Brian McCarthy

Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present Karma?

Is there ever going to be an interviewer who pushes back and tells him that immigrants seeking asylum is different than insane asylums?

ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago for Halloween—and Parents Are Fighting Back Fear and a whiff of tear gas hang over festivities this year. In response, even people who aren’t usually politically engaged are mobilizing.

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Eminem must not care much for the Orange Turd in DC

“They can only win when we don’t all stick together.”

Fear is contagious, but so is COURAGE.

NO THRONES.
NO CROWNS.
NO KINGS.

🗓️October 18
📍Everywhere

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

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Chicago-area children get deportation letters: Leave or ‘the federal government will find you’ Immigration advocates warn that a growing number of children are now receiving letters from DHS ending their humanitarian parole.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/20/t...

Calm down, folks, it was just an attempted assassination of a Jewish Democratic governor and his family on the first night of Passover, it’s not like somebody spray painted a dick on a Cybertruck.

Trump Has a Screw Loose About Tariffs Trade barriers will make U.S. goods more expensive to produce, costlier to buy, and inferior to the foreign competition.

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Trump Tariffs Hit Antarctic Islands Inhabited by Zero Humans and Many Penguins The Heard and McDonald Islands are among the dozens of targets of President Donald Trump's latest round of tariffs. But they have no exports, because no one lives there.

Oh, and one final note...

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The British got to vote on Brexit. They decided to punch themselves in the face, but at least they got to decide.

Here in America, we have one guy deciding that we're all going to punch ourselves in the face.

This is a good example of the cartoonish idiocy (and cruelty) of the Trump tariffs *relative to their own stated purpose.*

(Note that the actual tariff rate on imports from Madagascar is 47 percent, which is still one of the highest for any country.)

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Fact-check of Trump’s tariff speech finds some doozies. Why tariffs? Speech suggests they could replace income tax, benefiting wealthy over lower income Americans. When a choice makes no apparent sense, it’s usually about $$$.

Yes but tariffs are not a tool of econ policy to reduce the deficit at the expense of the economy. They are a fascist tool—in line with bullying universities and law firms and deporting protesters—to compel fealty from business by forcing companies to beg for exceptions. See the bigger picture!

The Good News About Trump’s Tariffs Authoritarian leaders are most dangerous when they’re popular. Wrecking the economy is unlikely to broaden Trump’s support.

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Vance’s posturing in Greenland was not just morally wrong. It was strategically disastrous | Timothy Snyder Thanks to Trump’s administration, the US could soon have to fight wars to get things that, just a few weeks ago, were there for the asking, says professor Timothy Snyder of Yale University

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It is absolutely right that we do not need Greenland (or Canada) for natsec reasons because they are already close NATO allies. So the only rationale to turn the US into an aggressor in our own hemisphere is if you don’t plan on NATO being a US alliance in the future.

Where Jeff Bezos Went Wrong With The Washington Post The billionaire handled his ownership admirably for more than a decade. But his courage failed him when he needed it most.

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Meanwhile in Canada...

DOGE Is Courting Catastrophic Risk Musk has turned a dangerously flawed view of “waste” into a philosophy of government.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Trump Is Offering Putin Another Munich Hitler didn’t want a peace deal, and neither does Putin.

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Let's not forget - three decades ago, after the Soviet Union fell, Ukraine was the world's third largest nuclear power. Russia, France, the UK, and the US signed a memorandum with Ukraine assuring its security for acceding nuclear weapons. Russia violated that agreement in 2014. And again in 2022.

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

Jane Fonda: Woke just means you give a damn about other people!