Doktor Zoom

It was not the dead senator announcement we expected this morning, but Lindsey Graham, the US senator from South Carolina who went from warning in 2016 that “If [Republicans] nominate Trump, we will get destroyed … and we will deserve it” to being one of Donald Trump’s most loyal lap dogs, died Saturday night at the age of 71 after what his office said was “a brief and sudden illness.” We doubt it was a sudden attack of conscience for his career of demanding the US bomb every adversary at...

My favorite sign at Boise’s No Kings rally, October 18, 2025.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, in a family photo, via LULAC fundraiser on GoFundMe. After national outrage at ICE’s murderous mass-deportation campaign in Minnesota brought millions of Americans out into the streets in over 3,300 cities and towns, the agency has tried to take a lower profile while actually ramping up arrests. As Robert Reich points out, ICE hasn’t backed off at all, it’s simply trying to be less visible: ICE has quietly doubled its immigrant arrest quota.