This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

The creepiest part of Ezra' Kleins present spiel is that his mind can't separate fascist LEADERS (Kirk, Ben Shapiro), whom one should shun, from ordinary citizens seduced by them, to be engaged as neighbors, even if deplorable. A genuine elite derangement.

Please don't take your eyes off of these stories.

Again, THIS is the story.

THIS is the story, and we ignore it in favor of less important narratives about elites like Charlie Kirk, Jimmy Kimmel, and James Comey. Please pay attention.

0dds on martial law this week?

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

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)

All of this piece is outstanding, but especially the final section about Charlie Kirk.

This goes well with the Catherine Rampell story I reposted a couple of minutes ago. As important as the stories of Kirk and Kimmel are, this is the real emergency.

"The tactics used on DACA recipients will be used on other Americans soon enough." @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social on the slow death of DACA, in the latest edition of Huddled Masses: www.thebulwark.com/p/dreamers-f...

The stories of Charlie Kirk and Jimmy Kimmel are important, but these stories are the real emergency.

Thank you, Dr. Monarez.

More terrific reporting from Carrasquillo.

Our whole culture could become one giant conspiracy theory in which everybody is guilty.

Vance is still alive, so are we allowed to call HIM lying, bigoted scum? Somebody from the thought police please let me know.

Charlie Kirk did not deserve his killing; nor did he advocate free speech or nonviolence. I also don't think he was killed 'for his beliefs', any more than Abraham Lincoln was killed for his.

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

As of this moment, it appears: -Chicago has stopped Trump. -Harvard has stopped Trump. Bullies stop only when they meet resistance. And they keep moving until they do. Who knows what tomorrow brings. But for today....

Snyder understands our contemporary world on a higher level than most scholars. Always interesting to read.

Were Trump's cognition not failing, he would have already said 'Lisa Crook'.

Thank you, Anthony Aguilar.

Another great story on immigration by one of the best writers covering the issue today.

Our media fixate on Epstein because our culture relishes its own decadence.

Back from hiatus, this weekend's 'WfC' makes no mention whatsoever of Jeffrey Epstein.

Every totalitarian regime purges its own loyalists.

This alarming but might actually be good news. www.yahoo.com/news/two-thi...?

We're obviously at the tip of the spear here in L.A., but here's more terrific reporting from Adrian Carrasquillo about what's going on in Chicago.

This is a lengthy article, but the story it tells might be the most important aspect of our current political moment. We are entering the ICE age.

The Enabling Acts have passed.

Carrasquillo's reporting on immigration is invaluable.

Central among the methods of totalitarianism is demonstrating the ability to inflict pain, even upon the supporters of the totalitarian regime itself. Many of them will tolerate their own suffering as long as they see the regime inflicting worse suffering upon people they don't like.

House Republicans passed the biggest health care cut in U.S. history. Senate Republicans’ response? Hold my beer. Now they’re pushing even deeper Medicaid cuts—knowing it’ll shut down rural hospitals, strip care from their own voters, and leave millions hanging.

"I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount" www.404media.co/trump-mobile...

This might be the single most important thing that happened in America this week.

Known Un-Soldier honors Unknown Soldier.

2/2 During Nixon impeachment of 1974, the issue was NOT why George McGovern lost 1972 election. The issue was Nixon then. It is Trump now.

Horrific murder of two Israeli embassy staffers in the middle of DC. This kind of violence is illegal, immoral, inexcusable and of course - if the chant of ‘free Palestine’ by the alleged shooter is true - solves nothing and helps zero Palestinians.

Trump’s story has always been that he should be president because he was rich. That was always false. In order to become rich he had to first become the president. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Read the whole thing. I doubt I'm the only one who thinks the chaos is a feature, not a bug.

'WfC' for this weekend!

Let me make this simple: 1) People have been fired - our economy & governmental services have been interrupted because of the firings. 2) The proposed budget includes - cuts to federal worker’s benefits, cuts to Medicaid, cuts to food assistance, & deep tax cuts for the RICH,

Here's hoping the Qataris fly Trump's new plane in through Newark.

When folks can afford fewer things at higher prices, economists describe this as a decline in real income, and a widespread fall in real income is called a recession.

'To President Trump and his cabinet: I am not afraid of you.'

State Terror

Of course this is an outrage, but Bukele is by no means the first right-wing Salvadoran dictator that America has supported. What he is doing to Abrego Garcia is just what his predecessors have done to their own people without any penalty from the United States. Fascism is imperialism coming home.

This week's uplifting episode of 'WfC'!

Here’s the best way to understand what’s happening. Trump genuinely wants to impose a 19th century mercantilist model that would crash the economy and destroy the global trading order but the idea is just so colossally stupid and destructive, he can’t actually do it. So we get this.