Julie Johnson-McGrath, PhD

Their outrage always seems to skip the actual predators.

The Senate voted to confirm Neil Jacobs as the new head of the NOAA. Jacobs previously served as acting director during the first Trump administration, a period marked by the “Sharpiegate” hurricane forecast controversy.

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

Of all the many, many questions Pamela Jo Bondi refused to answer today, the most incendiary was about whether she's seen photos of Donald Trump with unclothed underage girls. It is so damning that she couldn't just say, "No."

Screenshot from a NYT article by Thomas Edsall, quoting Barbara Walter of UC-San Diego: "The quickest way to piss people off is to send soldiers into their neighborhoods especially when there’s no reason for them to be there. It’s inherently provocative, and Trump and his team understand this. Research by the political scientist Robert Pape shows that the single most powerful predictor of suicide terrorism is the presence of foreign troops on local soil. People hate, hate, hate that. They hate the humiliation, the powerlessness, the feeling of being occupied. "Once citizens begin to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this. In fact, that’s the point. They are not trying to restore order; they’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns. In the end, violence serves their ultimate end: They want to create the illusion of disorder so they can tighten control and stay in power indefinitely."

Chilling insight by @barbarafwalter.com: "Once citizens view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this… They’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns."

via www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Relieved to hear it!

My quote of the day

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Oregon Republican Party posts image of civil unrest in Portland justifying National Guard intervention.

If Chicago wanted to make those Texas soldiers feel at home, they'd wait for a blizzard, then turn off all the power and go to Cancun for the weekend.

The Trib has always been right wing

When my daughter asks me what an example of misogyny is I will show her this 👇post

Currently being started and humiliated in Israeli custody, for trying to bring aid supplies to Gaza. Free Greta!

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The Fight to Save a Beloved Midwest Wilderness Joseph Goldstein found healing and purpose in the Boundary Waters. Now, the Trump administration says it wants to open the wilderness area's watershed up to mining.

The Boundary Waters are under threat. Each year, roughly 150,000 people travel to this treasured wilderness, home to some of the purest waters on earth.

But the Trump administration has said it wants to open this area's watershed up to toxic mining as part of a broader attack on our public lands.

Can someone please ask @AGPamBondi if ICE is now staffed by extremists organizations like Proud Boys, 3%ers, and the former Identity Evropa & League of the South. What about those who participated in the January 6th insurrection?

Many people are saying this is true.

We are 249 years into this experiment.

Please explain to me why we are letting Stephen Miller drive the bus off a cliff. He's a monster.

He wants a LOT of dead Americans, a police state, and a dictator. And he wants a very weak, very demented dictator.

CALL YOUR REPS:
202-224-3121

other98

Laurie Eckman, 84, said she and her husband Richard Eckman, also 84, were rushed by federal officers. She said her husband was leaning on his walker and wearing his Vietnam veterans cap as he was pushed to the ground. "With no warning the feds charged us, knocked us down, and sprayed us."

Schiff: This is supposed to be an oversight hearing when dozens of prosecutors have been fired simply because they worked on cases investigating the former president.

Bondi: What about the fires in California? Are the riots in LA serious?

very cool that if you are working on behalf of right-wing culture warriors, you no longer need standing to have your claim adjudicated by the supreme court

INBOX: The Chicago News Guild joined others in suing ICE for attacking journalists at the Broadview facility.

“Our members have a right, protected by the First Amendment, to do their jobs and report the news. They should not be targeted, injured or arrested for doing their jobs.”

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims agent said, 'Do something b----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney alleged...

Woman shot by ICE has been released from custody, body cam footage revealed an agent saying
"do something bitch" while holding his rifle at her

BONDI: The National Guard is on the way right now as we speak. You're sitting here grilling me and they're on their way to Chicago to keep your state safe.

DURBIN: It's my job to grill you