LATEST: 500 Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines are ready to deploy and provide backup to the National Guard troops on the ground in L.A., U.S. Northern Command says. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/l…

"You just f---ing shot the reporter!"

This is 2020 repeating itself all over again. Seems to be much worse this time. Journalists standing there filming are the ones being hit with munitions and arrested instead of the protesters.

Handcuffing and detaining a U.S. Senator for asking questions at a hearing. Shocking.

"All cruelty springs from weakness." - Seneca

In connection to today’s shootings, law enforcement are searching for Vance Luther Boelter, a 57-year-old male. He was wearing a light-colored cowboy hat, dark-colored, long-sleeved, collared shirt or jacket, light pants & dark bag. Tips: [email protected] or 877-996-6222.

Another sign that the dollar’s dominance is in trouble: US importers are increasingly being asked by their foreign counterparties to settle transactions in currencies other than the US dollar, such as euros, RMB, Mexican pesos, and Canadian dollars. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The ICE raids are wreaking havoc on the labor market already. Another brand new problem the economy now has to face.

Exactly my point--the White House is a National Historic Landmark. Which means it has to be preserved appropriately. Why are we allowing this lunatic to make the WH look like one of his golf resorts?-What are we doing? This is Teddy Roosevelt's West Wing. Not Trump's golf resort.

What would you say if you saw it in another country?

Coming soon.

Washington has paid 70% of Israel’s military costs since Oct 7, 2023. At same time Washington is cutting Pell Grants awarded to 7.4 million poor students during the 2025-26 school year, at a cost of $38.1 billion by 23% to just $5,710 a year. How much is going to Israel?

SORKIN: Why are we currently not getting 2.8% growth if what we're talking about extending tax cuts that are already in place? What is gonna get you the 2.8 number? TOM EMMER: Donald Trump.

Bernie Sanders nailed it:

Which stage of capitalism is it when countries, businesses, and consumers, get tariffed because Person A doesn’t like how Person B is being treated?

Brazilian president: "I'd like to say something to the American people; If Trump was Brazilian and did what he did at the Capitol, he'd be on trial in Brazil for violating the Constitution. He would be arrested if he had done that."

Never before in the Nation’s almost 250 year history has America’s present and future depended more on the free press than it does today.

“If the Epstein scandal teaches us anything, it is that America needs a dedicated and decently funded group of people whose job is not just to ask questions, but to find answers,” Helen Lewis writes. “Let’s call them journalists.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.