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Deporting children with cancer. Using a 5-year-old as bait. Shooting moms. ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.

TIKTOKER SHOT BY ICE HAS INDICTMENT THROWN OUT Carlitos Ricardo Parias was shot in the elbow by ICE during an immigration arrest in October. A judge tossed the indictment after finding the government violated his constitutional rights, and it looks intentional. 1/2

From January 2025: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

"For four years, a tranche of cellphone data provided to the FBI by T-Mobile US sat on a digital shelf because investigators couldn’t figure out how to read it, people familiar with the matter said." www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.

Sarah Beckstrom's ex-boyfriend told NBC News she dreamed of becoming an FBI special agent. She didn't want to deploy to D.C. "She hated it. She cried about it." But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it. May she rest in peace. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

‼️‼️ Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."

In a profession where the most prominent journalists are increasingly jockeying for position on the best-seller lists and talk show circuits, you'd think one of them would've figured out that punching the bully back would be the most effective way to distance themselves from the pack.

Absolutely correct

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Paloma Shemirani died aged 23 from treatable cancer. Her mother, Kate, a ‘conspiracy theorist’, breached her duty of care, an inquest concluded

Jeffries: "Trump and the Republicans spent all year last year promising they were gonna lower the high cost of living. They also spent all of last year running away from Project 2025 ... now all of the sudden, Donald Trump admits it was his project all along. He just did it earlier today."

"One clinical psychologist [said] he considers Trump such a 'classic' pathological narcissist that he is actually 'archiving video clips of him to use in workshops because there’s no better example' of the characteristics of the disorder he displays."

How out of touch can Donald Trump’s top economic adviser be? A 60-year-old couple making $85k/year will have to pay over $22,000 more EVERY YEAR. TWENTY TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS.

"On Monday, Google paid a $24.5 million bribe to President Trump. The bag of cash was euphemistically described as a 'legal settlement,' but in this dangerous political moment we do ourselves no favors with polite obfuscation."

Thank you, General (Retired) Mark Hertling, for saying what all of us who have served know we serve the Constitution and will not execute any order that goes against our oath.

This is the President explicitly threatening to withhold federal funds from New York City if voters elect a candidate he opposes. This is an unlawful attempt to coerce voters through federal financial threats and a textbook example of voter intimidation to influence the outcome of a local election.

One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.

Cartoon

DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now." ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."

Hmm.... maybe someone at Fox news needs to be fired.

Global postal traffic to the United States dropped over 80% immediately after the Trump administration ended an exemption allowing goods worth $800 or less to enter the country duty-free, the United Nations postal organization says. www.npr.org/2025/09/07/n...

The secret life of sculpin — a tiny fish that helps scientists monitor mines, as reported by Max Graham of Northern Journal, via @alaskabeacon.com: alaskabeacon.com/2025/08/22/t...

Aug. 10th Jaimen Hudson "Somewhere over the rainbow 🙌🏻 I filmed this last Friday while out on my regular morning Cruise. I had to wait for awhile to get this shot but it was definitely worth it!"

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Oh look, Rubio’s State Department is lying again. It must be a day that ends in a y.

Holy shit.

Throwing a sandwich at a cop: felony. Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: tourist behavior.

How about that? A victory for people who actually read.

DHS Spox Slams Washington Post for Story on Kristi Noem’s Rent-Free Military Base Digs: ‘This Is Truly Sick’

lol

This former model, with no background in history, has been put in charge of curating what is "appropriate" at the National Museum of African American History.

Wow it turns out that appealing to angry MAGA men doesn't help sell jeans to young women www.forbes.com/sites/richar...

BREAKING: U.S. layoffs have surged to their highest level since the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Koh: If he were serious about cutting crime he wouldn't be proposing cutting $400 million from the ATF or cutting $500 million from the FBI, 700 agents or the DEA with with drug enforcement or the office of violence against women, 100 million from there

"Let me be crystal clear: crime in DC is ending and ending today."

OLD: Who was president in 2020? NEW: Is Alaska in Russia?