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The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

I wish I knew how to stop this terror.

She “declined?” “Declined”? You can’t just decline to get a security clearance. You either get one or you don’t have a job. So much dysfunction in this White House. When will the GOP have had enough? Why risk the country for this? www.ms.now/news/trump-a...

GARY, INDIANA STILL WITHOUT POWER. THIS IS ANOTHER NATIONAL DISGRACE THAT AMERICANS ARE JUST STANDING BY AND LET CONTINUE

Who will pay for this? Where will the justice come from?

Not sure this woman wanted to be forever known from this photo, but I think that’s what has happened. If she’d like to tell us, though, I’d like to her tell the story of this ride on the metro.

THIS 👇 HERE IS TRUE......👍🏼

US Senate passes $70 billion ICE funding; fails to ban Trump's 'anti-weaponization' fund

It’s not too late for states and Congress to stop Trump from subverting the midterms. I recently explained three things states can do and four things Congress should insist on in order to protect the 2026 midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/its-...

This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

Who never wants to hear the word “ballroom” again??

So what the hell. Something like this? The Epstein files, if completely revealed, would end trump’s presidency so he started a war as a distraction. Then, threatening to annihilate a civilization was even worse so he made melania talk about the Epstein files as a distraction?

This seems like a no-brainer. That should mean it works for the republicans.

BREAKING: Trump announces two week window for Congress to remove him from office

TACOs for dinner??

I’m with Stephen King in wondering this…

Trump’s frenzied bloodlust in Iran is the kind of chaotic escalation that we often see from flailing authoritarians.

Behold the president of the United States (or whoever is composing his posts).

IT'S TIIIIIIMMMMMMEEEEEEEE!! Drastic times call for drastic measures. If you can stay home, AWESOME. If you can't, please consider NOT BUYING anything that day. The POINT is the pressure of OUR POWER. #MAYDay #May1st #GeneralStrike #NOBusinessAsUSUAL www.commondreams.org/news/no-king...

Unbearable.

Turn off all location data that you can. "Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced the Government Surveillance Reform Act on March 13, which would require federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies to obtain a warrant to buy Americans’ personal information." #Privacy

He’s a monster.

This is flying under the radar about the SAVE America Act: It would require states to upload voter data to DHS's SAVE database which is notoriously full of errors and illegally pools voters' data. That puts both privacy and voting rights at risk.

The end of ethics

I fact checked. It’s real.

“Should these changes proceed, we risk a census that entrenches representational and resource disparities until at least 2040.”

So the United States will only use empty warehouses to house people it wants to terrorize, not people it wants to shelter from the cold. We really are not a very good-natured country.

Jamelle Bouie hits nail on head: "For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism."

I think we are going to need some new words to describe what it is like to be a normal, humane individual facing the news daily in the U.S. at this time. Nothing in my vocabulary is sufficient.

Area Serial Racist Posts Racist Meme But We’re Still Gonna Pretend Like Maybe He Didn’t Know It Was Racist - the New York Times

2026: The Democrats only call Trump racist because he is sharing white-supremacist memes of the Obamas as monkeys and the rest of the GOP has absolutely no problem with that

ICE MUST GO!!

Holy shit. And just like *that* you see who the real heroes are.

We are like a caricature of fascism. They are checking every box.

I think this could work!

Music to my ears!

Quite a statement by the Republican governor of Vermont

"They’re openly using state violence as a bargaining chip to seize election infrastructure.”

Me either.

Breaking WaPo: The recent death of a detainee at an immigrant detention camp in Texas has been officially deemed a homicide, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday by the El Paso County Office of the Medical Examiner.

This

Ya think?

The irony. The outrage.