It’s almost like he’s hoping for it so that he can have an excuse to use “emergency powers”
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It’s almost like he’s hoping for it so that he can have an excuse to use “emergency powers”
DHS claimed "an ICE agent had fired 'defensive shots' into Martinez's vehicle after Martinez 'intentionally ran over' another agent."
But body cam video now "shows that Martinez's vehicle, a blue Ford Fusion, was stationary or going at a very low rate of speed when he was fatally shot."
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:
Look. It’s not complicated.
He’s either so stupid that he had a big ole Nazi tattoo on his chest for nearly 20 without knowing what it was 🙄 or he knew it was a Nazi tattoo and he liked it 😬 Either is disqualifying for a US Senator
The national suicide being committed by the Republican-led United States has no historical precedent. Centuries from now (if humanity survives that long), historians will struggle to explain how such a thing was possible.
> @benstiller.redhour.com
Man, I hate when when you’re sitting there, in a chat, and slurs just walk on in all by themselves like somebody turned on a faucet
Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"
I lack the words to capture it, but ... it's just endlessly remarkable to me that so many people in our society have chosen trans kis -- TRANS KIDS, the smallest, least significant, most vulnerable demographic slice you could possibly pick -- as a repository for all their fears & insecurities.
The White House position is that it is no big deal that Putin is helping Iran try to kill US soldiers.
Always remember rule #1. Putin can do no wrong in Trump’s eyes.
Wonder why that is?
I wish this quote wasn’t still so relevant
Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/
What's the "algorithmic filter bubble" on Bluesky?
I mean, I know there is the "Discover" feed, but I mostly use the "Following" feed, which is a straight chronological feed of everyone I follow. Where's the algo in that?
Few things on this: Maine (and some other New England states like Vermont) treat private school differently. In many towns you can go to private school free, paid for by the town, because the towns are too small to have public high schools. But yeah, it appears Platner was at least middle class, maybe upper middle class with a lawyer dad and architect grandad. Yet since high school his work experience is the military, bartending (he was actually my bartender at the Tune Inn), and oystering. To dismiss the latter because he "owns an oyster farming business" misses the fact that he is out on the water every day working it. When he launched his campaign, friends in Maine reached out and said holy shit the guy we buy oysters from is running for Senate. He kept oystering through this summer, they told me. They've been buying from him for years. This is not a hobby, it's his work. At minimum, if you don't want to grant him the "working class" title, he has been working with working class people since graduating high school, which basically nobody in the Senate can say. (He never graduated college.)
For posterity:
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Susan Collins has gotten all too comfortable staying silent as the President takes a wrecking ball to our Constitution.
This moment demands someone who will fight back. I've stood up to him before, and I'm not afraid to do it again in the Senate.
A white and gray background with blue circles. A family of four sits together. "Protect the youngest among us! Stay up to date on your measles vaccine."
Measles is an extremely contagious virus. Make sure you and your family are up to date on your measles vaccine to stay protected.
Find more vaccination information at: cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Immunization/family.aspx
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
you can watch the anchor's brain short circuit in real time
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Drew Sheneman
I've got laryngitis so I'm not on TV today. but if I was, I'd remind everybody that mass deportation *remains* family separation, whether Noem or Mullin or anyone else is Trump's DHS Secretary. and that policy has not changed.
Cory Doctorow @doctorow.pluralistic.net has arrived!
BREAKING NYT:
Lindsey Halligan, the ex-U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia who brought criminal cases against Trump's enemies over the objections of career prosecutors, is under investigation by Florida's bar association, according to a letter the organization sent last month.
Noem is giving a speech and it's not entirely clear she knows she's been fired
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your new DHS secretary, everyone:
If there was video of a Senate Dem giving a compound fracture to a Marine while wearing his dress blues, that guy would've been burned at the stake by close of business
Kristi Noemore
Do you not experience cognitive dissonance?
You (rightly) chastise people for not voting for Harris and now you’re discouraging people from voting for Talarico?
The primary is over. It is what it is. We need this seat.
Nothing to see here. Just Donald Trump directly enabling the sexual abuse of two children.
But Congress wasted time grilling Hillary about Comet Pizza.
Thorough debunking by an actual professional genealogist of that ridiculous Ryan Grim post about Platner's wife being Jewish (sourced from a highly speculative post by the VDARE guy). Wife's ancestry is Bavarian Catholic, Platner's own is Palatine Calvinist, no Jews anywhere to be found.
NEW: A Democratic candidate in the primary in Eric Swalwell’s district raised $2M in the first two weeks of her campaign from unknown donors.
Rakhi Israni’s personal political donations have gone to over 10 MAGA and far right candidates including Laura Loomer.
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