Rich Alderson

Easily?

America-hating Antifa showing up for a *second* time today.

i found a duck friend yesterday

A related reminder on the front of New York Public Library:

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

This is such an odd statement that could only be made by a shallow and deeply damaged person. Mike Johnson is scoffing at making sure people don't die because giving tax cuts to billionaires is all he cares about.

American fascists are, obviously, very scared about how big a protest "No Kings" will be this weekend, as seen by their hysterical, dishonest rhetoric about it.

Let's make their fears come true by showing up on October 18

⁨The blatantly political videos being forced on airports across the country are not only an abuse of taxpayer dollars, but they violate the law.

I'm joining @SenBlumenthal and @SenJackReed to demand DHS take down these videos immediately.⁩

AOC: The problem is that the Trump administration, they think that destroying our health care, making sure that housing is too expensive to live in, that jacking up the cost of our groceries—they think all of this is about hurting Democrats. What they are doing is hurting Americans

Would foreign retirees get a break on membership fees?

More worrisome if you didn’t feel that way.
I started reading Heinlein and Asimov at 11; my appreciation for him has changed in 60+ years.

"Support the troops, y'all!"

Or a morphology or phonology war, depending.

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

Surely that's DARTH Unipiper!

Utterly disgusting and sadly very indicative of this shameful, current moment in our history.

Interesting. Never watched that, but encountered the Polish version in O’Malley’s Stiletto in that same year.

Ne moj cyrk, ne moje małpy.

if I remember correctly.

Stephen Miller just said the quiet part out loud claiming that Trump has plenary authority when it comes to deploying troops. (Plenary means full authority.) After making the statement, he froze completely, like a deer in headlights. The video is worth watching.

This is 100% the case. I’ve been there for some of these conversations, and they shook me down to my toes.

Top image Jews being loaded onto trains by Nazi’s. Bottom image, innocent people being herded onto planes by ICE

The federal government under Stephen Miller is explicitly trying to start a civil war.

That is my statement.

It's time to believe your eyes.

We do not deploy American forces against Americans in our own cities.

Our military is not trained for domestic law enforcement.

It’s illegal and un-American.

The image shows two X posts. The first, by Alex Cole (@acnewstics ) from 1 day ago, states: "This country eats tacos, drinks tequila, and dances to reggaeton, but god forbid we hear Spanish for 15 minutes at halftime?" The second, by Pop Crave (@PopCrave ) from 1 day ago, states: "Former racecar driver Danica Patrick slams Bad Bunny as the Super Bowl 2026 halftime headliner: 'No songs in English should not be allowed at one of America's highest rated television events of the year... not just for sports.'" The post includes photos of Danica Patrick and Bad Bunny.

Bad Bunny’s got them hopping mad!

This is an old formula used by authoritarian regimes. Stoke chaos and blame scapegoats to justify the use of force.

The image is an X post by Mike Nellis (@MikeNellis ) from 19 hours ago, stating: "So let me get this straight: a Blackhawk helicopter and dozens of masked, armed federal agents roll up on a Chicago apartment building, cuff everyone—including kids—and then run checks for warrants and immigration status? What the hell is going on in this country? How is that not fascism?" The post includes a verified badge.

Narrator: This is fascism.

So say it, Hegseth.

President Truman desegregated the military in 1948. That would be when the “wokeness” began, huh?

Say it.

I am reading “ The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich “ from 1960. Trump is following Hitler’s game book exactly. Hitler sold the German people and especially their military on the lie that their war defeat was because of the leftist politicians that betrayed them.

Sound familiar?

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?

#TwentyfiveFortyseven