In the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, a TN sheriff had a 61-yr-old man arrested for posting a meme on Facebook, which the sheriff absurdly construed as a threat. It was pretty clearly bullshit but I dug into the case using FB & public records and now it looks even worse. My latest @theintercept.com:

A new Godwin’s Law.

Speaker Johnson: "People’s faith in the government is at an all time low" Republicans control all 3 branches of the government.

History repeats.

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MAGA: why won’t the radical, lunatic, communist, America-hating, enemy of the people libtards stop calling us names?

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Our country has fallen‼️ #Fascism

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THIS JUST IN: The people who are rounding up migrants and throwing them into concentration camps are deeply insulted by the liberals who call them Nazis

Take note that she is saying this lie long after the identity of the killer was known. Fox is poison.

They’re not aren’t even trying to pretend that they’re not Nazis anymore.

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Need a laugh? I laughed so hard at this. "Royal Canadian Air Farce" is one of our brilliant sketch comedy shows, and Graham Greene's appearance in this episode (1994) is hysterical:

DHS’s Neo-Nazi Memes Show the Agency for What It Is newrepublic.com/article/1990... via @newrepublic.com

Difficult to overstate how depraved, racist, sociopathic, and fascistic the modern Republican Party has become.

the only thing keeping Trump v US from topping the list of worst Supreme Court decisions imo is that it hasn’t (yet) led to the dissolution of the United States washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/i...

In the Tea-Party phase of the GOP, back when they were refining their "illegal immigrants on farms are taking American jobs!" talking point, the United Farmworkers invited ANY US Citizen first dibs on any farm job. Nobody lasted for more than a day. www.rawstory.com/trump-farmer...

New in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism “'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.' *More of this, please*"

Very good article, and a serious warning about how close we are to falling completely into fascism.

Since January 6th, MAGA has been normalizing political violence. Now, after what happened in Minnesota, they’re normalizing political assassinations. We cannot let MAGA turn America into a nation of conspiracy theories and thug violence.

Yup

"The day started with tragedy with political violence in MN and instead of being scared, neighbors SHOWED UP to stand together at No Kings Twin Cities. We packed the Capitol Mall all the way to the Cathedral. Estimate 80,000+ right now. So proud of our state." #nokings #indivisible

Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

"Because we see our democracy's in real trouble. We see a president who has made himself a king and dictator." "We're disgusted and we're scared, and we know the only way to fight this now is for the people to come together." - @markruffalo.bsky.social on why he's at the #NoKings event in NYC

ICYMI: Middle Tennessee family torn apart after ICE-Highway Patrol checkpoint 'looking for color of skin,' wife says (GoFundMe link in story below.) vimeo.com/1093345200?s...

Violence must be denounced in a bipartisan fashion: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Sound familiar?

No Sir, we're not protesting "because we hate our country." We just hate what YOU are doing to it. We are protesting to keep a government OF the people, BY the people, FOR the people… Simple as that. 😎✨

The Overton Window has shifted all the way to ban all non-white people from coming to America. It was never about illegal immigration.

For Trump, violence against the police is just fine so long as it’s committed in his name.

Put up or shut up…

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Ukraine strikes airfields, fuel and ammunition dumps, military factories, military command centres, and logistics hubs. Russia strikes apartment blocks, schools and kindergardens, bus depots, shopping malls, local government buildings, and civilian power networks. The contrast is a stark one.

A reminder because the media is majorly bungling it: Ru started the war and Ru keeps it up and refuses peace. Every Ru attack is unprovoked and every Ukrainian response is defense. Only Ukraine's actions could be construed as retaliation. Ru's attacks should never be called retaliation.

ICYMI — ICE DIRECTOR: “These are real people with real families you’re hurting.” He says this not about immigrants… but about ICE agents. A record-setting lack of self-awareness.

Very good read.

JONI ERNST: "Well, we are all going to die." ME: "You first, dear."

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Good one from Andy Borowitz.

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