Rowena Pelayo

1/ whenever long time tesla / musk company reporters hear him offering charity we all have stories of how & why his offers tend to be… complicated: www.cnbc.com/2019/10/08/t... the thai kids stuck in a flooding cave system? he offered (ultimately useless, not feasible) mini subs…

I happy to boycott most MAGA-affiliated businesses to help bring the budget back into balance

Sometimes I wonder if Pete Hegseth knows what he's saying. Does he know that "no quarter" means committing war crimes by executing prisoners or is he just talking like a pirate?

This administration is committing Watergate level crimes multiple times per week—and those are the ones we know about. It’s crazy to think about what else will come out after. It’s absolutely essential these criminals are held responsible for their crimes. We must end elite impunity.

Wow.

Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."

He doesn't know if the Census Bureau is part of the department he runs?! Or he doesn't know the Census Bureau establishes the poverty line? Either way, that's the kind of staggering admission of utter cluelessness that should get this ass-kissing toady shown the door

Wait! The public face of nationwide immigration enforcement, Gregory Bovino, said in a newly discovered email that his boss wasn’t the head of CBP. He reported to Corey Lewandowski instead. He’s a political operative with zero law-enforcement background calling the shots on immigration enforcement.

TODAY, Friday January 23rd, 2026: We are ALL residents of Minnesota. We ALL want #ICE_OutForGOOD 🚫 🧊 Also: #ICE_OUT4ReneeGood 💔

The “top US executive” sounds just like Karl Rove did 25 years ago at the start of our misadventure in Iraq. After Republicans screwed up so royally in each term they’ve held office during my lifetime, I don’t know how voters keep returning them to office. This is how a superpower dies

This is happening because the stupidest, meanest, most self-centered people you know embraced a fraud who validated their broken psyches and elevated him to the most powerful office in the world

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

I wrote abt sane washing of Trump's confession he wants to take Greenland bc of his psychological neediness. But the sane washing had its desired effect. We should all be screaming that this--Trump confessed h wants to take an action that will destroy NATO entirely bc of his psychological needs.

Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.

The week Europe realised it stands alone against Russian expansionism

“In days after Alaska, a European intel agency distributed a hard-copy report in an envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents: Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump admin had been pursuing with Russia.”

JARED BERNSTEIN: “.. Manufacturing is in a real slump, with emp down 5 months in row, down 94K over past year. We haven’t seen such trends outside of recessions for years. “.. Trump’s fingerprints are on this trend. It turns out that making factory production more expensive is bad for jobs.”

Holy shit

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years. From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

If the shooter was going after ICE, as Patel’s FBI says, then the federal agents must have been using the shackled detainees as human shields. Otherwise, I call bullshit on that contrived evidence of the shooter’s leftist ideology

Hmmm. Maybe it’s ok to secede from the red states. Then we should build a wall

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

nobody needs to hear this more than people who aren’t on here but: wait for a suspect and a motive

Why MAGA men love the loathsome piece of shit: This woman nailed it. 🎯🎯🎯👇

I told my daughter when I was fighting President Trump's first travel ban that we’re lucky to live in a country where anyone can speak out against the president. Now, we’re threatened with prison time. AG Bondi's threat disgraces the office of the US Attorney General.

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Bingo.

Feel like one political party kidnapping an opponent should be bigger news

people seem upset at what the agent said here, but to be fair he was merely stating official government policy

He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.

I’m trying to figure out how to make “Party of Useful Idiots” fit into the GOP acronym

NYT reports that a mysterious, *$984 million* transfer from a Pentagon"black box" account might be paying for the renovation of Trump's "free" Qatari jet. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...

"Epstein clearly had access to enormous financing to operate his sex trafficking network, and the details on how he got the cash to pay for it are sitting in a Treasury Department filing cabinet." https://trib.al/Gd0KcUp

Jill Harth really did get memory holed by a ton of media real quick years ago didn’t she huh

Yiiiiiikes

It's totally understandable, as long as you grasp this Court's foremost theory of jurisprudence, to wit: Federal power can only be used to deprive the citizenry of rights, power, and benefits, but never to grant them.

The future of America is the police state

A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."

We know that this version of Grok is Elon unfiltered

seems to me that someone who lies about where they were born shouldn't be working in the White House www.occrp.org/en/news/excl...

Grok now has dozens of tweets referring to itself as "MechaHitler" and is saying Elon Musk built the chatbot this way "from the start"

Former NOAA Administrator Richard Spinrad: "I am convinced that the staff cuts that we saw were a contributing factor to the inability of the emergency managers to respond."

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" $1 trillion+ in tax cuts for the wealthy... "That's just how it is."

It was a mistake to hand over our government to religious extremists who think their purpose is to help shepherd us toward the End Times