checking fascist encroachment is like basketball. anticipate their moves
checking fascist encroachment is like basketball. anticipate their moves
thank you, you do great work
trump worked hard to help covid spread. he went out of his way, daily, personally stopping the federal government from helping, & subverting public health guidance. it coincided with using mail-in ballots as a pretext for contesting the 2020 election. this disturbing truth we haven't reckoned with.
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
When Sooknanan wraps up, counsel for plaintiffs tell her that their understanding is that the planes with the children have been grounded but that the children have not been deplaned. Sooknanan asks Ensign for an explanation, he says it might be that they're waiting for resolution of this hearing
DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administration’s effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala. Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.
Some of the names have changed since I wrote this last November, but the central reality is, sadly, upon us. snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...
medieval levels of gaslighting
encourage influencers to call out and debate other influencers. i think cultivating this new norm may help resolve modern info difficulties. maron speaking out about trump and rogan is an example.
Where did these 600 Guatemalan children come from? This is nuts.
The plan is completely illegal; it’s openly in violation of black letter law. Nevertheless, the Trump admin is trying to claim that the budget bill effectively amended the law; even though it was a budget bill, and cannot by definition amend the law.
Civil disobedience, now available in spray chalk.
It’s time folks for some #SidewalkChalk civil disobedience. Grab some chalk, go outside with your kids, and draw, write, sketch, vent, play hopscotch. This shit has gone too far. #ChalkCrime
he has called for terminating the constitution www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...
I made a spreadsheet of all the federal cases filed as part of Trump's DC crackdown. It's not going great
The erosion of basic principles like due process and the expanding use of our military on domestic soil puts the liberties of all Americans at risk, and should concern democrats and republicans alike.
This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfyi...
One thing that really hits you when you're directly affected by gun violence in schools is that there's nowhere to hide. Public, private, religious, whatever - unless you're going to homeschool your kids, we live in a world where they're at risk of something like this happening.
call it what it is. he wields violent threats like a terrorist leader.
Trump reportedly owns more than $600,000 in shares of Nvidia and Apple. Both companies have financially benefited from special concessions Trump made to them while in office. The president is profiting off the policies he sets. This is corruption in its rawest form.
ffs god. don't try to redeem the word woke. let it die
i forgot russian agent
more of this
the jan 6 war room at the willard hotel deserves much more attention than it gets. stone. bannon. eastman. giuliani. meadows. flynn. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022...
american dumbasses elected a terrorist leader who attempted a coup, rapes women, is friends with child sex traffickers, and who abuses power to enrich himself, get away with crimes, and corrupt elections. these are smirking assholes. these are the people with shit eating grins.
the way earth "magically heals itself" from global warming is... massive wildfires that blot out the sun
inviting you through its magical portal
<1% are really plugged in. 10% have a decent idea but don't know the real contours. 40% have a sense of which way the wind is blowing but don't really know what's going on. 50% really don't know what's going on
it's as though he's trying to really break things. but that wouldn't make sense unless he were planning a coup
putin's real reasons for invading were cowardice and paranoia. the narrative he fancies is quite lame.
don't further the misconception that it established absolute immunity. it didn't. jack smith issued a superceding indictment, after, with the exact same charges.
trump's intimidation campaign would be aptly described as terrorism. we already know he's a domestic terrorist leader. he wittingly provokes the nutters. he pardoned the seditious insurrectionists. it's like stockholme syndrome, that people are afraid to call things what they are.
calling it "incompetence" is generous. incompetence presumes honest intentions. here, pirro exhibits abuse of prosecutorial discretion, weaponization of doj, prosecutorial misconduct, malicious prosecution, bad-faith prosecution, public deceit and gaslighting.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
wild how people still don't see that the man intends to seize power. he has a plan and has set things in motion. it's why he's pushing us into a recession with tarrifs and other actions.
bait feeding frenzy
i gave newsom this advice on aug 13 bsky.app/profile/dont...
it's as though he's trying to really break things. but that wouldn't make sense unless he were planning a coup
it's as though he's trying to really break things. but that wouldn't make sense unless he were planning a coup
so the ghislaine/blanche interviews were a hamfisted propaganda ploy, and ghislaine was promptly rewarded. this effort at coverup is just more evidence against trump.
"The developers behind the project had said it was on track to produce enough electricity for more than 350,000 homes in Rhode Island and Connecticut by next spring."
authoritarian is a clear and simple term. fascism is a newer, more complex term. both apply to trump but there's less need to explain the authoritarian label
i'd love it if people stopped doing composition fallacy constantly, conflating *some* with *all* ("dems") this is the same tactic employed by some on the right, when strawmanning the left: cherry pick some dope and then act as though they are representative of the left ie conflating woke with left
Fox News panel expresses concern over FBI's Bolton raid: “There is a great concern about whether this is retaliation against a political opponent”
To make it crystal clear: India is siding with Putin, intensifying diplomatic ties and seeking to boost trade. Today India’s foreign minister met Putin in Moscow.
it's a prime example of how trolling achieves reach in the modern info space. everyone heard about haitians eating pets in ohio. a majority of the population don't realize that trump fully attempted a coup.
it's a red herring and non sequitor, evading the question smirking fuck knows it's using martial law to seize power
I'm not persuaded. And I think my point stands as a description of the situation, in any case
Dishonesty is a powerful tool that the honest don't have. This fundamental Dynamic is something that people miss when they say Dems lack a toughness that Republicans have. Stonewall gaslighting is not strength. It's abusive deceit. We need different tactics. We must shut down the liars. Reveal them
we must shut down liars. this is the appropriate sociological correction
dur fuhrer
also, responses matter—social opprobrium at institutions that caved helped push other institutions to stand up, and institutions that stood up made it more difficult for others to cave
and how is everyone still missing that he has a coup plan? like, what? the fucking info fog even blinds the better people sometimes. he attempted a coup and he's working on another one. think of this in the context of what may occur over the next few years. it's preparation.
BREAKING NYT: Trump paused his meeting with European leaders and Zelenskyy this afternoon to call Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin has since confirmed the call. It lasted for 40 minutes. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
fucking texas wtf
where we're heading, there may be no historical analogies. trumpian tyranny may be its own thing. we may see some new shit. apparently ice has a pr initiative.
people must stop making excuses for trump. susan collins-itis is sweeping the nation.
we live in the troll epoch trolling achieves reach in the modern info space. hence, zoomers are raised by troll role models (troll models)
occupy the left
not concerted brainwashing? why not? answer: it's deliberate brainwashing, not petty embarassment
the alaska meeting itself was a concession: putin's indicted and now there's precedent for his being on US soil without arrest
yes let's assume good faith on trump's part (twice) ffs atlantic you're the good one
epstein met with putin, secretly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsCO...
@marcmaron.bsky.social good job. public debate amongst influencers is what we need right now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX5N...
troll trump more, sincerely. in the modern world we need public debate. trolling == reach. trump's messages spread because he trolls. the problem is important info doesn't spread. we must shut liars down.
... because putin has demonstrated dozens of times that he thinks it is correct to use peace talks and ceasefires as a military tactic of deceit. he has been doing this repeatedly as recently as in recent months, with Ukraine
Trump is reportedly planning a military "rapid reaction" force to police civil unrest. That's dangerous, Brennan Center's Joseph Nunn says: “You don’t want to normalize routine military participation in law enforcement."
In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies. (Published April)
Leavitt confirms that monthly jobs reports may be suspended "until they can get the data and methodology in order"
odds become astronomical when there's a series of unlikely things.
he's rolling things outearlier than he would have otherwise it's all stuff that fits a coup plan
it's almost like he's planning a coup
it was the dc metro cops that saved the country on jan 6, 2021
A significant share of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions comes from heating, cooling and powering homes — about 15%, according to one estimate by the Environmental Protection Agency. So if you want to reduce your carbon footprint, the home is an effective place to start.
ghislaine is a convicted child sex trafficker and child rapist, sentenced to the maximum allowed prison time by the judge for her crimes, yet folks claiming to be journalists report on her like she was the secretary. always jeffrey's "assistant" or something. they were partners.
dc metro cops beat back the violent mob storming the capitol on jan 6 trump waited and watched for 2+ hours until those cops turned the tide and restored control of the capitol
trump has been working with putin since july 27, 2016
No pretense of maintaining the integrity and independence of DOJ & FBI. That’s all gone now. Trump has his private police force.
he meant attack america primarily
ghislaine maxwell is going to get a better deal than the people of ukraine
nyt: don't make trump angry
New from me: Big Law is fearful of representing anyone Trump sees as his enemies, and it's thwarting challenges to his agenda. “There are cases that aren’t being brought at a time when civil rights abuses are maybe at the highest they’ve been.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...
he's trolling you
are... are they trolling us?
Belarus is preparing for war on a legislative level, according to its Ministry of Defense. Parliament is considering a bill that expands the list of military threats and allows martial law if there’s aggression against the Union State (Belarus and Russia).
The rapid decline of American science has few precedents in history, argues @rossandersen.bsky.social. We are witnessing an unparalleled act of self-sabotage: https://theatln.tc/d40fABTK
"It is our professional judgement that Hamas no longer poses a strategic threat to Israel" from a letter signed by former leaders of Mossad, Shin Bet, IDF www.bbc.com/news/article...
People don't want to accept that he is intent on seizing power, that he has a plan, and that he is getting advice from other authoritarians
trump's doj indicted ghislaine, though he tried to stop it by firing usa berman ghislaine is a convicted child sex trafficker and child rapist. trump is friends with her and is trying to help her out.
morgan freeman: it was an ai bubble
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVj_...
awesome
Great read, and the timeline is important.
what would mitch mcconnell do
oh shit
👏social norms of messaging to shame and boycott the foolish fascist enablers👏 this is the handle
and in the modern, decentralized info ecosystem, wherein we must publicly debate to move consensus
yes but they'll find their way to the real conspiracy of trump's coup attempt trump's foolish to directly attack the evidence against him he's misjudged the extent of his disinfo magic