Excerpt: If you are reading this, sweaty with the worry that I am “normalizing” or “justifying” political violence, consider that I am only asking why you find so many forms of political violence so normal, so justifiable, so adequately met with well, it’s a shame, of course, while the specter of old radicals looms like a nightmare. Sometimes you must stand athwart history, yelling Are you fucking serious? Is it only that you get used to that stench of American life after a while? Is it worth it?

If this isn’t promptly overturned, then anyone opposing Trump and fascism can be judged a terrorist.

Excerpt: Since the charges in the case, the government has brought a number of similar prosecutions against activists. Earlier this month, prosecutors filed criminal conspiracy charges against 15 activists in Minneapolis who allegedly interfered with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in performing their duties. A federal jury in Spokane, Washington, found three protesters guilty of conspiracy for participating in a 2025 protest at an ICE facility. A similar case in Chicago against protesters fell apart after it was revealed there was misconduct before grand jurors.

Wow.

Postal Service skips hearing with Washington lawmakers on mail-in ballot rules

Best news of the week — we can never have enough abortions. Abortions for any woman who wants one, and children for any woman who wants one.

Excerpt: When Mr. Landor reported for a five-month sentence for drug possession in Louisiana, he had not cut his hair for almost two decades, in keeping with his faith. His dreadlocks fell nearly to his knees.

Four months into his term, in 2020, he was transferred to a new prison. He carried with him a copy of a 2017 legal opinion that held that inmates must be allowed to keep their dreadlocks under a federal law protecting prisoners’ religious freedom.

When he pulled out a copy of that decision, a guard threw it in the trash, according to court documents he filed in a later lawsuit.

Two guards then handcuffed Mr. Landor to a chair and forcibly shaved him bald.

Me again: Six of nine on the Supreme Court belong on the other side of the courtroom.

Excerpt: They will get an Android tablet, an American flag and copies of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. They will also receive a packet of literature that provides a sanitized, Trump-approved view of American and South African history, one that criticizes racial equity and civil rights laws and promotes claims of discrimination against white people.

Dude sent ICE Director an email comparing him to a Nazi, so DHS agents stalked him, and gave his wife a letter warning of criminal prosecution. Which sounds sorta like something Nazis would do.

Welp, that’s the end of independent, non-political government agencies. If America had an opposition party (we don’t), and if we’re allowed free elections and a sane President at some future date, perhaps the new President will fire six Supreme Court justices. Doing so would be no more unConstitutional than today’s rulings.

Excerpt: Three years ago this month, the Justice Department indicted Donald Trump under the Espionage Act for concealing and refusing to return classified documents after his departure from the White House. Mr. Trump hasn’t had to face trial, and he hasn’t had to fully account to the public for his actions, either.

The Justice Department abandoned the case against Mr. Trump after he won the 2024 election, citing a longstanding departmental policy against prosecuting sitting presidents. Since Mr. Trump returned to the White House, the Justice Department has worked hand in glove with his current lawyers to suppress the department’s report about its investigation of his actions. Judge Aileen Cannon of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, a Trump appointee who presided over Mr. Trump’s case, has issued an order prohibiting the Justice Department from disseminating the report — and effectively prohibiting Jack Smith, the special counsel who wrote it, from speaking about it publicly or even testifying about it to Congress.

This victim of the Secret Police had a pending Green Carp application, and special permission from the government to travel to Egypt for his father’s funeral. ICE kidnapped him, held him in an American gulag, and kept him from medical care for his kidney disease.

Teleportation could be a valuable tool in an emergency, so FEMA should offer this man a raise and try to keep him.

Nixon wasn’t corrupt enough to merit even a job interview in the Trump regime.

Excerpt: That night, the twins slept at their grandparents’ house. The authorities required them to sit alone for the interviews with the CPS workers, as is common during such investigations.

Me again: Being forced to “sit alone” with CPS staffers is pretty rough for a kid, and if CPS “requires” it without first requiring some damned evidence, that’s a form of child abuse.

Cops are full of shit. Class War has been happening for centuries, but the rich bastards have all the money, laws, and police.

Remember when ABC paid Trump a $16-million bribe? How’s that working out for ’em?

This is surreal — The View is inane chitchat that barely qualifies as journalism, but Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar are too edgy for Trump & the Republicans.

But the people who did the firing face no repercussions.

Roundup causes cancer. Not sure when or whether that fact that was scientifically quantified, but there were reports of Roundup sickening people as early as the 1990s.

Not sure there’s anything covert about it.

Excerpt: Why Delaware? Under our system of government, corporate oversight was left to the states, and in time it became permissible for a company based in one state to register its business in another. Pint-size Delaware, with the incentives it offered, proved to be an especially popular choice. These days, it is the legal domicile for two-thirds of the companies in the Fortune 500. Including limited liability companies, or L.L.C.s, there are more than two million business entities incorporated in Delaware, which is more than double the number of people.

Other than who she was once willing to pork, Ms Scott seems cool and all, and cooler still if she cuts me a check, but the media’s endless adulation for billionaires is almost as evil as the very concept of billionaires. Wealth of that magnitude is invariably stolen, so instead of lauding billionaires who play philanthropist, let’s try a 100% tax on any human’s net worth that exceeds one billion dollars.

Excerpt: With trillions of dollars on the line, it should come as no surprise that tech companies are spending gobs of cash on the upcoming US midterm elections. What is surprising is the scale of electoral financing, as certain newly-founded AI super PACs are now spending more on candidates than the candidates are spending on themselves.

Excerpt: Police officials in Washington Township did not return calls from The Times for this article. Commanders in Franklin Township, which was temporarily taken over by the Hunterdon County prosecutor’s office in the aftermath of the killings, declined to comment.

Pretty sure this is an article I’d like to read, but it’s formatted so you have to scroll forever to keep reading one paragraph at a time, and it freezes my browser after each half-acre of scroll-downs. It’s illustrated, and the pictures are the star, with so few words (at least before the recurring freezes) it feels like I’m reading a comic book for 2nd-graders when I thought I was reading the New York fucking Times. Is this format somehow an improvement over the traditional journalistic method where one paragraph precedes the next paragraph, without scrolling so much my index finger gets blisters?