Better headline: Republicans refuse to fund FEMA, TSA and CISA during their DHS shutdown.
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics. It’s the root of all evil in Washington.
the president has no idea what he has set in motion. none.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
The White House put out a series of hype videos about the war. Some have been defending it by saying military members themselves share these kinds of videos.
This is true. But they aren’t the White House. The WH is a bunch of children, and have no sobriety about the serious business of war.
I spent the last two hours being grilled by 300 kids with journalism questions at Druid Hills Middle School. Every elected official should be so thoroughly sandpapered smooth.
One asked me for an example of something I'd seen that was legal but immoral, and I'm still thinking about that one.
Is this bad? It seems bad.
Just so you know, Trump attacking Iran is WILDLY unpopular. Literally the least popular thing he's ever done.
Congress: Do your job.
Everybody else who isn't egging this on: Hang in there. Trump cares a lot about popularity.
Goodness, I was led to believe that my vote for Kamala Harris was going lead to more wars in the Middle East and giving the Israeli government whatever it wants.
Again I say: We can have an American democracy, or we can have an American empire, but we can't have both.
I hate it here.
Jasmine Crockett's team threw an Atlantic reporter out of a rally because they don't like what she writes.
I write for the Guardian, and I've never been thrown out of a Trump rally. This petty bullshit is disqualifying. Fuck Crockett.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Of all the stupid, mendacious, insulting things Trump said last night, the thing that bothers me is his reference to voting as a privilege. It is not.
It is a right. Privileges are optional. Rights are not.
If you are announcing in February of 2026 who you are or aren't going to vote for in 2028, you are completely unserious and I will block you. Even more so if you are rehashing previous elections. Fuck off with that.
Authoritarianism is rising because our democracy was failing before Trump.
When pro-democracy forces take back power, we can’t just restore the status quo. We need to change a political system that gives oligarchs a veto over working people.
We need a new democracy.
Watching Much Ado About Nothing.
Just how MANY more times in Shakespeare does something go wrong and a priest pops up and says, "No problem, we'll just fake a death"?
I can only think of Romeo and Juliet but honestly two is still a lot.
In his testimony to congress, Ryan Schwank said he witnessed a training scenario where they had a bystander filming and the trainee pepper sprayed the bystander.
When he asked the trainee why he did it, he said it was because it was what he saw ICE agents doing in Minneapolis.
😢😢
Trump seems perplexed by the reticence of the Iranian regime to capitulate while a carrier group is parked on its doorstep and a third of our naval power is bearing down.
I don't think it's occurred to him that the vulnerability of the surface fleet to drones is no longer a theoretical problem.
Chakrabarti: We’ve basically created a federal jobs program to terrorize people through ICE. What if we used that instead to actually develop things — to build things people want?
It’s the same with foreign policy. We’re spending all this money dropping bombs in other countries—no one wants that.
As I've been saying: federal spokespersons have been lying DIRECTLY about things we can see with our own two eyes in ways that both defy reason and destroy credibility. It is unlike anything I have seen in decades of journalism.
No fact claim made by the federal government can be believed today.
"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
"The Social Circle city manager was contacted by ICE...
“They asked me to turn on the water,” he said of a 1m sq ft warehouse nearby that the government plans to use for locking up as many as 10,000 detainees.
“I told them I’m not going to do it,” he said...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
When Americans tell people from other countries "Don't come here right now" we are not being dramatic. ICE has quotas and they absolutely do not care who you are or how trivial (or imaginary) the supposed offence might be. They are out of control.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
The hollow right wing derision of Jesse Jackson has illuminated my sense of politics and race. Whenever a white person does something terrible to a Black person, someone would say "well, here comes Jesse Jackson" - usually followed by Al Sharpton - implying untoward media attention and race grift.
A gentle reminder that DEI was never about hiring and promoting underqualified Black people. It was about preventing underqualified white people from sliding through.
DEI is antidiscrimination law. If you oppose DEI, you want racial discrimination to go unpunished except as applied to white men.
I was raised Southern Baptist and baptized the same year (1981) that the Fundamentalists (who are the ones who are tied to the Christian Right) took over the SBC.
They sold their moral compass for political power 40+ years ago. I'm not surprised.
What scientists thought were four separate star clusters are actually part of one nearly invisible system. www.wired.com/story/a-gala...
"More than 3,000 people attended the Mass and walked in the procession.
"Families affected by immigration enforcement were among the first to receive ashes from Cupich, in a highly symbolic reversal of the marking and tracking many say defines their daily lives."
www.ncronline.org/news/god-doe...
“It’s about time to have Christians standing up for what Jesus said,” including welcoming immigrants,” he said.
“People being pushed into unmarked vans by masked men isn’t it,” added his wife...
www.chicagocatholic.com/web/chicago-...
So a bunch of pedos are in control of the government, who are using a private military to round up people, including children into concentration camps with zero accountability.
Where the ever loving fuck are articles of impeachment?
Crimes are crimes and are NOT official acts.
