Mary McCray

If MLK were alive today, where would he be?

Pew Research Institute (2023):

• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants

• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants

• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.

And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."

It's *not* about immigration.

“.. A Washington Post analysis of multiple video feeds of the meeting Tuesday showed that during nine separate instances, Trump’s eyes were closed for extended periods or he appeared to struggle to keep them open, amounting cumulatively to nearly six minutes.”

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I wish there was a precedent for what happens when a demagogue picks out a vulnerable minority group and labels them as subhuman. I wonder what the next step is and whether any innocent people get hurt. And I wonder whether the demagogue's followers go on trial when the whole thing is over.

My teenagers can’t get a ticket to the Running Man remake on their own, but sure, they’re consenting adults when it comes to sex.

There’s not enough pepper spray in the world for these creeps

Adelita Grijalva won her election to Congress nearly a month ago, but Mike Johnson still hasn't sworn her in. Why the delay? Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.

So no terrorism then?

Screenshot of a post on X from Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s verified account. The post reads: “US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters. Fisherman Alejandro Carranza had no ties to the drug trade and his daily activity was fishing. The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure. We await explanations from the US government.”

🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.

An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago

#A_NewHope ✊

DC J6: 1.500 arrests
DC No Kings: zero

Tell me again which side is violent?

"Mr. President sir the idea is you're constantly flying around in a big jet filled with your own shit in it. Like human shit. Anyways you're wearing a little crown in your little shitmobile and you're dumping the shit out. I think people will like it."

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Speaker Johnson continues to stall the swearing in of Rep.-elect Grijalva so as to avoid having to deal with the Epstein discharge petition. Why shouldn’t Dems make support for reopening the government contingent on adding to the funding measure a provision mandating release of the Epstein files?

Doing some back of the napkin math on the Free Press acquisition, I've determined The Onion is worth $2 trillion.

A judge blocked Trump from sending Oregon's National Guard into Portland.

That same judge then blocked Trump from deploying California's National Guard to Portland instead.

This isn't a "left wing" judge — Trump appointed her.

Says a lot about Trump's authoritarian power grab.

CNN: Isn't that hyperbolic to call them terrorists?

STEPHEN MILLER: No. If anything I'm understating the severity of the situation

You just can't pull off a good frame job these days. What has this country come to

The Florida insurance lawyer for AUSA of EDVA. Unreal.

Here’s how Trump’s post-presidency went for Hope Hicks:

She broke down crying on the witness stand just after she provided crucial testimony in the criminal trial against her former boss.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/fire...

Ezra Klein Is Doing Politics the Wrong Way The NYT columnist is more interested in flattering his ego than telling the truth.

I told myself I wouldn't do a snap reaction to Ezra Klein's noxious editorial. I said, "If you're still mad about it on Monday, then you can write about it."

I'm still mad about it!

'The whole thing is screwed up': Farmers in deep-red Pennsylvania struggle to find workers They're pushing lawmakers to move faster on a farm labor solution, even as the president cracks down on immigration.

Trump won Tioga County, Pennsylvania with 75 percent of the vote. But farmers there now risk losing everything because of Trump's crackdown on immigrants. One dairy farm that sold off all its dairy cows because the owner could not find workers. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Do we file this one under free markets or personal liberty?

This is all the more confusing bc I thought that deporting “illegal immigrants” was supposed to give Americans their jobs back. 🤔

Over the decades I have spoken at all of the service academies and War Colleges. They've all known I was "a critic" of many policies

This is a really, really ominous development

(AFAcad cancelling a speaker, in endowed-lecture series, because she has criticized Trump.)

gazette.com/military/air...

They say familiar surroundings are important for dementia patients, so it makes since that they're doing everything they can to recreate the tackiness of Mar-a-Lago to calm down President Sundown O'Bruisehands.

I bet they start forcing the Cabinet to get shitty plastic surgery next.

Right-Wing Media Starts Treating Trump Like a Lame Duck The president isn’t ruling out a third term. But some in the MAGA media ecosystem are looking beyond him.

Don't get your hopes up yet, but the MAGA right might indeed be starting to feel some Trump fatigue. ICYMI @willsommer.bsky.social:

Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.

ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?

In theory, I really don't like dark money. In practice, in the current moment, fuckin whatever gets Dems messaging moving I'm good with.