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Stop referring to anti-vaxers and election deniers as folks who tried to do their own research but got it wrong. What they really did was watching some YouTube clips. At most they read an article (which they didn't understand). This is neither "research" nor "their own"!

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

WOOOHOOOO!! Serbia, now Brazil. Next? USA and Israel!

Until the 20th century, only white people could claim citizenship in America. With MAGA, even being a citizen is insufficient to being an American; whiteness is all.

Trump admin arrests Colorado priest. Incarcerates him for over a year. Judge orders him released without charges. They release him without the wheelchair he needs -- other prisoners have to bodily carry him out. He's now being tested for latent TB: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/colo...

Remigration in action:

In case facts still matter — we have abandoned Ukraine in favor of Putin Russia was never a hoax

Musk’s wealth is a threat to democracy—not just in the U.S. but everywhere. He’s probably the greatest threat to the free world today.

The Trump regime is arresting green card holders who have no recollection of registering to vote and accusing them of fraudulently registering to vote to create the illusion of non-citizens voting being a real problem. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Well... sort of. "Eleven people with lawful permanent resident status were arrested in California Monday for alleged voter fraud. Hours later, First Assistant Attorney for California Bill Essayli admitted that they may not have even voted."

A security vulnerability doesn't require malicious code or a hidden backdoor. Sometimes the vulnerability is the ability to turn the system off. Ukraine just learned that. Every U.S. ally is watching.

The US military fired roughly 19 years’ worth of Patriot interceptor purchases in just seven months of Trump’s Iran War, the Center for Strategic and International Studies estimates.

The tragedy of Biden's presidency is not its lack of success, but how little its success was recognized. The claim Democrats don't have a policy program is false. Finishing the projects Biden began, working with Bernie Sanders and others, should be central to the project of the next president.

JUST IN: Mag. judge in EDVA clears former FEMA CFO Mary Comans of claims she directed tens of millions in payments for housing undocumented immigrants in NYC. Judge: Statements by Musk & others were 'little more than state-sanctioned intimidation.' Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

This is a form of retaliation against someone for speaking out. He knew he would be punished, buy that punishment does not include unnecessarily strict confinement (which is barred by military law). www.military.com/air-force-ma...

There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.

Zelensky says Russia attacked six Ukrainian energy facilities during the day, after Ukraine refrained from striking Russian energy sites overnight following Trump’s energy ceasefire announcement. He said Russia’s attacks were Putin’s response to Trump and called for more pressure on Moscow. #Ukraine

What actual DOJ weaponization looks like. We are very far off the cliff.

Conservatives have been screaming bloody murder that Jack Smith lawfully collected call data on Trump allies in 2023 and 2024. But executing a search warrant on Omar’s house a few weeks before the election is totally cool.

I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.

This is yet another telling example of the Trump regime’s racism. There’s no pretense here of targeting criminals - the usual excuse for mass deportations. DHS is specifically encouraging Haitian “doctors, lawyers, scholars and engineers” to leave. Any decent society would value these people.

These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.

USPS’s job is to deliver the mail even if some mailed ballots genuinely are fake, illegal, fraudulent, or otherwise invalid. It’s on election administrators to catch and reject those, and they do. USPS has no role in it and the very idea mucks up the systems we actually have for election integrity.

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What makes this even more grotesque is that Doris Miller was denied the medal of honor when he was alive just because he was black. bsky.app/profile/carl...

This, to me, is the important part of the speech that mattered. Trump clearly wants DHS to take a greater role in interfering in elections. DHS should have NO ROLE WHATSOEVER in the state election administration. PERIOD.

Whoopsie daisy. 🤣😂🤣😂

The thing you need to understand is that there are 2 (TWO) different method for amending the constitution 1) The process laid out in the constititon itself (conventions, or 2/3's of both houses followed by 3/4 of states ratifying) OR 2) find five votes on the Supreme Court.

We the people want to get money OUT of politics, but the oligarchs on the court say we need MORE. Well then I say we need MORE justices on the court. 13 at least.

🚨NEWS: Unlike right-wing grifter Nick Sortor's lies of a violent "Antifa"camp at Delaney Hall ICE prison—which went viral on X, Fox, and the right wing machine, our @jordanchariton.bsky.social did actual journalism. Here is reality...

The ACLU shares a note from a client detained by ICE and imprisoned at Camp East Montana: “The conditions here are inhumane and cruel. No human being should have to go through this… severely violent treatment by guards…”

Scott Pelley took a stand. We need more Scott Pelleys

There likely will be a time in the not too distant future when Zohran Mamdani, who struggled to get endorsements from prominent Democrats even after winning the nomination, will be one of the most sought after endorsements for Dem candidates across the country.

A moment of silence for the white man, who is very much alive, for murdering a Black man, who is very much dead.

In order to stay ahead of the curve here, I'd like to note that the U.S. has no grounds to invade Cuba, arrest or change its leaders, take control or directly influence its actions or, for that matter, to be blockading it right now forcing its people to suffer. Nor is any of that in our interest.

One of the VERY FIRST things done after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was to have the text of the new Constitution translated into Dutch and German, which were at the time the two largest non-English language spoken in the United States. Here's the National Archives making this point:

The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.

It is wrong and criminal for government agents to kidnap someone, send them to die in a concentration camp, and disappear them, regardless of immigration status. But it's still worth noting she has a green card. The government doesn't even pretend this is about deporting undocumented people.

If a politician wins an election then judges appointed by them should bend the law to their will, that's how a constitutional democracy works.

I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy.

Crazy stat I just told @chrislhayes.bsky.social: Memphis has had its own congressional district since 1923 and now Republicans splitting it three ways to intentionally dilute Black vote

This again is one of the problems of this whole thing. The Iranian leadership is not "insane." They're fairly rational actors that seem to behave in rational ways, but if you keep saying they're insane there's no way you can talk to them.

As true as ever.

Reagan actually got shot at the same hotel and never asked for a ballroom

Mexico didn’t pay for the wall, Trump gold cards didn’t balance the budget, there are no $2,000 DOGE or tariff refund checks, and donors aren’t paying for the ballroom.

Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.