Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Another step in the de-professionalization and politicization of DOD. "The head of an office that helps organize technical research and disburse billions of dollars for the Navy is being replaced by a 33-year-old former DOGEr with no apparent naval experience." www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trum...

A great run-down of the early church fathers’ commitment to the poor.

Here are some details on the prayer vigil.

Deeply racist, yes, but also deeply stupid. Rural counties have higher enrollments than urban ones. Some of the largest enrollment states are red ones like Louisiana, Oklahoma and West Virginia. Undocumented immigrants are ineligible. Most beneficiaries are required to work 80 hrs/month.

Again, absolutely nothing about this statement is true.

Again, we are in a moment where the U.S. government appears to be claiming the authority to kill anyone involved with the drug trade, without any warning or due process. That potentially includes a LOT of Americans.

This wasn’t that long ago… A reporter asking white folks in 1964 what they thought about the Civil Rights Act. And the answers are just 🤦🏽‍♂️

Here are the details and our methodology. Judge for yourself: www.propublica.org/article/immi...

This doesn’t even include the ones who had pending case but he had their charges dropped.

It’s an older anti-authoritarian slogan, but it checks out.

“World peace” and “world stability” are not at stake in Argentina’s upcoming elections.

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Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois. We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Trump in 2017: “Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.” Trump administration in 2025: We are building a Qatari Air Force facility in the United States.

What he not saying is that his friends and cronies invested a fortune in Argentina since their guy Milei won, they stand to lose a big chunk of those fortunes the way things are going, and Argentina’s elections are in two weeks and we are tampering in them to bail Milei out.

Word salad.

COMING UP: Judge Immergut has set a hearing for 10 pm ET tonight (!) on Trump's effort to circumvent her temporary restraining order re: Oregon national guard deployment by calling up the federalized California national guard.

Can Miller really believe this? If so, he is delusional. If not, then he’s a reprehensible demagogue.

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

“What happens when our leaders and the people who work for them see immigrants not as human beings but as scum? And what happens when that way of thinking about people starts also to be applied to others, like journalists and political opponents?”

Nancy Mace went on TV and told pregnant people not to take Tylenol and to take ibuprofen instead. And, I cannot stress enough, HOW STUPID THAT IS. Ibuprofen is PROVEN to cause fetal complications. Has been for years. TYLENOL HAS NOT. EVER.

NEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders. I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...

This is not normal.

That's a heckuva planning process.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Pro-life, right?

Trump posts a deranged message to Pam Bondi pressuring her to prosecute his political enemies after a U.S. attorney quit because he refused to fabricate charges: “We can’t delay any longer, it’s killing our reputation and credibility.”

You don’t need a full-blown authoritarian government acting all authoritarian if the big corporations are simply going to obey in advance.

Told my lecture class today that the New Deal's National Recovery Administration's "Blue Eagle" logo inspired the owner of the Philadelphia football team to rename the franchise as the Eagles. Voice from the back of the lecture hall: "Go Birds!"

This is the essential point. This will go nowhere. 100% of the issue with all the other media suits is that a rogue president is a huge danger to a big diversified corp which also owns a media company. They can be hit everywhere. The NYT is just the NYT. No vulnerability.

Fox News host calls for the killing of Americans.

Trump was friends with Epstein, flew on his plane, socialized with him. Yet now we want to give credence to the notion that a page in Epstein's "birthday book" was forged?

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

All kidding about this nonsense answer aside: The regime is asserting the power to murder without trial a boat full of people suspected of drug trafficking, who easily could have been intercepted and arrested instead. That is unconscionable and horrifying even assuming everyone aboard was guilty.

I miss the old brand #CDC

NEW figures show that 61,226 people are currently in ICE detention — the highest number ever in US history. According to ICE data, 70% of these people have no criminal conviction.

The very same Republicans who said it was “too soon to talk about politics” after Sandy Hook, Pulse, Parkland, Buffalo, Uvalde etc… have been blaming the trans community for the Annunciation Catholic School shooting since the second it happened.

Sorry can't stop Neo-Nazis murdering kids in Minnesota, Kash Patel sent 30 FBI agents and a dozen ATF guys to arrest a DC jaywalker last night.

The Intercollegiate Studies Institute sounds like it would be the name of a made up think tank profiled in @theonion.com

This jerk promises universal high income utopia while glorifying the destruction of global aid programs that provide basic life-giving support for impoverished communities.

Where’s the lie?