Michael Harrington

Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.

Ronald Reagan explaining why tariffs don’t protect jobs, they destroy them and drag the economy down.

Opinion | Ukraine Diplomacy Reveals How Un-American Trump Is

Ukraine Diplomacy Reveals How Un-American Trump Is www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/o...

STOP conceding that Trump can legitimately expand grab by deploying baseless claims of “emergency.”

There was NO EMERGENCY to justify tariffs.
There was NO “INVASION” to justify this migrant crackdown.
And there is NO “EMERGENCY” that justifies military takeover of local law enforcement in D.C.

Do you know how you counter a powerful bully? You bring all your friends!

I want to congratulate leading Democrats’ for their insistence on saying the takeover of DC is a “stunt” or a “distraction.”

It’s a rare trifecta of intellectual failure, political stupidity, and moral obtuseness.

In case you forgot, the guy Trump rolled out the red carpet for yesterday, honored with military flyovers and a joyride in his presidential limo…is wanted for the war crime of kidnapping Ukrainian children.

You forgot: One applauded for the other.

I guess I'm being ungenerous but whoever wrote this should be sent to the salt mines. It made my skin crawl.

Cartoon showing a giant Trump head shouting with Hitler emerging from his mouth saying "The streets of our country are in turmoil. The Universities are filled with students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to destroy our country ....without law and order our nation can not survive. - Adolf Hitler 1932"

Danziger

Drug Enforcement Administration officers patrolling the National Mall.

If you know DC you understand how tremendously goofy this is

(h/t @lorenzohall1.bsky.social)

No lies told here.

The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.

The biggest single violent criminal event in DC history was masterminded by and on behalf of Trump who is himself, of course, a convicted felon. The police he today said he would protect and empower were the primary victims of the mass attack he incited.

Trump wants us to forget his Epstein files cover-up so badly that he’s invading Washington D.C.

Donald Trump complaining about violent crime in DC is rich.

This would not be happening if African Americans weren't the largest demographic in Washington, DC. This is white supremacy.

Not With a Bang, but With a Truth Social Post The president is rattling a nuclear saber as a distraction.

Trump has initiated a new era in which the chief executive can use threats regarding the most powerful weapons on Earth to salve his ego and improve his political fortunes. Once upon a time, America was governed by serious people. No longer.

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Who's carrying out Southern California immigration raids? The presence of masked federal agents is an unnerving part of life in Southern California this summer. Here’s a look at who’s carrying out the immigration raids.

Excellent read.

"The Cato Institute found that ICE booked over 200,000 people into detention between October 1 and June 14. More than 93% of book-ins had no violent conviction and 65% had no criminal conviction whatsoever."

This is what ethnic cleansing in the US looks like. Right now.

Trump Is Gutting Weather Science and Reducing Disaster Response

Trump Is Gutting Weather Science and Reducing Disaster Response www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/c...

"Reich citizenship will not be laid in the cradle of every one born in Germany, but will be ceremoniously conferred on him after he has shown himself worthy of it through special accomplishments, through loyal services to the State." NY Times, July 6, 1933.

Current conditions near Good Hart, MI

Rubio’s Cuts at State Department Demote Longtime U.S. Values

A diplomat's expertise is built over decades, not hired overnight. When the Trump admin purges our most senior diplomats, it’s not just firing people-it’s erasing a generation of knowledge and relationships. This is a self-inflicted wound that weakens America for decades to come.

The Republican budget is a climate horror Not content to ignore climate change, they decided to make it even worse.

New in PN: The Republican budget is a climate horror

"Republicans have gone from acknowledging climate change is real but insisting we should do nothing about it, to delivering all sorts of harm to the country so they can make it worse. You won’t find better evidence of how radical they've become."

Bibi knows his mark. They all do. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Opinion | Now You See Josh Hawley, Now You Don’t

Now You See Josh Hawley, Now You Don’t www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...

We must not leave this out of the account of what they have done. What Musk and Trump and Vought did. What Johnson and his band of sycophants allowed them to do. What tens of millions of fellow Americans endorse.