Erstwhile dragon.

This is extrajudicial execution, without any clear threat to the US, no authorization from Congress, and far beyond even Article II. The military is not the president's personal hit squad.
Or wasn't, until now.

This Is No Way to Make D.C. Safer Even if the president’s efforts bring crime down temporarily, they are undermining the city’s long-term well-being.

in DC, some immigrant and domestic violence advocates are no longer automatically telling victims to call 911, for fear of what might happen when the police arrive

“Conservatism” Is Now Just a Domination Fetish From states rights, a rules-based system, and limited government to a boot stamping on a human face—forever.

“Today’s conservatives are certainly radical—they are hostile to the rule of law, subsidiarity, and institutions—but what they want isn’t so much change as domination…This isn’t a program that’s concerned with changing policies; it’s a fetish for domination.”

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Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*.

There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.

There’s no excuse, but that will not stop them doing what they want.

Faith as a Weapon: Inside America’s Theocratic Vanguard Christian nationalism and theocratic extremists didn’t just inspired Jan 6 — they’ve taken over key parts of government, weaponizing faith to dismantle democracy and impose an authoritarian theocratic...

Faith as a Weapon uncovers how Christian nationalism fueled January 6 and is now embedding a theocratic and authoritarian agenda within the U.S. government. The report profiles key leaders, explores their ideology, & exposes the political power driving these authoritarian policies.

Read our report:

Nadira Azzouz (Iraqi, 1927 – 2020). The Back of My Garden (2010, mixed media on canvas).

ניתוח צילומי לוויין העלה כי לפחות 70% מהמבנים ברצועה לא ראויים למגורים לפי מומחה למיפוי מהאוניברסיטה העברית, 89% מהמבנים ברפיח, 84% מהמבנים בצפון הרצועה ו-78% מהמבנים בעיר עזה - נהרסו באופן מלא או חלקי. מהנתונים עולה כי מאז אפריל נהרסו ברפיח כאלפיים מבנים בממוצע מדי חודש

Satellite imagery analysis revealed that the destruction in the strip is greater than thought, with at least 70% of the buildings uninhabitable

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The people who lost children and other loved ones in the Texas floods are owed honest answers from officials. They should be told why flash flood warnings issued hours earlier were not conveyed to people in the path of the water. They don’t need more prayers from politicians. They need answers.

The only reason they were saying they'd never vote to cut Medicaid was to give them time to unload their stocks b4 they started crashing.

ICYM: Eight-foot-tall ‘Dictator Approved’ sculpture appears on National Mall

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A Texas boy needed protection from measles. The vaccine cost $1,400. Due to the ongoing U.S. measles outbreak, a Texas man worried that his young son was at risk and took him to get vaccinated. The cost of the shot? $1,400.

Due to the ongoing U.S. measles outbreak, a Texas man worried that his young son was at risk and took him to get vaccinated.

The cost of the shot? $1,400.

YouTube video by PurplepingersTV The worst rental in Bendigo?

“There’s no rental crisis, just move to the regions”
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“We don’t get enough water. They put out a little case of water, and everyone has to run for it,” said the declaration from the girl held with her mother and two younger siblings at the Karnes County Immigration Processing Center. “An adult here even pushed my little sister out of the way to get to the water first.”

The conditions at an ICE family detention facility in Texas are so bad that adults are literally physically jockeying with children for *water.*

This is the desperation ICE is deliberately and, it must be said, sadistically producing.

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#TrumpEpsteinFiles #FuckRacistRapistPedoTaco #EightySix47 #LetsGoTaco

Darnella Frazier was 17 when she had the presence of mind to document what was happening to George Floyd.

These ICE abduction videos differ but also convey an out-of-control state abusing its power.

Sometimes bearing witness is among the most important forms of civil resistance.

NYPD Department Chief Used False Identity in Bid to Avoid Income Tax, Records Show Chell pleaded guilty to departmental charges in that case and one other, according to records in a lawsuit accusing him of misrepresenting an incident where officers ran over a man.

The NYPD’s highest-ranking uniformed official used someone else’s identity in a bid to avoid paying income taxes on money he made while moonlighting as a basketball referee, records show.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/12/j...

No Kings On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...

The right to peacefully protest is fundamental.

It is in the Constitution.

No president can nullify it—because in the United States of America, we have no kings.

Join @indivisible.org and more this weekend to make your voice heard: www.nokings.org

This is so bad. The justices can’t both be the smart lawyers making the big decisions interpreting our laws *and* so incapable of choosing what words to say when announcing those decisions that the public can’t be trusted to hear them.

Why accountability matters: “Civilians have impersonated ICE agents while committing robbery (Pennsylvania), kidnappings (Florida, South Carolina), sexual assault (North Carolina) and other forms of public intimidation (Washington state, California). Opinion”

Naval Academy history chair resigns over ordered removal of symposium paper Tom McCarthy cited the removal of a paper on grounds beyond its academic standard.

Chair of history department at U.S. Naval Academy resigns after order to remove paper from symposium “for reasons having nothing to do with scholarship.” [James Matheson, Baltimore Sun]

ICE of NYC march, lots of people taking Duane St., NYC.

It was peaceful and well-organized and motivating and just the beginning.

a photo of foley square full of protesters

NOW — I’m at the ICE OUT OF NEW YORK protest in Foley Square.

And as a reminder, the all-Trump appointee motions panel is sitting on another “administrative stay” of Boasberg’s contempt order that has been sitting around for over a month with no movement.

I want to post about the protests on Saturday the 14th. I read we need at least 11 million people to make a difference. Please make sure you are PEACEFUL. We have to show this regime there’s more of us than them. This will be our last chance to make a difference. Please repost this.

Billie Eilish's Brother Finneas Slams Cops After Getting Tear-Gassed At Peaceful LA Protest Thank you for speaking out, Finneas.

Thank you for speaking up, Finneas.