Evening Roundup, February 2
Featuring Tim Dickinson, Jennifer Rubin with Neera Tanden, Brian O'Neill, Meredith Blake, Pablo Torre, Erwin Chemerinsky, Michael Podhorzer, and "Talking Feds"
ICE Teargasses Peaceful Crowd at Portland Protest
The Contrarian's Tim Dickinson reports from a protest in Portland, Oregon on Saturday, January 31, where hundreds of cyclists gathered for a rolling vigil to honor Alex Pretti, who was brutally gunned down by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis a week ago.
Can Democrats Reform ICE?
[VIDEO] Last Friday, the Senate passed five funding bills but, due to Democrats’ dissents, punted DHS funding down the road by two weeks. While Democrats refuse to vote for any funding package that fails to include ICE reforms, the five other funding bills still need House approval to avoid another government shutdown.
Tulsi Gabbard Is Most Dangerous When She Needs to Be Useful
The Jan. 28 federal raid on the Fulton County Election Hub outside Atlanta was designed to be theatrical. Federal agents executed a sealed warrant. Ballots, tabulator tapes, ballot images, and voter rolls were removed. Local officials were initially not permitted to see the warrant and were given little explanation.
Musicians Speak Out in Defiance of ICE while Honoring the Many Voices that Make Us Great
At the Grammy Awards, artists like Bad Bunny and Billie Eilish denounced ICE and celebrated the people being targeted by the Trump administration.
How Many Sports Leaders are in the Epstein Files?
[VIDEO] Last Friday, DOJ released more than 3 million documents and images from the Epstein files. Many powerful people were named, including Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Prince Andrew. What few mainstream media outlets are detecting, however, is the vast number of sports leaders mentioned in the files: owner of the New York Giants, the Commanders’ majority owner…
Intimidating the Press
Every authoritarian, or wannabe authoritarian, tries to intimidate the press. A free press that informs people of abuses of power is a threat to the control the authoritarian wants to exercise. The past year has shown that Donald Trump thinks he has unconstrained power. In an interview published in December, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles said t…
The War of Southern Aggression
Confederate apologists often claimed, as Nikki Haley did during the 2024 Republican primary campaign, that the Civil War was fought over “states’ rights.” The Southern rebellion was indeed about “states’ rights,” but only in the sense that it was about the Confederate States’ right to determine who was an American citizen and interpret the Constitution …
Cracks in the ICE
[AUDIO] It was a tumultuous week on the streets and in the courts, with panelists Kristen Holmes, Juliette Kayyem, and Josh Marshall joining Harry to break it all down. ICE's reign of terror in Minnesota continues, even as top Trump officials sing a softer tune after nationwide outrage over the death of Alex Pretti. The panel marches through the latest fallout …
ICE needs to be abolished. You can "reform" the SS. It's ridiculous to even consider it.
We critics & peaceful protesters are the enemy? J6ers, Kyle Rittenhouse who brandish deadly weapons, assault police & kill unarmed protesters are the "patriots"?
When peaceful protesters according to Trump & ICE are the worst of the worst domestic terrorists etc disguised in bunny hats boxer shorts & feigning disabilities...
Renee Goode & Alex Pretti are just the latest victims.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKSoxG1K7w&list=RDwWKSoxG1K7w&start_radio=1
Resist MAGA gangster grifter authoritarianism!
Vote Sane. #VoteBlue!