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Opinion | Trump's bullying of female journalists isn't "frankness." It's insulting. Ari Bernick: The president's attacks on women in media feel personal.

Every reporter needs to stand up to Trump and tell him to shut up. Why do the other reporters present allow the dictator to insult one of them? Stand up to the bully!

America is a mafia state running a protection racket in the interest of the boss, not the people www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... bsky.app/profile/john...

Read this on air to @sifill.bsky.social tonight.

Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...

“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”

Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.

ICE trying to ORDER a church to REMOVE A NATIVITY SCENE is one of the most astonishing First Amendment violations I've seen in ever

From the Glorious Revolution to the Trump Tyranny: Rule of Law (b.1688-d.2024)

The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385, original at 20 Stat. 152) signed on June 18, 1878, by President Rutherford Hayes that limits the powers of the federal government in the use of federal military personnel to enforce domestic policies within the United States.

Sloan Museum launches new exhibits celebrating Flint’s racing, automotive legacy - Flint Beat FLINT, Mich. — Sloan Museum of Discovery recently launched two new exhibits inside the Durant Gallery which celebrates the city’s Soap Box Derby legacy

flintbeat.com/sloan-museum...

Trump claims he's being "tough on drugs" when he's illegally striking boats—

But he just pardoned a man convicted of helping traffic 400 tons of cocaine into our country.

He can't have it both ways.

Pete Hegseth Should Be Charged With Murder No matter how you look at the strikes on alleged “drug boats”—as acts of war or attacks on civilians—Hegseth has committed a crime and should be prosecuted.

If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER.
My latest in @thenation.com

Trump Renames Institute of Peace for Himself

Renaming the Institute for Peace after yourself as you defend extrajudicial executions and prepare for war in Venezuela is really leaning into the mad dictator shtick.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...

Bipartisan effort targets robocalls, spam texts plaguing Michigan residents The legislation would empower Attorney General Dana Nessel to crack down on telemarketers, scammers and bots barraging residents with unwanted calls and texts.

Two unidentified Michigan Senators actually voted against stopping harassing robocalls.

WTF

www.mlive.com/politics/202...

A REPUBLICAN Federal Judge Exposes The Shocking Truth ... .. and then resigns to protest Trump's attempts to destroy our system of justice

If you didn't believe that Donald Trump and his handlers have corrupted our legal system in a way that's never happened before, read this letter from a conservative Republican federal judge.
jacklessenberry.substack.com/p/a-republic...

Jennifer Welch GOES OFF on Katie Miller: “If you think that my opinion that you and your husband are Nazi white nationalists is hateful, good. I will never stop calling out the injustice and the cruelty and the Nazi-style ideals that your husband has. You’re sociopaths.“

“Maximum lethality - not tepid legality” - JFC, without even getting into the threatened weakling/small dick energy here, this is just madness. These guys really have bloodlust, they want to kill kill kill no matter the law, the justification, as long as the skin colour fits.

nuremberg 2.0

The farce continues: lawsuit over Gov. Snyder’s 2014 poisoning of Flint water to pay (someday) a meager $1,000 to most Flint residents—while lawyers involved already received $80 million of $200 million awarded. The fed govt also to get a big cut despite EPA negligence

www.freep.com/story/news/l...

Trump Administration Fires 8 Immigration Judges in New York

BREAKING NYT:

The Trump admin just fired eight immigration judges in New York City.

All the judges were dismissed from the immigration offices at 26 Federal Plaza — a building that houses the NYC headquarters of ICE and has become the epicenter of migrant arrests in the city.

When a judge issues an order in any case, that is literally the law in that particular matter

Full stop

It can be appealed, reversed, stayed or amended-but until that happens (if it ever does), all parties MUST follow the ruling

So-Kristi Noem just admitted to contempt

There must be consequences

Brian Goldstone appears on a PBS News Weekend, speaking from a room lined with bookshelves. A lower-third caption reads: “BRIAN GOLDSTONE — Journalist and Author, ‘There Is No Place for Us.’”

"Homelessness today isn't just the person sleeping outside a Walmart. It's often the cashier or worker stocking the shelves inside."

I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

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Telling people that they do not have to follow illegal orders is not illegal.

Threatening to kill people for saying it is.

Impeach Trump.

Think about it. This regime wouldn't be so ragingly angry about a simple PSA video reminding troops that they are obligated under the oath they swore NOT to obey illegal orders...unless this regime planned on giving illegal orders.

#ResistTrump

National Guard aren’t ICE or Border Patrol. They didn’t sign up looking to harass and repress people. They’re volunteers, part time, in case of emergency. They didn’t ask for this.

West Virginia National Guard shouldn’t have been deployed in Washington DC.

Victims of the shooter and the president.

CNN: Trump granted the DC shooter asylum in April.

Kristi Noem is guilty of crimes against humanity and needs to face justice.

📌 She made the final call to defy a court order to halt deportation flights, sending people into the hellscape of CECOT, a place the UN has compared to a torture chamber.

Prosecute her and everyone involved.

Trump may be the President, but his repeated calls for violence, hangings, executions, kidnappings and his lawless bombings and murders are morally depraved. Violence is never the answer. The National Guardsmen are just innocent tragic victims of his detestable policies. #ProtestPeacefully

A sad irony in Washington, D.C., where West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot today. Six days ago, a court ruled their deployment was illegal, but stayed the order pending appeal. My heart goes out to these public servants and their families. oag.dc.gov/sites/defaul...

“We’re the FBI and we’re here to investigate whether you committed a crime by urging people not to commit crimes.”

My statement on FBI request for interviews.