Carl Beijer

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross shot Minnesota resident and mother of three Renee Good in the head last week, Republicans immediately declared that Americans would overwhelmingly support the killing. Little of the footage had been verified at that point, some hadn’t even be released, and no one, of course, had any way of telling how the public would react.

PHOTO CREDIT: Hillel Steinberg. Licensed under Creative Commons (SA 4.0). “We really don’t make enough of the fact that the boomer resistance libs were way more correct than everyone else,” Jay Caspian Kang writes. So says Asawin Suebsand, Moira Deonegan, Scott Lemieux, Toby Buckle, and a million other progressive pundits.

Photo by Sasun Bughdaryan on Unsplash Conservative journalist Matt Taibbi has filed a defamation lawsuit against Eoin Higgins over his book Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left. I am sorely tempted to file and amicus brief in support of Higgins, in part because I think Taibbi is being a bully and I hate bullies, and in part because I have a stake in this myself.