Can someone in the legacy media explain to me how this is not front page news? How is it that only Democracy Docket is covering this unfolding authoritarian takeover? www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Can someone in the legacy media explain to me how this is not front page news? How is it that only Democracy Docket is covering this unfolding authoritarian takeover? www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
šØ āļø šØ āļø FLOOD THE ZONE!! We are 2 GOP votes short of the House votes needed for the discharge petition to release the full Epstein file. Two votes. Soā¦you know what to do. With calls and emails! Then share this. To find the GOP member of Congress nearest you, go here: house.gov
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: āYouāve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 ā¦ and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.ā
Minneapolis: The shooter did not act alone. He was assisted by 219 members of the House, 53 Senators, hundreds of NRA lobbyists, and one President.
Itās almost as if appointing an anti-vax lunatic with zero qualifications to oversee Americaās health was a numbskull idea and everybody with a functioning brain knew it.
Itās outrageous that Sec. Kennedy is trying to fire the CDC Director ā after only a few weeks on the job ā for her commitment to public health & vaccines. The Sen. HELP Committee must hold a hearing with Kennedy & the CDC Director as soon as possible. Vaccines save lives. Period.
Those who have the power to stop mass shootings can go to hell with their "thoughts and prayers." Do something about it, you evil bastards.
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Attempting to rig elections on his behalf. Turning the military on citizens. Toying with the idea of declaring martial law. Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out against his regime. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
Last week Trump said he likes the idea of starting a war so he can declare āno more electionsā and stay in office forever. Today he just said āa lot of peopleā want āa dictator.ā See where this is going?
REPORTER: It requires an act of Congress to rename the Defense Department TRUMP: Weāre just gonna do it. Iām sure Congress will go along if we need that
Someone please do this. I need the laugh!
Such geniuses.
Here is the growing list of countries choosing to pause mail deliveries to the U.S. because of Trump's tariff chaos. Did anyone vote in 2024 to become the new Hermit Kingdom? Austria Australia Denmark France Germany India Italy Japan New Zealand Singapore Spain South Korea Sweden Thailand
āI prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag.ā āMolly Ivins
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#HistoryNotErasure #Ukraine
"I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is."
Sending troops into US cities against their will. Strong-arming corporations and extracting gifts in exchange for tariff exemptions. Calling on state governments to gerrymander in his favor. Trump is the "big government" nightmare conservatives have always warned us about.
šØ DOGE dumped the entire SS databaseānames, addresses, birth dates, SSNsāonto a vulnerable cloud server. Millions of Americans now face the risk of identity theft. In what universe does this qualify as "efficiency"? Congress must hold DOGE accountable for the enormous vulnerability they created.
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Yes, š- have always said itās always been about corporate socialism. We havenāt been a free market in quite some timeā¦ And the BS about job creation is sickening- letās be real, they need you to produce so they can profit off you. Itās all been a sickening game the last 30 years.
The move āpotentially violated multiple federal statutesā protecting sensitive government data and could result in a ācatastrophic impactā for Social Security beneficiaries.
Hillary Clinton tripped once on her way to an SUV and it launched 8 years of conspiracy theories about her hiding some eldritch chronic illness that was undoubtedly terminal Donald Trump shows up in public with the most fucked up hand imaginable and no one in media will touch it
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 Crowās yacht
His dead eyes are terrifying. Surely there is some state charge he can be brought up on that Lord Goldemort canāt pardon once convicted?
Stephen Miller lacks many things, and one of them is a law degree.
Letās be clear: deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda makes no senseāitās not his home country. Nothing about this process has been fair. ICE is targeting him with cruelty. This is the weaponization of government, not justice.
Utterly depraved.
Thou shalt not let a racist fascist rapist pedophile become a dictator and ruin all your lives.
āIn a rare move for a U.S. public official, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., called for a paper that found no link between aluminum in vaccines and disease to be retracted. The journal rejected the request.ā www.scientificamerican.com/article/rfk-...
#USDemocracy #Georgia #GA šŗšø 478,000 voters were targeted by a recent voter purge in Georgia, turning "ACTIVE" voters into "INACTIVE" unless they responded by a recently-passed deadline. If Georgian, to check if you're currently "INACTIVE", see mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/ If so, you'll need to re-register. š
Frank LaRose is one of many things wrong with my home state. Get āem Marc!
Dear Military: stop obeying illegal orders.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Do we really have to burn down 250 years of US progress so the functionally illiterate can relive our effed up past because they canāt/wont just read history books.
āThis is about the President of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.ā ā Gov. J.B. Pritzker
Apparently rainbow memorials are too scary for DeSantis. What an ass.
Firing the federal workers at the CDC who study ways to prevent violence and keep people safe at work does NOTHING to help working families. It puts everyoneās health and safety at greater risk.
Democratic Governors, what more do you need to see? WAKE UP. FIGHT. www.axios.com/2025/08/20/n...
Classic Rock is rock music from the 60s/70s, not the 80s/90s. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Here, fixed it.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced on social media(X) that federal border agents will be assigned to NPS sites as part of the broader federal law enforcement push in DC. He said the Interior Department had authorized a āservice-wide deputizationā of Customs and Border Protection
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"If you live in Alaska, I need you to buy a Ukrainian flag and turn any area that Putin is going to be into a sea of Ukrainian flags - so many that, when Putin lands, all he's going to see is just yellow and blue."
CNN says the Epstein story is dead based on google searches dropping, as if people need to continually search for the same information, so in order to keep it as a top story OUR job is to type "Epstein files" into google once a day every day.. do it now! Thank you for your attention to this matter.
People who vacation in this state, knowing whatās been going on down there need to understand that their money is funding this. STOP VACATIONING IN FLORIDA! Thereās another ocean and beaches in Californiaā¼ļø
Washington, DC is so lawless, just the other day I saw a pedophile, rapist, white collar criminal wandering around on the roof of the White House. Get him, National Guard!
Trumpās disdain and disrespect for the homeless population and the immigrant population is hard to take on a daily basis. These are the two groups that I volunteer with the most. They need our help. They donāt need to be vilified or criminalized.
What we see happening in real time is actually part of Martial Law. Oh, it hasnāt been officially declared, but his federal takeover plans for cities across the nationā¦under the cloak of āattacking crime,ā is pre-positioning for when he does. It will happen prior to the November elections. Watch.
Crockett: We're talking about them going after Clyburn in South Carolina, Andre Carson in Indiana, Reverend Cleaver in Missouri. Emilia Sykes in Ohio, three of the four black representatives that we currently have in the state of Texas. So don't tell me this isn't about raceā¦
Turns out - he did have the ability to call in the National Guard on Jan. 6th.
D.C.ās crime rate is at a 30-year low. Safer than ever. So stop using ācrimeā as your excuse to grab power. This isnāt law & orderāitās lies & authoritarian theater. We see you, and weāre not buying it. Hands off D.C.
W. T. F.
Doesnāt deploy federal troops to stop a Capitol invasion or save children from a Texas flood or clean up debris from a StL tornado. Deployed federal troops to disperse people in sleeping bags. Got it.
Will everyone quit and roll over? The law firms, media companies, universities, government employees. Will you all cling to what you have and hope you can just ride it out, Republic be damned? Shame on all of you who donāt stand up, just remember we will never forget.
Trumpās EPA wants to roll back standards regulating pollutants from burning fossil fuels, like car exhaust and methane. Meanwhile, 17 staffers in his White House own up to $2.2 million of stock in Big Oil companies. Theyāre getting rich off polluting the planet.
Infuriating
The Big Beautiful Bill gives Meta a $15 billion check. Thatās more than our federal government spends on child care in an entire year. If we invested that much in child care & early childhood education, weād create stronger futures for everyone, not just Mark Zuckerberg.
total mentions on Fox Business yesterday: Obama -- 101 Epstein -- 5
Right @jaketapper.bsky.social ??
Here's the thing. A man who fires Inspector Generals, pardons Nazis, and fires the people prosecuting sex criminals is a man who is telling you clearly that he is a Nazi and sex abuser who wants to avoid accountability. BELIEVE HIM. MAGAs who continue to stand by him are complicit in all this 2/2
I donāt believe in hell. But shit like this makes me hope Iām wrong
Sickening
This guy is truly evil
RFK Jr. just fired thousands of federal workers at crucial health agencies, including the FDA, CDC, and NIH. These are the people who inspect our food, track infectious diseases, and research life-saving treatments and cures. How is this "Making America Healthy Again"?
The thing about the Epstein disgustingness that strikes me hardest is that hundreds of rich old men raped underage girls and the only person currently in jail for that vile behavior is a woman.
The next few months need to resemble the 2017 fight to save the ACA. In the end, we won. Call Congressmembers, confront them at town halls, offices, airports & fundraisers. Hold events so Congressmembers look really bad for being afraid of constituents.
On this Fourth of July, Trump is deporting veterans and their families, as part of the cruelest mass deportation program in modern U.S. history.
It really is incredible how despite a half-century of expanding executive power, ballooning the debt, bloating the government, and policing private behavior, the GOP is still discussed as the party of small government libertarianism and fiscal responsibility. Just no relation to reality at all.
I sincerely hope they follow through on this! And I say that as a blue dot in gerrymandered red state!
Dear Leader to sign concentration camp bill on Independence Day. Good luck finding something more fucked up than that today.
"When 8 men have more money than 4 billion people combined, folks relying on food stamps or Medicaid aren't the problem."
Welcome to the USA of 2025, where condemning genocide is deemed antisemitism and can get you deported, but building concentration camps and calling bankers āShylocksā doesnāt get condemned by the news media at all.
Not an apology Surely everyone Pearl-clutching over @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social (who said nothing of the sort) will have a lot to say about this as well, right? š¬š¤·š¼āāļø
The ICE budget is now set to be approximately what the NIH budget was. Weāre shifting money from solving real problems to solving fictitious problems.
The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesnāt get enough attention. It aināt normal and weāre further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.
"LONG LIVE THE KING!" Thatās what Trump posted. Some laughed. His base cheered. But on this Fourth of July, itās worth askingādoes MAGA even believe in the Declaration of Independence anymore? True patriots donāt want a king. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/no-kings-w...
A study in the Lancet recently looked at the cumulative impact of reductions in American aid. It found that, by 2040, 8 million more children will die before their fifth birthday. b-gat.es/44wCCQO
How can a country with places this beautiful be so consumed with ugliness?
If Republicans *really* thought their cruel cuts were going to help the country, they wouldn't have deviously made them go into effect only *after* the Midterms. They KNOW they are going to hurt people. They just don't care as long as it doesn't hurt them.
Of course it was. This nightmare cannot end soon enough
This guy is terrifyingly evil
What the actual hell?!?!!
Wow! France gifted her to us, and now theyāve captured what so many Americans are feeling on Independence Day. The values the Statue of Liberty stood for are no more. š A stunning mural of the Statue of Liberty covering her face was unveiled in Roubaix, France, on July 3, 2025.
Good way to put it. š¢
I refuse to call an American concentration camp the same thing it calls itself at its attached gift shop Maybe American journalism should search in the garbage for its self-respect and start taking the same position?
He needs a reminder that heās the president? Totally normal. š
Indeed. Just a depraved human being.
When you jam your bill through overnightā¦ When you are forced to cancel town hallsā¦ When you need to wear masks to hide your actionsā¦ You know the people arenāt on your sideāand now, youāve lost us forever. We will remember this day. We will remember your names. We will remember you as traitors.