Frank A. Stengel

“Every time we have been attacked with pepper bullets or tear gas or pepper spray that I have been present, it has felt like it came from anger that we were there, and not from any determined safety need or protocol,” said Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist pastor. “They are unhinged.”

Another question Bondi didn't answer.

Then let's by all means kill it.

Tweet by Eric Swalwell saying that House Republicans will abandon Trump over Epstein

I believe it when I see it. At this point I don't think Republicans will abandon Trump over anything.

This is an Epstein shutdown

Manchildren

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

I think that's a very healthy attitude.

Critical Alternatives for World Politics (CAWP) The Critical Alternatives for World Politics (CAWP) Working Group aims to foster a welcoming space for experimental, creative, and non-mainstream research and researchers at the margins of Internation...

Pals! @nataliejester.bsky.social and @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social have launched the BISA Critical Alternatives for World Politics Working Group.

CAWP is an experimental, creative research space for IR. learn more here www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...; here @cawpbisa.bsky.social and twitter at @cawpbisa

Okay, I'm gonna stop here. Enjoy your parallel universe.

It's like with RFK Jr and vaccines. If RFK Jr thinks vaccines are unsafe that doesn't mean they actually are unsafe because RFK Jr is a lunatic who doesn't know anything about anything.

That's because some MAGA conspiracy nuts rated it badly.

Nah, man, trustpilot is not a good source to base a rating of a news organization on.

ProPublica, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal (not the editorial page)

NO KINGS Bremen GERMANY! · No Kings **TIMES ARE EXPRESSED IN LOCAL TIMES, NOT EDT. The rally will begin at 13 Uhr CEST in Bremen, Germany. We will meet at the Heinrich Heine Statue, which is in the park behind the Kunsthalle. Die Zeite...

There's also a #NoKings protest in Bremen, Germany, on October 18th, for those who are in the area.

Want to join me for this No Kings event? mobilize.us/s/YzwLFj

10 days until the biggest peaceful protests in modern American history. A No Kings Day event is likely happening near you wherever you are. Please join us to show we won’t cower in response to Trump’s authoritarian takeover: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

#WarRavagedPortland

Personalchaos bei rechtskonservativer Kleinstpartei : Hans-Georg Maaßen verlässt die Werteunion Seit Monaten tobt in der Kleinpartei Werteunion ein Machtkampf. Der bisherige Parteichef Maaßen sprach zuletzt von einem Putsch. Nun macht er seinen angekündigten Austritt wahr.

The #farright #AfD is polling ~25%, far above anything seen in German post-war history. Meanwhile, some reporters get very excited about the "Value Union", a tiny outfit with no seats and no prospects at any level, where a former AfD leader & former top spy vie for control of the party

Once again, I’m wondering why Democrats aren’t running with a straightforward message of “despotism is un-American and unaffordable” right now and all the way into the midterms.

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

Thugs

Benny Johnson « @bennyjohnson X.com BREAKING: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem stares down army of Antifa and a guy in a chicken suit from the rooftop of the ICE facility here in Portland. Noem says: "Hey; Guy in the chicken suit. You can do better. Too bad they are uneducated and ill-informed." Noem isn't chicken: [chicken emoji]

A view from the roof of the building. There are about 15-20 people visible in total, several of whom appear to be reporters. Most are holding signs. They aren’t even taking up the whole sidewalk. One guy is wearing a chicken suit.

This made me laugh so hard. Second screenshot is of the video posted by Benny Johnson of the event.

Die Abstimmung für den Hamburger #Zukunftsentscheid für Klimaschutz geht in die heiße Phase und die #Wissenschaft zeigt klare Kante - mit einem offenen Brief, den schon über 70 Hamburger Wissenschaftler*innen unterzeichnet haben.

‼️ Briefwahl ist heute noch möglich, Abstimmung vor Ort bis Sonntag.

Wirtschaftspolitik ohne Verstand: Lockert die Steuerbremse! Es soll ein „Herbst der Reformen“ werden, kündigen Union und SPD lautstark an. Angesichts der ernüchternden Realität einer Finanzierungslücke von 172 Mrd. Euro, die im Bundeshaushalt zwischen den…

Nicht die Schuldenbremse, die Steuerbremse bildet das umfassende Hindernis für sozialen und demokratischen, ökonomischen und ökologischen Fortschritt, so Axel Stommel: www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...

Bari Weiss is a weird and worrisome choice as top editor for CBS News | Margaret Sullivan When Weiss was named editor-in-chief, it was the latest turn in the network’s confounding departure from its roots

Bari Weiss is a weird and worrisome choice as top editor for CBS News | Margaret Sullivan

America's Teetering Democracy: Trump's Thought Police Hit Their Stride The murder of Charlie Kirk has fanned the flames of the Trump administration's lust for thought control. The hunt for his enemies and dissenters, long since begun, has entered a new and dangerous phas...

Here's more good reporting by Jörg Schindler.
I'm speaking at @medientage-mtm.bsky.social soon and I'll beg German editors to translate their collected reporting for the benefit of America--and American journalists. 2/
Trump's Thought Police Hit Their Stride
www.spiegel.de/internationa...

Trump's Crusaders: Christian Nationalists Are Gaining a Solid Foothold in Washington U.S. President Donald Trump has opened the doors of power to far-right Christian nationalists. Their goal: an American theocracy. The separation of church and state in America is at risk.

I begged @spiegel.de to translate Jörg Schindler's excellent reporting on America's fall into theocracy and they did. As I keep saying, German journalists are doing a better job covering America's fall than American journalists. 1/
www.spiegel.de/internationa...

The First Amendment explicitly guarantees:

-the right of the people peaceably to assemble
-to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
-the free exercise of religion
-freedom of speech

If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.

Strategic Studies, Copenhagen School, Feminist Security Studies