Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

It's -20 in Minneapolis and organizers are in the streets before dawn getting ready for actions related to the general strike. They've had locals training out-of-town volunteers on how to prepare for and endure the cold. AND IT IS WORKING. THE STRIKE IS HAPPENING. THE CITY IS DOING THE DAMN THING...

ICE Making List of Anyone Who Films Them “We have a nice little database and now you’re considered a domestic terrorist.”

🚨 ICE is creating a watchlist of anyone and everyone who films them, DHS sources tell me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-making...

Nobody should diminish the unique enormity of Hitler’s crimes. But it should worry us—and it should worry Europe—that Trump has been taking on more and more of the behaviors that define a fascist. lnk.thebulwark.com/4baY5UD

If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it?

[Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

Russia is invading Europe and the president of the United States is ranting about the danger that "windmills" pose to the Western World.

COLLINS: Did it stand out to you that he said Iceland multiple times when he was talking about Greenland?


NEWSOM: And that every time a windmill turns it costs $1,000. A lot of stuff stands out. None of this is normal. There's a deviancy of consciousness. He's graded off the curve.

Today is the most humiliating day in the history of the United States of America.

At least until tomorrow.

After soldiers from NATO countries died in America's wars, "for the president of the United States to stand up there and say, oh, I don't think that you would come and help us if we needed it....What must the world think of us?" @jvl.bsky.social on Trump's Davos speech:

Political and business leaders at Davos must speak out against what is occurring in the United States. If there were ever a time for world leadership, it is now. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/jamies-choice

Ellison: This is the essence of dictatorship. It’s the essence of it. And we’ve got to get over the idea that this couldn’t happen here. Not only could it happen here—it’s happening here.

MLK Jr. said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

Remember this.

Trump Is Making China Great Again America’s friends and trading partners are running into the arms of our adversaries. What a mess.

Trump is making unlikely things happen between other countries - because all of them increasingly understand that they need to move on without America.

If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status.

Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487

The Epstein Files must be so horrible, so treacherous, he’s willing to destroy his legacy and family name to protect himself. Desperate.

Why is nobody talking about how the Epstein files are now 30 days past due?

Release the Epstein files.

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

BREAKING: The Epstein files are now 31 days past the statutory deadline set by Congress.

WHERE ARE THE FILES, PAM???

On Top of Everything Else, This Economy Sucks Was it all worth it, Trump voters?

On top of every corrupt, cruel, idiotic, lawless, and fascist thing Trump has done this first year, he also singlehandedly fucked up the economy. A one year review of all his economic destruction. Right here.👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialco...

How Trump was elected president for the most powerful nation on Earth - TWICE - will go down in history as one of the truly biggest mysteries.

Venezuela is a Diversion. The administration went into Venezuela on the same day the Department of Justice (DOJ) faced a statutory deadline to justify redactions in the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Low tide beach at dusk with shallow water reflecting pink clouds and a fading orange horizon. Gentle waves form dark horizontal bands beneath a wide sky that shifts from warm light near the horizon to deep blue overhead.

Pacific Beach, San Diego, California

#sandiego #pacificbeach #beach #sunset #sunsetchasers #ocean #landscapes_lovers #photography

A month after the Epstein files deadline, only a fraction of DOJ records have been released.

Does no one have the power to confront this obstruction of justice or are we to be “ok” with the fact we now are ruled by a dictator.

Celebrate a King, Not a Trump We will never have a DJT day.

"Give Putin the Donbas to shut him up, and who knows what he’ll try to take next? Give Trump Greenland to shut him up, and who knows what he’ll try to take next?"

There was an attempt to try and distract people from the Epstein files...