Barbarity

There’s truly something deeply wrong with these people: all of them.

Very timely since Hegseth is likely going to be allowed to drink again very soon.

Russia is far too poor to make America as a whole substantially richer. But it’s definitely got enough to make the president and his friends richer.

Elon Musk’s Climate Denial for Dummies (Starring Elon Musk) Why the world’s loudest amateur scientist keeps getting the climate crisis wrong, and how his ignorance is slowing the planet’s last chance at survival.

#ElonMusk says climate won’t be “serious” for 50 years, which is adorable given we have about three before we blow the 1.5°C carbon budget. #climatecrisis #uspolitics
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This is astonishing, but somehow not surprising.

I’m just glad the reporter had the courage to ask this. More should ask the obvious follow-up questions.

Such a child.

Trump’s Border Chief Framed Protesters for Violence. Then the Bodycam Footage Came Out. The Trump administration faced back-to-back rebukes in a pair of cases that challenged the president’s efforts to intimidate or terrorize deep-blue cities.

"It’s too easy to say, Nothing matters, LOL, Supreme Court. But it matters a lot to have a judge say that the DHS officers themselves incited violence. They created violence and then they answered it with their own violence. And I think that is the moral of the story." @dahlialithwick.bsky.social

Yes, this must be the talking point. Capitulation. We must make this deal embarrassing. Because it is.

Yes, why can’t someone confront Kavanaugh with these videos of evidence that disputes his premise?

Wow she sucks

JUST IN: A tidal wave of 30,000 students hit the streets in Charlotte, walking out to confront ICE with sheer numbers and zero hesitation.

This is a generation refusing to be controlled.

six separate reactions to hearing that the grand jury didn't see the operative indictment in the Comey case, all variations on "LOL" or "Holy shit" or the like.

when all the lawyers on your timeline go off at once

“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas. Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

NEW:

In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.

She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.

Then she died.

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🚨Using any kind of chemical weapons at this range is aggravated assault against peaceful protesters. They have no weapons, they pose no threat. ICE is the enemy. 1/2

“Don’t give up the ship.
You can refuse illegal orders.
We have your back.”

🇺🇸Veterans offer support to those in active service.🇺🇸

New York City billboards are displaying the president’s 91 felony charges.

Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...

Don't be evil?

"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."

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Immigrant rights group placing 'ICE stole someone here' signs in Ontario A citizens group in Ontario is spearheading an effort to make the community aware of incidents involving ICE agents detaining and arresting undocumented immigrants.

"A citizens group in Ontario, California is spearheading an effort to make the community aware of incidents involving federal immigration agents.

They're placing signs at the locations that read, 'ICE stole someone here'..."

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Trump Organization Is Said to Be in Talks on a Saudi Government Real Estate Deal

This coming week, Trump will host Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi leader who approved the murder and dismemberment of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Not coincidentally, the Saudis are working on a new business deal with the Trump Organization.
It's blood money – or bonesaw money.

This is because he needs them for his militia and also so they’ll feel invincible in their cruelty.

Migrants at largest US detention camp face foul water, rotten food, congresswoman says 'Conditions at Camp East Montana are dangerous and inhumane,' Veronica Escobar wrote in a letter.

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I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?

What a photograph.

“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”

Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...

"300 agents stormed the building, rappelled from a helicopter, knocked down doors and hurled flash-bang grenades. Agents ziptied and detained many US citizens for hours..."

Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night:

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Bananas, Beef, and Bond Villains Trump lowers tariffs, raises suspicion, and blames everyone but himself as the Epstein walls close in.

Trump’s melting down again calling the #Epsteinfiles a “hoax” while his own name shows up in half the emails. Add #KristiNoem’s $200M #DHS ad grift, tariffs flipped on bananas & beef, and the foreign policy circus from hell. #uspolitics
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Good lord

In Bovino's upside down world, there is no difference between an armed gang member preying on others in his community and a guy working 12 hours a day washing cars, flipping burgers, or installing sheetrock to feed his family — and he wants you to hate and fear both men equally.