Chaz Rolfer

NEWS — DHS wants a detention system bigger than all of federal prisons combined. A nationwide rapid-response network just launched with two words: “GTFO, ICE.” GTFOice.org

We can't treat this Supreme Court as a functional constitutional body acting in good faith. It's a corrupt, far-right, partisan court, and we have to treat it as such. (And both Alito and Thomas should be impeached.)

We’re in the middle of a pretty important naval blockade standoff with a country we’ve threatened to destroy, so it seems like a weird time for the Secretary of the Navy to abruptly depart. And by “weird” I mean, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?

STATEMENT: Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan is departing the administration, effective immediately. On behalf of the Secretary of War and Deputy Secretary of War, we are grateful to Secretary Phelan for his service to the Department and the United States Navy. We wish him well in his future endeavors. Undersecretary Hung Cao will become Acting Secretary of the Navy.

@moorehn Very nicely stated!

I think about this all the time. How the beauty of work -- the creation, the collaboration, the pride -- has been chipped away by technology that takes away the emotional rewards of work, work hours that create resentment instead of anticipation, management that has incentivized individuals instead of teams

Amal Khalil, a Lebanese journalist, was targeted today by the IDF in South Lebanon, together with other colleagues. Two were killed, one injured and Amal is still under the rubble. The Red Cross tried to extract her but they were targeted too by the Israelis and had to retreat.

Note the risk here: The government could simply charge people, even bringing charges that have no merit, to force their removal. That wouldn’t normally be a concern, but with this Department’s proclivity to bring baseless charges, it’s on the table.

“As Americans, we have to be able to say it's not normal to wish for the destruction of an entire civilization.” Historian @TimothyDSnyder tells me why, when President Trump threatens to eradicate Iranian civilization, he "taints" all Americans by publicly using genocidal rhetoric.

James Carville: “How many people in this country do you think know that 18% of the country elects 52 senators? The answer is not very many. How many people know that in the last 9 presidential elections, the Democrats have won 7 in the popular vote?”

Let me be clear: this SICKENS me. I spent YEARS writing letters to get my interpreters in America because they SAVED OUR LIVES. One of my interpreters was a 15 year old kid. One day, we were working with the Afghan police and he went stone quiet. After we left, I asked him what was wrong. He told me that the Afghan police had just threatened to cut his lips off for helping us. He was FIFTEEN. And he risked EVERYTHING for our soldiers.

Cool news for folks living on Middle Gulf Coast: @Amtrak passenger service is starting in June, giving an easy way to travel between New Orleans & Mobile. Note 4 stops in Mississippi. I'm especially psyched about Bay Saint Louis stop: it gives me a fast ride into New Orleans.

I mantain that most people haven’t registered the scale of calamity that is gonna result from this

This should be making international headlines. Every alarm bell known to mankind should be ringing. This is dangerous and genuinely catastrophic

American media used to call the USSR a "gerontocracy" because many of their officials were in their 70s. Now, members of the US Congress stay decades and cling to power until death. Many are in their 80s. Dianne Feinstein was 90 and had no idea where she was. Chuck Grassley is 92. Biden is now 83. Trump will be 80 in June. Pelosi is finally leaving at 86. The Congressmember who announced this Congressman's death herself is 82 years old (Virginia Fox), with a history of obvious confusion and dementia. The Hill is like a nursing home.

Abdul El-Sayed: “Donald Trump is not himself the disease of our politics, he’s just the worst symptom of the disease. The disease is the system that allows big corporations and billionaires, special interests like AIPAC to buy and sell politicians. They use their money to rig our system against us. It’s why we pay more for the stuff we gotta buy, get paid less for the work we do, and watch our tax dollars misappropriated to drop bombs on other people’s kids rather than to invest in our own”

The Democratic elite has worked hard to make sure the party never reckons with - or talks about - the ramifications of Obama handing out get-out-of-jail-free cards to Wall Street. A reckoning is necessary. Kudos to @ChrisRabb for having the courage to say this.

Today Israel celebrates its 78th Independence Day. For Palestinians, this day marks 78 years since they were expelled from their homeland and 78 years of being killed for trying to go back. They continue to do the same thing today in Gaza and Lebanon. 1) In 1948, over 700,000 Palestinians were expelled or fled from their homes. Dozens of massacres were carried out and over 400 villages were destroyed. Many bulldozed specifically so that refugees could never come back. 2) Ben-Gurion authorized the army to establish free-fire zones along the ceasefire lines. In 1949 alone, over 1,000 returning refugees were killed, the majority civilians. They weren't fighters. They were families walking home. 3) Israeli historian Benny Morris documented that this so-called "infiltration" was a direct consequence of the dispossession of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. Refugees sought to reunite with family, tend crops, recover lost possessions and see their homes one last time. 4) A 1951 Israeli military trial revealed what happened when young Palestinians crossed into the town of Majdal (now Ashkelon) just to visit their parents. The court found that soldiers felt they were free to treat Arabs "as they pleased" and that killing them was considered acceptable. 5) In that same trial, a father testified that his son had come back from Gaza to see him. The boy was captured by soldiers and executed. The father described finding his son's body with bullet wounds to the chest, head, and back. 6) Written orders to soldiers after the ceasefire stated: shoot every Arab in the area up to the armistice line. The verdict in one case confirmed that the orders made no distinction between men or women, armed or unarmed, fleeing or surrendering. 7) By 1956, this free-fire policy is estimated to have killed between 2,700 and 5,000 Palestinian refugees. No Israeli soldier, policeman, or civilian was ever tried for killing an unarmed Palestinian refugee. 8) Jaber Shaban, born in the village of Simsim in 1938, testified: "My father owned around 400 dunams of land. Our life used to be peaceful and tranquil, and the produce of our land was our source of sustenance." His family was expelled in 1948. He has lived as a refugee in Gaza ever since. 9) In 2018, when Palestinians in Gaza marched peacefully for the right of return, Israeli snipers shot over 6,100 demonstrators, killing 183. Jaber Shaban, then 80, joined the march. He said: "I participated in the hope of returning to my village with my siblings, children and grandchildren." 10) Since October 2023, Israel has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, destroyed homes and infrastructure, and displaced over 90% of the population. Israeli officials have declared the ethnic cleansing of Gaza as a central objective, with Finance Minister Smotrich saying Gaza will be "completely destroyed." 11) In southern Lebanon, Israel has paved roads over demolished homes, ensuring displaced people can never return. Israel's Defense Minister announced the acceleration of home demolitions "in accordance with the Beit Hanoun and Rafah models in Gaza." In 1949, a Palestinian father found his son's body riddled with bullets because the boy tried to visit his parents. In 2018, an 80-year-old man who was expelled as a child marched to the fence hoping to see his village one last time, and watched as snipers shot the people around him. In 2025, Israel destroyed every home in northern Gaza so no one could return. That is Israel. That is what they are celebrating. A nation built on the destruction of Palestine.

Trump spoke to Bloomberg, CBS, Axios and the New York Post in one morning. He claimed Iran agreed to an "unlimited" nuclear suspension, to hand over its enriched uranium, and to a weekend deal. None of it was true. A near-deal collapsed within hours — CNN. 1/

Remember that check y'all thought you were getting due to the Supreme Court ruling Trump's tariffs were illegal? That money is going to the corrupt conman's Epstein class buddies. No president in US history has screwed over working class Americans like Trump. 😡👇