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Donald Trump Is Frightened Trump wants to appear eager to minimize out-of-control clashes between government militias and protesters. But he doesn’t want to stop the things causing those clashes in the first place.

I'm calling bullshit on the media narrative that Trump is "pivoting" and "deescalating" on his ICE raids. The threshold is this: As long as the military occupations and the treatment of US cities as enemy territory continue, there's no pivot. ICE out. 1/

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VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO.

Give me a fucking break!

I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask:

"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

.@PabloReports: Stephen Miller seems to be operating sort of as a shadow president at this point. Is there any legal liability he could face at the end of this presidency?

Ryan: There’s going to be legal—and I think criminal—liability for multiple members.. certainly Stephen Miller.

The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for an ICE agent to do this to a 21-year-old kid, who was only protesting because another ICE agent killed a mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors

You aren't actually overreacting other people are sleepwalking.

Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.

Violence is too often sloppy; it spills over. Misogynists kill a lot of men, racists kill white people, ICE in its attacks on immigrants and anyone who looks like them just killed a white US citizen. When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; when you're a gun everyone is a target.

There is no good in maga. It is an evil ideology.

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting "They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head." An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries. "We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

Suit-wearing men of his generation believe that long ties are “slimming.” 🙄

Trump attacked Venezuela to give oil companies a bump in profits. And your healthcare premiums just went up by an average of 10% across the board.

Are you tired of winning yet?

The year is 2003. I’m 17 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.

The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.

It’s Painfully Clear What Trump’s Attack on Venezuela Is All About Rarely has an American president been so blatant about his motives.

It really is all about the oil. slate.trib.al/cyxexQX

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.

Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?

Trump illegally started a war so his billionaire cronies could access Venezuela’s oil.

Now he's sending even more of our taxpayer dollars + men and women in uniform to “run the country”?!?

I ran for Congress to make sure we learned the lessons of Iraq. Trump is repeating them.

It's illegitimate and sanctions-worthy for the International Criminal Court to try criminal heads of state, unlike that august tribunal of unquestioned universal jurisdiction, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

YouTube video by New York Basketball “We expect greatness” — Zohran Mamdani shoutout to Jalen Brunson in NYC Mayor inauguration speech

“We expect greatness from the cooks wielding 1000 spices. From those who stride out on our Broadway stages. And from our starting point guard at Madison Square Garden. Let us demand the same from those who work in government”

— Zohran Mamdani, NYC Mayor inaugural speech
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Since Reagan, the GOP has systematically sought to increase the public's cynicism about our government by making our government more dysfunctional. It has worked.

Lucy Dacus Performs 'Bread and Roses' at NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani's Inauguration Lucy Dacus greeted the star-studded crowd before singing the political anthem 'Bread and Roses,' later giving Zohran Mamdani a hug

Watch Lucy Dacus perform at Zohran Mamdani's inauguration

IF THE SHOE FITS

Justice Brett Kavanaugh isn’t happy that his name has become synonymous w/racist immigration enforcement.

ICE’s policy of detaining people based on ethnicity is called a “Kavanaugh stop,” named after his ruling that allows it. He’s afraid the name will ruin his “legacy.” Too late!

Played 12, and 11 scored. Brown has been masterful.

Sidled up next to Scorsese at a bank of urinals in Kinderhook, NY

America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth.

The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%.

Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.

An English language flier announcing a Vigil to mark Three Kings Day outside the NYS Capitol on January 6 at 5pm

An Spanish language flier announcing a Vigil to mark Three Kings Day outside the NYS Capitol on January 6 at 5pm

On January 6, on the eve of the start of the 2026 Session of the NYS Legislature, we’ll gather in the shadow of our State Capitol to mark Three Kings Day with a Vigil of Hope and Solidarity for our Immigrant Neighbors