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Though I left Cleveland long ago, the Browns’ annual ritual of heartbreak feels like home. Each new quarterback brings a familiar, fleeting hope. And a reminder of the seasons and disappointments of my youth.

Maybe it’s the start of a fun new era!

It would seem we have a pretty good clue, given that current military leadership is going along with extra-judicial executions in the Caribbean, and sitting on their hands, watching sailors applaud while he gives a speech on a base, saying we need to eliminate the Democratic Party.

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It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Resist. ✊

Back from Spain and Portugal. Wonderful trip, but sobering how others see the U.S. now. An Aussie couple hoped we were Canadian. An Iranian cab driver said he pitied us. Trump is widely mocked as an authoritarian clown. People still like Americans, but they’ve lost faith in America.

Amen

A photo of Ann Frank, with the following text overlayed: “Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared." – Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank wrote of people dragged from homes, families torn apart, children left alone. Today, ICE raids mirror those horrors. History warns us: forgetting leads to repeating. We must see the cruelty clearly and choose justice, or risk walking the same dark road again.

War crimes = OK. Oh. And his boss just said that the “enemies of our country” are citizens of Chicago, Portland, New York and LA.

The only story coming out of Quantico: Trump told the highest ranking officers in the military that he will deploy troops against US citizens who oppose his policies. He will order them to kill Americans. That’s it. It should be the only thing the media focuses on. Nothing else materially matters.

Trump talking about US citizens who oppose him: "This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room.
That's a war too. It's war from within." This is embarrassing – for the military leaders who sit on their hands, while he outlines how they will violate their oaths in his name.

It would seem that ship has sailed.

Just open extortion. With no fear of legal consequence.

The real story (and serious danger) is we now have a military that has no problem violating their oath, and following whatever illegal, unconstitutional orders Trump issues. And they sit silently, tacitly endorsing Hegseth’s promotion of war crimes. They will happily comply in attacking Americans.

Ken White breaks it down: Homan is a creep and a scumbag, but Trump hadn’t even been elected. Homan wasn’t a public official. And he wasn’t “selected to be a public official” since Trump could not ”officially inform” someone they will be nominated before he’s even been elected. So no legal bribery.

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Has someone thought to splash her with a little water?

This is not good.

With two more extra-judicial killings of alleged drug smugglers, I am shocked (but not surprised) there isn’t more focused discussion about the military commanders following what appear to be clearly illegal orders. This does not bode well for America, given Trump’s March toward authoritarianism.

I should have said they have been doing good journalism – and not made it past-tense . No indication at the moment they won’t continue on that path. However, with the firing, and the departure of two top political reporters, there is reason to think it isn’t trending well at Rolling Stone.

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They are going to Mehdi Hasan’s Zeteo.

Don’t forget: @swin24.bsky.social Asawin Suebsaeng and Andrew Perez just bailed out of RS. It’s really too bad. The publication was doing good journalism.

What a gorgeous piece of music. Just beautiful.

I think it may be good policy. But it could create a vacuum for things that are ultimately worse.

Just because they may occasionally advocate for something seemingly good, doesn’t necessarily mean their underlying motives are good.

These are the same people pushing to ban access to birth control and abortion medications. There are no doubt well-meaning people who care about protecting the public who endorse this. But it is prudent to be wary of those who are more about controlling health choices and undermining science.