Colin Evans

Apologies: You Have Reached the End of Your Free-Trial Period of America! Want rule of law? That’s premium.

"Valued users! We understand that over the past 250-odd years, you have come to rely on the services provided by the U.S. of A. ... Well, 250 years of free is enough." @petridishes.bsky.social on the end of America's free-trial period:

The DC Night Patrols Are Showing Cities How To Fight Trump’s Occupation With only their cell phones, medical kits, and the confidence to assert their rights, volunteer night patrols follow and record the armed troops who have taken over the capital.

The people standing up for all of us (spoiler alert: it’s not Mayor Bowser) www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Over 250 Photos From Around the Nation and the World From the Historic “No Kings Day” Protests Almost no one showed up to Donald Trump’s surprisingly timid, depressing, and generally lackluster birthday party in Washington, but protests against him were bursting at the seams across the globe.

(📣) UPDATE: Hi all, I’ve now added so much new content to this. Many new photos from new locations (see the top of the archive); improved photos for existing locations; a very long and critical Coda at the end of the report; a new sidebar (on right-wing violence) in the first section; and much more.

'The Minnesota Shootings Reveal MAGA America's Moral Brokenness.'

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-minnes...

Walz: "This cannot be the norm. It cannot be the way that we deal with our political differences. Now is the time for us to recommit to the core values of this country ... Talk to a neighbor rather than arguing. Debate an issue. Shake hands. Find common ground. This is who Melissa Hortman was."

We hear that immigrants are "freeloaders," yet they're being arrested at their workplaces.

We hear that immigrants "just need to follow the law," but when they attempt to, they're rounded up at courthouses.

Hello?

Donald Trump finds his approval rating sinking once more Pollster G. Elliott Morris' tracker shows that on the issue of the economy, Trump's approval rating is underwater by 15.75 points.

January Trump approval on the economy:
plus +8.24 points

Today Trump approval on the economy:
minus -15.75

January Trump approval on inflation:
plus +1.99

Today Trump approval on inflation:
minus -22.24

So clearly it's time to deploy the Marines in L.A.?

www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

We need to stand up for @terrymoranabc.bsky.social

Truth.

A terrifying warning from the CEO of a consumer products company about what is about to hit the economy from Trump’s tariffs.

"A terrified young student, snatched off the street by a masked police force taken thousands of miles across the country without anyone knowing. It is as flatly authoritarian as anything we have ever seen in this country," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's detention.

How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China As a U.S. military contractor, SpaceX sees allowing Chinese ownership as fraught. But it will allow the investment if it comes through secrecy hubs like the Cayman Islands, court records say. “It is c...

"Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX allows investors from China to buy stakes in the company as long as the funds are routed through the Cayman Islands or other offshore secrecy hubs, according to previously unreported court records..."

www.propublica.org/article/elon...

Don’t worry, this won’t entirely foreseeably come back to bite us in the ass and kill tens of thousands of innocent Americans

Trump is disappearing legal immigrants he claims are a threat — despite presenting no evidence.

What really happened is that many of these people spoke out against him.

Every institution or individual that surrenders to Trump’s tyranny, or fails to speak out, only invites more of it.

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Pete Buttigieg has entered the chat.

Goldberg indicates Hegseth lied when he denied texting war plans

My Kingdom and more for anyone to realize that awarding yourself a government contract is not a conflict of interest. It's corruption. When the bank teller takes the money out of the cash drawer and puts it in his pocket that's not a conflict of interest either.

👇🏽”That’s not efficiency, it’s cruelty and chaos”

@ossoff.bsky.social is really good at this

YouTube video by Immigrant Defenders Law Center Venezuelan Man Forcibly Removed by ICE to El Salvador Rachel Maddow Show

Earlier today the media released a list that names the people from Venezuela that were forcibly removed by the United States to an El Salvador mega-prison. Our client, Andry, was one of them. @L_Toczylowski joined @maddow
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youtu.be/_iNQwfptvyA

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

Or it’s a Mumbai call centre working an angle.

Please Don’t Resign How to stop Elon Musk. (And Trump.)

“People in Trump’s way should not step aside. They should plant themselves and force him to expend time and political capital to remove them. Yet much of the bureaucratic leadership is submitting to Trump. It’s the rank-and-file who are refusing to back down.”

www.thebulwark.com/p/please-don...

Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3 Billion in Income This brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent.

Despite the fact that Tesla is valued at over $1.2 trillion and is owned by the richest man in the world, Tesla paid a 0 percent federal income tax rate last year, even as the company reported $2.3 billion in income.

oh wait, Donny can’t call up the Aviation Safety Committee — because right now, there’s no one at the other end to pick up the phone. Donny can’t get the answers he’s demanding because there’s no one left in government with the expertise to figure out what the fuck just happened. the stupid shit fired them all.

from today's post —
go read the whole thing. link is here: bit.ly/4h7i06Z

The FAA is facing a major crisis without a leader because Elon Musk pushed him out FAA chief Michael Whitaker resigned earlier this month after facing criticism from Musk.

We did not have a FAA administrator to respond to the tragic crash last night in DC. Why? Because Elon Musk pushed the head appointed under Biden to resign after he fined SpaceX for failing to follow safety license requirements. www.theverge.com/news/603113/...

The tragedy that occurred above D.C. last night is one we must do everything possible to prevent going forward. But our leaders are not only ill-equipped, they are focused on politics as a priority over safety. My write-up: https://buff.ly/4gBasIN

Pentagon agency pauses celebrations for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Black History Month and more

So the Defense Intelligence Agency on its own decided long time observances of MLK Day, Black History Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and more are “DEI?” I joined the Army in the 80’s and we recognized these and DEI wasn’t a fucking thing then. This is bullshit. www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...

Musk amplifying the lie that we spent $50 million on condoms for Gaza makes him…a rubber baron.

Thank you, I’m here all week.