Peter J. Tomasek
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ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl.
Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.
They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.
Another horrific story.
More details below.
Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.
They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.
Another horrific story.
More details below.
December 14, 2025 at 11:31 PM
ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl.
Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.
They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.
Another horrific story.
More details below.
Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.
They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.
Another horrific story.
More details below.
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BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC
The “leave it to the states” party turned into the “deploy the military on local governments who don’t agree with us” party real freakin’ quick. It’s *almost* like the whole “small government” bit was a lie the whole time. Go figure.
Leavitt: "These are the bad guys that we are picking up in Washington DC every day. The president would love to do this in every Democrat-run city across the country."
September 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
The “leave it to the states” party turned into the “deploy the military on local governments who don’t agree with us” party real freakin’ quick. It’s *almost* like the whole “small government” bit was a lie the whole time. Go figure.
It’s insane that in 2025, a Supreme Court justice is cool with pushin’ this shit out like a damn Facebook post: “If you’re here legally, just prove it, bro.” I wonder how many times Kavanaugh has had to prove he is here legally while handcuffed by unidentified government enforcers. I’d guess zero.
This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:
September 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
It’s insane that in 2025, a Supreme Court justice is cool with pushin’ this shit out like a damn Facebook post: “If you’re here legally, just prove it, bro.” I wonder how many times Kavanaugh has had to prove he is here legally while handcuffed by unidentified government enforcers. I’d guess zero.
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Justice Sotomayor is crystal clear in dissent as to what's happening: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."
September 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Justice Sotomayor is crystal clear in dissent as to what's happening: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."
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Every accusation is a confession www.reuters.com/world/us/bil...
Exclusive: Bill Pulte accused Fed Governor Lisa Cook of fraud. His relatives filed housing claims similar to hers
Close relatives of the federal official who has accused a Federal Reserve governor of improperly claiming primary residence on two properties have declared the same status on two homes in two different states, public records show.
www.reuters.com
September 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Every accusation is a confession www.reuters.com/world/us/bil...
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From today’s @bostonglobe.com. I’ll link the full article below, but for those who hit a paywall…
“Velchik — who holds two degrees from Harvard, one from the college and one from the law school — was the sole lawyer arguing the case for the White House in July.”
You really can’t make this up.
“Velchik — who holds two degrees from Harvard, one from the college and one from the law school — was the sole lawyer arguing the case for the White House in July.”
You really can’t make this up.
September 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
From today’s @bostonglobe.com. I’ll link the full article below, but for those who hit a paywall…
“Velchik — who holds two degrees from Harvard, one from the college and one from the law school — was the sole lawyer arguing the case for the White House in July.”
You really can’t make this up.
“Velchik — who holds two degrees from Harvard, one from the college and one from the law school — was the sole lawyer arguing the case for the White House in July.”
You really can’t make this up.
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Thank goodness we have these soldiers in DC today. Zoomed out for context to show the dangerous situation on the National Mall this morning.
August 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Thank goodness we have these soldiers in DC today. Zoomed out for context to show the dangerous situation on the National Mall this morning.
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NEW—Earlier this evening agents from ICE/other fed agencies were outside Rhode Island Ave metro in DC asking people exiting the station for their IDs, per someone who experienced it. When the person presented their Real ID license, an agent said that wasn't sufficient. Luckily they had secondary ID.
August 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
NEW—Earlier this evening agents from ICE/other fed agencies were outside Rhode Island Ave metro in DC asking people exiting the station for their IDs, per someone who experienced it. When the person presented their Real ID license, an agent said that wasn't sufficient. Luckily they had secondary ID.
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Why give a kid a $2 school lunch when you can give a billionaire billions to use AI and robotics to figure out how to make someone who is hungry less hungry?
Man worth $370 billion says the way to solve poverty is “AI and robotics”
August 1, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Why give a kid a $2 school lunch when you can give a billionaire billions to use AI and robotics to figure out how to make someone who is hungry less hungry?
The Democratic Party constantly has to answer for a random, anonymous social media posts from accounts with eleven followers. The Republican Party, on the other hand, hasn’t had to answer for anyone or anything since Richard Nixon.
the right wing media ecosystem is so efficiently set up to take random posts from non public figures and turn them into pseudoevents. to the point where the entire social media system rn really just favors their viral propaganda machine.
Since Monday, Fox News has spent an hour and 25 minutes covering an American Eagle commercial in which Sydney Sweeney talks about her “good jeans,” and just 3 minutes of coverage to developments in the administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein saga.
July 31, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The Democratic Party constantly has to answer for a random, anonymous social media posts from accounts with eleven followers. The Republican Party, on the other hand, hasn’t had to answer for anyone or anything since Richard Nixon.
I won’t criticize him again for the rest of his term if Trump does the Presidential Fitness Test live on national television.
President Trump is set to sign an executive order to revive the Presidential Fitness Test in public schools. The test was scrapped by the Obama administration in 2012
Trump set to revive the Presidential Fitness Test while hosting professional athletes at White House | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump will be joined by professional athletes on Thursday to sign an executive order that will expand on his council on sports, fitness and nutrition, including by reviving the Presid...
www.cnn.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I won’t criticize him again for the rest of his term if Trump does the Presidential Fitness Test live on national television.
The only relevant inquiry when you’re a Republican candidate or nominee is whether you’re loyal to Republicanism.
When you’re a Democratic candidate or nominee, there are a million different boxes you have to check—and not being “too liberal” is the most important.
When you’re a Democratic candidate or nominee, there are a million different boxes you have to check—and not being “too liberal” is the most important.
If we survive this, there is going to be a real push from liberals for the next Democrat in the Oval to go scorched earth and simply nominate the most ardently ideological, brazenly partisan judges.
Not even offer up a fig leaf of bipartisanship. Just ram through whoever you want, at any cost.
Not even offer up a fig leaf of bipartisanship. Just ram through whoever you want, at any cost.
NEW: Republicans confirm former Trump lawyer Emil Bove to lifetime appeals court perch
The vote is 50-49.
He's confirmed with only GOP votes.
Democrats + Murkowski + Collins vote NO.
(Hagerty missed the vote.)
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
The vote is 50-49.
He's confirmed with only GOP votes.
Democrats + Murkowski + Collins vote NO.
(Hagerty missed the vote.)
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
July 30, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The only relevant inquiry when you’re a Republican candidate or nominee is whether you’re loyal to Republicanism.
When you’re a Democratic candidate or nominee, there are a million different boxes you have to check—and not being “too liberal” is the most important.
When you’re a Democratic candidate or nominee, there are a million different boxes you have to check—and not being “too liberal” is the most important.
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Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kirsti Noem, Joseph Mazzara, Emil Bove, Drew Sargent, and everyone else involved in planning, executing, and obstructing justice around the CECOT imprisonments are responsible for Andry's torture and rape.
Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.
Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.
July 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kirsti Noem, Joseph Mazzara, Emil Bove, Drew Sargent, and everyone else involved in planning, executing, and obstructing justice around the CECOT imprisonments are responsible for Andry's torture and rape.
Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.
Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.
Hear me out: What if you read shit before you vote for it and call it beautiful?
NEW: Some Republicans push to undo gambling tax hike they passed in Trump's megabill
House tax-writing W&M Chair Jason Smith told me Wednesday it was a “mistake” by the Senate and needs to be undone.
TED CRUZ wants it gone: "None of us knew about it"
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
House tax-writing W&M Chair Jason Smith told me Wednesday it was a “mistake” by the Senate and needs to be undone.
TED CRUZ wants it gone: "None of us knew about it"
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Some Republicans push to undo gambling tax hike they passed in Trump's megabill
An outcry from bettors has caused some top GOP lawmakers to rethink a provision in Trump's bill. Some say it was sloppily added. Others say they didn't even know it was in the legislation.
www.nbcnews.com
July 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Hear me out: What if you read shit before you vote for it and call it beautiful?
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The America First geniuses managed to send hairdressers and soccer players into a gulag and *import* a triple murderer into the US. Nice work.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
Convicted Murderer Released by Trump From Venezuelan Prison Is Free in U.S.
www.nytimes.com
July 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The America First geniuses managed to send hairdressers and soccer players into a gulag and *import* a triple murderer into the US. Nice work.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
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At the DeSantis Everglades detention camp, people with green cards are being held in terrible conditions, with maggots in the food, the lights kept on 24 hours a day, and delayed access to medicine.
One guy had his Bible taken and was told "here there is no right to religion."
One guy had his Bible taken and was told "here there is no right to religion."
July 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
At the DeSantis Everglades detention camp, people with green cards are being held in terrible conditions, with maggots in the food, the lights kept on 24 hours a day, and delayed access to medicine.
One guy had his Bible taken and was told "here there is no right to religion."
One guy had his Bible taken and was told "here there is no right to religion."
Small government, am I right?
With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.
🚨🚨 NEW: House passes sprawling domestic policy bill, sending it to Trump's desk
Final House vote is 218-214, with TWO Rs voting no (Massie & Fitzpatrick).
Senate passed it 51-50.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Final House vote is 218-214, with TWO Rs voting no (Massie & Fitzpatrick).
Senate passed it 51-50.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
July 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Small government, am I right?
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The Trump admin in a nutshell; in order to justify their own mistake, they’re going to release a violent felon with five deportations so he can testify against the guy with no criminal record they mistakenly deported.
In other words, the story is always more important than the principle.
In other words, the story is always more important than the principle.
The Trump admin has freed Jose Hernandez Reyes because he can testify against Abrego Garcia.
Hernandez, who has been deported 5 times, has also been arrested for:
—DUI w/ a handgun;
—cocaine possession;
—illegally transporting migrants; and
—drunkenly firing a gun.
Free link: wapo.st/40i4Ttt
Hernandez, who has been deported 5 times, has also been arrested for:
—DUI w/ a handgun;
—cocaine possession;
—illegally transporting migrants; and
—drunkenly firing a gun.
Free link: wapo.st/40i4Ttt
Star witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported. Now he’s being freed.
Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time felon released early from federal prison to a halfway house in exchange for testifying against Kilmar Abrego García.
wapo.st
June 29, 2025 at 2:11 AM
The Trump admin in a nutshell; in order to justify their own mistake, they’re going to release a violent felon with five deportations so he can testify against the guy with no criminal record they mistakenly deported.
In other words, the story is always more important than the principle.
In other words, the story is always more important than the principle.
No tax on tips turned into no time off pretty quickly. And no one should be surprised.
I have no words. Anti-worker, anti-union, pro-child labor, anti-sick leave, anti-medical leave, anti-maternity/paternity leave, anti-livable wage… no wonder republicans refer to us as human capital stock. Fuck the oligarchs.
June 20, 2025 at 12:26 AM
No tax on tips turned into no time off pretty quickly. And no one should be surprised.
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Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.
June 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.