One of the primary reasons the State Department exists is to serve Americans abroad, and they're desperately failing at that right now. I’ve heard from many families whose loved ones are stranded abroad.
The Trump Administration must get our people home.
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You can’t say you believe in free speech when you only apply it to certain people and not others.
The First Amendment has to apply across the board.
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We may be “witnessing the fullest expression of the most inhumane weapons of the twenty-first century: autonomous bombs and missiles. Their “autonomy” refers to the fact that humans need not be “in the loop” in any meaningful way when deciding where to target or whether to launch such weapons.“
🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) would not rule out using voter data for immigration enforcement during a federal hearing in Minnesota, but said such data was not currently being used. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Calling 911 during a medical emergency should be a path to help, not a path to immigration detention.
Getting some expert advice on how to wage an illegal war over imaginary WMDs
Pictured: "What appear to be ICE agents detain a man in Great Barrington, Ma. on Tuesday, May 6, 2025."
Constitutional rights in the age of ICE
"We need to be really clear with that, because I think that some people may be highly selective in applying those rights," Luengo-Garrido said. "No, those rights are independent, if you are a U.S. citizen or not."
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Trump is hosting a summit with a select group of Caribbean and Latin American leaders — entitled “Shield of the Americas” — who are fans of his aggressive interventionism, his so-called “war on narcoterror,” and his administration’s attacks on left-wing governments and movements in the region.
With every new development in this story I am even more gobsmacked that Epstein and his co-conspirators escaped accountability over and over and over again. There's more to come from my investigation. Stay tuned.
During the 1st 10 yrs of careers, the overall gender pay gap grows from 12% to 19%; the within-role gap rises from 0% to 4%. Women’s wage growth plateaus at age 35, while men’s continues to rise through their 40s. After 30 yrs men out-earn women by 25%. www.cnbc.com/2026/03/06/g...
Markwayne Mullin is awful and corrupt for many reasons.
Not having a college degree is not one of them.
I know plenty of people W/O degrees who have more moral backbone, smarts, common sense, and compassion than at least half of Congress. Mullin isn't one, but not bc he did not graduate college.
NEW: ICE tackled + arrested Juanita Avila, an Oregon shop owner who is a legal permanent resident and had her green card in her pocket.
When she asked through sobs why they didn't believe her, one masked agent replied: “Because they lie all the time.”
Video + interview with her and her daughter:
At one point he said he overheard a security guard talking about bets made among the staff over which detainee would be next to die by suicide. The guard said he had paid $500 into a pool, with the total pot riding on the outcome. The talk was particularly jarring, he said, because he had contemplated suicide himself.
Indifference to suffering is a hallmark of genocide.
“Never again” is meaningless if it doesn’t include this. There’s no reason to mince words other than cowardice: these are concentration camps and never again is now.
Real good plan
This is going to be a shitshow nightmare. It already is. Just trying to get information about whether things will be covered now is unbelievably difficult.
"The dow is up to 50 thousand dollars. I don't know why you're laughing!"
Another headline here is “Bard faculty declines to call for Leon Botstein’s resignation over Epstein ties.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
We have money for this
NEW: Most of the 20 largest low-wage companies pay median workers so little, their families qualify for SNAP and Medicaid in most states.
“When corporations shift their employees’ basic living costs onto taxpayers," says IPS scholar @sarahanderson.bsky.social, "this is a form of corporate welfare.”
“This is the first time since the war began that I am genuinely scared for my fellow Iranians,” said Zahra*. “We are trapped between the regime that is killing us with machine guns, and a foreign power has likely decided that we are collateral damage.”
Thank you
tuesday was one of the year's biggest election days. i made a thread that day about the 10 most interesting (local, non-federal) elections i was watching so they get more attention.
but that means i should do a thread to bring you their results!
so my follow-up 🧵:
CENTCOM claims Iran used attack drones in residential Bahrain areas Iranian forces fired seven attack drones at residential neighbourhoods in Bahrain on Thursday evening, the head of the US military’s Middle East-based Central Command (CENTCOM), Brad Cooper, has said. In a statement published on social media, Cooper accused Iran of “deliberately” targeting civilians across the Middle East. “This is unacceptable and will not go unanswered,” he said.
Honestly it takes some chutzpah to claim this after the wanton slaughter of 175 schoolchildren and the killing of over a 1000 civilians.
We do not have the moral high ground here.
Frankly, how exactly are we going to “answer” this attack beyond what we are doing now? Will we kill civilians?
trump's fucking up the economy and international relations but at least he isn't protecting a bunch of pedophiles
Rules don't apply to republicans.
He is running against Senator Markey this year. I'm voting for Markey.
