Laura C

Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

Mark Carney gave the best speech at Davos by far. He understands the situation with clarity while others prevaricate, appease, and send late-night “Dear Donald” texts or call him “daddy.”

Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments

Important work here from the NYT. Ross wasn’t run over. He dropped his cell phone, which he had shifted to his left hand to draw his weapon. And then he shot and killed a person with the gun in his right hand.
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We have to be clear about what the Trump Administration is doing: They are taking basic American virtues and freedoms — the ability to speak truth to power and freely — and turning them into crimes. We must see through this.

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.

I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

raffi: regime change in America

they've got Raffi calling for regime change. something has shifted.

What a sick, demented bastard. A mother is dead, and this dickhead is making her part of his 2028 campaign platform 24 hours later.

Awesome! I read Jane Eyre when I was 17 and LOVED it. It was my favorite book for years, until I read Mansfield Park. It’s due for another reading, and I’m curious to find out if now, at 46, I’ll still feel the same way about it.

Thank you, my husband drives Uber/Lyft full time, and we definitely need the income he makes!!

Thank you, I appreciate all that you do!

Ordered!! I’m excited that it’s region free, and I’ll be able to watch it here in the USA. I am so lucky to have watched the show live in Chicago last month!

I completely agree with this!! I hate DST.

This is so incredibly sad.

Wow, lots of American flags and peace . Sure doesn’t seem like people who hate America you absolute embarrassment Speaker Johnson

Excited to be at the No Kings protest in Chicago!!!

Ishmael thinks he’s too cool for #caturday.

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson The Great Chicago Fire | Journey to American Democracy

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I’m looking forward to traveling to Chicago soon for a planned visit, because I have confidence in Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson to do everything in their power to protect our rights!

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

The ICE raid in Chicago in the middle of the night was an assault on humanity. Agents stormed into a high rise apartment, tore children from their parents, and left an entire community traumatized. This was not law enforcement, and I stand with my colleagues in Chicago in condemning it.

YouTube video by MSNBC ‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

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Robert Reich Trump’s Police State Propaganda

ICE and other federal agents conducted a violent, middle-of-the-night raid on an apartment building in Chicago — just days after Trump said the military should go after “the enemy within.” He and his cronies are building a police state piece by piece. https://youtu.be/5zrye_p-EPI?si=VinP3uxFa9_JiN8X

I’ve met too many Christians who are the epitome of the word “hypocrite,” and I’m sure evangelicals are the worst of them all.

Trump hates to be the object of humor. He understands that humor can be a more powerful antidote to tyranny than any other form of criticism.

I'm sure he'd hate it if you shared this cartoon. [Cartoon by Jon Adams/The New Yorker]

You're either with ICE or with humanity and democracy.

Choose.

JD Vance should check out ChatGPT

This is an atrocity.

YouTube video by I've Had It IHIP News: MAGA Are DESPERATELY Trying to Portray LGBTQ+ Community as TERRORISTS?!

I’m wondering why so many news organizations—even progressive ones—are not questioning the legitimacy of the “text messages” between Tyler Robinson and his roommate. I am not one to subscribe to conspiracy theories, but how can we believe ANYTHING from this regime??

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I love Disney and Pixar—my favorite movie of all time is Inside Out—but if you want to live with integrity, you have to do what is right, not what is easy. So…our Disney+/Hulu/ESPN subscription cancelled, no Disney parks (I’ve never even been), and no more movies except used or from the library.

One thing you learn in life is that "speaking truth to power" and practicing integrity is easy when your job, your money, your fame, or your office is not on the line. The hard is speaking truth and practicing integrity when any one of those is on the line. That is the test of who you are.