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Trump Goes Full Orwellian In Effort To Reshape The Smithsonian ino.to/lwiYi1R
"So letās settle this question once and for all: who are the ārealā Americans in this moment? Those cheering the militarization of domestic law enforcement, or those defending the constitutional principles that make America worth defending?"
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Netflix is putting its money where its mouth is: š° $2M to back Newsom in the redistricting fight šŗ A deal for Sesame Street ā new episodes and the full archive free to watch. Thatās how you pick a side.
Warfighters demonstrating leafality.
My guess is the announcement is he's starting a war to distract from being dead (and Epstein).
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwoodās Handmaidās Tale used to come to power.
We bring back so much stuff, why not Art Deco? I've wanted an art deco PC case for decades. Is it really so much to ask? Come on.
In your capacity as America's Best Christian, a certain segment of society would believe you if you were to lay claim to that. š
If you keep room after room after room of boxes of junk, they'll call an intervention and make exploitative TV shows about you. If you fill your house floor-to-ceiling with animals, they'll arrest you. But if you grab every single dollar you can and never let it go, they'll fall down in worship.
Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpracticeāwhen you pray for something you have the power to change.
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It's adorable that ICE thinks it *could* lower its standards for new recruits.
This Administration doesn't care about the laws. They don't care about due process. All they care about is power and exerting control over cities they don't like. Los Angeles will not stand for it.
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That works for them; they want millions of people to die. Specifically, all the people who aren't rich white cishet men.
Everyone at the CDC is getting fired or resigning. RFK Jr. wants to ban all vaccines. His idiocy will get millions of people killed.
If Ashli Babbitt's parents really wanted to avenge her death they would, instead of pitifully whitewashing her legacy, be suing Fox News for filling their child's gullible head with dangerous nonsense that directly led to her death.
"Theyāre demanding that Wikimedia turn over personal information about volunteer contributors so Congress can identify and potentially target people whose edits they donāt like."
Heās trying to get her killedā¦
And they'll probably get one, because they won't stop with the fanning of the flames until they do.
Inhuman. āI donāt have any choiceā is a lie.
"Literally no one thinks prayer is a substitute for action." Then why is prayer, literally, *always* the substitute for action, you willfully obtuse asshole?
I'm not sure he'd care that much if they were...
Little kids are having to use their bodies to shield friends from gunfire while armed soldiers are busy picking up trash.
Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadnāt happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.
AMERICA: āItās a mental health issue.ā REST OF THE WORLD: āWe have those. But donāt have mass shootings.ā AMERICA: āItās video games.ā WORLD: āWe have those too. But donāt have mass shootings.ā AMERICA B: āItās cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.ā WORLD: āGod, youāre stupid.ā
"Under their interpretation, every company that serves children would be required to collect personal information from those children, just so they could then get parental consent. The privacy law becomes a mandatory surveillance law."
"This is most definitely the most constructive use of the Trump administrationās time."
Trump: So the line is Iām a dictator, but I stop crime. A lot of people say, if that is the case I would rather have a dictator
So... how long before this becomes an official policy position, and we're all rounded up as enemies of the (fascist) state?
We are very far off the cliff here folks. šŗšø
Trump: "The whole issue of the women. Comfort women. Very specifically. We talked and that was a very big problem for Korea, not for Japan. Japan was, wanted to go, they want to get on. But Korea was very stuck on that."
It's unreal that we allowed this to happen...the criminals are investigating those rightfully investigating their illegalities. There is no end to the shame we are to endure.
NEW: Jack Smithās lawyers write to the Office of Special Counsel to say that theyāve read news reports about an investigation into Jack Smith, but no one has actually reached out. āThe predicate for this investigation is imaginary and unfounded.ā 1/
"Remember: giving in to the bully doesnāt make him go away. It just makes him realize youāre an easy mark."
2 posing as Donnie's officer wearing mask and entering the home, citing carrying arrest warrant invade the home in Houston! Total breakdown of the law and order situation in the nation, just the misrule of Donnie š www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Breaking: Kilmar Abrego GarcĆa has just been detained by ICE after arriving at the agency's Baltimore field office as part of a required check-in, according to his attorney. "The only reason to take him into detention was to punish him."
Hakeem Jeffries is like if an ellipsis were a person. ...
What -- and I cannot stress this enough -- the fuck?
1) ABC/NBC should lose license or pay hefty fees because their reporting is mean to him. 2) MD should maybe lose bridge repair funds because Wes Moore was mean to him. 3) The feds should investigate Chris Christie for Bridgegate because he was mean to him.
We all know the goal was always to āown the libs.ā And in chasing that, too many have given up their own freedoms just to claim a hollow āwin.ā What they donāt see is that the monster they fed never stops, it eventually comes for us all. And now their silence is deafening.
Kid Rock: I will no longer sell my music in California. Scott Baio: I will no longer act in California. Governor Newsom: My policies are working.
Florida bans "The Diary of Anne Frank" in school libraries. Whoever made this decision should have to eat every page of that amazing book, page by page.
This is what autocrats say and do. Some threats he intends to carry out, others are just meant to intimidate to produce a change in behavior caused by fear. Every day we move closer to autocracy. Who will be fearless & fight, who will ignore it and hide, & who will bend the knee?
MAGA is afraid that if the actual videos of trump raping children come out, they canāt pretend anymore and will have to come out too as pedophile supporters.
It doesn't matter if the Epstein files are released and a sitting President is in them. We all already know what kind of man he is and it doesn't seem to make a bit of difference.
ā'Iām looking over my shoulder driving home,' a doctor whose hospital was targeted by a subpoena told the Post."
Because he doesn't understand the concept of serving one's country. Everything is transactional for him, and the concept of personal sacrifice is just alien to him. That's why he keeps calling service members "suckers" and "losers". He doesn't get it at all.
They gaslit you all throughout the election.
yāall know this doesnāt end without a ton of violence right
Garcia: What we got was complete bullshit. We demanded the full Epstein files, and thatās not what was sent over. The White House cover-up clearly continues. What they sent us was 33,000 pages of documents that have already been in the public domain.
Was Alina Habba's law degree earned by homeschooling?
The people who reflexively say that everything happening in the news every day is just a distraction from the Epstein files are allowing themselves to get distracted by the Epstein files from many other things that are incredibly important also.
The president of the United States is trying to steal congressional seats so I donāt give a fuck about the Cracker Barrel logo discussion. Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow.
āThe death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.ā Hannah Arendt
People walking and biking get shamed for wearing headphones. Meanwhile, drivers sit inside sealed metal cabins with 12-speaker sound systems, fully isolated from the world and no one questions it, even as they operate 2-ton machines through crowded cities.
Can we please stop saying "wanna be" in front of dictator and "heading toward" in front of fascism now?
White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICEās time.
My stepfather was a fan of James Dobson and his "parenting" techniques. I'm over 50 and still have nightmares. This man is responsible for the suffering of SO many children. Hell is too good for him.
I agree. I hate how far the pendulum has swung; the only possible consolation will be how glorious it'll be when it finally swings back. (Only to be on guard for the next swing.)
"They arenāt hiding their racism or misogyny anymore. Theyāre reveling in it."
Stephen Miller: "All these demonstrators that you've seen out here in recent days, all these elderly white hippies, they're not part of the city and never have been ... we're gonna ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they're all over 90 years old."
A beatdown in broad daylight was caught on video: Masked men in tactical vests grappled, tased, and piled onto a delivery worker. Pinning the worker face down on the pavement, agents tased him again and punched him repeatedly in the head.
Dear Smithsonianā¦ safeguard the past. Move your archives to Canada before destruction claims them.
"Our nation is in the hands of the dumbest of dumb fucks." While this is true, it's not the important part. Our nation is in the hands of the most vicious of vicious fucks. These vicious fucks want to hurt us, to make us suffer. They want to spread the pain as far as they can.
All of this. THIS is what that vomitous orange fuck wants: for blood to be spilled in his name. He wants to be responsible for the d.eath of civilians. He wants to know that innocents live and die by his hand. Probably the only things that gets his withered little mushroom up in the morning.
I don't want to see people lose jobs, ESPECIALLY now, but man... CBS deserves all the enshittification it's heaping on itself.
Two big takeaways from yesterday. First, by ājokingā that if the U.S. were at war in 2028 there would be āno more elections,ā brushing aside the constitutional mandate for regularly scheduled votes. Then later, when a hot mic caught him telling French President Macron that
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it frighteningly surreal that the terrible atrocities, injustices and war crimes of faraway lands that we studied in history books when we were kids are now being committed, promoted and even celebrated by our own U.S. government, on a daily basis?
"How do we lecture other countries about democracy when we elect someone who tried to overturn an election? How do we lead on human rights when we enable war crimes?... The answer is simple: we canāt. And our enemies are taking notes."
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But use different words. "Accountable" and "responsible" aren't strong enough words, though they are accurate. Phrases like "make them answer for their crimes" or "trump has to pay for what he's done" are stronger, and more tit-for-tat in regard to his own statements.
In other words: They lied.
Me, age 25: I want to see the whole world and leave my mark upon it Me, age 59: I want some peace and quiet before the whole world explodes
Christian Right is neither.
I'll do what I can. I'm not backing anyone yet; a lot will happen between now and primary season, and there's no telling what the field will look like by then.
I agree šÆ%, those are important issues, and I want to see those as well, I do. But: 1) My big-ticket policy has to be not being a fascist; and 2) ALL progressive policies, those included, are in the shitter if we get another fascist regime. Another GOP/ MAGA asshole won't be any better on those.
With our votes, we're hiring somebody for a job; I don't have to fall in love with them first to vote for them. If they don't fly any huge red policy flags, and I agree with them on the majority of issues important to me, good enough.
Or they just want to throw their weight around, law or no law.
I'll vote for a dead possum if it's not a Republican. Yes, the Democrats are being goddamn wimps who can't sack up and fight. But we are fucking REQUIRED to do everything we can to prevent whoever the GOP/MAGA try to get in office. Letting them get back in is fucking unthinkable.
Then just wait a few more months, if we stay on our current course.
Thoughts?
#ProudBlue #Pinks #ResistanceUnited Good morning! Adult friendships need grace. Lifeās ebbs & flows can create distance, but donāt mistake distance for detachment. Reach out when possible, offer support when needed, and know love remains, even in quiet moments.
A bunch of dickless white men. As a white American male, I am enormously embarrassed and apologetic to any decent sentient human, which these slugs, and those who sent them, are not.
THIS IS NOT CONSTITUTIONAL. They cannot commandeer state and local law enforcement because they want to. THIS IS NOT LAWFUL. They cannot use federalized guard or military personnel for civilian law enforcement absent rebellion and insurrection.
Armed Trump administration agents wearing masks just showed up outside of Gavin Newsomās press conference. This is what rising fascism looks like.
What. The actual. Fuck. Well. If it wasn't on before, it's definitely on now.
So, why was the guy who threw a sandwich at ICE charged with felony assault of an officer, but the guys who assaulted cops with flagpoles at J6 deserved full, unconditional pardons?
Iām beginning to believe maga paid attention and took notes. But not the same ones we did.
Fun Getaway With Murderous Dictator Just What Exhausted Trump Been Needing ā theonion.com/fun-getaway-...
In case you doubted it, Karoline Leavitt confirmed today that the Trump administration knows nothingānothing at allāabout unhoused persons or homelessness. They do not know how shelters work. They do not understand mental health or addiction services intake. They are just going to arrest everyone.
I threw the sandwich, but I did not throw the condiments I threw the sandwich, but I didn't throw the condiments All around Washington D.C. They're trying to track me down They say they want to bring me in guilty For the spilling of some mayonnaise For wasting all the dijon, but I say
Dinosaur revolt 
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