Trump hates to be the object of humor. He understands that humor can be a more powerful antidote to tyranny than any other form of criticism.

I'm sure he'd hate it if you shared this cartoon. [Cartoon by Jon Adams/The New Yorker]

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Trump Threatens No Back Pay for Shutdown’s Furloughed Workers President Donald Trump opened the door to blocking back pay for certain federal workers when the government reopens, a move that would heighten legal scrutiny of the administration’s maneuvers during the shutdown.

White House considers not paying federal employees for the days they have been furloughed during the shutdown, according to a person familiar with the matter, a move that could run afoul of a law that mandates workers get backpay once the government re-opens.

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Saved this from the Chattanooga subreddit and was just reminded by your latest video how much you like these. 🫶🏻 #FreeTheEpstein218

Yeah. But if this gets violent, it won’t go anywhere good. Parliament and King were on the other side of an ocean, and they had a lot else to invest their pride in. We need to win this one peacefully.

teched? tetched, maybe? or am I a Luddite…?

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JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

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Or some fool is gonna shoot one of these masked twats, and that’s gonna be the final excuse

2/2. …sit the troops down and conduct small-group (squad/platoon) reading & discussion of the Constitution.

Cause there’s nowhere in the Constitution that provides for a military coup in case of a duly-elected president violating his oath; AND at least half their troops are MAGA or don’t grok checks and balances. The most subversive, and important, thing they could do is have whatever JAGs are left 1/2

Yes, this is all true. I may be being a little unfair to Biden. Trump deliberately left him as boxed-in as he could.

Jane Goodall offers sage advice for the rest of us. #3E

Keep your powder dry until we know exactly what happened. All thoughts should be on this family right now.

"For me as a veteran, this is more than just a personal injustice—it’s a constitutional affront." #KavanaughStop

Maybe that’s not fair - maybe w the forces and bases we had left, he thought continuing the withdrawal was the least costly option in American lives. But we still abandoned people we shouldn’t have abandoned.

Yeah. To be fair, he might have thought that w/o the bases we’d left, the cost of surging back and demanding a renegotiation w the GIRoA involved and then supporting/doing combat ops when the Talibs refused would be too high.

…unfortunately it also blew up in the faces of our Afghan partners

I don’t think they were incompetent. They weren’t at our level, but even under Obama’s 2d term, we were transitioning to towards Advise and Assist. Biden should have renegotiated the deal, w the GIRoA included. Instead he tried to take credit for Trump’s withdrawal, and it blew up in his face - and

I mean, he should have repudiated it, but he had his own bias for getting out.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Fascism occurs twice: first as the tragedy of a Second World War started by men who fought the First and knowingly chose slaughter, then as the farce of an ignorant draft dodger trying to provoke a war against his own people.

Hmm. We were still fighting in Afghanistan during Trump’s first term. How come we didn’t win “easy” then? Why did Trump sign a one-sided agreement with the Taliban that allowed them to take over?

1) She wasn’t lying. She knew. We knew it too.

2) He said it on 10/13/24. And now that he’s in office, he’s using the military. He will use them to obstruct midterms & other elections.

Fucking coward & despot should be rotting in jail. But thanks to Elon’s money & hacks -he dodged that too.

The Supreme Court said Biden lacked authority to cancel student loans without Congress. Now they claim Trump can gut agencies without Congress.
The court is partisan, compromised and unethical.