Has anyone else noticed that the EPSTEIN FILES are still being held back. Less than 1% have been released. Another blatant refusal to accept oversight from our pitifully weak congress. 🗽

Today in 2021, House Democrats introduced an article of impeachment against then-President Donald Trump, charging him with “incitement of insurrection” in the wake of the attack on the U.S. Capitol building five days prior. #Impeach47

The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.

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11. Dennis Goris

9. Dave Whamond

8. Dave Granlund

7. Jeff Koterba

6. Rick McKee

5. Budicao

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Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread) 1. Pat Bagley

This is a nice compilation by @charlotteclymer.bsky.social if you haven't already seen it... bsky.app/profile/char...

Everyone, get your copy of ON TYRANNY by Tim Snyder, and re-read Lesson 6. Here's the opener:

ICE has nothing to do with law enforcement.

Not a joke.

The MAGA cult praises men like Charlie Kirk and Kyle Rittenhouse—pathetic “men” who teach young white guys that virtuous “Christians” (really Christofascists) should bully and dominate those that aren’t white straight men. Over 30 years, conservatives have transformed into Nazis. This isn’t hard.

If you think of replacement theory as a political ideology that creates policy, law, and political identity, a lot of what you're seeing and hearing in the discourse becomes intelligible and terrifying.

MAGA is leaning heavily on “she was a leftie lesbian paid agitator” in hopes to make her as “other” as a black man to white America. You’d hope this wouldn’t work for a mom who dropped her toddler off at school that morning. But I can’t pretend to understand white America.

The same guys who blame birth control, antidepressants, and ADHD meds for why women don't like them are themselves all taking testosterone, ketamine, and daily microdoses of psychedelics.

There’s a non-zero possibility that this sort of epistemic closure is a big piece of the male crisis in America.

Yes, the resident in her own neighbourhood shouldn’t have been there, not the masked armed govt thugs, in the city and state against the wishes of the people, mayor and governor of the state 🙄

Trump and Millet have death squads: bsky.app/profile/davi...

this goes without saying but the whole point is that ice, like the police, represent the power, authority and justice of the american state, which is infallible and absolute. they exist to defeat america's enemies, ergo, anyone they hurt is an enemy of america. their guilt is presupposed.

The 'power, authority and justice of the american state' is NOT infallible and absolute Look at our history .... slavery, Japanese internments in WW II, the Red Scare of the 50s, the cleansing of Native Americans, ALL were shameful episodes in our history We overcame them and will overcome trump

This #Caturday box is defective - I can’t get in it!

Elections haven't always been fair in America. We've suffered Poll taxes, writing tests, intimidation, misinformation and straight up cheating in multiple elections over the life of our country. And progress still came. Don't let them con you into thinking they're inevitable. They aren't.

Phyllis Dietrichson schemed so that Kathy Doyle could lie #CrimeOfPassion #NoirAlley #TCMParty

Well this should be good. #NoirAlley #TCMParty #CrimeOfPassion

Creative civil disobedience: It can be non-violent, very effective and they can’t herd creative cats. We Americans are good at this sort of thing—our creativity essentially helped us win the American Revolution.

Watch all of it. And notice at the end that Greg Bovino is right there. It's not a rogue patrol, this is the operation as conducted under the direct supervision of senior DHS officials.

Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.

Our tiny Vermont town has about 100 people downtown protesting ICE right now. To be clear this is like 10-15% of the town’s population in January standing around just to show some solidarity to blue cities who are going through the shit for us all. Stay strong Minneapolis.

Obama deported 3 million illegal immigrants during his time in office and I don’t remember a single scene like this.

NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all - no prior convictions (no matter how minor) and no pending criminal charges.

2025 is now, officially, the worst year for job creation outside of recession since 2003. @byheatherlong.bsky.social

The porn aspect of what ICE/CBP crucial. Here's an excellent piece of journalism on how they literally stimulated riots for the camera in Chicago. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

More than 5,000 people here in Powderhorn Park protesting ICE’s occupation of Minneapolis. #FuckICE #iceout #mpls #FuckTrump

A citizen and a Red Lake Nation descendant was tailed by a blacked-out SUV, beaten, handcuffed, left in the cold for hours, and detained. They lied about him assaulting an ICE agent and said he'd go to prison for life. "At no point was he informed of why he was trailed by officers or apprehended."

This struck me on day 1 of this tragedy: it would've been so easy to summon some measure of performative compassion, but no, they're incapable. They instantly doubled down on villainizing Good. It's another Rob Reiner moment: by seeking to disparage the dead, they reveal themselves to be monsters.

True, but please don't think this is a Left vs Right thing. It's Liberal vs Authoritarian, or empathetic vs psychopathic.

The result of that, in the short term, is the aggressive lashing out we're seeing. It is dangerous, and I don't want to understate how alarming the videos out of Minneapolis are. But, this week has provided clear evidence that the hate of the Trump administration does not have Americans' support.

A white mother and U.S. citizen being shot and killed is not what they were sold, and it is a breaking point for many. That does not, in any way, mean the other actions are not also important and indefensible, but it is a line *for those in the movement* that they thought would not be crossed.

The response to the ICE killing of Renee Nicole Good is not what the White House was expecting. Like with their hiding of the Epstein files, part of the fundamental problem they are facing is that the stories the Trump administration has built their movement on are being shown for their emptiness.