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[Concordian @JimReynolds]

“I’ve decided that I should be on the pardon list, if that’s still in the works.”

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

ICE violently detain U.S. citizen—drags him out of car, jump on his back, and beats him.

"They're beating him with a stick!" witness yells. "They pepper sprayed him—then they beat him!"

"Hey guys! He's a U.S. citizen!"

"They had already beaten him. They had maced him. They had jumped on his back," she said. "They had snatched him out of the car and threw him."

Pam Taylor, a 75-year-old resident, said she is now scared to leave her home.

Both men were wearing uniforms for work at the Aspen Chase Apartments in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

[Concordian @JimReynolds]

I’m surprised we haven’t heard more response to the OpenAI cave to DoD. Who would remain on a tech platform that just caved to a demand do mass surveillance doesn’t? I’m moving all my work off chatGPT.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: A newly obtained recording from Dec. 7, 2020 exposes Trump pressuring Georgia House Speaker David Ralston to call a special legislative session to OVERTURN the election he lost.

Trump even coached him on the cover story, telling Ralston to claim it’s “for transparency” and “to uncover fraud.” Then the most damning line:

“Who’s gonna stop you for that?”

Ralston’s reply says it all: “A federal judge, possibly.”

This was a sitting president actively probing how to illegally nullify an election, and joking about whether the courts could stop him.

Anyone still pretending Jan. 6 was a spontaneous protest is lying to themselves.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

Trump is setting the stage to claim extraordinary powers to take over the 2026 elections — from banning mail-in voting to imposing new obstacles to voter registration. All of this will be justified on the grounds of national security. https://t.co/F4ek8JHUJF

[Concordian @JimReynolds]

@EWErickson Good Lord - is that really what you believe? It seems so willfully dishonest. You don’t have to love the ayatollah or Maduro - I have not heard a word of support from democrats for them - to think the President should consult congress before starting a war of choice.

[Concordian @JimReynolds]

@RadioFreeTom I have trouble imagining freedom & democracy mattering to the guy who gave the order - other than as justification. But if “neocon” includes “distract from Epstein” or “generate pretext for me to abscond with oil for personal enrichment,” then this is definitely in the running.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

I love this so much -- a church's loud kid policy:

[Concordian @JimReynolds]

@OutsiderWatch @DavidAFrench Who the heck is defending Iran? Democrats are defending congressional approval of military action.

[Concordian @JimReynolds]

@davidcaryhart @DavidAFrench But surely they have concepts of a plan and that is good enough for government work.

[Concordian @JimReynolds]

@DavidAFrench @SarahLongwell25 This is exactly how I see it, from a writer I greatly admire and often disagree with.

[Concordian @JimReynolds]

@RadioFreeTom Pre-Musk, twitter was *also* invaluable for analysis. During the opening days of the Ukraine invasion, military analysis and political commentary not available on broadcast and news media was far more enlightening. That is almost impossible now.

[Concordian @JimReynolds]

@RadioFreeTom So odd. Has everyone forgotten Iraq? The early days were very successful. Bagdad fell, Saddam Hussein went into hiding. His statues were toppled, people danced in the streets.

But that was the prologue. Opening credits for the movie then ran, & the story unfolded differently.

[Concordian @JimReynolds]

@marceelias @joncoopertweets There is no world in which a candidate participating in an election controls the vote count.

(Besides which - even if the Chinese did interfere in 2020, they did it on his watch.)

I do not understand why anyone is giving this even a modicum of serious attention.

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

In a new filing with the SEC, Trump Media and Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social, revealed that in 2025 it lost $712 million and brought in just $3.7 million in revenue.

[Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal]

Last night, I was notified that another person has died in ICE custody.

That’s 39 people who have died on ICE’s watch during Trump’s second term.

We cannot grow numb to this. There must be immediate oversight and accountability.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

The national media has moved on but Minnesota is still under siege.

Important JVL newsletter from our visit to Whipple and the surrounding areas

https://t.co/ley0pm5mU2

[Concordian @JimReynolds]

@EdWhelanEPPC Almost as bad as Mike Pence!

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

BREAKING: In an extraordinary and illegal move, Trump says he’s transferring $10 billion from the U.S. government to his “Board of Peace,” which he chairs and can use the funds as he wishes.

Where is Congress???

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Lawrence O’Donnell quotes the scathing takedown of Trump in the NY Daily News: “It is time to acknowledge what has become tragically obvious: the Trump administration is operating as a massive criminal enterprise. It lies, steals, extorts, and murders — all while cloaked in the awesome authority of the state. It is on a crime spree that puts Al Capone to shame.”

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨ICE agents are now assaulting U.S. citizens for filming in a public parking lot, in Lawrence, Kansas.

In the video, a woman is walking through a parking lot, well away from any arrest happening.

An ICE vehicle pulls up beside her.

Another agent runs toward her yelling, “Get back,” even though she is not interfering with anything.

She calmly asks, “How far back?”

He yells, “That far!”

She complies.

She turns and walks in the opposite direction to get to her own car.

The agent continues yelling for her to get back.

She explains she’s trying to get back to her vehicle.

He starts to walk away… until he notices she is filming.

That’s when he turns around, rushes back toward her with more aggression, and screams, “Get back now!” while he shoves her.

And just to clarify…

She is in a public space.
She is not obstructing.
She is complying.
She is exercising her First Amendment right to record federal agents in public.
She is attempting to access her own property.. her vehicle.

An officer cannot escalate force simply because someone pulls out a phone.

They cannot create arbitrary boundaries that shift the second a camera appears.

They cannot use physical force against someone who is actively moving away.

A federal agent shoving a compliant citizen, after realizing she’s recording, is retaliation for protected speech… and that’s illegal.

But, the question we need to keep asking is…

Why do ICE agents get so angry when they are being filmed?