My sixteen-year-old Chilean nephew was curious about what’s going on with ICE.

In Chile, the word “conservative” is associated with capitalism, and the word “liberal” is associated with communism. He observed that Donald Trump says he’s a capitalist but doesn’t act like one.

I told him things are different here and labels have different meanings because we have a different history.

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Gallup polling organization joins the quislings, announcing it'll stop doing presidential approval surveys, not coincidentally just when Trump's negatives are super-high.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5733236-gallup-stops-presidential-approval-ratings-polls/

That dashboard camera you bought for your car is a spying on you and your movements -- and you have zero control over where the images go.

Congress -- which could do something about this -- is fine with the situation, because it has endless contempt for your privacy.

https://www.404media.co/this-company-turns-dashcams-into-virtual-cctv-cameras-then-hackers-got-in/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

This is not a drill.

All is takes is 3.5% of a population engaging in peaceful protest to hold back authoritarian movements.

See you tomorrow. https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/this-is-not-a-drill

No Kings in Petaluma.

“I have decided to stick with love.” — MLK

“False, this bill was never shown to me even once and was passed in the dead of night so fast that almost no one in Congress could even read it!”

— Elon Musk, responding to President Trump in real time when Trump claimed Musk knew what was in the budget bill.