That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.
Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.
The DoD (sorry "DoW") response to Anthropic is that govt should be able to deploy AI for "any lawful use"
Which isn't credible from a regime that regularly breaks the law, pretends the law says something it doesn't, and claims to have changed the law without following the legal procedures to do so.
The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close!
New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...
the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light
Bourbon Penn 38 cover reveal. Early release available now to subscribers!
Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.
It’s not a withdrawal until ICE is abolished.
I have neighbors everywhere.
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
New #poetry from Lauren Frey: "“If Your Eye Is On the Sparrow, Then Your Heart Is On Me”".
As we're all talking about the terrible Ring commercial, a reminder that a Denver woman was falsely accused of package theft using Flock/Ring data, and had to dig into her own car and phone data to prove her innocence:
Cmon now guys. If any Dem says anything besides shut down until this is all gone then there's no need for federal government at all. These are concentration camps. If you're too scared to say so then you're part of the problem.
We can't "overhaul" the people murdering moms and nurses in the streets, nor the organizations literally building concentration camps. You're close to saying "abolish," Senator. Say it with your whole chest and this Coloradoan will say it with you.
lol we’re all having fun you weird loser
VA Gov. Spanberger (moderate, was in CIA) and NYC Mayor Mamdani (left, is in DSA) both taking steps to block local law enforcement from helping ICE as it violently violates people's rights is a good example of how the relevant divide in the Dem coalition isn't center-left, it's fight-don't fight.
Red Ogre (@ogre.red) gets rights to your work upon *submission*.
And those rights are ridiculous. They can change your work, not credit you, use your work for advertising, or put it in an anthology.
Don't submit to this one, folks.
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There's something uniquely disgusting about Elon, the man who has done more than any other human alive to immiserate the world's poorest, claiming to want to end poverty
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The new Epstein files production features numerous allegations made against Donald Trump and others.
In a grim month, a light in the dark: R&M contributor Remi Recchia's second full-length poetry collection is almost here! "Addiction Apocalypse" is available for preorder from Texas Review Press.
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In a blistering ruling, a Bush-appointed conservative federal judge said that ICE "has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence."
Congress must not give one more cent to this rogue agency.
Just days after a group of Trump-aligned billionaires officially took over TikTok in the U.S., users reported their videos criticizing ICE and the shooting of Alex Pretti were suppressed or delayed.
The oligarchy is tightening its grip over even more of our media.
Beware.
From Colorado to Minnesota, ICE is detaining children, separating families, and patrolling American cities.
I refuse to bankroll Kristi Noem's cruel agenda. That's why I'm voting NO on the DHS funding bill. (1/2)
ICE is out of control. Killing people, separating families, and terrorizing our communities.
I’m a NO on the DHS funding bill.
ICE is detaining a 5 year old boy.
If you get off on this, you’re a monster and don’t you dare pretend to worship God.
While ICE is killing innocent people, teargassing babies and pastors, and kidnapping our neighbors to ship them off to foreign torture prisons, seven House Democrats just voted with the GOP to give the regime’s secret police even more funding.
Many Democrats are demanding ICE Out For Good and drawing a line in the sand on the upcoming Homeland Security funding bill.
There are two important Democrats who have not: Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries.
