The Minnesota Star Tribune reviewed more than 100 Minnesota license plates on vehicles used for immigration enforcement and reports a wide array of issues. Among them were vehicles near each other that had matching plates. bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...

If you're planning on recording federal agents, turn biometrics off on your phone and opt for long passwords instead, EFF’s @legind.bsky.social told @thefulcrum-us.bsky.social. thefulcrum.us/civic-engag...

oh hey it's monday which means it's 🎵cartooooon time🎶 www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

The Trump regime is smearing this man - Alex Pretti - as a “domestic terrorist.” We can’t let them get away with it. Alex Pretti was a patriotic American - far more so than the ICE agent who murdered him on the streets of Minneapolis today. Far more so than Trump, Stephen Miller, or any of them.

A suggestion to media: the "Board of Peace" is now a distraction from a distraction. What if the media just ignored the Board of Peace for say, one week. Give the nation a break please, then explain what happened a week later - because by then he will be on to the next distraction

'Trump’s suggestion in an interview with Fox News on Thursday, that Nato troops stayed “a little off the frontlines” in Afghanistan prompted widespread condemnation across the political spectrum and resurfaced questions about his own avoidance of military service in Vietnam.' Guardian

Noem says there were people obstructing ICE as if that is a reason to murder Americans. I dont see how we can accept ICE murdering an American.

Her name was Renee Nicole Good. She had a five year old son. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Stop Trump's sell-off of US oceans for oil drilling. Comment period 11/24 - 12/23: bit.ly/3M5Xb1c ​Docket# BOEM-2025-0483 Suggested text: "I am against the proposal to lease public lands for drilling. Do not sell out our seas in favor of corporate polluters’ bottom line."

Skeptikos sez: Dems have their cake & eat it too! They made rising #healthcare costs universally known; and they ended shutdown so poor folks can have food & gov workers can get paid.

Lina Kahn in Mamdani admin! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/n...

Skeptikos sez: perhaps the 2025 election results mean the people are sick of mean-spiritedness and vengeance replacing practicality and good old American get-things-done. Now Dems need to deliver!

Here's an idea: if #Trump runs for a 3rd term in 2028, #Obama can run against him

Skeptikos wonders about the relationship between Steve Bannon and Marjorie Taylor Green (plotting a coup?) bit.ly/4qvCr2H. "MJT is a frequent guest & ally of Steve Bannon, appearing regularly on his podcast, War Room. Bannon...consistently promotes Greene & her agenda..."

#No#Kings sing song of liberation OCT 18 We shall overcome some day... Deep in my heart I do believe We shall overcome some day We'll walk hand in hand... Deep in my heart I do believe We shall overcome some day We shall live in peace... Deep in my heart I do believe We shall overcome some day

NEW: A dramatic voiceover video the White House and Donald Trump shared last week claiming to show "chaos" in Chicago is littered with outdated footage from Florida, Texas, South Carolina, Nebraska, California and Arizona, an AFP investigation found. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Three Trump Cabinet Members Have Multiple Primary-Residence Mortgages - Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and EPAs Lee Zeldin www.propublica.org/article/trum...

#Democrats! For #2026: Are you paying too much for your groceries? Donald Trump's tariffs are to blame! Vote against Trump-supported candidates-Vote Democrat

A detailed account of  what brought on the lawsuit that Energy Transfer won against #Greenpeace. Includes Greenpeace's brave decision to not accept plea deal, that would've implicated the #StandingRock tribe & instead face near-certain destruction of their organization drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

WORD! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idyg...

James Comey interview with The Bulwarks Tim Miller, really enlightening: open.spotify.com/episode/4HfG...

Welcome to American #Africaner Charl! open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

American journalist detained to send a message: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Skeptikos: Trump says #Houthi truce because “they don’t want to fight anymore,” (but possible condition for nuke talks with Iran). www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/p... So the piracy will end just as commercial shipping to US from world stalls on tariffs. Right?

Yes! I hadn't seen it this way

I remember when the Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei transformed Alcatraz into a memorial for political prisoners and political refugees worldwide. Life imitates art. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/t...

Just to be clear: 1) Ru is unable to take the whole country. That's not a concession. That's like me saying that as a concession I'll withdraw from the Olympics; 2) Ru hasn't agreed to stop the war; where's the proof??

Skeptikos: Someone took the #redpill and someone else took the #bluepill. what if now we all take the #purpelpill?

SKEPTIKOS: Schrödinger's cat problem: if the media was to voice the fear that Trump will suspend elections henceforth, that expands the overton window, making the problem part of the conversation.

Skeptikos: remember when presidents went to disaster areas? ESPECIALLY in the states that voted for them? Well thats over: stateline.org/2025/02/06/t... Will hte residents add 2+2, or will that still love President #Trump ?

Take note law firms and universities.

Skeptikos #5: Why would the resident President/Genius impoverish his own base? Because he won't run again. How can he want a 'third term' if he won't run again? Martial law via the insurrection act. Expect peaceful demonstrations to suddenly, mysteriously, become violent #thirdterm #insurrectonact

I mean, what more can you say?

Whatever irritates you about #NPR, it is the only place to hear a 3-minute interview with the president of the American Soybean Association, and just the facts. So yeah, love you NPR

Now that the educated legal immigrants have been deported, & 3 planeloads of prisoners have been sent to another prison, what's the plan for the 10.9 million illegal immigrants who are still here 'taking our jobs'? Will 'self-deporting' via legal border crossings get them sent to El Salvador?

I was curious how FoxNews reported on the illegal deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If you READ it, it is accurate: the lies are left to Vance quotes. But LISTEN to what was on TV and the lies are spoken, the truth not. www.foxnews.com/politics/van...

From Skepticos: #Tariffs premised on who gets to sell to the "world's largest consumer economy," the U.S. Has it not occurred to the resident President/Genius that Americans will STOP buying so much stuff when prices rise?

I always knew the cage match between #Bannon and #Musk was ginned up, for 2 reasons: to distract (of course) but more, to make the base, uncomfortable with billionaires, feel Trump is still on their side, via Bannon. Now, they gonna ease them back together www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

wondering for awhile what long-term use of Ketamine does. Not good: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

The best Jeff Goldberg interview open.spotify.com/episode/3CyD...

What he said

Fox is finally willing to push back on Musk, if not Trump

Let us not only thank Jeffery Goldberg for great reporting with integrity, but a surge in subscriptions to #TheAtlantic would put the exclamation point on this!

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Good, Dems speak up, Repubs silent! NYT: Senate Republicans appeared committed to avoiding public discussion of the leak entirely, leaving to Democrats the questions as to why...national security officials were planning a secret military operation over a commercial messaging app.

Wes Moore for president! open.spotify.com/episode/7Jkh...