Lisa Makes Stuff

A Nashville comedian created a fake ICE deportation tip line. Neighbors, coworkers and even a kindergarten teacher called in—trying to get families deported. Drew Harwell sits down with Sam Stein to discuss how a viral stunt became a window into America’s darkest impulses.

BREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

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Haven’t been here in a while. Needed to get off toxic fb after getting a bit’o’hate for saying I wouldn’t be wasting any prayers on CK but didn’t condone violence or celebrate what happened. I’m just angry at the selective outrage. Angry at the blame and division. Angry we haven’t impeached him yet.

In his speech in Iowa, President Trump says Democrats didn't vote for the Big Beautiful Bill because they "they hate Trump” and added "I hate them, too."

It is completely obvious that if Trump was alive in July 4, 1776 he would have been a loyalist backing King George III while searching for every possible way to avoid serving in the war.

If the goal were to help people rise out of poverty, we’d expand child care, job training, and healthcare access instead of cutting it off. Telling people, “If you’re poor, prove your worth constantly, or you don’t get help,” is cruel and demoralizing.

At this point, Karoline Leavitt’s press briefings should come with a Surgeon General’s warning: “May cause dizziness, gaslighting, and a complete detachment from reality.”

Not every R who voted for the cruelest bill in modern times will be on the ballot in 2026 but you can vote against everyone who is. Every damn one.

Maddow: 88% of the country says no, no, he cannot defy a supreme court ruling. Only 9% say yes he can. And you know, it's not the same thing. But I should mention that 9% is also the proportion of Americans who told yougov this week that they have a favorable view of the black plague

Microplastics don’t just shed off of plastic items from overuse, like when a water bottle breaks down over weeks or months of being washed and refilled. They also leach into our food and drinks with even the brief use of a product with plastic components, alarming scientists.

Note to editors and producers: If an executive order demands action that is illegal or outside of the president’s authority, then you should not describe it as ordering something. You should say it seeks to achieve some outcome and then note it is illegal or beyond the power of the president.

There is literally no reason or explanation one can give for this that is not pure unadulterated evil. There is no bottom to this level of ghoulishness. It is nothing but cruelty and anyone with a soul knows it is wrong to do.

"Adding to the inanity, the government argued in court that the fact that many of these men don’t have criminal records is precisely why they’re dangerous."

The president is asserting an unreviewable power to seize any person off the street and ship him to a dungeon abroad. Nobody can say this is an overreaction or alarmism or "TDS" when this is literally what the administration is doing right now.

U.K. tourist Becky Burke finally returned home to Wales on Tuesday after spending 19 days in a U.S. ICE detention facility. Her parents relayed their daughter’s description of her release from ICE, saying how she was taken in “leg chains, waist chains and handcuffs,” which left her “traumatized.”

Another way of saying this is that Trump’s claims are so extreme that even judges appointed by Republicans agree As we show in a forthcoming JOP paper, this is an important signal to higher courts about the undelying merits of the claims

Relatives of recently deported Venezuelan immigrants said they were anguished and shocked to discover their loved ones were sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador after they recognized them in a social media video.

Anyone else see the resemblance?

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I know you are, but what am I

U.S. Marshals have warned federal judges of unusually high threat levels as Elon Musk and other Trump administration allies ramp up efforts to discredit judges who stand in the way of White House efforts to slash federal jobs and programs. www.reuters.com/world/us/jud...

And don’t forget, the only announcements about what he is doing to OUR country with OUR money is on his PRIVATE AND PERSONALLY OWNED social media site.

If anyone you know needs reminding of why vaccines are important, take a closer look at what happens if get the measles (which, if you're not vaccinated and you encounter a contagious person, you are almost guaranteed to catch). #SOTU buff.ly/W6zwuKk

Having out of town guests over. We were going to make them a meal, as has been the custom in virtually every culture in human history, but I think instead we'll berate them, criticize their clothing choices, and demand they thank us for everything.

Cartoon by David Sipress.

Leaders of the free world stand united in London The United States is not among them

"Threatening criminal proceedings for exercising the First Amendment is itself a violation of the First Amendment" is absolutely correct. Good letter from @aoc.bsky.social. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Dear world, please do not judge us harshly. Most of us are good-caring people, and we hate him too.

Want to show Ukraine you care? hfu.org

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A trifecta.

Just as an FYI, hospitals NEED Medicare and Medicaid dollars to function. Smaller/ rural/ critical access hospitals will not survive without them. So even if you don't rely on Medicare, you still might lose your local hospital or find yourself stranded without care while traveling.

Van Hollen: "There's no Article 4 in the Constitution that gives Elon Musk that authority, and the way he's been 'delegated' this authority is illegal, and the actions he's taking are illegal, and we need to shut down this illegal operation."

Heard a reporter pronounce Putin’s name as “Poutine” as in the Canadian dish of french fries, cheese curds, and gravy. I cannot unhear that.

Remembered that I wrote about how awful Woodrow Wilson's historic segregationist purge of Black workers from federal government jobs was last year.... www.thedailybeast.com/woodrow-wils...

She’s decided I may touch her but only on her terms. However, she may touch me whenever she feels like it. That includes whacking my forehead with her paw at 5 AM to make sure I am alive and will put food in her bowl soon. I’ve never worked so hard to get an animal to trust me.

If you haven’t subscribed to @andreapitzer.bsky.social please do. And watch her YouTube channel. Seriously. Watch. youtu.be/cMnbDwa4yGQ?...