My mom fell in the street yesterday and hit her head. She had to go to the ER & have a CT scan. Thank goodness she is OK. I didn’t want to say anything until I was sure. Your health can change in an instant. I learned that myself in 2007. I am grateful she is doing well. Give your loved ones a hug.🙏

41 minutes of watching two shipwrecked men trying to flip a boat and signaling for surrender/help before firing on them again reminds me of the 9.5 minutes Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck, in that it’s an agonizingly long time to be killing helpless people who clearly posed no threat.

Tom Cotton: "All of these cartels in Latin America do qualify as foreign terrorists, and frankly their activities have killed many more Americans than Al-Qaeda or ISIS has killed." Gun manufacturers and liquor companies have also killed more Americans. Does that make them domestic terrorists?

wow -- John Berman demolished Tom Cotton in this interview

Mockler: One of the administration's primary arguments was that these boats were an imminent threat to the United States. Lambert: They are Mockler: They were not heading to the United States

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Hey @govpritzker.illinois.gov it's your time to shine. Let's make sure Indiana knows they can't get away with this. We need to act ASAP. SCOTUS has already approved this tactic. Use it. Protect democracy. Don't unilaterally disarm.

Mockler: Do you not see the slippery slope when the president is able to give and receive gifts in a very transactional way? Like, what if there is a Democratic president who's in power next and he's not as favorable to a company that you care about?

Minneapolis stands up to ICE Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force. www.ms.now/news/minneap...

A step in the right direction "The Senate Armed Services Committee ... has asked Adm. Alvin Holsey ... to testify before the committee next week, according to Blumenthal and another person familiar with the matter." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Mockler: But my problem is that a lot of very impressionable Americans who are distraught around this time were taken advantage of by a president who is using incendiary rhetoric before the election even happened.

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Mockler: And what do you think impressionable Americans who may have mental illness or may be distraught or have economic trouble, how do you think they respond to being gaslit by people in power…

If Germany can outlaw hate speech, so can the USA. Hate speech should NOT be protected speech in the USA. It’s past time to kick white supremacists to the curb. Domestic terrorists have no place in the USA. Stop accepting hateful rhetoric #Voices4Victory #ProudBlie www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

Mockler: Young people are having trouble accumulating capital in the form of housing or in the form of investing. And due to that, you see a lot of younger people turning against the system. We're not loyal to a system that hasn't been loyal to us.

Trump will die before the full realization of American fascism is reached. These are the birth pangs. It will get so much worse unless we do something. We should and we must. Take stock of what this feels like, how unacceptable this is. Devote yourself to fighting it.

Mockler: Inflation and unemployment have gone up since Trump took office. A lot of the macroeconomic indicators that people rely on aren't doing too well. You can cherry pick.. O’Leary: Cherry pick this: number one economy on earth Mockler: It's growing at a slower rate than it did under Biden

UPDATE: Indiana’s House just passed their 9-0 map www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

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Tonight’s #FridayLimericks watch presidential clemency undermine the law. In Trump’s pardons, one might soon deduce There’s a pattern: condoning abuse. With much more from this guy, Law and order will die— While supporters use every excuse.

Over on the Facebook, you can bet that whether it's ICE brutalizing immigrant toddlers, or the US military mass-murdering civilians in international waters, every person cheering it on makes sure that you know they are a "Christian" in their profile. Every. Single. One.

The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public

🔥 @adammockler.com : “Trump wants to act like a monarch that gets gifts. FIFA just cashed in on that. They realized they can placate him. It’s humiliating that other countries are treating our president like a child. It should scare everybody who cares about the constitution.”

Scott: And I don’t think it’s out of the realm of possibility to get to a 10–1 map, in light of the shellacking we just put on the Republicans in Virginia. Abigail Spanberger won by 15 points. We went from a 51–49 majority in the House of Delegates to a 64–36 majority.

MASSIVE attack on Ukraine right now

Every American who wore the uniform from Valley Forge to now took an oath against tyranny, making them textbook antifascists. The military's entire purpose is defending democracy from authoritarianism. Declaring antifa "domestic terrorism" means our founding principle is now a prosecutable offense.

I wasn’t much of a Sabrina Carpenter fan, but I recently went to one of her shows at Madison Square Garden. It was so fun, and her live vocals were seriously impressive. 10/10 recommend

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It’s an evergreen joke.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara issued a stern warning to his officers on Thursday: Intervene when you see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using unlawful force or lose your job.

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Good Trouble 👏

This is the truth ...

the AT&T acquisition of Time Warner and DirecTV alone triggered a massive layoff wave of more than 50,000 (!) people. But each time the press covers a new chapter in Warner merger history that stuff is just completely memory holed. Why do you think that's done editorially, do you wager?

Ah, I appear to have once again written my op-ed for the Independent about Europe needing to be ready to face Russia without the support of the United States. It's getting harder and harder to find different words to say it each time. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

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Today, on the 31st anniversary of the Budapest Memorandum with its useless security assurances, we are facing a repeat of history as EU leaders warn of the risk of a peace deal without strong US security guarantees. Strength is the only true guarantor of peace for the EU.

A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws.

This is getting stupid now. We're at the point where Labour acknowledge both the damage caused by Brexit AND that rejoining the Customs Union (more accurately, joining A Customs Union) would boost growth. And yet they still reinforce their red lines. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

New in PN: A war criminal without a war "We’re watching the flimsy justifications fall apart in real time. They can try to shift the blame. They can try to say that people clinging to wreckage for dear life are somehow an active threat. But in the end, it’s just murder."

Mockler: It's honestly humiliating that other countries are treating our president like a child, like a baby. It's like if I created a peace prize and I gave it to myself. I'm like, I'm just going to keep this medal on all night. Our president is an actual child