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Dupage County IL Clerk to ICE “It’s a federal crime for military/federal agents to interfere in elections or intimidate voters, punishable by up to five years prison, to deploy federal 'troops or armed men' to any voting place where elections are being held, will not be tolerated, Not on my watch"

It sounds like these goondas are being told that 18 U.S.C. 111 means they can arrest anyone who protests or “opposes” them. They seem to have missed the “forcibly” part. Also, not for nothing, but this crime is a misdemeanor www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

Too much for a lecture slide on the real and purported causes of the Russo-Ukrainian war?

Cartoon by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social.

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Three Shirts McGee’s entire MAGA schtick was about draining the swamp, exposing the deep state cabal blah blah… Here he is palling around with Jeffrey Epstein. They are the monsters they were warning us about.

Lawless, criminal behavior

I have no idea how sincere MTG is here, but the idea that Trump would be bothered by his comments generating death threats misses the point that he has used terror as as a tool. Terror is not a byproduct of Trumpism; it is a central feature of how he governs.

Silent Middle Child nails it. Again:

The dividing lines in America have nothing to do with party affiliation anymore. Just open up your phone, eavesdrop at the checkout line, or talk to your neighbor, and you’ll see the lines along which we now find ourselves... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/empaths-an...

The prevailing narrative of the last decade is that America has been fractured by political ideologies, bunkered down in disagreement on what path will most serve the common good. This is a dangerous fiction we need to discard once and for all...

We are not a nation, as we’ve often thought, simply positioned on either side of the aisle working to craft reasonable, good-faith compromise somewhere in the humane middle. Sadly, that ship left the port a long time ago... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/empaths-an...

Trump long ago turned upside down the notion that defeat, rejection, and official rebuke chasten the violator or at least offer a measure of deterrence. Despite some recent comeuppances, his sheer volume of transgressions does not seem to have ebbed at all: talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Speaker Johnson thinks Americans worried about affordability need to just “relax”

must be pretty bad when the Daily Mail is running smashmouth exposes on a GOP admin www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

A Medicare pilot program will allow private companies to use artificial intelligence to review older Americans’ requests for certain medical care — and will reward the companies when they deny it. via @stateline.org www.newsfromthestates.com/article/medi...

Standards have been lowered to the floor. They have a bunch of unqualified misfits and unhinged weirdos they are rushing through an abbreviated academy so they can get them weapons and gear and out onto the streets ASAP. What could go wrong?

Kristi Noem and Tom Homan hiring the best and the brightest for their new ICE Army. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Trump on Joe Biden (2024): “He has an ability to fall asleep while on camera…in minutes, he’s stone-cold out, and he’s got cameras because he’s the president…You’ll never see me sleeping in front of a camera.”

What's that Kegsbreath? Soldiers shouldn't follow unlawful orders? Agreed.

I'm sorry I keep saying this, but it's sooo important: Mark Kelly is expressing contempt for the One Special Boy in the White House. We need to hear that. Men, especially *young* men, need to hear that. Listen to his voice. C O N T E M P T.

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How do millions of professed followers of Jesus reach a point where they harbor predators, willfully abandon survivors, and redact the truth in order to shield the monsters from the raking light of accountability? How do Christians align with r*pists? johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-christ...

No one in this country is left or right of human.

contrarian.substack.com/p/frightenin... Let them eat cake (if they had SNAP benefits) While Rome burns, Nero Trump fiddles and naps, deteriorating physically and mentally before our eyes. He shamelessly reiterates he does not give a damn about the American people.

Trump refusing to use the old system of vetting by DOJ of pardon requests means that the most deserving who used to make the cut out of 1000s - decades old smaller cases of people who turned their lives around - get ignored. Now the pardons go to rich connected Republican felons.

Hegseth throwing away taxpayer money so he can sound like a tough guy with a new title.

Democrats need to call Republicans what they are: un-American. Every Republican going along with Trump’s destruction wears that label, and it’s time to make them own it. Watch LP’s Stuart Stevens on MSNBC:

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The neoliberal element in Trump-type politics is the way it depoliticises its opponents while dismantling democracy. If you’re against it, you’re meant to see it not as real, but as an annoying TV show.

If you took Fahrenheit 451, Animal Farm and Lord of the Flies and combined them, you couldn't come up with this Administration.

“Dumping poop on American citizens!” President Obama destroys Donald Trump in two minutes and twenty two seconds. This is how it’s done.

OTOH, it's absolutely surreal to see that what I wrote about the absence of the rule of law in Russia is now relevant context for what's happening in the US!!

I think Trump needs to keep telling people from his gilded palace that grocery prices are way down, housing and electricity prices are down, and everything is great because of his genius. They seem to like that.

Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

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I would just like to ask the Republican Party to please put Stephen Miller in front cameras as much as possible from now until the midterms because he is such a likable & charismatic person with so many amazing & popular ideas for people who aren’t white Christian nationalists.

Trump, surrounded by sycophants, lickspittles and toadies who praise and worship him in his gilded palace, can’t imagine why his subjects aren’t eager to trade their constitutional republic and rights for his will, since he knows more than anyone else about everything.

In new AP-NORC poll here's Trump's approval with independent voters. Um, big yikes! - Job approval 21%-75% (-54) - Immigration 26%-66% (-40) - Economy 18%-78% (-60) - Health Care 16%-79% (-63) More 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/we-have-15...

🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.

"This is about a handful of the wealthiest people on Earth who, in their insatiable greed, have hijacked our economy and our political system." Bernie Sanders speaking at the No Kings rally in DC. Watch here.

“If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States,” Kavanaugh wrote, “they promptly let the individual go.” Meanwhile, the reality of #KavanaughStop