Soybean Farmer: So now I've got a tariff war that's killing my market. I don't have any money from grain we're sending to other countries for USAID. I mean, I've got a compound problem. I don't know how you plan for next year because we don't know where we're at.

This is ground zero for ICE. Nothing burned. No broken windows. No damaged cars. A few dozen protestors hanging out. This is war ravaged? This is terrorists in control?

Look at how this MAGA propagandist, Benny Johnson, spins this scene: “army of Antifa.”

It’s a small group of people and a guy in chicken suit.

What part of “retired” don’t you understand?

Is it the word, “retired”?

Biden’s not a dictator (not even a benevolent one), & even though I advocated he make use of SCOTUS dangerous Trump v US ruling (7/1/24) before he left office on 1/20/25), I knew he wouldn’t (as did SCOTUS majority, handing down the ruling with 6 mo left to his term, knowing he wouldn’t).

NG members are wknd warriors (1 weekend/mo, 30 days/yr) & signed up because they have families, careers, attend college, etc. & want to help THEIR fellow citizens in THEIR State but don’t want to be used as toy soldiers by DT.

It’s not cool to fat shame anyone, esp. when they can’t refuse orders.

The Trump admin is threatening not to pay furloughed federal workers -- except that would be illegal, and Trump himself signed the law requiring them to get back pay www.huffpost.com/entry/govern... w/ @delaneyrules.bsky.social

Except the hypocrisy is not an oversight or a mistake: it’s quite conscious, as they see it as a feature, & not a bug.

I have a version of that Peter Griffin meme that makes the same point…

If anything, we are actually deeper into a Worse Case Scenario today than these headlines reflect. This is too mild for today.

It's been two weeks since Adelita Grijalva was elected and Mike Johnson has still refused to seat her, unlike in past cases where he swore in new members within 24 hours.

There cannot be one set of rules for Rs and another for Ds.

Also, release the damn Epstein files already.

Stephen froze like a deer in the headlights and pretended to have connection issues because he unintentionally gave away the game plan.

“Plenary authority is complete, absolute power over a specific area or issue, with no significant limitations."

Show people this clip. This is an insane slip up.

Yeah, Miller finally remembered his public statements can be admitted into evidence in court by the plaintiff, so rather than digging himself in deeper by blabbering on cable TV, he faked a technical issue…

Dude should’ve just shut his big fat mouth & refused to talk about a pending legal matter.

Yeah, even the most-advanced Elon right-wing fascist Optimus bots will sometimes glitch, and need a hard (cntl-alt-del) reboot…

Pastor David Black of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, being sprayed directly in the face by troops during protests outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois in September. (Photo by Ashlee Rezin/via Chicago Sun-Times).

DON'T LOOK AWAY.

Are U admitting that U DON’T know Maddow is a talking-head who’s only spouting her opinion (although unlike Fox, MSNBC sticks closer to facts & not feels or what they hope to be true), so U’re actually proving the point that OANN & Herring were arguing that her viewers believe she’s a journalist?

If U don’t understand the ruling, practically-speaking, RM knew she couldn’t prove OAN was paid by Sputnik (a known Kremlin propaganda outlet) so couldn’t avail herself of “truth” defense to defend her statement in a defamation suit, but COULD rely on the “opinion” defense, saying viewers knew that.

Other than I’m a retired lawyer?

RM won defamation suit (Herring v. Maddow) after OAN sued RM for saying, “OAN lit. is paid RU propaganda.”

Fed judge tossed it in 2020, ruling it was protected opinion 1A, not a factual claim.

9th C. upheld, agreeing viewers would take it as opinion, & not fact.

No they’re still around, but that logo is ANCIENT and just screams of the 90s early era of computers, with a highly pixelated digitized photo… (the logo has since been modernized, but MAGATs just love to gaslight as the complaint little fascist piggies that they are).

Many (eg Ayman/Ali) worked as video journalists in past, & eg may still work their sources (eg Ruhle is biz reporter), but MSNBC pays them to air opinions, not to investigate stories.

Even though MSNBC conform to journalistic standards more than Fox, they hire on air-talent opinionators (Hannity)

They’re not traditional journalists in the sense of reporting news. They’re editorialists/hosts of opinion shows who interpret, comment on, & curate news rather than independently investigate or report it. Saying they’re “journalists” ignores distinction between news reporting & opinion commentary.

Rachel Maddow hosts a highly-rated weekly show on MSNBC, and she writes best-selling educational historical books, but even she’s publicly stated she’s not a journalist, relying on that as her defense in a defamation suit (which she won after her lawyer said she was offering her personal opinion).

Uh, no….

That’s not how it works.

The aforementioned are all highly-rated TV opinionators/editorialists, who, although they may serve as journalists by investigating stories, often just talk about news of the day, while having journalists on their shows to present their news stories of the day.

The beatings will continue until the morale of liberty-loving patriots improves…