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Rewarding a dictator-aggressor always leads to another war. One that is usually even worse.

A tweet from “Adam Mockler @adammockler” reads: “Stephen Miller just went on Fox News and said telling troops to refuse illegal orders is an ‘open act of insurrection.’ He is telling on himself. They are planning to give illegal orders, and they want a military that will follow them blindly.”

This young man has it exactly right.

Cue red-hatted Pikachu faces when the MAGAts are owned right along with us.

We have to be the consequences.

Secretive Border Patrol program is detaining US citizens for ‘suspicious’ travel The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.

Dear White Men,
Welcome to the surveillance state. Your gender and skin color are no longer enough to protect you from illegal detention:
apnews.com/video/secret...

The Honduran-born Charlotte resident filed a police report after the officers let him go.

Racial profiling, no warrant, no due process; but what else can one expect from a regime committing extrajudicial murder on the high seas?

Trump's gotta go.

Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.

Don’t argue with strangers… and 11 more rules to survive the information crisis Feeling overwhelmed by divisive opinions, endless rows and unreliable facts? Here’s how to weather the data storm

"We are not surrounded by cretinous, vicious imbeciles but mostly by careful, thoughtful people who may disagree with us but usually have good reasons for doing so."

Fascinating & wise piece from @naomialderman.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

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What a photograph.

“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”

Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

No, don’t arm it!!!

Anyone who grew up in a fundamentalist household and made the painful journey out knows exactly what kind of sanctimonious asshole Mike Johnson is

The majority is on the side of progress. Don't let despair become your mindset.

Faith leaders and peaceful protesters are being subjected to violence and abuse, including the violent arrest of at least one priest by Illinois State Police, Broadview Police Department, and Cook County Sheriffs at the Broadview ICE Detention Center. (November 14, 2025)

On November 14, 2025, in Evanston, Illinois, disturbing video footage emerged showing Border Patrol Goons attempting to flee the scene of an accident. In their escape, they resorted to pepper-spraying witnesses, instilling fear and intimidation in the community that resides just outside Chicago.

If they win, Democrats will have to use their newfound authority to rethink, even dismantle, agencies like U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They may need to walk back the Bush-era decision to consolidate those agencies and others under a single department, given the wild abuses perpetrated under this administration and its predecessors. It will need to give serious thought to major political and social reform, including D.C. statehood, a federal ban on partisan gerrymandering, a new voting rights act and federal protections for reproductive rights and bodily autonomy, including the rights of gender and sexual minorities. Democrats will also need to embrace the legislature’s constitutional authority to structure the executive branch and the judiciary, up to and including Supreme Court reform. If they win next year, Democrats will need to treat the next Congress not as a return to the status quo ante but as the beginning of a new era in which the principal task is to roll back the president’s effort to create and consolidate a personalist dictatorship. They’ll need to fortify the American political system against future attempts to play dictator and lay out a project of genuine democratic renewal. None of this is possible without a willingness to use power rather than just hold it. What we’ve seen this week is that there are still too many Democrats whose instinct is to retreat to normalcy rather than face the conflict at hand.

Jamelle was cooking.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

Count the ways they’re corrupting DOJ: Presidents don’t direct AG’s to open criminal cases, especially ones designating only Dems for investigation when POTUS himself is involved. DOJ doesn’t publicize criminal investigations & the AG definitely doesn’t assign them on Twitter.

In Kenner, Louisiana, ICE and DEA GOONS violently abducted a woman from a Walmart parking lot. You can hear her child screaming as the GOONS beat her. 11/13/25

Official U.S. Government account refers to its citizens as "imbecilic morons".

Washington Cities Question Use of License Plate Readers Citing Federal Overreach » The Urbanist # A recent University of Washington report on data security issues with automatic license plate readers has been creating waves among law enforcement agencies using the technology, including Lynnwood,...

A recent UW report on data security issues with automatic license plate readers has been creating waves among law enforcement agencies using the technology, including Lynnwood, Redmond, and Stanwood. Other cities remain committed, despite the risks.

Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/13/w...

Montana Has an Ambitious Plan to End Dark Money in Elections Polls suggest 74 percent of voters in the state will back a ballot initiative to counter the effects of Citizens United.

Well, I hope Montanan voters get it, at least.

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For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.

Burns: The Old Testament says there’s nothing new under the sun. On July 4th, 1776, there was. Everybody up to that point had been under authoritarian rule. It was in the interests of their rulers that they be uneducated, that they be superstitious, that they be distracted by conspiracies…

“Unyielding support” from the Fanta Felon just sounds oppressive.

“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...

"300 agents stormed the building, rappelled from a helicopter, knocked down doors and hurled flash-bang grenades. Agents ziptied and detained many US citizens for hours..."

Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night:

www.propublica.org/article/chic...

On days like today I like to recall some wise advice: hope is not a fleeting emotion, it is a discipline.

It’ll be there after U.S.-ian’s take their country back. A little discipline goes a long way!

When did pedophilia become a partisan issue?

The American people deserve to know the full truth about Jeffrey Epstein and every powerful person who enabled him.

Every name. Every flight log. Every cover up. All of it.