Corey Pein
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In a new podcast interview, Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, while criticizing his January 6 conviction, said that if he had "wanted to storm the Capitol, if I wanted to siege DC ... & take over buildings, I could have done it. If I would have planned it, it would have been successful."
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![The Clampdown: Chicago's Own Pope Leo, and a Judge, Demand Better Conditions at ICE Lockup
• Border Patrol in Los Angeles Arrest US Citizen Then Drive Away in His Car with His Toddler in the Back Seat Bystanders filming the Home Depot raid yelled "there's a baby in the back!" before the agents drove away. via the Associated Press and HuffPost.
• Armed ICE Agents Bust Into Chicago Day Care and Drag Woman Away in Front of Crying Teachers and Kids "'We need to make sure this stops,' said parent Tara Goodarzi, an attorney whose 3-year-old child attends the school. 'Schools are supposed to be places of safety, of security, not places where we have to talk to our children about why their teacher is being abducted and screaming and running away from agents with guns and masks while she’s trying to enter the school.'" via NBC News, the Washington Post, and the AP.
• Fashy Border Patrol Boss Gregory Bovino Admits Under Oath That He Threw Tear Gas Into Crowd Unprovoked Investigations and witness accounts prove that out-of-control feds have deployed excessive force against peaceful crowds for no reason in both Chicago and Portland, Oregon. via the Chicago Sun-Times, NBC News, and ProPublica.
• Washington, DC Jury Weighs Fate of Hero 'Sandwich Man' Sean Dunn Defense attorney Sabrina "Shroff said that the Border Patrol Officer Greg Lairmore gave 'very questionable testimony' when he claimed that the sandwich [thrown by Dunn ]'exploded all over' his chest and claimed he could smell the mustard and onions. A photo shows that the sandwich was still in its wrapper on the ground after it hit Lairmore in his bulletproof vest." via NBC News and the AP.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cqmfa75mhq65ia2unsus5vas/bafkreibr4atygipnw2kocm5v3xt5zerkyp732wevkqjosg5tt6ovw77mem@jpeg)
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so where are the op-eds about republican overreach today? where’s the commentary about donald trumps war against american citizens or his terror campaign targeting brown people? where’s the pearl clutching over the conservative social media bubble reliant on nazi propagandists?
Nobody talks about it, but this is actually the way Donald Trump is most like Adolf Hitler. It’s not his racism or his will to power or his disrespect of democracy.
It’s his ability to convince a large group of people he’s a character with magic powers.
It’s his ability to convince a large group of people he’s a character with magic powers.
This explanation is ridiculous yet likely true. Millions of people did not conceptualize Trump the way we do (e.g., "bad person who did a bad job and wants to do bad things like X, Y, Z") but rather as a TV character, an avatar of prosperity who would somehow bless them economically.
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Update #2: Ackman is still convinced Cuomo is going to win, and has proposed Cuomo adopt the slogan "MNYGA"
