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Will Trump's falling poll numbers push him toward or away frrom the Iran war?

Physical resistance to ICE flares throughout Los Angeles

Time to confront ICE

A week like no other and about another 170 or so more to come.

In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing — which ICE had just had dismissed. www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...

Trump's big win on his tax and budget bill pave the way for a big MAGA loss in the midterms.

Trump's Great Healthcare Con

Democracy or dictatorship? It's going to be decided as early as next month and Trump pushed SCOTUS to fold.

No longer any doubt. The moment is now. Trump ignoring the courts renders him a dictator.

A summation of the last ten dramatic days in national politics. Their consequences and lessons.

It's Code Red as Trump scoffs at Rule of Law. Time to act!

Democrats are bow at 29% popularity. I wonder why?

Pathetic clown.

Pushover.

No more asking what can we do. Only who can we join?

The Great Flying Monkeys Trio present the worst state of the union speech in recent history.

Trump and Vance Berate and Kick Zelensky Out of the White House with Full Video. It's a day that will live in infamy as Trump officially allies with Putin and rubs our national reputation into the mud. ORGANIZE TO DEFEAT TRUMP.

Bezos is now a steroid-pumped, bald-headed re-incarnation of Ayn Rand. I suppose he will retain the paper even as its death has been accelerated. The financial losses don't even ding his fortune. But he now joins Musk as the owner of his own private MAGA propaganda sheet.

Lobsters in the Pot are Starting to Get Steamed. A consequential week for domestic politics.

It's Munich 1938 all over again. Ukraine being denied a voice in its own fate by two authoritarian leaders. open.substack.com/pub/thecoops...

Gaza Was Both a Bluff and a Green Light to Israel

Here's What You Can Do to Oppose Trump open.substack.com/pub/thecoops...

We know what Trump is made of. But what about us? open.substack.com/pub/thecoops...

open.substack.com/pub/thecoops... What really happened yesterday and what can happen tomorrow. Stand and fight.

The Coop Scoop: Jan 6, Democracy and Dictatorship from a Chilean POV open.substack.com/pub/thecoops...

An excellent take on Elmo Muskrat and Vivek IamSmarmy's contempt for American workers... you know... MAGA voters. I say in this feud we should arm both sides and urge mass destruction of each team. Trump has now sided with theMoney guys and it's gonna piss off a lot red-hatted goobers.

We spent Xmas day with a fellow lapsed Jew Bobby Zimmerman from Minnesota. The film went way beyond my expectations and I would be surprised if Chalamet does not snag and Oscar for his outstanding performance. Ed Norton as Pete Seeger was also fab. A must see at least for Boomers!

Christian David French explains.

Last week President Musk tweeted that only the neo nazi AfD party “can save Germany”. A very rich cretin.

Elon Musk and JD Vance's Support of Germany's Nazi-Loving AfD Party Should Be Much Bigger News open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

We may be looking at a coming confederacy of dunces and not a fascist state. thecoopscoop.substack.com/p/coop-scoop...

Just fyi. The AFD is Germany's extremist neo-nazi party. This is who our unelected co-president the sociopath Elon Musk suports.

"Well Scott, you break it, you own it, my friend."

A towering defeat for Musk-Trump as their revised funding bill went down in flames tonight thanks to THIRTY-EIGHT Republicans NO votes. This in spite of a direct threat from Trump that any Republican who voted no would be primaried and run out of office. The intimidation did not work.

The right uses Woke as a dog whistle for racism. The Left says it doesn't exist but it is used to exclude not include.

Why does the media keep saying "tech titans?" The correct term is " tech sycophants and lackeys." or tech Quislings. Bezos and Zuck now giving millions to Trump inaugural. Bezos saying he's a New Trump. "More calm and settled." Their greed and cowardliness are titanic. They are despicable.

Conservative FBI Director Chris Wray served both the Trump and Biden admins with honor and non-partisanship. He has three years left in his term but when Trump named Kash Patel as a replacement, he knew his time was up. It was a no win thing for Wray but he should have forced Trump to fire him.

The thuggish "intellectual father" of the border child separation policy has been brought back by Trump as "border czar." Asked if he had regrets over the discredited policy that has created hundreds of orphans, he said "I don't give a shit."

A fantastic exhibition of depressed Russian ghouls and trolls on the collapse of their pal Assad's dictatorship. Lamentable, they say the Syrians just wouldn't fight for their country and how only the dictatorship held the country together. And justifying their abandonment of the regime.