Some guy named Steve

@govpritzker.illinois.gov: "Texas Rangers can come to Illinois and enjoy our lakefront, but they're not arresting anybody and taking them away."

This morning, ICE rolled into a Home Depot parking lot using a moving truck loaded w/agents, like a Trojan horse, to snatch up Latino workers. Whoever they could find. No idea if they were undocumented or not.

That’s not enforcement. That’s racial profiling, and violates a standing court order.

Noticing a pattern here.

Yes

The lie that Trump is a “master deal maker” has long been the core of his persona and is now an embarrassing piece of Republican orthodoxy.

Given his history of business failure and extortion, it’s also an insidious choice call any of his trade policy “deals.”
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Deals are generally reached between two parties who each want something. When one of the parties' desire is "to not be arbitrarily punished by the power of the state" that is not a deal, that is extortion.

Trump’s Deal-Making With Other Elite Schools Scrambles Harvard Negotiations

It is not “deal-making.” It is extortion built on Christopher Rufo’s idea of “taking down” one or more elite university.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...

Fascism is expensive.

Dems should fight on every front.

If Texas steals 5 seats, Dem states should redistrict 30 GOP members out of their districts.

We should insist DOJ release the entire Epstein File.

Not only shouldn't we bring knives to a gun fight, if they bring pistols, we should bring machine guns.

Abbott just issued arrest warrants for the Dems who fled the state.

Rep Jasmine Crockett: unbothered.

“You have a lot of intelligent attorneys that serve in the Texas House, and so they know there’s nothing he can do outside of the Texas jurisdiction.”

"We should have put flood victims first, we should have put flood mitigation first, but instead they put it behind these redistricting maps." @jamestalarico.bsky.social talks Texas Republicans' backwards priorities and more with @samsteindc.bsky.social:

CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. 

Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

Good thing King Lump the Turd keeps bitching about water pressure on the shower.

Healthcare in the US is so busted that doctors are telling Americans to go to Mexico

“Both of them.”

Off the rails.

"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children." —MLK Jr.

Virginia Giuffre’s brother: I think we were shocked by it—especially the use of the term “stolen.” Because she’s not an object. She’s a person. Someone who was recruited at Mar-a-Lago—his property… it just kind of makes us wonder… how much he knew

“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell

The People Being Arrested By ICE That No One’s Talking About The Trump administration’s deportation machine is detaining immigrant women at record numbers — and they've become invisible targets.

The Trump administration’s deportation machine has made women invisible targets.

If you’ve ever wondered, like me, what happens to all the women ICE detains:

NEW: I spoke with a woman named Andrea about her experience being detained by ICE after calling the cops for help during a domestic violence incident.

She was recently postpartum, breastfeeding & put in an all-male facility. She was detained for 2.5 months.

Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.

RFK will fix that with a bath in sewage infested waters and a vitamin c.

A legal permanent resident researching cures for Lyme disease has been detained by immigration officials for over a week.

He has reportedly been denied access to an attorney and his family has not been given a reason for his detention.

We cannot become immune to this cruelty.

ICE GOONS draw guns on humanitarian aid workers

I guess Leno doesn't care about the fact that Colbert didn't get fired because of negative ratings or public unfavorable, but because the current regime used despotic tactics to interfere with a business transaction, and now wants to install a censor to ensure pro- regime programming

‘1984’ is upon us

I remember when this happened.

Meanwhile in Tulsa…

E.P.A. Plans to Revoke the Legal Basis for Tackling Climate Change

I remember when Jill Stein told me there was no difference between the GOP and the Dems on climate change. 🤷🏽‍♂️
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...