This sums it up.

Why does being awake and alive, being yourself, feel like anything at all, and where does this singular sense of awareness come from in the brain?

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

When Mamie Till was on the stand during the trial of her son's murderers in 1955, the defense argued she had misidentified her son's body, was lying in order to claim insurance money for her son, & had staged the whole affair with the aid of Communists & the NAACP. Tills murderers walked free.

Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. Data suggests separations are now happening all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop. (Published Nov. 2025)

This is Alex Pretti.

A person who said they witnessed federal agents shoot and kill Alex Jeffrey Pretti submitted a sworn statement in court disputing the federal government’s account of the shooting. “I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong,” the person said in the statement.

From Angry Catfish, independent bicycle shop in Minneapolis

This is an old right-wing lie. In 1912, they found a pile of infant bones at a pagan brothel. To Jesus freaks, it proved non-Christians whores murdered baby boys Then science got involved BTW when you consider Nazis, Crusades, slavery & colonialism… Christianity is the #1 baby killer of all time

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue& street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. ..History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” George Orwell, 1984

...reveals just about everything one could ever want to know about him—his lack of discipline, his ignorance, his vanity, insecurity, and crudeness, and a mean streak that knows no limits.

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Ivan Ehlers. #NewYorkerCartoons

Thousands rally against ICE in Minneapolis amid below-zero temperatures www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

NEW: Mother Jones and other outlets fought to unseal documents that show that the Trump administration targeted students for Pro-Palestinian speech. We won.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

time to think about the Kessler effect/syndrome: doyletatum.com/2025/03/13/k...

Whistleblowers just shared a memo showing DHS instructing ICE to force their way into peoples' houses without a proper warrant. Why is this not on all the networks right now? This is a criminal conspiracy to violate rights under color of law.

fascism on display, every day

"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.

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

A ProPublica analysis revealed a stark pattern across the Deep South, where about 200 majority-Black public school districts educate 1.3 million students. Alongside those districts are private academies filled almost entirely with white students. (Published Dec. 2024)

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

Fact-finding in the aftermath of a tragedy does not matter to Trump—only setting the narrative does.

“ICE, their secret police, is their tool," a former DHS oversight official told us. “Once they have that power, which they have now, there’s nothing stopping them from using it against citizens.” (Published Oct. 2025)

Masked federal agents are ignoring people's basic constitutional rights in Minnesota. We're taking the Trump administration to court to put a stop to it.

Oh, but don't worry—here in WA some companies plan to use nukes instead. SMR's, which produce MORE radioactive waste per watt than the old-fashioned nukes we stopped decades ago. More waste, more danger of dirty bombs! These guys are geniuses. Sure am glad we learned the lesson of Hanford.

"Under Trump, the wars will continue—from Chicago to Caracas. It’s not a reckless adventure; it’s all part of the plan."

"From the moment he descended his golden escalator, Trump’s message, the emotional core of his movement, has been textbook fascism. .. fascism does not require a spectacular ‘march’ on some capital 2take root..Seemingly anodyne decisions 2tolerate lawless treatment o'national ‘enemies’ is enough.”

This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.

New York Gov. #KathyHochul and #NYC Mayor #ZohranMamdani unveiled a big plan to expand free and affordable #ChildCare for toddlers and preschoolers. A free care for 2-year-olds in the city is laying the groundwork for universal access for kids under five across the state to help families 😊👶📚

This seems to strongly suggest that the incoming president of UVA doctored his CV to the edge of outright dishonesty, and that the most recent changes came months before Jim Ryan was forced, as if they were made in anticipation in Ryan’s removal. augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...

Republicans failure to hold Trump to account makes them no different than the Chinese Communist party,Putin’s United Russia Party, Mussolini’s fascists & Hitler’s Nazis. The party comes first. Not the people, not the nation, not democracy, not anything. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/edwineis...

Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.

Here is a must read on the US view of fascism during WWII. Sounds chillingly familiar. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

It’s not about keeping us safe from criminals. This is ethnic cleansing.

ICE's use of force policy released under FOIA was almost completely redacted until it was accidentally released in court filing un-redacted. Read the full document here: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Cartoon by Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune

The key point to remember is that Noem and Bovino lie about everything all the time.

My new column is up on the me, me, me president and his effort to write his name on the map of the world:

Professor Peterson response to censorship at Texas A&M. (philosopher) king

For years, the people most affected by police violence repeatedly warned the unaffected majority that police reform was not just a “Black issue.” When we tried to explain that white supremacy posed a danger to the entire country, pro-fascists dismissed it as “leftist drivel.”

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

"What some of Trump’s own senior officials once viewed as the delusional musings of a dilettante have now become a genuine international crisis, one that could lead—or maybe it already has led—to the effective end of NATO."

Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?

Without immigration, US population will soon shrink, per CBO www.cbo.gov/publication/...

ICE's killing of unarmed American citizen Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis today has NSPM-7 written all over it, as well as a related Pam Bondi memo ordering feds to see any interference of ICE agents as a terrorist threat: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-kills-...

Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times." Bovino was there. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

56 years since Neil Young wrote this. Nothing has changed “Gotta get down to it Soldiers are cutting us down Shoulda been done long ago What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground’ How can you run when you know?” We can’t run this time. We have to fight back. Shoulda been done long ago