Jim Shultz

JIM SHULTZ: America's new secret police They wear black masks that cover everything but their eyes. They carry guns but not identification. They drive unmarked cars.

Masked agents with no identification are throwing terrified men, women, and children into unmarked vans and carrying them away. Here is my column in today's Lockport Union-Sun & Journal and syndicated to 100 newspapers nationwide.
www.lockportjournal.com/opinion/jim-...

JIM SHULTZ: A letter to our cowardly congresswoman Dear Congresswoman Tenney,

"Congresswoman Claudia Tenney loves concentration camps in El Salvador the way some Germans loved Auschwitz." My column in today's Lockport Union-Sun & Journal: Letter to our Coward Congresswoman. www.lockportjournal.com/opinion/jim-...

Notice the difference in Pope Francis photos?

Well Donald?

Rep Claudia Tenney are you on drugs. Our retirement funds are cratering in service to Trump’s ego and your lips are occupied elsewhere.

Where?

If you aren’t paying attention to how NYPD is turning #LuigiMangione into a folk hero, you aren’t paying attention.

Biden’s pardon of his son will give Trump both license and a lot of motivation to pardon anyone for anything. Political boomerangs are tough. Hunter did us no favors and we owed him none.

It will give Trump both license and a lot of motivation to pardon anyone for anything. Political boomerangs are tough. Hunter did us no favors and we owed him none.

Forrests are pretty cool and are the reason we can have books.

It is stuff like this that just makes Trump more powerful. How would others feel if Tucker Carlson posted this about Barack Obama? Can we try to be just a bit more strategic and stop feeding the beast of Trumpism red meat?

Happy Thanksgiving! He is risen.

A friendly reality reminder: Donald Trump’s win in the popular vote in 2024 was half that of Biden’s in 2020. Not much of a mandate.

Denver mayor responds to Trump’s ‘border czar’ threatening to arrest him | CNN Politics CNN’s Erin Burnett speaks with Denver’s Democratic Mayor Mike Johnston about President-elect Donald Trump’s new “border czar” threatening him with arrest if he does not comply with directives to assis...

@MikeJohnstonCO does an excellent job speaking the language of common sense on deportation on @CNN www.cnn.com/2024/11/26/p...

Transgender Activists Question the Movement’s Confrontational Approach (Gift Article) Facing diminishing public support, some activists say all-or-nothing tactics are not working. “We have to make it OK for someone to change their minds.”

A smart and important piece www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/u...

Mexican President Mulls Retaliatory Tariffs After Trump’s Threats President Claudia Sheinbaum responded to President-elect Trump’s threat to impose high tariffs, saying such a move would inflict damage on both countries.

“Allocating even a fraction of what the United States spends on warfare toward peace building and development would address the deeper drivers of migration,” Ms. Sheinbaum wrote in the letter. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/u...

Fred Harris, former US senator from Oklahoma and presidential hopeful, dies at 94 | CNN Fred Harris, a former U.S. senator from Oklahoma, presidential hopeful and populist who championed Democratic Party reforms in the turbulent 1960s, died Saturday. He was 94.

When Fred Harris dropped out of the presidential race in 1976 he said this and I never forgot it: “We couldn’t exactly call it winning and we couldn’t exactly call it losing so we decided to call it quits.” Vintage Fred Harris. www.cnn.com/2024/11/24/u...

Fred Harris, former senator from Oklahoma and presidential hopeful, dies at 94 He made a bid for the presidency in 1976.

Fred Harris was the kind of populist the Democratic Party stopped being and a man worth remembering. www.politico.com/news/2024/11...

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