MarkM

Pope Leo calls on journalists to report facts and expose disinformation.
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Unlike Trump, I don't care if someone likes me or not. That will never change the fact that I'm going to fight for them to have health care.

I want MAGA to have health care. I want MAGA to be paid a living wage.

All of this, in violation of the Constitution.

ICE Is Cracking Down on Chicago. Some Chicagoans Are Fighting Back. Residents have begun forming volunteer groups to monitor their neighborhoods for federal immigration agents. Others honk their horns or blow whistles when they see agents nearby.

As the intensity of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has risen, residents of Chicago are increasingly pushing back. Federal agents repeatedly have been observed releasing smoke bombs, tear gas and pepper balls to disperse residents who gather or capture videos.

Chicago today

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

The hush money payoff to Stormy Daniels cost more than house Leticia James bought for her grand niece.

Regrettably relevant research today

Disguised Repression: Targeting Opponents with Nonpolitical Crimes to Undermine Dissent
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Atlanta has two counties (Fulton and Gwinnett) that have bigger populations than South Dakota and two counties (Cobb and Dekalb) that are almost as large as South Dakota.

The tyranny of the minority (Senate R's) is going to get so much worse.

People need to stop voting poorly!

Republicans have had 15 years to come up with an Obamacare replacement plan. They still haven’t

the so-called constitutional conservatives are no different from the 'fiscal conservatives' ... they don't exist.

Great picture ... reminds me that it is usually best for Schumer not to speak.

"Republicans in the Senate are trying to rewrite history to make Jack Smith the bad guy and Donald Trump the innocent victim. It's complete bullshit and the article explains why. So I hope you'll read it."

Read it from @saletan.bsky.social in today's Morning Shots www.thebulwark.com/p/bondi-host...

Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Mike Johnson is holding Congress out of session for two reasons: number one, so that way there are no negotiations; and number two, to cover for all the pedophiles on Epstein's list...They're covering for pedophiles and dropping your healthcare coverage."

Tariff exemptions on iPhones come at a price.

If the Republicans in congress weren't okay with these caustic, evasive responses from Bondi, it would be stopped.

But apparently, this is not troubling to those in control of the house, the senate, and the administration.

I sympathize a little with the willful obtuseness of editorial on this point, because it really is untenable (for democracy as much as their bottom line) to have half the country not trusting legitimate news. But there's no amount of lowered standards for op-eds that's going to fix it.

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

Yes, very weird. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Ah yes, you see, the problem was Biden.

Look, I have my criticisms of Obamacare. But you can't say this stuff for 10 years now and, whenever you're asked what your concrete alternative is, keep saying "oh, we'll announce that two weeks from now, and you'll really love it". Either you have a plan or you don't. (They don't).

Hillary Clinton referred to SOME Trump supporters as”deplorable,” and the political media had a meltdown. Trump refers to all Democrats as anti-American radical communists and “the enemy within,” and it’s no big deal. His reckless and dangerous demonization has been fully normalized.

In the CR cloture vote yesterday, 3 Dems voted to keep govt open:
Fetterman (as expected)
Cortez-Masto
King

Paul voted w/Dems against.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...

“It’s a war from within.” Trump prepares the generals for what comes next.

Focusing on the ridiculous veneer is a mistake because the substance of Trump's speech was as serious as a heart attack. The entire senior leadership of America’s military has been put on notice.
www.thebulwark.com/p/its-a-war-...

The endgame for all of this is constructing a military that will obey orders when ordered to fire on citizens. That's the throughline to half of what Trump is doing.