NEW REPUBLIC: “Employers and institutions have paid out $2 million in settlements to people fired or penalized over reactions to Charlie Kirk’s death… one of the largest was retired Tennessee cop Larry Bushart, jailed for more than a month…” newrepublic.com/post/211049/...

Silencing freedom of the press. Essential for all dictators.

“Josh deBerge, a spokesperson for the National Park Foundation, insisted that no money from Freedom 250 is being spent on the IndyCar race or the UFC fights. But the IndyCar race is listed as a “signature” event on the Freedom 250 website…” Los Angeles Times apple.news/A6eAHBWE5RXK...

(cartoon Clay Bennett) #politics

My homeland is leading the world right now.

🚨 “THEY’RE ATTACKING PROTESTERS… FOR NO REASON AT ALL.” 🚨 Pepper spray is now being deployed during chaotic clashes between ICE agents and protesters outside Delaney Hall ICE prison on Day 7 of the hunger/labor strike. @jordanchariton.bsky.social⬇️

No idea

🚨 ICE KICKS PROTESTER INTO MASSIVE MOVING SEMI?! 🚨 Photos Will Allen-DuPraw captured show the protester’s foot caught underneath the truck moments later. Their condition is currently unknown. This happened just after midnight, as Day 6 turned into Day 7 of the Delaney Hall hunger and labor strike.

Yeh I just watched it happen live. This is wild. The President of the United States has full blown Dementia and the nuclear codes.... oh yeh and started a War he can't escape.

What a disgrace. Says it all, really. 😕🇺🇸

Trump says the protestors are paid agitators. I know who’s getting paid here and it’s not the folks singing Give Peace a Chance. #DelaneyHall yesterday.

Our @jordanchariton.bsky.social leaves ICE speechless. ICE: Really? JC: Really what? JC: When the microphone's in your face you lose your voice? Tell us why you're here. ICE: You tell us why you're here? JC: I'm covering your stupidity. I'm covering you guys attacking unarmed protesters. More...

NEW Pam Bondi is scheduled to be questioned by the House Oversight Committee about the Epstein files scandal on Friday. Not in public. 🧵

They’re going to start arresting attorneys who defend immigrants.

🚨"DON'T F**K WITH ME!"🚨 More unprovoked violence from ICE agents against peaceful protesters standing on public street continue to be on full display outside the Delaney Detention Center. WATCH LIVE ⬇️

And the most pathetic and disgusting part is that they would.

Holy shit this cartoon.

Our government telling an adversary to disregard the President's social media posts because they're not real and are intended for promotional purposes and US media consumption, says it all. Holy fuck.

BREAKING UPDATE: Gabriela Soto says her husband Martin is now out of the ICE van and back inside Delaney Hall. Moments later, protesters projected this onto the ICE prison: “When immigrant rights are under attack, what do we do? Stand up. Fight back.” WATCH @jordanchariton.bsky.social LIVE ⬇️

Sadly, every word is true. The American experiment is over. Killed in the middle of Fifth Avenue and no one in power blinked an eye to stop it.

The death of the 1st Amendment.

Hawaiʻi just passed a new law that limits corporations' ability to engage in political campaigns. Let’s see this in other states.

Ignorance is no longer an excuse. Supporting Trump means you actively choose hatred over truth and bigotry over decency. You aren't misinformed; you are willfully enabling a pedophile. Own it.

The president of the United States is a sociopath. I'd love for him to sue me for saying that because then he'd have to prove he's not a sociopath. FDT!!!

It’s great how there were a bunch of gunshots at the White House and we all just shrugged and carried on with our days because no one trusts anything coming out of the Regime anymore.

To quote the great philosopher-king Thomas Petty, "Coming down is the hardest thing."

Nothing makes you look guiltier than forcing the Justice Department to promise never to investigate your taxes or prosecute you for anything they might find

BREAKING: Judge tosses federal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Before Todd Blanche helped Trump use a settlement to launder a $1.8 billion slush fund, Brendan Carr helped him use a BS lawsuit to extract a $16 million bribe from Paramount. The D.C. Bar could have put a stop to it back then by disbarring Carr. It failed.

🔥 Massie going hard at Ted Cruz

🔥 SPRINGSTEEN: "I’m here to support Stephen Colbert, the first guy who lost his show because a president can't take a joke - and the Ellisons feel they need to kiss his ass… small-minded people with no idea what freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about." 🇺🇸

Sen. Van Hollen: “Mr. Attorney General, you are acting today like the president's personal attorney, & that's the whole problem You have a whole banner of his face hanging over the Department of Justice & you & everybody else walks under it”

The podcast bros said they were supporting Trump for two reasons: He wouldn’t start any wars, and he’d release the Epstein files. Massie lost tonight for two reasons: (a) forcing the release of the Epstein files, and (b) trying to restrain Trump’s war in Iran.

Thomas Massie: “Today is the six month anniversary of the Epstein Transparency Act. We’ve taken out two dozen CEOs, an ambassador, a prince, a prime minister, a minister of culture, that was just six months. I’ve got seven months left in Congress.” video courtesy @acyn.bsky.social

SIGN OF THE DAY…

Testify at a Senate hearing today, Todd Blanche told Senator Chris Van Hollen he's met with Epstein survivors and their lawyers. Within hours, 18 Epstein survivors released a joint statement contradicting AAG Todd Blanche's testimony, directly accusing him of making false claims. I believe them.

The weakness of the US political system is that it depends on the good faith of the people in government.

The Fourteenth Amendment, written in the blood of the Civil War, says in Section 4 that this is blatantly illegal: “[N]either the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States.”

@xenocryptsite.bsky.social Hard to explain to people, but incumbents used to not lose primaries, and they never ever lost primaries for fighting an unpopular president in his second term. No precedent.

Elon Musk is suddenly hanging around Trump again and Trump’s deeply unpopular candidates are winning elections. Something stinks.

P.S. Trump just also pardoned himself for all tax crimes

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Yesterday, a new generation of civil rights activists marched from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights. As states across the country try to make it harder for citizens to be heard, we need to learn the lessons of those who came before us and refuse to take our democracy for granted.

Nearly 800,000 Louisianians voted yesterday and won, rejecting all five state constitutional amendments put forward by Gov. Jeff Landry...

Any President that sues his own government, while in office, should immediately be impeached.