I wrote about how Trump is trying to change our perception of what’s permissible in a democracy & why he might be doing that. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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I believe it’s the beginning of “martial law” across the country! Blue states are not kowtowing to him! 😢
aug 17, 2025, 2:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump has only 2 philosophies. One, might make right, and two, the end justifies the means.
aug 17, 2025, 1:45 pm • 0 0 • view
We should be afraid, very afraid.
aug 17, 2025, 12:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes the whole country would be next if we let him. This needs to stop
aug 17, 2025, 2:13 pm • 0 0 • view
It's about BLACK LEADERS!
aug 17, 2025, 1:55 pm • 0 0 • view
The Guard is there to end Congress, when they try to release the Epstein files, on return from break!!!! The crime, is just a cover story!!!!
aug 17, 2025, 12:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Amazing he didn't bother to take control of it on January 6th.
aug 17, 2025, 12:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Most of us know why. This is all part of the plan to take away our Rights and Freedoms in order to make us into an Oligarchy run by a criminal Lords and a murdering Dictator.
aug 17, 2025, 1:59 pm • 2 0 • view
I think he's setting us up for a possible war when his term is officially over because he can extend his stay in that way, can't he?
aug 17, 2025, 12:30 pm • 3 0 • view
Chaos in the streets. He may call for a national emergency and cancel the election.
aug 17, 2025, 12:35 pm • 4 0 • view
🎯
aug 17, 2025, 1:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Release All Epstein files
aug 21, 2025, 4:59 am • 0 0 • view
He’s boiling the frog slowly so folks will not realize until it’s too late.
aug 17, 2025, 12:19 pm • 3 0 • view
Just curious if Trump has insisted that the paychecks the National Guard troops hanging out in DC are issued with Trump’s name on the signature line. He’ll attempt to create loyalty any way he can.
aug 17, 2025, 12:25 pm • 1 0 • view
And then he will Establish himself as dictator forever. Welcome to North Korea.
aug 17, 2025, 5:32 pm • 0 0 • view
#VoteAgainstTrumpsWishes #VoteBlue2025ProtectDemocracy @hayesfordelegate.bsky.social #VA52 secure.actblue.com/donate/rise-...
aug 17, 2025, 12:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you for sharing, Joyce.
aug 17, 2025, 12:08 pm • 0 0 • view
I live in OHIO and it disgusts me to be here. People and their thinking is as corrupt as Trump. Fuck DeWine sending the Ohio National Guard. DeWine was decent for a Republican till mid way in the pandemic and his balls were taken by the Republican Legislature took them.
aug 17, 2025, 2:11 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 17, 2025, 12:11 pm • 0 0 • view
What's permissible by a white, male Republican in a democracy.
aug 17, 2025, 12:06 pm • 0 0 • view
With a big assist from the 4th Estate
aug 17, 2025, 12:04 pm • 2 0 • view
Thank you Joyce for sharing 😊🫶🏾
aug 17, 2025, 12:54 pm • 1 0 • view
South Carolina has been wanting to march on Washington since 1866.
aug 17, 2025, 12:09 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m proud of the honorable, compassionate and Constitution protecting U.S. citizens who are standing against the dishonorable acts of POTUS, Senate GOP, House GOP, a dishonorable, incompetent and corrupt executive branch and a corrupted SCOTUS. It will take years to restore the Republic, and we must
aug 17, 2025, 12:40 pm • 6 2 • view
Trump is creating disruption and fear. He will have established a situation to call for a national emergency for the next presidential election and will then cancel the election.
aug 17, 2025, 12:33 pm • 2 0 • view
Trump doesn’t believe in Democracy. cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/08/dona...
aug 17, 2025, 3:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Thanks Joyce!
aug 17, 2025, 12:06 pm • 0 0 • view
and to play that out in blue states
aug 17, 2025, 4:58 pm • 0 0 • view
If you’ve ever researched your family tree in the Civil War’s “battleground states” and read newspaper microfilm from those years the absolute last thing you want is our own military carrying military war weapons roaming the streets. Congress needs to stop worshipping Trump and stop this.
aug 17, 2025, 12:15 pm • 5 1 • view
Rape and pillage are our future if we don't stand and risk our blood and bone. But every little act of non-compliance is an act of defiance.
aug 17, 2025, 12:46 pm • 0 0 • view
“The Overton window is the range of subjects and arguments politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time.[1] It is also known as the window of discourse” wiki
aug 17, 2025, 3:47 pm • 0 0 • view
I will NOT willingly go along with ANY of Trump’s plans!!!
aug 17, 2025, 3:43 pm • 0 0 • view
And now the Nationsl Guard will be armed! Armed military policing American streets - should be beyond imagination.
aug 17, 2025, 12:57 pm • 1 0 • view
...it is practice for military control!!!
aug 17, 2025, 10:49 pm • 1 0 • view
How about St. Louis? The murder Capitol of America for YEARS? Don’t believe me? Look up statistics on Google.
aug 17, 2025, 12:32 pm • 1 0 • view
Exactly 💯💯💯💯
aug 17, 2025, 4:47 pm • 0 0 • view
I always think of the analogy about the Boiling Frog story. However, in the US, it seems like you can increase the heat much faster than I ever expected. Orange Iulius Caesar has done in months what it takes other authoritarians much longer to do, and outrage passes too easily here.
aug 17, 2025, 12:13 pm • 3 0 • view
"Everything that Tяцmp touches dies!" ~ Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social
aug 17, 2025, 1:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Nero diddled... er... fiddled...
aug 19, 2025, 2:31 am • 1 0 • view
It's a dictator thing
aug 17, 2025, 12:03 pm • 1 0 • view
We have reached the point where tRump is not the primary problem.
aug 17, 2025, 12:09 pm • 15 5 • view
` Enabled by others )) all the way (( -- anyone remember scotus' ruling that a president would be immune from prosecution for _anything_ ? what, you thought they meant even President Kamala Harris? do the math.... www.protectourelections.org/2025/07/10/a...
aug 17, 2025, 3:24 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 17, 2025, 12:06 pm • 7 1 • view
Those people need to watch this. bsky.app/profile/iwil...
aug 17, 2025, 10:32 pm • 0 0 • view
I feel unsafe.
aug 17, 2025, 12:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Joyce...you need to stop playing the politics wonk. You need to start calling for the immediate removal of Trump from power by any means necessary. You need to say it so much that you start worrying they'll come arrest you. And then you need to do it even more. That's the ONLY message now.
aug 17, 2025, 2:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Release the Epstein files
aug 17, 2025, 12:10 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 17, 2025, 12:46 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 17, 2025, 12:46 pm • 0 0 • view
DC must become a state.
aug 17, 2025, 2:21 pm • 0 0 • view
This is a crossroads. We can choose to lay down, or we can stand up.
aug 17, 2025, 12:29 pm • 2 0 • view
Trump supporters are Nazi ass sniffers!!
aug 17, 2025, 12:09 pm • 1 0 • view
No, Bill - no US military members belong anywhere on US soil with orders to oppose Americans.
aug 17, 2025, 2:00 pm • 0 0 • view
No pardons for sandwich throwers, asylum seekers or day laborers at Home Depot...Aligator Alcatraz or Gitmo. bsky.app/profile/carl... Imagine if J6ers had sandwiches!....#Resist & #VoteBlue TACO for dictators while US military are according to Trump "suckers & losers".
aug 17, 2025, 3:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Practice run for 2028. He's not leaving peacefully.
aug 17, 2025, 1:42 pm • 0 0 • view
I agree 100%. And the best way for #PedoPresident Trump to cut crime in DC is to RELEASE THE #EPSTEIN FILES. All of them, with no redactions that serve only to protect the guilty. What is Trump hiding?
aug 17, 2025, 12:13 pm • 0 0 • view
He is preparing his personal police for his third term. His refusal to leave office.
aug 17, 2025, 12:09 pm • 1 0 • view
...and no one will do a thing to stop it - specifically Congress or the gutless supreme court. How sad and how impotent our "leadership" has become.
aug 17, 2025, 4:40 pm • 0 0 • view
But trump would never declare martial law, noooooo.
aug 17, 2025, 1:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Based on the most recent data, the ten US cities with the highest violent crime rates per capita are: Memphis, TN, St. Louis, MO, Detroit, MI, Baltimore, MD, Oakland, CA, Cleveland, OH, New Orleans, LA, Alexandria, LA, Birmingham, AL, and Rockford, IL.
aug 17, 2025, 6:59 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 17, 2025, 1:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Congress members or learning that the voters are not in favor of tRump.
aug 18, 2025, 2:50 am • 0 0 • view
What everyone knows to be true.
aug 17, 2025, 11:18 pm • 0 0 • view
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
aug 17, 2025, 2:46 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m not sure what Ohio’s National Guard is doing in DC? It looks like they should be in Cleveland and a few other red cities. DC isn’t even on the list. #TakeCareOfYourOwnBusinessFirstRedStates #RedStatesHaveTheMostCrime #SendTheNationalGuardToReadStates
aug 17, 2025, 1:51 pm • 0 0 • view
The National Guard doesn't belong anywhere on US soil causing fear and threatening Americans. Reversing GOP legislation which strips social supports, opposes affordable housing, universal healthcare, public education, affordable nutritious food and civic behavior is what we must do.
aug 17, 2025, 2:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Absolutely. See 4th post added in thread. I should number.
aug 17, 2025, 2:39 pm • 1 0 • view