Tammy Spangler

We set out to determine how many images of women and girls Grok created during its nudifying spree. What we found was “industrial-scale abuse,” experts said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

Let’s talk about abolishing ICE. Very few people who say “abolish ICE” mean “abandon all immigration enforcement.” Rather, they mean “the structure of immigration enforcement is irretrievably broken and needs to be reorganized, just like we did 23 years ago when we created ICE.” /1

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

"As every lawyer knows (or is presumed to know), a complaint is not a public forum for vituperation and invective — not a protected platform to rage against an adversary." Shaaaaaade. Also, if the judge is making fun of you for not capitalizing the Z in zeitgeist ... go home, son.

Can Jimmy Kimmel sue Brendan Carr, or other federal actors, for violating his First Amendment rights by coercing ABC to suspend his show, and maybe eventually to fire him? To teal deer it, yes, but without an effective remedy. /1

The state of California needs to arrest the DHS "security" forces for assault and every Democrat in the U.S. Senate needs to sign onto a campaign to impeach Kristi Noem. Right fucking now.

I want to be clear about this: Fighting for art and speech and jokes and generally not being a piece of shit is good for the soul, obviously. But it's also good for business. The places that abandoned their values to get in line and kiss the ring are fading. The Onion is growing.

The government knows an enormous amount about you in the data systems DOGE has sought to access. Just for starters: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...

What a grim paragraph www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

Kidnapping. Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.

Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

TODAY: It’s time to take to the streets nationwide to let Trump and Musk know they can’t intimidate us into submission. Nearly 600,000 people are signed up to attend 1,400 events in every state and seven countries. Find out what’s happening near you and join us: handsoff2025.com?SQF_SOURCE=i...

👨🏾‍🦱👩🏻‍🦰👩🏽‍🦲👩🏼‍🦳 Grab your friends, make a sign, join us in Chicago at Daley Plaza at noon this Saturday, April 5! ✊🏾✊🏻✊🏿✊🏼

"If this many different judges in this many different courts appointed by this many different presidents are blocking this many policies promulgated by the same president, we ought to be able to agree that the problem is the policies—not the judges." www.stevevladeck.com/p/136-settin...

I don't give a shit what he chooses or declines to rule out. It's not his fucking choice. Stop writing about it as if his opinion matters. Write about it like it is: unquestionably illegal, not a debate, not his call, not going to fucking happen.

Even if you accept the premise and decision, which I absolutely do not, it is the simplest thing to phone the visa holder, tell them their visa is revoked and say they have a month to leave the country. Accosting someone on the street like a kidnapping is just a spectacle of terror.

It’s not a war plan it’s an attack plan. It’s not rape it’s sexual abuse. If there’s not enough evidence to assure conviction, then it’s a hoax. Very tired of a decade of this dumb game, but glad to see them have a hard time playing it this time.

NEW: We spoke with friends, family members, and lawyers of ten men sent to an infamous Salvadoran prison by the Trump administration. All reject that their loved ones are gang members. Instead, they say: The US is disappearing people, without due process, to a mega-prison because of their tattoos.

‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff

Trump threatens to put American citizens on deportation flights to a slave prison in El Salvador

Cool cool. @durbin.senate.gov, @amyklobuchar.com @klobuchar.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov are looking to team up with MAGA to give Donald Trump the power to censor anything he wants on the Internet. Do they not recognize what will happen?

NJ Leg testimony. The Hegseth ideology is that women and Black people are presumed inferior; that brown people with accents aren't American; and that transgender people have no right to exist.

If you are visiting the United States, having a negative view of Trump is enough to get you denied entry. If this was coming out of Russia or China, we would deplore such an authoritarian attack on freedom of expression.

One of the oldest arguments against giving any rights or process to the people we accuse is — one constantly “rediscovered” by the shallow and the dim — is “well they didn’t give their victims any rights or process.” That’s fatuous. /1

After the 2022 midterms, Nancy Pelosi, Jim Clyburn, and Steny Hoyer all stepped back from leadership positions to make way for a new generation. It’s time that Chuck Schumer does the same.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: PRIMARY EVERY DEMOCRAT WHO BOWS TO TRUMP. The people deserve better and can do better than these cowards.

I refuse to vote for Republicans’ slush fund bill that grants Trump and Elon Musk permission to continue rigging our government and our economy against the middle class. It would greenlight even more chaos and more cuts to critical programs. Hell no, I cannot support that.

@schumer.senate.gov can’t even articulate his reason for betraying every House Dem and all the Senators holding firm. If you can’t communicate in this environment, you can’t lead.

"They are looking to their leaders for courage and for conviction, and what they are finding instead is collaboration. That is unacceptable." MORE OF THIS PLEASE

Yo @durbin.senate.gov, no one is picking up your Senate phone and you don’t even have a voicemail. Vote no on cloture and the spending bill or I will do whatever it takes to make sure the next Senator from Illinois has basic constituent services set up during business hours.

This is a grave and sobering admission: they are not pursuing the “WELL ACTUALLY he broke the law during protests,” they are bragging that they are deporting people for protected speech.

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Over 1.25 million people have signed a petition in support of anti-war student activist Mahmoud Khalil, targeted by the Trump administration. Demonstrations in solidarity are being called in many cities. actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...

1/ Really heartbroken to learn that Kevin Drum, a long time blogger and essayist for @motherjones.com has died after a long battle with multiple myeloma. Here's a note from his wife Marian, who's also set up a memorial page on Facebook. jabberwocking.com/health-updat...

This may be the biggest free speech crisis in living memory. The president now bragging about detaining a lawful permanent resident and smearing him as 'pro Hamas', no outlining any specific crimes he is accused of or charged with. This is what a fascist takeover looks like.

Re-upping this again as more people read about the Khalil case. More information to come, but nothing in WP and NYT so far contradicts original reporting. Again, it DOES NOT MATTER what you think about him or his cause. Either government is bound by the law for all of us or we're all at their mercy.

Happy International Women's Day! May every woman find their way into the room where their voice is most needed—whether that's a board room, a legislature, or a PTA meeting. When we stand up and speak our values, women change the world!

"Only nine states have taxpayers that contribute more to the federal government than they receive. All four of our mayors are from states on that list. Republicans are saying that they should lose that money because they don't agree with their dear leader, Trump," Lee said.

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

Trump is running the U.S. economy straight over the cliff.

L - Eric Trump tells people to “buy the dips” on crypto. R - A couple days later, Trump makes his crypto announcement. How much time did the media spend on Hunter Biden? I read more articles about Biden’s shoes than this blatant and obvious corruption.

Mark Kelly: “This is a gift to Putin … this makes us look weak. it’s not normal behavior”