T. S. McAdams

it doesn’t get any clearer that america’s betrothal to fossil fuels is about letting energy companies pick our pockets to prop up their obsolete industry

It’s hard out there. Good luck.

U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him.

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

American citizens have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

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NFL announces Sting will headline Super Bowl-branded concert amid Bad Bunny controversy The "Every Breath You Take" singer will perform in San Francisco as part of a two-night extravaganza two days before Bad Bunny's halftime show.

Apparently Bad Bunny, who is American, isn’t American ENOUGH, so they found an Englishman, which makes perfect sense, unless you’re expecting an explanation that DOESN’T begin with “race” and end with “ism.”

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Saw a TikTok today of a woman who went to the doctor for a biopsy, and when the results came back, confidently announced that she didn't believe the results, because she had described her condition to ChatGPT, and it had a different opinion.

Yeeeah.

The hallucination machine is gonna kill people.

Older white woman in ‘80s jacket, wide-collared blouse, curiously mismatched eyebrows, and hairsprayed helmet-hair. She has big green stones in her earrings and in a ring on her finger. High-quality dot-matrix astrological charts are fanned out before her on a gleaming desk.

Stephen Miller must be Nancy’s astrologer in this scenario.

Trump just put a 10% tariff on your Bluesky account.

I always run into that sign that says “employees must wash hands.” I’ll wait a little while, but if no one shows up in five minutes, ten at the most, I just wash them myself.

Libtards suffer from Kronos Derangement Syndrome. “Big man bad.” Whatever.

Officers in full military cosplay fire flashbangs or somesuch into a crowd of demonstrators in Oakland. Two protesters stand flat-footed in front of the officers, just a few feet away, hands at their sides, heads entirely hidden in smoke from the officers’ weapons. One officer has a noticeable wet spot on the crotch of his pants, plausibly urine or semen. A turquoise dinosaur in pink shoes walks unmolested behind the officers. Image credit: Jerome Palmer.

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I’m glad my son went to college in D.C. and got a good look at the White House before occupying Confederate forces tore it down.

I should note: by my count, this makes at least four clergy members *that I know of* who have been shot with pepper balls or rubber bullets fired by ICE/DHS agents in recent weeks — two Presbyterians, two Methodists and a UCCer.

She works for a guy who posts ai videos of himself as a Burger King fighter pilot pooping on American citizens. So there’s that.

They won’t even ask.

Is that the Burger King’s crown?

White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

"President Trump continued to describe Portland as a city on fire Friday even as residents enjoyed the first fall rain and the lone demonstrator at the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement building was dressed as a pink Care Bear."

Sometimes there is a good sentence or two in the NYT.

We have always been at war with Portland.

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Since I disabled the AI crap in Microsoft Office, I can no longer embed online videos in a PowerPoint presentation. Soon, they won’t let you online at all unless you let them steal your shit. The answer will still be no.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There. A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years.

From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

He truly doesn’t understand that his executive orders are not laws. Is that a sign of dementia? Someone check whether he can even still repeat “person, man, woman, camera, tv.”

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

I am just so fucking proud of her.

Do we say a man is sane when he calls in the military to fight a war when there is no war? If such a man is not sane, do we have a solution to stop the madness if he’s in the White House?