Nick Schroeder

It is difficult to overstate how quickly & thoroughly & shamefully we have normalized “the president can use federal funding as a cudgel to punish blue states & only blue states on his whim” in our polity & society. Yet another thing that would have ended any other presidency in the modern era.

It's depressing how quickly the Trump regime's cold-blooded murders in the Caribbean Sea have become background noise in the US. At least 150 people killed.

The life of this 59yo Cambodian refugee whose circumstances of death have *not been disclosed* matters.

wealth concentration is already 200% as bad at is was in 2020. think about that

ICE detention growth since late September is concentrated among people with no criminal charges or convictions. The “Other Immigration Violator” category far outpaces increases among convicted individuals.

Link: austinkocher.substack.com/p/ices-delay...

There should be Congressional hearings over this

This is tremendous. Take the time to watch it.

This is pretty striking. If this piece is correct, even 13 arrests that ICE has publicized in Maine include a bunch of false claims and several people with no apparent record at all.

It should be incumbent on the feds to prove their allegations

ICE Unloads Immigration officers speak out: “Fuck this.”

Even ICE thinks the ICE recruits are incompetent and dangerous www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-unload...

Block instantly.

I genuinely don't understood how America took the emoluments clause -- the common-sense bar on a president using his powers to line his own pockets, a law children can understand -- and just said, nah, that doesn't apply for our Very Special Boy.

🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide.

He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.

the rare inverted theweleit

im sorry i know it sucks but journalists are going to have to be willing to get fired for simply describing what they see happening with their own eyes, you look like fucking morons

The thing about “Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over the future of [country]” is that you can keep extending that logic indefinitely by threatening people will military force unless they surrender to you. This is “we will conquer the entire world unless someone stops us” logic.

This is not a strong contender for Most Memorable, but what first leaps to mind is the ominous kicker in Guillermo Mota’s comment, after his excellent season, in the 2004(?) edition: “He is not young.”

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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

look i'm not an "impeach the cheeto!!!!" guy but if this is in fact what happened I'm not really sure what other political response is more prudent

The Epstein Files, everybody!

Pretty cool way to launder money to seditionist militias right out in the open tho

TRUMP: and this Daniel, he went into the den?

MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes

TRUMP: surely they ate him

MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't

TRUMP: Unbelievable

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.

And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*

Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

We used to have the Bureau of Labor Statistics collect inflation data but under Trump we’ve outsourced it to DoorDash

Voters Ousted This Pennsylvania Sheriff After He Signed Up to Collaborate With ICE - Bolts A populous, swing county replaced its GOP sheriff on Tuesday after months of controversy over his joining ICE’s 287(g) program. The Democratic winner promises he’ll end the contract.

NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs.

So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract.

Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:

Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.

Follow AP for live updates.

State capitalism watch

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

🚨This is a big deal: suburban chicago police launch an investigation into an ICE attack on local CBS news journalists.