DHS has publicly accused hundreds of protesters, observers and passersby of attacking federal officers in the past year.
The majority of them were U.S. citizens. None have been convicted at trial. Using DHS against American citizens demands oversight.
To believe that Trump will be damaged by high gas prices and an unpopular war, you’ve got to assume that we are still competing in a free and fair democratic system. lnk.thebulwark.com/40hZXV1
everything was hunky-dory until 1953. that’s when shit truly went sideways, after Mossadegh broke the eleventh commandment — Thou Shalt Not Fuck With Big Oil — by nationalizing Iran’s oil industry. our CIA and Britain’s MI6 got themselves worked into a Big Mad over this, and engineered a coup that overthrew Mossadegh and turned Iran back into a monarchy, restoring Reza Pahlavi as the Shah. the thing about the Shah of Iran is that he was a repressive piece of shit who was hated by his people, and his fuckery led to the Iranian Revolution of 1979 — and that’s how Iran went from being a repressive monarchy to being a repressive theocracy. meet the new boss, yadda yadda. that’s why we’re in this mess right now — because we couldn’t leave well enough alone 73 years ago.
did you know Iran used to be a western-style democracy, with an elected prime minister? but then one day in 1953, the CIA ousted him in a coup, and restored the repressive and corrupt Shah to power — that's REALLY how this mess all got started. you can read all about it in my post: bit.ly/4lfWn7c
oh please, do fuck straight off. there was no error, and everyone knows it. what Fox ‘deeply regrets’ is getting caught. I love that Fox’s mea culpa was delivered with all the sincerity of a teenager forced to apologize for leaving a flaming bag of dog shit on their neighbor’s porch. hey, that could be Fox’s new slogan: ‘we leave a flaming bag of dog shit on your porch. you decide.’ I’m totally loving it. you can have that for free, Fox News.
after Fox "News" got caught posting archival footage of Dear Leader *not* wearing a disgraceful baseball cap at a solemn ceremony, they posted least-convincing "apology" ever. thank you for your attention to my post in which I mock the shit out of it. please read! link is here: bit.ly/4lfWn7c
NEW: Threats to democracy are now a top priority — tied with inflation and cost of living — for voters ahead of the 2026 midterms, according to a new poll.
The results come as Trump says he wants to “take over” voting and pushes for Congress to pass the SAVE America Act. https://bit.ly/4cyyxBu
"I've never seen a chart like it. It's like a full erection. It's like a full tent in one second."
If you experience an oil price spike lasting more than four hours, call your economist.
@timmiller.bsky.social and @jvl.bsky.social talk oil prices and the Iran war:
In an eleventh-hour maneuver, Utah Republicans closed out the state legislative session by passing a measure aimed at making it more difficult for voters to remove their signatures from a petition supporting a ballot initiative to legalize partisan gerrymanders.
Ukraine may be able to leverage its recent knowledge on drone warfare into more aid from the United States.
There’s a crisis of political violence in Minnesota and nationwide. A Minnesota advisory committee recommended ways its state lawmakers can address critical safety gaps:
bit.ly/4u2U0su
Graham bragged about getting Trump to start this conflict. Now that it is not as easy as he thought he is threatening other ME countries.
How about we depot Ogles instead.
Any time DHS says something isn’t true you know it is absolutely true. Despicable.
“Our government is treating the suffering of the Iranian people as a backdrop for our own entertainment … But, in the end, we lose our humanity when we are thrilled by the destructive power of our military. … The longer we remain blind to the terrible consequences of war ...
Nearly $1 billion in US tax dollars to fight a war to benefit Netanyahu when Americans need this $ for healthcare, food, housing, etc!
It turns out the U.S. did a “double tap” attack just as emergency responders were arriving at the girls’ elementary school. This is what the Russians do routinely in Ukraine.
That’s a war crime under international humanitarian law.
Donald Trump is hungry for power. The next thing on the menu?
The 2026 midterms.
Top voting rights lawyer Marc Elias breaks down the dramatic escalation in the DOJ’s unprecedented push to collect voter data from all 50 states, and how these efforts threaten democracy.
Twas the night before Christmas when the Washington Post published a list of proposed sites for a nationwide network of warehouse detention centers capable of holding 7 to 10,000 people each. By Christmas Day, activists in Merrimack, New Hampshire, were already organizing.
I wonder how many Republican senators would need to say this before Trump would give up his Comfort Nazi.
The views of Florida’s no party affiliation/independent voters — a critical voting bloc that can swing elections — are striking. A recent poll found 60% of no party independents disapprove (49% strongly) of the Trump administration’s handling of immigration, while only 36% approve (20% strongly).
"We can't last 35 more months with what we've seen over the last 13.
We cannot do it. We will not survive it as a nation."
Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday
WELKER: Trump keeps calling it a 'war.' Words matter. Does the Trump administration, do you, describe this as a war against Iran?
WALTZ: I describe it as Iran has been at war with us
WELKER: So it is a war?
WALTZ: And President Trump is ending it
So much to track but we cannot forget this...
Trump is sending pregnant girls to Texas. Why?
I guess there is no reason to vote for a supplemental military appropriation for Trump’s War or anything else since he isn’t signing anything right now.
TAPPER: You know that if you vote against an additional $50 billion of funding for operations in Iran, that vote will be cast as you voting against the troops.
CHRIS MURPHY: Come on. The American people do not want this war. If you support the troops, you should be voting against this war.
Trump has made billions from the presidency and he is now using the services for our military dead as an opportunity to sell his branded merchandise (the cap). He should not be wearing headwear of any kind at this moment, let alone something he sells on the internet. This is indecent.
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One of the guards responsible for monitoring Jeffrey Epstein while he sat in a Manhattan jail cell Googled him just minutes before he was found dead and made mysterious cash deposits in the days leading up to his death, according to new documents released by DOJ.
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Jeffrey Epstein died in 2019. While Trump was still president.
Whatever happened to Epstein was under Trump’s watch
This number should be at 100 percent.
