, Silo, Andor... the list could go on much further. Very few old shows have story lines even half as complex or premises that are even half as interesting as they are in those. Fallout, The Expanse, See, Good Place, Wheel of Time, Rings of Power...

Labor Secretary’s Husband Barred From the Department After Sexual Assault Reports

BREAKING NYT:

The husband of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has been barred from the department's headquarters after at least two female staff members told officials that he had sexually assaulted them, according to people familiar with the decision and a police report obtained by The Times.

Absolutely. I’ve been thinking this for the past few months, and her decision to go to Munich is clearly aimed at this eventual outcome.

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

We tried to fucking tell people that the economy under Biden was pretty great.

I arrived too late to an abduction yesterday. Ice vehicles boxed in a food delivery driver on the highway. They took him, and when I came on the scene (with a few other neighbors in cars), his keys were still in it. We found his phone, a debit card, his car title and registration.

When this is all over, we should close down Lake Street from the lakes to the river and get takeout from all the restaurants that helped or closed or struggled, and just have a big ol' dinner party. Open Streets but make it a potluck.

Gonna beg media not to just repeat Trump's obviously bullshit framing in the headlines. Tell readers the truth in the headlines.
Alternatives:
"With Artists and Audience Fleeing, Trump Closes Kennedy Center Indefinitely"
"Trump Says Kennedy Center Needs Renovation, Despite Recent $250M Renovation"

I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.

I'm starting to think the Trumpist mastery of propaganda is failing them. The DHS agents posing this way makes it look like they're ashamed of themselves.

Congratulations to the Kamala Will Take Your Guns crowd

Our Gettysburg Moment The stakes in Minneapolis are higher than even the participants may realize.

"House Democrats should get themselves to Minneapolis. Immediately. They should be on the street themselves, cameras out and recording, observing and putting their bodies on the line."

The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.

The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced the Democrats have to push their hand immediately. The parallels with the delays and subsequent failures after January 6th are blaring warning signs about what will happen if they don’t go after the issues with ICE and CBP at the root RIGHT NOW.

Okay I think I've mapped out ICE politics as of Monday night

Following the killing of AFGE Member Alex Pretti and the subsequent slanderous rhetoric that followed from top Trump administration officials, AFGE National President Everett Kelley issued the following statement: “Yesterday, AFGE brought together labor and faith leaders from Minneapolis and across the nation to mourn our fallen brother from Local 3669, Alex Pretti. We honored his life and legacy and lifted up his family, his friends, his union, Minneapolis, and our nation in prayer. “Today, we demand accountability. “In the immediate aftermath of Alex’s killing, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem betrayed the public trust by slandering the good name of our union brother and calling him a “domestic terrorist.” Alex Pretti was a patriotic ICU nurse at a VA hospital who devoted his life to serving America’s veterans. That claim was reckless, defamatory, and unsupported by the facts. Noem was preceded in this false statement by Stephen Miller, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, who is also the architect of the chaotic and failed immigration policy in Minnesota. “Our demand is clear: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was responsible for carrying out the policy that led to Alex’s needless killing, and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy, must resign immediately. If they refuse, President Trump must dismiss them.

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

Goddamn this is a jeremiad

On NPR on Friday, there was a story of a 4-year-old--an American citizen--who hasn't left her house since early December, not even to play in the yard. And her 8-year-old brother recently stopped going to school, too. Their father is undocumented, and the family doesn't want to risk him being taken.

Lot of conservative dudes out there telling on themselves by being astounded by a level of ”logistics” that the average mom has to manage every fucking day

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

I spent the most formative years of my political life reading headlines like this seemingly every week.

As others are also noting, this is almost obscene in its wild inadequacy to the moment.

You're the former POTUS. Get to MSP, with your buddies George & Bill, & call for the fascism to end, ICE leaders to go to jail, & for Trump to be immediately impeached & removed. And then do it every day after.

Do better. Call your buddy George W. Bush and show up together in Minneapolis.

Don’t just write statements. DO something with your megaphone.

Sorry, but being nice to 🧊 after they've outright murdered US citizens is what's gotten us to this point.

We cannot rely on traditional law enforcement or voting to solve this.

Our communities are being harmed by our Gov.

Time to fight back. No more murders of our people.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

I support American's 1st and 4th amendment rights. There is nothing wrong with legally peacefully protesting and videoing. MAGA, consider it like this. We lost our minds when we watched Biden's FBI track down and aggressively carry out home invasions and arrest on peaceful J6'ers who walked in the Capitol through open doors. Imaging if one of our MAGA independent journalists or even just a MAGA supporter stood in the street outside a J6'ers house while Biden's FBI carried out a law enforcement operation, home invasion, and arrest. Then Biden's FBI goes to the MAGA guy videoing it all and shoves a woman with him to the ground and sprays them with bear spray then throws the MAGA guy to the ground as MAGA guy was trying to help the woman off the ground. Then Biden's FBI beats MAGA guy on the ground, disarms MAGA guy, and then shoots him dead. What would have been our reaction?

Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene on Twitter. It’s 2026 and one of the few Republicans who seem capable of acknowledging that 2+2=4 is the person who was first politicized by Qanon.

think we might need to start calling them Kavanaugh murders.

YouTube video by Star Wars Andor | Karis Nemik’s Manifesto | Disney+

I dislike when people reduce important, history-making moments in modern life to pop culture references.

But also fuck it, this is a super great time to rewatch Andor.