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It will become increasingly important for people to take video and protect and save that video so that when there is finally an accounting for what’s happening, there will be evidence.
January 16, 2026 at 12:29 AM
It will become increasingly important for people to take video and protect and save that video so that when there is finally an accounting for what’s happening, there will be evidence.
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I’m one of the ProPublica reporters who has been documenting the aggressive tactics federal agents are using against immigrants & U.S. citizens
All eyes are on Minnesota right now, but I want to tell you about Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-YO citizen in Houston who was choked by immigration agents in October
All eyes are on Minnesota right now, but I want to tell you about Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-YO citizen in Houston who was choked by immigration agents in October
January 15, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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The 2nd & 3rd shots absolutely came from the side. But the *first* shot also came from off to the side. Here are the two frames that should end this conversation for anybody who is honest.
If he was in front of the car when he fired the first shot, you wouldn't be able to see his legs, but you can:
If he was in front of the car when he fired the first shot, you wouldn't be able to see his legs, but you can:
January 10, 2026 at 5:57 PM
The 2nd & 3rd shots absolutely came from the side. But the *first* shot also came from off to the side. Here are the two frames that should end this conversation for anybody who is honest.
If he was in front of the car when he fired the first shot, you wouldn't be able to see his legs, but you can:
If he was in front of the car when he fired the first shot, you wouldn't be able to see his legs, but you can:
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32 people died in ICE custody last year and barely anything was done about it. With the murder they committed today, ICE has further proven that they are out of control and absolutely not working to keep people safe. This is domestic terrorism. Congress must act. #mepolitics
January 7, 2026 at 7:43 PM
32 people died in ICE custody last year and barely anything was done about it. With the murder they committed today, ICE has further proven that they are out of control and absolutely not working to keep people safe. This is domestic terrorism. Congress must act. #mepolitics
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We should mock this miserable, doddering, old man.
And we should have our eyes wide open that he is openly telling us he will undermine our free and fair elections by attacking mail-in voting and advancing gerrymandering in red states.
He's a fascist. Take this literally and seriously.
And we should have our eyes wide open that he is openly telling us he will undermine our free and fair elections by attacking mail-in voting and advancing gerrymandering in red states.
He's a fascist. Take this literally and seriously.
Trump: "When you go to a voting booth, and you do it the right way, and you go to a state that runs it properly, you go in -- they even asked me, they asked me for my license plate. I said, 'I don't know if I have it.' They said, 'Sir, you have to have it.' I was very impressed actually."
August 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
We should mock this miserable, doddering, old man.
And we should have our eyes wide open that he is openly telling us he will undermine our free and fair elections by attacking mail-in voting and advancing gerrymandering in red states.
He's a fascist. Take this literally and seriously.
And we should have our eyes wide open that he is openly telling us he will undermine our free and fair elections by attacking mail-in voting and advancing gerrymandering in red states.
He's a fascist. Take this literally and seriously.
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RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.
August 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
You spoiled plebeians need to be grateful with two dolls because we billionaires need billions more -Trump and the GOP #taxtherich
May 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
You spoiled plebeians need to be grateful with two dolls because we billionaires need billions more -Trump and the GOP #taxtherich
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We need to give up the framing that they imprisoned a man in El Salvador “mistakenly.” Their actions prove this is intentional. Did they mean for this to be the trial run? Don’t know. But they’re running hard with it. That’s not a “mistake.” That’s fascism.
April 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
We need to give up the framing that they imprisoned a man in El Salvador “mistakenly.” Their actions prove this is intentional. Did they mean for this to be the trial run? Don’t know. But they’re running hard with it. That’s not a “mistake.” That’s fascism.
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"Even as the Musk-Trump people continue to say that we must sacrifice our rights for national security, they are also starting to say that they find it worthwhile to violate national security in order to have the tools that allow them to violate our rights."
With the #Signalgate scandal, we see our government openly compromising our national security, the better to violate our rights.
I explain here:
snyder.substack.com/p/signalgate...
I explain here:
snyder.substack.com/p/signalgate...
Signalgate: violating national security
in order to violate rights
snyder.substack.com
March 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
"Even as the Musk-Trump people continue to say that we must sacrifice our rights for national security, they are also starting to say that they find it worthwhile to violate national security in order to have the tools that allow them to violate our rights."
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When they lie the bombing plans were not classified, take hostage visa holders because they said something they didn’t like, remove people with tattoos to an El Salvador prison without due process…they are telling us they reject the rule of law and embrace a fascist future as a pariah state.
March 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
When they lie the bombing plans were not classified, take hostage visa holders because they said something they didn’t like, remove people with tattoos to an El Salvador prison without due process…they are telling us they reject the rule of law and embrace a fascist future as a pariah state.
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This is a fantastic piece of rigorous, in-depth reporting. It will make you want to pass out with rage. But definitely read it.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The men disappeared to El Salvador because of their tattoos
The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers.
www.motherjones.com
March 26, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This is a fantastic piece of rigorous, in-depth reporting. It will make you want to pass out with rage. But definitely read it.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos.
Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.
Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.
March 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos.
Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.
Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.
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Undocumented workers are bad, so let’s have teenagers replace them working overnight so they can fall asleep in school, because who needs education when they can work for sweatshop wages?
March 26, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Undocumented workers are bad, so let’s have teenagers replace them working overnight so they can fall asleep in school, because who needs education when they can work for sweatshop wages?
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Adding a journalist to a top secret government group chat about dropping bombs *IS* the kind of thing people who aren’t super politically literate can understand and find shocking/notable/disqualifying. Dems should seize on this and never ever let it go. I hope to hear about it in a decade
March 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Adding a journalist to a top secret government group chat about dropping bombs *IS* the kind of thing people who aren’t super politically literate can understand and find shocking/notable/disqualifying. Dems should seize on this and never ever let it go. I hope to hear about it in a decade
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What our allies are asking themselves right now: "Is this a government and group of people you’d want to share your own sensitive intelligence with?
"This is what happens when you fill a government with all of the most unqualified people ever to hold their roles"
"This is what happens when you fill a government with all of the most unqualified people ever to hold their roles"
I couldn't help but write up some quick thoughts trying to capture the sheer insanity (and illegality!) of that Trump group chat. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/six-short-...
Six Short Thoughts on the Most Insane Trump Story of All Time
Trump's "Team of Amateurs" Screwed Up in the Most Hilarious (and Troublesome) Way
www.doomsdayscenario.co
March 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
What our allies are asking themselves right now: "Is this a government and group of people you’d want to share your own sensitive intelligence with?
"This is what happens when you fill a government with all of the most unqualified people ever to hold their roles"
"This is what happens when you fill a government with all of the most unqualified people ever to hold their roles"
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The scope of this story will make it a major challenge to cover as a scandal. It's not just one person or department screwing up, ALL of them are on it, ALL of these people participated in an enormous national security breach that I suspect is also extremely illegal:
![J.D. Vance, Vice President
Michael Waltz, National Security Adviser
Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense
Marco Rubio, Secretary of State
Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence
John Ratcliffe, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Scott Bessent, Secretary of Treasury
Susie Wiles, White House Chief of Staff
Stephen Miller, White House Deputy Chief of Staff
Steve Witkoff, Special Envoy to the Middle East
Joe Kent, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center [NOT CONFIRMED BY SENATE]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k7eezr2ybq7cxtptak2q4uhp/bafkreiekkin3ovntyut2v5gvhj53hoaa6jbko6x2xab52tphqxwwrz3tiu@jpeg)
March 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The scope of this story will make it a major challenge to cover as a scandal. It's not just one person or department screwing up, ALL of them are on it, ALL of these people participated in an enormous national security breach that I suspect is also extremely illegal:
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every person involved in this needs to be in prison
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
every person involved in this needs to be in prison
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Remember when people used to say the warnings about Trump were alarmist? He’s now explicitly saying US citizens who damage private property that’s linked to one of his oligarch cronies will be sent to prisons in El Salvador.
Trump threatens to put American citizens on deportation flights to a slave prison in El Salvador
March 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Remember when people used to say the warnings about Trump were alarmist? He’s now explicitly saying US citizens who damage private property that’s linked to one of his oligarch cronies will be sent to prisons in El Salvador.
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“If Kamala wins, only death and destruction await because she is the candidate of endless wars. I am the candidate of peace. I am peace.” - Donald Trump, in Michigan, on Nov 1st.
NEWS | U.S. forces have killed at least 31, mostly women and children, and wounded 101 others in a wave of attacks across Yemen, the Ministry of Health said Sunday.
March 18, 2025 at 10:43 AM
“If Kamala wins, only death and destruction await because she is the candidate of endless wars. I am the candidate of peace. I am peace.” - Donald Trump, in Michigan, on Nov 1st.
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In fiscal year 2024, the report found, NIH awarded more than $36.9 billion to researchers, supporting more than 408,000 jobs and generating over $94.5 billion in new economic activity nationwide.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
NIH funding delivers exponential economic returns — Harvard Gazette
Report finds all 50 states reap gains in patient health, job creation, research resources, business development.
news.harvard.edu
March 12, 2025 at 11:49 PM
In fiscal year 2024, the report found, NIH awarded more than $36.9 billion to researchers, supporting more than 408,000 jobs and generating over $94.5 billion in new economic activity nationwide.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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1. The DOGE website is garbage.
The claimed savings has no relationship to the data provided.
And the data that is provided grossly inflates the savings from each canceled contract.
So we just launched our own site — the Musk Watch DOGE Tracker — that breaks everything down.
The claimed savings has no relationship to the data provided.
And the data that is provided grossly inflates the savings from each canceled contract.
So we just launched our own site — the Musk Watch DOGE Tracker — that breaks everything down.
Introducing: The Musk Watch DOGE Tracker
New tool reveals Musk has overstated verified DOGE savings by at least 92%
www.muskwatch.com
March 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
1. The DOGE website is garbage.
The claimed savings has no relationship to the data provided.
And the data that is provided grossly inflates the savings from each canceled contract.
So we just launched our own site — the Musk Watch DOGE Tracker — that breaks everything down.
The claimed savings has no relationship to the data provided.
And the data that is provided grossly inflates the savings from each canceled contract.
So we just launched our own site — the Musk Watch DOGE Tracker — that breaks everything down.
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The House just voted that “each day for the remainder of the 119th Congress shall not constitute a calendar day for purposes of section 202 of the National Emergencies Act.” A day is not a day. Lewis Carroll, George Orwell, and Franz Kafka must all be chuckling — or weeping.
March 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The House just voted that “each day for the remainder of the 119th Congress shall not constitute a calendar day for purposes of section 202 of the National Emergencies Act.” A day is not a day. Lewis Carroll, George Orwell, and Franz Kafka must all be chuckling — or weeping.
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Trump ran on a pledge to reduce the price of groceries and then, a few weeks after taking office, imposed a 25% tariff on the countries that import the most food to the United States.
March 4, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Trump ran on a pledge to reduce the price of groceries and then, a few weeks after taking office, imposed a 25% tariff on the countries that import the most food to the United States.
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Elon Musk's DOGE has deleted hundreds of items from the public accounting of its cuts — shrinking the savings it has claimed to provide by nearly half.
Contracting experts say these mistakes raise questions about DOGE's basic understanding of the federal government.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/u...
Contracting experts say these mistakes raise questions about DOGE's basic understanding of the federal government.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/u...
Struggling With Errors, DOGE Deletes Billions More From List of Savings
For the second time in a week, Elon Musk’s government overhaul effort updated its “wall of receipts” to remove mistakes that inflated its success.
www.nytimes.com
March 3, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Elon Musk's DOGE has deleted hundreds of items from the public accounting of its cuts — shrinking the savings it has claimed to provide by nearly half.
Contracting experts say these mistakes raise questions about DOGE's basic understanding of the federal government.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/u...
Contracting experts say these mistakes raise questions about DOGE's basic understanding of the federal government.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/u...
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Smart thread here
Lemme share something with you. A lot of semi-Trumpy types are saying Zelensky blew it. All he had to do was show up, shake hands, say Trump is great and sign the docs. He couldn't do that. But there are also people in DC who are not Trumpy who are saying the same thing. Now, big picture this ...
March 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Smart thread here