We survived another week, though this one had quite a few precarious moments, much of which went unreported by the mainstream, corporate media and certainly ignored by the right-wing media which most of MAGAt-world erroneously considers news and trusts to (dis) inform them. It's a big reason why I do this show and why these Friday episodes with Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net are so important. And although we usually run over our allotted hour (like today), there's still a lot of real news that we don't have time to cover.
Since our last get-together last Friday, so much has happened. It was overnight Friday night/Saturday morning that an assassin in Minnesota murdered the former speaker of the MN House, Democrat Melissa Hortman, and her husband and attempted to murder a Democratic state senator and his wife. The massive #NOKINGS Day rallies and the big dud of D'ump's military birthday parade happened on Saturday. Yes, that - and a lot more happened this week...
Today, Marcy and I cover much of the week's important news including the continuing ICE assaults on Los Angeles along with the pushback it deserves, the arrest of another elected Democratic official, NYC Comptroller and NYC Mayoral candidate Brad Lander, and the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Cain. That hearing was ostensibly about the DoD's 2026 budget, but much of the Democrats' questioning concerned the unconstitutional deployment of the Marines to US cities to aid ICE in rounding up and arresting alleged undocumented migrants, with a few questions about the Israel-Iran war and our potential involvement and other issues.
Marcy and I record these Friday shows at noon ET due to our time difference. She's in Ireland, I'm in Arizona. Because of the insane volume of shit they're constantly throwing at us, there's often something that changes before this show goes live at 3pm ET. As is the case today. During the show I mentioned that the first publicized ice detention on bullshit grounds - Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia grad student who helped organize pro-Palestinian protests - was still incarcerated despite winning in court. Marcy explained what the case was about and that it didn't require he be released. BUT, as we were wrapping up today's show, the news broke that a federal judge ordered he be released from the detention center in Louisiana where he's been held.
Try to rest up this weekend... though D'ump does like to dump more crap on us on Friday evenings. Ugh.
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