Everyday Americans are held to a higher standard, facing serious consequences for even small mistakes, while those in power from the so-called “party of law and order” keep breaking the rules without accountability.
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Most of us share your outrage and frustration.
aug 30, 2025, 3:12 am • 20 0 • view
Thank you. It helps me know I’m not the only one screaming into the wind.
aug 30, 2025, 3:34 am • 4 0 • view
Not only breaking law, rules, constitution – but their actual ability to perform is akin to a carpenter who uses rotten boards to build a floor. Abs incompetent, as is so clear to all of us. So nauseating.
aug 30, 2025, 7:06 pm • 1 0 • view
😡😡😡
aug 30, 2025, 3:54 pm • 0 0 • view
They aren't just breaking rules. They are breaking laws.
aug 30, 2025, 5:26 am • 3 0 • view
They aren’t just breaking rules and laws. They ripped up the entire system of checks and balances and constitutional order and replaced it with a corrupt historical Gilded Age or old NYC style system of corruption, graft, patronage, spoils to the winner, cheating, attacking political opponents, etc.
aug 30, 2025, 1:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Careful to not listen to their cheerleaders in the news. It adds insult (salt) to injury
aug 30, 2025, 3:29 am • 0 0 • view
218 as of Today. The fascists are raging forward. Fascists at all gov't levels. I am being ASKED why I am protesting by TEACHERS!!! They had the summer off, why have they missed what is happening? Please do SOMETHING to save Democracy! youtu.be/O6EzqLPbMt8?...
aug 30, 2025, 2:54 pm • 1 0 • view
you noticed the same thing I was noticing. these power hungry asshats are not redeemable anymore.
aug 30, 2025, 3:03 am • 1 0 • view
Feeling's mutual. I get so angry reading/watching news. I just want someone to say, "ok, here goes, we're gonna tear this mother down!" I don't mean that literally but you get it. I don't know what we can do. One thing we need is content that covers just protests. If people see they can engage.
aug 30, 2025, 8:30 am • 9 1 • view
MeidasTouch covers the protests. Major media downplays them if they mention them at all and conservative media calls them fake and says they are hired by George Soros.
aug 30, 2025, 11:39 am • 3 0 • view
Yeah I know they cover some of them. I watch Meidas Touch. They're one of the few reliable sources for news. I have yet to receive a single check from any of the protests I've been to. Lol! I guess I just feel hopeful when I see so many people out there.
aug 30, 2025, 3:14 pm • 2 0 • view
They want to start nosing through medical records to punish the doctors and presumably parents of minors who have received gender affirming care, as if HIPPA or the 4th Amendment don't exist. Yet we can't see his fucking tax returns or the Epstein list.
aug 30, 2025, 10:32 am • 10 0 • view
🤬💩☠️
aug 30, 2025, 12:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Them! Not you.
aug 30, 2025, 12:52 pm • 1 0 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 3:35 am • 0 0 • view
We the people will take control of the government and make them pay for ALL of their crimes!
aug 30, 2025, 4:45 pm • 4 0 • view
So exactly how the GOP have acted for the last...50 years? The hypocrisy and double standards are party platform positions, right under "domestic terrorist" Reagan prosecuted Crack unfairly harshly based on misinformation while his own CIA protected cocaine dealers and smuggled drugs into the USA
aug 30, 2025, 8:28 am • 4 2 • view
I looked up some of yhe things Reagan did bc I didn't know. In case anyone else is curious. Source: Wikipedia
aug 30, 2025, 12:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Here's a source: CIA-Contra-Crack Cocaine Controversy share.google/my72BhNNXGno...
aug 31, 2025, 10:06 am • 0 0 • view
Who is this written by? There's no author listed.
aug 31, 2025, 12:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Does this make it easier? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_inv...
aug 31, 2025, 5:04 pm • 0 0 • view
This is a page directly from a government agency website (Office of the Inspector General) and it's a summary of his criminality There's references at the bottom and the body text is full of links to sources with authors listed Did you read it? This doesn't seem harder to read than Wikipedia
aug 31, 2025, 5:03 pm • 0 0 • view
With the assent of Reagan's sympathetic National Labor Relations Board appointees, many companies won wage and benefit cutbacks from unions, especially in the manufacturing sector.
aug 30, 2025, 1:11 pm • 2 0 • view
During Reagan's presidency, the share of employees who were part of a labor union dropped from approximately one-fourth of the total workforce to approximately one-sixth of the total workforce.[
aug 30, 2025, 1:11 pm • 2 0 • view
Reagan signed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 and 1988 to specify penalties for drug offenses.[266] Both bills have been criticized in the years since for promoting racial disparities.
aug 30, 2025, 1:09 pm • 1 0 • view
Reagan opposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965,[32] which he long-deemed "humiliating to the South". He initially opposed the establishment of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
aug 30, 2025, 1:00 pm • 1 0 • view
He vetoed the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987, tlarguing that the bill unreasonably increased the federal government's power and undermined the rights of churches and business owners.
aug 30, 2025, 1:00 pm • 1 0 • view
In doing so, Reagan was the first U.S. president to veto civil rights legislation since Andrew Johnson vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which was also overridden by Congress.
aug 30, 2025, 1:02 pm • 1 0 • view
He appointed Clarence M. Pendleton Jr., known for his opposition to affirmative action and equal pay for men and women, as chair of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Pendleton and Reagan's subsequent appointees greatly eroded the enforcement of civil rights law.
aug 30, 2025, 1:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Reagan unsuccessfully nominated Robert Bork to the Supreme Court as a way to achieve his civil rights policy that could not be fulfilled during his presidency; Bork was a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, appointed by President Reagan in 1982...
aug 30, 2025, 1:05 pm • 1 0 • view
FYI Opposition to his nomination centered on his perceived willingness to roll back the civil rights rulings of the Warren and Burger courts, and his role in the Saturday Night Massacre during the Watergate scandal.
aug 30, 2025, 1:05 pm • 0 0 • view
It is emotionally exhausting. I have to have faith in karma to get through the days and sleepless nights.
aug 30, 2025, 3:44 am • 11 0 • view
Feeling the same way!!I don’t think I’ve slept properly since 2016 myself.It’s doing a number on my aFib and just had to have surgery for it last week.The stress can be overwhelming!! I’m not super religious or anything but I find myself mentally reciting childhood prayers in the wee hours. 🙏
aug 30, 2025, 4:03 am • 6 1 • view
We love you. Please keep yo head up.
aug 30, 2025, 3:09 am • 10 0 • view
No apologies necessary…we all feel the same way.
aug 30, 2025, 5:32 am • 2 0 • view
It can be really discouraging. I appreciate you.
aug 30, 2025, 3:01 am • 202 3 • view
You have every right to feel frustrated and overwhelmed. All of us also feel these emotions as well. We have to learn to take breaks and lett others share in carrying the burden of resisting.
aug 30, 2025, 5:25 am • 84 4 • view
What resistance?
aug 30, 2025, 5:31 am • 21 0 • view
The people saying "what resistance" are clearly sitting it out. If you were engaged, you'd know.
aug 30, 2025, 5:46 am • 87 2 • view
Or they are watching from afar in increasing horror and fear. Like me. I know what IS happening is underreported but maybe that's because as big as they may seem marches just aren't newsworthy anymore. Takes lessons from the French. They know how to protest.
aug 30, 2025, 6:07 am • 41 3 • view
Fill the streets sit down and stay for as long as it takes. India might have some ideas that will help.
aug 30, 2025, 9:31 am • 0 0 • view
The important thing for people to know is that our media is corrupt, and *will not* report on what the Dems or ordinary people are doing in a favorable light. If you're not hearing about it, it doesn't mean it's not happening, it just means your sources of news are failing you. Look closer.
aug 30, 2025, 6:12 am • 74 7 • view
I know marches are happening but what else? I mean you must all know at this point that very extreme actions are required, not violent (although they may lead to violence) but very inconvenient.
aug 30, 2025, 6:21 am • 22 1 • view
So many people are asleep at the wheel. People living their lives blissfully unaware of what a shit show Trump and his administration are conducting. There’s more than enough blame to go around, media included, but I put much of this at the feet of ordinary people including the 90M who didn’t vote.
aug 30, 2025, 7:47 pm • 3 0 • view
I’m becoming increasingly convinced that all the protests, court battles, political punditry, and so ‘resistance’ in the end will simply not be enough. It pains me to say it but we need a purging. Violence will be needed to galvanize and awake so many people from their slumber and ignorance.
aug 30, 2025, 8:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Or we could just show up and vote. The Republican Party is a minority party, their power is entirely dependent on the Left not showing up. The Left has ALWAYS had the power to stop the Right, the problem is that it's always been easy to manipulate the left into walking away from the fight.
aug 30, 2025, 8:18 pm • 1 0 • view
There are about a 1000 lawsuits unfolding right now, and the lower courts are providing significant relief. Dem Governors are pushing back where they can - but for example, Newsom can't simply expel ICE from California, he doesn't have that power. What he can do, is make Trump look like a fool.
aug 30, 2025, 6:28 am • 1 0 • view
But that's cold comfort for those who are being persecuted by this regime.
aug 30, 2025, 6:28 am • 0 0 • view
Part of the problem is that the Dems simply don't have the power to do what people want. Republicans control the House, the Senate, the Presidency, and the Supreme Court. That's *our* fault, not the pols. WE failed to show up, and it's put them in a terrible situation. What they can do, they are.
aug 30, 2025, 6:25 am • 40 4 • view
It isn't our fault that idiots voted for the maniac despite all we know about him. We aren't responsible for the idiots amongst us.
aug 31, 2025, 1:03 am • 0 0 • view
No you are not and by Christ it must be so enraging. But you are responsible for what you do now.
aug 31, 2025, 6:38 am • 0 0 • view
and they control a lot of states/state govt - also our fault. Americans are not taking their share of the accountability for this mess. Natural at first when something goes this wrong but everyone needs to grow up and get to work
aug 30, 2025, 7:26 am • 22 2 • view
Feste is a GOP rabblerouser Block him!
aug 30, 2025, 11:37 am • 1 0 • view
MSM is ignoring the marches, but we have voices. Go to a red feed, tell them. Show them. Taunt them into researching.
aug 30, 2025, 9:36 am • 8 0 • view
Nothing like Musk paying people to vote his way, neither..but hey, go ahead and blame the invalid etc
aug 30, 2025, 6:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Sorry, but I'm still not convinced that Trump won legitimately. All the gerrymandering, voter disenfranchisement, statistical anomalies in voting data, even bomb threats at the polls. We didn't want him in, he forced his way in. We're gonna have to fight like hell to keep the 2026 elections valid
aug 30, 2025, 1:38 pm • 0 0 • view
The Dems are losers, who are complicit in this Fascist overhauling of our country.
aug 30, 2025, 12:50 pm • 0 0 • view
The anti-establishment left will never get tired of carrying water for the Right. Quit blaming Dems for things Republicans do.
aug 30, 2025, 2:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Dems are doing a pretty good job under the circumstances. Can't say the same for progressives. Y'all seem to be scrambling to come up w/excuses for having supported fascism and genocide in the US while killing everyone in Gaza via Trump.
aug 30, 2025, 2:58 pm • 5 0 • view
I’m still VERY confused about about getting called a Fascist, and told to “eat shit,” when I try to fight the good fight, stay informed, and organize within my community. Her response to me was completely out of line, and a classic example of why we have trouble organizing properly on the Left.
aug 30, 2025, 7:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Court cases are happening nation-wide. Whistleblowers are taking a stand. State and local govt can have an impact, esp if we push them now. Discouragement is what the regime _wants_ you to feel; do you really want to spread what they want?
aug 30, 2025, 2:02 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes, there’s still hope. Resistance from Newsom and Pritzker, and a lot of other people speaking out are all encouraging. However, I feel like we need to have a back up plan if they decide to ignore the courts, but I don’t know what that plan is or how we bring it all together.
aug 31, 2025, 12:35 am • 0 0 • view
WE NEED TO STRIKE
aug 30, 2025, 6:23 am • 6 0 • view
abso-fucking-lutely
aug 30, 2025, 12:39 pm • 0 0 • view
I don’t think we have enough people yet that care. That really truly get it. I’ve heard the number we need to get to, to make a serious difference, is 3% of the population. I don’t think we’re there. Not enough people are hurt yet. They’re going to have to feel real fucking pain before they’re mad.
aug 30, 2025, 12:53 pm • 3 0 • view
Yes we do!
aug 30, 2025, 12:42 pm • 0 0 • view
www.democracynow.org
aug 30, 2025, 10:50 am • 0 1 • view
When MSNBC switches to MSNOW, a talking head said that would give the network more Independence. 🤷♀️
aug 30, 2025, 1:41 pm • 0 0 • view
It only takes guillotines one time in history for those in power not to soon forget the power of the people. The protests are generally similar but the US is also much bigger and the populace more easily divided over stupid things. It’s unfortunate that many Americans cannot resist the culture war.
aug 30, 2025, 10:28 pm • 3 0 • view
Thinking more of the gilet jaune than the guillotine tbh. I've heard the size of the US put forward as problematic. True, but I would have thought strategic targets. Washington being the most strategic hence the fucking Gestapo.
aug 31, 2025, 6:43 am • 0 0 • view
Well thank god that we have you here to tell us what to do. Your tremendous advice of “act like the French” is super helpful. You go first and we’ll all follow since the hundreds of rallies that go on across the country every week don’t meet your high standards.
aug 30, 2025, 9:32 am • 2 0 • view
Rude. They are right. Protests/marches r not stopping the regime, they only show that there r others that think the same way. No one is coming 2save us & courts can’t hold the line for much longer. The only way 2peacefully end this is with a general strike. The other options r revolution or submit.
aug 30, 2025, 2:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Rude. You are wrong. I answered the person who admitted that she was watching from afar, had no idea that we are having protests frequently across the country which the media don’t show, and she decided to give instructions from her safe couch. I don’t agree with her. Or you.
aug 30, 2025, 8:52 pm • 0 0 • view
No. Calling BS. debnicktom stated that protests/marches were being under reported & that they are ineffective. They are completely correct. The courts can’t hold the line much longer. We’re down to 3 options: revolution, acquiesce & live like North Koreans, or general strike like the French do.
aug 30, 2025, 11:55 pm • 1 0 • view
This is how hippie communes started in the 70s
aug 31, 2025, 1:54 am • 0 0 • view
Is it? Not sure I understand your point.
aug 31, 2025, 5:21 am • 1 0 • view
1.in my opinion after the nixon re election the hippies felt like society wasnt theirs and there was this zeitgeist to head out into their own version of a remade frontier americana. Whole earth catalogues. Sunshine family toys. The invention of album rock in america that traded country where glam..
aug 31, 2025, 3:01 pm • 0 0 • view
2. ...Took over the world post acid rock. Here we had the birth of AOR with albums from nitty gritty dirt band and brewer n shipley. Eventually as the economy collapsed the hemlines got longer and granny dresses. Shawls. Earth shoes. 1800s glasses became the norm. And as that happened the hippies...
aug 31, 2025, 3:03 pm • 0 0 • view
3 ...in a lot of places took their counterculturalism next level starting farming communes and using wells with handles and reading doc savage 20s reprints and making stalking the wild adparagus a bestseller. The song said We have to get ourselves back to the garden and they did....
aug 31, 2025, 3:06 pm • 0 0 • view
The protests in individual states mean nothing. We ALL need to march on Washington or whatever golf club he's at at the moment. We don't have billionaires footing the bill for US to get to DC like they had to get them there on J6.
aug 30, 2025, 7:30 am • 3 0 • view
I suppose it has little to do w/ what the media reports vs. what "is really happening" because our systems and services are being obliterated. I have eyes, I manage millions in assets, and I'm a ELA/SS educator, and I see what we're losing. The damage is far outrunning the resistance & its impact.
aug 30, 2025, 10:37 am • 2 0 • view
The "Resistance" appears to be people filming ICE Gestapo kidnappings and shouting "Shame" and "Get out of here". THAT is NOT resistance, that is bystanding. Come back when the "Resistance" start throwing rocks and rescuing the oppressed. Impeach Trump.
aug 30, 2025, 6:42 am • 4 0 • view
How about actually doing something about it? This regime is not going to go away with strongly worded letters, protests that they really believe the people are being paid. So they ignore them!! I have been resisting..I have also been arrested for the time honored tradition of a sit in protest.
aug 30, 2025, 6:06 pm • 2 0 • view
You need to get arrested for unaliving fascists. Get off your ass
aug 30, 2025, 7:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah, that’ll do a LOT of good. We might follow if you went first…
sep 1, 2025, 3:48 pm • 0 0 • view
You're doing fuck all. Stop patting yourself on the back for doing fuck all. Lazy cunts
aug 30, 2025, 7:38 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm not sitting out; I protest, boycott, limit consumption, contact electeds, tell my local town officials how I feel, & have cut ties with MAGA friends + family. I don't know what more I can do to walk my talk that I've been doing since I was in CORE. This old activist agrees w/ "what resistance?"
aug 30, 2025, 10:34 am • 2 0 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 9:56 am • 2 1 • view
Pfft, right?
aug 30, 2025, 11:33 am • 0 0 • view
Haven’t you heard? The super cute “No Kings” parade was REALLY BIG and don’t you dare ask for evidence it had any impact apart from emboldening the fascists who now know exactly how cowardly the opposition is.
aug 30, 2025, 9:43 am • 0 0 • view
We know. We hear about it every day. Do take care of yourselves. ❤️
aug 30, 2025, 6:56 am • 1 0 • view
REPUBLICANS!
aug 30, 2025, 10:48 am • 0 1 • view
Hadn't seen it from that angle.
aug 30, 2025, 9:54 am • 1 0 • view
That is the goal of totalitarians: the law is for others.
aug 30, 2025, 4:38 am • 0 0 • view
Civil war or insurrection?
aug 31, 2025, 3:16 am • 0 0 • view
Accurate
aug 30, 2025, 3:07 am • 1 0 • view
This is what has been pissing me off the most. I feel like I have to be a perfect good little boy while those in power ransack and destroy everything around them while being praised for it.
aug 30, 2025, 2:38 pm • 4 0 • view
catch @velshi.com 's 1100am today editorial.. .powerful @altnps.bsky.social
aug 30, 2025, 3:10 pm • 2 0 • view
Every day becomes a little bit harder to keep your heart open and your wrists closed
aug 31, 2025, 1:53 am • 0 0 • view
Things are probably much worse than we imagine.
aug 30, 2025, 11:11 am • 4 0 • view
we don't know how right you are... but we're going to find out whether we like it or not.
aug 30, 2025, 12:09 pm • 1 0 • view
And the damn thing is, that what we’re imagining is pretty fucked up.
aug 30, 2025, 12:48 pm • 2 0 • view
Excellent description of fascism. Americans need to rise up. The sooner you stop it, the easier.
aug 30, 2025, 3:06 am • 8 0 • view
'The party of law & order'? Don't make me laugh! The Republicans defunded the police in DC and Chicago.
aug 30, 2025, 7:54 am • 2 0 • view
youtu.be/cgHxfbrggx0
aug 30, 2025, 8:31 am • 0 0 • view
Winning at any cost with any method is their game. There is a new reality of corruption, patronage, cheating in US government. Their way or the highway. The good guys need to show up in a different way to counter it. Unfortunately, the old system and rules don’t work in the new reality they created.
aug 30, 2025, 1:48 pm • 1 0 • view
We have tonl remember whonthe republicans work for and why do what rhey do. Keep us plebes from uniting and bringing down their establishment...
aug 30, 2025, 2:01 pm • 2 1 • view
Ugh. It's early...
aug 30, 2025, 2:02 pm • 1 0 • view
This recent tariff case gives the Supreme Court an opportunity to stand up to Trump and I hope it takes it!!!
aug 30, 2025, 4:42 pm • 2 2 • view
They don’t WANT to stand up to him because they’re on board with #Project2025 which means ALLOWING him TOTAL and unfettered power. What their party doesn’t seem to get is, once he has all that power, WHY would he need them anymore? They NEVER think #ETTD will affect them.
aug 30, 2025, 7:22 pm • 2 0 • view
It will be interesting to see what, if any, justification the court can give for Trump to violate the constitution. Appeals Court said the tariffs are illegal but can stay in place as the case proceeds. Weird huh??
aug 30, 2025, 7:36 pm • 2 0 • view
They just keep saying POTUS has the power to do it. Not Biden of course when he was POTUS, which is EXACTLY WHY Joe should have tested them and gotten them on record with numerous issues!
aug 30, 2025, 8:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Look you need to vent and feel you can in a safe space and feel supported. We have your back that way. We just cannot do much to put the fire out before they burn house down
aug 30, 2025, 10:46 am • 0 0 • view
It’s almost like you have an enormous platform and have spent 8 months absolutely wasting it telling Americans to peacefully take the high road (while getting defensive and bitchy at anyone who points out that you’re basically complicit)
aug 30, 2025, 9:41 am • 1 0 • view
What are you doing for Democracy?
aug 30, 2025, 12:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Taking shit from overly defensive do-nothing white neolibs, apparently.
aug 30, 2025, 1:38 pm • 1 0 • view
Opinions of others you disagree with are Shit? Freedom of speech is for all or Nobody
aug 31, 2025, 8:22 pm • 0 0 • view
What’s your fucking problem? What are you doing, you sanctimonious prick?
aug 30, 2025, 10:53 am • 2 0 • view
Yeah, get defensive at me. That’s where your energy should go right now.
aug 30, 2025, 11:52 am • 0 0 • view
And learn what defensive means.
aug 30, 2025, 1:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Listen, you snarky asshole. You don’t come in here with your negative shit, then tell ME what to do. You’re just a pathetic keyboard warrior, out here trolling. GTFOH
aug 30, 2025, 1:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Cool. When they’re putting you in one of the unmarked vans you can comfort yourself with the memory of the time you totally told off that person on the internet who insinuated you weren’t doing enough.
aug 30, 2025, 2:17 pm • 1 0 • view
it doesn't fix it, but it can be at least less confusing to know that this is authoritarianism. They see themselves as higher in the hierarchy and they can dictate the rules everyone else must adhere to, while they can do whatever they want. Hypocrisy and inequality are features, not bugs.
aug 30, 2025, 5:07 am • 1 0 • view
Completely agree with you. Many of us are frustrated, angry, worried. All the feels. We're with you.
aug 30, 2025, 6:27 am • 0 0 • view
We need to be organized and ready to reverse, protect, investigate, arrest, and improve this country when we get the power back.
aug 30, 2025, 4:10 am • 6 0 • view