John David Dyche

Listening to Kentucky MBB radio broadcast. Commercial for UK Healthcare featuring Coach Mark Pope talking about “making a run for a banner” is getting on my nerves. #BBN

Damon Linker on defending liberalism (and how not to) On this episode of The Permanent Problem podcast, I’m happy to welcome Damon Linker, author of the “Notes from the Middleground” Substack and a Niskanen Center senior fellow, to discuss the challenge ...

This conversation between Brink Lindsey & Damon Linker, very smart, thoughtful gentlemen affiliated with The Niskanen Center @niskanencenter.bsky.social, is great. Discussions & ideas like theirs are essential if liberal democracy is to survive populist assault. open.substack.com/pub/brinklin...

They get mad when people on SNAP want to buy soda

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Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is extremely interesting! Thanks for it.

How a DHS shooting of a third U.S. citizen went unnoticed for months No state or federal agency disclosed that a Homeland Security Investigations agent had killed Ruben Ray Martinez until it was revealed in a public records request.

For nearly a year, DHS tried to keep secret that it had killed a U.S. citizen.

Then came a FOIA request from @weareoversight.bsky.social.

The reason we have “stupid rules of engagement” is to make sure we don’t bomb elementary schools.

Breakfast at Florida Avenue Grill & sit in the booth with the little plaque marking it as where Martin Luther King, Jr. sat while planning the March on Washington. Plenty of other cool photos of famous patrons, too. And the breakfasts are fantastic. Get the grits.

Please read about this great American life. A courageous patriot & an inspiration.

“In his memoir, Lafayette wrote that the ever-present threat of death during those early years of organizing taught him that the value of life ‘lies not in longevity, but in what people do to give it significance.’”

Sickening. Shame on Messi.

Confused about who is doing which new gig that has not actually been created or defined yet. Is Mitch Barnhart now Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas & Kristi Noem the Executive in Residence for the UK Sports and Workforce Initiative or vice versa? Regardless, congrats to both.

Dozens of Medical Schools Back Kennedy Plan on Nutrition After Pressure

"But Mr. Kennedy attracted a range of other institutions, representing about a quarter of American medical schools. Many are public schools in conservative states, including ... the University of Kentucky" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

Wish she had kept pushing for a response instead of letting him dodge. Probably more & better planning by this fascist administration for invading & occupying American cities & states than for this misbegotten war on Iran.

Trump Youth

@repmcgarvey.bsky.social Isn’t Rep. Massie right when he says, “If your tax dollars were used to settle sexual harassment claims against members of Congress, you should know about it”?

@repmcgarvey.bsky.social Why did you vote to refer the resolution to reveal all sexual harassment settlements involving members of Congress to the Ethics Committee where, per @jamiedupree.bsky.social, “it will presumably die,” instead of supporting the resolution & an up or down vote on it?

A war that isn't a war, documented with videos that may or may not be real, funded by elected leaders who are neither for nor against it, is the most dystopian thing that's happened in my lifetime

Love Sears & Sentnor playing together. #USWNT

And also to you.

Taylor Flint, but …

She definitely would’ve gotten on top of that header that Coffey couldn’t.

Rand Paul the only GOP senator to put fidelity to the Constitution ahead of fidelity to Trump.

Examples of summaries:
1. "Amendment to enrich GOP donors"
2. "Amendment to entrench GOP power"
3. "Amendment to make Christian nationalism law"
4. "Amendment to deny slavery happened"
5. "Amendment to mandate gun worship"
6. "Amendment to despoil the environment"
7. "Amendment to suck up to Trump"

@lblackford.bsky.social telling it like it is.

To paraphrase the great LA Times columnist Patt Morrison: "Among the bottom-feeders of the House, no one scrapes his chin more than James Comer."

Support the Massie-Khanna resolution, H.Con.Res.38, directing the President pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution to remove United States Armed Forces from unauthorized hostilities in the Islamic Republic of Iran. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

U.S. Opens Military Action in Ecuador Against ‘Terrorist Organizations’

Sure. Why not launch another war? After all, once you get started…
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.

"The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Ann Telnaes

All Trumpist fascists lie as they breathe. Constant lying is integral & essential to being a Trumpist fascist. They are anti-truth. Confronting them with undeniable truth does not deter them from lying, as they demonstrate every day.