So far in Minnesota
They Shot a 37-year-old mother Renee Good four times, killing her, right after she dropped off her son at school.
Then Ice kidnapped a five year old.
Then ice kidnapped a two year old
Then border patrol murdered Va nurse.
Then Sec Noam went on tv and lied about it
Nothing says how absolutely Trump has Fcked up this country than posts of peaceful monks walking from Texas to DC while his goon squads are murdering innocent people in the streets.
The same people who spent yesterday, and the past five years, insisting a Black police officer who shot an insurrectionist breaking into the Capitol should be prosecuted are today bending over backwards to defend an ICE agent who shot a woman in her car in cold blood.
Scum.
Surely no one is surprised at the amount of redacting in the Epstein files. They said months ago that the DOJ had diverted staff to do just this. If Trump wasn’t in it he would have happily released it in full.
yet anyone who didn’t like Charlie Kirk after his murder was condemned. Flags at half mast for a man promoting racism and misogyny. No one deserves to die violently, but this is a despicable double standard. I wager that Rob Reiner brought more joy to the world on his worst day than Kirk on any day.
Some of you people here in Texas that are very vocal against the winner of the NYC mayors race don’t know the name of the mayor in the city in which they live…..you know, an election they are actually able to vote in.
Tell me you get your politics from memes without actually saying it out loud.
It’s sounds like the plot to bad fiction yet it’s happening now. Government shut down, wages not paid to gov employees still required to work, millions losing access to health insurance and SNAP all while 1/2
All while Trump tears down a landmark to build a $350 million gold gaudy ballroom and redo a bathroom in the WH to include more marble and his gaudy gold. To top it off, last night he had a Roarin’ 20’s themed party - you know, the last time robber barons were able to bribe - at his private club.
WOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.
Civics class, Spring 1970, Dallas, Texas:
Congress, under the Constitution, holds the power of the purse intentionally to keep the Executive branch in check.
When did they insert “unless you’re MAGA” into the clauses of the Constitution?
I would chew glass before watching the Charlie Kirk Extravaganza. Yes, I say extravaganza because the clips I’m seeing are NOT a memorial service about the deceased. It’s a political side-show with PAC fundraising on the side. I wouldn’t be surprised if it ends with balloons and Trump dancing.
STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.”
Nailed it.
NEW: Senate Dems ask FCC chairman to turn over any communications w/ ABC re: Jimmy Kimmel
“..unacceptable for the FCC Chairman to threaten a media organization because he does not like the content of its programming—it violates the 1st Amendment that you claim to champion”
This did not fall out of the sky. It was cultivated. It was stoked. It was rewarded. And now the fire is devouring us all.
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This should go without saying, but Trump is not opposed to political violence. He’s opposed to violence against his political allies.
He is either silent about, or approving of, violence against his political enemies.
Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
Bullshit. Trump and Trumpists and a disturbingly large slice of the modern Right are absolutely fine dehumanizing in far worse rhetoric an alarmingly long list of groups and individuals ideals. It’s their favorite thing to do. It gets them off.
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condemnations of political violence are well taken but it does feel as if some
prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.
I don't remember seeing any calls for violent retribution after a Minnesota state senator was assassinated, and it would have been nice not to see any today.
Happening now: a large protest is coalescing in Chicago's Congress Plaza against the Trump admin's plans to conduct a month+ long immigration blitz in (and, per Trump's Truth Social post earlier today, implicitly threaten to sic the Department of War on) the Chicagoland area.
I keep typing words and then deleting them because none of them are sufficient to capture how utterly fucked up and unacceptable this is. And yet it won't move a single Republican to give a damn.
The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents.
In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.
This hot mic Zuckerberg moment show their numbers are all lies, undercutting Trump’s entire economic agenda.
In a rational world every media outlet would be leading with it.