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Unsurprisingly, the thing Noah Smith is saying is obviously not true. Look at reports on the reaction to the assassination of MLK... "glee, satisfaction and weeping in equal parts" (www.nytimes.com/2018/04/02/r...) as the Smithsonian notes "some actually celebrated" (nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...).
Every media outlet is fucking terrified of the potential for violence directed at them From the state
The First Amendment protects our right to record ICE officers and law enforcement in public, whether Secretary Noem likes it or not.
Here’s a story that’s becoming all too common: federal immigration agents using racial and ethnic profiling as a rationale for stopping, questioning and detaining U.S. citizens who they suspect are undocumented.
I just saw a comment that said "I don't support what happened to Charlie, but Charlie supported what happened to Charlie." THAT ... that's what I've been trying to put into words.
Just gonna drop this here tonight wapo.st/3VKVNT2
It really is so striking how much The Discourse operates untethered from…what we actually know. The killer is still at large! We have no idea who did it! Seems pretty important to get that sorted.
Opinion | Charlie Kirk's blood is on the hands of Democrats who failed to convince their Republican colleagues to support gun control.
While we're all discussing how it's wrong to murder someone, let's not forget this:
rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words
It is time for media to cover the community of tens of thousands of active and open neo-Nazis on Twitter, who publicly talk about adoring Hitler and killing Jews and minorities, who are frequently retweeted by Elon Musk, and who are currently working hard to incite mass violence.
Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Ashli Babbitt was a traitor. She was a traitor to this country. She was part of a violent mob that tried to overthrow our democracy...She didn't die protecting our country. She died trying to turn it down...She wasn't a martyr. She was and is a traitor."
I may be American, but I’ll never be the Gestapo.
there was never going to be a world in which the right didn’t claim the left was celebrating the death of charlie kirk, no matter how respectable anyone tried to be.
Maybe replacing real FBI agents with loyalists wasn't a great idea when you need the department to investigate actual crimes
When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.
getting fired from your job because some dipshit student who missed their calling in the Stasi filmed you talking about gender in a class about gender
Information environment has reached its grotesque conclusion in that there is a very real killer out there who has not been identified, apprehended, or investigated, a detail practically inconsequential to nearly every commentator’s purposes.
wrote about the “national conservative” vision for america
Kavanaugh, J., concurring. www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-tru...
"Motivated only by bad faith." Imagine if political journalists could speak this clearly!
A panicked Trump asks for protesters to be removed from a DC restaurant tonight
no one has ever been more furious
Protests against Trump erupt inside D.C. restaurant as people chant to his face: “FREE D.C.! FREE PALESTINE! TRUMP IS THE H*TLER OF OUR TIME!” (via Sam Waldenberg / CNN)
This is incredibly silly. Of course he did. What even is the alternate theory of the case? You're not obligated to treat it as some kind of seriously open question just because Trump denies it.
The Supreme Court majority moves as fast or as slow as it wants in order to achieve its political goals.
Today’s attack in Doha shows the Israeli govt once again violating international law even as they continue to starve the Palestinian people. This is exactly why I support the Block the Bombs Act to stop supplying Israel with weapons to enable this.
"Well we didn't physically watch him write it so who could possibly know what the truth is" is some real googoo gaga baby bullshit
The most beautiful sentence in the English language: Agents drove away on four flat tires.
The new John Roberts portrait just dropped
This looks so good. A close look at how district judges are learning from each other in the Trump era. Bower is doing essential legal journalism.
Exactly. Conservative attacked critical race theorists not because said theorists were wrong but because their scholarship showed exactly how racist and classist the Court has tended.
this needs to be a bigger story — RFK is rushing to appoint SEVEN more anti-vaccine extremists to his phony vaccine panel so it’s packed with quacks. my read? he’s panicking and accelerating his plans to take away all of our vaccines. free to read: wapo.st/3JStzDh
Right, rather than try to shame Republicans for their complicity here, Democrats should simply state -- loudly and repeatedly -- that the Republican Party clearly shields pedophiles. They'll howl about it, but all of their actions to this point leave no other conclusion.
Oh no not this, I am going to have to take off my Bill Clinton Hat and return all of my Bill Clinton Coin and stop reading my Bill Clinton Bible
Okay at this point you have to ask yourself “If I was actively collaborating with Trump to make sure he stayed in power while pretending to be in opposition, what would I do differently”
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The authorization of racial profiling from the Supreme Court.
Seeing folks poo-pooing saying this as meaningless in a context where fascists hold the power. It is not. Legitimacy matters. It's the mortar that papers over the cracks in the state's edifice. It matters that you tell your friends that this is illegitimate. Cumulatively it will matter.
The US constitution does not allow US citizens to be rounded up on the basis of apparent race or ethnicity and require them to carry papers to prove their citizenship. Any supreme court that claims it does is illegitimate.
Very harsh statement about SCOTUS ruling today from @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, and appropriately so:
Here's a scenario that someone should ask RFK Jr. about: an under-65 person with no major health conditions who is providing some in-person support for an older family member undergoing treatments that weaken the immune system. Can that person get a COVID shot? It's me, and I can't.
The stadium Trump is in is named after Arthur Ashe, the tennis legend. What many people today probably don't know is that Ashe was literally arrested in front of the White House in 1992 for protesting the George H.W. Bush administration's treatment of Haitian refugees. www.upi.com/Archives/199...
The Department of Homeland Security cowardly pushed people around at the Portland protest.
You push back and resist. You let them know that if you try it you’re gonna go through some things. Watch them blink.
that’s a lot of fancy words to call him a dumb bitch
A RW reporter goaded the President to do it, as a flex.
“.. Notably, the poll shows U.S. adults expressing strong, bipartisan support for vaccines .. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Here's a clip from one of today's arrests without the captive's face or info in it. After forcing people back, the ICE agent with the gold Trump pin says to them: "keep America safe, guys, back up, keep America safe!" ("Shut the fuck up!" in response.)
U.S. policy decisions made by the Administration are degrading our economy and our national security.
Ah, this was Yamiche Alcindor — a Black woman of Haitian heritage? I’d been wondering and should have guessed, because Trump’s hatreds are as predictable as the sunrise.
Donald Trump being booed at the US Open Men's Tennis Final (better audio version)
Trying to outclap the boos is funny
When the bus costs less
This thread will inspire you
All of the things that Klein says have changed since March -- SCOTUS not imposing checks on Trump, DOGE burning out, the markets making peace with Trump, Trump entering the "authoritarian consolidation stage of his presidency" -- were predictable *and predicted* in March by the folks urging a fight.
when team no fight / centrist dems lose Ezra Klein ….
Question: Why are many people under the impression that Trump and the awful things he’s doing are popular, even though they’re not? Answer: America is still a mostly free country where dissent against Trump’s dictatorial ambitions is widespread, but media keeps making it appear as if it’s not.
Pure racism. No other way to explain this.
TAPPER: Is President Trump planning to go to war in Chicago? HOMAN: It's being taken out of context (Trump's post literally said "Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR")
Nothing says, "Hey international companies, bring your manufacturing to the US" like arresting 475 workers at a Hyundai (70% of whom are South Korean).
New ads going up across Washington, D.C.
Tom Homan remains an absolute bitch @marisakabas.bsky.social
Too many people with too much power are literally waiting for The New York Times to tell them whether to “really” worry.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is a famously independent, nonpartisan office that publishes objective data and guards their independence fiercely. Trump fired Erika McEntarfer for not cooking the employment numbers to make him look better. He’s sending a signal to the rest of the government.
i do wonder at what point this ratcheting of rhetoric about the democratic party ends up having real life effects
It's incredibly weird that folks have convinced themselves that the Covid vaccines - which had an ~82^% take up rate - were unpopular.
My eyebrows are having an out of body moment. ▪️Appeasement | the act of giving the opposing side in an argument or war an advantage that they have demanded, in order to prevent further disagreement : A policy of appeasement is counterproductive with dictators.
a friend and I went downtown this evening to scream in the streets with thousands of our neighbors. @theonion.com was also at the protest this evening and they were pulling no punches
I’m in awe of this woman and others enacting civil disobedience in the face of an unjust law. A good reminder that the law is a social fact, not inherently good or bad.
Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.
RFK Jr. was confirmed with zero Dem votes. You can take your “both sides” nonsense and shove it.
Statement from the LA Holocaust Museum on IG: "Our power is in our shared humanity. #neveragain #sharedhumanity" Thank you for sharing this ❤️🩹 1/3
Happening now: a large protest is coalescing in Chicago's Congress Plaza against the Trump admin's plans to conduct a month+ long immigration blitz in (and, per Trump's Truth Social post earlier today, implicitly threaten to sic the Department of War on) the Chicagoland area.
Can’t express in words how big this rally in Chicago is. The president’s fascist goon squad is not welcome here.
Immigrants are a social good, anti-immigrant propaganda is basically all lies, and any approach to the "problem" that doesn't start form those two points is worthless
i like that the administration is run by dilettantes whose pathological unseriousness is illustrated by their total disregard for human life
I didn't see anything that could be described as him "reeling" or a blow to Judge Young's reputation. I'm grateful for the work that he is doing and his colleagues seem to agree. He spoke plainly on the NIH cuts being driven by bigotry and I hope that his work inspires others to do the same.
Many official communications channels of the US government are controlled by people who celebrate the Nazi party and the response of our elite news and political institutions has been to look the other way and not say anything about it.
Congress is about to vote on a bill that would impose extreme prison sentences on teenagers, people seeking asylum, and families trying to reunite with each other — not for violent conduct, but because of how they tried to enter the U.S. Tell Congress: Vote NO on life sentences for immigrants.
Thousands of people marched in DC today to send the message: Our communities deserve to be safe and free from armed federal agents and troops.
Washington, D.C.
Fort Bliss is a prime example of how our government has treated immigrants with cruelty throughout history. Once used to intern people of Japanese descent during World War II, this military base is now running the largest immigrant detention center in the country.
Law students: Before interviewing or accepting a summer job, you should absolutely consider which law firms align with your professional values—and which ones don’t.
I'm in Michigan. My personal experience was being told that I could not get the covid vaccine this year from my local Walgreens pharmacist. I did not press the issue. I think if I would have just said I'm in the group that should get it they might have just given me one no questions asked.
At a time when the BLS is being strong armed into making gooder numbers? No one in recent times has been expressed such open contempt for reality than RFK Jr, Vought, and the rest.
Another example of civil society censoring itself, creating a simulacrum of normality when things are not normal
This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law. May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.
i'm kind of with will here. one of the *strangest* features of this age is that nominally liberal elites seem totally enervated in the face of fascism--meanwhile the liberal base is screaming our heads off. this doesn't comport at all with the standard story--
The court ruling is simple: sending the National Guard to Los Angeles—and possibly Chicago—is illegal. This isn’t about safety; it’s an authoritarian power grab. I stood with colleagues and the ACLU to make it clear that we will not stand for this.
NEW: The anti-Trump protest happening right now on the streets of Washington DC is HUGE! It looks like tens of thousands have joined. This is the view from 16th Street - people stretching as far as the eye can see 👏
If we cannot all be on the same page that the sitting president threatening to invade a US city is fascist dictator shit then truly I do not know what to do.
The Onion News Network truck is currently stationed outside the Broadview ICE Detention facility just outside of Chicago.
