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I will not be attending #NoKingsDay protests today, but I will be helping @gelliottmorris.com and colleagues with data gathering to understand how many Americans have shown out today. Please reply in the comments with estimated attendance numbers from reputable news sources; no city is too small!

submitted 11 hours ago • 29 comments

Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"

submitted 12 hours ago • 2173 comments

Game day folks. Time to go out and put it all on the line for democracy. A smart guy once told me: the crowd is the message. There are gonna be folks you disagree with out there. But the crowd, standing together as one other… that’s the message. Most of all don’t forget to have fun.

submitted 14 hours ago • 8 comments

DHS confirmed that ICE and CBP agents will be on site “for security” at the start of the FIFA Club World Cup at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens. ICE also reminded non-U.S. citizens to carry proof of legal status while attending the event.

submitted 3 days ago • 356 comments

Soft-power self-destruction watch, an ongoing saga: (Fulbright program one of most successful forms of US engagement with the world. Trump nihilists/ Red Guards mindlessly tearing it down.) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

hitch your wagon to a star

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

RFK Jr’s ACIP pick, Martin Kulldorff, said one of the most disturbing images from the pandemic was a toddler crying about having to wear a mask. I see toddlers cry about everything all the time, and I found it far more disturbing to see refrigerator trucks full of body bags outside of the hospitals…

submitted 3 days ago • 296 comments

Brian Wilson, Beach Boys Co-Founder and Architect of Pop, Dead at 82 More on his life and legacy: rollingstone.com/music/music-...

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Peaceful protests are not a threat to our country. They don’t need to be “quelled.” They’re what free people do in a healthy society. They should be welcomed.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

The big crypto markup is still going on in the House Financial Services Committee. Rs are blocking any effort to block Trump from profiting off of crypto while in office.

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

Correct. This is superficially similar to the 1960s. (I was there.) This is more like 1933. (Reichstag fire.)

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

Even 46% of Republicans oppose this. Only 15% "strongly favor it."

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

I’m hoping to see many news stories about an old man with memory issues in the next 24 hours.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

<Thread> I figure I need to explain how extreme and irresponsible is the June 7 Memorandum federalizing the National Guard and authorizing regular armed forces. Those saying anything in support of this action may not realize what they’ve gotten into. (It will also escalate from here.) Preview⤵️

submitted 5 days ago • 55 comments

Premise of this post: When Americans hear "fascism," they usually think "Hitler." For Godwin's law + other reasons, that's an over-the-top analogy. Instead IMO we should think "Mao." Imminent threat for US is more like Chinese Cultural Revolution. fallows.substack.com/p/what-to-le...

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

Marines did not enlist and were not trained to be used as Trump’s personal domestic gestapo. If your mission is to terrorize and intimidate civilians, your orders are unlawful, and your duty is to refuse them. Marines swore an oath to defend the Constitution, and now’s the time.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

I think there ought to be large, planned, and peaceful demonstrations in many of America’s major cities with music and entertainment and speakers. But spontaneously showing up to scream at the National Guard increases the risk of people going bonkers.

submitted 5 days ago • 58 comments

To perhaps brighten your day, how about a calming flower on the bush anemone 'Elizabeth' (Carpenteria californica 'Elizabeth') in my backyard? Native to Fresno County in California, the plant requires absolutely no supplemental irrigation now that it's made it through two winters.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

The collective silence of the former Presidents right now is unnerving.

submitted 5 days ago • 173 comments

Headline/chyron if this were happening in a foreign country: "Far right president calls for arrest of opposition party provincial governor, raising further questions about democracy & the rule of law" Headline/chyron when this happens in 🇺🇸: "Trump Takes Questions As He Returns To The White House"

submitted 5 days ago • 25 comments

Major General Randy E. Manner, former Acting Vice Chief, National Guard Bureau statement to Fox News: "This is an inappropriate use of the National Guard and is not warranted.”

submitted 5 days ago • 304 comments

“Threatening to send the U.S. Marines into American neighborhoods undermines the mission of our service members, erodes public trust, and shows the Trump administration does not trust local law enforcement.”

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

This is the essence.

submitted 6 days ago • 37 comments

One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.

submitted 38 days ago • 92 comments

Both statements are from last night. Note difference between how Trump characterizes conditions in LA ("RIOTS AND LOOTERS"), vs how the LAPD does ("Peaceful Protests")

submitted 6 days ago • 31 comments

🧵

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Some members of the viewing audience welcome this reality show nonsense, sadly.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Breaking: ABC News says senior national correspondent Terry Moran "has been suspended pending further evaluation." This since-deleted tweet is the reason for the suspension:

submitted 6 days ago • 2970 comments

The most vital thing you can do right now is spread this message offline to normies. There is no "unrest", there's a protest. It has 400 people. LA does worse when the Lakers come in 3rd in a season.

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

Fascists want to provoke violence so they can justify crackdowns and get some good footage to distort for state propaganda outlets

submitted 7 days ago • 48 comments

CATO Institute Director of Immigration Studies

submitted 7 days ago • 169 comments

Re-upping this “One First” post from April asking—and trying to answer—five questions about the domestic use of the military:

submitted 7 days ago • 43 comments

Re-reading Justice Robert H. Jackson's famous speech on the dangerous discretion of federal prosecutors in light of the dubious indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This section stood out. www.roberthjackson.org/speech-and-w...

submitted 7 days ago • 20 comments

I wrote this musingly but the more I think about it, the more I think it's a serious question. A few things need to happen politically & legally for Trump to do this. But it's possible AND it could ultimately benefit Elon...which might also explain why this whole fallout feels weirdly staged. 🧵 1/

submitted 9 days ago • 21 comments