Speak up for those who have no voice, for the justice of all who are dispossessed. Speak up, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the oppressed and needy. —Proverbs 31:8-9

R.I.P. CBS News. Walter Cronkite is turning over in his grave.

Ms. Martinez’ lawyer says body cam footage shows the agent turned into HER car and yelled “do something bitch” before firing shots.

“The reality is that the court is adjusting the law to make place for arbitrary power.” To understand the Supreme Court's role in Trump's authoritarian project, I turned to the idea of a dual state: an authoritarian regime that keeps up a facade of normalcy www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny": Listen for dangerous words.

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

Pritzker doing better journalism 101 than a lot of tv news producers these days

One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness

Judge Immergut quotes James Madison from the Records of the Federal Convention of 1787: “A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”

ICE is too dangerous to be left unaccountable. Violence & abuse against Americans is wrong.

The Last Judgment - Central

The Last Judgment - Central

At a certain point even the braindead media will have to recognize that this isn’t an organization of law enforcement officers but the personal stormtroopers of the autocratic president.

Opinion | While the Democrat Party tries to force their warmed-over economic policies on America, Argentina is showing the way forward with a right-wing libertarian approach. Here's why we need to give them $20 billion to bail out their economy.

the beatnik economy? you mean snapitalism?

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

Getting up there and unleashing a joke-free 30-minute story during which you nearly cry several times talking about how Kevin Hart wanted to host the Oscars, and almost did, but didn't, because they took it from him—in Riyadh. Laughter truly is the universal language.

They dismembered a journalist. I think Chapelle thinks free speech means people have to laugh at unfunny jokes.

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

I bet spiders get pretty excited when they see people laying in hammocks

if you want to go to a national park during this gov shut down thinking won’t it be fun to be out there with no rangers no rules I must warn you if anything should happen to you the search and rescue team is also shut down. So tread carefully. Also the bathrooms won’t be cleaned. So… piss carefully.

“You might as well do commercials for Lockheed Martin or Zyklon B.”

David Cross folks.

jesus christ

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

To be honest, I don’t understand how any of them are going to say anything funnier than “Riyadh comedy festival”

Since someone took care of that already, here's Curb Your Fascism

The Benny Hill version

These are deputized J6ers, not LEOs. They are Confederates. They are wannabe Einsatzgruppen.

Dear famous colleagues who I’ve worked with and have more followers than me: please share

The Brits get it. I wish the other half of America could admit what they elected.

Happy Winsor McCay's birthday!

Garden of Earthly Delights

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

I, a left-handed puppeteer, puppeteered a puppet you would recognize with my right hand yesterday. I want a medal.

The point of this passage in the Trump terror memo—a major document—isn’t kicking down doors. It’s bleeding left nonprofits dry, a double whammy effect: crush the organizers, leading everyday people to believe organizing isn’t possible, that maybe they withered because they were wrong.

The next X years are going to be so tedious and dumb and painful.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

As Thoreau famously said, "Bruh, you gonna eat that song sparrow?"

“Charlie Chaplin was willing to mock Hitler. Colbert and Kimmel were willing to mock an American president with his own authoritarian designs. What will the rest of us be willing to do in order to stand up to fascism?” Al Franken writes. Commentary: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

ILLINOIS — Trump’s Gestapo violently throws female congressional candidate @KatAbughazaleh to the ground to the ground

this is what you would get if samuel beckett, bertolt brecht and noam chomsky were hilarious writers of late-night comedy. this may be one of the most masterful pieces of satire ever broadcast.

Here is an extremely relevant passage from Abraham Lincoln's 1860 Cooper Union speech. (Jamelle Bouie posted this on YouTube, but not here as far as I can tell.)

Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok. They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post. They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets. “Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.