Cruelty by #StephenMiller, #KristiNoem, #JDVance, & #DonaldTrump. This is what #MikeJohnson, alleged #Christian, & the cowards in Congress & the fascists on #SCOTUS are doing.

"Islas pulled out a brown teddy bear to ease the toddler’s nerves while she faced Judge Irene C. Feldman. Islas is not formally representing Lucy, but provided Feldman w/information regarding Lucy’s case due to her age & inability to understand #immigration proceedings."

coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/c…

#USPol
#fascism

Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court

More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.

^{Sahara Sajjadi (Copper Courier)}

This thought provoking article is making me rethink my recent assertion that the Epstein files scandal is distracting us from the "real issues".

>>There’s an incorrect belief that the Epstein case is somehow separate from the real concerns facing America, a conspiracist concoction untethered to reality. But it’s actually about the policy issue I’ve probably spent more time writing on than any other in my career in journalism: the two-tiered system of justice and accountability in America, and the impunity we afford the nation’s elites.<<

Do read the whole thing.

prospect.org/justice/2025-07-1…

#EpsteinFiles #JeffreyEpstein #DonaldTrump #USPolitics #CriminalJustice

Jeffrey Epstein Is a Policy Issue

It’s about elite impunity, the defining issue in America for more than two decades.

^{David Dayen (The American Prospect)}

That captures the sorry state of much of #MSM when it comes to #DonaldTrump and #Election2024

Real #journalism requires practioners to ask every member of the #GOP to clarify whether they are in alignment with the #VerminSpeech

Real #journalists do not accept the usual evasive tactics utilized by pols in evading hard questions by attempting to run the clock down because of the tyranny of time slots

No moving on or spinning away without answering the question

#USPolitics