"We’ve all got to do something to distract ourselves until we die, and acting is a great, fun thing to do that with.”
Love this, by my always excellent friend Michael Paulson.
"We’ve all got to do something to distract ourselves until we die, and acting is a great, fun thing to do that with.”
Love this, by my always excellent friend Michael Paulson.
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But when the groups an authoritarian pits against each other begin to see how much they have in common, there’s a good chance democracy can make a comeback.
29.01.2026 17:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Masked ICE goons have continued to terrorize residents in Minneapolis, arresting parents and gassing protestors. Agents still behave with shameless cruelty, because they know they have impunity.
29.01.2026 17:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Still, this isn’t anywhere near over. This administration cannot allow decency to prevail.
“Authoritarians can sometimes become even more brutal as they become desperate for ways to reclaim the narrative,” Merriman said.
“It has been a powerful lesson for the whole country, and really the whole world, to see people come together in their communities ... people who may not have been active before,” Said Hardy Merriman, an expert on pro-democracy movements.
29.01.2026 17:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The Trump admin and their lackeys simply cannot get their heads around the fact that ppl want to protect their neighbors, including those who don’t look like them. It is unfathomable to these tiny autocrats with their shrunken hearts that moral outrage could send ppl out, of their own will.
29.01.2026 17:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The citizens of Minneapolis have been showing us the way. For weeks, thousands of ordinary people have taken to the frigid streets, to bear witness to the excesses of a federal militia unconstrained by law or shame.
29.01.2026 17:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This is such a heartbreaking picutre of where we are right now.
28.01.2026 15:16 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Very nice (for now)!
28.01.2026 00:06 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“This is not a left or right issue any more,” said Rose. “It is a question of whether we want to live in a democracy or under an authoritarian dictator.”
For our democracy to survive [we] must defend the right that kicked off this whole experiment.
Unless we’ve already decided 250 years is enough.
But it would be a mistake to compare ICE agents to the soldiers who served King George, said Hiller Zobel, an expert on John Adams.
“The correct analogy is to authoritarian regimes of the 20th century, in Germany and Italy... they have made themselves into a secret police."
Gutting the Fourth Amendment just as America marks 250 years of Independence is a little too on the nose, even for this administration.
24.01.2026 20:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Is the US Constitution woke now?
Once upon a time, the Republican party professed a devotion to that founding document that bordered on the religious.
Now, not so much.
It’s important to note that this is guy very much appears to be on-duty, which would make this a violation of the Hatch Act.
22.01.2026 19:07 — 👍 96 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 0
Governor Janet Mills challenged federal immigration officials to provide arrest warrants, real-time arrest numbers, and basic information about who is being detained in a sweeping enforcement operation in Maine.
22.01.2026 19:37 — 👍 69 🔁 25 💬 3 📌 1
Today's column. Mainers like Susan Collins because she brings home the bacon. What use is bacon when fascists are on the march?
22.01.2026 18:13 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
“Because of the help I got, I always think about what I can contribute back to my new country,” Yusuf Abdi said.
His new country is fast becoming a place that is no longer worthy of him.
So many immigrants buy into the stories America tells itself: That this is a beacon of freedom and opportunity, where hard work means a chance at a good life for them, and a better one for their children. A citizenship ceremony is the most American place on earth.
15.01.2026 19:33 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This is about ridding the country of as many non-white people as possible, no matter what it costs us now, and in the decades to come. One in five workers in Massachusetts is foreign-born. A quarter of those who work in education and healthcare are immigrants...we desperately need them.
15.01.2026 19:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This is an administration run by and for white nationalists. Official government comms parrot fascist slogans... trucking in imagery where all of the heroes are white, and wiping others from the record, including in museums and classrooms.
15.01.2026 19:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Today's column:
This is what this country is now. It has always been a place where cruelty and racism could flourish. But it’s been a long time since the bigotry was this open, and had the full weight of the federal government behind it.
1.5 million Minnesotans voted for Trump in 2024. His retribution campaigns hurt them too, but ...perhaps they’re willing to pay the costs of slashed safety net programs, in addition to soaring grocery prices and insurance premiums, to enjoy the suffering of people they, too, abhor.
11.01.2026 19:47 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Administration officials suggest Good deserved to die. They’ve savaged the slain US citizen, calling her a “violent rioter,” a “terrorist,” and “deranged.” JD Vance told reporters Good’s killing was “a tragedy of her own making.”
It’s a wonder there haven’t been more deaths like this.
Let’s call this what it is. The president of the United States is waging a war against half of his own country.
Minnesota is just the latest and most violent front in a much wider campaign of aggression Donald Trump and his administration are conducting in blue states.
