If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

Someone share this video with Brett Kavanaugh.

lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.

Roberts is presiding over, and driving, a stunning collapse in faith in the U.S. Supreme Court, not just among the public, but among federal judges.

What a failure. The Titanic captain of chief justices.

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

Gay Avenue Pump Station

On this date in 1999, with the score tied 8-8 in the bottom of the 4th, Pedro Martinez with an ailing arm was called upon to stop the bleeding, he went on to have one of the greatest performances in Postseason history, No-Hitting the Indians for 6 innings, as the Sox won 12-8 to move on to the ALCS.

Sens. Durbin and Duckworth visit Broadview ICE processing facility

Durbin said this was the fourth time they’ve requested to tour the facility with no response from ICE officials.

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A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

Good piece: DOGE was the battering ram, but Russ Vought was the one enabling it, and then hiding it's impacts.

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

This MAGA propaganda is deeply sinister. Stephen Miller has been lying about Portland/Chicago relentlessly. It's core to his project: He's trying to establish quasi-absolute power for Trump to simply invent pretexts by fiat to justify whatever abuses he launches. 5/

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What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

Inventive People of Portland Dressing as Animals:

Please don't dress as dogs. Your life will not be safe with psychopath Kristi Noem on the rooftops.

“But I put up a sign!”

one thing that’s definitely new over the past decade or so is the number of bumper stickers and signs threatening to kill you

But at least we have Trump setting global trade, the Fed, and democracy on fire to fall back on.

“I’ve spoken with over two-dozen rather senior people in the datacenter universe, and there was an interesting and overriding theme to our conversations; no one understands how the financial math is supposed to work. They are as baffled as I am, and they do this for a living.”

And this isn’t a new issue— In the 1920s we had the same discussion about billionaires and robber barons controlling media and how bad that would be for democracy.

The result was public media, like the BBC, the FCC, and breaking up big media firms like NBC.

Fox and WSJ Opinion and Facebook and Twitter laid the groundwork.

And that’s Murdoch, Murdoch, Zuckerberg, Musk.

Billionaire ownership of media is the biggest issue we face in democracies today.

Like Bari Weiss being stuffed by a billionaire atop CBS to lie to normies, this is billionaires stuffing rightwing ideas into AI systems to lie to normies.

The whole fascist takeover of the US is built atop an information war.