Alex Falatovich

at this point you have to acknowledge that there is no way that these guys don't try to mess with the 2026 midterms. there is absolutely no respect for the legitimacy of the opposition

I think people take for granted the ability to post freely on the internet. Our ability to do so is endangered. Social media isn't going away but the powers that be are hyper focused on making it an echo chamber

REPUBLICANS: [Committing, aiding, and abetting uncivil acts of fascism.]

LIBERALS: "You are fascists."

REPUBLICANS: "How uncivil of you to say that. Where is your civility?"

There’s just not enough attention being paid to how unqualified, psychologically unfit, and dangerous so many of these new ICE hires potentially are.

If we had a Congress, there’d be investigations & oversight into this.

“Pro-life”

If idk say a half dozen huge stars that MAGA cares about followed this lede—and you know some would like to—the scale might fall for some.

It's a lie. And completely teched.

Trump Opens the Door to Using the Insurrection Act and Pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell

Trump and Stephen Miller are gearing up to unleash the Insurrection Act in a desperate bid to consolidate power and destroy their critics.

thelefthook.substack.com/p/trump-open...

Update on Boomertifa from the war zone.

Meanwhile in south Florida

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. 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. I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation. The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.

Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker

Illinois law authorizes @govpritzker.illinois.gov to reactivate the Illinois State Guard. Normally they’re just a kind of extra reserve, but state defense forces are outside the National Guard system, they can’t be federalized.

He should do so. As he accurately put it, his state is being invaded.

The Patriots hand the Bills their first regular-season home loss since Nov. 2023 vs. Denver.

The last unbeaten team in the NFL has fallen.

Every DoJ attorney promoting and defending at this stuff should never again eat food that is less than 10% spit

If any other president said something like this in a speech to a military academy, it would be a massive scandal. Instead, it isn’t among the ten most dangerous things he’s done this week.

This is jawdropping. The idea that a state about to be invaded by out-of-state soldiers that Trump is moving around the nation like chess pieces has no standing to object to the invasion!

If any other president was 57 minutes late to an event addressing service members, there would be wall-to-wall coverage on all 3 major cable news networks addressing whether or not the president cares about the military.

“Fuck your e pluribus unum” is one hell of a hell of a sentiment to be coming from the secretary of defense of, uh, the United States of America

Dolphins Week 5 Instant Takeaways All things considered, the Miami Dolphins' performance against the Carolina Panthers might have been their worst of what is shaping up as a most forgettable 202

NEW: Instant takeaways from the #MiamiDolphins Week 5 loss against the Carolina Panthers, where a lot of the same old issues came back to bite the team in a game where they looked totally in control.
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Face the Nation anchor checks Mike Johnson’s shutdown spin in real time #TrumpShutdown

The protests are on one block. Nothing is burning down. His justification for sending in troops is all based on lies.

Abughazaleh: I think Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague. And if the response from ICE to people exercising their first amendment right is to drive vehicles through them, they should not be an agency in the US.

78%- that’s SEVENTY-EIGHT PERCENT- of voters think ACA subsidies should be extended.

59%- that’s FIFTY-NINE PERCENT- of REPUBLICANS think ACA subsidies should be extended.

But somehow Democrats should stop fighting for those subsidies & help the GOP throw voters off their healthcare.

DHS Includes White Supremacist Meme in Video Promoting Deportation Blitz A video posted on X by the Department of Homeland Security included...

DHS Includes White Supremacist Meme in Video Promoting Deportation Blitz talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-inc...

ICE writing long screeds whining about someone from Cato calling out their bullshit shows how they know they're losing the narrative here. No one likes ICE. No one trusts ICE. And they're flipping out about how weak they look.

People will destroy them, the autocratic tokens of pride.

Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...

Julius Caesar was the first Roman to put his own living face on coins, weeks before his death. It is one of the deepest cultural signifiers of something autocracies do and republics do not.

“Render unto Caesar.” A practice so notoriously arrogant Jesus himself dunked on it with snarky wordplay.

Attn Black people, stop scrolling.

This is not a drill: Chicago

A powerful message from Jessie Fuentes, an alderperson, who was detained today in a Chicago hospital for questioning ICE as they were trying to arrest a man who was being treated for a broken leg