Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror." ( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

By Jocelin Carmes

So everyone on the right so upset about the political violence of Charlie Kirk’s murder (even before we knew the facts) is going to speak out loudly and clearly about this too, right?

When the Orwellian named Dept of Homeland Security was created … MANY of us predicted that it would eventually be doing all the things that it is doing right now Pinning it uniquely on Trump really misses the point in a bunch of ways

"...the latest proof of self-destructive tariff folly." FAFO, Rupert. You break it, you buy it. He's your boy. The Coming Trump Tariff Bailout www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

"He points at polls that show diminishing support for trans rights or reproductive rights as proof that 'we' are losing the argument, but never pauses to wonder why a party would be losing an argument that it has been scared to even make."

bedazzling the back of these jean shorts to say “i farted”

And to be clear, @meidastouch.com was focusing on Texas, which is great, IMO.

It trades away political agency if your first instinct is to scream at Dems, especially when (as in this case) Dems were very much not ignoring it. There are other, far more effective levers to use to push back, which also have the benefit of targeting the right people.

People responded to news that Hegseth was attempting sic TXNG on Portland in various ways. 1) Screaming that Dems were pretending it wasn't happening which was false 2) Talking to Texans about how this is negligent 3) Addressing how this fucks over the Guard 4) Addressing Stephen Miller role

Now imagine what it would be like at the national level with know-nothings in charge of the nuclear deterrent and an economy as finely-tuned as a weather system.

Anyone remember Reform promising to go into their new councils with DOGE-style units to slash “waste” and stop taxes from rising? Yeah, it went exactly as you’d expect if you put people in charge who have no idea how anything works.

Yes please and thank you.

Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.

Wouldn't put it past them.

Honest I said someone should write a spy novel about how American adversaries could take out top NatSec people only by getting one of three right wing trolls to lie about the target on Xitter before WSJ did this story on Laura Loomer. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Laura Loomer has helpfully posted a picture of the car that CDP shot at yesterday -- they shot 5 bullets, but [???] only hit a car allegedly RIGHT NEXT TO their vehicle with two of them?

Remember that the TX NG (like any deployed from OR, CA, or IL) will not get paid during a shutdown. So, uproot them from family, home, jobs. And not pay them.

Well....

Riiiiiiight

Particularly when you're not going to pay them during the shutdown

You cannot simply walk into Oregon and Illinois with 400 Texans.

Seems like a lot of people have been guided to stare at the wrong part of the picture, like the spotlight got moved to the wrong 1%.

Welp....

Terrified Curtis Yarvin—the “philosopher behind JD Vance”—plans to flee the USA. The Dork Enlightenment guru says the Trump administration is failing to go full authoritarian. “I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.”

Sending troops from Texas to forcefully occupy and suppress cities in Illinois and Oregon IN OPPOSITION TO THOSE STATES' GOVERNORS is literally a civil war and it's cooking my brain that Democrats are simply pretending it isn't happening

SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

Intriguing plan that goes well beyond symbolism. "Trucks from the First Nation could soon be transporting food, furniture and even critical minerals south of the border along ancestral pathways once used to move buffalo hides and pemmican across the plains—without paying taxes or tariffs."

Chills…

Stanford Law graduate Eric Hamilton is DOJ here. www.justice.gov/civil/staff-...

The Washington Post is awful, just awful. Support independent pro-democracy media by subscribing to Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

This is very nearly the opposite of what happened. The Allies (mostly the Western allies, it must be said) forced denazification on the German population. Denazification was in fact wildly *un*popular with the German public, and it arguably outright failed.

But then who isn't?

He's big on animals in spaaaaaace. art by Bob Friedenberg

I am the Walrus, pen and ink by Bob Friedenberg

Live look of the GOP China hawks:

Lying smelly fascist fuck

“Goering shouted, ‘This [the Reichstag fire] is the beginning of the Communist revolution! We must not wait a minute. We will show no mercy. Every Communist official must be shot, where he is found. Every Communist deputy must this very night be strung up.’” - Rise & Fall of the Third Reich, p 139

"gave the judges, not the courts, a non-judicial function" Schrödinger's judges, they're judges but they're serving non-judicial functions outside of courts.

So the argument is that Congress giving *judges* this power ≠ Congress giving *courts* this power? Umm…

The Nazis to Argentina pipeline remains secure.

Here's what is in the Trump compact proposed to the University of Arizona. Some terms seem benign, others extreme, but the key is: If the feds decide you violated any of them, you must pay back all of your federal funding for that year. It's a sword of Damocles. tucson.com/news/local/s...

Stephen Miller’s hair got the fuck outta there first chance it got.

do vulcans masturbate

Honest question: why is *this* everyone's automatic assumption, and not that Trump is lying and doesn't care if he gets fact checked, because he just wants to get troops into major blue cities prior to 2026?

This punchable motherfucker manages to stand out in a world full of punchable motherfuckers. 😤

This feels like evidence Trump's aides are deliberately gaslighting him, which is unfortunately very easy to do with dementia sufferers (Trump did it to his father) and which aides are using to seize control of the US military for their own purposes.

"Retired General Barry McCaffrey told MSNBC that Trump’s performance in Virginia was “one of the most bizarre, unsettling events I’ve ever encountered,” and said: “The president sounded incoherent, exhausted, rabidly partisan, at times stupid, meandering, couldn’t hold a thought together.” "