Dear @mlb.com I once again renew my request — allow the regular home season announcers for each home team to call the national broadcast during the post-season.

Every. 👏 Single. 👏 Word. 👏 This. 👏 Lady. 👏 Says. 👏 If you voted for Trump, this is what you’ve helped bring about. Unless we all stand up & stop it, it’ll only get worse. Today it’s immigrants, tomorrow Democrats, & the day after, you. #ThisIsntNormal #ThisIsWrong #EndICE #StopICE #AmericanGestapo

Chicago isn’t a “warzone”… but the Broadview ICE facility is. That’s why it’s time to say enough is enough. But to do that, we need our leaders. And your help:

What I can’t figure out is where are all the GOP types who screamed about government overreach and a police state when Obama and Biden were in office. This is literally their nightmare come to life and they’re either cheering it on or crickets. Are they all hypocrites?

@pitchingninja.com any chance you could do a comparison of Kershaw’s curveball to Barry Zito’s?

I’m running for the U.S. Senate. Billionaires have taken over Texas and taken over America — but together, we can take power back for working people. youtube.com/shorts/IpO0S...

The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.

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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

The Trump admin has begun to target Afghan interpreters and their families who are legally in the US for deportation back to be murdered by the Taliban. www.newhavenindependent.org/article/35_y...

"ICE isn’t helping anyone. They’re not making us safer or more prosperous. With every new headline, I find it harder to understand what role they’re playing that would allow us to even call them public servants." I published some thoughts today on ICE and the meaning of public service.

I never thought in my lifetime that fascism would come to our country and most Americans. So many just kind of shrug and go, “Oh well nothing I can do about that…” when there absolutely is something we can do about it.

Do folks realize all that ICE is doing and with the budget they’ve just been given - this is all a dress rehearsal for suppressing the vote in future elections. Think ICE style raids on polling places in contested areas with key Democratic turnout.

I fear that Iran has/will have a deal with Russia - military aid and support (hundreds of thousands of drones for example) in their war with Ukraine in exchange for Russia hosting an Iranian nuclear development program on its soil (where it would be presumably safe from Israeli and American attacks)

Who is in charge in this admin, President Trump or Stephen Miller? www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

There will be times when the truth feels buried—drowned out by chaos, distraction, & outrage. When facts don’t seem to matter, when cruelty is applauded, and when the institutions we trusted feel hollow. But in those moments, remember: freedom is not a gift—it is a demand we must make, again & again

There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

This is the way to stand up to these bullies! Respect ✊

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

If you think this is bad, just wait until you see them rolling down Constitution and Independence Avenues.

Stephen Miller is fulfilling his high school wet dream of terrorizing all the Brown people in Los Angeles. My daughter's friends who went to SaMo High with him said he used to seethe while the morning announcements were repeated in Spanish. Hell, they did that when I went there. (Mesozoic age.)

Biden and Obama never called out the Guard like this on Americans. Just saying. Why is the GOP, the party of small government, the one that always reaches for the biggest government tool of all - the military - to solve problems?

Lately I've seen many references to the 3.5% rule. A few years ago I pulled together this Q&A on potential uses and misuses of this statistic. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...

I fear the protests in LA and Trump’s use of the California National Guard to suppress them is the precursor to Trump invoking the Insurrection Act - all during a time when DC will see the largest ever gathering of active duty troops and machines of war ever. Here’s how I fear it all may unfold 🧵…

Here we go again. This time with just all the fascism. Thanks to Trump I doubt anyone will ever trust America again in any partnership. Why would they? He continues to exemplify the worst of us.

Lee Jae-myung, the South Korean politician who climbed the fence of the parliament to get inside and vote against martial law, has been elected president. Pretty cooool

The Trump admin continues to pardon convicted criminals and return them to our streets. Some return to law and order 🙄

A couple of years ago I put out a series of warning messages about what I felt was the inevitable & relatively soon collapse of Afghanistan to the Taliban: www.armytimes.com/opinion/comm... time.com/5955477/afgh... www.militarytimes.com/opinion/comm... jasonstanford.substack.com/p/guam-or-bust

I just got this from my friend who is a local jeweler here in Aspen, CO. It’s a ring to honor America - the red is Red Jasper from Kremmling, CO, the white is Marble from Marble, CO & is the same marble used to build the Lincoln Memorial, & the blue is Azurite from Grand Junction, CO. $75 a piece.

#Andor is masterful. Give Tony Gilroy the keys to the #StarWars franchise and pair him team up with Dave Filoni ASAP.

I'm calling for an army of volunteers to build a massive wiki that enumerates the things that Trump has broken and that will need fixing: presswatchers.org/2025/05/we-n... Are you with me?

People are NOT understanding what empty cargo ships from China means. It means no work for dock workers. No work for truck drivers, no work for retailers, fewer dollars circulating. The cascade effect is just mind boggling.

This is accurate. And to be blunt, it's because it's very difficult to remove an authoritarian government that's supported (or simply tolerated) by a clear majority. If most Americans are ok with fascism, then fascism is what we're going to have. Turning public sentiment is vital.

This is absolutely bonkers. Trump maybe just a puppet President.

Bukele is going to end up blubbering before an American military tribunal about how Trump *forced* him into their partnership and he never really had a choice.

It finally happened. Just received my first confirmed evidence of ICE targeting an Afghan wartime ally (a former Afghan Army soldier who was granted legal asylum) for detention and possible deportation. He went live on social media with the agents attempting to enter his home in Oklahoma City.

For no reason in particular, here’s one of the enumerated offenses of King George in the Declaration of Independence.

Basically: I don’t think people understand that 36 hours from now it’s possible that America will have a formalized system for abducting enemies of the regime and stashing them in foreign gulags, indefinitely. www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...

Normally, government employees sharing national security secrets on personal devices would be arrested with their phones and laptops seized as evidence.

After a brief memorial, laz lit the cigarette at 11:37. The 2025 Barkley Marathons has begun. #BM100

Schumer and Gillibrand are abdicating Dems' last point of leverage hoping that Trump/Musk will self-implode and voters will punish the GOP in the midterms. They fail to grasp that if they don't stop Elon's impoundment crimes now, there likely won't be free and fair elections in 2026.

people nationwide need to study what's happening in Montana to protect trans kids and their families

You know what would make an incredible TV series - the rise and fall of the Byzantine Empire

“Hitler systematically disabled and then dismantled his country’s democratic structures and processes in less than two months’ time—specifically, one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes,” Timothy W. Ryback writes in a step-by-step account:

Climate change is moving faster than scientists projected & they're not totally sure why. One possible explanation is declining cloud cover. If that's true, we may be entering a feedback cycle that accelerates warming much faster than we've modeled.

Know what might slow down DOGE? If Democrats publicized a campaign encouraging federal workers to record their interactions with DOGE as potential evidence for future prosecution. Get names, audio (DC and Virginia only require one-party consent), take notes and print out emails.

Big mistake. May have real impact on mission. Replacing officers with years of experience and training very difficult. And-Freeze in hiring and rescinding new conditional offers means next gen of talent in limbo. This is not reform, which is needed. More a sledgehammer. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

This is a great point but the only enforcement mechanism is Federal law enforcement which Trump now controls and soon will clear out of all non-loyalists. Past that, you can sue, go to court, even get court orders, but if no one at DOJ enforces the law, there's just no way to enforce it anymore.

Can't really stress this enough: This is the path to widespread civil conflict in the U.S. When Americans have no recourse to the law because agencies responsible for law enforcement refuse to do it, then people will, of course, take the law into their own hands. They will enforce it themselves.