Anne Allen Westbrook

Trump's Crypto Connections | Democracy Defenders Fund A new report warns that President Trump’s personal involvement in a Treasury-backed stablecoin creates unprecedented risk to the U.S. financial system, directly entangling a sitting president’s person...

Trump claims that everything has reversed course since he came into office.

Certainly his finances have, as he makes billions of dollars from his families foreign entanglements and crypto enterprises.-TN

Amazon's tax bill plunges after GOP tax cuts The 87 percent drop is largely due to a more generous depreciation break in the 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act.'

Thanks to the OBBB, Amazon’s tax bill for 2025 is $1.2 billion, down from $9 billion the year before despite a 45% jump in profits.

This one hits hard.

Pardoned insurrectionists commit crimes at a higher rate than immigrants.

Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won’t be intimidated and we won’t stop until DHS is abolished.

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

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Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

Multiple Men Have Impersonated ICE Agents To Kidnap And Assault Women In a letter shared with HuffPost, the Democratic Women’s Caucus urged DHS to mandate ICE agents to “visibly and clearly identify themselves" when making arrests.

Gonna go ahead and say this was a) inevitable and b) widely predicted, but the subhuman shitstains involved in all this c) don't care.

Minneapolis Live Updates: Judge Says ICE Violated Nearly 100 Court Orders

Judge orders release of Minnesota refugees targeted in ICE crackdown: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Maybe if we give Homan $50K in a Cava bag ICE will GTFO.

Kristi Noem must resign.

And if she won’t, she must be held accountable and impeached by Congress.

Alex Jeffrey Pretti was an ICU nurse at a VA hospital. His life, through his profession, was dedicated to serving his community and our country.

As so many have now seen on video, his final act before he was killed by federal agents was doing everything in his power to protect his community.

Remember that the legal standard for deadly force is whether the agent reasonably believed that he was in imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury.

That is the only question that matters. And that standard is plainly not met by what we see in the video.

F.B.I. Agent Who Tried to Investigate ICE Officer in Shooting Resigns

FBI leadership coverup of Renee Good killing.

A supervisor in FBI’s Minneapolis field office resigned "after bureau leadership in Washington pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into" ICE agent Jonathan Ross. "Such inquiries are a common investigative step in similar shootings."

If you’re not following Jack and his reporting right now, you’re missing out. He’s essential

Happy to act as chauffeur to @aawestbrook.bsky.social and former Mayor current State House Rep Edna Jackson today at the MLK parade

Unarmed woman executed by state may have been on committee to fight against unarmed women being executed by the state

*choose to

Frost: For so long, the right wing has held up patriotism as a vibe, as an aesthetic. But patriotism is more than bald eagles and flags and beer. Patriotism is about loving the people who live in the damn country — every single one of them.

Murphy: The United States Congress should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America

Abolish ice is about to become a centrist position

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003

when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

Donald Trump Is Losing in Court Notwithstanding his appellate appointees’ efforts, Trump's loss record is impressive.

When officials refuse to do Trump’s bidding, retaliation follows

That’s why standing up for Chair Powell matters

Trump’s effort against him will fail—just like it did with James & Comey

I’ll discuss tonight @CNN with @thelauracoates at 11pm ET 👇

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we're going to need a bigger greg grandin

This man is insane. And can’t put together a coherent sentence. God help us all.