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But I gather he is NYPD Security Detail was also arrested but did not intervene. Shouldn't they intervene when people attack an official?

#booksky

Britain’s retreat from building public housing was a historic mistake driven by a market purism that has conspicuously failed www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

This is ... unusual ukdefencejournal.org.uk/huge-number-...

Evil cretin, spits reflex venom when reality approaches.

This isn't all of the story, but a surprisingly big part of the "fear" of Mamdani isn't actually that he'll institute full communism, it's that people's friends-and-influence groups will be demoted from their positions of authority

We’re announcing new legislation — the No Secret Police Act (SB 627) — to ban local/state/federal law enforcement, w/ some exceptions, from covering their faces when interacting w/ the public & require them to wear identifying info. The secret police behavior we’re seeing destroys trust & must end🧵

I don't think I've ever felt more like burning it all down than I have while witnessing the elite project to turn Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander into scary, incompetent monsters while turning an actual incompetent monster, Andrew Cuomo, into a merely complicated fellow who just made an oopsie.

And just so we are clear, Over this period Israel has abstained from all interference in its neighors' affairs and its forces have never crossed a border. :)

As often, the NYT waffles its way to reaction, implying vote for the molester!

When you have a voice Use it #Kneecap #FreePalestine #EndIsraelsGenocide #StopApartheid

Painting Zohran Mamdani as antisemitic is straight-up racism and islamophobia.

It will forever anger me that so many NY State Democratic leaders are backing a known sexual predator to lead New York City just to protect Big Money and corporate greed — and then will continue saying they will “fight for women.” Don’t rank Cuomo.

using Grok to count the crowds and probably including the No Kings demo!

Because spineless CNN did not want to risk diminished access to Noem and her department!

Clearly using Grok to tell the time! :)

Welcome to the Ministry of Truth.

Kristi Noem thinks her lie about Sen. Padilla not identifying himself is a real own when, in fact, her supposed inability to recognize a US Senator--who is the chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship & Border Safety--makes her goons' thuggery even more disgraceful.

BORDER PATROL: “Are you an 🇺🇸 citizen?” 🔥 NATIVE AMERICAN WOMAN: “FIRST ONES. We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us… what are you? You’re not first born. You’re not from this f*ckin’ land. Punk-as* b*tches.”

not to mention the pics of his Samizdat Flyers

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"impersonating" they say?

law enforcement officials say they made a proactive check at Rep. Hortman's home after a lawmaker who lived nearby was shot and found a "police vehicle in the driveway with emergency lights and what appeared to be a police officer at the door coming out of the house." He was actually the gunman.

I would like my state, every state, to mandate badges, name plates, no masks, for all law enforcement in the state. And if federal agents try to break the mandate, arrest them, then let the courts sort it out.

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Two phrases that need to be retired: “We are better than this.” (We’re not.) The U.S. president is “the leader of the free world.” (He’s not.)

You did not have Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi or Golda Meir as role models then:)

An advance look at “On Parade,” David Plunkert’s cover for next week's issue. #NewYorkerCovers

So video of this 2012 interview is popping up on other sites. Feels super relevant at the moment. Wait for the moment Rubio gets pinned to the wall about his grandfather’s deportation order… (h/t @reuben_reyñoso)

I'm proud I don't have Andrew Cuomo's record of corruption, scandal and disgrace. And the name is M-A-M-D-A-N-I.

They'll keep doing this until they're stopped, it's their entire thing, they want democracy to collapse so they can rebuild America to be more white, more Christian, and more miserable for anyone who gets in their way.

My travel advisories - Avoid Newark and DC airports, avoid ICE and DHS, skip Boeing, esp Air India flights. Hope Amtrak is OK! Would not go downtown LA anyway. No there there said Dorothy Parker. prospect.org/economy/2025...

Boebert: What we’re seeing in LA is an insurrection Pritzker: You don’t know understand what insurrection is. It is outrageous that you are asking that when you are the one condoning the pardoning of people that attacked police.