Nothing is determined. There is room to push back.

But let’s not pretend this isn’t exactly what it looks like: The regime is declaring all forms of dissent illegitimate and is preparing a massive crackdown on all forms of political and societal opposition.

They want to escalate. This is it.

BREAKING: Trump doesn't remember/believe/understand HE was president on January 6, 2021

This is how unstable, how mentally unbalanced, how much of a dangerous mixture of dishonesty and insanity Trump is:

"Biden's FBI?" By Jan. 6 2021, TRUMP had run the FBI for 1,448 days #25A

BUSTER KEATON

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

I think it should be very clear to people that the Democratic elected officials in major cities do not have control of their police, or they are telling their police to beat their own citizens while out of the other side of their mouth, telling the citizen that they are there to protect them. 

I’ve covered and participated in protests where cops worked with organizers and then stayed back a bit and they’ve always been peaceful. With very few exceptions, all of the violence I’ve seen at protests—and I’ve seen a huge amount—started with aggressive policing.

We need to consider whether these back and forths are a tactic in themselves. They've done it before, and it's almost as good for their purposes as firing people.

One of the many things I wish I had been wrong about is saying that back in the nineties, our leaders looked at climate change and said: We can’t do shit about this without measures we find unacceptable, so future generations will just have to deal with it via machine guns, fences and attack dogs.

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

vought justifies all of this as a vision of "separation of powers" — an idea that i'm more and more convinced doesn't actually exist, at least not in any strong form, in the constitution — but the thing that comes across is his basic contempt for representative government

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

This is so uncontroversial of a fact at this point that you can find it in even the revised books of the most vitriolic and racist of the New Historian authors, Benny Morris.

The amount of times that I have had to repeat, over and over and over to people, that en masse expulsion of Palestinians did not begin in May 1948 but in fact in the fall of 1947, more than half a year prior to what's known as the "first Arab-Israeli war", is frankly astonishing.

Eugenicists one and all.

So if Russ Vought and Bob Kennedy were deliberately trying on behalf of an enemy to sicken and kill Americans by destroying the public health structure - what would they be doing differently?

Trump still hasn’t even mentioned this mass shooting at a government building

Critics say it’s a gigantic crime, right in everybody’s faces. Critics of critics say it is not. It depends on the narrator. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Are the editors of the New York Times engaged in a violent coup against the government of New York? It depends on the narrator www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/are-...

Yes. It was a time for loads of Our Fellow Americans to systematically inform the rest of us that they were aggressive assholes.

these days it's all wrapped up with Prosperity Gospel lunacy so being rich is a proxy for being favored by God anyway

imagine the fit this entitled incompetent belligerent moron will pitch if any part of her command is defied by a labor union

Writers Guild rightly tells members not to respond to Bari Weiss

No Way To Know Whether New Boss Wants To Fire A Lot Of People Or Genuinely Has No Idea How Anything Works Here

I think people also forget that there were civil rights protests for *100 years.* activists protested and lobbied constantly from the end of reconstruction through the 50s and 60s. mostly they were just ignored, beaten, jailed. 1