This random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary. crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

This is a breaking news story.

This is a distraction. Unless such an investigation can assist in impeachment ( don't ask me how) the focus must be on impeachment and pursuing the best path to end the careers of everyone in this regime. A dimwit knows this was a scam.

Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS. ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion. This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.

ICE is kidnapping children in our name.

Under Trump the US is rapidly un-developing itself.

And so it begins…

"I'll speak today about the rupture in the world order, the end of the pleasant fiction and the dawn of a brutal reality in which great-power geopolitics is unconstrained." An extraordinary speech from Canada's prime minister.

The best news of the week would be that T never returned from Davos.

What the ‘Dude’ Who Shot Renee Good Couldn’t Hear www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

RFKjr., the haigography around the d grifter Charlie Kirk, Vance, and the pedo-king himself, Trump have made the US a failing state. How embarrassing to have these jerks in office along with their clownish hangers-on.

I would say it has no place in education period.

Page One in Detroit: Sabula. @freep.com

Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip as federal support for research dries up or the atmosphere for research has become repressive. We've seen this before: German universities in the 1930s. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

ICE only hires the stupid, the racist, & the cruel. Tell me I'm wrong, & I'll want to see your evidence.

Imagine if every leader in the academic, scientific, and business communities had responded to pressure from the president in the way that Jerome Powell has, and their colleagues had supported them the way the financial industry is supporting Powell. If only they'd been brave...

Those that rule by extortion will fall.

With no self-awareness, Trump says of Iran's leaders: "They rule through violence."

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

Could not agree more.

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Just as forecast those who thought they were using Trump to advance their own interests find they have unleashed a monster who uses them.

In case you're wondering about Rep. Ted Lieu credentials to say this (from he thread): Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA): colonel (ret.), USAF; former military prosecutor, Judge Advocate General’s Corps; Meritorious Service Medal, Commendation Medal.

Child care fraud? Sure, ok. Meanwhile fossil fuel fraud? Rick Scott HCA fraud? Crypto-Trump self-dealing fraud? Ballroom fraud? Pay-to-play-White-House-fraud? Epstein fraud? Musk & Walton family fraud? Sackler fraud? Musk fraud? Fraud: deception for unlawful gain--the very definition of Trump.

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

Meanwhile, and this is a major "meanwhile," not only due to Trump's comments, but the internal ramifications for Iranians: Is Iran Trapped in a State of Political Paralysis? open.substack.com/pub/guardedd...

Is it not odd (but who am I kidding) that the regime is willing to censor (or more) any adverse commentary on the murder of Charlie Kirk or bewitching of his character, but justifies the murder of Renee Nicole Good, calling her a domestic terrorist, and worse.

There is a killer on the loose in Minneapolis. When will the manhunt for the killer and his accomplices begin? We have his face. Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

Mayor Mamdani: “The news coming out of Minneapolis is horrific. This is one part of what has been a year full of cruelty. We know when ICE agents attack immigrants, they attack every single one of us across this country. We are going to uphold our sanctuary city policies.”

One agent literally moves to stand in front of the vehicle (she has no other way to move) and two more agents, including the one who shot her, approach the vehicle. Those are not the actions of people who have a reasonable belief that they are in imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury

On Tyranny: Poetics and Protest Art . . . fitting for this moment. www.chantdelasirenejournal.com/introduction...

Rick Scott, HCA Grifter-in-Chief, and occasional US senator, reveals the GOP's concept of a health care plan: no plan, just pay. If you're worth 550-million it pays not to care, apparently, and that has been Scott's business plan.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “As states disregard limits on the lawful use of force, this may be just the beginning of a deadly new era of conflict,” writes Oona Hathaway.

Exciting news!

Thus ends the US engagement with the EU. And begins the strange hemispheric colonialism but global isolationism of Trump...at least as long as he lasts. Though the damage he's done is so substantial who knows how long repairs will take.

It seems that Trump feared that the Maduro regime was too similar to his own crypto-narco-pedo-terror state . . . and so did what any corrupt 'don' would do. Not getting a cut in the oil revenues was the final straw.

A new, old type of lawlessness as Trump attacks Venezuela — and an opening for a better America open.substack.com/pub/chrisgei...

Completely staged for and by Trump. Now slip Maduro a ketchup capsule and pretend an assassination and whisk him off to some happy land. What happened to the ACA btw? Epstein? Gaza genocide?Jack Smith?

Here we can see Maduro’s wife as well

Trump is the first US president to bomb 7 countries in one year. Based on verified reports from Al Jazeera, Fox News, Washington Examiner, and CBC, the seven countries targeted by US strikes under Trump in 2025 are: Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Syria, Nigeria, and Venezuela.

As if we didn't know it, the US is firmly in the category of a pariah state with Israel and Russia. Unlike those other two, however, there is a chance to change...so start doing what is necessary by any means possible.

Good.