Original artwork that mimics the famous raising of the flag on Iwo Jima, with the marines replaced by protesters in inflatable animal costumes. The Statue of Liberty and a city landscape are in the background.

Incredible artwork by @4nikkolas.bsky.social.

YouTube video by Farm to Taber ICE Raids Are Only Half The Story

If you've been thinking "How are they gonna run their farms after Trump arrests their workers?"

don't worry, they planned ahead for that 💀

youtu.be/zdWrHb8b-c0

Here’s video of the incident

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

It hits every time.

#WolffBites: This graphic shows the economic decline/isolation of the US relative to the economic rise of China and growth of its BRICS alliance.
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Trump signs proclamation imposing annual $100,000 fee on H-1B visas Move deals potentially major blow to US tech industry, which relies heavily on workers from India and China

25% of Drs in US are foreign grads. Many are on an H1B visa. This will hit health systems hard especially rural hospitals and hospitals in underserved areas that sponsor these visas through waiver programs. The old cost was about 5000$ a year.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump Firing Top Prosecutor for Failing to Invent Fake Crimes by Foes A U.S. attorney in Virginia is finding no evidence that Letitia James broke the law. In America, that’s justice. In Trumpworld, it’s a firing offense.

Trump's scam of inventing "mortgage fraud" charges against his foes is failing. So he's set to fire a top prosecutor who is failing to bring charges, ABC reports.

Failing to bring corrupt prosecutions is now a firing offense. This is profound misconduct.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2006...

On my Orders, the Secretary of War ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics, and was transiting along a known narcotrafficking passage enroute to poison Americans. The strike killed 3 male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel, which was in international waters. No U.S. Forces were harmed in this strike. STOP SELLING FENTANYL, NARCOTICS, AND ILLEGAL DRUGS IN AMERICA, AND COMMITTING VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM AGAINST AMERICANS!!!

This appears to be the 3rd lethal US strike in the Caribbean.

Once again, the specific "terrorist" entity targeted is not identified.

No legal justification is offered for this premeditated killing.

President Trump is asserting a license to kill outside of the law. 1/n

“Send the interns” was a battlecry during the Bush 43 years - have college kids record the briefings and maybe challenge the podium lies but experienced investigative reporters stay away and work sources

Any serious newsroom should do this with Hegseth’s Pentagon

Man follows National Guard around D.C. playing "The Imperial March" from "Star Wars"

Man follows National Guard around D.C. playing “The Imperial March” from “Star Wars” bit.ly/46wjEem

Someone asked if I was ready for the fall, and it actually took me a moment to realize that they meant autumn, not the complete collapse of democracy.

That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom.

Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country.

(Published 2022)

https://www.webfx.com/blog/internet/the-6-companies-that-own-almost-all-media-infographic/

While it LOOKS like Trump is making everybody capitulate, you guys realize 6 people own 90% of ALL media in America?

There are not tens of thousands of people capitulating. There are just a few old men—lusting for more power—

& Trump is giving it to them!

That’s what Kimmel's cancellation means.

When freedom is under fire you can count on me to ramble and mutter incoherently.

Note well that this is a rousing call for journalism -- as it was and as it should be.

ICE threw me and other protestors to the ground on Friday because we dared to stand up for our neighbors. I’m okay, but our communities aren’t.

We can't afford apathy or inaction from our leaders right now. Abolishing ICE is a moral necessity.

👇👇

I’m pretty boring.

Breaking: Kilmar Abrego García has just been detained by ICE after arriving at the agency's Baltimore field office as part of a required check-in, according to his attorney.

"The only reason to take him into detention was to punish him."

The push to replace PBS with PragerU is by itself cause for revolt.

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

—The Declaration of Independence

Protesters in Israel demand hostage deal in one of the largest demonstrations since Gaza conflict began | CNN Large crowds of Israelis took to the streets on Sunday, launching a nationwide grassroots strike and widespread protests to demand the government secure the release of 50 hostages still in Gaza.

Good www.cnn.com/2025/08/17/m...

Hundreds of thousands rallied in central Tel Aviv as they called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to abandon plans to intensify Israel’s offensive in Gaza, which the military warned would endanger the hostages’ lives on.ft.com/471iAB6

I’d like to live in a country where they’re more outraged over children being murdered in our schools than a guy sleeping on a bench

“Emergency” is a word w/meaning that should be justified by facts.

FBI data suggests that Memphis, Cleveland,Toledo & Little Rock have higher crime rates.

The media would do well to interrogate the basis for the exercise of emergency powers rather than “residents say crime really is bad” stories.

WATCH: Over 350,000 Israelis are now gathered to demand a deal for the hostages and an end to the war.

📹 Amit Goldstein

Once again, today’s protests prove to the world that citizens can bring the country to a standstill to criticize the Israeli government without being antisemitic.

Protesting a government is legitimate and legal. Protesting Jews is not. It’s time the world learned the difference.

Literally ethnic cleansing.

🟥 Blindspot for the Right:
A federal lawsuit alleges U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported two U.S. citizen children and their families without due process, including a 4-year-old Louisiana boy undergoing treatment for Stage 4 kidney cancer.
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