Just said the same thing in a much more NSFW manner.

Writer Who Survived ADX Supermax Prison Describes How It “Entombs” People Having survived the most restrictive supermax prison in the country on a trumped-up charge, Eric King tells what he saw.

“People should care that there are human beings who have lived alone in a cell for over two decades — people we’ve never heard of and who will never be released,” says Eric King.

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

America Needs a Mass Movement—Now Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.

"One way to tell if you're living in an autocracy is by asking this question: Do people feel free to express their dissent? All around me, I see civic leaders not saying what’s really on their mind. And over time, self-censorship can lead to internal spiritual and moral collapse."

‘A coup is happening’: A new warning against Trump’s authoritarian slide In a stark warning, Dr. Jason Stanley says America is entering a dangerous period with President Trump’s growing rhetoric against the so-called “radical left” and “domestic terrorists.” “I think we are facing the moment in which a coup is happening,” Stanley warns. “This is the moment,” he says, and adds that what’s needed now is full-scale, nonviolent resistance.

“This is setting us up for the Insurrection Act,” Dr. Jason Stanley warns of Trump's authoritarian tactics in cities across America. “I think we are facing the moment in which a coup is happening. This is the moment.” What’s needed now, he adds, is full-scale nonviolent resistance. #Velshi

Q: "The Republican governor of Oklahoma...said 'We believe in a federalist system...Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma.'...What's your response?"

Vance: "I'd say to Governor Stitt... Illinois is a different case from Chicago."

it’s all just a grift

Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song.

But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.

The fact that this coming 9 days before the largest peaceful protest in modern American history is absolutely intentional. We will not back down. Trump and Miller can lie, smear, and threaten all they want. They will lose. No Kings, No Kings, No Kings. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

‘We took the freedom of speech away’: On First Amendment, Trump says quiet part loud A week after the White House boasted that Trump “is a strong supporter of free speech,” the president’s legal gibberish pointed in the opposite direction.

Last week, the White House boasted that Trump “is a strong supporter of free speech.”

This week, the Republican declared, "We took the freedom of speech away." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Hard not to see parallels of attacks on public institutions and the traditional media. Both have limitations but served an essential function. Take Weiss at CBS now. She railed against MSM, created an outlet that absolutely failed to match it's quality, and will now be paid to degrade it.

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

🏆 How does a comedy show have the best news research team? @thedailyshow.com

Murray: I talked to a family that’s paying about $300 a month for their health insurance. It’s going to jump to over $1,800 per month.

Many people will turn away and not pay for it—obviously, they’ll lose their health insurance. The fewer people who have insurance, the more everybody pays.

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

This is capitulation. It is not the "Department of War." If CNN concedes on this point, they'll concede on any point.

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

This is why I love Chicago so much. Their “we will fuck with you” reserves are BOTTOMLESS.

This is amazing.

#WarRavagedPortland

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

This regime can’t stand to be laughed at. They can’t stand to be the butt of a joke because the moment we’re able to laugh at them, their fragile ego begins to crumble.

@nowthisimpact.bsky.social

Trump Just Went on Fox and Issued an Unnerving Threat Against Liberals At a time when right-wing extremists are calling for open season on liberals and the left, the president of the United States just told them: Hey, go for it.

Trump just went on Fox and said radical right extremism is justified as a response to the left. If Trump wanted to explicitly encourage the right to wage violent open warfare on the left as payback for Kirk, he couldn't have done much better than that.

New piece:
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Thread. Anyone who doubts what @gregsargent.bsky.social says here about Trump encouraging political violence should recall Trump has already ordered political violence — against migrants, suspected migrants, college protesters, and just last weekend against Venezuelans on the high seas.

Spencer Cox: "Our nation is broken. We had political assassinations recently in Minnesota. We had an attempted assassination on the gov of Pennsylvania. And we had an attempted assassination on a president. Nothing I say can unite us as a country. Nothing I can say right now can fix what is broken"

Sometime this week the U.S. Marshals Service quietly published the latest numbers on threats against judges:

It’s not simply important to denounce political violence because it looks bad not to. It’s the right thing to do on the merits. Even more specifically to this moment it’s important because the forces of fascism are inherently better at political violence than the forces of civic democracy.