I voted the day we closed on our house to move out of CA. I'm glad I got to mail in my ballot before leaving.

Speaker Mike Johnson just said he's completely fine with ICE agents shooting priests in the head with pepper balls and roughing up journalists.

I'm sure he'll tell us soon about how it's the Democrats who are waging a war on religion and free speech though.

So, what are we up to now in impeachable offenses?

The man who now owns this magazine was interviewed by the NYT recently.

He “did not have a negative word to say about Trump or his policies. ‘I fully support the president. I think he’s doing a great job.”

(ABC) - The Israel Defense Forces said its troops opened fire on Palestinians, killing five, after they allegedly violated the terms of the ceasefire agreement.

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* Over 20,000 Palestinians killed since January
* 100s starved to death, including kids
* Congress bypassed to send more & more bombs to Israel
* US citizens murdered in the West Bank

I hope this ceasefire holds & I am glad the hostages are free, but this is Trump’s *actual record* so far.

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

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Trump’s eager to get his real estate deals going

Gross

Because that’s what they do. Also, Trump always complained that Biden directed “his” DOJ because that’s what Trump tried to do his first term and is blatantly doing in his second because he believes he’s entitled to be in control of every aspect of governing from federal to state, private to public

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

Today, House Republicans will take their 70th day off with pay in the last 82 days.

I now realize that for my entire adult life, I've had a very narrow conception of what "supporting and defending the Constitution" means. Standing on business when armed agents of the State are knocking on your door is way more important, by a country mile, than anything I did overseas

They’ve already reshaped American democracy, and not in a good way.

Trump to the Israeli Knesset: "We had a very weak administration. Worst president in the history of our country by far. And Barack Obama was not far behind, by the way. They did nothing with this incredible document -- the Abraham Accords."

My husband and I got into our hotel room and I turned on the TV. I wasn’t patient enough to go through the guide so I picked HBO and started getting situated. We ordered dinner, then, as we ate, we started paying attention to the movie. Then eating started getting difficult. The movie? The Substance

No, you don't gotta hand it to him for possibly getting the third Biden cease fire eight months late after tolerating a mass starvation campaign and demanding a little ethnic cleansing and enormous bribes as a treat, and only because Netanyahu surprise bombed the chief bribe facilitator.

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

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