ICE Gestapo targeting journalists in Chicago.
Usually this would be a big story but it’s just another day in the Trump Redux.
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ICE Gestapo targeting journalists in Chicago.
Usually this would be a big story but it’s just another day in the Trump Redux.
A restraining order was issued YESTERDAY by a federal judge barring detention of journalists in this district unless they refuse to reposition themselves and are given adequate time to do so, or there’s probable cause they’ve committed a crime.
George was just trying to get to work.
ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.
This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.
They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.
BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)
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Chris Pavone, Two Nights In Lisbon
Reporter: What’s going on with those posts on X that are clearly trolling the president?
Newsom: I hope it’s a wake up call for the president. I’m just following his example. If you have issues with what I’m putting out, you sure as hell should have concerns with what he’s putting out
There is nothing clever or funny about this image, Mr. President. We just buried our beloved Pope Francis and the cardinals are about to enter a solemn conclave to elect a new successor of St. Peter. Do not mock us.
Oh wow.
Note: This response (below, which is real) to Trump’s tweet depicting himself as pope is from the New York State Catholic Bishops, who represent the collective bishops of the state.
Among them is Cardinal Dolan of NYC, who Trump appointed to his new religious liberty commission this week.
Mark Carney releases second ad with Mike Myers
“We are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life and imagination. We are right to be afraid.”
Grace Paley, 1980
This bodes well…
“…you’re watching it happen in your own time and not in a book.”
From “Prophet Song”
by Paul Lynch, 2023 Booker Prize Winner
I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.
— Francoise Sagan
#life #writing #quote
“It is abhorrent,
It is repulsive,
It is insane”
A much needed David Rothkopf rant.
We need more of this.
Not the mealy mouth exasperations of our feckless democratic leadership.
open.spotify.com/episode/5oO3...
“Dance when they tell you not to.”
Brydie Walker Bain
open.substack.com/pub/brydie/p...
Build a wall of revolving doors
or revolutionary abuelas.
Make it as high as the sun, strong as tequila.
Boulders of sugar skulls. Adobe or ghosts.
A Lego wall or bubble wrap. A wall of hands
holding hands, hair braided from one woman
to another, one country to another.
tinyurl.com/z2z2y
“It is the cultural change, not the change in laws and executive orders, that we really, really need to look at with deepest concern, because cultural change leads to societal breakdown.”
-David Rothkopf
open.spotify.com/episode/0zpL...
I love this so much!
At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions.
This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.
“Give ear to my words O Lord
Hear my groans
Listen to my protest
For you are not a God who is a friend of dictators
nor a supporter of their politics
nor are you influenced by their propaganda
nor do you associate with any gangster” ~Ernesto Cardenal
onbeing.org/programs/ern...
If there's one thing I hate on social media it is the I-told-you-so game. But I can't help but note to all those who are celebrating these revelations about the super-empowered rich or oligarchs that people have been writing about them and warning about their influence for literally centuries.
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Agree. In the meantime, I save the post external to the app.
Share it to Notes with a hashtag. Create a Smart Folder in notes for that hashtag. every post you send to notes, regardless of its origin (x, bsky, insta, website) they’ll all be together by topic. #mustread #January6 #writingprompt
open.spotify.com/episode/7oaH...
Nobody wants to hear this, but it needs to be said. The Jack Smith report reminds us that the defining failure of the Biden Administration was the failure to "preserve, protect and defend" the Constitution of the United States. The greatest threat we faced when Biden took office...
“A tough mind and a tender heart.”
RIP James Earl Carter
