This week's cover of Der Spiegel

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U.S. debt past $38 trillion & we borrowed $601 billion in 1st three months of new fiscal year. All while he builds ballrooms, arches & plants flags on foreign soil. “America First” is a costume. A chant to keep the crowd busy while our bank accounts are emptied. Do not salute the lie. Refuse it.

We’ll remind our kids and grandkids

If this doesn’t terrify you, you’re not thinking rationally.

Looks like we’re past the bloodless stage

This.👇

The Department of Homeland Security and the officials who lead it cannot be trusted to provide good-faith, accurate information about what they are doing and any claims they make should be considered in that context. www.ms.now/opinion/kris...

Officer 1: “Get out of the car!” <simultaneously> Officer 2: “Get out of here!” The confusion is not surprising. The shooting officer had his phone out too. This deserves a clear and fair investigation

"This is not hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is when someone holds to a set of values but applies them selectively. what we are seeing is a worldview for which the only value is the domination of enemies. There is a name for that. It is fascism."

That press briefing by JD Vance on the killing of Renee Good was one of the most disgraceful things I've ever seen, and pretty much a clear exercise in Orwellian gaslighting.

Stephen Miller’s cousin 👇🏽

The whole lot of them spent Jan. 6th lying about what happened 5 years ago. Why should anyone expect them to start telling the truth on January 7th?

Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.

It pains me to the core that so many people are ok with what’s happening in this country… even people I know and a few that I love. I will never understand. It’s soul-crushing.

The Times released this video analysis, proving that the tRump administration officials lied about the events surrounding the murder of Renee Nicole Good. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-new-...

The gaslighting is not just off the charts - it's in whole another galaxy. But, this is also a sign of desperation. He knows. They know - except for their MAGA core just watching their edited frames, everyone else knows the objective reality.

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The same people who spent yesterday, and the past five years, insisting a Black police officer who shot an insurrectionist breaking into the Capitol should be prosecuted are today bending over backwards to defend an ICE agent who shot a woman in her car in cold blood. Scum.

"If Iran shots [sic] and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue." -Donald Trump So tell me Mr "President", who's going to come to our rescue?

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

Trump is lying. Watch for yourself.

Show up, create chaos, scare the shit out of the citizens, and when one freaks out and tries to run, shoot her. The death penalty for disobeying ICE. Then, when you go to court, lie about how "in danger" you felt. Didn't we just claim we rescued Venezuela from a dictator attacking his own citizens?

My God. ICE shooting in Minneapolis

Question: “How much did this cost?” Response: “Why do you hate America?”

White supremacists successfully rewrote history after the Civil War, so much so that today people deny what the slave states had proudly proclaimed back then: it was about slavery. And now this group is rewriting history today. They are lying. They are liars. They are liars.

Yes! Thank you Bela Flek www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/a...

Just gonna throw this out there that no book is more prescient for the times we face. It’s not hyperbole to say that the similarities to right now are chilling. You won’t vote your way out of this with a spineless opposition party and this is going to end very badly for many, many people.

Let ‘em rip!

Walz: "If they have emails showing that I have committed fraud, you should get those! Why aren't they putting them out there? Why aren't they turning them over to prosecutors? Right now they're hiding behind a veil of innuendo. They're protecting the biggest fraudster in the White House."

FIVE YEARS & he has not been held accountable for one of the most disgraceful events in this nation's history. Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸

Never forget.

January 6th should have been America’s second chance at life; a moment for us to speak unequivocally that no one is above the law and no individual is greater than the whole... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-januar...

This is utter insanity.

Denmark’s PM Mette Frederiksen is blunt: If the U.S. attacks a NATO ally, the post-WWII order dies and America becomes the threat NATO was built to stop.👀

Trump tells the world that this is all a law-enforcement, not military exercise. He then tells the Senate law-enforcement oversight committee that it's a military, not a law-enforcement matter. He can't even keep his lies straight.

I extremely hate the policies and personality of Donald Trump to an insane degree but I’d be offended if China sent in team to kill a bunch of our civilians and military personnel and kidnap our leader and his wife and then declare that they now “ran” the United States, this isn’t hard

“for this is a war which we all wage, this time, not for our German people alone, it is a war for all of Europe and with it, in the long run, for all of mankind.” - Adolf Hitler, 1942

Walz: "We've got conspiracy theorists, right-wing YouTubers, breaking into our daycares, demanding access to our children. We've got the president demonizing our Somali neighbors and wrongfully confiscating funds that Minnesotans rely on. It's disgusting and it's dangerous."

My office gave (then senator) Gutavo Petro our Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award in 2007 after he exposed the biggest drug corruption scandal in Colombian history (the Parapolitics scandal). He faced decades of death threats for his courage. Trump calls him a “drug dealer” & threatens to attack.

Oh no! Uggh

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Unhinged. Incompetent. Unfit. Unstable.

It’s for customer safety? I call shenanigans. It’s surveillance for profit and greed.

WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

For those of us not in the cult, this is what we hear when anyone from the Trump administration speaks. For the people in the back, this is satire and so well done…

Zelensky on Venezuela: “About Venezuela? How should I respond to that? Well, what can I say? If… If it is possible to act with dictators like this, it means the United States knows what to do next. Thank you” Omg I love it.