Man, I just watched 13th last week, and it is fucking depressing. I thought I was all #woke and whatever, but fuck: it’s so much worse than even I thought.

The irony being that some of them may have been ‘busted’ in their paltry paid jobs only to become indentured labor in this prison system. You’re prohibited from working — except for us.

Breaking anti-slavery laws, in 2017?

Fantastic news. These private prisons make bank off of forcing people to “voluntarily” work for them. Really excited to see that this suit has gone forward.

Just a reminder that people who are being held in immigration detention centers are not being punished for crimes, but these centers are nonetheless run very much like prisons. I think the operators may not always understand the Constitutional significance of the fact that these people are not criminal prisoners.

Hey here’s a fun thing; consider what kind of world we’d be living in if 2009 had opened with the following headlines.

I wonder if Trump is undiagnosed bipolar. He seems to veer from superficial rationality to derangement without a predictable pattern. Or maybe he’s off his meds?

Senator Blanche Devereaux

I wonder if Trump is undiagnosed bipolar.

Senator Blanche Devereaux 😂😂😂

So in his frenzy to misdirect away from all of the garbage we already know he has done, he has accidentally pointed us towards something even worse that he has done.

I must add that I’ve been able to piece together this much of the story in just the last 3 hours (THAT MANY sources have been talking!). Imagine how much dirt - including what’s in all these FBI/CIA/NSA case files - is yet to come this week.

I wonder if Trump is undiagnosed bipolar. He seems to veer from superficial rationality to derangement without a predictable pattern. Or maybe he’s off his meds?

This is a whopper of a mistake by Trump. The Feds had him (and his mob family) under investigation for some time, with respect to Russian money laundering. A year ago, they sought a FISA warrant to wiretap Trump Tower but the judge refused it for insufficient evidence.

It’s actually kind of funny because Trump’s mentor was Roy Cohn who was McCarthy’s right hand man.

Not to mention the fact that Trump’s mentor, Roy Cohn, was McCarthy’s right hand man.

I said this on a previous article, but I do think his freaking out about this and members of his campaign the past few days all of a sudden remembering meetings with the Russian ambassador lead me to believe they found out there was a FISA warrant.

Robert Reich lays out the options as being threefold:

McCheetoism. We are in an era of McCheetoism.

Or, conversely, a wiretap — FISA or otherwise — was authorized, which means a judge found probably cause of wrongdoing in the first place.