@laphing.bsky.social
I donβt think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make whatβs happening now look like childβs play. And people are disappearing.
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. Iβm sorry we have to live through this.
Two notes: Miller seems to be running all areas of policy out of the WH, rather than, say, the President, and:
Other people around the WH are leaking about him.
Big deal
17.06.2025 20:19 β π 1051 π 332 π¬ 54 π 11This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input.
See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
Joined LAPD, LASD, and state emergency officials in LA as we respond to protests provoked by chaos from Washington.
Weβre here to keep the peace β not play into Trumpβs political games.
If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline.
There is support. You donβt have to go through with it. 877-447-4487
Why it matters:
This guts judicial review, a cornerstone of U.S. democracy. Courts are the only check on executive overreach. This section erases that check for some of the most destructive decisions the government can make.
What it means:
- If the government approves drilling, mining, or development, even illegally, you canβt sue.
- It applies retroactively, killing lawsuits already in progress.
- Tribes, environmental groups, citizens, even states, lose the right to challenge these approvals in court.
Inside Trumpβs βBig Beautiful Billβ: Judicial Silencing (Sec. 80121(h)). This might be the most authoritarian section in the entire 1,100+ page bill.
21.05.2025 18:34 β π 2747 π 1174 π¬ 104 π 142An open letter to law enforcement from my friend Mike Fanone;
open.substack.com/pub/michaelf...
Pedro Pascal at Cannes speaks on America's political chaos: "Fear is the way that they win, so keep telling the stories and expressing yourself and fighting. F*ck the people that try to make you scared and fight back. Don't let them win."
17.05.2025 13:13 β π 4113 π 1110 π¬ 43 π 95Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.
08.05.2025 22:27 β π 26733 π 6277 π¬ 352 π 246Trump's corruption is way, way, way worse than you think.
Listen up to @profgalloway.com here.
So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street
10.05.2025 15:06 β π 40013 π 11390 π¬ 990 π 488The First Amendment of USA:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump's administration to enforce a ban on transgender people in the military, while legal challenges proceed.
06.05.2025 18:45 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0He stood there on Jan 20 and falsely mouthed the words to protect and defend our Constitution.
Asked now on Meet the Press if he thinks he needs to uphold the Constitution, he says, βI donβt know.β
Translation: No.
Woe to America and the utter failure of putting this man back in our Oval Office.
A Horrible Truth That Shouldnβt Beβ¦.
28.04.2025 17:30 β π 16564 π 4790 π¬ 363 π 212"Good luck to the Great people of Canada. Elect the man who has the strength and wisdom to cut your taxes in half, increase your military power, for free, to the highest level in the World, have your Car, Steel, Aluminum, Lumber, Energy, and all other businesses, QUADRUPLE in size, WITH ZERO TARIFFS OR TAXES, if Canada becomes the cherished 51st. State of the United States of America. No more artificially drawn line from many years ago. Look how beautiful this land mass would be. Free access with NO BORDER. ALL POSITIVES WITH NO NEGATIVES. IT WAS MEANT TO BE! America can no longer subsidize Canada with the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year that we have been spending in the past. It makes no sense unless Canada is a State!"
complete batshit insanity
28.04.2025 14:49 β π 28981 π 5058 π¬ 3793 π 1413@maddow.msnbc.com
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They arrested a SECOND JUDGE?!!!?! What the actual fuck?!?
25.04.2025 17:44 β π 1321 π 397 π¬ 227 π 53When they start arresting judges weβre all in a lot of trouble
25.04.2025 15:26 β π 25042 π 5440 π¬ 821 π 237Courage! Sarah Wynn-Williams, thank you. Reads like fiction, and I wish it was. #carelesspeople
Read it!
New pro-Trump group, the State Leadership Initiative (SLI), is βwriting the blueprint for dismantling bureaucracy in every red state.β Nate Fischerβa founder of New Founding, which is backed by DOGE advisor Marc Andreessenβis an SLI co-founder. The board includes Heritage president Kevin Roberts. 1/
03.03.2025 23:22 β π 869 π 578 π¬ 88 π 103βWe have to create space for some imperfect allies,β Representative Sarah McBride tells Hanna Rosin. βWe canβt dismiss them as bigots or remove them from our coalition, because then we will have a ceiling of 30 percent on any coalition and defense of anyoneβs rights.β
18.04.2025 11:45 β π 204 π 22 π¬ 14 π 8Really feel like we all have to talk more explicitly and repeatedly about Stephen Miller as the actual Shadow President because that is what he is, he is almost certainly running the vast majority of day-to-day stuff and is responsible for much of the worst of it
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