Ted Perlmutter

Trump plans to close Kennedy Center for about two years, starting in July Under a proposal by President Donald Trump, the closure could begin July 4, with construction beginning immediately.

Everything Trump Touches Dies #ETTD

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#ETTD
Everything
Trump
Touches
Dies

Or a simple #ETTD

Editorial cartoon from chappatte.com/en

HORRIFIC: the Trump admin is reportedly planning to dump hundreds of parents and children arrested in the interior (including Minneapolis) into extraordinarily dangerous Mexican border towns, and make them run a gauntlet of kidnappers if they want kangaroo court hearings.

This rejection is as good a sign as any that this board is just another Trump vanity project, perhaps in compensation for his not getting a Nobel Prize.

Column | Trump dominated Davos. But Canada’s Carney was the star. Carney delivered an address that squarely confronted the world wrought by Trump’s presidency. Davos’s attendees — including Trump — took notice.

A British executive who managed to grab a seat later told me he wanted to be in the room, “if only because seeing Trump in the wild is like a zoological experience.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Good Carnegie Endowment story worth reading--governments are increasingly willing to bear the costs of internet shutdowns if they see immediate payoffs.

ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.

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Brutal poll showing how fleeting Trump's progress was with young and minority voters. Worse than where he started from.

consistency is the hobglobin?

The urgency of political hope — CfTC What good is hope in a time led by charlatans and monsters?  In our present moment, forces aligned toward extraction, opportunism, oppression, and violence seem to have gained momentum over our ...

On #MLKDay, we remember Mariam Kaba's call that "hope is a discipline."

Our new zine explores how creators sustain political hope through expression and community.

It asks: What gives you political hope right now?

Read it here: www.transformationalchange.co/news-stories...

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.

You could be next.

Another example of DOL anti-globalism

Why the Department of Labor? I know that they have been picking up on a lot of the anti-globalist language, but it seems like an odd place for Qanon sympathy.

QAnon community declares vindication as Trump’s Labor Department pens multiple posts echoing QAnon phrases

The Labor Department in recent days has done multiple posts echoing QAnon phrases. QAnon influencers in response have declared vindication.

One of them wrote the department "is Q posting. … This is not debatable now. If you like it, cool. If you don’t like it, too bad. It’s happening."

My latest:

Imperial dining

Not an expert, but I never believed the slave control argument. Obviously oversimplified.

Some men dream things that never were and ask why not?
RFK (the real one)

NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all - no prior convictions (no matter how minor) and no pending criminal charges.

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

yellow warning sign indicating danger of ICE shooting into a car

Heavy Weather

The Trump administration’s brazen military assault risks causing a new human rights disaster for Venezuelans.

The US appears poised to actively encourage Venezuela to maintain Nicolás Maduro’s repressive apparatus as long as it furthers US interests.

Trump’s ‘High-Fear’ World Not long after I first moved to Washington, D.C. more than 25...

Trump’s ‘High-Fear’ World talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...

Have a link or any expanded source for coverage.

What we don't need is violent protests in response, as that will just legitimate ICE escalation.

Trump has PTSD from impeachment efforts.
Dems have better things to do.

When will he admit the same about anti-fascist?

At least his unlawful belligerence is consistent.