Andor isn't just the show we wanted, it's the show we need right now. A perfect illustration of the power of hope. The Mon Mothma speech gave me chills. It's the true spirit of rebellion to speak truth when truth is forbidden.
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Andor isn't just the show we wanted, it's the show we need right now. A perfect illustration of the power of hope. The Mon Mothma speech gave me chills. It's the true spirit of rebellion to speak truth when truth is forbidden.
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Just in case those of us fighting for democracy in court didn't need another challenge, Big Law turning collaborators is here and growing. My firm and others continue to fight. We will never back down. We will never bend a knee. We will never obey.
Satire no longer works in times of oppression if it's just designed to make people laugh at tragedy.
"Saturday Night Live" did its best attempt to bring levity to the global economic turmoil sparked by President Trump's tariffs.
Yes. when they talk of manufacturing jobs, which we don't have, they mean forced labor.
More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory
Ideologues like RFK don't bend to reality. They will distort reality to mirror their myopia.
Surely Russia is a more sane place to live than this. Imagine how much the new leaders must hate this country and its people.
Booker: "This isn't just about Mr. Garcia. This is about every American understanding that this president is making an assault on the due process rights that are afforded to people in our country ... you cannot disappear people off American streets."
When the horrors of our age are over, the Americans who didn't give a damn who insist the imprisonment of Americans in EL Salvador appalled them. This is only happening because Trump can count on most Americans to not care in the least.
Tomorrow El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukeke will visit the White House - no doubt to advance plans to imprison incarcerated U.S. citizens in El Salvador.We need to stop this before it happens. Call both your Senators and your Rep. & tell them NO! 202-224-3121 open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Never underestimate the pure evil Trump is capable of. If you can imagine him doing it, you can be sure he's thinking about it.
He's basically telling white men they deserve less so expect less. It's language used to justify a useless elite for whom everyone must work really hard.
That was a time when the biggest worry was what happened when the clocks changed to 2000.
When ignorance of the law becomes the law.
We need to confront the ugly truth that Trump and Musk have set out to destroy our country if we let them.
Countries that care about their Citizens. While US leadership hates Americans.
Improper ideology? Wtf is this? This is American self annihilation...out of spite.
All these bastards are complicit. When will the Constitution be considered inconvenient?
I'd say we're in this mess because too many voters need to be persuaded NOT to vote against their self-interest and what's best for their fellow Americans and this country. This doesn't get fixed until most Americans act like adults and make responaible decisions.
Why would new college graduates want to risk a public sector job now?
However we get through this, the rest of the world will still be figuring out ways to get things done without us. They will never be able to trust us again.
Horrific
I can only hope Canadians emphatically reject these destructive ideologues.
Is Musk even a sane human being?
A reminder that Trump is NOT our country. Musk is not our country nor is Tesla. WE are our country. We owe Trump and Musk nothing. And Trump and Musk attacking us is treason against our country. Trump and Musk only have power when we surrender ours and when we're not looking out for one another.
Such an indelible image, especially without any context, and good luck explaining the full context. For fans of Emile, what a satisfying moment. #Severance
This diva #Severance
The way Severance season 2 wrapped up was so absolutely perfect. Troubling questions were addressed while keeping the larger context even more vague and unsettling. The fight for personhood and dignity is so satisfying to watch.
Absolute lunacy.
Canadian MP Charlie Angus: I am here today to urge Canadians to avoid travel to the United States if at all possible and to call on our government to stand up for our citizens who are being denied their rights through arbitrary detention in the United States.
Although this is the time to be angry and to take concerted actions to address the causes of that action, we can't stop mocking the people who demand to be feared. Comedy like SNL is largely missing the moment, normalizing this more than making it look ridiculous.
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These firms must agree not to comply with this. Trump only has the power he's given.
Schumer is playing a leader but he won't actually do anything.
Leavitt is asking the press to prove Biden didn't know what he was approving? Complete idiocy.
The legacy media is desperate to make excuses for him, suggesting he has a plan he's told no one about.
Fun videos? What a sick human being.
Former chair of the Tennessee Libertarian Party 👇🏽
250 Venezuelans have been disappeared into one of the worst prisons in Central America based on Trump’s invocation of a law only used 3 times in our history - the last time resulted in the Japanese-American internment. These men have had no due process. It’s monstrous. nypost.com/2025/03/16/u...
We’re only two months in, & they’re cancelling research into pediatric brain cancer. They’re deporting US kids with brain cancer. They’re putting millions at risk of malaria, TB, & polio. I for one will never forgive or forget those who said ‘it won’t be that bad’. 😡
This is heartbreaking and enraging.
Elon Musk's and X's Role in 2024 Election Interference, a letter from an alleged X whistleblower. "What started as US election interference has now spread to other countries. We're currently doing the same thing in Germany and other European nations." theconcernedbird.substack.com/p/elon-musks...
Here’s a cheat sheet with all the phone numbers for the US Senate. I have a feeling we’ll be calling them a lot in the near future.
Note how he uses the term Palestinian as an insult. That should be telling for everyone who claims to be concerned about Gaza and the future of the Middle East.
MAGA fools will give Trump and Musk all they have just to hurt the rest of us. Eventually MAGA won't have anything left to give.
Trump is relying on Americans to shrug off the sudden disappearance of people.
Leadership through selective punishments. We cannot let this persist without speaking up and speaking loud.
History DOES repeat itself… 🤬
Hey friends, I came across this in someones timeline. Never a truer word spoken about Mr Dicktator!!! Please share so those that voted for this nightmare can feel publicly shamed!Everyone deserves peace and morality in their lives. Well except the MAGATS that voted for this shit show. Repost, Linda💞
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Why do Trump and Musk want tariffs -- new higher taxes that YOU have to pay for? They want YOU to pay more in taxes -- so they can pay ZERO.
Yeah, this is a perennial truth -- landmark struggles over free speech typically involve people who are saying and doing things that are *unpopular* That's, uh, why they need the protection of the First Amendment. It's sort of the whole point.
You think a single Republican who do or say the right thing?
They're screwing us over and will take NO responsibility for it.
How much do we have to hurt ourselves and our country for Trump and Musk?
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Musk is the purest of evil.
Imagine how fragile they must be to want to eliminate the below words from use.
This affidavit, filed by a former Social Security employee in one of the DOGE cases, reveals a shocking exposure of personal info to DOGE operatives & possible compromise of parts of the system. Everyone should read this. Start at para 9. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
It's just another excuse to remove people who have a right to be here and it can be based on a complete fabrication. All you have to do is defend the dignity of all human life to be targeted by hateful people.
This is precisely the problem. Working class Americans are cheering a billionaire hurting working class Americans. It's insane.
These attorneys are undermining every other attorney practicing law.
Musk is basically threatening them to keep Starlink because they have no choice.
It's so hard seeing nothing done while Putin allies thumb their nose at us.
Taxpayer money will always be spent largely on protecting the wealthy.
They've all surrendered power to Musk. He's the greatest threat facing us and the world right now.
They're diluting our rights because they're counting on Americans to shrug it off as something happening to people who shouldn't be here.
They smile when they tell a lie so absurd they can't keep a straight face.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Trump doesn’t push tariffs to create jobs (they don’t), lower prices (they don’t), or make foreign countries pay (they don’t). He loves tariffs because they make him rich—forcing businesses to pay him millions for carve-outs while your prices skyrocket.
In the long run, the elite firms that stood up for their clients will endure, not the ones who couldn't do their job for fear of Trump.
No Western democracy should be relying on Starlink. How dangerous to depend on a lunatic.
What they're saying is that the American people will have to bear the cost of balancing the budget. There's no savings to them.
I guess Netanyahu doesn't think Palestinians suffered enough.
We're witnesses a very slow coup of our government that started with the election. We can still defend our country against this.
Trump renders everything meaningless. He's the source of so much destructive nihilism in our country.
It's insane that someone is erratic as Musk has any political power at all.
Abject weakness on the world stage.
More Americans need to get active and speak out. Silence does us no favors.
People actually voted for a guy who doesn't give a damn about anything, least of all them. They actually chose this for all of us.
The founding fathers baked reason, truth and free speech into the US. That’s all gone now | Will Hutton
So Americans will destroy their national parks to own Canada. The self-destruction is lunacy.
I barely use Threads anymore but somehow got suspended and no explanation for why. What a completely unreliable platform. What if I'd invested more time than just occasionally sharing and replying to posts. I worry about these social media platforms in the hands of untrustworthy billionaires.
This describes my kind of people and things that are very important to me.
There are stupid people everywhere, willing to give up their freedoms and those of others without getting anything concrete in return.
Exactly. We have so much neglect in our country because we don't empower the people who will ensure public money is properly used. Instead, we vote for self-serving idiots who appeal to prejudice and make ridiculous promises. The voters screw us over again and again and again.
An American interested enough in the rest of the world to travel but who hates it enough to wear a MAGA cap as a middle finger to them? It's like flaunting his hate for them.
The people who betrayed others with their votes now feel betrayed.
Measles parties? My God. Are Americans this damn stupid now? Ideology dumbs people down so much.
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When you consider the unfairness and cruelty in our history, I'd say most Americans tend to accept unfairness, but that it's a handful of well-placed people who engineer positive change.
As long as government answers to the people, it should be transparent where national security isn't at issue.
A group of labor unions are asking a federal court for an emergency order to stop Elon Musk's DOGE from accessing the sensitive Social Security data of millions of Americans.
Lying to people is how you take their power away so that their anger is unmoored from reality.
Many people have forgotten how to be human beings. It's ugly what some have become.