Mike Wessler

Take a principled stand and fight for it.

It’s good policy and good politics.

White House Signals It May Try to Deny Back Pay to Furloughed Federal Workers

DOGE showed how this will play out if he tries to fire people or deny them pay. He'll make the move, the press will report on it, his base will cheer him being a monster, later courts will rule he didn't have authority & taxpayers will pay even more for his idiocy.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

This is the funniest thing AI has ever done.

Imagine being not only unfunny, but also announcing to the world that you're a coward.

Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated.

Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.”

This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.

So funny that Silwa says Cuomo people are trying to pay him to drop out, and a few days later Adams drops out, something he said he wouldn’t do.

Someone delivered him a potato chip bag full of cash.

Semi-regular reminder that a sane country would have already impeached and removed. But then again a sane country wouldn’t have elected a maniac criminal twice in the first place.

Graph showing that the U.S. incarcerates women at a rate more than 3x any other founding NATO country

🚨NEW REPORT: The U.S. incarcerates women at a higher rate than almost any other country in the world

So much for the “land of the free” 🧵

Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles WASHINGTON—Despite the president’s sagging approval rating overall, a Gallup Poll released Tuesday confirmed that Donald Trump’s support remained overwhelmingly strong among working-class American ped...

Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles

👏 Ted 👏 Cruz 👏 is 👏 right 👏

House votes to charge D.C. 14-year-olds as adults The House also voted to restrict judges from giving lighter sentences to young adults, among 14 D.C. crime-related policy proposals from the GOP.

Congress: Voting for stricter punishments for kids...

But not the powerful people who prey on them.

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

If you don't stop calling us fascists, we're going to have to use the full power of the state to investigate and punish all our political opponents.

Instagram account connected to Gilroy shooter pushed staple of white supremacist internet forums

Anti-Semitic open letter posted online under name of Chabad synagogue shooting suspect

Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect threatened Jewish groups, pushed migrant caravan conspiracies

New Zealand mosque shooting: Attacker's apparent manifesto probed

These are right-wing terror events I covered just from 2017 to 2023. It's not even close to comprehensive. The government's trying to erase this history.

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

Minnesota Just Became The Latest State to Eliminate Prison Gerrymandering A new law will end the practice of counting incarcerated people where prisons are located, which skews political power within the state.

Did you know? Last year, Minnesota eliminated prison gerrymandering.

The law, signed by Tim Walz in the spring, ended the practice of counting incarcerated people where prisons are located, which skews political power within the state.

You love to see it!

@wutrain.bsky.social is pulling Saddam Hussein numbers!

Competent, principled, progressive leadership is the recipe for success that national Democrats are looking for. Mayor Wu is delivering it to them on a silver platter.

#Mapoli

People want to believe their political leaders and those in the news media. They should be able to believe them.

We don’t don’t have skyrocketing crime problem, we have a dishonest politician and media problem.

NYC shootings, subway crime at record lows, shoplifting down as crime takes a hit New York City’s decline in major crimes continued this year with record-low shooting incidents and shooting victims through the first eight months of 2025, and the overall safest August ever, official...

It's almost like the president is completely full of shit.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Every time I looked at the internet this weekend I thought about this. The internet sure delivered.

Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"

After rejection, the Trump administration is seeking lesser charges, but they could still face a year in jail.

People will still lose their jobs, homes, kids & be traumatized by time behind bars.

Even though the outcome in these cases isn't as bad as it could have been, it is still very bad.

D.C. judges and grand jurors push back on Trump policing surge A federal magistrate judge said one arrest in D.C. was preceded by the “most illegal search I’ve seen in my life” and another lacked “basic human dignity.”

I was on a MA grand jury years ago. We heard probably about 100 cases & voted on abt 500 charges. I think we didn't issue an indictment on 1 (maybe 2) of them.

These rejections are a big deal.

But that's not to say they're total victories for Americans.

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

One of the things I’ve struggled with on the DC stuff is it is obviously a useless stunt for TV. But it’s also a dangerous precedent. I’ve struggled to calibrate how much outrage to muster.

Donald Trump’s Big Gay Government

May they know no peace, from #Provincetown to #PalmSprings and everywhere in between.

The leopards are coming for their faces, and I'm sure they'll be shocked.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/s...

Infographic saying: Nearly 2,500 confined youth are incarcerated in adult jails and prisons. Kids need care, not cages.

When children are confined in adult facilities, they face greater safety risks, and fewer age-appropriate services are available to them.

The carceral system is no place for children.

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

America Tips Into Fascism Today is different than before.

This from @vermontgmg.bsky.social puts words to the unnamable feeling we've all felt for the last few weeks. We've hit that tipping point. We've watched it happen in real-time, but so many still can't see it. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

Pie chart showing that every day, 31,900 youth are held in facilities away from home as a result of juvenile or criminal legal system involvement

🚨NEW: On any given day, nearly 32,000 kids are confined away from home – and most are in restrictive facilities that look & feel a lot like adult prisons and jails

Our new report gives the most up-to-date picture on youth confinement in the U.S. 🧵
www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/yout...

The States Sending Troops to DC Have Way Worse Crime Problems. Most Didn’t Want to Talk About It. The States Sending Troops to DC Have Way Worse Crime Problems. Most Didn’t Want to Talk About It.

After Trump sent 800 National Guard troops to D.C., six GOP-led states offered hundreds of their own guardsmen to help address the capital's supposed "crime emergency." Ironically, many cities in these states experience more crime than D.C.