Amy Zitzer

"Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!"

T. Pratchett

We have a WINNER 🥇

NO KINGS DAY

It's so teeny tiny!

Just sitting here CACKLING.

When mommy and daddy spend a fortune on your quinceañera and nobody from school shows up.

A grand total of 160 people have been arrested for protesting in LA in almost an entire week! That requires 4,700 armed troops? Only when you're Chicken Little trying to manufacture a crisis.

Think of ICE as one of those crooked Florida police departments in small towns that pulls over *thousands* of drivers on I-95 for *any* reason to meet quotas for tickets.

Stephen Miller has given ICE quotas for arrests and they will meet those quotas whether the arrestees deserve it or not.

Kristi Noem has that rare ability to shoot her dog in the face and it *still* not be the worst thing she ever did in her sorry, lying life.

Is attention junkie Kristi Noem crazier than attention junkie Nancy Mace? I can't make that call except to say neither is crazier than attention junkie Donald Trump.

“What Senator Alex Padilla did today was political theater.”

--Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater

This wasn’t fiction. It happened here. In America. And just like in the galaxy far, far away, the message was clear: dissent will be punished, questions are dangerous, and power answers only to itself. But here’s the thing about Empires, people rise. Oppression breeds rebellion.

Senator dared to question the Empire, directly, and was met with force. Stormtroopers didn’t hesitate. They grabbed him, cuffed him, dragged him away like a dissident, claiming he “failed to identify himself.” But everyone knew who he was. He was a Senator.

Former U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman Phyllis Coven told @johnfugelsang.bsky.social that mass deportations are unlawful.

Trump’s go-to line about every foreign policy crisis and war - from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, to October 7th, to the Israel’s devastation of Gaza - was “It would never have happened if I was president.”

Welp.

😭💔

Teslas suck.

So Trump is planning to *cleanse* a region of one *ethnicity*?

I wonder if there is already an expression that describes that.

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So Trump donors GEO can put a for-profit prison in Newark without even filing for a certificate of occupancy, without passing fire inspections...

...and yet the mayor, who is black, gets arrested for demanding compliance with those laws.

Any questions?

‘I'm a White American. I Don't Want Trump's White America.’

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/im-a-white...

We have reached a harsh duality: you’re either with him or with Humanity.

You are either one who speaks in opposition to evil or who says nothing and partners with it.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/silence-is...

Silence is a Statement Now, and Here's What It's Saying The volume of the monsters is unavoidable right now.

At some point, either your humanity kicks in or it doesn’t.

Either you find your voice or you allow the empty void to testify loudly on your behalf.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/silence-is...

“And so the Greeks send me this horse, we’re talking about one of the most beautiful horses you’ve ever seen. So big. So strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves but they were such big fans they said sir, please take our big wonderful horse we’ll even bring it to your house”

"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."
- Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica

How not surprising that a lobbyist for Qatar, who took a bribe from Trump to shut down an investigation of Trump University for consumer fraud, found that it was OK for Qatar to bribe Trump.