This one's barely satire

“What we are seeing is the almost wholesale collapse of the Justice Department as an organization based on the rule of law,” said Alan Z. Rozenshtein, a former department official who now teaches at the University of Minnesota Law School. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

After he loses the gun and gets it back in a panic, who does he scramble to aim it at? Bystanders. That tells you they know who the real threat to their pathetic jackboot keystone routine is: witnesses.

The moment ICE agents threw a flash grenade at protesters at the Broadview facility today.

If you voted for him, you've done this.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Whatever else you think of him, I don't think he is insincere about this stuff, and it should be recognized as extraordinary that he, Pritzker, and other governors are talking about the federal government in these terms. It's not normal political rhetoric, it's the language of existential emergency.

“CNN identified more than 100 US citizen children, from newborns to teenagers, who have been left stranded without parents because of immigration actions this year …” www.cnn.com/2025/09/23/p... #FamiliesBelongTogether

Over the weekend, we wrote about how dozens of judges have found ICE's new detention policy — seeking to lock up millions of people facing deportation without a chance for bond — is illegal. Last night, four more judges added to the growing list: www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Don't worry, this ship is unsinkable! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/u...

Policy process: 1) Issue legal pronouncement without adequate legal or policy review. 2) Read legal pronouncement for the first time. 3) Consider policy implications for the first time. 4) Begin issuing clarifications. 5) Begin (maybe) an interagency legal and policy review of underlying issues.

Citing Charlie Kirk murder, far-right Tennessee pastor demands removal of 'Hate Has No Home' signs www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

Props to the NYT for covering this, but at the same time how is it possible to write this article in 2025 and not remind readers that Donald Trump got his start in real estate by adhering to discriminatory rental practices (and continued to do so)? www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/u...

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

🚨 BREAKING: Three Russian fighter jets flew into Estonian airspace today in a serious escalation on NATO’s eastern border. Read the developing story: ow.ly/rBwh50WZpov

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

"President Donald Trump is expected to fire the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia after his office was unable to find incriminating evidence of mortgage fraud against New York Attorney General Letitia James, according to sources."

"Mass capitalistic control of books and periodicals, news gathering and distribution, radio, cinema, and television has made the throttling of democracy possible and the distortion of education and failure of justice widespread." - W.E.B. Du Bois

First the grand juries, now the trial juries. This Admin is not winning.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Experts say the FCC commissioner's conduct—testing how far the agency can go to limit speech without ever quite formally censoring it—is flatly unconstitutional. That won't make it stop. www.wired.com/story/brenda...

See the thing is, what Orban did in Hungary could never happen in America, because it’s too big and diverse and wealthy, its institutions are too strong, and freedom-loving Americans would never put up with it. They said www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

OH MY GOD

Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: Pentagon leaders are considering a recruiting campaign centered around Charlie Kirk. Possible slogans discussed include "Charlie has awakened a generation of warriors" and there's talk of using TPUSA chapters as recruitment centers. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

I extensively covered Putin's crackdown on the Russian media as a freelancer for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in the early 2000s. It's true, they used corporate media owners or shareholders to impose editorial changes on unfriendly outlets. A story I wrote in 2003: www.rferl.org/a/1344358.html

General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.

Happy Constitution Day

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

Some killings you're allowed to joke about.

“.. I can’t remember anyone ever telling me we can’t say anything critical about a civilian like this. He was not in our chain of command or anything,” the officer said. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Wanna know more about Einstein's anti-racist work, usually in collaboration with the great actor/singer Paul Robeson? I wrote about it for Smithsonian! (don't tell the White House) www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

"The number of Americans missing work for National Guard deployments or other military or civic duty is at a 19-year high, adding disruption to a labor market that’s already under strain." Pretty remarkable when we're not at war—except against our own people. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Citing concerns about DEI, the Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?” By @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

Politico - President Trump tells reporters "we just have to beat the hell" out of "radical left lunatics," following the killing of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.

Very, very bad stuff coming from leading right-wingers

This is the official spokesperson for the White House, stating that the President hopes to deploy the United States military to occupy every city controlled by the political party that opposes him. Explicitly.

“Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America.”

Thousands of protesters marched in Chicago on Saturday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to the city.

Hegseth: "Maximum lethality -- not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct. We're gonna raise up warriors. Not just defenders."

Gov. Pritzker enlists the public's help: "What we've asked is that people pull out their iPhone or their Android phone and film what they're seeing. Take a video of everything so see so that we can know if, in fact, laws are being broken by these federal officials coming into our state."

Selectively revoking constitutional rights for vulnerable minority groups is a GIGANTIC red flag. The reddest possible flag.

As a survivor, I can't think of a more fitting metaphor than a rapist creating loud noises with planes as a survivor tries to tell her story. I mean... just wow. Nevertheless, she persisted.

BREAKING: Trump, Hegseth violated the Posse Comitatus Act with their troop deployment to Los Angeles, Judge Charles Breyer rules after trial. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

this now brings us up to six (!) grand jury refusals to charge (that we know about), plus two cases filed as part of the dc surge dismissed on the us attorney's office's request

BREAKING: Federal Circuit, 7-4, rejects Trump’s tariffs under the IEEPA, affirming the lower court’s decision against Trump. www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions-ord...