Today marks the 7th anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.

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JUST IN: Former Trump spiritual adviser and Texas megachurch pastor Robert Morris pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl.

He will serve only 6 months in jail and pay $250,000 in restitution.

Donald Trump just posted this.

We are not a serious country anymore.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.

This is depressingly common now. A lot of people have in absentia removal orders they don't know about. And now that the benefits office is becoming an arm of the mass deportation machine, so people are getting picked up in this situation -- and grace to give time to file a motion to reopen is gone.

Your country, as you know it, ends next week. Be smart. Don't panic.

One thing this is missing is EMBARRASSING

This pretty much sums up his entire speech. Heck, his entire life!

Just watched Trump's UN speech in its entirety. My God.

Preach

Has anyone here read the book? Anyone? Cool, cool. How about anyone here who has been the primary caregiver to their loved one dying from cancer? Thought not. Lastly: anyone here ever written and published a personal memoir? It is so easy to throw insults from the bleachers. Get in the arena and lmk

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
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We are America!

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly.

sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Scars and All, &c. On American history, ‘enemies of the people,’ stinking corruption, ‘One Tough Mother,’ and more

“Too many people—too many Americans—are fearing our government. I want Putin, Xi, Kim, et al. to fear our government. I do not want newspapers, law firms, and comedians to fear our government.”

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This is what Jimmy Kimmel said. He did NOT glorify the killer. He did NOT disrespect the victim. He's commenting on politicians. And he got taken offline just for that.
In the meantime, a teacher in my kids' school was put on leave for joking about Kirk on a third-party platform.
This is hell.

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law.

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence.

the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear.

do not offer it to them.

Don’t fall for it. 🇺🇸❤️

You need to know what might be coming.

Trump could have brought the nation together to confront political violence after the murder of Charlie Kirk.

Instead he appears to be preparing to use the shooting as a pretext to destroy his political opposition and consolidate power.

The president is intentionally killing non-combatants who pose no direct threat in violation of domestic, international and military law and his VP and chief policy adviser are promising an authoritarian crackdown on his political opponents. Just today.

Democracy and the rule of law are on the line

Just real quick…

Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this.

You're welcome

The most amazing part of this is that the far right didn't target her because she celebrated Kirk's death or even threw his own words back at them.

She merely expressed a well-founded worry that his murder might inspire the far right to greater violence and they apparently took that as a challenge.

Pay attention. Something dark might be coming.

The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent.

1/ Here's what's happening.

They want us at each other's throats.