You can't raid and arrest everyone in an entire apartment building, or even legitimately get a warrant to do that, any more than you could for a whole neighborhood. That would be a general warrant. This is the most specific core the-British-did-it-to-us thing the Fourth Amendment is written to ban.

Driverless cars have cyclist living in fear. online.americanbystander.org/waymo-scared/

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

Trump speech today was the most dangerous speech ever given by an American president those still claiming that “this was just a meeting that could’ve been an email” or any other form of downplaying what we are witnessing is downplaying the fascist threat we face. Trump declared war against us

If we still had anything resembling a functioning Constitution, he would be impeached by lunchtime & convicted & removed from office by the close of business today.

ATTN @americanbystander.bsky.social and Dutchie

Good time to repost this

What you, I, and everyone else alive know as “comedy” is actually pretty unique in history. It’s based on mass education, intellectual freedom, social mobility, and a big middle class. And agreement that these ideas are good. We may be seeing the end of this, and I’m afraid I can’t go willingly.

99.999% of the time, satire matters as much as a fart in a hurricane. Then some asshole tries to CENSOR it, and…

When super moderate centrist shows like Kimmel and Colbert are being shut down you know we are chest deep in the fascist broth. What is SNL going to do? The entire foundation of that show for 50 years has been mocking whoever’s President.

When I was teaching in Singapore, I brought a copy of Private Eye to class. (Very irreverent British satirical magazine.) The students wouldn’t physically *touch* it, asked if it was legal in the UK. So yeah. Censorship of criticism of the regime is how you know.

Respectfully disagree: 1) in fact it is unusual for a democracy w/ this level of GDP to turn authoritarian & so quickly; 2) the weakness of both institutions (congress & courts) and individuals (Schumer etc) is shocking. Would take less than 10 people in congress or 2 SC justices to stop all this.

I assume this is obvious, but I’ll say it anyway: The advantage of proscribing a non-existent organisation is that no one can prove they don’t belong to it.

Little Nemo by Winsor McCay (1905-1914) #comicstrip #littlenemo #comicstrips #fantasy

This is exactly why California is putting out our own, science-backed vaccine recommendations through the West Coast Health Alliance. We're not going to let the Trump Administration's recklessness put our residents in harm's way.

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

Well, its what Charlie Kirk would’ve wanted, at least

I love reading good sermons. Here’s one —

Well, what do Germans know about creeping fascism anyway?

I am a full time designer and I had to be told that was an "e"

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KEY to the story about ABC suspending Kimmel's show: Nexstar and Sinclair, two big owners of ABC-affiliated stations, both need FCC approval for pending deals. With a lot of $$ on the line, both have reason to curry favor with the Trump admin. Both decided to yank Kimmel's show.

this DOJ can barely put their fucking pants on in the morning, they simply are not ready and are not prepared to fight every single city and half the states on every ticky tacky issue which those cities and states previously gave them a pass on

it is really important for news outlets to be clear (unlike the nyt here) that Kimmel was suspended not because of some grassroots backlash but because ABC caved to threats from the head of the FCC

They should absolutely assume they’re next and be sure to go down swinging.

reminder: Jimmy Kimmel is enough of a mensch that he devised a segment on which actors who are just short of having enough work to qualify for union healthcare come on his show and deliver a single line of dialogue deadline.com/2024/07/jimm...

The Left's hypocrisy is incredible. They constantly talk about how Jeffrey Epstein was terrible, but none of them give President Trump credit for having him killed.

John Kruk Visits The Franklin Institute

10pm and I'm sitting in bed wondering why we haven't shut down everything in this damned country yet to bring fascism to its knees. I feel like too many of us are just saying, "Ride it out and hope we can undo it in the midterms." If that's our collective "strategy", it's a concerning one.

well we all remember the apocryphal saying, when fascism comes to america it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross and also in the guise of the stupidest most vile child raping piece of shit who ever lived

Morning. ☕️

Disbanding ICE and prosecuting everyone from at least middle management up remains the moderate response. I'm not a moderate tho, I think everyone on their payroll needs a referral to the Hague

Utah…

There is a a Black-owned bookstore in Las Vegas. It is called Analog Bookstore. Please support! #Blacksky

one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules

I truly cannot stress just how ecstatic I will be when that man is dead and I don’t have to ever, ever, *ever* hear about anything he does

People outside publishing have no idea how onerous and unworkable it is.

“It’s just a tool! People used to hate on photoshop too.” Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?

he's epstein files-ing the jobs report

My policy vision: Prosecution. Jail. Revenge.

This is very good.

Scotland approves world's 'biggest offshore windfarm' project - days after Trump pressured First Minister to scrap renewables: During his state visit, Trump branded wind turbines a "con-job" and raised the issue during talks w/ First Minister John Swinney. tinyurl.com/yh9vw38d

The economy is so good that I'm firing the BLS Commissioner for reporting numbers so grim I refuse to believe them, and also demanding the Fed cut rates typically seen during a recession.

BREAKING: We’ve filed suit against ICE for unlawfully arresting individuals who appear in court for their immigration hearings. These actions undermine due process and violate basic legal protections. We’re holding them accountable.

We need a Foghorn Leghorn for the left.

This thread shows exactly why Dems can’t produce a Stephen Miller, which is that Dems think the motive force behind a Dem Stephen Miller needs to be a policy vision, when in fact the only pursuit on the D side that should produce that kind of single-minded obsession is CRUSHING STEPHEN MILLER

Off the rails.

Nature’s masterpiece! Behold the beautiful Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata).

There was an actual tapestry. Inside the original double album cover is an image of the needlepoint I worked on when I wasn't playing or singing. You can see where I stitched the words "thank you" before I gave it to Lou. From "A Natural Woman" Photo by Jim McCrary Courtesy Lou Adler / Ode Records