If the U.S. military isn't going to release details on the justification for killing 11 civilians in a civilian boat who weren't posing a threat to anyone, then we have to conclude the "justification" is: the U.S. military is willing to kill civilians to give Trump social media content.
Just to reiterate: What this administration is doing right now is orders of magnitude more dangerous for academic freedom and free speech than anything the right has spent the last 30 years complaining about.
Sending 2,000 troops to Los Angeles is the same thing as sending a few dozen random people to a gulag in El Salvador, they're doing this because it's a thing they've always wanted to do, not because of any broader goal or coherent plan. Subordination of strategy to tactical planning.
I’d put it even more strongly.
They are trying to create the conditions for invoking the Insurrection Act. They are doing this, with their own unlawful and vicious conduct. If they invoke the Insurrection Act, it will be illegitimate in every sense of the word.
Miller is an incredibly dangerous person, a fascist’s fascist who actively seeks to create chaos and terror.
One more data point confirming the trump regime is irredeemably authoritarian
Jeffries and Schumer must go. They are the exact opposite of what is needed in this moment.
In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows:
An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...
I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.
Carrie Bradshaw at her computer
Once again, I was left to wonder: was Pete Hegseth signal chatting military attack plans to everyone but me??
Am I the one that’s insecure, or is it his communication practices that are insecure?
UN General Assembly vote April 16, 2025 showing US siding with Russia and against a large majority of other countries.
UN General Assembly, US votes with Russia, Belarus, North Korea, Eritrea, Mali, Nicaragua, Niger, and Sudan, against a big majority of 105 countries (plus 33 abstentions) because the resolution on UN-Europe human rights cooperation says Russia attacked Ukraine.
That's who America's friends are now.
Whitmer and Newsom have tanked their larger aspirations all for the sake of giving the other side a chance.
The lesson: this is what bipartisanship with fascists gets you.
Fascist do not care about bipartisanship. If you pursue it with them, they will make a fool of you.
There is only defiance and opposition. That’s all any decent people want from their leaders anyway. Those who won’t can gtfo.
Reminder: this is the same plan Russian operatives offered to Paul Manafort in exchange for their help getting Trump elected in 2016. (See Manafort’s testimony in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report.)
NYT headline from last August: "Harris and Trump Embrace Tariffs, Though Their Approaches Differ"
gee i wonder why voters might've been confused about the existential stakes of the last election
It's not a pause on tariffs- there are still 10% across the board tariffs and higher tariffs on China.
This is driving me crazy too. Not long ago 10% universal tariffs were considered the worst-case scenario, something even Trump wasn’t crazy enough to impose. Now have those PLUS 125% tariffs on China. Together, these raise raise inflation by about as much as original “Liberation Day” tariffs did!
I don't think people realize that in important respects tariffs are now higher & more inflationary than what was announced on last Wednesday.
Since then we've gone from 54% to 125% on China, our 3rd largest trading partner. That outweighs delaying the increases on 70+ others.
Brief reprieve in astronomically high tariffs. Everyone still gets a flat 10% tariff- which is still high- and higher than just last week. Don't help them move the goalposts.
The 10% tariff alone is a $2500 per household annual tax hike!
BREAKING — DOGE will descend upon Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) buildings tomorrow, an agency source tells me.
FDIC is responsible for insuring all commercial/personal US bank accounts for up to $250k and regulating banks. Scary in light of Trump’s manipulation of markets this week.
There's definitely a national emergency that requires the imposition of tariffs, but also those tariffs can be turned on and off based on how panicked Maria Bartiromo seems to be on the tee-vee ...
I'd add that the portrayal of Lee as a military genius is also completely dishonest. Lee was directly responsible for the strategic decision that lost the war for the Confederacy (1863 invasion of the north) and made that decision for dumb and foolish reasons.
At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.
I don’t think people are paying enough attention to the fact that the North Carolina court of appeals just ruled that 65,000 votes don’t count, and that the Republican Supreme Court candidate who lost actually won.
This will be appealed, but make no mistake: they’re trying to steal this election.
So Israel killed 15 emergency workers who were in clearly marked ambulances.
Then it literally buried the vehicles and lied about the encounter.
Now, it says that many of the emergency workers were Hamas.
It cited no evidence.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/w...
Today, as Duke’s Khaman Maluach, of Rumbek, South Sudan, prepared to play in the NCAA Final Four, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced his department “is taking actions to revoke all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders...”
Democrats, Progressives, and Leftists need to embrace a healthy patriotism that holds multiple things to be true: That the United States has made many mistakes and has not lived up to its ideals, but that its ideals are great and worth fighting for.
