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[The Steady State @steadystate2025]

It’s not the Democrats’ fault that ICE has reportedly shot and killed 10 people since the beginning of Trump’s second term, including American citizens. It’s not the Democrats’ fault that at least another 52 people have died in ICE custody, according to ICE’s own internal reports.

In fact, the Human Rights Watch reports that the number of ICE-related deaths are occurring at nearly four times the rate seen during the Biden administration and two and a half times the rate of Trump’s first administration.

As ICE becomes increasingly militarized and is turned inward against American citizens, we should all be concerned by how little the federal government is doing to maintain accountability, integrity, and the rule of law. No amount of political blame shifting can erase the fact that ICE is killing people at a historically unprecedented rate. The Trump administration’s refusal to take responsibility for these failures reflects their disregard for American lives, especially those who oppose and disagree with them.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: INDICT HIM! Jared Kushner gets caught in a massive scandal as it's revealed that Iran warned the U.S. that he was abusing his negotiating role to line his and his cronies' pockets with $9 BILLION!

We suspected it, now we have the smoking gun...

According to bombshell reporting from Drop Site News, Iranian officials sent a private message to JD Vance in late June warning him that Trump’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and his corrupt son-in-law Jared Kushner were endangering the viability of negotiations to end the war.

The message revealed that Witkoff and Kushner were "more interested in exploiting insider knowledge of the negotiations to profit in financial markets than they were in reaching a deal." That characterization tracks with what we know about the two men, because neither has ever displayed any genuine interest in obtaining peace in the region.

We also know that there has been a troubling trend of Trump administration officials using insider knowledge about forthcoming government decisions and announcements to rake in massive fortunes through betting markets and stock market speculation. They're treating government like a casino, accumulating massive fortunes, and leaving the rest of us to deal with the fallout from their disastrous policies.

"Iran calculated profits from such alleged manipulation had reached $9 billion and formally requested, in writing, that Iran should share in the proceeds," Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Grim of Drop Site reported.

“We have conveyed through intermediaries that $4.5 billion of this sum should also be allocated to the Iranian side,” an Iranian official stated. “The exchanged texts will ultimately become part of the historical record.”

Not only that, but the Iranians were concerned about "repeated leaks" from Kushner to indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, an unsurprising trend given the "Israel First" nature of this administration.

“Even before the Islamabad talks kicked off [in April], we had already sent multiple messages to Trump through the Pakistanis, warning them about [Witkoff’s] overall destructive role in the previous negotiation,” the Iranian official said

When efforts to arouse the White House's concern about Witkoff's and Kushner's machinations failed, the Iranians reached out to Vance through intermediaries.

Vance's team insists that the message never reached the vice president, but given his demonstrated penchant for lying — and the fact that he would have never dared challenge Kushner for fear of alienating Trump — it's safest to presume that they're lying.

In any other era, this kind of scandal would bring down an entire presidency and lead to massive investigations and prosecutions. Under Trump, it's just accepted as par for the course.

But we need not accept this as the status quo.

When Democrats retake power, we must launch a well-funded forensic investigation into Kushner and the rest of these crooks, uncover their crimes, and lock them up for the maximum amount of time possible.

Please ❤️ and share if you support prosecuting Kushner!

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

Donald Trump hyped a massive 350-foot gash by 'vandals'—slashed it with box cutters, poured chemicals, arrested people, the whole spectacle! Now the Reflecting Pool is drained... and there's NO giant gash? Just peeling paint and a failed renovation. This is what happens when you choose theatrics and lies over truth.

op: @gomcgill

[BigBlueWaveUSA2026® 🇺🇸🌊🇺🇦 @BigBlueWaveUSA]

This is America under Trump.
This happens every day, but not usually this well documented. No elected Republicans called for this deranged cop’s termination.
This is a child.
Republicans either look the other way, or worse, support this.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

Embarrassing. Embarrassing for him. Embarrassing for the legal profession. Embarrassing for the Justice Department. Embarrassing for his former law partners (who have been embarrassed more than they deserve lately). Embarrassing for his family. Embarrassing for anyone who has ever met or worked with him (I guess I am fortunate to have not). And embarrassing for the country.

For the life of me I will never understand why intelligent, otherwise respected people like Clayton have chosen to abase themselves for a corrupt, criminal, imbecilic sociopath.

[P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport]

Not every court agreed with every issue.

Not every judge shared the same politics.

Not every bar association answered to the same authority.

Yet they kept reaching the same conclusion.

This wasn't one "weaponized" decision.

It was judges, disciplinary boards, and courts across multiple states independently finding that lawyers who promoted false 2020 election claims had crossed professional and ethical lines.

Disbarments. Suspensions. Sanctions. Guilty pleas. Ongoing disciplinary cases.

When dozens of independent institutions arrive at the same place, it stops looking like a conspiracy.

It starts looking like accountability.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@JamesTalarico: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by ICE.

He wasn't their intended target. But he looked like their intended target.

Lorenzo was our neighbor, a fellow Texan. He lived in Houston for 35 years. He worked as a construction worker and he sent his three boys to college.

His oldest son is a public school teacher. His middle son is an engineer. And his youngest is still in school.

Lorenzo Salgado embodied the American dream. His boys called him ‘El Mundo Intero‘ — the whole world.

And they watched as their whole world died in a video posted on Facebook. Lorenzo was a child of God, endowed with infinite worth. His life was invaluable. His death was senseless. Our neighbor, our fellow Texan, deserves justice.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

He fomented an insurrection. He botched a pandemic. He stole classified documents. He committed every type of fraud known to man. He is compromised. He protects pedophiles. He's a 34-time convicted felon. He's an adjudicated rapist, who paid his victim $5.6M so far. He monetizes the presidency and weaponizes justice. He's lawless. He obstructs justice at every turn. He lies as he breathes. He's narcissistic. He's psychopathic. He's paranoid. He's sadistic. I can go on.
YET - no matter how bad we know he is, and no matter how bad the things we know he did are, remember this: Some of the things we don't yet know he did, are even worse.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

This is Joan Sebastian Guerrero who was murdered by ICE in front of his 3-year old daughter.

RETWEET to honor his memory 💔

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) lost its 14th and 15th voter roll cases Tuesday, when federal judges dismissed* the government’s lawsuits seeking access to Virginia and New Mexico’s full voter records. https://t.co/3jv1Ow0uDt

[Human☮🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🌊 @4HumanUnity]

🚨🚨🚨This is exactly how Fox and right-wing influencers like DC_Draino lie to you, the same network that agreed to pay $787.5 million for lying about the 2020 election.

Mamdani wasn't mayor in 2022. He took office in January 2026. The figure you're citing is 4 years before he became mayor.

Cornell research and NY State migration data show the people actually leaving NYC are working and middle-class residents priced out by housing costs, not billionaires fleeing tax hikes. STOP LYING to the American people.

High taxes aren’t causing rich New Yorkers to flee, study says
https://t.co/ENzvh0JkAq via @routefifty

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

If Trump is disavowing NATO and breaking an 80 year tradition — something’s wrong.

If Trump is praising Vladimir Putin, whose entire economy is slightly smaller than the state of Texas — something’s wrong.

If Trump is disavowing the 1994 defense agreement where we told Ukraine to give up their nuclear weapons and we’d protect them — the agreement that got him impeached in his first term — something is wrong.

He blasts and berates every world leader. Won’t say a single negative word about Putin.

Putin owns him. It’s hard to watch as an American but it’s obvious.

Why does he own him? That’ll probably come out someday.

It’s not just Trump.

Right-leaning podcasters taking money from the Russian government to spout their talking points.

Republicans hanging out in Moscow, repeating the same lines.

The question isn’t whether something exists. It’s what.

[Owen @Owennfa]

THE LABOR DEPARTMENT JUST DROPPED NEW WAGE DATA AND IT'S BRUTAL.

Corporate profits up 47% since 2020.

Worker wages up 12% in the same period.

Meanwhile groceries up 35%, rent up 40%, utilities up 28%.

Your paycheck grew 12%. Your bills grew 35%.

The math is simple: you're getting poorer every year even when you get a raise.

You can't budget your way out of this. The system is designed so your income can never catch up to your expenses.

That's not an accident. That's policy.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

It does not matter whether the man federal immigration agents killed in Maine had work authorization. It does not matter whether he had a social security number. The state killed a man, and the national conversation turned first to his paperwork. That order of priorities is worth sitting with for a moment.

The debate underway is whether the victim somehow earned his own death. The question that should be asked, why agents of the state are killing people over immigration status at all, has gone strangely quiet.

It deserves saying plainly: this is not a normal practice anywhere. Most authoritarian states, whatever else they do, do not execute people over work permits.

Among Western democracies, the number of countries that do this is zero. I say that carefully, and I include the United States in the arithmetic. A country where this happens, and where the response is to audit the victim, has stepped outside that category, whether or not it has noticed yet.

Nobody knows where this ends. America will not repeat anyone else's history; it will make its own, and its own history books will one day have to account for this chapter. But the direction of travel is visible from here, and it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise.

What worries an outside observer most is not any single incident but the paralysis around them. When one side asks the government to stop killing innocent people, the answer is not reflection but reflex: do not listen to them, they are the other side. When even that request has become a partisan position, something essential has already broken.

And the pattern from here is familiar. One killing becomes several. Unrest follows, because decent people will try to stop what they cannot accept. And unrest, in turn, becomes the argument for emergency powers, manufactured or real, which enable more of what caused the unrest in the first place. This is not prophecy. It is simply how these sequences have always run.

For decades, people asked how ordinary countries slid into darkness. The answer was never a dramatic turning point with sinister music. It was a Tuesday, a news cycle, a paperwork debate over a dead man. Then another one.

To my American friends reading this: I know the majority of you want no part of it. But watching from the outside, we notice something your own media seems unwilling to show: one half of your country has effectively been silenced. Not argued down, simply removed from the picture. The cameras point one way now.

They find endless airtime for the people explaining why someone had to die, why a mother lunged at twenty-two masked men, why the latest body is somehow its own fault. The people asking why any of this is happening at all do not get a microphone.

A majority you can neither see nor hear is still a majority. I have known your country too long to doubt it. So the rest of us will say what your cameras will not: the America worth remembering does not kill people, documented or not, and every single one of you knows exactly why that sentence should never have needed writing.

Stay connected, follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨This is exactly how ICE agents create the very situations they later use to justify murdering citizens.

In the video, they box in the vehicle of a U.S. citizen. They approach with guns already drawn, and try to open her car door… while repeatedly ordering her to unlock it, and ignoring anything she says.

And notice how they don’t identify themselves. They don’t explain why she’s being detained. They don’t tell her what crime they suspect her of committing.

To the person inside the car, it’s just a group of masked, armed men surrounding her vehicle and trying to force their way in.

That’s how panic starts.

And when people panic, move their car, or try to get away from what they reasonably perceive as a violent threat, ICE agents open fire, and later claim the vehicle was “used as a weapon.”

Law enforcement cannot detain people without legal justification. The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures, and officers are expected to clearly communicate their authority, and the basis for their actions.

They are supposed to de-escalate situations.

Instead, they use tactics to create fear and confusion… making it more likely someone will panic, and easier for agents to claim deadly force was necessary, while they violate the person’s constitutional rights.

When these tactics become standard practice, accountability becomes nonexistent.

[Amanda Berry @amanda_booberry]

@RonFilipkowski It's a great strategy, if you're running against communists, or if you think your voters are that stupid. The govt taking 10% stake in Intel was closer to communism than anything Dems have proposed.

[KCarrollDay 🌊💙🇺🇸🦅 @CarrollDay]

No surprise that Trump was lying about it.

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

Update from the reflecting pool! The pool has been drained, and there are no signs of the giant gash that Donald Trump has been lying about. No indications of major vandalism. Just a bad paint job. The only thing that’s been exposed is that Trump has been lying about this.

[Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @JudiciaryDems]

This is Todd Blanche’s corrupt Justice Department.

Dozens upon dozens of ignored oversight requests. This is EVERY SINGLE ONE.

He only believes in answering to Trump… not Congress… and not YOU.

[Stephen Richer @stephen_richer]

For anyone excited by the latest (rehashed) fan fiction that Maduro helped rig tabulators for the 2020 election...

A reminder that Georgia has paper ballots.

You can't hack paper.

And it counted those paper ballots 3 times. Once by hand.

Each count yielded the same result.

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Jon Ossoff just responded to reports that Trump plans to declare him an “illegitimate” senator because of nonexistent voter fraud. Every word of this is spot on. Spread it everywhere and support Ossoff!!!