Kathleen Pequeño

If you're a journalist listening to Homan BLOVIATE about law and order right now and your immediate question isn't *what gives YOU the authority to speak about crimes and "law and order" when you accepted a $50,000 bribe and keep avoiding any accountability?* then you are ridiculous.

@11thhourmsnow.bsky.social where can we watch the Sunday evening special on Minneapolis? Did not find out in time to record it.

Detained immigrant families protest inside Texas facility Liam Conejo Ramos and his father were detained in Minnesota in an incident that’s further inflamed tensions over the Trump administration’s hardline immigration enforcement.

This is the "family detention" gulag in TX where the MN boy with the Spiderman backpack was sent with his father. Some families have been trapped there for months. www.texastribune.org/2026/01/24/i...

"He just lied. Over and over again he would lie in the most condescending and smug manner."

@timmiller.bsky.social and @stephruhle.bsky.social break down Vance's claim that feds in Minneapolis are trying to lower the temperature - while the nation sees photos of a five-year-old boy detained by ICE.

Your motto is that you make us smarter and it's why I watch. Well, I listen to the podcast like a religion. I felt distinctly dumber as I listened to frmr Sen Doug Jones. There are SO many better guests out there.

We’re at peak greed when the president brags about 24k gold décor for the White House while cutting commissaries, healthcare, and social nets. A palace of glitter for him, an empty pantry and hospital bill for you.

Jimmy Kimmel Live! suspended indefinitely after host’s Charlie Kirk comments ABC says late-night show will not air for foreseeable future after Kimmel accused Republicans of ‘doing everything they can to score political points’ from Kirk’s killing

So the FCC chair rails against Kimmel for having the nerve to host a popular show that criticizes Maga Republicans. The network suspends the show. "Free speech" for the far right. Obedience for the rest of us. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Tulsi Gabbard is trying to gaslight you in the name of authoritarianism, points out @davidcorn.bsky.social.

‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly

As usual, @theguardian.com is running stories that should be at the top of every news website in the USA but are not. Here's one of their latest stories on the starvation of children in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... how can we pretend we are powerless to stop this cruelty?

Why people are so sick of both parties: we get hurt every time Democrats win and can't enact their agenda (see: Green New Deal, Repro Access, Student Loans, Health Care). Then we get hurt every time Republicans win and hapless Dems can't stop their agenda.

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour Schrier says RFK Jr. should be held responsible for 'every death from a vaccine-preventable illness'

Can we please impeach RFK Jr _before_ a lot of kids die rather than after? youtu.be/i8PyRsS-09Q?...

US marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles – live Marines deployed to Los Angeles detained a civilian on Friday, the US military confirmed to Reuters after being presented with the news wire’s images

Want to know what's really going on? Check @theguardian.com while US outlets nap at the wheel. One of the three people in this pic from LA is being true to their oath to defend the constitution. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live... @commondefense.bsky.social the detained person is a veteran.

Watch Dogkiller Noem, who started this "press conference" saying she works for Trump (as if there was any doubt). She's saying she's there to "liberate" people from the "socialist leadership." Right before she has their US senator manhandled out of the room. www.youtube.com/live/OzCq2xx...

Angry about the Newark ICE debacle? Make sure you are not investing your retirement funds in the GEO Group. You know, the greedy, inept monsters who run that prison-for-profit. Check prisonfreefunds.org and put in the symbol of your investment funds.

Great, great episode, and indeed you're making us smarter @stephruhle.bsky.social. And so many current+former Catholics! Who knew?

Revolt Against Mandatory Reporting Law Rises Among Professionals Required to Protect Children In response to a relentless rise in calls to New York state’s child abuse hotline, alongside stark racial disparities, social workers, doctors, teachers and others are mobilizing to change the law.

Read this great story from @thecity.nyc on the failures of mandatory reporting in keeping children safe. And what people are doing instead. www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/28/m...

Saying things to win elections is why no one trusts Democrats. They need to do things that improve people's lives. Stop acting like you're trying to win a popularity contest. That only works for TV stars.

I count on this show for news. Friday's panel was NightCrap. Disinformation ($7B spent for 58 EV chargers is not true). Racist dismissal of Abrego Garcia since it's not gonna score points. And the false frame of "Clinton did DOGE but better" bs. @stephruhle.bsky.social tried to rein it in but no.

Brooklyn Food Pantry Loses Federal Migrant Aid Grants — for Feeding Migrants The Federal Emergency Management Agency yanked $1.3 million in funds from the Campaign Against Hunger, accusing the group of aiding “illegal aliens.”

Because the cruelty is the point: Brooklyn Food Pantry Loses Federal Migrant Aid Grants — for Feeding Migrants www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/17/t...

This Rep Hosford clip is really something.

YouTube video by L O L G O P Trump's tariffs are designed to collapse democracy

Two minutes worth watching for context for this moment we're in: youtube.com/shorts/lY9vW...

@11thhourmsnbc.bsky.social For years Trump said Biden job numbers were fake. And we know all their accusations are confessions. Now the same month 250k Fed workers lose their jobs, the workforce grows? Please explain.

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

Ah, a broken clock is right twice a day.

How Undocumented Immigrants Contribute to Our Economy & Pay Higher Tax Rates Than Many Major Corporations - Americans For Tax Fairness In 2022 America’s 10.9 million undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in taxes.  That included $19.5 billion in federal income taxes and $32.3 billion in federal payroll taxes.  On a state and loc...

I know that especially now, facts don't matter. Then I see that undocuworkers paid $96 BILLION in taxes in 2022 while Fortune 500 companies got billions in subsidies. I wish facts did matter. The receipts are in plain view. It's infuriating. americansfortaxfairness.org/undocumented...

This "administration" has only one skill: spin. They spout nonsense with numbers, in this case about the cost per hour, to make it sound like they know what they're talking about. And a lot of the time it works, sadly. People have no idea what we lost here.

You deserve a rest, but some of your guests are disappointing. The Social Security convo did not make us smarter. Explain the math of the cap. Explain the unfairness of the cap. Musk spends "some part of his year" paying his 7% is a practical lie. He pays for a few minutes at best.

There's so much going on, we nearly forgot our own birthday. 😅

Our first week post-"deletion" was a whirlwind: we're still catching up on the headlines. Thank you to the journalists working to shed light on our story—and the stories of many thousands of federal workers like us. 🗞️