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I just talked to Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes and he didn’t touch anything.

ICE is not about immigration. ICE is not about the southern border. ICE is about normalizing paramilitary force on our streets. It cannot be reformed. It cannot be retrained. ICE must be abolished.

If Mitch McConnell can, from his hospital bed, spend hours and hours on the phone with his peers in the GOP, he can spend ten seconds recording a proof of life video

Mitch McConnell simply will not stop calling me. What a chatterbox.

Well, we may have lost but at least we look like we cheated

Playing badminton with Mitch McConnell. We talked about the midterms and Iran. I took the first game 15-0 because he is unresponsive and lying on the ground.

John Hinckley Jr. in 1981

Competitive high school sports are not about gladiatorial domination; they exist to teach kids teamwork, comradery, promote exercise, and give them a sense of accomplishment. I can think of no better way to accomplish those goals than to compete alongside our trans brothers, sisters, and siblings.

Why Does My Uncle Keep Calling Being Fucking Normal “The Woke Movement?” thehardtimes.net/blog/why-doe...

If the Supreme Court can reverse a 95 year-old ruling for a country that is only 250 years old, I need you to UNDERSTAND this country still has no idea what it is or what it stands for other than it’s constant push-and-pull to oppress Black people and eliminate Native people.

BY a 5-4 margin, the U.S. Supreme Court has determined the U.S. Constitution has plain words that actually mean what they say. In a dissenting opinion, Justices Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch & Kavanaugh argue they are dread pirates and therefore the U.S. Constitution is more a guideline than a hard rule.

If you owe a woman $5 million for sexual assault, you also owe the country your resignation.

Happy Pride ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Vote Democratic Socialism, health care, social security, child care, education funding, gender and racial equality etc etc and etc.

its crazy how one of the only jobs where you can openly espouse the most disgusting gutter racism on-the-clock is “person who makes laws and is in charge of everything”

My not-so-hot take is that what Mamdani is doing *IS* incrementalism, and the bar is so deeply in hell that a politician just doing *anything* good consistently is a total anomaly for people. And I think for now that is good and fine, because it is restoring people’s faith that better is possible.

I’ll never forgive Dem primary voters for the decision that was obviously going to lead to Trump and the end of the world as we knew it.

Anytime any respectable journalist mentions our two chief negotiators with Iran, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, they should note both receive sizeable paychecks from Middle Eastern nations with deep equities in these talks. It is a fundamental corruption.

I may only be a novelist who doesn’t get out much, but I know that if you win a war, you don’t have to pay the loser $300bn

Ms. Rachel: As the American Academy of Pediatrics says, there is no safe amount of time for a child to be in detention. The Dilley immigration detention center must be shut down. We need to end the cruel policies of family detention and family separation.

This one hits hard.

Frankel to Rubio: "It is crazy that you want to let people in from South Africa because they can assimilate, while you're throwing out hundreds of thousands of people who have already assimilated and that are important parts of our economy and family life."

Reports make it fairly clear that ICE detention facilities are worse than most US prisons. And for the most part they're crammed full of people who haven't been convicted of any crime.

ICE IS DETAINING HUMAN BEINGS IN INHUMANE CONDITIONS. REPORTS OF PEOPLE BEING SHOT, STRIPPED AND NEGLECTED ARE OUTRAGEOUS. IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS, AND WE DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY. NO ONE SHOULD BE TREATED LIKE THIS. STAND UP, SPEAK OUT AND DEFEND DIGNITY. ICE AND RIGHTS.

Any Dem who chooses Gavin Newsom over AOC is a sexist, a racist, and all of their whinging about Kamala Harris losing is empty, performative bullshit.

"...recovered two kilograms of raw cocaine, street value $140,000, six handguns and 150 rounds of high-caliber ammunition. Seven suspects will face a possible total of 340 years for possession with intent and gun charges." We are winning the drug war. Because Dope On The Table.

10 years ago, Bernie Sanders warned America of the unintended consequences that could emerge from a regime change war with Iran. Watch.

Tuesday

fun with folks try to make it *your problem* that they didn't book their flights early enough to sit next each other

ICE agents need to go back to jail where they came from.

Gavin Newsom will become the Democratic Party nominee for US president. The reason? He is extreme right wing and increasingly unpopular.

14 people have died in ICE custody this year. More than one per week. Inhumane.

Wait… paper money is still a thing?

Under Zohran Mamdani, gas prices have spiked, the stock market has cratered, and the US is locked in a nonsensical war with Iran. Is this really what New Yorkers signed up for?