Brilliant — thanks. (:

This is true and very well said. I don’t understand the accompanying graphic, however.

If your hopes rely on the Democratic Party, all is already lost.

It’s a chance to bring suffering and perhaps death to the weakest and most vulnerable, so there was little doubt how the Republican Supreme Court would rule.

The reporter fucked up, and it was published so Ars Technica fucked up too, but fuck-ups happen. The far bigger fuck-up is that Ars Technica hasn’t covered this story with a fraction of the tenacity they’d show if the fuck-ups had happened at, say, TechCrunch or Gizmodo.

It’s phrased that way because it obfuscates.

The article doesn’t quite answer the headline’s question, so I will: Why are they prosecuting non-violent protesters? Because cops are cops, so local cops support ICE, and prosecutors are virtually always on the cops’ side. There is no-one in government who actually believes you have a right to peacefully protest, unless you luck into a judge who still has a soul.

And I’ve always wondered … why?

The Congressional habit of yielding power seems so at odds with… everything I’ve ever seen and (pretend to) understand about human nature.

Tariffs are a Congressional function. They’ve handed limited tariff authority to the White House, pre-Trump, but Trump’s tariffs are beyond those bounds, and were illegal via common sense long before the Supremes heard the case.

After that, I’m not sure what you’re asking for.

Well, wouldn’t say I’m “asking,” because you & I already know the answer is no. Sanewashing is all we’ll get, with Trump’s meandering statements and destructive policies presented blandly. Months and months of his tariff pronouncements, with media rarely mentioning that they’re illegal; his routine insults and firings for blacks and women, without mentioning in the headline or paragraph one that the insults and firings are wildly black- and woman-centered; all his daily drivel on Truth Social, without saying in plain English that it’s crazy.

Your listed links are all op-eds or reports quoting someone, but America needs to hear Trump is a madman as news coverage, not a column or commentary. It’s not an opinion; Trump is a madman, ipso facto pepto bismo. Facts ought to be reported factually.

The national news services were, if anything, too hysterical in describing Trump as a “madman”.

When was this? I follow news fairly closely, and never heard anything like this beyond an occasional op-ed column or a direct quote. A madman in the White House needs to be newsworthy beyond the opinions page.

Oh, my day is ruined.

Because that’s not the way dictatorships go down.

Oh, I’m all the evil.

Gosh, another black woman Trump can’t respect. What are the odds!

The news keeps getting better and better! DHS is largely a useless agency, and eliminating these special privileges for “certain people” will give those people a small reminder of reality for the rest of us.

It’s not an argument, and not to be won.

Trump & the Republicans are currently more powerful than people carrying signs. Thus, it’s pointless for people to protest. Is that your point?

sweet jeebers h christ

So much better! Thanks!