Craig Johnson

Stephen Miller is a psychopath.

and like Thatcher, she's extremely right wing

Japan and Mexico have now both have female leaders before the US

BREAKING: Sanae Takaichi has been elected leader of the LDP, and is set to become Japan’s first female prime minister.

fed agents take a sitting legislator in our third biggest city

this is becoming so normal it won't make the news

then, one day, they'll take someone and they won't come back again

it is good to observe the old ways

This is literally directly across the street from an elementary school.

they'll do it anyway

now this might be the best the Dems can muster right now, and it might even be the right move electorally in the next election. but it is still wrong.

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Pritzker seems to be showing his limits here, with state troopers protecting ICE agents from protesters. He wants the attention of being strong vs Trump, bud doesn't want to get on TV supporting protesters. So, he posts and boasts.

“Major Major's father was a sober God-fearing man whose idea of a good joke was to lie about his age. He was a long-limbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism. He advocated thrift and hard work and disapproved of loose women who turned him down. His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow. The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spent every penny he didn't earn on new land to increase the amount of alfalfa he did not produce. Major Major's father worked without rest at not growing alfalfa. On long winter evenings he remained indoors and did not mend harness, and he sprang out of bed at the crack of noon every day just to make certain that the chores would not be done. He invested in land wisely and soon was not growing more alfalfa than any other man in the county. Neighbors sought him out for advice on all subjects, for he had made much money and was therefore wise. “As ye sow, so shall ye reap,” he counseled one and all, and everyone said, “Amen.” ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

anyway already seeing this classic make the rounds once more

Reagan granted amnesty to undocumented immigrants.

REAGAN GRANTED AMNESTY TO UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS.

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South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell' A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.

That’s not making America great again.

an army runs on its stomach

both are getting harder

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all uphill from here

like, if I'd recorded the podcast at my normal time I would've missed the Manchester killing today

we're at a point where I need to expect right-wing violence to happen at such a rate that I can't record an episode of a podcast until right before I release or I'll miss something

fuck

it is getting harder and harder to pay so much attention to fascism, it's mentally and emotionally weakening

unfortunately this is a marathon, not a sprint

like, there's no offramp for this -- we went from people like Steve Bannon, to Fuentes, and the only possible next guy is wearing a ski mask and holding an assault rifle

after you mainstream Fuentes, the next step is literally people who kill their political enemies in the streets, like organized fascist thugs

Trump to talk with Vought about which ‘Democrat Agencies’ should be cut Vought told House Republicans on Wednesday that mass firings would kick off “in a day or two.”

“I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent,’ Trump wrote on Truth Social.” 10/2/25

Early polls show Trump and GOP taking more blame than Democrats for shutdown The national surveys taken in the final days of September and the first day of the shutdown find that voters are more inclined to blame Trump and his party. But many are uncertain.

The majority of voting Americans don't have any sense of the division of power among the parties. They just see chaos and dysfunction and blame on the R or D that accompanies the names of the people in charge. That's it.

Good loans make good neighbors

Also what is up with that tie

You are doing exactly what you would've done during the Holocaust. You're doing it right now.

Begging people not to equate disagreeing with the Pope with being a Protestant, that's a core Catholic tradition especially on the right

The "compact" is a threat, with the administration explicitly stating that it plans to disfavor universities that don't sign in areas from foreign student visas, student loans, federal contracts as well as grants, and even tax [501(c)(3)] status.

It's a maximalist plan of 1st Amendment violation.

a fascist meme, "globalist" is a dog whistle for classic 19th century style conflation of Jewish people and being "cosmopolitan"

disagreeing with the Pope is a longstanding Catholic tradition