do go on …

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

Fozzie & Kermit's dad. Only ever seen this once, and easily my favorite sight gag in all of cinema.

Dead ringers

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Ice training seems like it’s exactly how this guy pictured the army:

This image was posted on X today by a Chicago Tribune reporter. Trump’s government has declared war on the American people — or some of them, based on race.

1846: lawyer James Collins says that if anyone sees a Chicago police officer trying to arrest a suspected fugitive slave, it was okay to attack the officer. They had no authority to make those arrests, and therefore should be considered kidnappers. (Officer Rhines was a drunken terror to refugees).

Latinos in Chicago are our neighbors. They make our community better. They're not a problem at all.
Texas National Guard troops are not our neighbors. They make our community worse. They're our main problem right now.

It's The Muppet Show with our very special guest star Svengoolie!

Signs like this in Chicago may not really help, but they’re nice to see.

Officer Henry Rhines is the villain in many Chicago slavery cases. At one point he was jailed for fatally shooting a bartender, escaped, was recaptured, then pardoned and back at work. A NY paper called him a “degraded, drunken wretch.” He’d totally be in the FOP today.

1846: lawyer James Collins says that if anyone sees a Chicago police officer trying to arrest a suspected fugitive slave, it was okay to attack the officer. They had no authority to make those arrests, and therefore should be considered kidnappers. (Officer Rhines was a drunken terror to refugees).

As basic question from an ex-police reporter: Can some of our journalists detail the training regimen all these new federal agents receive? The lethal incompetence involving use of force and perameters of the 4A suggests they are just handed guns, masks and badges and told to go fuck people up.

this is a very very big story because of the apparently totally fake story ICE/DHS put out about what happened.

The FOP is the bad apples club.

The problem (at least in IL) is not that we have a feckless governor or mayor unwilling "to stand up to Trump." The problem is that over 80 years+ we the people have ceded vast powers to the Fed govt for good and necessary reasons and then, last November, we gave all those powers to Donald Trump.

I’m always amazed at how many songs “Desolation Row” has inside of it; Dylan did it as an apocalyptic song AND as a standup comedy routine in 65, and last month he played it like a Chuck Berry song.

Right now I’m amazed at how well it seems to describe the current moment, in its surreal way.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Ms. Martinez’ lawyer says body cam footage shows the agent turned into HER car and yelled “do something bitch” before firing shots.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan