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A SSRS/CNN poll showing 61% people think Trump has gone too far using the power of the presidency and 57% think he's gone too far deporting immigrants.

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

Why Is Trump Autocracy Rising? These Dems Have an Unnerving Answer. A new Biden administration autopsy, based on internal assessments from many government insiders, has crystal clear lessons for the future.

Best analysis I’ve seen so far on the Democratic autopsy, from @gregsargent.bsky.social: Why Is Trump Autocracy Rising? These Dems Have an Unnerving Answer. newrepublic.com/article/2023... via @newrepublic.com

Never in the history of the US has any president openly and repeatedly called for the investigation, arrest & prosecution of his political opponents. While many continue to shrug these things off and normalize them, I will never stop pointing out that this is what autocrats do.

ICE officers mistook Durango father for someone else, official says, but arrested him and children anyway “It’s my understanding that the father was mistaken for somebody else when (ICE) encountered him,” testified Gregory Davies, Denver’s third-ranking ICE official, in court Fr…

ICE agents mistakenly identified a Durango father when they pulled him over this week, a senior enforcement official testified in court today, but still arrested the man and his 2 kids in an incident that quickly sparked protests in the Colorado mountain town // Story by @sethklamann.bsky.social

Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.

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CBS News kills its climate unit David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.

A scoop that I’m not happy to report:

CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.

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a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.

So an a16z-backed startup called Doublespeed promises clients can “orchestrate actions on thousands of social accounts through both bulk content creation and deployment.”

It's basically a spam operation then

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Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...

The most reckless, stupid administration E-V-E-R. Nothing comes close.

In Oakland, California, an ICE GOON shot a local clergyman point-blank.

Feds have repeatedly claimed 115+ federal police (25% of force) had to be deployed to Portland over the summer to quell violence. Oregon lawyers found on discovery this was not true and are asking 9th Circuit to reverse Monday decision because feds lied:
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Priorities.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 81st day out of the last 93.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Watch this.

Open your eyes to this brutality.

ICE beats up, drags & abducts this disabled visually impaired man.

Now share this.

Everyone must see the brutality of this administration & ask themselves what they are doing to push back.

You have power.

Even sharing this video exerts that power.

Trump-inspired violence from January 6 rioters makes a return | Opinion Christopher Moynihan’s arrest after threats to Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries is a predictable result of Trump’s Inauguration Day pardons.

My latest column broke a little news. There are far more Jan. 6 pardon recipients back in trouble with the law than we knew. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics had reported 10 as of June. A more accurate number is ... more than 30.

www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-...

ICE Detains Citizen After Saying She Doesn’t “Look Like” Her Last Name She even had her U.S. passport on her.

ICE agents kidnapped a US citizen in Chicago because she didn’t “look” American to them. She even had her US passport on her. 🤬

'I broke them': Comedian describes how he heckled ICE to the extreme Robby Roadsteamer believes that he broke the officers of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Portland, Oregon, after dressing up like a giraffe and singing his own version of Rod Ste...

this is hysterical

'I broke them': Comedian describes how he heckled ICE to the extreme www.rawstory.com/portland-pro...

Indiana University fires student newspaper adviser who refused to block news stories Tension between Indiana University and its student newspaper flared this week with the elimination of the outlet’s print editions and the firing of a faculty adviser, who refused an order to keep news...

congrats to everyone on the "illiberal campus left" beat, you got what you wanted

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Wow. With each sign I thought "surely that's all," but the signs kept coming and every one was dead-on. They didn't miss a thing. And the silent presentation was far more effective, and dramatic, than a chant.

That’s totally how science works

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

The NYC Bar Association is accusing the President of the United States of the murder of at least 20 civilians by ordering US military strikes against private vessels in international waters. "They were illegal summary executions – murders."

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

'Hypocrite!' Pam Bondi's attack notes snapped by photographer during contentious hearing Attorney General Pam Bondi drew reactions from those watching her appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, when, instead of answering specific questions from Democrats, she turned ...

@nicollewallace.bsky.social that opposition book photographed here :)

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"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

ICE Is Deporting People to Africa on Nearly Un-Trackable Military Flights Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is deporting people to African countries like Ghana on military flights that are nearly un-trackable.

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable.

This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed.

From me for @rollingstone.com:

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Stephen Miller said last year this was the plan. They said it out loud. Some of us highlighted his remarks at the time and warned how dangerous they were. Most of the media missed them and/or moved on from them. It’s happening:

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:

This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

well, don’t have to bother trying to post on TikTok now at least