George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

Read this short thread. Watch the video. #ResistFascism

Et tu, Benioff? I know people who work for this fascist-come-lately. I wonder how they're feeling about it.

When "all of this" is over and the centrist pundits and politicians are kissing Musk's ass again, don't let them. Don't let anyone ignore that Musk is a mass murderer.

$CRM

But we all knew this would happen, didn't we? Who in the admionistration cares about our grocery bills as long as Stephen Miller gets ICE to meet his quota?

Again, and forever, if Trump -- with the leverage he has now -- can't compel the release of Marwan Barghouti, then he is content with only another pause in the century of bloodshed in The Levant. Barghouti marginalizes and affronts extremists on both sides and means real negotiations and two states.

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

To quote Mr. Mankewicz and Mr. Wells: "It's no trick to make an awful lot of money if all you want is to make a lot of money." When most of the U.S. electorate awakes to finally realize great wealth is no way conditional to or dependent on intelligence or morality, this country begins to heal.

More moral and message clarity from another genuine leader within the Democratic Party.

The House speaker is blaming the Republican-led government shutdown on Americans protesting Donald Trump. trib.al/iiPymDC Make that make sense.

But of course they did

EPA officials directed scientists to assess whether the government could develop methods for detecting abortion pills in wastewater — a practice sought by the anti-abortion movement. The request appears to have originated from a letter sent from GOP members to Lee Zeldin, the EPA administrator.

María Corina Machado deserves the Nobel Peace Prize she won, Anne Applebaum argues. Here’s what her conversations with Machado last year revealed:

Police departments in the Philadelphia region and beyond have seen a rise in thefts in which keyless cars developed in the last decade are targeted.

Maria Corina Machado is about to receive a warm congratulatory message from Donald Trump, dontcha think?

Pod Reco. Michael Wolff has seen the photos that Pam Bondi refused to talk about.

Pod reco: The new Pivot. No spoilers. But it’s fanTAStic. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June)

Evan Edinger moved from New Jersey to London for his degree. He never moved back. He explains why. Makes a good case. An excellent case. youtu.be/M1QvVnjiegE?...

Too bad there is no Nobel Prize for perverting justice in the name of petty personal vendettas. ‘Cause I know the perfect candidate for that one.

This clip of MTG being perfectly reasonable illustrates what sets her apart from, say, Nancy Mace or Tommy Tuberville. MTG is capable of turning off the crazy, and smart enough to know when to do so. When others go off the rails that's just them being them. For MTG it's just an act.

Tomorrow’s headline: “Trump Declares War on Norway After Peace Prize Snub. Orders Hegseth to Send Seal Team Six to Capture Nobel Committee”

Mike Johnson believes that swearing in an elected Representative is not a priority when there are Epstein files to hide. #SeatAdelitaGrijalva

The ongoing government shutdown is doing real harm. On a special edition of The Tea, April Ryan sits down with federal worker and organizer Paul Osadebe to talk about it. A must watch https://contrarian.substack.com/p/how-long-can-this-last-april-ryan

The price of gold hit $4,000 per ounce for the first time ever. It's a bad sign for the U.S. economy n.pr/4mYSvqy

Americans—and even many Republicans in Congress—don’t like it when an unelected bureaucrat makes huge cuts to the government. But the administration is already repeating its mistake of giving free rein to a nihilist. trib.al/JiFlwNz

Thirty of Ross' trademark landscapes will be sold at a series of auctions starting in November. He painted many of them live on The Joy of Painting, which started airing on PBS in the 1980s. n.pr/474wJvJ

Food just rotting in warehouses. It’s criminal. Musk and DT and this regime are responsible for so much death and destruction and it’s only 10 months in.

This is terrible news, and most Americans are not aware of it or its dire implications. "We love the uneducated." And we also love giving tax dollars to "christian" religious schools. 😡🤬☠️

Miller has a real theory of the case: A latent majority out there can be sleepwalked into authoritarianism with enough numbing agitprop. Polls show majorities reject the autocratic abuses but Miller plainly thinks voters in the middle lack conviction about any of it. newrepublic.com/article/2014...

This attracted oddly little notice, but Stephen Miller was recently asked directly if he has discussed invoking the Insurrection Act with Trump. He evaded the question. Miller, a master manipulator of Trump, is clearly nudging him in that direction right now. newrepublic.com/article/2014...

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Well worth the read. There are only two Dem leaders who seem to get what's going on, and how to step up to the moment. And they are NOT @chuckschumer.com or @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

He just wears them down. Trump is the irresistible force meeting a malleable object. Dear @CNN: it’s the Department of Defense until Congress changes it, you fucking weenies.

“We’re going to hold them fairly to account, and by that we mean we’ll use the propaganda term they invented and not the legal name for the department. In short, MAGA.”

White House officials have held increasingly serious discussions in recent days about President Donald Trump invoking the Insurrection Act, a rarely used 19th century law that gives the president the power to deploy active-duty troops inside the U.S. for law enforcement purposes

I mean.

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

So long as the House stays out of session, he’ll keep refusing to seat Rep. Grijalva—the 218th vote on the Epstein files discharge petition. See how desperate they are?

"Trump is dangerously and perversely fusing the roles of the US military and domestic agencies. What we are seeing is the worst of both worlds: domestic agents adopting military tactics, and the military itself being drawn into domestic political conflicts." www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/federalism...

Change is coming.

Pod Reco Michael Wolff on how the nutso conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk’s death fit into the MAGA battle for a post-Trump succession.

Best thing I’ve read about Bari Weiss’s prospects at CBS News.

The former Obama aides had a field day roasting Stephen Miller’s tantrum on CNN.

Maybe don’t call a Jewish icon a “czar” in your headline.

Yeah, lots of quotes that boil down to "Trump said he would do this, but I assumed the Norms Fairy would stop him."

Why didn't Democratic Senators ask Pam Bondi why she didn't prosecute Jeffrey Epstein when she was Florida's Attorney General from 2011 to 2019 at the very time he was running his child sex ring in Florida?!!

We're now hearing threats about withholding post-shutdown pay. They first threatened widespread new firings? So why hasn't that happened. As I noted last week despite all the threats none of the firing machinery had actually been started up. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-...

Whitehouse: "It obviously makes a big difference when you have a professional DOJ and there's no alleged involvement of the president in a sex trafficking operation. This is different. This is a MAGA DOJ conducting an investigation into a trafficking operation in which POTUS may well be implicated"