Getting old AF. Life-long liberal. Left US for 7 years while Reagan was pretending to be president. Fond of trees, waterfalls and decent people.
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Sadly, I do not believe the people controlling the far right including voting regulation intend to allow fair voting again. The MAGAts are not the only power they have. They at least nominally have control of the military and much of the court system, especially the one that counts most.
The courts, regulations, power positions are firmly in far right hands. Education, the non-taxability of the wealthy, the plundering of public lands, this will not magically be undone with the demise of Trump. Voting is at risk. Vance is a puppet, they hold the strings.
You are sadly correct.
Hate to disagree, but there is strong evidence many are...They vote and act against their own interests over and over.
You are already aware of it, but most in the US are not. Hopefully many will research for themselves the history available online. It sure as hell will not be taught in schools.
But they will. MAGAts are fully invested in the lies and who will they blame when trump dies from whatever reason? Will they suddenly have a rational awakening? What and who caused trump to stack the far right court? They will still be there pulling strings. Vance is fully the puppet of Peter Thiel.
Radical far right Catholics have achieved unprecedented power in the US through association with immensely wealthy individuals who play a very long game. Leonard Leo's "Supreme" Court is only one. Everyone really should know about Opus Dei, and what Peter Thiel is up to....
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Not by accident
Leonard Leo ally Tim Busch has called SCOTUS the “Leo Court,” explaining that Trump “radically changed” the direction of SCOTUS by appointing (anti-abortion) justices “shepherded” by Leo, who he says is “one of the big supporters of the Napa Institute” (founded by Busch). 1/
Whenever he dies, the evil he has set in motion will not cease, as those behind him will still hold power over the nation. The proponents of Project 2025, the techbros who have now discovered that immense wealth equals power, corporations now unfettered by regulation. That won't melt magically.
The entire fascist plot relies on us being terrified and sad. This is why they’re constantly trying to scare everyone with theatrics. They want you to see him as unstoppable and not as a 79-year-old with severe health problems who will die soon.
Videos Contradict Israel’s Rationale for Deadly Hospital Attack www.nytimes.com/video/world/... This is the shameful reality
Some brains are easily washed...
Let's lie about our own history and claim to be better than we were both before World War II and before the civil war and during the Jim Crow days which the current administration is trying to go back to in their racism.
It has never been about the money. In deep red Oklahoma the bumper stickers say "Another Republican working hard so YOU don't have to" and they have been fed that crap for years. Feeding that lie; that anyone needing help does not deserve it and is morally inferior
It may be crucial community work, but these troops have family and jobs. They expect to be called up in an emergency to defend the US, not clean up the streets. So I want them home, along with all the others who are “cleaning up” the city & country of brown, black & homeless people.
His reasons are never legitimate ones...
Why is Trump letting RFK Jr dismantle agencies and upend public health? Shared grievances and skepticism about vaccines, a growing personal bond — and a belief that it’s good politics. Inside their alliance, with @emilydavies.bsky.social and Natalie Allison www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
In our current reality, sadly, you do.
Misuse of police authority everywhere it seems
“Don’t run us over anymore, sir!” Biggest protests in Indonesia in a long, long time
but of course doing the humane thing and actually help the unhoused would never occur to a man like trump.
"These night patrols watch over the city to ensure that people are protected from state violence, false arrest, abduction, and harassment. Failing that, their goal is to document the constitutional violations or brutality they witness." www.thenation.com/article/acti...
@jollygoodginger.bsky.social is in DC with other vets right now standing up for democracy. He's playing General Milleys speech on repeat for them today 💜 #LoveTheVets!
Good Morning Everyone Happy Labor Day Weekend And Tell everyone Thank You Union Members The 1% didn't do this The blood, sweat, and tears of hardworking people did Keep fighting Keep raising your voice
#ProudBlue National Guard troops don't know their mission - When asked, they say they’re walking around, smiling, & waving at the people Playgrounds & restaurants are empty for the most part & children are staying home from school, thanks to ICE Some guards are assigned to trash duty & mulching
I wish Republicans were as outraged that Trump is ignoring court orders, using ICE as his Gestapo, and is using the military against US citizens, as they were that time Michelle Obama wore a sleeveless dress. #ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
Now that you are thinking about the history of Hawaii, investigate how the US took it from the Hawaiian people. It involved an invasion of US marines, an absolutely false report of "civil unrest" and white people (often associated with religious groups) who then became obscenely wealthy landowners
In 1885, royal Hawaiian brothers were studying at a military school in California. There, they introduced a sport known as "surfboard swimming." The Princes of Surf exhibit tells what happened next.
A river otter family on a sandy beach 🧵 #mammals #otters
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u... Racism on full proud display, and his rubber stamp court said ...
One would have to be an unprecedented level of stupid or brain dead to believe the statement given to a personal lawyer for trump as part of a deal.
www.instagram.com/reel/DMYUWBo... Opportunities missed leading to....
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025... How is this a surprise under the current regime....
wapo.st/4muawgS Hell, not the same as ten years ago, or even 5. This year has been worse than last year.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... First steps toward martial law and installing himself as dictator. Oh, you still think that is an exaggeration? Really?
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... It wasn't an interview (by another of Trump lawyers given jobs way over their capabilities or qualifications), it was a rehearsal. A getting their stories straight.
wapo.st/41MO9Lp Billions in money previously approved by Congress now under control of Project 2025 architect. You know, the one trump never heard of. Odd how he then got appointed White House budget director.
Does anyone still doubt that was the intention all along?
These moves on the capital by Trump and his red-state cronies seem like an acceleration of danger to democracy, meant to familiarize Americans with the site of federal forces patrolling blue American cities, writes @joanwalsh.bsky.social:
If Trump is going back to the well with the stolen election lies and mail-in ballot nonsense maybe now is a good time to remind everyone there was a whole series of hearings and witness interviews with his own people about this?
The Inept Brothers
The Pete Hegseth pull-up is a bit different than the ones we did at Parris Island. Maybe it’s an Army thing.
The US Constitution requires elections be held during wartime. A 2x elected president can’t run for the office a 3rd time for the same reason. “If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.” ~ David Frum
The right wing in this country and their allies in academic administration are unilaterally destroying what it takes to maintain a free people.
Justice has fled the "justice" department. Full on racist despotism.
Let's be clear - Corey Paris did nothing wrong. Nothing illegal. Explaining what the government is doing is not a crime in America. This post from ICE is dime store totalitarian intimidation. Nobody should fall for it.
Racing to authoritarianism
🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is escalating its effort to pressure states to hand over sensitive voter data, including by threatening legal action, according to letters from a top department official obtained by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
The speed in which universities that haven't even been targeted by the regime (yet) are capitulating lays bare the obvious truth-- they were eagerly waiting for any excuse to cull programs and tenure.
The right wing rot spreads everywhere.
The attack on higher education in the US, which is being largely done in the name of "fighting antisemitism," is inevitably going to lead to a lot of universities deciding that Judaic Studies programs need to be cut for budgetary purposes. Killing Judaic Studies to fight antisemitism.
There is no moral equivalence between bullies and the bullied, between tyranny and democracy, or between brutality and decency. No individual can be free in a society devoid of justice. There can be no liberty where brutality reigns.
New: Lizelle Gonzalez is suing officials who wrongly charged her with murder for an abortion—and depositions with investigators show that, if given the chance, they would handle future cases the same way Police and sheriffs have so much power to ruin people’s lives by manipulating the legal process
Police and sheriffs who want to trample rights are greatly encouraged by the wanna be despot who squats in the white house and his rubber stamp supreme court.
Ogles is unfit to have any part in a government under our Constitution.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/m... The reality is intentional devastation to many lives.
www.theguardian.com/environment/... Lost and gone forever?
www.theguardian.com/environment/... Concerns are too little too late
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... So many pictures of you with Epstein have been out there for years. From when he was y'alls best friend.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b... Time to pay attention. This can affect your money without any action or control on your part.
www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/c... Brothers all right
Nothing trump touches has any honor
Why any artist would want to associate their legacy with a child rapist is beyond my reasoning ability. It's not an honor, it's a disgrace.
Let's hope Stallone refuses. And no one watches.
apnews.com/article/trum... Will it be televised on @pbs.org? No one watch. Destroy his ratings!
Pictures may not be real, but the article is: www.farm2people.org › journal › the-lost-history-of-the-bing-cherry
The Bing cherry is named after Ah Bing, a Chinese immigrant who worked as a foreman in an Oregon orchard. The cherry was named after Ah Bing in recognition of his work in cultivating the new variety. Erased Asian American History. #AANHPI #AAPI
And the plan is to withhold all federal funds from blue states...
Of all the dysfunction, cruelty and horrors we face, the scariest one (for me) is the possible implosion of the Dept. of Education. The dismantling of the DOE will rapidly turn Red states redder and turn them into enclaves of the Neo Feudal System, which has been the grand GOP scheme for 60 years.
Supreme court already fixed that for him. What in god's name is left to ever hold him accountable for anything?
Breyer: What is the remedy? ... Let's assume [the President] violates the terms of the Posse Comitatus Act. ... The facts aren't in dispute. They're disputed in this case. ... What then is the remedy." DOJ: There is no civil remedy. Breyer: Then there's a criminal remedy. He can be prosecuted?
MAGA IS A CHILD RAPE CULT.
“Hey, just for the record, I’ve been walking the streets for 10 years in Washington D.C and I’ve never had a single crime happen to me.” (Translation: Those Epstein files must be incredibly damning)
Spotted in Charlbury, UK
Important perspective from @risabrooks12.bsky.social, one of the sharpest civ-mil experts around. The military can't save democracy, but in my judgment they can and should save their profession by defending its values.
Please God just let him finally start dressing like Muammar Gaddafi in a fake military uniform with fake medals and a big garish ersatz military cap so everyone can perfectly understand what he is
apnews.com/article/pete... Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth belongs to an archconservative church network. Here's what to know. A clear and present danger to democracy
This Federal Judge Is the ‘Tip of the Spear’ of Trump-Era Conservatism www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/u... Think Trump will tell one of the old far right helpers he has on the "supreme" court to retire? This guy could cause lethal damage for decades...
Not a drag queen.
The pudgy fingers of overt racism everywhere
we all know that the proof for the administration that an institution is not implementing affirmative action will be the percentage of nonwhite admits. the lower the better. any more than a smattering of black and Hispanic students will be evidence of illegal discrimination (against whites)
Every day I wonder "how can people be this dumb" and every day they continue to be
This is the biggest load of horseshit since the last load of horseshit from this regime. Which was probably like an hour ago... THIS is what we thought the numbers should be, so that's what they are now. This shouldn't be a fucking problem for the economy, right???
Current regime has no plans to ever let survivors testify to the truth
NEWS: Annie Farmer, an Epstein survivor who testified against Ghislaine Maxwell, just revealed on CNN that she wrote a letter with her concerns to Deputy AG Blanche — and received no response. She says neither she nor other survivors have heard a word from the DOJ.
Explicitly racist and illegal.
Unfit, unworthy, and most of all a habitual liar
REPORTER: “One of the accomplishments you listed was from the Inflation Reduction Act… which you voted against.”🤔 NANCY MACE: *loses her shit on the reporter, calls her a ‘raging leftist’, babbles about conservative women being president* tldr: Mace is unhinged and unfit
The VA’s unilateral termination of union contracts for ~360k workers represents a loss of 2.5% OF ALL UNION MEMBERS IN AMERICA. I’m not sure what it will take for the labor movement to get into crisis mode, but the crisis is here.
Then lets see ALL of our history, not just the bits the GOP cherry-picks! Slavery, the fight for civil rights, the contributions of black people, brown people, women.
Finally, a sensible political decision!
Here's Some GOOD NEWS SEE how your VOICE MATTERS Amazon's Project Blue to build 2 massive data centers has been SHUT DOWN Data centers use MASSIE WATER USAGE and how INSANE to want to build in the desert where there's extreme drought and heat Bravo Southern Arizona
Among many disgraceful, destructive acts...
The U.S. government has fueled decades of world-leading scientific and technical innovation by funding research efforts through grants programs & universities where researchers controlled decisions. In the USSR, no decisions were made by scientists alone. Every decision required political approval.