Eric English

Everything that MAGA is saying right now about "retribution" for Kirk is basically a scam. It's all about creating justification for the full-scale targeting of *innocents* on the liberal-left. It's not payback or retribution in any real sense.

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I try not to do media criticism because we all make mistakes and there but for the grace of god go I. But it was really irresponsible for mainstream outlets to run with the "trans slogans engraved on the bullet" narrative, which seemed implausible from the jump.

The PRECISE moment the Governor of Utah saw the suspect:

You cannot understand politics in the United States in 2025 without understanding Gamergate.

It is the Rosetta Stone for our current nightmare.

If you’re attacking Ms. Rachel from either the right or the left for raising money for injured kids, you suck. Rethink your praxis.

The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too

What Is 21st-Century Truth? | Essay Propaganda Has Trapped Us in Plato’s Cave—the Shadows Aren't Real but the Sun Is Blinding

And really by "teaching" Plato I mean I'm troubling Plato. Why did we trust him that the escaped prisoner actually saw the real truth and wasn't just a conspiracy clown pretending he knew the truth? Mistakes were made.
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It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence.

They are in charge.

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

This is more or less like the Lincoln Douglas debates?

Gravity always wins.

Way to snag that low-hanging fruit Chuckie.

Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool

Bring Our Local 100 Brother Home Please take a few minutes to send a pre-written letter to your representative and senator: Tell them to demand SMART apprentice Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia's return to the United States! Background ...

The labor movement stands in solidarity with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and SMART Union for due process and the rule of law.

Write your member of Congress and demand they bring our union brother home NOW!

Moving. A friend complained about resistance focusing around this 1 person, instead of the hundreds who deserve the same solidarity. But people think in stories. Rosa Parks is a story. So is Kilmar, and Daniel Berulis, the hero from the NLRB. Honor heroes. Be one, if you get the chance, and can.

David Brooks quoting the Communist Manifesto and calling for a general strike

Bill Kristol wants to abolish ICE

Mayor Pete out here talking about "being creative about other means"

AOC barnstorming the nation

Kilmar is alive

THEY DON'T BREAK US THEY BREAK UPON US

NEW: Here's a thread of some stuff you didn't know about Bernie's Fight Oligarchy tour...but you should. 16 stops in, here's what I'll share:

66.8 percent of the signups we have received are NEW to the Bernie list. 🧵 /1

There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

Upon his high horse arrives
The Moderate, in his disguise
As Pragmatist, the splitter of
All differences.

And in his Wisdom he decries
The hubris of your alibi
And sings his signature reply,
“Well, ack-shoo-ally…”

Billionaires Score Best-Ever Day as Stocks Soar on Tariff Pause The world’s wealthiest people added $304 billion to their combined net worth on Wednesday — the largest one-day gain in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index — as stock markets soared after ...

See how this works? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

the basic problem facing american democracy is that one party has decided it wants a king and will hand over as much authority as is necessary to make that happen

Any traders with inside information that Trump was going to walk back his tariffs — some of them, presumably, Trump family members and cronies — just made a fortune.

It all feels like chaos until you look more closely at who is winning.

When we all look back at the self-inflicted wreckage of this period of history, it’s important to remember who could have easily ended it simply by asserting the power given to them by the Constitution: Mitch McConnell in 2021, any 5 of the Supreme Court in 2024, and Mike Johnson in 2025.

What’s the current leading candidate MAGA theory for why the market meltdown is actually Biden’s fault?

What if the Government later determines that it sent one of these detainees to CECOT in error? Or a court eventually decides that the President lacked authority under the Alien Enemies Act to declare that Tren de Aragua is perpetrating or attempting an “invasion” against the territory of the United States? The Government takes the position that, even when it makes a mistake, it cannot retrieve individuals from the Salvadoran prisons to which it has sent them. See Defendant’s Memorandum of Law in Opposition in Abrego Garcia v. Noem, No. 25–cv–951 (D Md., Mar. 31, 2025), ECF Doc. 11, at 7–9. The implication of the Government’s position is that not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal. History is no stranger to such lawless regimes, but this Nation’s system of laws is designed to prevent, not enable, their rise.

Sotomayor says the Trump DOJ's position is that it can ship off citizens and immigrants alike to El Salvador then detain them indefinitely without judicial review.

"History is no stranger to such lawless regimes, but
this Nation’s system of laws is designed to prevent, not enable, their rise."

In most societies, the rich and powerful acceded to the rule of law solely because they realized that, as soon as ordinary people feel they’re getting screwed without any chance of peaceful redress, that’s when you get the pitchfork-wielding mobs.

This is fucking nuts.

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.