AWD

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

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...

Another proud moment for Senator Tom Cotton: www.johndickerson.com/p/a-return-t...

Yet the Cleveland Clinic and Mount Sinai are using Palantir as we speak. #MedSky

NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

A man and woman embrace as ICE and FHP detain her during an immigration stop in Fort Myers this morning.

Tragic: Overland couple killed in Guatemala after being deported by ICE | STLPR www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...

interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

Oyer: "2 days after Blanche was confirmed as deputy AG, he fired me from my position as DOJ's career pardon attorney. I declined to rubber stamp a favor for a friend of the president, and it cost me my job. Mr Blanche's office had asked me to restore the gun rights of a convicted domestic abuser..."

the food safety stuff is another reminder that a large, huge, gigantic part of being a republican is going “lmao why are we spending money to prevent horrifying disasters from happening if they never happen 🤪”

The top government official’s “no one should be able to prosecute top government officials for war crimes and crimes against humanity” t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by his shirt.

WHOA DHS does not say that the agent feared for his life… just the vague concern for “public safety.” So he killed him just because he did not want him in America, not because of any specific threat to agents?

this is the closest ICE has ever come to saying "yeah we just murdered a guy"

DHS's account of this ICE shooting raises a whole lot of questions, ones that eyewitnesses might be able to answer: newrepublic.com/article/2129...

"His wife has said that he relied on an inhaler for asthma, but ICE agents rejected her attempt to give them the device when he was taken into custody."

Last year ICE said a man tried to murder a female ICE officer while she was trying to arrest him. They swore under oath he grabbed her by the neck and tried to choke her to death. He was even indicted for attempted murder. Problem is, it never happened! Bystander video unraveled the lie.

prepare to have your daughter accused of being a boy and face demands that her gentials be inspected if the dad on the other team thinks that she fouled his special snowflake too hard

Ruling against TPS for Haitians, the Trump justices on the Supreme Court have set a new impossible standard for proving discrimination against non-whites: if there is any other reason *in addition* to the racism, the racism doesn’t count www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

i think it is great that conservative students functionally work as a volunteer stasi for republican politicians and conservative media

This shit right here really pisses me off, these World Cup players from Uruguay are being treated like hardened criminals rather than that the premier athletes that they are. Trumps America is racist AF! I said what I said!! ⚽️⚽️

NEW from @ms.now + @themarshallproject.org: ICE has detained *over 500 babies and toddlers* during Trump's second term. www.ms.now/news/trump-i...

“On May 23, 1796, a newspaper ad was placed seeking the return of Ona ‘Oney’ Judge, an enslaved Black woman who had ‘absconded from the household of the President of the United States,” George Washington.”

Not the sheriff: taxpayers. I genuinely think there is a broader trend of institutions not feeling bound by fiduciary duties; they prefer to do what the want, and deal with the lawsuits and compensation.

Watching baseball @jonbois.bsky.social

It would be egregious if this was misguided cost-cutting, but it's not that at all. The Trump admin is not doing this to cut costs (and they've increased federal gov't costs), they are doing to punish academics & scientists, who they perceive as enemies, and to make more funds available for looting.

"Mr. President, I know it's ridiculous, but those loony Democrats are jumping on the quote and claiming you don't care about Americans' financial situation. Care to set the record straight?" "Absolutely Sean: I don't care about anyone. I'd nuke Houston if it made me a dollar. Fuck them. Fuck you."

A surprising amount of what made the USA a functional country was put into place during the very brief period where white southerners didn't have the ability to veto it

even the creme de la creme of the conservative intelligentsia are sleazy liars who misrepresent sources like some gamergate youtuber if a conservative cites a source you can be 100% certain its been cherry-picked, discredited, decontextualized, or embellished

In December SCOTUS claimed it was too close to election to block Texas gerrymander but now allowing Southern states to straight up cancel elections to resurrect Jim Crow

The rest of the world is transitioning rapidly away from oil and gas. Trump wants us to be a buyer of last resort for fossil fuel assets that will otherwise be stranded. Our money lining the pockets of his oil paymasters

Purely out of curiosity: I want to hear Trump’s response to: “would we be at war with Iran if Kamala was president?” I want to see which wins out of his two synaptic knee jerks: 1. The worst things possible would be happening if somebody else was in charge. 2. No one could do what I’m doing.

The Virginia state govt losing most of its electoral support and getting six months of bad press and constant attacks in order to scrape out four new districts while Florida does it overnight with no discussion or controversy is going to be the story of the next few years of post-VRA gerrymandering.

Powerful words from Kagan in #SCOTUS voting rights case: The VRA "ushered in awe-inspiring change, bringing this Nation closer to fulfilling the ideals of democracy and racial equality. And it has been repeatedly, and overwhelmingly, reauthorized by the people’s representatives in Congress."

Kagan is describing a judicial coup

How do you feel about Donald Trump's actions as president so far? [adjacent to an artful and flattering black-and-white sketch of me] Jon, 43, white "I no longer call it the Sun. I call it the Hot Moon. You cannot catch and eat the Hot Moon because it moves too fast because it is late for school."

The 85-year-old widow “was chained by her wrists and ankles to other inmates and loaded onto buses and a plane ‘like a potato sack.’ After two weeks in detention in Alabama and Louisiana, she said, she feared she might die.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/u...

This is someone who has been sucker-punching other bar patrons for years complaining that they’re being punched back, but continuing to refuse to allow the bar to pass a No Punching rule

Burchett is right: the most DC thing ever *is* a member of Congress blaming the city for something he and his colleagues did themselves.

“I’m getting the shit beat out of me for absolutely no reason by some psycho I sucker-punched at a bar. What’s worse, the other patrons are actually *applauding* assault!”

this is how Utah's Congressional map deals with Utah's largest city, cracking it through to the middle into 4 different districts in order to deny it Congressional representation to make sure Dems get 0 seats

John Roberts’ Wife Made Millions From Bribes Roberts accepted $10 Million in bribes disguised as recruiting fees from Law firms with cases pending before the Supreme Court. www.thedailybeast.com/chief-justic...

WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/

OOP New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...