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Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."

If there's one benefit from all the Republican criminality and corruption it's that you never have to treat them like good faith interlocutors again. Every currently living Trump accomplice should be treated at most to a reflexive "Eat Shit" for life, and that's better than they deserve

LetsGetIntoIt2025 (@letsgetintoit2025) Art. Art has always mirrored back to us our humanity or lack thereof. Sir Ian McKellen delivered a passionate speech last night written by Shakespeare but never performed in his lifetime, as the p...

Haven't seen the longer version of this on BlueSky so hope this works. The speech itself is chilling, but the minute before McKellen explains it is a little-known work of Shakespeare, Sir Thomas More delivering "the strangers' case" against an anti-immigrant mob.
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Moskowitz: "We need 'Apprentice' Trump. Where is that guy? Let me remind him what he used to be. 'You're fired, you're fired, you're all fired.' People loved it. You made millions firing people for a living. But now somebody convinced you firing people is weakness. That's why ratings are down."

Democrats now say Republicans have established a precedent when it comes to Congress' ability to subpoena and haul in past presidents and family members under threat of criminal charges — thanks to how Republicans threatened the Clintons — and they plan to use it against Trump.

“Young ladies, young ladies, I like ‘em underage,” Rock sings on the track. “See some say that’s statutory.”

His sidekick at the time, the late Joe-C then chimes in, “But I say it’s mandatory.”

this unprecedented momentum behind a single issue sure might be a useful fulcrum to try and wrench this country back from over the brink

This single payment is ~66x the total amount of “Biden family” revenues that the GOP and right-wing media spent years frothing over.” www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/ano...

If Don Lemon really wants to get under Donald Trump’s skin, he should talk about today’s Epstein news. With his new mega microphone, that would land and have the complete opposite effect of Trump and his minions’ goal today.

Don Lemon arrested by federal authorities after protest at Minnesota church service Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a Friday post on X that Lemon was arrested alongside three others "in connection with the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota."

FOUR journalists were arrested. Proving again that this administration isn’t “pivoting” or “turning down the temperature.” By targeting independent journalists instead of the murderers of Pretti and Good, this is ramping up. Not winding down. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Anadith Danay Reyes Álvarez died in government custody.

She had sickle cell and congenital heart disease but couldn’t access timely and adequate medical care.

We need to reform immigration detention.

Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center

The internal polling that conservatives are seeing on this has to be insane

We can confirm Alex Pretti was a nurse at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center. As President Trump has said, nobody wants to see chaos and death in American cities, and we send our condolences to the Pretti family. Such tragedies are unfortunately happening in Minnesota because of state and local officials’ refusal to cooperate with the federal government to enforce the law and deport dangerous illegal criminals.

Absolutely shameful to throw your employee under the bus when they’re murdered, but that’s what happens when you’re in the dumbest cult of personality in the history of the world

The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon.

wapo.st/49Zqv1L

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

We are all traumatized.

We all have power.

Do more. 🇺🇸

Less than one minute later.

To put a finer point on it: Republicans have embraced the “insurrectionist theory” of the Second Amendment—the notion that you have a constitutional right to stage an armed rebellion against the government if it becomes tyrannical.

Now they’re lining up to say ICE can shoot any armed protester?

Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position,

Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.

AOC: An agency that is attacking U.S. citizens, kidnapping five-year-olds and using them as bait, and privately circulating the idea that they can violate the rights of Americans by busting down their doors—they deserve to be defunded, and I’ll take any step in that direction.

Nuclear proliferation.

No one is talking about it but it's definitely an issue that Greenland highlights. Every middle power in the world from Germany to South Korea to Brazil now has an incentive to secretly develop nuclear weapon capability.

President Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act into law on August 14, 1935, with Perkins among those witnessing the signing (third from right) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Signing_Of_The_Social_Security_Act.jpg

1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement:

She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵

What could Hakeem Jeffries and the Dem leadership including @whipkclark.bsky.social do?

This. They could do this. This is being done against the wishes of the Dem leadership.

The goal here is martial law. It’s martial law. Let’s be clear about that.

The 'get their vehicle out of the snow' is such a blatant lie- I can't even. Just look at the videos. We midwesterners know there's barely any snow at all & the streets are plowed! Then look at the giant DHS SUVs. Yeah, sure one of those 4-wheel drive monsters was stuck in the snow. Good grief.

Kristi Noem: "Renee Good was a domestic terrorist."

For almost a year, Donald Trump's personal police force has rampaged across America.

His administration has driven extremism and cruelty while discarding basic safeguards and accountability.

Now, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen is dead.

There is currently an enormous protest in the streets of Minneapolis in response to the murder there today by the American Gestapo, ICE. I take some comfort in this.