The FBI is out of control.

i appreciate someone treating these announcements with the seriousness they deserve

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

They hoped they could generate that response in Portland, but found dancing frog costumes. They hoped they could generate that response in Minneapolis, and even stepped up their own violence to get it, but they only found a community getting stronger.

While we should be thrilled that Minneapolis effectively killed ICE there with their kindness, we should be ready for them to find a new site that will react as they're clearly hoping we'll react -- with some kind of violence they can use as a pretext for cracking down.

There's been a lot of discussion about the echoes of the civil rights movement in the protests today, with people obviously drawing comparisons between the strategies, tactics and coalitions that were vital then and are still vital now. But this post has me thinking about a different echo ...

havent heard a lot of people mentioning cory lewandowski, who has been puppeteering kristi noem

He wasn't going to a protest. There was no planned protest. It was people in a neighborhood witnessing & recording public actions by secret police. Gun-at-protest is a lie & distraction.

I got fooled by someone who is famous for being a conman until it was too late. Here’s why that’s actually smarter than seeing it coming:

Can someone explain to me like I'm 5 why local or state police aren't arresting these ICE murderers? It's a local crime

credit where due

a professional what though

The House Republicans continue to protect a pedophile sex trafficking ring and all their friends who were involved. Not surprising, but hilarious on a day when the GOP is insisting that a partial release of emails was meant to smear the innocent President. Why keep hiding the files then?

I’d started to wonder whether the Epstein files were a bit of a macguffin, but no no they implicate the President of the United States in a pedophilia ring—and show the entire Republican Party as well as much of the federal government has been baldly covering it up. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The new Epstein emails are the most incriminating evidence to date on Trump & Epstein & let's be clear, there has been plenty of incriminating evidence for many years. So, can we stop treating this like a process story and start focusing squarely on the likelihood Trump is a pedophile sex criminal.

the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”

This headline is journalistic malpractice. This isn't Epstein "alleging" that Trump knew. This is Epstein and Maxwell discussing - in 2011, long before Trump had political salience - how the FACT that Trump knew might play out Both of them took as a given that this was a fact in a private email

sometimes i regret that i have but one downvote to give for my country

Q: Mr. Johnson, you understand that you’re actually the Speaker of the House, correct? A: I don’t know much about that. I just heard something about it this morning but don’t know the specifics.

"you were mad when trump used this language to lie about democrats. how do you justify using the same language now to tell the truth about republicans?"

nobody wants this confused tu bishvat and tisha bav. pretty bad mistake imo

The 2016 campaign promise that Trump was going to run the country like his businesses (bankruptcy, legally dubious construction, constant lawsuits) really came true!

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

trump is never planning to leave the presidency. he is knocking down the building to build a behemoth that would take years even under normal conditions.

i don't wanna see a candidate shirtless more than zero times. this whole thing is a mess

how can this be called "a room"

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

platners excuse on pod save was still that it isn't even a nazi tattoo. he painted it as a youthful drunken random skull, and implied that had it been a nazi tattoo, he'd have wisely kept his shirt on the last 18 years. he won't admit it.

i feel like he shouldn't have used the qualifier "secret." like ok... are you a nazi of a different kind

I guess this is when we get to introduce the nation to the tale of the Bonwit Teller building: news.artnet.com/art-world/do...

women should not only be able to choose a woman driver on uber, but a woman shopper on instacart

the gerrymandering wars stuff is probably the first time I've really felt legitimately like it all might fall apart. like this is an actual point of no return they're pushing us towards. it's the ruling party declaring they won't allow themselves to lose elections, voters be fucked.

NOT COOL TO HAVE AN EARTHQUAKE MID EICHA

And I think that’s an important point about what’s happened with Trump in the last decade - if you plainly state what he’s doing or has done, people don’t believe you because it sounds cartoonishly evil enough that he would be acting differently if it was true. Now he’s acting differently.

something happened that i really need to tell my friend but he died four months ago

does anyone remember that time the first trump administration kidnapped a bunch of children, sent them around the country to christian adoption agencies, and lost track of their names, locations, and parents' identities

there's no two ways about it: the current GOP is the party of rapists and pedophiles.

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Washington state from enforcing a law that would have required priests to report evidence of child abuse learned during confession. The Trump administration had intervened on the side of the Catholic clergy. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I do seem to remember that, yeah.

this diddy verdict is a travesty. there was plenty of evidence to convict on the more serious charges.

Just heard Bill Kristol, former chief of staff for Dan Quayle, say he thinks ICE should be defunded and that the entire DHS should probably be disbanded, which puts him to the left of maybe the majority of elected Democrats. Truly wild times we’re living in.

"but Michael, you just said the laws are irrelevant" They're irrelevant *because Republicans have power* and because *Republicans have broken every institution that checks that power*. We must *regain* power, *fix* these institutions, nothing else matters.

and burnett until this day sits on endless footage that likely could have prevented this from happening

one way to make sense of the position of the republicans on the supreme court is that they do not believe there is such a thing as a legitimate objection to the actions of a republican president, no matter how deranged, depraved, or anti-constitutional www.stevevladeck.com/p/161-the-co...

Let me put it this way: No German organization will ever adopt the slogan "Unser Kampf", though "Our Struggle" would be a perfectly anodyne English mantra. Because some words have echoes based on their historical usage by others whether the speaker wants them to or not.

A new Yiddish curse was born

you should all root for whoever you hate most to become mayor of NYC

One of my teenagers just said Pharrell was a one hit wonder

The same people demanding you present a photo ID to vote are perfectly fine with letting you be arrested, handcuffed & thrown into a van by armed men wearing plain clothes, face masks & presenting no identification of any sort.