Raskin: What makes somebody a good lawyer?

You have to identify with the people who are the victims of injustice — not with their perpetrators.

So I would say to Pam Bondi: If you’re going to stand with the victimizers and not the victims, then you’re not a real lawyer.

The true equivalency: drug cartel thugs = hi-elo.

Peters to ICE/CBP officials: "How can you expect any US citizen to follow orders from an unidentified, masked man surrounding them, given we know there are these impersonators out there who according to the FBI are committing a lot of crime?"

Apropos of a the thin skinned geriatric nonce getting stroppy over a song, I have decided to acquire the entire discography of Bruce Springsteen and give it all a damn good listening to. Anybody who can make that cretin apoplectic with rage in just three minutes is OK by me.

#StreisandEffect.

Shame on the IOC for this awful action. And may the #StreisandEffect ensure that this Ukrainian athlete’s message spreads 10 times as far because of this hamfisted attempt at censorship.

In today’s frightening world, everything is political, & orgs pretending otherwise appear clueless or complicit.

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes.

We must not fund ICE. The Constitution gave Congress the power of the purse. Congress must use that power aggressively and fearlessly if our country is to survive.

LIVE: Reps. Khanna and Massie speak after reviewing unredacted Epstein files YouTube video by MS NOW

After more unredacted Epstein files have came out. World leaders are calling for people to step down and to be prosecute. Our leaders have done nothing.
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Screenshot of an X.com post by Georgia Coley (@artwithinpod) saying one of the funniest things about conservatives gaining political power is that they reveal their unfiltered idea of what’s “cool,” likening it to a senile boomer’s idea of a wild party. Below is an embedded Blue Georgia post mocking Kid Rock’s TPUSA halftime show, saying the audio was out of sync, with a video still of Kid Rock performing on stage.

Quite true and rather hilarious, I agree.

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If all these rich men "regret" their time with Epstein then why didn't they announce prior to the release of the files that their names would be part of the collection? Why didn't they self-report? The answer is they are not sorry and have no regret. They are sorry and regret they got caught.

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

It took the outcry of a nation to bring 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father back to Minnesota from an ICE detention facility, and now the Trump administration is trying to fast-track their deportations.

The cruelty of this administration has no limits.

Hey man. You work at a newspaper. Have some self respect and try to write at least one sentence that doesn’t feel like sandpaper on my eyeballs.

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Redistricting between censuses and gerrymandering for political gain sucks and should be ended but FAFO.

Remember her name: Aliya Rahman

Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.

It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.

ICE MUST GO‼️

Pinned lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Aug 19, 2021 Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13) 0:02 / 0:10 lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 47m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

CASTEN: I want to read you a quote -- 'tariffs are inflationary and would strengthen the dollar.' Do you recognize it?

BESSENT: You're referring to a letter a wrote. Tariffs could be inflationary


CASTEN: No no. It says 'tariffs are inflationary.' Do you want to correct the record?

Concur

The entire press corps should walk out, not come back, & we simply shouldn’t tolerate this.

Months of “Joe Biden won’t do a press conference.” A nonstop national story. Same with Harris in Aug/Sep 2024 & interviews. Trump does this stuff & everyone shrugs. It’s appalling.

These people are terrorists. Full stop.

You don't reform this. You disband it, then you put it on trial.

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Paul Weiss law firm chair Brad Karp told Jeffrey Epstein ‘You’re amazing’ The tranche of documents released by the Department of Justice showed that the disgraced financier sought to ingratiate himself with one of Wall Street's most influential legal figures.

Paul Weiss law firm chair Brad Karp told Jeffrey Epstein ‘You’re amazing’

The regime moves to make journalism a crime But try as they might, they won't silence the voices of dissent.

New in PN: The regime moves to make journalism a crime

"The way he’s targeting the press isn’t just about quieting criticism so he doesn’t have to hear people being mean to him. It’s the same impulse we see on the streets of Mpls: He wants to dominate those who oppose him and force them to submit."