Paul Adams

Opinion | Megyn Kelly Knows Which Way the Winds Are Blowing

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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Yes, when I want to know what the Black community in Chicago is thinking, I always turn to someone who's really got their finger on the pulse: Stephen Miller.

One big asymmetry that Dems enable: Republicans attack Dem VOTERS as evil, enemies of the state and now, per Trump, a problem for the military to get rid of. We have one politician who called some of them deplorables and one who said they were weird and people behave as if these are the same

I think this is right:
"We've slid into some form of authoritarianism," says Steven Levitsky, a professor of government at Harvard. "It is relatively mild compared to some others. It is certainly reversible, but we are no longer living in a liberal democracy."
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I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon

Portland never stops being Portland.

In the streets.

Amazing

Correct. And one more addition: Fascism relies on a disciplined mass party, mass mobilization (that is, forced participation in state-run organizations), and the complete shutdown of any form of alternate pluralism.
We're not even in that ballpark. We're headed for being Turkey or Hungary.

Fascism occurs twice: first as the tragedy of a Second World War started by men who fought the First and knowingly chose slaughter, then as the farce of an ignorant draft dodger trying to provoke a war against his own people.

I’m glad Van Jones apologized for his sick joking about dead kids in Gaza.

But the problem goes deeper: he spread Netanyahu propaganda that the mass killings of civilians in Gaza—including 20K+ kids—is Iranian fake news.

It’s not the students and young people who are fooled. It’s Van Jones.

Trump's told this lie this for years, but the book simply mentioned Clinton's attempt to kill bin Laden in 1998. And the author who actually wrote that entire book for Trump, Dave Shiflett, told me recently: "My understanding is that Trump neither writes nor reads his books."

A MOMENT IN BLUE JAYS HISTORY.

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is the first Blue Jays player ever to hit a postseason grand slam! 🔥

I don’t mean to overreact or anything, but this is the commander-in-chief telling military personnel that Democrats are a problem to be dealt with.

Jesus

Border Patrol shoots woman on Southwest Side; agents, protesters battle for hours The shooting occurred Saturday in Brighton Park when federal patrols were "rammed by 10 cars," according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security, which has yet to be verified. In the p...

Border Patrol shoots woman on Southwest Side; agents, protesters battle for hours

Idiocracy was unrealistic only because we got dumber quicker than the movie anticipated

behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol

Once again, where is the CNO? SECNAV? After what just happened in Quantico, when will the military top brass speak up?
I asked this after the disgrace at Ft. Bragg, too.

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If you watch closely, you'll see they're doing this opposite an actual funeral procession.

America

Body slamming, teargas and pepper balls: viral videos show Ice using extreme force in Chicago A facility in Broadview, a mostly Black suburb, has become the site of escalation and ‘targeted attacks’ on protesters

“Body slamming, teargas and pepper balls: viral videos show 🧊 using extreme force in Chicago

A facility in Broadview, a mostly Black suburb, has become the site of escalation and ‘targeted attacks’ on protesters”

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Trump: "He flew more than a quarter of a million combat sortays."

Trump: "Please remember I wrote Osama bin Laden exactly one year ago, one year before he blew up the World Trade Center. And I said, 'You gotta watch Osama bin Laden!' ... I gotta take a little credit."

NYT Headline: In Shutdown A Civil Service Turns Political

"Headlines Matter" part six million

-Every part of this very good story is about MAGA/Doge/Vought *imposing* politics on civil servants

-Not what headline implies www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

-What could it have said?
Same line length:
In Shutdown
Civil Service Is
Turned Political

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A Chilling New Tactic in Nicaragua: Arrest, Then Silence

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I’ll take your word for it

One of the best things about Proust book 3 is that there is a character called Monsieur de Grouchy.