The Best of the Rest of the News. — While Putin attacks Europe from the outside, Trump dismantles NATO from within. — Renee Good's death sparks MAGA deplorables' wrath: small Minneapolis charter school under siege. — Trump offers a phony "healthcare plan" that does nothing to fix our healthcare system and has virtually no details, but Fox and rightwing media lap it up as if it were real. — Trump has suggested multiple times in the past few weeks that we shouldn't have an election this November, and now it's becoming clear why. — The Minneapolis battlefield continues: an infant needed CPR after ICE flash-banged and then tear gassed the family van with 6 kids inside. — Big baby Trump steals a Nobel like a toddler grabbing a trophy. — Crazy Alert! Man trains crows to steal MAGA hats.

Why the largest-ever ICE operation isn't just about immigration, but about who gets to walk freely in America's cities and who pays with their lives… Yesterday, Mayor Jacob Frey basically took a Fox "News" host down, pointing out that Trump's own federal prosecutors just quit their jobs rather than investigate and prosecute Renee Good's wife for "domestic terrorism." Which raises the question: what is ICE really doing in Minneapolis?

The masks are off, the excuses are gone, and the regime is testing how much terror the public will tolerate. What happens when the public finally refuses to be afraid? "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair…" —Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities They're doubling down because they know their time is limited. Their attempt to turn America into a Russia-like police state is suddenly failing, and a reckoning is coming. Trump and his lickspittles look at the horizon and see mushroom clouds rising against a red sky, suggesting their season of power and brutality is about to turn on them. As Mike Brock notes over at his excellent Notes from the Circus newsletter: "The United States is experiencing the greatest political emergency since the Civil War. Right now." Sunday, masked ICE goons were going house-to-house in Minneapolis kicking in doors without search or no-knock warrants in clear violation of the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution, federal law, state law, and local law. When a woman — a US citizen — whose home was being invaded and was trying to protect her children from the assault asked the secret police who'd just destroyed her front door to show her a warrant, they shot her with a Taser and zapped her with tens of thousands of volts of electricity.

How America’s Voting Rights Were Stolen in 2024 The corporate media keeps telling us that Donald Trump won the 2024 election fair and square. They’re almost certainly wrong: Joe Biden was, in my opinion, the last fairly elected American president. Democracy lost big-time on November 5, 2024. This wasn’t because of fancy software hacks or the fever dreams of some convoluted China/Venezuela voting machine conspiracy, but through an old-fashioned, systematic campaign of voter suppression similar to the ones that characterized the fifty years or so following the collapse of Reconstruction. What we witnessed in the election of 2024—and the media still has yet to acknowledge—was Jim Crow 2.0, and it worked exactly as well as it did in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.