Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwoodâs Handmaidâs Tale used to come to power.
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Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwoodâs Handmaidâs Tale used to come to power.
As a select group of world leaders prepares to roll into Beijing for a massive military parade on Wednesday, one is traveling in his signature armored green train: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. https://cnn.it/3UVMcbW
Heâs moving to his golf properties while he flattens and rebuilds the White House with taxpayer money, and Trump crypto is replacing the dollar.
Putin poisoned him in the car but his body miraculously rejected the poison and is healing itself naturally because he is chosen by God to be USAâs first dictator
I have no doubt the full story about helping the woman who was escaping a domestic abuser on the opposite side of the highway immediately before the accident will be a tale for the ages.
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Put on your Lonsdale slip-ons andâŚ.call the police. youtu.be/n6ckxeEAvSQ
For his role in Borat
Pamela Evette is an unoriginal herd thinker whose dullness will lead SC on a well-worn road to âshame and destruction, not to deviate an inch from the beaten centerâ. Weâve seen her help good olâ boys take hard won rights away from SCâs brave, proud womenâŚwe know in our hearts it wonât stop there.
Anything not gold is garbage.
He himself came within a hairâs breadth of dying from COVID, was POTUS when it emerged, presided over the initial national response, and is now claiming to be unaware of vaccine efficacy data. He who had and has the largest one man megaphone the world has ever seen. Any blame rests entirely on him.
Promises made. Promises kept.
Not electing the emails lady to end up with a guy whose bathroom is full of intel was also a funny prank from the median voter
Vladimir Putin was jealous that the đşđ¸ had the finest state of the art medical apparatus in the world. It humiliated him that he had to ask the likes of Donald Trump, whom he surely views with a wry chuckling disdain, for COVID tests. Republicans and Fox are helping him manipulate us backwards. Sad!
If youâve ever compared unvaccinated kids to vaccinated kids, youâve seen the former are more likely to die.
Kalo mina
One reason to not grant Putin the privilege of meeting the đşđ¸ president on equal standing is that heâs a war criminal illegally occupying 1/5 of đşđŚ. But we were stupid enough to do that, so now heâs emboldened to increase nightly bombings & to try & kill a key leader of our closest allies.
Trump/RFK are decapitating our public health system, a pillar of American greatness. So Dem Govs should scour every corner of the law for creative new ways to defend their people from this madness. Dems should polarize this debate to the max. Thoughts on this here: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Public safety in California is on the rise. Last year, California had the second-lowest homicide rate since at least 1966, decreasing by nearly 12% overall since 2023. We're going to drive that progress forward up and down the state.
Why would empirical evidence, proven data, and state of the art medical science from the worldâs best doctors be standard to treat Republican politicians, pundits, and their childrenâŚand at the same time be withheld from average newborns, children, or really just any person in đşđ¸ with health needs?
I heard cod liver oil is a great treatment for that.
Itâs all very weird. Anyway, Iâm sure @jaketapper.bsky.social is on the case.
This is the way
Johnson sends a clear and unwavering message to Republican voters: Cruelty and abuse are perfectly acceptable, and can even be spun as the will of God, when we do it. He may be a pedophile and a rapist, but heâs our pedophile rapist. Surely heâs too old to continue abusing people nowâŚright?
RFK Jr was not chosen to preside over US public health and science because he had any qualifications. He had a famous family name and Trump needed his endorsement and supporters. We saw it happen live in this call. Thatâs why we are here.
I just love capitalism.* * The government paying private companies to perform a government function and then on top of that giving them a financial incentive to perform it maliciously and harm people.
Tim Scott and Nikki Haley told South Carolina voters that racism no longer existsâŚthat Americans are not racist, and therefore itâs ok to vote for people who express views that seem racist, just as long as they are Republicans.
Thereâs no good age for it, itâs always a waste of time. Ask former pageant girlsâŚor former wives for that matter - as if any of them were free or able to speak đ
If you are at all surprised by anything thatâs happening right now- welcome back to realityâŚweâve been waiting for you.
Iâll go and get one in a âshithole countryâ
Pay attention. Your familyâs safety is on the line.
What Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the Senate Finance Committee as its members considered his nomination:
Convicted felon, Donald Trump, is on a crusade to hurt Americans because there isnât any other reason to explain why he is making immigration checks of firefighters who are IN THE MIDST OF BATTLING WILDFIRES a priority.ďżź Trump makes America less safe everyday.
And Laura Loomer
I hope he can get out of that chairâŚ
He is manipulating data and making absolutely horrific decisions without consulting some of the best experts in the world. They have no recourse. If you wish to rage at someone, may I suggest any Republican Senator. 2/3
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Authoritarians who unwind democracy are similar in one respect. They seek to take control of centers of power and dissent in society. Call it the authoritarian checklist. Trumpâs second term is best understood by his systemic checking off of this checklist. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
Ah, yes, for all you young people: there was a relentless effort to manufacture a consensus that Columbine was caused by Goth culture, industrial music, and videogames. The neo-Nazism was buried, and anyone who pointed to easy access to guns was denounced as a liberty-hating tyrant.
Commanding the Fed- Š Chappatte in The @bostonglobe.com via @globeopinion.bsky.social đ www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/27/o... đchappatte.com
Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this: âI have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American peopleâ. It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.
Imagine what the reaction would have been
They donât need to even ask. Henry McMaster and Alan Wilson to Trump: Mi voter data es su voter data.
The inconvenience of being encouraged to wear masks to prevent the spread of a virus that could easily kill their kidâs elderly teacher within days was enough for them to abandon proven science. Privileged Republicans feel confident THEY can still access state of the art medical treatment as needed.
Fed Governor Lisa Cook files lawsuit over President Trump's attempt to fire her https://cnn.it/45W4bEc
Cracker Barrel is more his speed anyways.
"Nothing happens in public life without Trump putting his stamp on it. Cooperstown? Cracker Barrel? The Kennedy Center Honors? Trump has a will to dominate them. He is the living embodiment of the leviathan, the totalized state."
Wasnât the cowardly perpetrator a former Catholic student? If the FBI wants to generalize, and divide people into groups to target, why not investigate why 14-28 year old white people seem to be increasingly radicalized by gun culture and conspiracy theories that lead to violence? Itâs a mysteryâŚ
BREAKING: Denmark summons top U.S. diplomat after the national broadcaster reported that at least three people with connections to President Donald Trump have been carrying out covert influence operations in Greenland.
You donât need your social security until you need it, and then, if you donât get it because POTUS wanted to use your money to build internment camps on US soil and to fund his personal army - who cares? Clearly, not lifelong Republican voters. By then, youâre too old or sick to be important anyways
Man who would have suffocated to death on his own mucous 5 years ago had it not been for state of the art medical science, and who has always refused to follow recommended procedures to prevent spread a life-threatening virus that killed some in his orbit, opines. www.cnn.com/2020/10/05/p...
âPrasad overruled dozens of career scientists to limit Covid vaccine approvals three times in the past few monthsâ
Tom Clancyâs Little Women
You'll never guess what party this guy's in www.wral.com/news/local/s...
US CDC director being ousted weeks into job, Washington Post reports reut.rs/4n0ZDTA
Not that we needed proof that this is all just political prosecution of Trumpâs enemies, butâŚ
Never before in our history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us, while simultaneously preventing others â Congress, the courts, the American people â from having a say or even knowing what heâs going to do next. This is what dictatorship looks like.
Or just start smoking weed for your mood disorder.
âMood disorderâ covers a lot of ground here
Famously
DUI Pugsleyâs going to be a host on despot TV?
ICE arrests that âlack basic human dignityâ, promoting distrust in proven vaccines, removing meteorological and aviation personnel, cancelling clean energy efforts, creating conditions for food scarcity, and military occupation of đşđ¸ cities, do not put âthe well-being of the American people firstâ.
A federal magistrate judge said an arrest in Northeast Washington was preceded by the âmost illegal search Iâve seen in my lifeâ and described another arrest as lacking âbasic human dignity.â wapo.st/3Jyc2QI
What will they say it is? Wind power? Female laughter while pregnant? Civil rights? Interracial marriage?
Yes, i'm sure Cabinet Member Brain Worms has discovered the cause of autism that has eluded actual scientists for decades.
Rock guitarist Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine) has made a playlist called Fuck ICE, âa rocking little soundtrack to enjoy while you drive those bastards out of your neighborhoodâ. Springsteen, Public Enemy, Joan Baez, Woody Guthrie, etc. (via @prisonculture.bsky.social) [brooklynvegan.com]
Proof can be tricky, especially when itâs insufficient
âŚas long as you do exactly what I tell you, and make sure I get a cut of all US owned company profits, with no rules about how I spend it, no one gets hurt.
The Fed fights back.
Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."
Dictators dictate by being however they want, which always turns into cruel autocracy, with threats of incarceration or mass murder to dissidents. They use state of the art communications to spread propaganda fomenting fear among the masses of any group who tries to limit or contain their power.
With troops sent by Trump into the streets of Washington, reservations to restaurants for this yearâs Restaurant Week are 24% lower than those during Restaurant Week 2024. There was also a 7% drop from the week before troops arrived, Korsha Wilson reports. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/d...
This sounds right.
Soon, Americans will have to close their mouths in the shower at home and avoid drinking đşđ¸ tap water, because Trump will find a grift by saying expectations of clean water are socialist and communist and woke, and he will hire one inexperienced asshole who agrees, and put him in charge of our water.
Way too many of us, who are tragically uninformed enough not to realize the relative ease of American life for their entire existence, or that their peace of mind and livelihood has entirely depended on that free-market economy, are just letting him do it.
I mean Trump is literally trying to destroy the American free-market economy, the most successful economy in human history, because he wants to shake down our trading partners, he wants all corporations to pay him a personal cut, and he wants to directly control the money supply
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/w...
Donald Trump is embodying the type of big government that right-wing politicians and thinkers have been warning about for a century, @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily.
đ¨BREAKING: In a landmark victory for voters, a Utah judge struck down the state Legislatureâs gerrymandered congressional map and reinstated the citizen-led redistricting reforms voters approved in 2018. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
The price of coffee is going through the roof because of US tariffs.
Stable genius will eventually get around to raping us all.
As we recently reported, an internal Department of Homeland Security memo lays out top officials' hopes for much more military involvement in domestic law enforcement, and even says LA-type operations may be needed "for years to come." newrepublic.com/article/1987...
Summer cowering. Some are not.
They're trying to kill us. The Trump administration will pull the COVID vaccine off the market "within months," one of RFK Jr.âs closest associates said. âIt could [happen] in a number of stages, including learning more about the data.â www.rawstory.com/donald-trump...
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
âQuarry the granite rock with razors, or moor the vessel with a thread of silk; then may you hope with such keen and delicate instruments as human knowledge and human reason to contend against those giants, the passion and the pride of man.â â John Henry Newman
Itâs true Iâve been in trial in Beverly Hills last week and the thieves came right into the courthouse garage and ripped out my 8-track
