Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines. We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

RIP Drew Struzan. 🕯️🎞

Just how BAD are the Epstein Files?!?

Egypt has extremely strict gun control laws. Civilians are only permitted to own handguns -- no rifles or shotguns -- and only if they can prove they need the weapon for a specific purpose. Background checks for licensing are extensive and include vetting of family members and psych evaluations.

I'm not exactly sure Elon is the guy I'd want to take advice from regarding "the war on drugs" in San Francisco.

the inflatable costume thing is an extremely smart tactic

THESE PEOPLE ARE RUNNING FOR THEIR LIVES FROM ANTIFA, GOVERNOR

Next Saturday's anti-Trump 'No Kings' protest is expected to be the largest single demonstration in U.S. history.

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

Imagine that

Abolish ICE

I wonder how many ICE dudes read Anne Frank’s diary in high school and thought, “I’d have gotten her sooner.”

all at once? won’t that make him autistic

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create. So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

I hope the No Kings events next weekend are flooded with American flags.

The Trump administration is REALLY allowing Qatar to build an air base in the US after they did a $5.5 billion golf resort deal with Trump and gave him a jet. MAGA can take their ‘America First’ flags and wipe their asses with them. He is Trump First, and you are suckers.

They’re scared so they want to scare us.

You know, I hadn't planned to go to this, but clearing the calendar now.

I will be speaking at the Long Beach event on the 18th (at Bixby Park) and I highly encourage everyone who can attend a No Kings protest to go. These fascists can call us terrorists, but we can show them we’re actually the beating heart and soul of American democracy.

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss. More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now. newrepublic.com/article/2016...

A peaceful protest rally under the Tom Paine motto "No Kings" is being held on the mall in Washington and in hundreds of other sites around the country. Prior No Kings rallies have attracted 11-12 million attendees, the largest political rallies in US history. bsky.app/profile/atru...

No, seems weak.

they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work see you all there

Every major city in Texas has a higher murder rate than Chicago

Thugs

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

The Super Bowl is in the Bay Area so there’s a good chance they just want a protest to turn violent during one of the biggest media events of the year.

This piece is just an essential, important and excellent intervention as Coates' Vanity Fair essay was. One NYT column isn't that important, but an accommodationist mindset has spread in center-left elite circles. And it should be rejected forcefully. democracyamericana.com/posts/c5d024...

Hang in there, struggling artists

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

Weeks before his death, you say?

I literally wrote earlier today that ICE and CBP are "a portrait of an authoritarian secret police that seems set to model itself on history’s worst fascist enforcers." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to... Case in point here:

Abolish. Fucking. ICE.

This is absolutely Brownshirt business.

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

This guy not wearing a mask makes him the bravest ICE agent and yet is still, like all of them, a pathetic bullying coward. Look at him grab Fuentes, who’s literally just standing there. Look at the hatred in his dumb face.

i made this a couple days ago bc of a dumb headline but it’s proving rather evergreen

Your occasional reminder that Russ Vought, who is claiming the right to fire civil servants for whatever reason he sees it, once refused to quit a political appointment position even after Trump had lost.

The year is 2003. 17-year-old Stephen Miller is sitting in the back of a school bus talking about torture, as in “Torture is a celebration of human life and dignity." Miller looks directly into the camera and describes the torturing Iraqis in gruesome detail, as his peers laugh uncomfortably.

I spent 20 years in the military under 4 presidents, and spent 3 years in the Middle East on 7 deployments. Take it from me, this dude is a fucking embarrassment to our nation’s fighting force. Next level disgraceful.

This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that.

This

🧵Coal in the US was mostly dying because of cheap natural gas beginning in the 2000s. Then cheap renewables began to clobber it in the 2010s. It is a filthy power source and horrible emitter of greenhouse gases. There is zero economic justification for this & it will amount to corporate welfare.

This.

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

I keep using the term "non compos mentis" to describe Trump because that's how he's acting. It's beyond his longstanding history of total ignorance, habitual lying, and constant exaggeration. He's genuinely disconnected from reality and often incapable of expressing coherent thoughts.