Also eugenics. Everything they are doing with public health screams of desire to get rid of the “undesirables”.
Also eugenics. Everything they are doing with public health screams of desire to get rid of the “undesirables”.
Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder? “Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”
Yes. To prevent pocket oligarchs from getting any “funny” ideas.
Or incarcerate you, if you happen to have a mental health condition.
He must realize somewhat that he will be stepping over or driving by piles of dead bodies in the streets in the very near future.
What people expect fascism to look like versus what it often looks like in real life
The worm- infested zombie decided that “not recommended” is not morbid enough. Not giving people a choice to decide for themselves and their families is ideal for him.
SCOTUS thought they could ride the tiger and get what they wanted ideologically. In exchange, they would give him everything he wanted except the Fed. Just leave the Fed alone and you can ignore all federal law. But it ended the same way it has for everyone who tried to ride the tiger since 2016.
They envisioned Trump. They never envisioned Republicans.
The disabling of America continues. The Pentagon has fired Vice Admiral Nancy Lacore, the chief of the Navy Reserve, and former Navy SEAL officer Rear Admiral Milton Sands who oversaw Naval Special Warfare Command.
Curtesy of the Chinese, via Russians.
Uncooperative Federalism is here! open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...
We are a few steps away from having political prisoners.
Just stop feeding them your data. They are nothing without it.
Stolen midterms. And then presidential. When they realize there is truly no way out through peaceful means.
“They put Trump’s name on the trucks. This is the clearest possible signal that ICE is intended to be a personal, partisan police force that exists at the disposal of Trump. This is not a choice someone makes if they intend to leave office in three years.” www.thebulwark.com/p/fascist-se...
Just the visuals point to who’s the inspirer of this. Soviet secret police used similar cars in 1930s to disappear people. Black “voronok”.
Just another useful idiot. To hell with him and H Jeffries.
People are STILL minimizing b/c the worst hasn't happened. Sure, DC now has military checkpoints, but isn't crime bad there? Sure, people are being dragged away by goon squads, but aren't they mostly illegal? Sure, universities and the media are being strong-armed, but aren't they too liberal?
… I say defiantly as masked and armed paramilitaries who refuse to identify themselves attempt to drag me off my bike and into their rented van
Watch this substack.com/@thebulwark/...
Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
Q for those w experience in politics or diplomacy: Is there *any* other example of a US prez, on US soil, letting a foreign leader control the mic for a very long time, in his own language, w/o consecutive translation, before letting US prez say anything all? I don't know of any. Humiliating.
Throwing a sandwich at a cop: felony. Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: tourist behavior.
Canada after that for fentanyl?
Voting next year will be an act of courage. Just making it through the crowds of heavily armed menacing thugs will take a lot of determination and bravery.
And those proliferating camps are not specifically for immigrants. They are a pretext and a training target. A pretext to build gulag for those of us brave enough to engage in political dissent.
Yup. This is part of their plan B. They will steal the elections, if plan A (gerrymandering, voter suppression and intimidation) does not work in their favor.
"To enforce President Trump's immigration crackdown" my ass. If you think this is about illegal immigration rather than a concerted effort to establish control over law enforcement and create a military presence in DC so as to hold on to power after losing an election, think again. Gift link.
I am congenitally resistant to conspiracy thinking, but this really does feel like a eugenic plot. There is some dark, pseudo-Darwinian thinking on the right that equates illness with moral unfitness, and prefers that the weak die, indeed demands that they be culled. Truly a death cult.
Or just plain old sadism. Taking pleasure in other living beings’ pain.
Pragmatic progressives — armed with bread-and-butter proposals to improve the lives of ordinary Americans and an upbeat message of hope — are the future of the Democratic Party. This is a good thing. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/bread-and-butter-and-hope
This kind of response will do more than most constitutional litigation to make this stuff less harmful and indeed less likely to happen at all
The American press and public really need to figure out how to simply dismiss Trump's pretextual claims for authoritarian attacks and then resist the attack itself, not debate the claim. We have spent months asking "but is the Ivy League really antisemitic?" and now "but is DC really crime-ridden?"
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Trump is going to bankrupt this country like it’s one of his casinos. The U.S. deficit blew up in July, even with a surge in tariff revenue—costs that we are paying at the checkout. 📌 Trump’s spending spree burned through revenue faster than it came in.
"Question everything, say nothing. Keep meticulous records. Leverage your advantages and harbor those who have none. Get in the way. Tell the story. Archive the truth." Danish history has something to say to us in this moment. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
Latest inflation data just arrived came in right at the consensus forecast. Headline inflation of 0.2% in the month, running at 2.7% over the year. Core rose 0.3% in July, and 3.1% over the year. For two years inflation was declining toward the Fed's target. That seems to be over.
Never stops to amaze how serving the evil transmutes the face. People start looking evil.
Correct. It's outrageous and goes against everything we stand for.
Remember, tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.
The District of Columbia is under attack today — not from violent gangs or thieves, but by the President of the United States. The President's weaponization of the Home Rule Act is a direct attack on the 700,000 residents of DC and we will not stand for it.
But Trump was just fine with this crime and lawlessness — same city.
📌So I see Grandpa Fascist and his two-ton ankles are sending the national guard into D.C. 4-plus years late ...
If you pass federal law enforcement or National Guard on DC streets this week, ask if they’ve found Epstein’s co-conspirators yet
Question is whether National guard realize they are being manipulated and abused.
About time to turn ridicule mode full on. Make them aware of what we think of this “job” they suddenly found themselves doing.
As scary a press conference as I have ever seen Completely divorced from reality or anything that has to do with criminal justice or reality or American democracy
Mmm, so many ways you can spin this with humor and ridicule..
Send in the National Guard!
Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.
Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.
A particularly gut wrenching excerpt from this article:
Our "Democracy Atlas" series offers 8 lessons from democracy defenders across the world who have navigated authoritarian threats. Learn how they have protected their democratic freedoms, avoid mistakes, & discover the role you can play in shaping U.S. history. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/eight-rule...
Texas state Democrats had to be evacuated from their Chicago hotel this morning following a threat at the property. "We are safe, we are secure, and we are undeterred and unintimidated."
Good morning everyone MORE of this PLEASE At Republican Mike Flood Town Hall in NEBRASKA ! Take a moment to listen and share This AMAZING WOMAN NAILS IT "How much do taxpayers have to pay for a fascist country?"
The fascists are on the march. They are going to do whatever it takes to rig the midterms. meidasnews.com/news/governo...
I stand with Texas Democrats!
#MessWithTexas We all need to worry about what happens in Texas. 👀 Why ? Because it won’t stop in Texas .
This is what is happening right now.
Yes. Coffee price is what’s going to set things in motion. This country runs on its coffee more than on its eggs.
Last night on @theweekendprime.bsky.social I got to talk to the @betoorourke.bsky.social 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
Pressure works. wapo.st/3UbXyrU
But you can’t suppress reality. People, businesses and market will know the truth.
But you can’t suppress reality. People, businesses and market will know the truth.
As the abysmal job report makes headlines, remember: billionaires bankrolling the Trump regime benefit from a crashed economy. Bankrupt companies can be bought for cheap. Workers will be exploited as desperation for employment increases. A weak USD empowers crypto investors. This is intentional.
Lack of transparent economic data will do “wonders” for market stability.
But how are they going to cook private business books when it’s time to report earnings?
IF they get rid of Powell, install some dumb puppet who cuts rates and inflation skyrockets bc of tariffs - then who are they going to blame for stagflation?
Just one more bootlicker..
Oh, markets are finally catching up with fundamentals? This bull has been dead for a while, if you care to see the core economic data.
📌BREAKING: Employers added fewer jobs in July than expected, reflecting a labor market that is cooling. Only 73,000 jobs were added last month. Last year, the economy added a whopping 168,000 each month. Taco Pedo destroys everything he touches.
That just means the economy stalled. Wait till inflation raises its head and consumers stop spending. Then it’s layoffs and economy shedding jobs. Stagflation is on the horizon.
Here we go. “Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday he will seek to call a November special election to have voters approve new House maps that boost Democrats.” www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
4) he understands and knows that coupled with assault on health insurance markets, snap etc. inflation and crashing economy will drive a lot of people into poverty. Joining ice will no longer be a matter of moral unacceptability, but rather how you put food on the table.
This is where we are at. There’s no more time to adjust. No time for fantasies that if more people just understood this or that things would be different. What is your plan? What power and resources do you possess and how will you use them to help? Right now.
This from NY'S lieutenant governor is maybe the best take on the Democrats I've read yet (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...
Adam Kinzinger has a message: We don’t have to storm beaches to save democracy—just care enough not to check out. This isn’t the end of America, unless we let it be.
NEW: New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan (R) has declined a request from the U.S. Department of Justice to turn over the state’s full statewide voter registration list, citing state law and cybersecurity concerns. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
No. Giving Trump a “win” here would indelibly stain @harvard.edu, and damage it deeply in the eyes of its myriad constituencies (particularly its alumni, myself included, who would revolt), not to mention the nation and the world. ...
Don’t make a deal with the devil Harvard. That devil is insatiable.
This is good--worth watching, "Mass moral uprising" is exactly what's needed now. "If you want to keep [your freedoms], none of us can sit this one out."
Appeasement never works. Pretty basic historical lesson proven over and over again.
A top Donald Trump ally handed me a Trump 2028 hat — these people aren’t joking. If we don’t stop this anti-democracy movement now, the 2028 election may look nothing like what we expect in a free country.
Also alumni… unsubscribe, ignore, withdraw support, write a letter that relationship cannot go on.
D.) Provide ID. Beyond that, remain silent. At this point, you better be prepared to resist like a Buddhist monk in CCP custody before traveling with these anti-American dipshits managing things.
A.) Travel with a burner phone and blank laptop. Upload to secure cloud prior crossing the border. 7th level wipe everything apart from the OS. B.) Never use biometric access functions like fingerprint or facial recognition C.) Never give them your access codes. Let them sit and spin on that shit.
For those who travel internationally - reconsider crossing the border in red states. Depopulate international terminals at those airports. If it happens in a blue state - at least you will be found. Then scream your story any way you can.
“I told them I was an American citizen. I questioned why they were using those tactics on me. I asked about my constitutional rights. An officer outright said out loud that I have no constitutional rights at a point of entry,” says Wilmer Chavarria, a school superintendent in Vermont.
A man coughing up blood. Men zip-tied face down on a wet floor. CCTV turned off. Men forced to eat off of a chair like animals while handcuffed. Solitary confinement if you complain. This is just three paragraphs from a new report.
Devil is a trickster. You sold your soul to him lady, he cheated you. Read some Goethe.
One thing she does not realize - she is doomed either way. Democracy holds - she is out. Regime sets in - she will be jailed sooner or later. But she picked her side, no going back now.
Peaceful protesters were attacked and arrested in Cincinnati for standing up for an asylum seeker who faces death if deported. Police ignored actual threats and targeted people with signs and cameras. Some of them journalists. This is what repression looks like.
If my taxes don’t pave my roads or fix my bridges or keep my schools open 5 days a week or pay local teachers a living wage or help keep my hospital open or help my neighbor’s kid eat lunch or fund public television or my healthcare… Why the f’ck should I pay taxes?
One of strategies of resistance is to adjust consumption and be very aware of where your money goes. Stay informed and be ready to “vote” with your dollar.
Of course it is, among other reasons. A few brutal arrests at the polls and how many people will stay at home? Not just Latinos, anyone really who is simply scared to get hurt.
That applies to everything that has happened since Hegseth was confirmed as SecDef. It seems to be the plan. The once very apolitical military is being politicized at a rapid-fire pace and increasingly being used for domestic “security” purposes. It will take generations to fix if we survive this.
Yup, till they are good and ready to fire tanks straight into the crowds of protesters.