Benjamin Rose

@MrAndyNgo Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes. The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence. In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons. photo of three people in inflatable frog costumes

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

Michelle Obama telling everyone she's been communicating with Osama Bin Laden

If Michelle Obama had ever said this the entirety of the GOP’s heads would have exploded simultaneously.

Masked thugs taking down reporters like this is Moscow or Minsk.

“plan for attrition”

Apple juice should be a controlled substance

So this IL Hospital Association memo describes an incident where ICE detained a US citizen, gave them HEART PROBLEMS, took them to a hospital where the fought with medical personnel, then left when they realized they detained a CITIZEN.

someone has a hard on for a kent state reboot

It’s very much Not Great to have GOP leadership describe a planned non violent march as being in service a the “terrorist wing”

Lawsuit: Minnesotan died after Eagan, Dakota County law enforcement ignored serious stroke symptoms • Minnesota Reformer Jensen muted his equipment just as Moseng told him, “Before you got there, I was like, ‘Is this dude having a stro—’”

Minnesota cops pulled over a black postal worker who was having a stroke. They assumed he was on drugs, threw him in jail, and didn't seek medical treatment. They left him alone in a cell for hours as he lost all bodily function. He died several days later. minnesotareformer.com/2025/10/10/l...

The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists.

Seems bad?

"On Trump’s desk in the Oval Office today was a plan for a triumphal arch on the other side of the river from the Lincoln Memorial"

it's giving Germania

Not a subscriber, so I can't read this. But I'd be pretty surprised if Madison and Marshall said the president should declare a fake drug emergency to unilaterally impose tariffs, then leverage those tariffs to bully other countries for personal grudges and pressure prize committees to honor him.

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspaper.

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Two of the three people mentioned in the top headline are right-wing pollsters. I was in middle school chorus with one of them. We wore cummerbunds.

I had incredibly low expectations for our broken brunchlord press when kakistocratic authoritarianism came knocking, but every single day they demonstrate I still somehow over-estimated them

Opposing fascism is a basic obligation in a free society (and even unfree societies can oppose fascism).

Labelling opposition to fascism "terrorism" is a clear marker of where you stand.

And as the article says, letting this frame stand means giving up effective tools to oppose rising fascism.

What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump’s Executive Order on Antifa Liberals dismiss antifa as just an idea. That opens up the activists, researchers, and organizers to a real risk of persecution.

“The truth is that antifa groups have been responsible for some of the most prescient & impactful organizing countering the far-right during the last decade”

Amazing corrective to liberal punditry abt antifa from Matthew Whitley (& basically the thesis of my book) theintercept.com/2025/09/27/t...

Screenshot of text: Thiel had kinder words about Tesla CEO Elon Musk, according to the recordings, calling the entrepreneur, who has recently praised Christianity, one of the “smarter, more thoughtful people,” he knows.

Peter Thiel is such a devoutly unhinged liar that mentally or morally normal human beings have real trouble grasping that he never, ever means a single thing he says, so it's helpful when he throws in one that's so blatant as to give the whole game away www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Great point here. This is why Stephen Miller goes on Fox News to propagandize. He knows his host won't bother him with niggling facts like these.

Any news organization that treated "Will Trump Get Nobel?" as a remotely serious question, and not one more indication of his accelerating hallucinatory patterns, has some 'splaining to do.

Looking at you, all major news orgs.

this really is all just about resentment over obama being given the prize

All of this is objectively true. Stopping cancer treatment alone should’ve sent people into the streets. The USAID pullback is global murder. Just because a bunch of stupid Americans debase themselves fawning over a senile fascist doesn’t mean the rest of the world has to play along.

Why should Fox Business care about Trump winning the Nobel Peace Prize? No reason except that Trump wants it and the Fox anchor is deeply committed to him. That’s it.

The right’s Nobel obsession is useful because it is inexplicable as anything other than trying to make Trump personally happy. 95% of all Trumpworld obsessions have the same root (2020 election, James/Comey) but rarely is it so hard to retcon a justification for it.

so it goes... another day, another example of elon musk being inexplicably let off the hook for crimes

"Too risky": Scholars who study America say they won't visit At a recent panel in Vienna, academics who study America said the country has become similar to Russia and China.

Scholars who study America are saying they won’t visit because it’s too risky.

It was a glaring departure even in the moment. Right or wrong, the story of Biden's political career was generally to place himself in the center of wherever the party was moving ideologically. But on I/P, his own worldview was so rigid that he stubbornly stayed the course as the party moved away

Donald trump can still win the Nobel Peace prize if Mike Pence has the courage