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what talking to American Christians felt like whenever I tell them i'm from India sometimes

A bit underplayed that the Homan sting didn't reportedly come out of a public corruption investigation, it was a counter-intelligence one. Which means they somehow made the not-very-far leap to him from initially targeting a foreign and almost certainly state actor.

As Broadview PD arrested activists, a priest on his knees with rosary in hand pled with ICE agents and prayed for them. He was eventually dragged out of the way of the vans.

Broadview, IL police arrested and cited 3 protesters (all since released) outside the Broadview ICE processing/detention center this morning after a prayer group concluded. It was a busy morning for transport—reporters witnessed ICE move over a dozen detainees from the facility.

"Media outlets committed to liberal democracy should take the side of liberal democracy against authoritarianism. Period. The end."

Rumors aren't facts. But last fall the Finance/DC corridor was awash in chatter that bribes and cash payments were flying fast and furious. Given the nature of this crew, essentially zero chance Homan was alone in this.

Post now deleted, more or less confirming it was a DM. Great opsec!

Sen. Murphy: "Tom Homan, Trump's border czar, literally accepted a bag of cash—$50,000—and the investigation was dropped when Trump became president. There are two standards of justice now in this country. If you are a friend of the president...you can get away with anything."

Fam’s first time at Citi Field, first time for me too. Not actually sure when the last time was I went to a major league stadium.

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

Commitment to free speech doesn't just mean commitment to letting people say things you don't believe in. It's a commitment to them saying or expressing it in a *way* that you dislike, or is actively unpleasant to you.

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

"A Chinese journalist jailed for four years after documenting the early phases of the COVID-19 outbreak from the pandemic's epicentre was sentenced on Friday to four more years in prison, Reporters Without Borders said." @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Former Meta exec who exposed the company’s China ties and treatment of teens is reportedly near bankruptcy after her book’s release, facing $50k fines per violation of a gag order against criticizing Meta. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Underrated phenomenon is so many people were already looking for streaming services to cut and Disney basically helped them figure it out.

We're +570%.

"If the suckers want rules and laws, you might as well give them rules and laws, good and hard." www.liberalcurrents.com/a-rich-kid-t...

This is it, essentially. The core of it. The goal of ICE detention in the mass deportation system is to make people give up their case without fighting; to have an officer say “if you want to see a judge and plead your case, you’re going to be jailed for months and months, so why not give up now?”

“With a single post or video, we can influence thousands of guests to try a food, drink, or experience in the parks,” she says. “I couldn’t, in good conscience, keep giving them free publicity knowing they don’t support free speech and are willing to bow to fascism."

I have thoughts about our Bove problem

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

What would actually happen if a federal judge was convicted of a crime and serving time but never removed from office by the Senate?

Donald the Dove strikes again

I have been told the anti-Trump coalition needs to embrace Hanania, because he actually has the pull with right wingers due to being such a dirtbag right winger himself. My answer is twofold: First, no, he's a Nazi, I will never embrace that Second, his credibility is actually hurt if we embrace him

Just a reminder that Richard Hanania is not a centrist and has not changed his white supremacist views. The data most definitely doesn't show crime rates are about race unless you ignore every other causative variable (urban/rural, poverty, population density, etc.).

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy” V-Dem data

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

Hanania literally brigaded me on Twitter for being a groomer, yet every time I hear from him, if it's not racism, it's pedophilia.

My piece on Trump's War on transparency for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/trumps-war-o...

"in the early 2010s there would only be a few dozen articles a year in UK outlets mentioning trans people (60 in 2012 for instance), but it was over a thousand in 2018, and over 7,500 in 2022. The overwhelming majority of these articles were highly negative" www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

"Ezra Klein, Charlie Kirk, Free Speech, and Whitewashing in the Media": @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social with @marisakabas.bsky.social, on our Half the Answer podcast www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...

Nothing but respect for MY president

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

The NYT discussion in this is so good that I didn't realize it was just the windup for a "come to Jesus" moment on Mamdani aimed at the Bulwark's conservative anti-Trump readers open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

Ask him, Hochul

I stopped by the @liberalcurrents.com Half the Answer podcast to talk about Charlie Kirk, Ezra Klein, free speech and the power of independent media. Full episode here: www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...

This man is one of the campaign’s super volunteers, the nicest dude you’ll ever meet, wildly dependable, and apparently capable of taking the coolest photo of 2025.

that's why you bring the US flag to protests, folks

Merger approvals really have been a huge area of vulnerability. It’s also the key fault line in the matter of the law firms that caved

tl:dr - Judge just told Trump "I ain't reading all that shit, go try again." The order starts with the phrase "As every member of the bar of every federal court knows (or is presumed to know)..."

OMG - the judge in Florida just sua sponte struck the complaint in the Trump v NYT case for -wait for it - violating Rule 8. Lawyers, tell the folks at home how hard it is to get the complaint struck outright for something like that in fed eral court. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I want everyone to take a step back for a second, remember why she was fired from New York and juxtapose this w/ all the high profile media folks that have recently lost *their* jobs. *Some* people are allowed to fail upwards. It's mesmerizing.

so uh PIIE did the work and they see a 9.1% increase in CPI due to mass deportation (9M deported)

"It works like this: if I direct racist abuse at you, and you name that racism for what it is, and I then face a social penalty for it, I claim that your act of holding me accountable is a form of discrimination against me." www.liberalcurrents.com/hitlers-shad...

lots of electeds and political candidates here this morning. i see congressional candidates kat abughazaleh and (evanston mayor) daniel biss, lieutenant governor juliana stratton, and chicago alder andre vasquez:

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.