Dave Stolte

Read this, too, Ezra Klein.
@espiers.bsky.social writes: "It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins 'Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.'”
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The attack on Charlie Kirk is horrifying.

Political violence has no place in this country and should never become the norm.

I’m sending my sympathies to his family and friends at this time.

I hope Charlie Kirk recovers quickly then, like James Brady, uses his megaphone to help advocate for common sense limits on firearms.

World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns

Trump: BIG WIN in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on the President's core power to call in the National Guard! The Judges obviously realized that Gavin Newscum is incompetent and ill prepared, but this is much bigger than Gavin, because all over the United States, if our Cities, and our people, need protection, we are the ones to give it to them should State and Local Police be unable, for whatever reason, to get the job done. This is a Great Decision for our Country, and we will continue to protect and defend Law abiding Americans. Congratulations to the Ninth Circuit, America is proud of you tonight! 22 ReTruths 69 Likes 6/19/25, 8:49 PM

Trump suggests he’s going to take tonight’s win in the courts and potentially deploy the National Guard to other cities.

“…but this is much bigger than Gavin, because all over the United States, if our Cities, and our people, need protection, we are the ones to give it to them…”

Sign on a tree that reads NAZIS ARE NOT ALLOWED IN OUR NEIGHBOR- HOOD

Los Angeles

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

So what’s the plan?

OK so the federal government has effectively declared war on California. Noem states, “We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate (Los Angeles) from (its) leadership.”
The federal government decides who will govern a city, and will use the military to enforce. Sounds like fascism to me.

#edwardtufte

Department of Defense Security for the Protection of Department of Homeland Security Functions MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE                THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

NYT: “In Firing Watchdogs, Trump Sidesteps Laws and Moves to Expand Power, By Elena Shao May 22, 2025 President Trump summarily dismissed more than a dozen members of independent oversight bodies during his first two months in office, defying typical procedures and federal laws that say presidents cannot remove certain officials without good cause, like misconduct or neglect.”A diagram shows Trump’s head on the left and symbols denoting nine federal agencies on the right, connected by a faint gray arrow going through a text box reading “Should issue notice citing cause for firing.” An orange arrow makes 90-degree turns to go up, over, and down the other side of the gray box, captioned “Sidestepping typical procedures,” as if the whole thing was a diagram of a football play.

Hard-hitting analysis from NYT. As you can see from the diagram, legal impediments are a weak gray box that can be defeated by a strong orange arrow and bold typeface
Gift article (but it’s bad) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Pritzker calls for mass protests and disruption - “Republicans cannot know a moment of peace,” he says, swaying their portraits will one day be put in museums “reserved for tyrants and traitors”

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.

We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

My story breaking this news exclusively was 7K+ words and had almost all of this in it, and more:
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

A post from Call to Activism (@CalltoActivism ) on X reads: "MAJOR BREAKING: Judge Boasberg has determined the Trump Administration’s willful disregard of their lawful court Order is sufficient grounds for criminal contempt." Below the text, there is an image of a person in a judge's robe standing in front of the U.S. District Court seal. To the right, a document excerpt from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia is shown, titled "MEMORANDUM OPINION," detailing a court order from March 15, 2025, regarding the transfer of individuals in custody under the Alien Enemies Act, and finding the Trump administration in contempt for non-compliance.

The stakes are growing higher for our constitutional republic.

HE IS PROMISING TO SEND AMERICANS TO FOREIGN DEATH CAMPS.

This is it. This is where America ends.

Trump’s Wildly Unconstitutional Plot to Banish U.S. Citizens to Gulags His plan to send American citizens to foreign prisons is the latest in a long series of affronts to the American constitutional order.

Among the Declaration of Independence’s grievances against the Crown was “transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offences.”

FCC Chair Brendan Carr sports a gold Trump-head lapel pin.

Members of Trump’s cabinet, along with Congresspeople and Senators, are being instructed to wear a tribute to their inglorious, convicted-felon leader.

Good morning.

Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.

It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

As the author of a history of concentration camps, I would like to emphasize that this is a very bad idea, and we should definitely not do it.

It's actually pretty wild that just one guy can collapse the global economy. Seems like a bad system!