What’s at stake for our first and most fundamental freedoms as the Trump admiration comes for the free press

"The largest immigrant deportation and prison contractors in the US are expecting an epic payout this year: for every $1 that they donated to GOP campaigns in 2024, these private companies stand to reap more than $11,000 in increased annual revenue."

Mind-blowing times... week after week.

People who “don’t do”politics: Can you feel politics doing you yet?

It’s a storm of ICE cartoons! And more to shovel from the week in politics ——> www.politico.com/gallery/2026...

Trump is right - he really has brought the rest of the world closer together.

"Hi, everyone. I know things are hectic as heck right now, but please be sure to fill out your timesheets every Friday by 5 p.m. Central. I can’t pay you unless I know your hours. Please also try to be accurate."

"Plans for ‘mega centers’ and jails in nearly two dozen communities… Currently, there are more than 73,000 people in ICE custody, a record. The new sites could give the agency an additional 76,500 beds." If the existing beds remain, that would be space to detain 150,000 humans. bloom.bg/4qd7Mpn

cover of The Economist this week

This is networked incitement in action. Once Raichik names her target, her followers roast them publicly and call up the target's workplace or family members to make bomb threats and wish physical harm. Serious and specific threats can lead to shutdowns of workplaces and schools out of caution.

Federal action in the streets of Minneapolis stands as a test of the federal government’s power to use violence against its own citizens—a dividing-line between liberty and tyranny. It will not be the last

Taking flight www.politico.com/cartoons/202...

Cartoon by @mwuerker.bsky.social.

Similar achievable demands (the only limit is character counts): - End courthouse arrests for people following the rules - Protect churches, schools, hospitals etc - End restraints on ORR handoffs of unaccompanied kids - Get FBI/HSI/DEA/ATF etc out of immigration enforcement The list writes itself

“Abolish” or “defund” aren't within grasp in 2026. But where are: - End qualified immunity - Rewrite use-of-force so this crap isn't ruled “within policy” - Overturn July 8 mandatory detention memo - Reinstate TPS - Open up detention centers, enforce humane conditions He doesn’t even *ask* for it.

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

Comfortably numb www.politico.com/cartoons/202...

I guess he just got lucky.

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It's called "doomscrolling" for a reason....

"Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not." Always read @adamserwer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Neo Royalist Coup is well underway

Originally published on 6/2/2020 (after the killing of George Floyd), this cartoon seems all too relevant again today.

We need to get it broadly understood that Stephen Miller's ethnic cleansing will result in a permanent metastasized immigrant carceral state and paramilitary warfare on US streets that goes on *for years.* The internal logic of his agenda dictates this of necessity. newrepublic.com/article/2041...

You scumbags need to tone it down! www.politico.com/cartoons/202...

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link: georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...

“.. When the US Treasury starts making calls, it’s usually a sign this has moved past a normal FX story,” said Anthony Doyle, chief investment strategist at Pinnacle .. @bloomberg.com #$DXY www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

We are now seeing the highest gold and silver futures prices ever. This links directly to heavy speculation against the US dollar based on a sense that the US is now experiencing its worst economic misadministration in the period after World War II.

News Analysis: Without waiting for facts, the Trump administration has advanced one-sided narratives to justify the killings of protesters in Minneapolis by federal agents, even when bystander video shows something else entirely.

Remember the Bundy insanity during the Obama years? Armed guys occupied a federal office and one of their buddies took position with a sniper rifle aimed at federal agents? Exactly how many of those guys were shot and killed?

The steep drop to pariah status for the US.

This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

Compare this thread analyzing the video footage with DHS’s statement stating that the man approached officers with a gun and “wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.”

Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"

ICYMI --->

Watch out for ice! (And other verboten phrases and concepts!) Come join Clay Bennett, Gary Varvel, John Auchter, Marty Two Bulls, Matt Wuerker, Moreno Rapé, Paul Duginski & Thomas Whittemore www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/20...

Latest Graun toon - you can read about its genesis here www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Look behind the scenes of drawing Guardian political cartoons with me & @martinrowson.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Martin has been with the Guardian for decades; I’ve been contributing since 2022. On Thursday, our editors ran us both on the same deadline & sent a photographer...

More than 400 years of history and a decade of advocacy were torn down Thursday afternoon when National Park Service employees removed every single display at the President’s House. 🔗 What's next? We explain: www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

MARTY BARON: “.. I think we're in for a very rough patch, because I do think that Trump does want to imprison journalists.” @cnn.com

Goldman: It’s shocking to me how much the media talked about Biden’s mental state and are not talking about Donald Trump. He can barely put a coherent sentence together. You have someone who is clearly not all there

Cartoonists cover the ICE storm and more. New gallery of some of the week's best political cartoons now up at POLITICO ---> www.politico.com/gallery/2026...

Carney: "In a time of rising populism and ethnic nationalism, Canada can show how diversity is a strength, not a weakness... Canada can't solve all the world's problems. But we can show that another way is possible. That the arc of history isn't destined to be warped toward authoritarianism".

This is a stone’s throw from the spot where Franklin, when asked by a Philadelphian if we had a monarchy or a republic, said that we had “a republic, if you can keep it.”

Are you human? www.politico.com/cartoons/202...

I’m a NO on today’s ICE funding bill. We must hold them accountable for this terror campaign.