SCOOP: DOGE is building a master database at DHS that could track and surveil immigrants, sources tell WIRED.
They're knitting together data from the DHS, SSA, and the IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.
read @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social:
We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.
"Fifteen Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, including at least one United Nations employee, were killed by Israeli forces “one by one” and buried in a mass grave eight days ago in southern Gaza, the UN has said."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
referring to pete hegseth as whiskeyleaks is one of the funniest things i’ve seen in a while. good job, guys.
This is Yale Professor Timothy Snyder, who studies authoritarians and tyranny, with a warning.
He and another Yale professor, Jason Stanley, who studies similar topics at Yale, are moving to Canadian universities, a result of the political and academic climate here.
GREAT news everyone!
The Onion is hiring! For a bunch of new positions.
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@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, and I draw on our research through the Crowd Counting Consortium to show that there is far more protest happening in the US than is commonly understood, and that the shift to economic noncooperation shows powerful potential for future collective action.
far from me to second guess levitsky on this, but ... we don't know if it will work yet www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...
Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
NEWS: After an emergency meeting of Indivisible groups across the country, Indivisible is officially calling on Senate Minority Leader Schumer to step down from his leadership position. indivisible.org/statements/i...
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
"Car dealership that disappears political dissidents" really does feel like the form America has been building to this whole time.
Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.
I dunno, what else do you call a shadowy group of bureaucrats working to reshape government policy from the inside to serve their own ends? www.wired.com/story/doge-i...
"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."
A team of archivists has recreated the pre-Trump CDC website as a live, easy-to-navigate website that should be indexed by Google. The team is hosting it in Europe. Cool project that is sadly necessary:
www.404media.co/archivists-r...
They’re planning concentration camps on military bases.
I am begging the media to put the focus on what was cut, and what the effects of those cuts are likely to be, rather than some nebulous topline number that implies to people that they’re actually doing what they say they are
their “savings” will cost us far more than this, in money and terror
Deadbeat dad ass party
For a party that says we’re in the middle of a constitutional crisis, they sure don’t act like it
elon musk is scheduled to throw out the first pitch at your favorite baseball team's opening day while wearing a t shirt from your favorite band in his ongoing effort to insert himself into and singularly ruin every aspect of your life
I wonder why Musk is focused on the federal civilian workforce (4% of the budget) and not federal contractors, which account for 3x more annual spending and are more prone to waste, fraud, and abuse?
they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government
Top Dem on the House Intel Committee Jim Himes says in a statement that he understands that the White House “insisted” on the CIA transmitting the list in an unclassified email
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Trump's pardoning of the insurrectionists is his deputizing of an irregular militia. He's signaling that if there is any resistance from the professional violent services he expects freelance violence. Much like the KKK during Reconstruction, or many other ragtag warring countries elsewhere.
Heads up for the Weather Community!
You can now find NOAA (@noaa.gov), NOAA Climate (@climate.noaa.gov) & NWS HQ (@nws.noaa.gov; still being set up) on Bluesky!
This is your mission. We take our power back now at the local and state level. Stop waiting for a national hero. It’s you. Get to work.
