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My first Substack post open.substack.com/pub/daveweas...

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Today I write about the Autocrats Rulebook and three things you can do today to counter it: 1) Learn the Seven Rules for Fighting Autocrats. 2) Choose Unity over Purity 3) Tell Someone Else What You Now Understand. Thanks for all the Support! open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...

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NEW VIDEO: Once again, Trump lost in court in his effort to target law firms he does not like. A federal judge struck down the president's executive order targeting WilmerHale. Paige and I discuss. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NW8...

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The Lie that Feels Like Hope from my decades of working with those fighting for it from around the world. “Autocrats don’t just lie. They simplify. And in a chaotic world, that simplicity becomes all the more seductive.” open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...

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Trump gets bullied by Wall st, Elon ran for the hills, Stephen Miller’s wife ditched the White House, Bongino is a shell of himself, and Hegseth is anxiously wiretapping his own office. All while Putin and Xi eat our lunch. MAGA’s “Alpha Men” are nothing more than a pack of cowardly sissies.

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Trump doing a trade war:

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They are all low-t(rump)

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Trump believing Putin is his friend is both an embarrassment and a threat to our safety. America is watching him get used and manipulated in real time. We welcomed John Bolton on the LP Pod this week to discuss this phenomenon in depth: youtu.be/MzrXo056iKs

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This week’s Elephant in the Room is TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out). Rick highlights the sad truth: Trump started a trade war that he isn’t strong enough or smart enough to win. Watch the episode here: youtu.be/UylTqgDB1VE

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The Trump administration's weekly security breach:

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Author and law professor @leahlitman.bsky.social joins 'A Republic If You Can Keep It' this week to discuss her new book and the perils of Trumpism and the Trumpification of the federal courts. @mbrewerdems.bsky.social Listen and subscribe. Now would be good podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

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Trump can only destroy America if we let him.

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One passed laws for your kids. The other passed his hat for your cash.

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"Well, we are all going to die." --Senator Joni Ernst That has to be the glibbest way any politician has ever told a constituent that they didn’t give a shit about them.

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Interesting piece on the Nazi junkie, strung out on a huge array of drugs seemingly at all times, who effectively destroyed huge sectors of the US government and caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people so far. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

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Is there a 3rd option?

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Ignoring the Constitution = “3-point shot”

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All those old guard conservatives who incrementally moved closer and closer to MAGA are now members of a party that worships a draft dodger, hates NATO, loves Putin, started a trade war, passed record deficits, pardons criminals who beat cops, and hates the Federalist Society.

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It appears that longtime Rudy Giuliani sidekick Bernie Kerik has died.

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The Apology Tour rolls on.

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Construction workers. Right before hurricane season.

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I don’t think Trump trashing Leonard Leo is going to help him with his court cases.

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Fresh out of prison with their Trump pardons, now it’s time for the fraudsters to cash in. MAGA!

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The Dept. of Justice has filed its first voter suppression lawsuit aimed at disenfranchising voters. This is a critical juncture for democracy. Paige and I discuss the implications and how it echoes claims made by failed state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin. youtu.be/8XEW-Ga428M

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Popok: I don’t want to live in a country where I wake up and the president and his henchmen are sending other human beings—and they are outsourcing them for cash. Paying cash to third-world countries that don’t respect our values.

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Breaking news: Contradicting HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC continues to recommend the coronavirus vaccines for healthy children, according to new documentation posted to the agency's website.

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Even before latest thing I've been telling people for months Joni Ernst is way more vulnerable next year than people think. Dems should be investing a lot right now laying the ground work in the state.

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That’s a really bad answer.👇

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Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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I can't wait. I hope to see many of you there. @barbmcquade.bsky.social in conversation with A.G. Loretta Lynch I'll introduce the event. Tuesday night | NYC Launch of McQuade's book on disinformation and American democracy in updated paperback edition. RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/attack-fro...

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The @rollingstone.com hed is a little more direct than the @nytimes.com. 🤡 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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“We’re all going to die” -Woman with government healthcare who is cutting Medicaid

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Want to resist the autocratic forces effectively? Here are some of the lessons I learned from working with those around the world who are standing up to them. Thanks for the support and I hope you will subscribe — it’s free and will always remain so. substack.com/@trygveolson...

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We are governed by a lunatic

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A 14-year-old boy was shot and killed in Florida last week when a group of teens was filming a video with multiple guns and one discharged, but you might not have heard about it because it’s the sort of thing that happens every single day in America. It’s long past time we did something about that.

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BREAKING: DENVER (AP) - Colorado man who threatened election officials sentenced to 3 years in prison, had blamed exposure to online extremism.

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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Trump's pardon remarks: "Very disappointed that they are even considering it, frankly. You know, when the president was shot at in Pennsylvania, I was one of the first people on either side of the aisle to condemn it. We have to condemn political violence."

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Breaking: The Supreme Court just allowed the Trump admin to revoke the temporary legal status of 523,000 immigrants — from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela — that was granted by the Biden admin. Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissented.

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Republican Sen. Joni Ernst just got heckled at a town hall over Medicaid cuts in the GOP budget bill. One attendee appeared to yell out: "People are going to die!" Ernst responded: "Well, we are all going to die."

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Heads up: Trump just said Elon Musk "is not really leaving."

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Desperate and pathetic.

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They never did find Bigfoot

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BREAKING: Bernard Kerik, who served as New York City's police commissioner on 9/11 and later pleaded guilty to tax fraud before being pardoned, has died. He was 69.

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