Alex

follows, likes, & retweets do not ≠ endorsements

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 HOLY SHIT.

A U.S. citizen just testified before the Senate that ICE agents ignored his passport, detained him, placed him on suicide watch, and released him WITHOUT charges or explanation.

Read that again.

An AMERICAN CITIZEN says he showed agents his passport multiple times…

and still ended up locked in a cell under 24/7 lights, stripped naked, wearing a hospital gown while guards watched him constantly.

His family reportedly had no idea where he was.

Then after all of that?

No charges.
No explanation.
Just released.

[Jake Justice @jakecobb]

Keep posting this so people don’t forget how truly bad this event was.

Don’t let people gaslight you into thinking it was peaceful and worthy of 1500+ pardons and slush fund payoffs.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Nearly 50,000 people in the Lake Tahoe area have been told that their utility will stop providing power to them, because it's redirecting that power to data centers.

NV Energy, the Nevada utility that has supplied most of Lake Tahoe’s electricity for decades, says that next year it will stop servicing homes in the area, and instead direct that electricity to the growing demand from Nevada data centers.

Northern Nevada is one of the fastest-growing data-center corridors in the country.

https://t.co/nTGJAMbwAP

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

MAGA: Obama’s Iran Deal was TREASON.

MAGA when Trump kills the deal, starts a war, misjudges the cost of the war and then proposes a weaker version of the Obama Iran Deal—giving Iran control of the Hormuz and $20 BILLION in frozen assets:

[Fox News Politics @foxnewspolitics]

PRICE TAG FLIP: Trump's ballroom was touted as 'completely privately funded' — now Republicans are slipping $1 billion in taxpayer money into an ICE funding bill to pay for it https://t.co/kxC4vHZHSS

[Alex @Alexzillaa]

The reader’s note 👩‍🍳 💋

[Fox News @FoxNews]

ERIKA KIRK: “If you look around the world right now, Europe has surrendered itself to third world criminals — and under the Biden administration, we were on track for that for ourselves. But President Trump came in and course corrected."

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

🇸🇬 Let's get physical: Singapore's seniors turn to parkour

Around 20 retirees in Singapore learn to tackle a series of relatively demanding exercises in "geriatric parkour", building their agility and enjoying a sense of camaraderie.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Stephen Miller stood at a White House task force event yesterday with the Vice President and described a Somali refugee who drives a Mercedes, never works, and gets unlimited free money by lying on a government form. He called it "the system" that Vance's task force will demolish.

The administration already ran this investigation. It is called Feeding Our Future — a $250 million federal nutrition fraud case out of Minnesota. The ringleader who was convicted is Aimee Bock. She is a white woman. Operation Metro Surge, the federal enforcement sweep that followed, made thousands of arrests. Zero Somali Americans were charged in connection with the fraud.

Ninety-two percent of Somali Americans are United States citizens. The community Miller described — drivers of foreign cars, idle, lying on government forms — does not match the prosecution record the administration itself produced.

Miller knows the record. He helped build the task force. He is not describing the fraud case. He is describing a Somali neighbor. At a White House table. With the Vice President nodding alongside him. That is a senior government official using a fabricated ethnic caricature as the face of federal enforcement policy. The Mercedes is not in the indictment. It was never in the indictment.

[ProPublica @propublica]

New: Trump pardoned nursing home owner Joseph Schwartz just 3 months into his sentence for a $39 million fraud scheme. Meanwhile, families who won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against Schwartz haven’t collected a cent. https://t.co/IspakEQUHg

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

There’s only one thing we know for sure about how Iranians inside Iran feel: they are overwhelmingly against the current regime, which has been in power since 1979.

We have years of survey data to support that.

Any more specific claims about what “Iranians want” are not supported by reliable, representative data.

And yet I see people making them every day.

“Iranians WANT this war” — not supported by representative evidence

“Iranians are AGAINST this war” — not supported by representative evidence

“Iranians want Reza Pahlavi as their leader” — not supported by representative evidence

“Iranians don’t want Reza Pahlavi” — not supported by representative evidence

Videos of Iranians celebrating U.S.–Israeli bombing are not representative evidence of what a population of roughly 90 million people wants.

Videos of Iranians condemning U.S.–Israeli hostilities are not representative evidence either.

Videos of Iranians chanting for Reza Pahlavi are not representative evidence of broader public opinion. They capture a moment, a place, and a specific group of people — not a statistically meaningful cross-section of a country of 90 million people.

Your conversations with friends and family are anecdotal, not scientifically valid evidence.

You don’t get to speak with even a few dozen people and conclude that “most Iranians want” anything.

For every 10 people you say support the war, I can find 10 who oppose it and who also oppose the regime, often with years of documented views.

For every 10 people you say support Reza Pahlavi, I can find 10 who do not.

For every 10 people you say oppose him, I can find 10 who at least view him favorably, and some who strongly support him.

This is a lesson I’ve had to learn myself over the years, after repeatedly catching myself making broad, unsubstantiated claims about what Iranians want.

This is an inconvenient truth, as it feels more compelling to speak definitively about your people.

It feels much more powerful.

The truth is that, most of the time, we only speak on behalf of ourselves, our families, and our friends.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Garcia: While you were being assaulted, you told the agents that you had filmed this on your phone?

Bazan: Yes.

Garcia: And that’s when they took your phone away. These agents didn’t just take your phone. They sold it. They pawned it at a kiosk for $250. Is that correct?

Bazan: Yes.

[Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw]

Jaw-dropping DOJ admissions to court

DOJ admits repeatedly made "material mistaken" representations to judge. ICE never had authority (under 2025 Guidance) to conduct arrests at immigration courthouses!

DOJ admits court "relied on...prior misrepresentations"

DOJ blames ICE

[NBC News @NBCNews]

President Trump cast a mail ballot in an upcoming Florida special election, according to Palm Beach County records, as he publicly condemns the voting method as fraudulent.
https://t.co/D3yxdMVOgi

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

This cruelty is being done in our name. Shame on this administration. Shame.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

NEW: Rightwing hatemonger Jake Lang has been caught in a "catch a predator" sting operation, believing he was texting a 15 year old girl

VIA @willsommer

https://t.co/XIkHUM27cZ

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

If someone attacks a synagogue because they're angry at Israel, that is antisemitism. It doesn't matter the reason they're angry. Targeting a synagogue because they need to take out their anger on Jewish people--and any Jewish place of worship will do--is antisemitism.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

A reminder that Candace Owens’ podcast is almost always in the top ten “news” podcasts on Apple Podcasts, alongside The New York Times’ The Daily, and each episode of her show surpasses 1 million views on YouTube alone.

Her channel, which has nearly six million subscribers, averages more than 60 million views per month.

This does not include the many other ways her content is consumed by her incredibly loyal and dedicated fan base.

The Hebrew Bible repeatedly condemns the worship of Baal. Baal worship is portrayed as something the prophets opposed, not something Judaism endorses.

Ancient antisemitism may seem ridiculous to people who see it as nonsensical, but please do not dismiss this as something only some basement dwellers believe.

This form of Jew hatred is the most radicalizing and the most dangerous.

[CONSEQUENCE @consequence]

Conan O'Brien says he has "incredible empathy for people who have immigrated to another country" after traveling to Ireland and seeing his great-grandfather lived.

"I went back to Ireland and I [saw] a great genealogist who said, 'I found where your great-grandfather’s home was.' The home is gone, but he found the little spot where he lived, near the Galbally Mountains. He said, 'I’ll go there and show it to you,' and I said, 'We’ll do it on camera.'

"I was expecting to have these jokes loaded up; we had props and funny things we were going to do... But I got there, and I did not expect this because I'm not someone who wears my emotions on my sleeve, but I got emotional. It was very powerful.

"This was a very small plot of land. He was a tenant farmer, so it wasn't his. He didn't have money, and he needed to move on because it wasn't working; probably not enough to eat, couldn't sustain. So, he left and went to America, and here I am a couple of generations later.

"What's amazing to me is when you have that experience and you stand there, I have incredible empathy for people who have immigrated to another country. It takes an entire lifetime to go to a country where, often, people don't speak the language. They have to spend their entire lives just getting things started for the next generation; it's a whole lifetime that you're feeding into this process.

"I was just thinking about this guy, whom I'll never meet, who had to do that. I think I was overcome by the fact that there's a lot of sadness in that story, and in a lot of these stories. People leave not because they think, 'Hey, I just want to go have fun in America.' They leave because they have to."

(via Jimmy Kimmel Live)

[isabel @wisepissmage]

So what they’re trying to do is dumb you down, make you dependent on ai for everything, take what was inherently yours, your intelligence, and sell it back to you.

[Cuckturd @CattardSlim]

Thomas Massie asks TPUSA why they all turned on him when Charlie Kirk died.

Massie was one of Kirk's favorite members of Congress so it's really shady that Erika Kirk has turned on him.