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The Best of the Rest of the News. — Today is No Kings Day — Federal District Judge Charles Breyer (the brother of former SCOTUS Justice Stephen Breyer) just ruled Trump's deployment of the National Guard to LA illegal. — Trump's border czar says, "We'll flood liberal cities with ICE raids." — The FBI took down Senator Padilla when he tried to ask a question of Cosplay Kristi, but the FBI had escorted him into the room with her in the first place. — Speaking of the press, it appears that police in LA are intentionally targeting reporters with "non-lethal" rounds that can cause severe and permanent damage. — Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman reports on the new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) evaluation of the GOP's "Big Beautiful" tax cut for billionaires and it's shocking. — California Governor Gavin Newsom takes down Trump. — Hegseth has apparently come up with a plan to invade Greenland

By rewriting history, staging propaganda events, and testing the military's loyalty, is Trump laying the groundwork for a future coup attempt? Robert E. Lee killed more Americans than Hitler. More than Khrushchev. More than King George III, Ho Chi Minh, or Kim Il Sung. He killed more Americans than we've lost in every war since the American Revolution, combined. He was the largest mass murderer of Americans in our nation's history. General Lee was not a good man: he was a morbidly rich oligarch who not only bought and sold enslaved human beings but delighted in whipping and torturing them.

Helicopters, uniforms, and flags used like weapons. Now Marines are prowling American streets. This is how democracies die — in prime time… Trump wants blood. The spectacle is the point. The helicopters. The uniforms. The rumble of armored personnel carriers down the boulevards of Los Angeles. The former president of the United States — now reinstalled in the White House through a judicial (Citizens United) and electoral (Musk's money and X) sleight-of-hand that would make Orbán proud — is sending U.S. Marines into an American city. Marines who are trained in killing people. Quickly, efficiently, ruthlessly. Not crowd control, not defending the Constitutional right to protest, not arresting and Mirandizing: just shedding blood. Blowing things up and killing people is what this most lethal fighting force in the world does so well. And Trump just sent them into our civilian streets.

The founders of our nation well understood the importance of universal quality public education. The first law mandating public schools paid for with taxpayer dollars was passed in Massachusetts in 1647: to this day, that state is notable for its historic emphasis on education. As Thomas Jefferson, who founded America’s first tuition-free public college (the University of Virginia), noted in a letter to Colonel Charles Yancey on January 6, 1816: “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”