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Don't feel like doing a repost that puts the murder video on the timeline yet again but do feel like repeating the point that the president just straight-up assassinated 11 people for supposedly doing something that wouldn't be a death-penalty crime if they were caught and convicted
That’s quite a scrunge
Thinking about that boat scene in 1984
last time I'm retweeting this post but it did remind me of this quote from John Bingham, America's Forgotten Framer
Eric Schmitt and people like him have no place in any free society.
Hannah Arendt viewed one form of evil as sheer thoughtlessness: acceptance of and participation in systems of immoral conduct without any critical reflection, and compliance with wrongs that have become socially acceptable. It is increasingly difficult not to apply that observation to the USA.
I used to read books like Lord of the Rings or watch movies like Star Wars and think the villains were unbelievable. And of course, now watching the tech oligarchs (who could not spend all their money if they tried) destroy civilization for power, I’m like, guess I was wrong. People are that awful.
fucking over Colorado Springs, the largest population center that voted for him.
Oranges suck this time of year
also! some of these guys now *run the governments' social media accounts* and post things that are virtually indistinguishable from old Nazi propaganda!
Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?
Doesn’t look like NG. More likely an alphabet agency.
Unprecedented corruption - 1500x what Hunter Biden made from his paintings and going directly to the president.
What a gang of mindless amateurs in Washington accomplished in Beijing:
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
Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss
This is the January 6th-fication of Los Angeles. Just a total fantasy to prop up an authoritarian attack on democracy.
Funny that an American Worker looks like he just stepped out of a 1960s Soviet factory somewhere in eastern Siberia , full of determination to fulfill a five-year plan in four years and conscious of the dangers of too much alcohol and talking to foreigners.
I presume if we have the mortgage instruments we have the addresses, yeah? I would imagine you can use process of elimination to identify her application data on the national HMDA LAR published by the CFPB. I’ve done that a couple times before. But still wouldn’t know if an MLO said to do it.
RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group”
what a fucking stupid time to be a person who cares about other people
Experts have studied this for decades, but RFK and his band of liars claim they found an aggregation of causes in a few months. What a disgrace to the nation.
Absolutely bonkers personalist regime stuff www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
… and this is the effect.
It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!
Turns out some of the “we want small government” people kiiiinda wanted the government to be just one guy.
Open dictator talk. No kings.
May you never know a minute of peace for the rest of your life
One week. One week!
trump very clearly sees any attempt to hold a criminal head of state accountable as a threat to his own standing
Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)
i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good
maybe I'm weird but i wouldn't be proud of an ideology that consigned my son to death so billionaires could get tax cuts
It’s got some competition in Orem, Utah.
Actual, literal, non-figurative police state.
A nation that metabolizes as "normal" the fact that red-pilled, conspiracy-obsessed ideologues with zero qualifications and zero concern for empirical reality are running the country, is a nation that doesn't have much of a future ahead of it as either a democracy or a remotely prosperous place.
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And also we are not going to punish China and also please forget that we were telling India to buy the oil before
the message from the white house is that you live in a city run by people the president doesn't like, you will be occupied like you are an enemy of the state.
This is how concentration camp regimes form. A society becomes unstable, a leader smashes norms and ignores laws, and the party uses propaganda to instill enough fear and hate for people let their neighbors get detained. The biggest outlier here is the vast money the US is allocating to its camps.
I think the fact that the president can make up a bullshit pretext about crime, activate various states' national guard units and invade a major city with basically minimal pushback of any kind reflects very poorly on Americans generally
Declaring a fake emergency as an excuse to deploy the military to police civilians is one of the most canonical examples of authoritarian takeovers. Overseas, people see clearly what Trump is doing. Here in America most people — especially those with power or influence — are in denial.
the degree to which these guys are just literal, straight up Nazis is both shocking and massively undercovered by the media
Thinking you're all tough and projecting strength while actually just humiliating yourself really is the foundational feature of MAGA masculinity.
Experts have noticed that Trump's new head of labor statistics appears to have a Nazi ship hanging behind him in his office.
One thing I know for sure is that if *I* called the cops and said “some guy just threw a sandwich at me” they would consider me to be a huge baby and think I was wasting their time.
Can anyone, really?
It’s gone completely under the radar but Trump is set to start kicking out Ukrainians who came here legally under Biden as part of a program for people fleeing the war.
Get that man some mortadella
The epitome of the nitwit who thinks capital can ride the tiger and doesn’t care about the rule of law or any rights but property rights.
Can we now stop dismissing the Jade Helm stuff as a silly conservative theory, and instead see it as an unintentionally revelatory form of projection by aspirationally authoritarian conservative, “freedom fighters” who were battling against tyrannical phantoms that existed only in their own psyches?
A one-man show — telling American businesses: * where they can invest (Apple) * who should be CEO (Intel) * where to send the kickback (NVIDIA, AMD) * who should be writing the in-house research (Goldman). 🤡 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/trum...
We’re in the phase where Americans, press included, should be considering all news originating with the government as propaganda first. Its institutional tendency is to evade good-faith dialogue with the public.
If they don’t want an amendment they can go away
Finally movies will have attractive white people
We've become so accustomed to lawbreaking that this probably won't ripple much, but it is important not to forget that firing the IRS Commissioner for refusing to break the law--if that's in fact what happened here--would and should prompt immediate articles of impeachment in any other presidency.
Cook openly bribed the president with a large hunk of gold in a televised performance of obeisance and walked away with a valuable tariff exemption.
Your own members are going to get laid off, you degenerate fucking halfwits
once again, it is a core belief of people on the american right that it should be illegal for you not to like them or want to be around them or work with them
Exclusive: The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.
remember that time bill clinton said hello to loretta lynch at an airport?
Why don’t more scientists support Republicans? We may never know
The next zoomer who tells me I look like this guy is gonna get slapped
This is bad news for any chance of getting back to a democracy. Sub-national control of elections was the last major institutional bulwark against the Republicans from formulating a full authoritarian regime.
"We reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and acted..." Words really don't mean anything anymore, do they? The incompetence is staggering, the political motives, clear as day. www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...
Can’t just stop using the data from the satellites monitoring climate change, have to destroy them. Have to shoot ourselves in the face to own the libs. gizmodo.com/trump-admini...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.
What do you want to bet he said something racist to them
I don’t think I’d heard anyone embarrass themselves on Klein’s show as badly as Hazony since Patrick Deneen.
My parents spanked me and I turned out fine and if you don’t think so then we can step outside and handle this shit right now
Finally, DARE has been vindicated. The pharma companies are about to be offering everyone drugs!
All those Trump surrogates who touted this, and news orgs that reported it credulously, owe Americans a big fat apology www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
The very definition of “special treatment” from the Trump admin for the most notorious convicted child sex trafficker in America. Why? Because she’s protecting Trump.
president xi jinping my people yearn for freedom
People that confirm Pirro, Bove, Hegseth… they will vote to eliminate our rights.
Conservative DEI is orders of magnitude worse than anything any of them have ever accused liberals of doing.
Without question the thing Trump benefits from more than anything else is being able to do stuff that would've triggered Watergate-level media outrage and turn it into a nothing burger you barely hear about
People who can be made to believe that Maxwell is a victim are people who can be made to believe that political opposition must be jailed or killed.
77 million Americans voted for national suicide. There is a moral and intellectual malignancy in our society.
Communist regimes insisted on a "propaganda of success," with the media daily and breathlessly reporting ever-higher quotas being met by the heroic workers and massive economic growth. Stalin sent the (few) authors of unfavorable economic reports to the gulag. This of course is very different.
you gotta give
Okay you can officially get ready for an attempt to cook the books.
Elon Musk's DOGE wasted more than $21 billion in just six months. Other studies have found that in the long term it may cost the government more than it saved, while resulting in millions of deaths. www.commondreams.org/news/doge-wa...
And the Republican Party wonders why so many academics lean left
Completely not occupying reality. Solar and wind are still economical without the subsidies and you basically cannot scale our grid without them. Just completely delusional.
the reason it was extraordinarily important to persecute Trump and his sycophants under the Biden Administration is that it would have reduced Trump's support among Trump supporters. it is precisely his impunity which makes him popular among authoritarian submissives.
there is no quiet part anymore
The next president’s actions should be a hell of a lot more severe than firing. There is a malignancy in our government and it must be excised.
In addition to extortion obviously continuing, the targeted threats against specific institutions are increasingly swamped by much more systemic ones. The two work together, but I think many have been slow to recognize that the systemic threats are the main story.
I predicted Republicans would push for this when Trump first took office. None of us are safe until this regime is forced from power.
Senate Republicans easily could have voted this down without any personal consequences or damage to the party, but instead the knowingly confirmed a criminal. Really puts into perspective that everything has been subordinated to their authoritarian project. They are enemies of a free society.
the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic
