So weird!

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Too cynical to think this might have been the ENTIRE point of the shutdown?

“Policymakers have been watching for signs that a cooling job market, rising unemployment and worsening inflation is weighing on the economy”

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

It's important to name the tools of authoritarianism so we can identify and condemn them with precision. I'm glad we now have a term for ICE's openly racist, degrading immigration arrests: Kavanaugh stops. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Day 2 in D.C. and #AZ07 is still left without a vote and voice here in Washington.

Arizonans just elected Adelita Grijalva to represent them in Washington, and there’s no reason to delay seating her. Speaker Johnson should swear her in immediately so she can get to work.

someone please check on every government website because the banners are killing me

HUD:

That's part of why I wrote this. It's important to understand that MAGA is not "real" America.

On the contrary, the reason they're all so fucking bitter is they know most people aren't like them. And they resent that.

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Phang: So, as we can see you have a DHS official—you clearly hear him say on that body cam footage, “I am arresting the mayor. Even though he stepped out, I’m going to put him in cuffs.”

Who told him to do it? He says: the Deputy Attorney General… And who’s that? Todd Blanche.

"Republicans run the entire government but can't keep it open"

That's it. That's the whole story.

This is the legal term everyone should be familiar with as to why they made those speeches in front of the ENTIRE leadership of the world’s largest military.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Sure. Cool. Wait, your job is what—you’re the acting head of FEMA?? wapo.st/46BGTDU Crazy exclusive from WaPo about the guy Lewandowski installed to run FEMA, who was reportedly unreachable during the deadly Texas flood in July (gift link)

“Through the ages, the mercenary’s paradox has endured: despised yet indispensable. Their business thrives on perpetual chaos. Every ceasefire threatens their livelihood.”
Alessandro Arduino, King’s College London, author of Money for Mayhem: Mercenaries, PMCs, Drones, & the Future of War

Apologies for the language, but these guys are just assholes.

As a child of the Reagan years, the fact that the *Republican Party* is expropriating shares in companies and shaking companies down while saying stuff like this is wild

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Yesterday marked one year since Tom Homan, the man in charge of Trump’s mass deportation effort allegedly accepted $50,000 in cash from FBI agents posing as business executives in exchange for a promise to steer federal contracts their way once Trump was in office.

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