Vivian J. Paige

Quite a statement by the Republican governor of Vermont

This should be big news, but it’s barely a whisper.

The Trump admin is focusing on the wrong problem. The fraud isn’t w/SNAP recipients, it’s with outside scammers.

USDA let outdated SNAP cards stay vulnerable, and families lost about $555 million in food benefits, not to “cheating,” but to theft.

Historical and projected combined ICE and CBP money. Tons of additional money from BBB.

Congressional Republicans gave Trump a slush fund for ICE and CBP in the "Big Beautiful Bill." Tens of billions of dollars that is still usable even during a shutdown.

Democrats must make rescinding that money the price of any future govt funding, as Republicans did with IRS money from the IRA.

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...

“Supercharging this law enforcement agency and at the same time you have oversight being eliminated?” said a former DHS official. “This is very scary.”

(Published Oct. 2025)

Viola Liuzzo. Jim Reeb. Andrew Goodman. Mickey Schwerner. William Lewis Moore. American white supremacists have a long history of murdering white people who break ranks.

UPDATE: The judges in MN are working Sunday. Judge Menendez — who issued last week's injunction against ICE's retaliatory use of pepper spray – just ordered the release of a Kenyan woman arrested while picking up seizure medication at CVS. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"The temperature in Minneapolis is dangerously high. There is an urgent need for the federal agents deployed to the city to step back and take a breath before more Americans are hurt or killed. [Highlighted]: Those protesting the Trump administration have an equal obligation to avoid violence.

This is from the NYT masthead editorial about the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. The highlighted line invalidates not just the editorial, but the very idea of newspaper editorials crafted by the consensus of a board. Better to publish nothing at all than to publish a line like this.

CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today.

This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting

Fake Truth Social post, purportedly (but not really) from President Trump: HE HAD A GUN, ONLY CRIMINALS CARRY GUNS ON OUR STREETS, WE NEED LAW AND ORDER. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J.TRUMP

FYI, this one's fake www.yahoo.com/news/article...

There is far more outrage from tech leaders over a wealth tax than masked ICE agents terrorizing communities and executing civilians in the streets. Tells you what you need to know about the values of our industry.

OpenAI exec James Dyett calling out the cowardice

The reason the BBC coverage of Alex Pretti's murder reads like Fox News, while the likes of the NYT are reading the room and dropping the both-sideism, is that the BBC's news team is institutionally captured by people who are proud of only ever listening to the opinions of racists and transphobes.

DreamHaven Books owner Greg Ketter emerging from a cloud of tear gas that ICE agents fired into the streets of Minneapolis.

Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com

Dems: murdering a nurse trying to help a woman on the ground is not law enforcement. Murdering a mother driving home from dropping her kids at school is not law enforcement. Kidnapping little boys in Spiderman backpacks is not law enforcement. So feel free to stand against ICE. Did we clear that up?

Nice try, but we remember who put these vaccine deniers in positions of power… and who, once they proved utterly unfaithful to their promises, are still keeping them there.

Keith Ellison talks about how is son is a veteran who works in healthcare in Minnesota

"When he was at work today and last night, he said, 'My colleagues were crying. They took this hit to one of their own very personally.' He said I did too."

By what possible logic is the invasion of Minnesota about investigating fraud? These are not accountants. In fact, the invasion has hindered the fraud investigation, because those leading it resigned after being ordered to investigate Renee Good.

Racist ace of spades cards left behind following ICE arrests in Eagle County, Colorado nonprofit says ICE said it began an investigation into the allegations and that it "unequivocally condemns" any such actions

Simply mind-boggling. Racist ace of spades cards left behind following ICE arrests in Eagle County, Colorado nonprofit says, via @coloradosun.com

Unrivaled co-founder and WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart held up an “Abolish ICE” sign during player intros ahead of Mist’s game this afternoon.

Photo via @unrivaledwbb.bsky.social

i feel for all the radical centrists out there now confronting the fact that their ideology was the one built in a bubble and formed by groupthink. with enough exposure to facts and logic they will, some day god willing, catch up to the left

Trump Announces Plot to Cancel the 2026 Elections YouTube video by Democracy Docket

Donald Trump is telling us exactly what he plans to do in the 2026 midterms — and almost no one is paying attention.

Watch, learn and share. youtu.be/DK8A8gTmD1I?...

Echo's of "A Call for Unity" from the white clergy of Birmingham, King's famous letter from a Birmingham jail was respond to it.

"We further strongly urge our own Negro community to withdraw support from these demonstrations, and to unite locally in working peacefully for a better Birmingham."

Get ready for the diversionary attack on Iran, to distract from the diversionary war at home.

Don’t let anyone tell you that Greg Bovino’s uniform isn’t exactly what Greg Bovino intends for you to believe.

I’m sharing our stories from 2020 so people can see and connect the dots…

the defund and abolition movements have been going on for a long, long time.

Black folks been trying to tell y’all… for YEARS. Been leading these mvmts… for YEARS.

"The right to 'bear arms' refers to the right to wear, bear, or carry . . . upon the person or in the clothing or in a pocket, for the purpose . . . of being armed and ready for offensive or defensive action in a case of conflict with another person." --Justice Thomas

Wild to be here at the point where people are saying there have to be prosecutions, or else the next Republican administration will just pick up where this one left off, to do the same and worse. Especially having said the same after the last Republican administration, for the same reason.

Seen in Los Angeles

(Credit: Zurita Carpio)

I wonder if I’ll ever stop being angry all of the time.

hey everybody lifelong tech expert here

> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility

that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps