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alfredlund.bsky.social
Resistance is NOT futile. Democracy and the Rule Of Law are necessary conditions for all the other good things that we might hope for.
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Stephen Miller sure seems to be speaking for the White House a lot.

submitted 1 day ago • 104 comments

It’s baffling that Trump can justify tariffs against Mexico by citing the cartels while simultaneously cutting a deal with Sinaloa allowing 17 cartel family members safe harbor in the United States.

submitted 2 days ago • 318 comments

BREAKING: ICE RAID reported at Buona Forchetta tonight about a mile up the road in San Diego. Smoke bombs were used to disperse the crowd. FUCK ICE. WTF?!

submitted 1 day ago • 1114 comments

The Trump administration’s billion-dollar cuts to the National Institutes of Health include a $2.7 billion blow to the National Cancer Institute slashing more than a third of its funding. “For the past 50 years, every significant medical breakthrough, especially in the treatment of cancer,

submitted 1 day ago • 62 comments

Taking credit for other people’s work is par for the course.

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

And the hits keep on coming…

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“Art of the deal” my ass…

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

OK, this is funny. Sadly.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

TACO

submitted 2 days ago • 347 comments

Sucker much?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

It’s happening here.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I agree

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“The White House takes cybersecurity very seriously.” HAHA yeah. Apparently, someone hacked Susie Wiles personal phone and made a bunch of calls pretending to be her. Eventually asking for wire transfers. LOL. Way to keep it safe, TACO. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 3 days ago • 111 comments

Crime pays when you pay for campaign rallies!

submitted 4 days ago • 366 comments

When someone shows you who they are, believe ‘em.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Unbelievable and yet totally believable.

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

Aside from the illegality, corruption, and dysfunction, this is what happens in fascist regimes. They eventually begin turning on each other.

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

Show me the money, honey!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

How Can Democrats Message to Win Back Voters and Fight Fascism? Democrats are convening in luxury hotels with corporate consultants & spending millions to test ridiculous & ineffective messages to win back voters. Here's a successful strategy they should follow. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

submitted 5 days ago • 35 comments

Children and pregnant women are going to die, but that's the point.

submitted 5 days ago • 120 comments

If you have to reject your own studies when they don’t fit your agenda, it’s time to reconsider your agenda.

submitted 5 days ago • 172 comments

I agree with this message

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The public criticism and implicit threats against Pooty are super interesting in light of Trump’s subservience to him over the last decade. Suggests that whatever leverage Pooty may have over him doesn’t matter to DJT any more, probably bc he knows he’s completely above the law now

submitted 5 days ago • 92 comments

As the granddaughter of a WWII vet, I had a few things to say about Trump's utter disrespect of Memorial Day. Check out my substack:

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

Burglar says requiring permission to enter homes would kill the burglary industry.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

NEW: You *must* read the latest order by Judge Brian Murphy in the South Sudan rendition case. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/wow-judge-...

submitted 5 days ago • 26 comments

Fomenting violence against judges you don’t like is not only unpresidential, it’s unamerican.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Nope. Because they are in no danger of the corporate media calling them out.

submitted 6 days ago • 61 comments

Targeting a private educational institute because it won’t conform its governance and curriculum to what the state wants is…communist.

submitted 6 days ago • 566 comments

“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” – George Washington

submitted 8 days ago • 163 comments

Your freedoms are next.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

We are here.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Can anyone explain how “we” accepted Trump’s plane? How “we” are going to upgrade it for the next 3 years just to hand it to him? I don’t get it.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Trump is taking a $400 million luxury jet bribe from Qatar while denying North Carolina $200 million in disaster relief funding.

submitted 8 days ago • 401 comments

The numbers speak volumes: When you’re losing over 95% of the federal cases you’re involved in even though you’re the United States Government and get the benefit of the doubt, maybe you’re just not obeying the rule of law!

submitted 8 days ago • 68 comments

Funny, but when I was a federal prosecutor, people, including folks I know to be conservative Republicans, were absolutely adamant about prosecuting pay-to-play schemes that were much less bold and audacious than this one. Those folks all seem to have gone into hiding now.

submitted 8 days ago • 87 comments

I approve of this message.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

“U.S. national security will be weaker—because of you.”

submitted 9 days ago • 42 comments

This is so embarrassing.

submitted 9 days ago • 160 comments

Everything is getting worse, while Trump and his friends are getting richer. No one asked for any of this.

submitted 9 days ago • 126 comments

What is controversial about this?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

“This bill highlights a truism: In the United States, racism has always gone hand in hand with the concentration of wealth among the very richest people.”

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments