They need to show up in numbers that will overwhelm trump’s handfuls of lawless thugs.

What else is there to do when the federal government is no longer working for us?

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I’m so sick of the utter lawlessness of this administration.

Bessent Has Yet to Fully Divest Assets, Raising Concern at Ethics Agency

With farm bailouts back in the news, it's a great time to remind everyone that US Treasury Secretary Bessent owns thousands of acres of of soybean farms.

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There is no budget "deal" to be made President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

How do you find a compromise budget that reflects the priorities of 535 members of the House and Senate when Trump will just withhold any money he doesn't want to spend? A representative democracy cannot function as Trump has broken the US system this year. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

Where was that energy for Uvalde??

But Portland is on fire, & Chicago is a war torn town.

There's been debate about whether Jan 6 was stochastic terrorism - it wasn't. THIS is likely stochastic terrorism: a judge's house torched right after Stephen Miller ranted about "liberal judges" who blocked Trump's actions, said they "shielded terrorists". This is the result he wanted. 1/

And no one on the right will acknowledge any of these points. I’m aghast at my own realization that there is literally no rationalizing with anyone in a position of power from a conservative standpoint.

My counterpoint entire in a tweet:

Instagram account connected to Gilroy shooter pushed staple of white supremacist internet forums

Anti-Semitic open letter posted online under name of Chabad synagogue shooting suspect

Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect threatened Jewish groups, pushed migrant caravan conspiracies

New Zealand mosque shooting: Attacker's apparent manifesto probed

These are right-wing terror events I covered just from 2017 to 2023. It's not even close to comprehensive. The government's trying to erase this history.

Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*.

There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.

Such violence is antithetical to America. The First Amendment — the first for a reason — enshrines our rights to freedom of speech and expression. Our country is based on the principle that we must disagree peacefully. Our political disagreements may be intense and emotional, but they should never be violent. This balance requires restraint. Americans have to accept that their side will lose sometimes and that they may feel angry about their defeats. We cannot act on that anger with violence. Too many Americans are abandoning this ideal. Thirty-four percent of college students recently said they supported using violence in some circumstances to stop a campus speech, according to a poll from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression published a day before the Kirk shooting. Since 2021, that share has risen from 24 percent, which was already unacceptably high. Surveys of older adults are similarly alarming.

In May 2019 and for the first time in its history, the FBI identified fringe conspiracy theories as a potential source of domestic terrorism, it specifically cited QAnon.[37] A June 2020 study of domestic terrorist incidents by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) reported that during the previous 25 years, the majority of attacks and plots were perpetrated and hatched by far-right attackers. This trend has accelerated in recent years, with this sector being responsible for about 66% of all of the attacks and plots which were perpetrated in 2019, and it was also responsible for 90% of all of those attacks which were perpetrated in 2020. The next most potentially dangerous group has been "religious extremists", the majority "Salafi jihadists inspired by the Islamic State and al-Qaeda", while the number planned by the far left has reduced to a minute fraction since the mid-2000s.[38][39]

It is insane for this to be the only evidence you cite in your editorial about political violence. The far right has been responsible for the majority of terrorist attacks in the United States for years. Republican leaders routinely celebrate extrajudicial killings and refuse to regulate guns.

the murder that’s not on every front page nationwide

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

The Supreme Court is illegitimate and it's high time people started getting very comfortable with the idea that you cannot reform this specific court and that we'll need to ignore them completely moving forward.

That’s more than half the population of Texas too.

I also wrote a book on targeted killings carried out by the US and wow, as Nicholas points out, this is so far outside of any previously settled practice or norm. Absolutely, unambiguously abnormal and well into 'murder' territory by any established convention.

"This is an encroachment on everything we signed up for, and it feels like a violation."

Buddy, let me tell you about the Iraq War and what it was like dodging snipers and roadside bombs for nonexistent "weapons of mass destruction." Republicans have treated the military this way for decades.

The National Guard is, in some ways, a distraction. What's going to happen in Chicago is going to be a massive ICE enforcement blitz.

One thing I have been repeatedly saying about this administration is that they won't just kill people more quickly through their policies; the people who survive will also facer higher rates of disease, disability, and generally lower quality of life. We're taking a dramatic step back.

How do any lawyers or legal commentators still say the Supreme Court majority believes “unity executive theory” and rules according to that interpretation?

You witnessed years of the same Justices restricting a president only to do the opposite when the White House changed hands.

Why help the lie?

Evidencd that the Jeffrey Epstein scandal remains a potent political threat to the Trump admin: Fox News has largely ignored this morning's dramatic Capitol Hill press conference by Epstein survivors. Fox has only covered it briefly while CNN and MSNBC have carried it all live.

Epstein victims' lawyer: While we have seen the documents, you haven't. When you see the documents, you're going to be appalled. The American people deserve to see everything. Evil flourishes in the darkness. If you care about these women, about our country, this should pass with flying colors

Former Labor secretary will be interviewed in House Epstein probe Alex Acosta brokered a deal with the sex offender as US attorney in Miami.

Does anyone need a reminder that Alex Acosta, who gave Jeffrey Epstein the notorious "sweetheart deal" the first time his crimes were exposed became Trump's first labor secretary (until he was forced to resign when Julie K. Brown of the Miami Herald exposed the whole thing in 2018).

Of course.

This is good news, but we also need to be seriously talking about a national guard/military alliance. This administration isn’t going to stop coming after what they perceive as “Democratic states” unless we have the power to make them stop.

I’m amazed it took this long to hide him from the public.

The president implemented a hundred billion dollar tax hike with a memo it’s incredible that this is even a constitutional question at all

The current regional EPA head in charge of cleanup is Scott Mason, a former Oklahoma energy official who "was also an author of the Project 2025 plan that called for ending certain pollution regulations, toxic chemical clean-up programs, and research on the impact of pollution on human health."