65 Percent of People Taken by ICE Had No Convictions, 93 Percent No Violent Convictions ICE’s deportation agenda is not what is being advertised to the American public. ICE is not interested in prioritizing public safety, yet it constantly pretends that anyone who objects to its tactics ...

From the Cato Institute; this one is worth reading.

Topline: "nonpublic data from ICE indicate that the government is primarily detaining individuals with no criminal convictions of any kind."

Don't let their lies dominate the narrative.

www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...

this guy is out here proudly being a eugenicist freak while people at mainstream and "respectable publications" make excuses for him or even muse about whether he has a "few good points"

Trump withdraws order targeting Paul Weiss, says law firm promised free legal work U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he is withdrawing an executive order that targeted law firm Paul Weiss, saying the firm "acknowledged the wrongdoing" of an attorney who investigated the president and has pledged $40 million in free legal work to support the administration.

Trump said he is withdrawing an executive order that targeted law firm Paul Weiss, saying the firm ‘acknowledged the wrongdoing’ of an attorney who investigated the president and has pledged $40 million in free legal work to support the administration reut.rs/4iA9HRw

Sure, he lied. But he was also bigoted. A masterwork.

A recent analysis found that when Trump imposed tariffs during his first term, companies who contributed to Republicans were more likely to be granted tariff exemptions.

Trump's corporate donors won't shoulder the cost of his trade wars.

It's crony capitalism at its worst.

Timeline: Politicization and Weaponization of Justice Department in Second Trump Administration A detailed timeline of apparent efforts to politicize and weaponize the Department of Justice under the second Trump administration.

It can be hard to keep straight all of the alarming instances of politicization/weaponization of the Justice Department since January 20th.

I created a detailed Timeline, with Audrey Balliette.

We also link to all the publicly available documents.

Read the 25+ entries here:

#Democracy

Apparently making a bid for the record for the largest number of illegal and unconstitutional declarations to be fit inside just one short social media post

CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel It’s just the latest “Orwellian” crackdown on government scientists.

I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.

RFK Jr. moves to eliminate public comment in HHS decisions HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. moved to rescind the longtime practice of giving the public a chance to comment on the health agency’s plans.

Breaking: RFK Jr. moves to quietly eliminate public comment from HHS's decision making: www.statnews.com/2025/02/28/r...

this is just transphobia meets TSA brain.

"You have to put your shoes in a bin because one time twenty years ago a guy tried to do a shoe bomb."
"Did it work?"
"No."
"Would X-raying his shoes have stopped it?"
"Probably not."
"I want to keep my shoes on."
"Do you want this plane to explode?"

There is nothing cooler than preventing a democracy from turning into a dictatorship

The Atlantic writer Anne Applebaum says President Trump's dismantling of the U.S. civil service system, and his attacks on judges and his opponents, are part of a playbook on undermining democracy. 🎧 tinyurl.com/3w32xujf

Every ten minutes here is like:
- Trump doubles student debt
- Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs
- Three planes just crashed
- Trump signs EO making women illegal
- Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA
- Meteor not arriving fast enough

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

Someone else said it, but this should be the biggest scandal in American history-Watergate on steroids and speed.

If this is true, the president is tearing through the DoJ to find a lawyer to break the law.

No ambiguity about wasteful spending or administrative procedures-just naked lawlessness.

Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections.

Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.

Reminder: having a DEI program is not illegal. Even if it is illegal now, it was not prior to January 20, 2025.

Anti-trans group admits bathroom predator myth is made up Empirical research shows bathroom predator concerns are baseless.

“Our side concocted the ‘bathroom safety’ male predator argument as a way to avoid an uncomfortable battle over LGBT ideology, and still fire up people’s emotions.”

This was from 2018, they were bragging about how they manufacturing a moral panic.

www.thepinknews.com/2018/12/07/a...

He didn't.

At.
Gunpoint.

Musk is telling duly appointed and security cleared government officials that they will be shot if they don't turn over to Musk sensitive information to which he has no right.

In any other country, we'd call it a coup.

Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

A reporter directly asked Trump press secretary if disabled people still have a place in federal jobs and whether they still have protections.

Her answer? “We will be taking a common sense approach”

Please stand with disabled people. Fight for us to maintain jobs, accessibility & the ADA

That is wild, I can’t fathom why new places would be giving him more chances.

Blocking anyone who is mildly sus immediately and without particular emotional engagement is obviously the best way to go but once in a while it would be nice to have a block option that ALSO produces an animation of the profile being flushed down a toilet or maybe the text melting gruesomely away

Yup, this is what I do. Happy pets, and zinging have to skint my sandwiches to avoid guilt.

Unknown disease kills 143 in southwest Congo, local authorities say An unknown disease killed 143 people in Democratic Republic of the Congo's southwestern province in November, local authorities told Reuters.

An unknown disease killed 143 people in Democratic Republic of the Congo's southwestern province in November, local authorities told Reuters. Infected people had flu-like symptoms, including high fever and severe headaches, officials said reut.rs/3CTrWlt

Every interaction: “Haha, I took a shit in your bed!”, I mean, yeah, I didn’t expect anything else from you, but did you forget it’s your bed, too?

Opinion | Democrats would get nothing for throwing trans Americans under the bus In the hunt for a scapegoat, some are arguing that there's been too much focus from Democrats on transgender rights. There's no evidence backing that up.

Another excellent piece, this by @hayesbrown.bsky.social, bringing the factual receipts why Dems scapegoating trans people for their electoral failures isn't just immoral and false but bad politics.

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...