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The Trump administration's newest hire.

This is appalling!

So many brilliant details!

Early voting in the NYC mayoral election begins TODAY. If you're a New Yorker, I urge you to vote for Zohran Mamdani — the only candidate who will stand up to the oligarchy and fight for working people. Listen to his inspiring words from primary night.

Great. More frightening news.

"While there may be isolated incidents where incarcerated individuals have used contraband cellphones to commit crimes, my experience tells me they’re far more often used to connect with loved ones or to hold rogue prison officials accountable."

I have a full day today, but I woke up early to put this edition of my newsletter together because I need you all to have this rundown of what we've been up against this week in Chicago as the federal assault on our city continues. To ignore these developments would be a damning mistake for us all.

I said what I said: Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague for crimes against humanity.

You can listen to the full interview with Chris Murphy in this link: newrepublic.com/article/2013...

THE PURGE Polls show that Project 2025 didn’t resonate. Voters thought it wasn’t real. Well, now we’re living it and it’s already 47% implemented after only 9 months. Trump’s shutdown is a shortcut: gut the federal workforce, fire career experts, replace them with loyalists. Laid out in P2025. 🧵

I'm glad I'm not the only one who has been thinking this, but I'm also glad someone else was able to put it into words that make sense. www.instagram.com/reel/DMb5QDd...

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

I've got 40 of these hand-written postcards ready to go in the mail today! My arthritic hand ain't happy.

Horrifying and discouraging. But undoubtedly, Trump will make it worse.

WTAF?!?!

So…if parents can unequivocally control their kids’ bodies, then he’s okay with them allowing their kids to transition? Allowing them to decide whether or not to terminate unplanned pregnancies? Okay with infanticide? Extreme discipline and physical abuse? Forced labor? Pimping kids out? Incest?

Pritzker: It appears they are amassing ICE officers… It’s been reported that about 300 officers are planning to come in and do what they did in LA — terrorize neighborhoods and cause mayhem. Their plan is to create enough chaos on the ground that troops will have to be called in

From Costco to Kroger, Project 2025’s Christian nationalist network is weaponizing culture wars against corporations. Fake victories—like Costco never selling abortion pills—mask a real, systematic campaign reshaping corporate America Read more:

Pretty bad.

Kamala Harris nailed it. We warned everyone the stakes were too high to hand the guy built for Project 2025 another shot — but noooo. Ever have one of those mornings you just want to throw the window open and yell, FUCK YOU ALL? Yeah, that.

My name is Captain Dylan Blaha, and this message is for members of the National Guard across the USA. I've served in the Illinois Army National Guard for over 12 years, including a deployment to Afghanistan and three years on active duty in Europe. What's going on right now is not normal.

How quickly can I get from Southern California to NYC? It's 11 am local time here. Dammit! I'm too late. 😭

White House official Lindsey Halligan: "While slavery is obviously a horrible aspect of our nation's history, you can't really talk about slavery honestly unless you also talk about hope and progress ... we need to stop focusing so much on the lack of progress."

I'm just now finding "It's Nice to be Disliked (by One of Those)" by @brittlestar.com, and it's the perfect theme song for the Gestapo-bothering videos from DC that I'm now obsessed with.

🦋 Sarah Ransome #EpsteinFiles #GhislaineMaxwell Epstein's Island: Ghislaine Maxwell & Sarah Kellen, Sex-Trafficking

I've already shared this with a few friends and family.

🧵 Dear Republican lawmakers, Canada has the largest intact boreal forest on the planet. An increasingly hotter world due to #ClimateChange makes longer dry seasons, far larger wildfires & yes, more smoke. No amount of "raking" fixes it. The scientists warned of exactly this for a very long time /1

“As a public university, we are stewards of taxpayer resources, and a payment of this scale would completely devastate our country’s greatest public university system as well as inflict great harm on our students and all Californians.” —UC President James B. Milliken

If you’re wondering how ICE recruitment and training is going under Kristi Noem—South Park already nailed it.

This grim assessment of where German media and society are right now is one of the most worrying things I have read in a long time. It’s an Instagram slideshow from Tomer Dotan Dreyfus, a writer and translator based in Berlin. Please read the comments too. www.instagram.com/p/DMyPn55sFi...

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Finally got a chance to watch the @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social routine about Trump and Epstein that came out a few days ago. I am blown away that he managed to put together a full hour of stand-up about breaking news and it's somehow polished and funny as hell. Give it a watch and share it.

What a wonderful palate cleanser! 😍😍

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Floods aren’t political. The Republican response to their own piss poor policies that caused the devastation however…

In the heartbreaking event that someone you know has been detained by a federal immigration agent, you'll need to know what steps to take to locate them and hopefully, get some money on their books, and hopefully be able to advocate for them. lataco.com/what-to-do-i...

BREAKING: A Trump DOJ investigation has found that this photo does not exist, and if you saw it, no you didn’t

As these political and personal purges continue, important agencies will become unable to perform their basic functions, and at some point will only be able to spread the purges into the larger society. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...

AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."

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If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to

OWNERS?!??

Yes, to all of this!