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Biden wasn’t president yet. These folks aren’t too bright

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Meanwhile, my older one starts to bang on the door of his sister’s room and say “It’s ICE, open the door!”

Boy it hurts. Worse, it’s a woman.

Resist.

Socialism is the new TikTok in America

We are all Chicagoans.

The Dude still abides. I don’t know about you, but I take comfort in that.

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

As alarmed as people may be, they aren't alarmed enough. Trump just escalated this crisis from a fight between the federal government and a state, to a situation where one state is deploying armed forces to impose its will on another state. www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

Korea practices liberal democracy properly, putting certain countries to shame. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Will stay on grid, just in case.

Learn about the secret scheme behind this cartoon for @economist.com Economist. Kaltoons.substack.com

#Hegseth #military #woke #cartoon #satire

America is becoming more like China than Hong Kong did. Back in 2019-2020, the HK app for tracking police did not get taken down until Beijing imposed the National Security Law on the city.

"The salaries of the president and members of Congress are constitutionally protected and paid from a permanent appropriation that is not affected by a government shutdown." What?!

Expect Google Map to soon disable "There's police ahead" notifications.

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On @cnn.com Situation Room with Pamela Brown discussing yesterday's lecture to flag and general officers at Quantico. youtu.be/l_pDbf5UcTk

Disgraceful and dangerous incitement by the President and Secretary; reassuring to see the disciplined professionalism of our military leaders amidst it.

Trump and Hegseth Are Wrong: The US Military Is Lethal as Ever In an oddly mismatched pair of speeches, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and President Donald Trump lectured 800 of the US military’s most senior officers and enlisted leaders at the sprawling Marin...

My latest in @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

No Kings As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

I talked this week with Chris Hayes and Anand Giradahadras, highlight was Chris mentioning No Kings protests on October 18th. Free speech is action not spectacle. Please join in.
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You know who else doesn't like Soros? China. Russia. Belarus. Hungary.

Not just a high stakes position. Before I started as a junior DOJ attorney, a mentor told me to prewrite my resignation letter and put it in my desk drawer. I never had to use but it’s advice I’ve given ever since to my own students.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Today we are all James Comey.

A Made-in-China plan for world domination Donald Trump is failing to stop China’s rise as a manufacturing superpower

China now accounts for 30% of all global manufacturing, or more than America, Germany, Japan and South Korea put together. A record surge of exports is alarming foreign rivals and governments. My column, The Telegram, on the juggernaut Trump can’t stop economist.com/internationa...

Is China panicking yet that western countries can recognize statehood seemingly suddenly like that?

Some hard truths about just how fast things are going to Hell here in America from @edwardluce.bsky.social...and some more about how much worse it could get in the months ahead. Well worth your time.

America’s accelerating exit from itself [FREE TO READ] After the Kirk murder, Trump is pulverising the country’s founding principles with astonishing ease

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Trump aide Homan accepted $50,000 in bribery sting operation, sources say In the alleged scheme, Homan promised immigration-related government contracts when he joined the Trump administration in exchange for the money.

“The target repeatedly brought up Homan, saying he was collecting bribes in exchange for future government contracts, the two sources told Reuters.”

America is quickly converging with the "global south."

Charlie Kirk is Trump's Reichstag fire.