WIRED @wired.com

1 day ago

A United States Senate investigation has identified more than 500 credible reports of human rights abuses in US immigration detention since January, including alarming allegations of mistreatment of pregnant women and children.

Senate Probe Uncovers Allegations of Widespread Abuse in ICE Custody

Led by US senator Jon Ossoff, the investigation cites hundreds of reports since January, including accounts of miscarriages, child neglect, and sexual abuse at ICE detention centers in dozens of state...

Air-rum @aarum.bsky.social

2 days ago

And it’s time for y’all to throw hands.

Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov

2 days ago

Texas Republicans have lost their damn minds.

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com

4 days ago

I think the fact that the president can make up a bullshit pretext about crime, activate various states' national guard units and invade a major city with basically minimal pushback of any kind reflects very poorly on Americans generally

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social

4 days ago

Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee spent four years and hundreds of thousands of lives trying to occupy Washington, DC. MAGA accomplished it without firing a shot.

South Carolina was the first state to secede. If South Carolina troops are the first in DC, let that symbolism not be lost on anyone.

Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz

4 days ago

there are 250 Democrats in Congress who should be out on the streets telling these folks to go home right now

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social

4 days ago

The White House is mobilizing red state military forces to occupy a Democratic stronghold and let me tell you: No one has ever pretended something isn't happening harder than Democratic leaders are pretending this isn't happening right now.

Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social

4 days ago

I’m gonna say armed troops from red states descending on a blue city is just a few inches — or maybe one exchange of gunfire — short of a civil war’s opening stages.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social

4 days ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — South Carolina, Ohio also sending National Guard troops to DC in further escalation of federal intervention in Dem city.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

5 days ago

Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com

5 days ago

It is insane to me that the government can find money to pay ICE agents increasingly larger sums of money, yet teachers have to buy their own pencils.