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Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

Jesus famously approved of armed agents of a police state terrorizing the powerless

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

US immigration system: *literally has a way for cubans to become residents just by being here a year & a day with some other conditions, where approval says "CUBAN REFUGEE" as it's about conditions in Cuba, baked into the law*

Also US immigration system: we need a full trial on Cuban asylum cases

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

Read his own words. Donald Trump is a mob boss who directed one of his henchmen, AG Pam Bondi, to go after his political opponents. It's corruption. Plain as day.

Thanks, New Yorker

📢 Hey, Georgia voters! Early voting starts in one week. Know what's on the ballot and be prepared to vote your voice! 📋

Your future is on the ballot! 🗳️ #TheSouthsGotNow

Opinion | As Kids Die at School, We Need an Emmett Till Moment Dr. Duvalier Malone writes about the normalization of school shootings and how immediate action must be taken to stop them.

OPINION: "Today, as I approach 40, I watch children as young as kindergartners practice active-shooter drills, ducking under desks, freezing in dark corners, pretending this horror is part of their regular school day," Duvalier Malone writes.
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Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

When miscarriages become crimes 412 women faced criminal charges for pregnancy outcomes. This is what fetal personhood looks like.

412 women faced criminal charges for pregnancy outcomes. This is what fetal personhood looks like.

You’re joking, right?

It’s time for soft secession How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.

Blue states need to band together to protect immigrants, science, health, and our values. Some of this is happening already, we just need to face what more we can and must do www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Whenever issues like this come up, I think about a Joseph Campbell quote: "Technology is not going to save us."
It goes on to say: "Our computers, our tools, our machines are not enough. We have to rely on our true intuition, our true being." From The Power of Myth

Also AI is just shitty.

Despite campaign promises, White House eyes new changes to Social Security and Medicare “I will never do anything that will jeopardize or hurt Social Security or Medicare,” Trump vowed in 2024. I have bad news for voters who believed him.

Among the multiple ways the GOP is looking to cut Social Security and Medicare, Team Trump is moving forward with a program that will “find out how much money an AI algorithm could save the federal government by denying care to Medicare patients.”

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

It’s time for soft secession How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.

Yes to every single idea in this @clarajeffery.bsky.social story on soft secession. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

In an appearance on Newsmax, Trump said that he saw the Insurrection Act as “a way to get around” the opposition to the deployments, but did not commit to invoking it. “If we don’t have to use it,” he said, “I wouldn’t use it.”

If we would just let him break the law, he wouldn't have to.

If you have seen a pregnant, postpartum, or lactating woman in immigration custody, please let the Women's Refugee Commission know by submitting a report through the Detention Pregnancy Tracker.

detentionpregnancytracker.com

Hmm ...🤔

Bari Weiss launched The Free Press with funding from Peter Thiel allies Marc Andreessen and David Sacks. She’s the new editor-in-chief of CBS News. 1/

Trump and Russ Vought are coming for Social Security again. And this time the cuts will hurt the most vulnerable of us.

yet the airport is still operating. i did not know you could…do that.

Anthony Oliveira tweet from September 2020: every single day for four years I have thought about Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt gloating that you can dismantle a democracy right in front of a liberal's face piece by piece and all they'll do is convene breakout sessions and commitee meetings til the boots are in the halls.

Reminded today of this timeless adage

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker explains what he believes is Donald Trump's real goal in normalizing a military presence in U.S. cities by dressing ICE and Border Patrol agents in military gear.

Watch:

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

U.S. military aid for Israel tops $17.9 billion since last Oct. 7 The United States has spent a record of at least $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since the war in Gaza began and led to escalating conflict around the Middle East.

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I would be loathe to not point out (particularly when otherwise literate commentators seem to miss this) that Haywood is referencing the philosophy of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt here. I know “MAGA guy is a Nazi” isn’t a shocker in 2025 but… Jesus man.

Now. Do. Fox. News.

Signed, a historian.

Honestly, Ellison's note is incredibly emblematic of our current problems. Nepo baby is put in charge of major news network by his billionaire father, who by the way is a major Trump supporter. Ellison Elder is a fundamentalist Zionist, close with Netanyahu, and huge donor to Israel.