Here’s hoping this really really messes up Trump’s “big announcement” today. #NoFascistUSA
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Here’s hoping this really really messes up Trump’s “big announcement” today. #NoFascistUSA
Great discussion on the dangers of weak-willed politicians *and* journalists in Trump’s new fascist America. #NoFascistUSA
Oh, you’re right. I guess he’s trying to gin up a story to suppress interest in advance.
Hmmmm. Epstein/Maxwell/Trump survivors hold a press conference e tomorrow at 10:30 AM ET. What q weird coincidence. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#WorkersLaborDay event getting started at Waterfront Park in #SanDiego.
“Eat healthy and exercise” vs. “Let the weak ones die without medical care” @theatlantic.com
Anyway, I’m glad to know the president is still technically alive so he can watch this tomorrow www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Brilliant
Troops in the streets here AND warships provoking war w/Venezuela, a genocidal scheme to recreate Mar-a-Lago in Gaza, weird coordinates-with-the-enemy bombing of Iran, among so much else war-mongering and disturbing-the-peace-mongering. Trump is the biggest menace to peace the world has EVER seen.
At the very least, they’d have to show that in each and every case, they knew where the child’s parent was and had communicated with them about the child’s imminent arrival. Which of course they DID NOT DO.
Wow. I want every university counsel who is thinking about cowering before the Trump Administration’s threats, to read this and understand the caliber of attorney that has you shaking in your books. Yet another player in Trump’s army of incompetent thugs. www.propublica.org/article/leo-...
That’s great to hear! (I rarely listen audio here.) About 75% of the time, our chant leaders lead with “divided.”
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
Pet peeve, and hoping this will help in future demonstrations and chant leaders. The chant should be: The People, United, will never be defeated! (Of course if you’re united you won’t be divided. That’s redundant.) It comes from the Spanish chant: ¡El Pueblo, unido, jamás será vencido!
Why oh why oh why the fuck why do judges keep giving them so many chances? So this is basically giving DOJ another 2.5 hours to…whatever: send the planes off anyway, hide the kids in some new gulag, and if nothing else, further terrorize CHILDREN. Start sending DOJ lawyers to jail ffs.
In no universe would a public figure recount the first paragraph if it wasn’t integral to the next. 🍿🍾🎉
Hey @mayorbowser.bsky.social Is *this* the kind of law enforcement “help” you endorsed last week? So much shame on you. Join Chicago and demand all law enforcement unmask and wear visible identification. abc7chicago.com/post/chicago...
You know, they’re trained for desk jobs. Maybe after a few more weeks of landscaping for the parks dept, they’ll be able to hop (or claw their way) over.
I don't think I've ever seen so much evil packed into three sentences.
Every (blue-led, at least) city should do this.
I love that three of my icons are so deeply into Project Runway! Fun convo!!
Everyone gets to feel the way they feel, but I’d hope instead of writing off non-perfect candidates, we’d work with them to help them evolve. Obama was opposed to gay marriage in 2008 (!) but grew—after pressure—to become a champion. Newsom is changeable. That said, Pritzker is wonderful.
Only in the “family jewel” sense
What we are experiencing is a system predicated on ignoring popular consent. Fascism is unpopular by definition. And Vance’s closeness to tech fascists who are inherently antidemocratic speaks to what he could represent should he gain power, which they’ve wanted since they bought his position.
Yeah, I had to put a request in for Orconomics. But it’s good for them to hear they should be looking at indies too!
Team Trump is purposefully raising your electricity prices, hoping you’ll be mad at your electric utility and not blame them. The benefit to them is extra dollars for their greedy fossil fuel donors. Here’s how it works.🧵
This is a DEMAND from your 40M CA constituents @adamschiff.com @padilla.senate.gov @sarajacobs.house.gov
Libby! Or whatever your public library’s free app is called. I’ve read and listened to hundreds (thousands?) of books this way! apps.apple.com/us/app/libby...
Thiel thread; well worth your time. #NoFascistUSA
Okay, my 101-year-old grandfather is really enjoying the responses he’s gotten here, so I’ve finally convinced him to let me share something he’s been working on for years; a series of sculptures he calls “Trumpinnochios.” Here’s one of his best. I’ll share a few more in this thread.
The non-dictatorial countries ALL must boycott the General Assembly. No nation should hold the power to decide which countries are represented—or not. This is a red line. #BoycottUNGA2025
Lol New Hampshire. Caliwagon is ready to go too!
Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:
Gotta say Joni deciding to pull her objections to Hegseth to spare herself a primary challenge only to not even run for re-election is incredibly on brand for a Very Serious National Security Republican
Sharing this handy recounting of all the laws (and norms) shattered by this criminal enterprise in the White House. #NoFascistUSA
As the U.S. becomes a fascist dictatorship isolating itself from the world, the United Nations needs to start looking for a new home.
And even then…nah
Even though my kid has a PhD, a husband, a home, a career, and a wonderful life and we’ve all Done Everything Right…I still yearn for our time together. It’s a wonderful thing to love and like your kids!
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Nuremberg tick tick tick
Strong! They always wanna talk!
Chanting #USAnotRFK
“Senior health official” is doing a lot of work. He has a BA and MA in Humanities, and was basically a speechwriter for various HHS depts. He has no medical training, nor any mgmt experience of note. Wikipedia IDs him as an “investor.”
The Violence Project's database (1966–2024) indicates that 97.7% of mass shooters in their database were male, with only one identified as transgender.
Must-read thread. These are perilous times that need clear-headed acknowledgment of the task at hand. Do. Not. Wait. #NoFascistUSA
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
Please thank Director Monarez for all of us for refusing to capitulate to anti-science, anti-democratic thugs. Resignations just make their fascist overthrow easier. (And being fired by these ghouls will be a badge of honor in a renaissanced USA.) #NoFascistUSA
So maybe those other four didn’t resign either! I was gonna say, stop making it easy for the fascists!!
Striking: New Quinnipiac poll finds 56% of voters nationally oppose Trump's sending of National Guard into DC. Only 41% support it. Independents oppose it by 61-34. Trump's overall approval on crime is cratering at 42-54. That sound you hear is a lot of dimwitted pundit narratives imploding.
Bravo/brava to @vanityfair.com staff. This is how we refuse to allow the drip-drip-gush of fascism. Shame on the editorial staff that are contemplating this. #NoFascistUSA
#VichyBowser
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
No bueno. Bukele es un dictator y estudiantes no son soldados.
“He may be the greatest con in American history.” [no idea why the qualifier…] Money/making ventures while presidenting: - Mar-a-Lago - Merch - Legal fees - DC, Hanoi hotels - Persian Gulf payoffs & Saudi deals - Qatar jet - Corp blackmail - TS - Exec Branch club - Crypto, Bitcoin & $trump = $3.4B
“I had to call in the Guard! Fall is coming and those trees aren’t gonna mulch themselves! Thank you for your attention to this matter!” DJT
"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
I love the old man on the Cracker Barrel logo. He just got home from teaching the only course in America actually called Diversity Equity and Inclusion and is resting up after the hearty classroom discussion on reparation payments.
AND they raise the price to boot!
The fuk?? He’s the one who sent millions of gallons of our precious water *into* the Pacific! And now he’s pretending he himself “turned the [nonexistent] valve”?? I’ll forever hate the NYT for its aging-Biden series that got us this demented fascist.
Ditto SoCal. Not a hellhole, not overrun by crime, not fascist. (And extremely immigrant-friendly.) #NoFascistUSA
The governors and mayors and congressional reps of a number of blue states and cities are most definitely working together to stop it. You can support their efforts.
One thing that satisfies me as the US falls into fascism is that when we claw out of this hole, CJ John Roberts’ name will be synonymous with “traitor” and his reputation considered worse than Taney, McReynolds, Field, and Thomas combined. Tho I don’t believe in it, he does: may he rot in hell.
Dictator alert
How is the President declaring “a lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator" not the headline of every newspaper in America? And don’t say, what are newspapers?
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I’ve been fighting since the Nixon admin. I-told-you-so scolds are really not helpful as we try to recruit converts to the anti-fascism cause.
Gift link. These jackals are going to steal every cent we’ve earned and saved. And laugh at the rubes as they do it. #Basta #NoFascistUSA www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
The idea that democrats lose because they say the wrong words is one of the dumbest ideas in politics. I rarely, if ever, see elected Dems using this language, and yet it is pundit catnip. Meanwhile, no one is polling on how Nazi salutes and "blood and soil" go over with everyday folks.
I hold them responsible. (Small friendly amendment to your post? The descent has been mind-numbingly fast. So many institutions & individuals simply bowing to his/MAGA’s usurped powers. Largely bc our media refuse to cover The Story and instead transcribe his illegal pronouncements & exec “orders.”)
Ominous: Trump and Stephen Miller are very clearly working to acclimate Americans to the spectacle of US troops in US cities, to the idea of the military carrying out domestic enforcement on US citizens. Harrowing stuff from @vermontgmg.bsky.social in this exchange: newrepublic.com/article/1995...
Great piece. But why do analysts cont to speak of him as being “on the dictator track.” He’s deploying troops against US citizens he disagrees w/politically; ignores court orders; uses the power of the state against perceived enemies; illegally imposes tariffs… Trump is a fucking dictator. Now what?
Just received this statement from Lisa Cook: "President Trump purported to fire me 'for cause' when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022."
Rachel has some thoughts on the 'how come.' "A leader trying to deprofessionalize...law enforcement and the military does so bc he wants to remove any professional restraint or internal ethics or culture that otherwise might hold those forces back from what he is now going to ask them to do."
From @maddow.msnbc.com: Trump firing virtually all national security officials. This after the evisceration of the natl security division at DOJ and removal or reassignment of the FBI's natl security core operations. HOW COME? Plea to MSM to cover the entirety of the story--not the minutiae of each.
Thank you for the info!
Yes, and, not no. I was replying to a woman who said she was disabled and had limited means to otherwise protest, but wanted to contribute. Our legislators need to hear from all of us. Those of us who can can take to the streets, accompany immigrants, organize a new underground railroad etc etc etc.
Blank spot for your protest location
I sure hope our governors are discussing a united exit plan. No way I’m paying taxes next year if it’s going to contribute to my city’s occupation by fascist goon squads. #NoFascistUSA
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Here’s something each of us can do every day. I hope it helps you feel empowered! 5calls.org
Master class trolling, President Lee!
Pretty damn chilling. #NoFascistUSA
Why oh why oh why do you feel compelled to write such anodyne ledes (and stories) in the midst of masked, armed troops in the streets and massive constitutional atrocities under Trump? “The administration seems to take issue with”?? This is embarrassing…and fascist-enabling.
The news from the past few days is a stunning example of what happens when the state decides it wants to crush just one guy
Crazy how changing the language from “seizing the means of production” to “taking equity stakes in industry” makes theoretically savvy elitists feel just fine with state-run (albeit oligarchical) socialism.
“Trump is using…state-sponsored violence, military violence, law enforcement violence, and naked corruption to further entrench authoritarian rule and consolidate autocratic power behind himself. Newsom is proceeding as if that's what Trump is doing-and that is what Trump actually is doing.”
Ooooh, Jim Jordan’s weaponization of govt committee is gonna be so busyyyyy
What would be the rationale for having these documents sealed? “Embarrassment of incompetent, immoral, and inhumane DHS, DOJ, and exec officials” and “lack of any real evidence”??
You’re not legally required to carry an ID. Cops can detain or arrest you for anything, esp since they can lie about nearly anything. But until Congress or the states amend the Constitution, we still have rights we must exercise and that *should* be upheld by courts of law. Don’t concede in advance!
I’m with you—we can do it!!
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social @governor.ca.gov needs to understand this as a person’s individual choice, exactly the same as abortion rights. Politicians shouldn’t be telling doctors or their patients how and when or whether to provide medical care. Punto. That’s it. Get out of the room.
Since the federal govt yanked its funding, you need us to keep NPR and PBS alive. We need you to report what’s actually happening—fascism—not the anodyne “maybe he won’t pull our funding if we say it so blandly no one will know what we mean” schlock. Win your supporters back!
It will be on FIRE tonight! #GoPadres
If the circumstances of deportation are going to be used as plea bargain fodder, then removal is punitive with all the rights attached thereto. This is not just a removal subsequent to a conviction but removal (or a specific genus of removal) as the penalty for the conviction itself.
US citizens, esp those who are white and privileged, need to stand up to these Gestapo goons. “This is still the United States of America, right? I don’t need to carry ID. Now take off that ridiculous gaiter mask and get a real job. Fuck you very much.”
When MAGAs try to smear us with the terms “socialist” and “communist,” just point to the president who’s seizing the means of production through “executive orders,” tariff threats, lawsuit threats, and probable personal blackmail threats as past behavior would inform. #NoFascistUSA
Good (as always) thread by Sargent explaining the BS case Trump/Vance/et al concocted against a hard-working union immigrant whose illegal deportation made them look foolish, lawless, and soulless. #KeepAbregoGarciaFree