Jeremy Pressman

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

Mike Johnson. John Thune. Susan Collins. Lisa Murkowski. Total free passes. The GOP, as a political party, & the leaders in charge of Congress, amidst unprecedented corruption & fascist lawbreaking, don't even exist to the people on the NYT op-ed page. They literally are not actors in 🇺🇸 politics.

As always, there are zero demands, expectations, or criticisms of the far right authoritarians. Only Democrats/The Left/Those Liberal Academics Must (Not) Do Things. No one else has agency in 🇺🇸 politics, least of all the party/people overseeing the worst Article I constitutional crisis in history.

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

That sounds like some system I've heard about before.

“Despite the university requiring students to undergo the training, the Trump administration still cut $790m in research funding.”

This is a declaration of war against United States citizens

What a hellhole! What can we do to help? Do we need to organize an evacuation?

So much has gone wrong in US press reporting on Trump because the White House reporters are people who have exclusively covered US politics.

They need people who have worked in Hungary, Turkey, etc. The relevant knowledge isn't Reagan factoids; it's the dynamics of competitive authoritarianism.

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

Hollywood farmers market

Your war correspondent on the ground in battle-ravaged inner northeast Portland

Remember folks, when the ICC seeks to prosecute Israeli officials for atrocities in Gaza, that is “lawfare.”

When the U.S. President personally forces his handpicked US attorney to prosecute his political foe, that is “justice.”

Share, share, share!

in the face of all this, amazing people - lawyers, activists, citizens - are stepping up with lawsuits, protest, speaking out.

we will need more - especially an existential-level commitment from political and corporate leaders to see the moment for what it is and lead/act accordingly.

Justice Dept. Official Pushes Prosecutors to Investigate George Soros’s Foundation

so many levels to condemn this out-of-control abuse of power:

- the antisemitism of the anti-Soros agenda

- its roots in authoritarian repression of democracy support, esp by Putin and Orban

- trump's targeting of perceived political enemies by a weaponized DoJ.

and that's just a start.

Ohio Chaplain Freed From Jail as DHS Drops Deportation Case “This is beyond my dreams,” Ayman Soliman told ProPublica on his release from an Ohio jail. In a case marked by errors and inconsistencies, DHS had accused the children’s hospital chaplain of…

Children's hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman, whose detention sparked a community uproar and became a test of counterterrorism powers in immigration court, was released from an Ohio jail Friday as DHS abruptly withdrew its case against him.

“This is beyond my dreams,” he told ProPublica.

I can't imagine any other country repeatedly killing US citizens with US weapons, with zero repercussions.

Why recognize the State of Palestine?

Isn't it pointless?

Mere symbolism?

Isn't the two-state solution an illusion?

Or even a trap?

Whatever your view, take a minute to read this speech by Palestine's Deputy Ambassador to the UN from June 30.

digitallibrary.un.org/record/40861...

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries.

When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom.

I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.

As we watch an administration that wishes to use state power to silence opposition and criticism, we need a vocabulary that can describe their project. Not in negative terms, as what they wish to destroy, but in positive terms, of what they want to build.

Here is my attempt at that vocabulary:

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political survival is a powerful drug.

The Top 10 Trump Administration Foreign-Policy Mistakes So far.

I made a list of Trump’s foreign policy blunders. I stopped at 10, but I’m sure he won’t. You can read it here: foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/10/t...

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.

Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

This is wild, the Reuters reporting implies all the claims are completely fabricated.

Would be interested in the US State Department’s response to this report.

Would it be:

1) Israel is not engaged in ethnic cleansing.

Or

2) Ethnic cleansing is good actually.

Today, we pause to remember the lives lost on September 11, 2001, and honor first responders who run into harms way when everyone is running out. May we carry forward their legacy by fighting for a safer, more secure, more united New Mexico and nation.