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Otay Mesa "Detention Center" (prison camp) in San Diego, CA: lataco.com/captive-loti...

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We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it. But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan. Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

Whether it’s Joe Biden attending weekly mass or Donald Trump’s ICE agents shooting a priest in the face with a pepper ball, presidents of both sides have directly engaged with the Catholic faith.

How federal agents are terrorizing American citizens open.substack.com/pub/populari...

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

We are, once again, clean on OPSEC

ICE writing long screeds whining about someone from Cato calling out their bullshit shows how they know they're losing the narrative here. No one likes ICE. No one trusts ICE. And they're flipping out about how weak they look.

You are not seeing this slaughter live-streamed to your devices because Israel has murdered most of Gaza’s most prominent journalists in targeted assassinations.

It's funny how many MAGA folks are comparing Charlie Kirk to MLK, who Kirk repeatedly said was an awful person.

And guess who dumped a SHIT-TON of money into getting it passed? The Heritage Foundation. The same group that wrote "A Mandate for Conservative Leadership (Project 1981) that Reagan used to destroy everything. Influenced The Patriot Act. Pushed Citizens United. Now Project 2025 and Trump.

15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment. Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

all this, for no fucking reason except a game show host is mad!

Unnerving point from @bcfinucane.bsky.social: The White House appears to be quietly trying to get Republicans to formally turn over a large swath of Congress's warmaking powers to Trump. That's what this new draft bill would do. From our pod discussion: newrepublic.com/article/2007...

Schiff: That claim was, I think, the most astounding: according to Kash Patel, the Epstein list has only one name on it — Jeffrey Epstein. We now have someone incompetent running the FBI.

Lmao

Howard Stern says he feels for Disney, but he’s canceling Disney+. “I’m trying to say with my pocketbook that I do not support what they’re doing with Jimmy.” x.com/sternshow/st...

"I can abhor the violence that took your life, but I don't have to celebrate how you chose to live." Pastor Howard-John Wesley

Regardless of the disgraceful nonsense we will likely hear from this administration in the coming days on vaccine “recommendations,” Americas healthcare insurers issued a joint statement tonight saying coverage for Covid and flu shots will remain unchanged from prior years. Speaks for itself.

> @cnbc.com 🇬🇧

This is a fair point.

Phang: Part of the reason the FBI has been showing this level of dysfunction is evidenced by the lawsuit filed yesterday by former FBI officials—what it shows is that the FBI has basically been hollowed out…

If the shooter had killed a leftist podcaster, he would have a multi million dollar Go Fund Me to cover his legal fees tomorrow, and an interview lined up with Charlie Kirk.

Bomb threats against the Maryland General Assembly. Bomb threats against the Michigan lieutenant governor and his family. Bomb threats against 5 HBCUs. Two arrests for violent assaults in Idaho. In 24 hours. All Democratic or left-leaning victims. All suspected MAGA perpetrators.

Decrying violence against political opponents rings a bit hollow when you pull Secret Service protection from your political opponents.

Poland’s prime minister 👇🏽

"Citizens United was the worst court decision in modern American history." - @ossoff.bsky.social

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”. -Charlie Kirk

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

Mobster government: Lutnick says US should get a taste of universities' patent revenue

We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.

No one knows who the shooter is, yet that hasn’t stopped Trump or his sycophants from blaming the “lunatic left” and threatening more drastic action. Never missing a chance to further stoke the violent climate.

That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.

Pritzker: When did we become a country where it's okay for the president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything, especially something we don't want? Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?

It's really quite a thing to have a Secretary of Energy who does not understand, ummm... energy.

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So our military just bombed a boat in international waters and extrajudicially killed suspected drug traffickers without so much as a conversation, let alone a trial? Then posted it on social media? And we’re all supposed to just trust their account?

Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"

BREAKING: ICE has re-arrested Kilmar Abrego García, just days after a Tennessee judge rejected the government’s push to keep him locked up. Last week, Abrego García embraced his three children for the first time in 160 days. This is the cruelty Trump governs by.