From Hitler to Putin to Orbán and Trump, the first step is always the same: act illegally, dare anyone to stop you, and behave like losing in court is only a delay… Donald Trump's Crusade against Kilmar Abrego Garcia is "on life support" as it may finally be dismissed this week or next by District Judge Waverly Crenshaw in Tennessee. But will that be the end of this father's and husband's ordeal? ... Today we look at how a country finally, fully crosses from being a self-correcting democracy into a rigid tyranny like those two countries, and how average people like us can identify that moment in time to do something about it before it is utterly too late.

The danger the Bill of Rights was written for isn't the one Americans usually watch for.… At 3:07 in the morning the pounding started. Not a knock or a doorbell: it was the kind of impact meant to wake the neighbors and erase any doubt that resistance would be pointless. Within seconds armed men were inside the house, shouting orders, refusing questions. No explanation, no warrant presented, no charges read. Just urgency, intimidation, and removal. The people taken that night would eventually learn something chilling: under the legal theory being used, what happened to them wasn't considered a violation of their rights at all. It was 1773 in Boston.

The Best of the Rest of the News. — Corrupt adjudicated rapist brags that he's going to rig the November elections to prevent millions of women and minorities from voting, even if Congress won't help him. — Convicted felon brags that he's willing to destroy our grandchildren's lives in exchange for a few hundred million dollars from the fossil fuel industry. — Cruel psychopaths in the Trump regime have figured out a new way to waste taxpayer dollars to make the lives of migrants miserable. — One of Trump's top allies and private-White-House-dinner guests is now calling for all American women to be imprisoned in the ICE Concentration Camps and only let out when he and his friends personally approve of them. — The Trump Housing Crisis is now officially here. — A Congressman who examined the Trump/Epstein Files (why don't we all start calling them that? After all, Trump's name is in them more than a million times according to Congressman Swalwell) says there's a report of allegations that Trump and Epstein raped and murdered a young girl. — Once again, we have evidence that DHS/ICE has lied about an American citizen they shot five times trying to kill her. — Crazy Alert! Bob Kennedy boasts that he's "not scared" of germs because he "Used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats."

From France to Germany to Canada, governments are recalibrating their security, technology, and defense policies around one unspoken reality: America can't be counted on… Donald Trump is doing something to America that no foreign adversary has ever managed, something Putin's been dreaming about for decades: he's convincing our oldest and closest allies — countries we fought wars to defend and liberate, and with whom we share a democratic system of government — that the United States can't be trusted. For example, France's government just announced it's ripping U.S. videoconferencing platforms — Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and others — out of its government offices nationwide and replacing them with a new French-created system called "Visio." That's roughly 2.5 million French public employees who'll no longer be using American digital products because the French have concluded that U.S. tech — and the Silicon Valley billionaires' pathetic fealty to Trump, bringing him bribes and gifts and groveling in front of him — is a national security risk.