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Oh, the simpler days of Liberally Lean.
- Add Florida State to the list. "Police said the gunman has been identified as 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner, an FSU student who is the son of a Leon County deputy sheriff." At least one cell phone video caught the shooter in action.
- We all live in fear now. Over anything. Yesterday:
- The defendant's parents in the Frisco School Stabbing case held a press conference yesterday. That whole case is going to snowball into a major national flashpoint. And it's certainly not a good time for any national flashpoint.
- And this isn't helping. Edit: Good lord, Fox News is playing this clip this morning.
- Nor this.
- New this morning: The Secretary of State just said that America is almost done with trying to help end the Russian/Ukraine war. Didn't someone promise us that he would end the war "in one day"?
- Last night, El Salvador took Kilmar Abrego García out their notorious prison and let him meet with a Democratic U.S. senator at a hotel. The government then took a few photos of the event and immediately released them. The Senator then used those photos in a social media post. Seem a little weird for El Salvador to allow this? Well . . .
- . . . The senator just got played. There is no question that Trump Administration, which was 100% involved in this stunt, will now say, "The Democrats would rather sit down at a hotel bar with a deported illegal immigrant MS-13 gang member than helping us get the rest of them out of America. And for the hand-wringing about how he was being treated, Garcia looks like he is doing just fine."
- Heck, we won't even have to wait for Trump to say it. I just saw this from the Murdoch's New York Post:
- Ted Cruz has joined in as well as he tweeted this as he referenced the photo above:
- And now, after this orchestrated event, Garcia gets sent back to that insane prison, and the propaganda will be eaten up by the American public. No one cares about due process until it impacts them. The Nazis would have been jealous over what just happened.
- Meanwhile, the Trump Administration failed in its appeal in the case over whether they are doing anything to "facilitate" Garcia's release. Yesterday's opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals, authored by a Reagan appointed judge, in essence said that if the Trump Administration continues to defy court orders, democracy is over. Chillingly, he ended it by begging Trump to do the right thing and cooperate "while there is still time." That's a red alert message to the country from the courts.
- But I disagree with "while there's still time." There is no time left. It's over.
- More proof that "It's over": The head of the FCC threatening Comcast with their license because of the way they are covering the news of the day. It's Authoritarianism 101.
- Great moments in the Oval Office yesterday. Video.
- Legal news: As predicted, a Texas appellate court struck down yesterday a city's attempt to legalize marijuana within its city limits. You can't do that.
- Lauren Whitener Clock: 5 years and 290 days.
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