Apropostal

No need. You're already watching the next season of Black Mirror. It's a new "Real Life" mode that Netflix is quietly beta testing on all of us.

It’s a month since the administration detained and disappeared a green card holder, a lawful permanent resident.

We cannot allow this to be normalized or forgotten.

Trump to declare fentanyl “Weapon of Mass Destruction," per draft EO A copy of the draft was obtained and reviewed by The Handbasket.

SCOOP—Trump plans to issue an executive order designating fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction," per copy of EO reviewed by me. Source at State speculates purpose is to designate cartels as terrorist orgs/justify military ops in Mexico/Canada.

Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:

If the Supreme Court ultimately agrees with what the gov't is arguing today, that the President has broad Article II powers that would permit it to deport people & there can be no judicial review, then literally no one is safe.

An American prostitute falls for a Russian, and the film wins five Oscars.
Art mirrors life.

The real president always keeps watch over his puppet

Joy on our crisis of democracy: "Tonight on our final ReidOut, we’re going to talk about what people are actually doing to resist this and get some great advice from some of our favorite friends on what more we can do."

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.

https://propub.li/43487Tj

these cabinet announcements are like an advent calendar counting down to the apocalypse

Republican politicians and big banks have been trying to destroy the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ever since it was born. They have failed every time, and they will fail again now. I’m staying in the fight.

I can’t believe the Supreme Court said the president was above the law and now the president is acting like he’s above the law.

#DemocraticSocialists

New cover of TIME

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I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.

Image of Elon Musk with DOGE lettering (Destruction of Government by Elon)

Destruction of Government by Elon (DOGE)

Whew! This needs more amplification and a deep dive.

Memory-Holing Jan. 6: What Happens When You Try to Make History Vanish? The Trump administration’s decision to delete a DOJ database of cases against Capitol riot defendants places those who seek to preserve the historical record in direct opposition to their own…

NEW: The removal of the DOJ’s Jan. 6 database signals the Trump administration’s intention to not only spare his supporters any further consequences for their role in the riot, but to erase the event from the record.

By @alecmac.bsky.social

The "Coup Klux Klan" indeed. The entirety of this is 🎯

Here's an idea for you, I'll get you a spin so you can eat my ass. American Pie 2

American Pie 2: Here's an idea for you, I'll get you a spoon so you can eat my ass.

I'm hopeful this is what they all meant:

Here's an idea for you, I'll get you a spoon so you can eat my ass.

Perfect response and even better "fork you" to President Musk and his underage henchmen.

MEGA: Make Elon Go Away

We are actually living in a time where some Christians see mercy as offensive, empathy as a sin, and diversity, equity, and inclusion as a threat.

“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.” -Isaiah 5:20

Lord, have mercy.

How One Immigrant Community Is Coping With the Threat of Deportation The Nicaraguans who keep Wisconsin’s dairy farms, restaurants and factories working are sending home their most prized possessions, bracing for potential mass deportations. “We don’t have much, but wh...

The Nicaraguans who keep Wisconsin’s dairy farms, restaurants and factories working are sending home their most prized possessions, bracing for potential mass deportations.

“We don’t have much, but what we do have is important.”

New, from @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social