Apparently Latino agents murdered Alex Pretti. It’s not a shock. Many Latinos support Trump and MAGA (I say this as a Vietnamese American whose community has many such supporters).

Karma is a B*tch

Grifter in Chief

AWKWARD

Whenever you see a story about how liberals aren't making their conservative peers feel welcome enough, this is who they're talking about.

Remarkable: 55% of noncollege whites and even 50% of rural whites say ICE is too aggressive, per new Fox News poll. And 71% of independents disapprove of Trump on immigration. This is digging deep into Trump's base. We detail these numbers on today's pod: newrepublic.com/article/2059...

AI Will Bore Us All

"Race and gender are indicators but not absolutes when deciding who gets to be a “good” victim. Pure white womanhood deemed as “victimized” and chivalrous white manhood as “heroic” have long provided a moralistic makeover to violence. But as we see with Good, the rules are fluid and frivolous."

Look, folks: President Trump shitting his pants live on camera is a DISTRACTION from the Epstein files, which are in turn a DISTRACTION from ICE’s gestapo tactics which are themselves a DISTRACTION from the affordability crisis… (1/13,597)

Watching Elon melt down in real time

Just think about the amazing Epstein scoops the new CBS Evening News contributors will have just by interviewing each other.

We don’t owe them anything. They spent a decade ignoring obvious evidence implicating the most guilty while fabricating insane accusations against the innocent.

This is What Multiracial White Supremacy Looks Like

“In Georgia, Meta has built an AI centre, and residents have reported discoloured, sediment-filled water coming out of their taps, which they attribute to the facility.... In these cases, the population includes a significant Black presence, a pattern that has raised environmental justice concerns.”

WHERE ARE THE EDITORIALS??????

“But remember this: The end of the Brownshirts’ street violence did not mean the end of the Hitler regime. In fact, it was just the beginning.”

I watch them all, regularly. Christopher Guest movies are a key part of my mental health plan. I’m not kidding. If I ever dip out to uh, “relax”, and put Best in Show or Waiting for Guffman or Mighty Wind? I’m down bad.

Yeah hey JD remember that? What ever happened with that?

“I was raped three times a day and I wasn’t the only girl. It was a conveyor belt of abuse.” #TrumpEpsteinCoverUp

The Trump Administration And Its Allies Are a Who's Who of Jeffrey Epstein's Network Based on the latest Epstein Files, it seems personally knowing pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was a necessary job requirement to be considered for the Trump Administration. thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

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Trump changed his tone. Can I stop talking about Minneapolis and go back to freaking out about wokeness now?

Federal prosecutors in Minnesota have reportedly told Daniel Rosen, Trump’s appointee to lead the Minneapolis office, they might resign en masse, leaving the office to crumble under the weight of the unattended workload. At least one has already resigned. trib.al/GWbAVQ5

There *is* a bunch of new protest music, but I’d argue this is more of a casually-sum-up-this-precise-historical-moment-from-the-average-American’s-perspective song and I gotta tell you the picture it paints is flippin’ *bleak.*

Just got gassed pretty good at the labor union anti-ICE protest in Portland. Massive march, 5-10k strong. Vibes were very much liberal rather than radical. Lots of kids and older folks. They gassed the whole crowd as soon as it marched on ICE, in broad daylight.

I've been happy this week to see that some people have caught up to the fact that in MN and across the country, the resistance to fascism has actually BUILT ON what came before. The networks created in 2020 and earlier have been reactivated, expanded etc...

And Epstein was an explicit eugenicist! Even in the (unlikely) scenario that the academics writing him chummy emails didn't know about the pedophilia charges, they were seeking funding because they thought their work aligned with his interests, which were monstrous.

“Children were in the crowd screaming.”

“Ratner’s film plays like a gilded trash remake of Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest in which a button-eyed Cinderella points at gold baubles and designer dresses, cunningly distracting us while her husband and his cronies prepare to dismantle the Constitution and asset-strip the federal govt.”

Appreciation: Catherine O'Hara was an onscreen benediction

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Friday permanently blocked key portions of the sweeping anti-voting executive order that President Donald Trump signed last year. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"From Portuguese Goa to colonial Kampala, Mahmood Mamdani’s latest book shows how India became an instrument of empire, and a scapegoat in its aftermath."

AWKWARD

“The “film” is part propaganda, and part sop to Big Tech. Even then, it is bad. It will exist as a striking artefact – like The Birth of a Nation or Triumph of the Will – of a time when Americans willingly subordinated themselves to a political and economic oligopoly.”

Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...

“No Sleep for ICE” demonstrations aimed at pressuring hotels to stop accommodating immigration agents have swept the nation. trib.al/SXzdAsq

“’Force’ is a nice way of saying, ‘Ending someone’s life.’ A nice way of saying, ‘Shooting someone in the face and maiming them, breaking people’s bones, kicking people’s teeth out.'”

“Half a million Haitians living in the United States are at risk of losing everything."

Putin-esque.

Looks like we have our first broad-based lawsuit challenging the ICE memo authorizing home invasions that violate the Fourth Amendment. Filed by Lawyers for Civil Rights in Boston on behalf of two nonprofits serving Latino and immigrant communities. lawyersforcivilrights.org/wp-content/u...

Trump: "We have a silent majority of people. They don’t go and riot."

These allegations (again, from an apparent tip line) include: – Trump and Epstein participated in measuring children's genitalia; with Elon Musk in attendance – That Trump raped girls as young as 13 – That Trump would auction off children

One political reporter who texted me today called this the “most anti-free speech administration in our lifetimes and then some,” adding that after the Washington Post raid earlier this month, it is “just one escalation after another, week to week.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump's arrest of Don Lemon shows that his "pivot" is an utter farce. As legal experts tell me, this looks appallingly corrupt. Indeed, it's likely this is all about sending a message that Trump isn't deescalating in the slightest. New piece with fresh details here: newrepublic.com/article/2059...

People can we stop with this now please like you would be OK with them killing maiming choking & ripping families apart so long as you can see their faces while they do it like you could see Good & Pretti’s killers?!? Like the cops were ever gonna stop other cops?!? Stop wasting everyone’s time

At another point in American history, loosely regulated federal agents violently removed people from their homes or grabbed them off the streets. They were called “slave catchers.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/-vYhFO

Art is political. In a world of Sweeneys be a Sabrina Carpenter

Which Lives Matter?

My feelings exactly