When the ICE agent is Canadian… 🇨🇦 ❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️ ❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️

That means over two million dollars we have paid GOP representatives to NOT do their jobs so far this session. What other job could you miss 20+ days in a row and get great health care and no penalty at all?

Interesting video about how Project25 hinges on us taking their fascist bait...and we're not.

Every state with a Democratic legislature and Democratic governor could do this right now — they wouldn’t even need to do a ballot initiative. They could do it RIGHT NOW — so please pass it on and spread the word 👇

Slow boil....don't let them poach America.

The huge No Kings protests, an estimated 7 million people addressing America's worst crisis since the Civil War, get a tiny headline on the New York Times homepage, with no photo. Why does NYT think change happens only when politicians hold news conferences and not when everyday people take action?

This 👇🏽

Today we stand like our War Veterans grandfathers (and 250 years of ancestors before us) actively opposing authoritarianism. From our earliest roots we have always insisted on NO KINGS in America! www.nokings.org

CARTOON OF THE DAY 🇺🇸 #NoKingsInAmerica (From @billbramhall.bsky.social )

In a coordinated move, multiple federal agencies joined BlueSky yesterday and turned to trolling the opposition. Our Assessment on Democratic Decline warns of this autocratic practice: attacking the free press and narrowing the space in which factual reporting can safely operate without retaliation.

Setting aside the fact that in 4 GOP majority states (NV, IA, MT, UT) Dems have 0 Reps despite voting 40% Dem, New England has a district Trump won by 9 and 2 toss-up districts, and Republicans lost all 3 because they ran terrible full MAGA candidates like Karoline Leavitt in NH.

Breaking: White House Press Secretary refuses to answer the press--keeps it on brand with the administration with a top-tier middle school come back instead. (Perhaps fart jokes are too sensitive a topic at the White House?)

They don’t know no better!!!!🤣🤪🤣🤪😂😂😂😂

I think this misses the point that Trump's only agenda items are 1) Trump, 2) whatever seems amusing to Trump at the moment, 3) making sure people are talking about him. That is the whole plan--anything else is from his handlers.

I did not see this coming -- I find it both important and also hilarious.

I do not think ICE should be allowed to label themselves as POLICE. It gives real police officers who have training, and many of whom have a desire to HELP their communities, a bad name. Instead, GOONS would be good but ICE would do. They are spending the goodwill developed by local police forces.

🚨 Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago answers this question brilliantly. 1/2

Professor Jason Stanley, head of American Studies at the University of Toronto’s Munk School, says the United States is in the midst of a coup led by the Trump administration — a “slow coup” unfolding through fear, propaganda, and the abuse of law. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

Saturday, October 18. Everywhere. Find your local event at nokings.org. #NoKings

The deployment is problematic in so many ways: if one state can deploy their own guard to another state against wishes of that state, that is effectively interstate warfare. If I'm reading right, a further irony is Houston has twice the violent crime rate of Chicago. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Unbearably violent images from Downtown Chicago where a classical music concert was played on the Chicago River. This is too elegant and magical to be seen.

CARTOON OF THE DAY

@sanders.senate.gov: "No, Speaker Johnson, the #NoKings Rally on October 18th is not a 'hate America' rally. ... It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in American freedom and are not going to allow you and President Trump to turn us into an authoritarian country."

People at the top of all of the professions are going to leave if this continues. Why put up with chaos when there are places respectful of expertise with reason and civility? Eventually this will just be a country of thugs and liars. No one will be able to support tech, medicine, higher education.

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The intelligence (both capital I and lower case i) for these raids is so poor. You'd think, just by accident, they would have arrested a handful of gang members by now but they seem expert at avoiding actually dangerous criminals. How did they think young kids and the elderly might be gang members?

In school we used wonder how could such depravity happen while people of good conscience existed? We now see it may have been a minority's hatred fueled by frequent lies/propaganda. (The role of Goebbels is often pointed at Miller but this would not be possible without head propagandist R. Murdoch.)

Ruben Bolling’s “Tom the Dancing Bug” is back

“The position of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine is to scrap Daylight Saving Time and permanently stick to Standard Time.” Remind your state and federal lawmakers!

They zip tied children.

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This makes me sad but I'm glad we got her for as long as we did. 🦧

We must reject the term Christian Nationalism--the movement could be White or Anti-minority Nationalism. It draws from the Old Testament but only tangentially--it's top leaders have broken most of the 10 Commandments. It rejects soundly the teachings of Jesus and thus is NOT a Christian movement.

The “Is Trump Hitler?” debate misses his sinister parallels to another 20th-century European tyrant.

ANTI-FA cannot be a problem unless there is -FA to oppose.

Ironically, Trump attacks the man who might have been critical to his White House win the first time. He has no loyalty except to Putin and himself. His cronies will learn that people are just tools to use for his ends--any lack of loyalty or inconvenience is reason for them to be removed/thrown out

Bailing out Argentina clarifies "America First." The transnational right is first, everyone else is an enemy. The Trump admin defends it by calling Argentina an ally. But while US-Argentina relations are friendly, they're not allies. US allies are states Trump is antagonizing, such as South Korea.

RFK lies about vaccines

My headache is gone thanks to Tylenol. I've been using Tylenol for years. Also.. #FuckTrump

My hypothesis is that this is another fleecing. They picked a monster sized company and I suspect that they will be able to find evidence that Tylenol is not the culprit if enough money appears. If it distracts people from certain files, even better, eh? The swamp is deep and the greed deeper.

This is horrifying--disappeared people have literally disappeared.