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Wow. This thread. 🧵
The vast number of lies easily disproven by body cams strongly suggests that they never expected to be questioned or to experience consequences. We need a lot more consequences happening.
The vast number of lies easily disproven by body cams strongly suggests that they never expected to be questioned or to experience consequences. We need a lot more consequences happening.
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
November 20, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Wow. This thread. 🧵
The vast number of lies easily disproven by body cams strongly suggests that they never expected to be questioned or to experience consequences. We need a lot more consequences happening.
The vast number of lies easily disproven by body cams strongly suggests that they never expected to be questioned or to experience consequences. We need a lot more consequences happening.
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Tim Cook attended a state dinner Trump threw for MBS. Does Cook have the time to condemn Trump’s call for the murder of Democratic Senators and Representatives?
November 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Tim Cook attended a state dinner Trump threw for MBS. Does Cook have the time to condemn Trump’s call for the murder of Democratic Senators and Representatives?
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A central provision of the 28-point plan being circulated in Trump's name but actually written by Putin advisor Kirill Dmitriev is to grant Russia total impunity for all war crimes it has committed. Such a grant of impunity is squarely contrary to international law and to US policy before Trump.
Trump's full 28-point Ukraine-Russia peace plan
The full plan was obtained by Axios and verified by Ukrainian and U.S. officials.
www.axios.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:30 AM
A central provision of the 28-point plan being circulated in Trump's name but actually written by Putin advisor Kirill Dmitriev is to grant Russia total impunity for all war crimes it has committed. Such a grant of impunity is squarely contrary to international law and to US policy before Trump.
Absolute clown show
DHS confirmed it has stopped automatically storing officials' text messages.
Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Absolute clown show
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No healthcare. No food aid. No air travel. Billionaires need their handouts more.
November 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
No healthcare. No food aid. No air travel. Billionaires need their handouts more.
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tired: great gatsby parties
wired: bastille day parties
wired: bastille day parties
Apparently there was a Gatsby party at Mar a Lago, while Trump is trying to kick 42 million off SNAP
November 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
tired: great gatsby parties
wired: bastille day parties
wired: bastille day parties
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DHS / ICE appears to have rolled out their new cell phone tracking platform in DC. I'm getting these every 5-10 minutes on my phone.
Kristi Noem, Tom Homan, and Pam Bondi need to be jailed for life.
Kristi Noem, Tom Homan, and Pam Bondi need to be jailed for life.
October 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
DHS / ICE appears to have rolled out their new cell phone tracking platform in DC. I'm getting these every 5-10 minutes on my phone.
Kristi Noem, Tom Homan, and Pam Bondi need to be jailed for life.
Kristi Noem, Tom Homan, and Pam Bondi need to be jailed for life.
Murdering a few “drug runners” at sea counts as manufacturing consent for war these days? Hearst would be jealous.
(Miami Herald) - The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald ..
@miamiherald.com
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
@miamiherald.com
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
U.S. poised to strike military targets in Venezuela in escalation against Maduro regime
The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald...
www.miamiherald.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Murdering a few “drug runners” at sea counts as manufacturing consent for war these days? Hearst would be jealous.
Paging Congress
(Miami Herald) - The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald ..
@miamiherald.com
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
@miamiherald.com
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
U.S. poised to strike military targets in Venezuela in escalation against Maduro regime
The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald...
www.miamiherald.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Paging Congress
I can’t imagine a more unAmerican talking point. This rhetoric seems especially insidious because Vance says it’s “reasonable.” Normalizing division and demonizing difference. Get the chanclas ready 🩴🔥
More than a century after the Irish, Germans, Italians, etc. helped make this country. But tribalism and bias die hard.
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 31, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I can’t imagine a more unAmerican talking point. This rhetoric seems especially insidious because Vance says it’s “reasonable.” Normalizing division and demonizing difference. Get the chanclas ready 🩴🔥
Guess I need to get on Signal so I can help with the underground railroad in TX. Time to throw some chanclas, y’all. 🩴🔥✌️
"ICE is all but extricating itself from the process...while effectively turning immigration enforcement into a service industry; a continuous, privatized, & largely unseen system capable of moving detainees 100s of miles overnight while operating w/out direct federal presence." @dell.bsky.social
NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
October 31, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Guess I need to get on Signal so I can help with the underground railroad in TX. Time to throw some chanclas, y’all. 🩴🔥✌️
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When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”
It’s very telling that opening your publication to MAGA “thought” requires a massive downgrade in quality control.
October 31, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Internet winner today…
Donald Trump is pursuing a third presidential term the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
October 31, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Internet winner today…
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The largest space in Buckingham Palace (an actual palace) is the ballroom. Trump's monstrosity would hold about five of them.
i.pinimg.com/736x/56/cd/b...
i.pinimg.com/736x/56/cd/b...
i.pinimg.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The largest space in Buckingham Palace (an actual palace) is the ballroom. Trump's monstrosity would hold about five of them.
i.pinimg.com/736x/56/cd/b...
i.pinimg.com/736x/56/cd/b...
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Thanks for putting the collage together.
Here's another terrible example of xenophobia as well
Here's another terrible example of xenophobia as well
I've been volunteering at a food pantry the past several months and was writing some observations about it. Went to the official TEFAP Factsheet website and saw this insane header. The intersectionality between Xenophobia, Transphobia, and violating the Hatch Act is astounding.
October 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Thanks for putting the collage together.
Here's another terrible example of xenophobia as well
Here's another terrible example of xenophobia as well
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Dude has a net worth north of **half-a-billion dollars** and will directly benefit from a farm bailout & he's trying to pretend he has to clip coupons to save a buck. The kind of tone deaf comments that Democrats would get crushed for but receive ZERO push back from Republicans.
October 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Dude has a net worth north of **half-a-billion dollars** and will directly benefit from a farm bailout & he's trying to pretend he has to clip coupons to save a buck. The kind of tone deaf comments that Democrats would get crushed for but receive ZERO push back from Republicans.
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I feel like people are sort of sleeping on the US Attorney for EDVA clarifying—to a reporter!—that she did indeed intentionally violate the Federal Records Act by setting the Signal messages to auto-delete
October 21, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I feel like people are sort of sleeping on the US Attorney for EDVA clarifying—to a reporter!—that she did indeed intentionally violate the Federal Records Act by setting the Signal messages to auto-delete
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Now Arizona has also said "no," and Vanderbilt has indicated it will do the same. That leaves just the University of Texas, which has been placed under the control of the Texas GOP and is going through what Greg Abbott calls an "ideological test" for conformity with Texas GOP ideology.
All but 2 Universities Decline a Trump Offer of Preferential Funding
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Now Arizona has also said "no," and Vanderbilt has indicated it will do the same. That leaves just the University of Texas, which has been placed under the control of the Texas GOP and is going through what Greg Abbott calls an "ideological test" for conformity with Texas GOP ideology.
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The focus of ALL the attention should not be on Trump or his grifting family. ALL eyes should be on his Republican representatives, his White House team, the staff/lawyers/general workers, who enable and protect him. Cameras and microphones should be in their faces every minute of the day.
October 21, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The focus of ALL the attention should not be on Trump or his grifting family. ALL eyes should be on his Republican representatives, his White House team, the staff/lawyers/general workers, who enable and protect him. Cameras and microphones should be in their faces every minute of the day.
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Dramatic photos show construction equipment tearing into the East Wing façade and windows, though the federal agency that oversees such projects has not approved President Trump's 90,000-square-foot, $250 million ballroom. n.pr/48AUON2
The White House starts demolishing part of the East Wing to build Trump's ballroom
Dramatic photos show construction equipment tearing into the East Wing façade and windows, though the federal agency that oversees such projects has not approved President Trump's 90,000-square-foot, $250 million ballroom.
n.pr
October 21, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Dramatic photos show construction equipment tearing into the East Wing façade and windows, though the federal agency that oversees such projects has not approved President Trump's 90,000-square-foot, $250 million ballroom. n.pr/48AUON2
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"ICE has also purchased spyware in recent weeks that enables it to remotely hack into smartphones and extract data, even if the phones are locked or communication is over encrypted apps."
ICE amps up its surveillance powers, targeting immigrants and antifa
Iris scanners, facial recognition apps, phone-hacking software and cellphone location data are among the agency’s recent technological purchases.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"ICE has also purchased spyware in recent weeks that enables it to remotely hack into smartphones and extract data, even if the phones are locked or communication is over encrypted apps."
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The woman hosting this shit is CMO at a VC firm that funds AI projects. But the great @nytimes.com does not disclose that
“Prompt parties,” gatherings of women over cheese and wine to chat about how ChatGPT can help them, are emerging as the next-generation of Tupperware party in San Francisco.
Wine, Cheese and ChatGPT: Ladies’ Night in San Francisco
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The woman hosting this shit is CMO at a VC firm that funds AI projects. But the great @nytimes.com does not disclose that
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As predicted.
NEW: Four years after GOP lawmakers in Georgia enacted one of the most aggressive anti-voting laws in the country, new evidence filed in federal court shows that Senate Bill 202 has drastically deepened racial inequalities in voting access in the state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Georgia’s Sweeping Anti-Voting Law Suppressed Black Votes, New Data Shows
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:42 AM
As predicted.
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Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.
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Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.
Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book
October 19, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.
October 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.