I'm not afraid. Come and get me, Donald.

I will stand up for the law and the Constitution. That’s what we do in the State of Illinois.

Sadistic little prick.

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

🤞🤞🤞

"If your first amendment rights are threatened, and you don't show up because you're afraid, then you already don't have first amendment rights."

Ezra Levin

#Maddow

Saturday is going to be huge, boisterous and joyful: “It doesn’t matter if you’ve never protested before. This is a place for you if you believe we don’t do kings in this country.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social to @maddow.msnbc.com

Please join us on No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

Will be waving enthusiastically from SoCal 🇺🇸!

#NoKings ever.

📌To be clear: I don't hate America. I hate the grotesque party in "leadership" that is assaulting it.

See you at the No Kings rally this weekend.

-Earl

There is a special place in hell for Scott Jennings. What a loathsome little toad

We didn't do anything extraordinary here. Sure, I wrote a nice script, and my friend @barubin.bsky.social did a fantastic job overlaying visuals. But what we're saying is pretty obvious.

What I wonder is why *we* have to say these things as opposed to, I don't know, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social?

Jesse Watters tried to make a protester he dubbed "Antifa Kermit" look menacing. I added the words of Secretary of Homeland Security describing Antifa along with some footage of Antifa protesters from an ABC affiliate Local 10 News. The music is royalty free.🎶🪩💃🕺

"How to Stand Up to a Dictator" author @mariaressa.bsky.social explains how social media companies used the Philippines as a testing ground for mass manipulation before employing their tactics in the U.S.

via @thedailyshow.com

Find your local event at nokings.org/#map.

Bring your family and friends. Stand up with everyone you love, for the country you hold dear.

The vice president of the United States is a clownish dipshit, Exhibit 64,532

Wondering when, if ever, MAGA will get uncomfortable w/aggressive & nakedly Stalinesque behaviors of this gvt. Denial is powerful drug, but at some point, you’re going to find out you’re pregnant & expecting fascist dictatorship. Time will reveal whether these Americans ever loved their country.

The American founders didn't expect Mike Johnson. www.thebulwark.com/p/speaker-mi...

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

on this day in 1926 Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne is first published.

“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”

“Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”

“The things that make me different are the things that make me.”

Out of the darkness & ravages of war came gentlest & most reassuring stories. People like Milne set us up to believe in goodness & transcendence of humanity. One of saddest implications of current political leadership (for me) is extent to which it has shaken my faith in fellow Americans.

Thanks, Senator. You were among first to see clearly. Hoping Dems get it now: no amount of comity, compromise, norms or procedures will snap GOP back into responsible governance. They chose a side & in so doing, signaled their willingness to end American experiment in blood, violence & tragedy.

8/ But Trump doesn't want to end the shutdown. Because he thinks he's a king and he doesn't believe the law applies to him. He thinks he has extra powers in a shutdown. He doesn't.

But the longer Republicans boycott talks, the more the shutdown will hurt. So it's their move.