“Coverups are difficult in free societies. They are routine for authoritarian governments. The Epstein coverup will be an indicator of how far we are down the road to authoritarianism. The success of such a coverup would take us much further down that road.” www.thebulwark.com/p/why-the-ep...

Lara Croft RETURNS for a moment you cannot miss

Great synchronicity for Jamelle's post coming out yesterday just before Sam Altman's idiocy on Fallon later that night

Respectfully @RepDonBacon, nope. It won’t be Trump’s legacy. It will be the Republican Party’s legacy.

Correct. He, and they, can't help themselves.

How do you watch that happen in front of you and not want to help the screaming baby or the seizing man. How do you just stand there and tell people trying to help to back up? It takes a level of inhumanity I can't comprehend. Non person stuff. Literally not a human being.

A coalition that ranges from democratic socialists to neoconservatives, including a lot of energized liberals in between, is large and formidable. A big pro-democracy tent. A united front. Any internal disagreements can be hashed out once the authoritarian emergency is over. This really can work.

BREAKING: After ICE refuses to allow detained migrants to receive the Eucharist, Pope Leo calls on Trump and Vance to respect migrants‘ dignity and religious liberty. “They must allow ministers to assist with their needs. They've been separated from their families and no one knows what happens.”

NCGOP spokesman appears to be threatening @propublica.org's @dougbockclark.bsky.social with retaliation by the Trump administration for reporting on a state Supreme Court justice www.propublica.org/article/paul...

Wow. "Months after law firms made deals with President Trump to ward off punitive executive orders, the ethics committee of the District of Columbia Bar is warning that such arrangements may require firms to drop or obtain waivers from all clients who have interests at odds with the government."

One thing I like about AI is how I’ll search for “ESPN” and then the browser will be like “AI Powered Search found you the website for ESPN” and I can marvel at the wonders of Tomorrowland

Die Neue Reichskanzlei ("New Reich Chancellery"), Berlin, c. 1939: (1) reception hall; (2) main dining hall; (3) entrance to the office of the Führer, with SS guards; (4) office of the Führer.

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom. Full Story: wapo.st/42RiU2q

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

A friend in Corvallis, Oregon sent me this one 🤣 #NoKings

The war zone in Portland is out of control.

Wow, Republicans are outraged at Karoline Leavitt calling half the country d̶e̶p̶l̶o̶r̶a̶b̶l̶e̶s̶ terrorists

An antifa commander strategically positions his tank to do battle with Trump's Nazi ICE Gestapo in war ravaged Portland. 😂🤣👇

the legendary Sugar Plant are releasing new songs!!!!! 😍 sugarplant.com

I co-wrote Trump’s first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-18. He’s not trying to stop “left-wing” terrorism. He is staging it. His troop deployments are a false flag — meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns. This is now very obvious.

It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.

Portland shows how to ruin the optics of fascism.

In the DC area, ABC did NOT air Jimmy Kimmel Live last night. Here are the commercials that aired on ABC in Kimmel's time slot. I won't be spending a single dollar on any of these products/services: Wendy's Sketchers Kia Jeep Cirque du Soliel Safestep Walk In Tubs AMP Sales & Marketing Solutions

You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.

the person behind this unhinged, anti-factual editorial is set to decide coverage at one of the nation’s major news networks

From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!) Receipts: zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...

When even Rand Paul thinks you’re despicable.

It’s absolutely wild that the U.S. government straight up murdered a boat of people who presented no threat and were charged with no crime in international waters yesterday and the national media doesn’t seem to be up in arms about that.

The US Administration is now deleting its internal communications, in brazen violation of the Federal Records Act, in order to conceal its other illegal acts. Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.

Fuck him. He’s not a king. No Kings in America. And we don’t put our military on our streets. Not in this country. Oh, and…he’s lying - “African American ladies are saying please President Trump, come to Chicago.” Bullshit. He lies as he breathes.

Trump pardoned Jared Wise, a January 6th rioter who repeatedly urged the mob to “kill” police officers there. He called the cops Nazis and “the Gestapo” The same Jared Wise currently serves as a senior adviser in Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice.

US funded anti-government far right propaganda networks & botnets have increased activity targeting Mexico, flooding social media with disinformation that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and her government are operating alongside the cartels. This is a US destabilization op.

Most Americans really have no clue how far the US is being left behind.

Has anyone confirmed what deal Maxwell got to agree to be interviewed? Hard to believe she is doing this without any legal assurances or protections.

It’s mind-blowing to me that there’s not a single corporate news outlet with an update about Dems walking out of a hearing over republicans not following the rules to advance the judicial nomination of a guy who told the courts to fuck off. Nothing on WaPo or NYT yet. Just wild.

When the victims are missing from the Epstein conversation, what are you really talking about?

Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated). It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings. It has written majority opinions in only 3. Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*

We’re six months into the horrors of the second Trump regime and the New York Times remains singularly focused on one thing - the mental state of the guy who *wasn’t even on the ballot* in 2024.

This is from The Guardian. Forget Cancun or anything else the man is known for and nail Ted Cruz to this for the rest of his life. He did this LAST WEEK.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

The most sobering part about becoming 1930’s Germany is realizing that no one is going to come here and liberate those being brutalized. If this historically inhumane regime is going to be overthrown, We The American People are going to have to do it.

NOTICE: We are currently failing the "Should We Give the Wannabe Dictator a Secret Police" test.

Concentration camps on American soil. Masked agents terrorizing our neighbors and abducting people off the streets to fill them. As if that weren’t horrific enough—some so-called “Christians” are cheering it on like it’s some kind of twisted, dehumanization porn. What the hell have we become?

*Biden tries to forgive student loans* SCOTUS: Whoa there, that is, uh, a major question. Which means you can't do it. *Trump revokes part of the constitution* SCOTUS: Obviously, we got to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this one.

why don't you just use a fucking map

Seems like Trump’s most powerful advisor being a white nationalist should inspire greater alarm than the possible mayor of new york being pro palestinian rights