Elon is quoting Nazis again
Nebraska is my home & I’m not sure what to say about that. Authoritarians hurt everyone— your silence = compliance He set the cop beaters free & they are organizing. extremism & doom #RussiaIsATerroristState Banner pic:On Tyranny, Timothy Snyder
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What is going on here?
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
Police arrest pastors protesting removal of St. Pete's "Black History Matters" mural - Axios Tampa Bay share.google/mVzXV5PqJUyM...
Russia's war is Trump's war. 100%. This is my tweet from eight years ago, when Trump occupied the White House. Russia had invaded Ukraine, was invading Ukraine, and continued to invade Ukraine. Trump did nothing to stop it because he is a Russian asset and traitor to the USA.
The leader of the Free World is Ukraine: our only fighting defender from the Russia-North Korea-Iran-China axis of nihilism.
This is the type of person Trump pardoned. He proudly asserts that they should have injured a US Capitol Police Officer worse than they did on January 6th (@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social) had to medically retire). But MAGA supports law enforcement? Seriously? Then show me by condemning this guy.
Trump did this
I'll make it easy to determine if you are at high risk from COVID. Are you alive? If you answer YES, then you are at high risk. If asked at a pharmacy if you have a high-risk condition, say yes. There's no need to tell them which condition you have.
It’s easier to purchase an assault rifle in the U.S. than it is to get a COVID19 vaccine. But food dyes and wearable fitness monitors are going to fix everything.
"The eye has been taken off the ball." Great reporting by Audrey Ash and Curt Devine in @cnn.com. At some point, we need to talk about the relationship between rising domestic terrorism and the evisceration of our domestic counterterrorism capacity. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
The warfighters in DC got the trash picked up, now time to mulch.
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
She was a traitor then, is a traitor now and she will always be in the future.
A dramatic, extremely worrying moment; over 61,000 people held in ICE detention. That is the highest number ever on record in United States history; roughly 6,000 higher than the previous record set under Trump six years ago, and over 21,000 higher than when Trump took office just seven months ago.
used to be when White House press pool we haven’t seen and weren’t told where POTUS is, he’d be on a secret flight to some far off war zone to visit the troops… but that can’t be it now since the troops are deployed right out on the White House sidewalk
Threats should work. 🤡 @acyn.bsky.social
‘They Were Praying.’ My reflection on today’s tragedy and the faith that moments like these require. www.courtwatch.news/p/they-were-...
"It never does any good to suck up to an autocrat. He will screw you over anyway. You should preserve your integrity and your dignity if he's going to try to steal everything else." www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CaI...
DEERE: “.. Due to decreased demand and lower order volumes, the following factories will be implementing workforce reductions in the coming weeks. Affected employees were informed today.” @kwqc.com #Iowa $DE www.kwqc.com/2025/08/28/o...
The Trump regime refuses to blame Russia for attacks by Russia on Kyiv that killed 23 people, damaged the EU diplomatic mission, and damaged the British Council office. The whole world knows Russia is a terrorist state and Trump is a loathsome creature of the dictator Putin.
The pro-Russia Trump regime defends terrorist attacks on Ukraine. It is the only consistent policy in its chaotic rule.
“The return of racist symbols” is No. 6 on my list of 12 "tripwires of tyranny" that indicate whether we're living in a dictatorship.
The mainstream media won't tell you that Trump is building a police state because their owners think there's money to be made after Trump builds his police state.
CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else. #USAnotRFK Lets gooooo
New: In 7 months, Kennedy has broken the CDC, perhaps irreparably. For all he’s done with mass firings, gutting expertise, and attacking vaccines, Wednesday’s loss of its most senior and competent leaders—truly the CDC’s backbone—is the most consequential attack yet. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/c...
Authoritarians who unwind democracy are similar in one respect. They seek to take control of centers of power and dissent in society. Call it the authoritarian checklist. Trump’s second term is best understood by his systemic checking off of this checklist. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
Trump's use of red state National Guards in DC is really about viciously turning Americans against each other, about stoking hate and violence *among Americans.* JB Pritzker's response is so good because it lays *this* bare. Me and @brianbeutler.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/1997...
Message for the military service members from #OnTyranny from @timothysnyder.bsky.social :
Washington, Baghdad, or Pyongyang?
📌Republicans are to blame for the slaughter of our children in our schools. Repeat: 📌REPUBLICANS ARE TO BLAME FOR THE SLAUGHTER OF OUR CHILDREN IN OUR SCHOOLS. Stop getting it twisted ...
Denmark's foreign minister summoned the top U.S. diplomat in the country for talks after the main national broadcaster reported that at least three people with connections to President Donald Trump have been carrying out covert influence operations in Greenland.
We are a desensitized, sick society. Why do we normalize any of this? Fuck weapons of war—in fact, fuck all guns. bsky.app/profile/alex...
We are a sick society. It is not normal that a young person is drawing violent images + owning weapons of war + stockpiles of ammunition + spewing antisemitism & hate, yet the neighbors say “they’re such a nice family!” Have the courage to say that all of this is not normal. It is not normal.
On this day in 1955, two white men abducted and murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi.
I have a young son. I’m terrified. I’m also fucking pissed that my own family members—who had all of their kids vaccinated for every disease—are now claiming that mRNA “changes your dna”. Oh, and did I mention that these family members are IN HEALTHCARE and are not stupid…. It’s a cult
The shooter at Annunciation Catholic School used an assault weapon to fire dozens of rounds through the stained glass windows of the school’s church—killing two children and wounding 17 others, including 14 children.
Kindly share these resources with those in Minneapolis—and anyone, anywhere—who have been impacted by this tragedy: bit.ly/47i4OKy
i suspect we're going to run into the issue that no one is capable of understanding this nihilistic violence unless well read into these communities so people will use it as a means to attack
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⚠️“nihilistic violent extremism,” or “NVE” explained here: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/kill...
Yes, left wing extremism and antisemitism! I’ll find data for you from @gwupoe.bsky.social @jonlewis27.bsky.social @lbaum94.bsky.social Don’t attack me for pointing this out-I likely share the same core values as you. I don’t approve of Netanyahu’s killings of journalists, babies, innocents.
I would caution against taking any kind of coherent political statement or philosophy from the content released by the MPLS mass shooter. These manifestos usually have little coherence or consistency, and exist to be picked up by the media and shared.
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You do not know if this extremist murderer is right wing or left wing. There is antisemitism in both extremist ideology.
Asked my doctor this and he said probably not. The rest of the world follows USA in science and research. We lead, so the fact that the vaccine development process for this fall’s formula was halted, the domino effect is that other countries suffer too
I’m afraid all energies are going into the sandwich counteroffensive.
I wonder if there's any "bold action" that someone "unafraid to challenge constitutional norms" could take, to do something about the "American carnage" in our schools.
UPDATE: At least two children, ages 8 and 10, were shot and killed and at least 17 more people, including 14 children, were wounded during a back-to-school mass at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. Schools & churches should be sanctuaries of safety for children, not where they go to die.
hurts every single fucking time Like a punch in the gut
BREAKING: A gunman opened fire at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, while preschool classes were in session during the first week of school. Early reports indicate multiple victims, including children.
One person tried to get on a plane with a shoe bomb and we all had to take our shoes off at airports for decades We've had YEARS of reports on generative "AI" programs telling people to self-harm, leave their spouses, and engage in other dangerous behavior - without repercussions Shut it down
#GreatAmericanBrainDrain This is a huge loss. Thank you for your past commitment to science,sir. I was speaking to a univ.prof.neighbor this morning who said that he had to cancel classes due to low int’l student enrollment in the U.S. because of authoritarian attacks on higher ed/int’l students.
Moore: "The thing that gets me most about this is how deeply disrespectful this is to members of the National Guard who signed up for this job as I did when I deployed overseas & led paratroopers in combat where we signed up w/the expectation the commander in chief was actually taking it seriously"
Remember them.
Thinking of #CorporalDaeganPage ‘s loved ones. The pain & grief is overwhelming and the sorrow lifelong indeed. Freedom is not free. Teach your young about the sacrifices that the very best among us have made. Please donate in #CplDaeganPage ‘s memory,in honor of his sacrifice. 🇺🇸 ⭐️ daeganpage.org
🚨 MAJOR BREAKING Democrat Catelin Drey FLIPS Iowa SD-1 — a district Trump won by 11.5 points in 2024 — defeating Republican Christopher Prosch in a landslide special election and breaking the GOP supermajority.
Watch the @osbornforne.bsky.social race
HUGE FLIP: Democrat Catelin Drey wins deep-red state Senate seat in Iowa, breaking the GOP's supermajority. Drey won by 11 points in a district Donald Trump carried by 11 points last year. It's another massive overperformance. The Iowa GOP should be very worried for the midterms. Our full writeup:
BREAKING: Catelin Drey just FLIPPED Iowa’s SD-01, breaking the GOP’s supermajority in the chamber! She’s ready to put working families back at the forefront of politics in Iowa after years of Republican policy failures.
WOW. HUGE PICK UP IN IOWA TONIGHT Breaks GOP supermajority in the Senate Congrats Catelin Drey!!!!
Thank you for your work, neighbor! Way to go! -a supporter in Nebraska
🚨 We flipped an Iowa State Senate seat in a special election tonight!!! 🚨 Congrats to Senator-elect Drey!!! 🇺🇸
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its crazy how much trump hates these people and how little respect he has for them
I think we can let the "is Trump REALLY an authoritarian/fascist/etc?" debate have some rest now
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Emboldened in trumpland
The new online vigilante portal to sign up to be a Brownshirt to deploy like a stormtrooper to brutalize poor people, immigrants, people of color, and anyone else who might dare to go to a protest is a development that should be one of the major news stories of the year. It's barely being mentioned.
Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?
JB Pritzker calls on the news industry to show courage and avoid both-sides-ing a fascist government's military occupation of a great American city.
I was in the news business for only 4 decades, so maybe I don't know much. But it seems like the transformation of the U.S. into a police state would be worth a headline and a few paragraphs.
Peter Thiel, Musk, Stephen Miller, and Russell Vought realize their King is sick and dying. This is why they're ramping up towards a dictatorship. To ensure their groomed boy toy, JD Vance, has all the power to do their bidding.
That one person in the zombie movie who doesn't tell the rest of the group they got bitten.
If it wasn't clear before, it really should be now. These are enemies, not political opposition.
It’s a death wish for the most vulnerable among us. I asked my physician +my child’s pediatrician+ my pharmacist about Covid vaccine availability and got no answer. I pushed and they all finally admitted that there likely will not be any vaccines. The pharmacist added that many drugs will be banned.
If Trump were operating in the best interests of America's businesses, his move to fire Lisa Cook would cause stocks to shrug, or maybe rise. But they're saying: This is dangerous. This move serves Trump, but not America. Our economy is at risk when the President undermines the Fed.
Everyone involved needs to stand up. The stakes are too high.
A man, near the White House, who describes himself as a "retired disabled combat veteran," after burning an American flag tells bystanders "I am being detained because I expressed my First Amendment rights."
His violent goons killed Officer #BrianSicknick and severely injured 140 officers. Officers #KyleDeFreytag , #JeffreySmith, #HowardLiebengood, and #GuntherHashida all lost their lives to suicide because of the violent insurrection. But somehow, half of America forgot and voted for the criminal.
Trump wants harsher penalties for flag desecration — yet pardoned a man who beat Capitol police with an American flag. The hypocrisy is staggering. #BlueCrew #Resist #ProudBlue #TruthWarriors #StrongerTogether
His violent goons killed Officer #BrianSicknick and severely injured 140 officers. Officers #KyleDeFreytag , #JeffreySmith, #HowardLiebengood, and #GuntherHashida all lost their lives to suicide because of the violent insurrection. But somehow, half of America forgot and voted for the criminal.
It’s a fucking cult. He is insane. He is deranged. This is the dumbest of dumb fucking times. #FuckFascists I’m so fucking mad at every goddamn person that enabled this. Profanity is DEFINITELY appropriate. Get mad, citizens!
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
Liberals say that we are in the middle of a slow-motion coup. They're wrong—the coup is happening very quickly.
We are here: #OnTyranny @timothysnyder.bsky.social
A new executive order turns the National Guard into his personal police force. @janessagoldbeck.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/janessag...
Russia bombed an American factory. The Trump regime took no notice other than restricting the ability of Ukrainians to defend themselves with U.S.-supplied weapons. Trump is completely Putin’s puppet.
"scoping out legal avenues to prevent soldiers from overtaking the city" I really hope that works out. Historically, however — and I expect this to eventually be the case in our present crisis — the only thing that prevents soldiers from overtaking a city is other soldiers.
Tired: Can the US military successfully fight two wars at the same time? Wired: Can the US military successfully occupy four American cities at the same time? Inspired: Can the US military successfully fight any war at all while also occupying four American cities?
That bicycle crash of Biden’s though… bsky.app/profile/meid...
The Greatest Generation, the finest among us! Nebraskan Don McPherson, WWII ace pilot, was an American hero. Thank you for your service. Rest in peace, patriot & hero. #GreatestGeneration World War II ‘ace’ pilot dies at age 103 www.1011now.com/2025/08/22/w...
🧵🧵🧵 Trump often lies about Chicago, using a great American city as a punching bag to entertain out-of-town racists who are scared of Black and Latino Chicagoans whom they’ve never met. He’s threatening a military occupation. Here’s a thread about Chicago, Trump and crime. 1/
We’re 7 months in, and “Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago” is a headline in the Washington Post. And because it’s city number three, we’re already numbing to it. If you read this about any other democracy in the world, you’d conclude that it was well on the road to a dictatorship.
If a president wanted to become effectively a dictator, he’d likely: 1. Purge govt of non loyalists 2. Weaponize law against opponents 3. Use military to police opposition strongholds 4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel 5. Change election rules in his favor.
Sold my model 3 in March. Glad I unloaded it when I did! Don’t shame me for buying it in the first place-I really had the best intentions….
If a Democratic president starting sending Blue state national guard troops to occupy a red city as a power grab, the GOP officials in that state would arrest the invading guard troops to send a message that they are defending their sovereignty.
It’s almost 2 am. I’m not sleeping because I’m sick with worry and anxiety about the state of our country.