Don Plummer

Compare Alito's description of Trump's racist statements (on the left) to Justice Kagan's anthology of Trump's racist statements (on the right). These are passages from this morning's opinions in Mullin v. Doe.

I've seen memes to this effect as well. Where, beyond mere wishful thinking, the idea came from that we could impeach and remove Trump, VP Vance, and all Trump's officials en masse at one time is beyond me.

Very important reading about the history and legacy of the civil rights movement and what it means for us today. Thank you, Kevin Kruse.

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NEW from me: The inhumane treatment of immigration detainees requires more coverage presswatchers.org/2026/02/the-...

Thanks @eliasisquith.blog!

ICE Out for Good, Lancaster, Ohio, January 10, 2026

These falsehoods against Somali Americans infuriate me. The vast majority are here LEGALLY. They were REFUGEES. We INVITED THEM HERE three decades ago. Many are citizens, and the vast majority are law-abiding. Attacks like these from Trump and others is the kind of talk that leads to atrocities.

It just gets creepier and creepier.

New plan: we get Obama to demand the death certificate

It was NEVER only about deporting undocumented people. Never.

This is about the concept of "continuous immigration vetting," an idea from Trump's first term. Rather than having people be checked for compliance at specific interactions with the government such as a visa renewals, there would be an automated system running constant checks.

I would like prominent Americans, including leading Democrats, to take on Trump's attempts to whitewash history the way Gov. Newsom has taken on his attempt to rig the 2026 elections: -Forcing Smithsonian and nat'l parks to erase facts; -Restoring Confederate statues & military base names.

Conservatives who know better have stayed silent. They have been negligent. Some have been cowardly. Many have been complicit. open.substack.com/pub/kristind...

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

DHS serves up more blasphemy. "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" - Isa 5:20

hegseth makes my blood boil. he's a boorish bigot and an all-around idiot.

The headline, while duly noting that 15-year-olds shouldn't be detained in this abomination of a concentration camp, still implies that its existence is legitimate (i.e., it may not be for 15-year-olds, but it's OK for others). Miami Herald--you need to do better.

The Official Trump Black Box — A cartoon by RJ Matson

In case you don't know the difference: History --------- Propaganda

Worth remembering that Trump moved the US Embassy to Jerusalem. To his evangelical base, he's fulfilling end times prophecies before their eyes. What is happening right now is nothing less then God's work, and they believe that they are the recipients of the long-awaited promise of Jesus' return.

Flood the line.

Pope Francis's final sermon began with the words, “Mary Magdalene.” It may seem subtle, a small thing. You may have missed it. But it is a big subtle deal. open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...

The difference between Christianity and Christian Nationalism is a Pope who advocated for our most marginalized and a woman who considers him evil for doing so.

This is being overlooked. It’s a must read.

Good Friday is the story of a man unjustly arrested and rushed to judgment. Diana Butler Bass tells it for our time, using only pictures from the last two weeks, and it hits so heavy open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...

I too am advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

A corrupt, authoritarian government seizes an innocent man, tortures and jails him on trumped-up charges that change during a manipulated "legal" process. The prisoner is left at the mercy of dehumanizing politicians & jailers to do with what they please. Holy Week then. America now.

We traded Europe for a guy that builds concentration camps for profit.

Dictatorships grab people off the street and jail them. Dictatorships demonize vulnerable minorities. Dictatorships destroy data. Dictatorships reject independent courts. Dictatorships buy the backing of the super-rich. Dictatorships persecute dissidents. See what’s happening, fellow Americans.

I miss Joe Biden. I'm still mad at the people that did him dirty.

The Alien Enemies Act should have been repealed in the 1980s when Congress issued a formal apology and paid reparations to the Japanese Americans who were interned under the Act during WWII. It's the only one of the Alien & Sedition Acts, which Jefferson despised, still on the books.

Grievances 16-19 in Declaration of Independence 16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world" 17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent" 18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial" 19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"

Rutgers University Senate is proposing a "mutual defense compact," inviting other Big Ten schools to join. The purpose is to push back against the Trump regime's attempt to control academia. There's strength in numbers. I hope the Big Ten schools join the fight. senate.rutgers.edu/wp-content/u...

h/t @peff.com

A sobering but necessary account of where we are right now as a nation. Things are moving quickly in an authoritarian direction.

Yes, overwhelm is the point, but it’s not the only point. The cruelty is the point. The lies. The destruction of our Constitutional order. These things are also the point. open.substack.com/pub/kristind...

Important. Either Trump is so far gone mentally he doesn’t know what he’s doing, or people are acting in his name without his knowledge. This was an order with enormous implications, and the President of the United States says he didn’t do it.

We have arrived at the point where Iran’s supreme leader is critical of the Trump Admin’s record on civil liberties and human rights.

Trump threatens to put American citizens on deportation flights to a slave prison in El Salvador

I just read Chapter 7. Except that the author didn't anticipate Musk to be the principal agent of destruction in dismantling the federal bureaucracy (who could have?), the chapter reads like today's news. Wait for it: the root of the Right's hatred of the "admin. state" is---Hegel? Apparently so.

The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where