Ken Almario

Honest question... how much longer?

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

nursesonja • 7h & Threads Let us not forget, it was the same administration that reduced us to wearing trash bags as protective gear while we watched the hospital go up in flames around us during the pandemic that just murdered one of our own on the streets in broad daylight. As a nurse & as a person, I will never forgive. I will never forget. I will never back down. This was never about border control. This is about total control. O240 Q5 G34 → 21

The nurses are pissed

Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and Keith Porter Jr. were murdered. Marimar Martinez was shot. Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and jailed.

The next could be you.

What’s at stake isn’t just our democracy. It’s also your safety and security and that of your loved ones.

This is personal — to every one of us.

Honestly I know that free healthcare, housing, pensions and university would be great.

But the BEST thing about taxing the billionaires out of existence would be taking their megaphones off them.

Imagine radio, tv and social media without them.

Bliss.

Heard this on a podcast and I couldn't agree more: "Billionaires are not economic outcomes, they are economic errors."

#TaxWealth

#10 Believe in truth.
"To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights."

"Churchill did what others had not done. Rather than concede in advance, he forced Hitler to change his plans."

On Tyranny - Graphic Edition Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
by: Timothy Snyder

Some of my favorite quotes from this book:

"Each story on televised news is "breaking" until it is displaced by the next one. So we are hit by wave upon wave but never see the ocean."

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Middle aged white lady carrying a blue poster board sign with the words SEE YOU AT NUREMBERG FUCKERS

Froze my ass off at the Iowa City anti-ICE rally, but it was worth it

100% this!👇

Swalwell: You better believe that accountability is coming. Immunity is going to be stripped. And to Kristi Noem, Tom “Cashbag” Homan, Greg Bovino—your asses are going to be in these witness chairs.

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

"There is no punctual moment of disaster: the world doesn't end with a bang, it winks out, unravels, gradually falls apart."

Capitalist Realism
by Mark Fisher

She’s right you know…👇

Arrest. Trump. NOW! 😎✨

Graphic with a blue background and large white text reading “DEAR AMERICAN FRIENDS.” Below is a screenshot of a post explaining that Canada does not have CBS, that a “60 Minutes” episode aired normally in Canada, and stating that Canadian networks are not subject to U.S. government interference. The post ends with “We’re not under a dictatorship. You are.”

This message hits hard.

News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we

have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.

We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”

What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”

Funny how that works.

Where’s the parody?

This is exactly what churches should be doing, calling out injustice.

📌 Lake Street Church Nativity: a bold social justice statement with ICE-like Roman soldiers, the Virgin Mary in a gas mask, baby Jesus zip-tied, Joseph on the ground, pushing viewers to think about immigration.

FIFA showed us what their Democracy looks like. They make the rules, cheat in front of our eyes, and then say the sport is beautiful and anyone can play each other... as long as it's the right time for them to maximize their profits. The FIFA Draw was an absolute joke.

This is no joke. People are watching. They may not know what's happening in the US day-to-day but now they might think it's okay. Disgusting FIFA. Shame on you!

A second of thinking about what FIFA is trying to do here is disgusting, despicable, disrespectful for those suffering under the regime, and a clear viewing of what they think of us and our intelligence. FIFA is showing who they really care about and who they are trying to fool.