Doesn’t he know the first rule of authoritarians? Pay the soldiers.
Doesn’t he know the first rule of authoritarians? Pay the soldiers.
On I-93 in New Hampshire? Yeah, no .
lol, good catch.
CVS in MA said they were waiting on the CDC vaccine committee ( not exact name ) because that was what was required under MA state law for pharmacies to distribute vaccines. Can the Gov just override the law?
If you need the money now, yeah.
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
"To expect bad men not to do wrong is madness, for he who expects this desires an impossibility. "But to allow men to behave so to others, and to expect them not to do you any wrong, is irrational." ~ Marcus Aurelius
Giving the world a break. But after JD Vance , or whatever his real name is, talking about how ready he is if something tragic 🤔 happened to Trump who knows.
“But who needs optimism — or even general mission directives — when one has earned the privilege of making rake and mulch as much a part of their being as their own beating heart”
“But who needs optimism — or even general mission directives — when one has earned the privilege of making rake and mulch as much a part of their being as their own beating heart?”
The newly ousted director of the CDC refused to fire top agency leaders or approve changes to vaccines from RFK Jr.’s hand-picked panel of advisers.
New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
i dont either. I'm just assuming that JD Vance or whatever his real name is wont have Trump's "appeal" to his followers and the thing will start to fall apart.
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
My fear it’s going to take more than just civil disobedience.
Are vaccines safe? Let's ask this guy who sounds like a dying refrigerator compressor
Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.
Just preordered a movie dvd from UK ,has interviews and extra deleted scenes over US version , Not thrilled that Trump has reached again into my life. I
These liberals and their animus towards the Latin Mass.
And in one stroke Trump makes flag burning a thing again so they can get their base all upset again.
Yeah , I just preordered a dvd of a movie that has bonus features ( ie deleted scenes) from UK for delivery in November . Not sure what will happen with that. F U Trump
They are sending soldiers into cities to prepare to intimidate people at the polls next year. They gerrymander because they can’t win on policy. They intimidate because even gerrymandering won’t work at this point.
He’s still fixated on the Central Park Five who he wanted the death penalty for . Of course their convictions were reversed .
I hope she sues Lutnick .
They’ll appeal it again and again for years Probaly.
Something will be felt in a couple,of months. That is the end of the ACA premium support. Republicans didn’t renew them and that’s going to land like a bomb. My premium is 262 right now. It’s going to double or more .
You are living through the unthinkable: the president of the United States using the military to seize domestic power. The greatest crisis of executive power in American history, at the hands of the worst, most corrupt, and most unfit president in American history.
The key to Trump’s authoritarian encroachments is pretext. He pairs some shockingly dictatorial move with an incredibly thin pretext everyone knows is false - fighting crime, concerned about fraud - and every public figure talking about the situation feels the need to debate the pretext.
Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crow’s yacht
Hmm, I would assume no. Perhaps in a malicious prosecution defense? But if several GJ refused to indict I would guess a defence attorney would insist on a jury trial knowing it’s most likely a not guilty.
Is the human skin coming off?
Says a lot that she canceled it instead of showing up for even a small group. Just rebrand it as a meet the fscist people or something.
You would also think they would be smart enough to oppose troops in DC when they oppose Trump. Where will those troops be if Trump doesn’t want a hostile Congress in 2026?
fwiw it's not hard to craft a line that nods to kitchen table issues but still captures some urgency. "you put this asshole in office to make your life easier but all he's done is cut taxes for his rich buddies, kidnapped your neighbors and sent the military to tell you to shut up when you complain"
I’ve seen speculation that its congestive heart failure.
like the old Russian joke from Stalin times. Man goes to the newsstand each day, looks at the front page , never buys a paper. The news seller finally asks him, what are you look for each day ? An obituary he replies. An obituary! Those are on the back page of the paper. Not this one.
Is that one of the effects of congestive heart failure which is the speculation I’ve heard he has.
Well I actualy am a descendent of the Furst von Hohenlohe, unfortunately thru the governess .
I can not imagine that anything John Bolton would have said would have had any impact on Republican Senators.
It's really something to read a convicted abuser and trafficker make sure in her DOJ interview to praise the President of the United States, who is trying to prove he wasn't one of her clients, in order to try and get a pardon from the President of the United States. Not at all disturbing.
But not the cop is guarding the CDC I guess.
I am as white and hillbilly as they come, and even I wouldn’t claim Cracker Barrel as my culture…
From the interwebs:
I like the statements “ That no one is above the law” . If they find anything real I wonder if Bolton defence will be to compare it to a list if Mar Lago classified documents and say Trump declassified these.
WTF… going after your critics using law enforcement event isn’t a distraction it’s the main act.
I should look up results before I post. Bristol County was very close and that’s SE MA. Looking at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Un... On the municipality level, there’s an area of Trump voting towns that if you wanted to gerrymander you could possibly link to a group in central MA by the CT border .
I think the Cape and Southeastern Ma used to be more Republican than it is now. But last election every County in MA voted Harris.
Yeah but what about the all red Wyoming House map! 😉
They had to win with independent and Democratic voters. The Republicans that run on Trumpism lose badly. The other issue is that R voters seem to be spread throughout the state, it isn’t like Western Ma or by the NH border is full of Republicans.
So did something someone said it was Bidens fault that Ukraine couldn’t use US weapons to strike in Russia make him want to reverse that policy lol.
3 years from now : Romania strongly protests recent Russian actions in Moldova. The territorial integrity of Moldova must be respected. However Romania will not send troops.
What? Like a marsupial?
"Here legally, engaged in a sanctioned process to determine their eligibility for asylum, they have committed no crime. They are arrested anyway, and the lives they’ve risked to come to the United States are thrown into chaos."
I recall in 2016 an interview of Guatemalan , maybe Hondurans women who worked in some factory who liked Trump. When asked about his anti Hispanic comments they said “ oh, that’s about the Mexicans not us”
Yes. Get spam calls several times a day. And texts. And no I didn’t apply for a loan that your underwriters just need a few pieces of information to complete.
Here, fixed it.
I’m can do pull-ups if someone is pushing me up lol
Note to anyone trying to locate #JamesDobson. May his dog and all the rest of his victims rest in peace….
Gerrymandering is now done by professionals who use software to prevent "dummymanders" (districts that might trend the wrong way for their party). If you normalize mid-decade redistricting, a party could stay in power forever by re-adjusting the maps every two years. Basic stuff!
Meanwhile his elderly boss is increasingly showing signs of dementia.
I saw someone else go thru the statistics. The 2% is only if you use the entire population of the US, including the free states. If you take out the free states it’s 3+%, if you just count the “ Deep South” it’s more that 6%.
It’s not about red or blue he writes, but the red policies are the ones he mentions..
“In a far-flung province known for its extreme right-wing politics, the ruling party is holding an opposition party official hostage in the Capital building. The lawmaker, who is a member of the Black ethnic minority, has been told she’d be arrested if she leaves the building.”
Northern resident killer whale I76 dies due to human impact. “His family remained close to his side with dolphins surrounding the entire family … This continued until just before 3pm when I76 took his last breath and sank out of sight into the depths.” 💔 m.facebook.com/groups/11611...
Kari who? Oh Kari “ I eliminated my agency so I’m totally irrelevant “ Lake.
It’s usually done at invitation of the State Governor, ie hurricane relief etc.
Overrun with solar panels….. meanwhile have she seen Gas tanks, refineries, oil pipelines, natural gas pipelines, etc etc etc etc.
Hear no truth. See no truth. Speak no truth.
Paul’s right, it’s unreal how little traction this story has gotten. www.mediaite.com/crime/israel...
And obviously not going to work .
I always thought it was an obsession planted by the aliens. I can see tho how they would pick the one who really wanted to go.
Yes, I think you are correct. Hope it isn’t so.
It’s Fannie! We adopted her when she was eleven , her owner unfortunately passed away . Took her a while to adjust.
Had to try and sing How Soon Now by the Smiths at the Harvard Coop….
Yes, thanks.
I've reviewed another book! ‘Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries’ by Janna Coomans is all about hygiene, pollution, etc. You can read the review here: fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/08/17/b... A few extra interesting bits follow here in the thread:
Also for some other categories. Ie German citizen married and had children with foreign citizens in foreign country. Law original was only if German citizen was father. Was amended to be gender neutral. I need to get going and apply , my brother already did.
Disappointing. Mamdani won the Dem primary. All he has to do is say I support the choice of the primary voters, then stay out of it if he thinks it’s a liability nationally . Which is what I think is going on.
Next they’ll start stacking the grand juries.
The answer is in the article. As many times as they want up to 30 days. The defendants lawyers are trying to get the Judge to dismiss it before thirty days.
What’s next! Will people not be able to buy pirogis at will?
Will be hard to explain in the future that the US government went antivax, causing a lot of avoidable suffering and death, not in response to any negative incident with vaccines, but to the biggest, fastest, most successful, most impressive vaccine rollout in history.
I posted a link above to article re Police union chair.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
the Police Union head is all for it.
and exactly what foreign cities is the army patrolling to reduce crime ? I cant think of one .
It really bothers me that we're not talking about how the GOP cut DC's funding before invading.
Alaskans will be thrilled he expects? And he thinks Putin is all about money at this point of his life?
Ha! That always bugged me too!
Wish I had thought of it first. Someone in another thread used it.
Trump regime policies are going to ruin rural communities. Only thing he’s offering them is resentment and ICE detention jobs. At some point closure of hospitals, loss of migrant farm workers etc will gut them.
Assualt with a deli sandwich
In authoritarian crackdowns, it’s important to randomly ensnare some people whom one would think would be safe, so that everyone is at least a little bit afraid that something could happen to them. The regime scales up its power of intimidation over a much larger group than those directly affected.
Yeah my thought too,…….
For the record, our division commander BANNED things called “presence patrols” in Iraq. “If you don’t have a specific task & purpose, your ‘presence’ doesn’t do anything.” National Guard stating they are now doing presence patrols in DC. A complete waste of soldier’s time & effort.
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