I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

“Some men improve the world only by leaving it.” —Oscar Wilde.

Worse

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

I genuinely don't understood how America took the emoluments clause -- the common-sense bar on a president using his powers to line his own pockets, a law children can understand -- and just said, nah, that doesn't apply for our Very Special Boy.

Newly available videos and existing footage synchronized and assessed by The New York Times provide a frame-by-frame look at what led to Renee Good being shot and killed by an ICE officer in Minneapolis. Watch our visual investigation. trib.al/dJBtpjH

A mother in Minneapolis rushed to perform CPR on her 6-month-old baby after federal immigration agents deployed a chemical agent near her car, leading all six of her children to be taken to the hospital. This isn’t the first time kids have been on the receiving end of ICE's chemical weapons.

Just blocked this. No🧊in my feed.

✅ @icegov.bsky.social has been verified by @bsky.app.

I work at a non-profit in Seattle. Had a staff member break down sobbing in utter hysterics. Pulled her into the office and turns out she has family in Minneapolis - ICE had blocked off the street to their neighborhood and was requiring valid US passports for residents to LEAVE THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD.

ICE Director, Todd Lyons, is LYING to the American public about why ICE agent, Jonathan Ross, didn’t have a bodycam when he murdered Renee Nicole Good. I bring the receipts, including the Trump Executive Order that ended the use of body cams by ICE. youtu.be/nggfQFRSXxo?...

It’s not enough to just express our outrage about ICE’s horrific killing of Renee Nicole Good. We must also demand that our elected officials act. Join a local event this weekend to say ICE Out For Good: www.mobilize.us?tag_ids=2913... Or you can host an event: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Like I saw someone else say the other day: they literally do not have enough people to do this in more than one or two cities at a time They are hoping we won’t do the extremely simple math

This was more than a hint: Mess with ICE, and this could happen to you.

Over four decades, the NRA et al softened the ground for the current authoritarian takeover. My hope is that their silence in the face of the government tyranny they screamed about for all those years will bankrupt them in the eyes of the public forever.

There's no "training" to "reform" this culture of violence and impunity, the only solution is to eliminate the agency and fire everyone associated. Before someone whines "but but you need immigration enforcement" okay explain to me exactly how this is "immigration enforcement." It's just thuggery.

Guess what, that Big Terrible Bill seems to be inflicted on us just the same as the congressional appropriations bill. I guess Noems people didn't get that basic civics education. We see the result of that every day.

Rob Dannenberg, former CIA head of Moscow Station: "Putin looks at Trump and sees a weak guy, vain, with huge ego…. He's being manipulated in the way that a good case officer like Putin would manipulate this guy. He's not monogamous, he's greedy, he's fascinated by gold —

Walmart has long been a facilitator of fraud on a mass scale, a ProPublica investigation found. More than $1 billion in fraud losses were routed through the company’s financial services between 2013 and 2022. (Published Jan. 2024)

TikTok will now be owned by the Ellisons, Jared Kushner's firm, and Abu Dhabi's state investment fund.

Masterful.

Nixon didn’t go to prison over Watergate, but 48 others were convicted and served time for the scandal - notably, his Attorney General. Attention: Pam Bondi meet John Mitchell.

Pirates of the Caribbean 2025

In case anyone wants to follow this brainworm.

Like if Ayn Rand wrote Jurassic Park.

Wait so there are Peter Thiel-backed landlocked seasteading libertarian cities that the current Honduras govt wants to get rid of that Roger Stone has been advocating for that JOH also supports? And Stone has also been advocating for JOH 's pardon? www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/m...

One of the reasons we need universal basic income plus higher taxes on the rich is to boost the spending power of the bottom 60% and in doing so, reorient our economy around the needs of the majority of people who comprise it. As inequality has increased, our economy has adjusted to meet rich wants.

Tune in now for our public webinar on Why We Need a General Strike. www.youtube.com/live/GB9ZZFW...

Concepts of a plan of a scheme of a shakedown

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This guy always sounds like he got his response to a reporter out of 1984.

This guy always sounds like he studied 1984 to come up with responses.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

Finally came across video of an arrest at a #NoKings event yesterday. 🙄

We don’t need a fake video of Donald Trump dumping shit on America, because we see it every day for real.

Any American medium that fails to cover the largest protests in American history is failing in the basic mission of informing the public about the facts. #NoKings

The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”

Philadelphia #nokings. It's a great day!

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

"VERDICT These beautifully crafted letters offer relevance and practical guidance and will resonate with many readers. " www.libraryjournal.com/review/read-...

1\ Russia has said it desperately needs to borrow a lot more money, which should mean higher finance costs. Not just because they're borrowing more, but their *rates* should get higher as they exhaust the best bank offerings. Most bond yields are up, by ~1% versus September.

In this era of hyper-partisanship, shockingly the FDA did…. a normal bureaucratic thing. Which is what it should do. FDA approved a generic version of mifepristone, an abortion med.

Speak truth to power, and other thoughts about a difficult week in the US (from Friday, Sept. 19) (Audio) snyder.substack.com/p/speak-trut...

As a US Atty, I prosecuted and oversaw police excessive force cases. We took them seriously because they were serious abuses of power. What we're seeing now is the outbreak of an epidemic & instead of being condemned by fed'l law enforcement leaders, it seems to be tolerated if not encouraged.

I feel very strongly that we must use the next three years to build a new opposition movement. I tried to lay out my reasons and what I think we need to do to make it happen. Please watch, comment, and share. youtu.be/_GUgnpAYMCc

Federal government funding runs out on Tuesday night. This means it’s important to remind our Democratic senators that we expect them to hold their ground — not roll over like last time. Urge your Democratic senators to HOLD THE LINE against any GOP funding deal that hands Trump a blank check. 👇

I'd like to know why there's been a list made public of elected Dems who called trump a fascist, but no Epstein list of pedophile clients who raped little girls made public. That's insane.