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Fox News, Newsmax, The Daily Wire et al. have so shrunken the scope of their viewers’ perspectives that their whole world boils down to trans people, Democrat baddies, Black Lives Matter, Biden, Harris, Clinton, and Obama with the result that much of what they know IS true but not the whole story. 🧵

incredible news: we’re having the same arguments over and over for the rest of time

Kids just be doing shit

Watch it till the end. This is moral clarity -- TMZ understands the moment, and what that Rand Paul kangaroo court was, better than any coverage I've seen so far. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zaO...

This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.

Is this the guy who bought all of his friends and followers on social media by offering money to people who liked his posts and commented and followed him? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/u...

This is the way

Why is a 76-year-old man doing all the hard work in this moment? Where are the Millennial/Gen Z artists (ahem, Taylor Swift) to shake their audiences into sobriety about what is going on? open.substack.com/pub/saltypol...

The Trump administration rejected all four women farmers chosen by their peers to represent them in an industry group called the United Soybean Board earlier this year, a rare intervention by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that three of the women suspected was because of their gender.

Notice how a book can make you gay, a vaccine can make you autistic, a mask can make you sicker, and a poster of the Ten Commandments can make you moral, but guns don’t kill people.

The ears of every state or federal prosecutor who's ever worked an Embezzlement case just pricked up. If you ever wondered how Donald Trump could transfer the cost of his Fürherbunker to taxpayers while personally pocketing millions, this would be Step 1.

@jcsalterego.bsky.social Is there a jerrycoin yet?

@coachtuberville.bsky.social Is this a real post that you put out?

If you restructure the Pentagon so that the only legal voices at the table are there to validate “lethality,” commanders will be left alone with unlawful‑order dilemmas and no independent JAG in the room to say, “This crosses the line.” www.facebook.com/SecWar/video...

Joe Rogan feels betrayed. He will never admit or face his own inadequacy and incompetence in talking up and boosting Trump in the face of all information to the contrary. Now he is “feeling betrayed” instead of recognizing his ignorance and fixing it. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

Lather, rinse, repeat.

This is a good point

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

We’re not being governed, we’re being looted. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Kinda weird that the party that controls the House, the Senate, and the White House claims there's rampant voter fraud.

“I asked for an attorney probably a hundred times and was never given one,” Saari said. “I was never told why I was being arrested.” Then, Saari said, “They took my cell phone and cloned it. They actually told me they did that.” 🚨They cloned his phone without a warrant.🚨

You should read this. It is the type of detail that experts in authoritarian regimes see as telling. In this case, state agents are offered impunity from higher ups, and the legal system is rendered inoperative as a mode of accountability. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

My office has been flooded with reports of the cruel, unsafe, unlawful conditions inside of the Whipple detention facility in Minneapolis. This weekend, I was finally granted access to perform oversight of the facility. youtu.be/0SxPn8n2Bfg

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

Reporter: You received a letter from AG Pam Bondi making several demands…. Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those

Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.” Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.

This 1943 U.S. Army film warned about fascism in America

United States Senate Republicans posted for Iranian protesters to “keep protesting” and that help from Trump was “on its way”. That help would never come. Trump used Greenland to change the news cycle. And 3,000 to 4,500 Iranian protesters were killed by the Iranian government during its crackdown.

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

The detainee was an immigrant from Nicaragua who was being held in an immigration detention facility in El Paso, which the ACLU calls a “human and civil rights disaster.”

A joke for the history buffs.

Fairly sure it’s unintentional, but the end date on this mug being sold by the Smithsonian does make it sound a little like they’re saying America dies in 2026…

Please enjoy this wholesome news moment

“.. foreign exporters absorbed only about 4% of the burden of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering their prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%.” 🤡 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

Mubashir and his family came to the United States as refugees from Ethiopia when he was a child, and they all became naturalized citizens in 2019. Despite being a U.S. citizen, Mubashir was targeted by ICE, assaulted, and detained. Listen to his story:

How much more in your face can it be? "Why are you asking me for my paperwork?" "Because of your accent." "You have an accent too." "Where were you born sir?" "Where were you born at?" "Put your hands behind your back."

Trump’s second-term crackdown on dissent started with pro-Palestinian activists. It didn’t end there.

Meanwhile migrants are dying in ICE custody - 5 this year already. www.fox29.com/news/man-die...

My god, I did not expect from the headline (which was bad enough on its face) just *how* bad this situation actually was. You have to read the article to realize it.

Pritzker: The Insurrection Act is designed for circumstances where your rights can’t be protected by local authorities This is exactly the opposite. Your civil rights are being infringed upon by CBP and ICE, and then they want to call in troops claiming that they’re protecting CBP and ICE.

His 6 month old stopped breathing! HIS SIX MONTH OLD STOPPED BREATHING! A father was getting his kids out of the neighborhood because it was unsafe & ICE threw flash bangs & tear gas at his car with children & a baby inside! His 6 month old stopped breathing & all the children were hospitalized!

BREAKING: Medical examiner says death of ICE detainee was a HOMICIDE - a witness says he was choked to death by GUARDS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...