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This is a very important article to read. You should share it with five people you know today and discuss together what it means. It’s by @radleybalko radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

They’re cutting food inspections and medical research and education and climate forecasting and dismantling anything compiling empirical data because they believe our lives are expendable and nothing compared to their own enrichment and whatever bullshit agenda they push.

It’s time we made it clear. Either the Democratic Party exorcises anyone who is willing to sacrifice people, moves away from leaders who helped build this authoritarian system, or they go the way of the Whigs. This conservatism-in-disguise bullshit helped bring us to this point and it must end.

THREAD. It's important for all people of good will to understand the Laken Riley Act before the Senate votes on it tomorrow. It’s unconstitutional. It’s horrific in every word and clause. But there is a deeper, more imminent violence lurking beneath its hate-filled text.

Russell Vought’s War   New piece, for @theunpopulist.net: Meet one of the architects behind Project 2025 and an ideologue of the “post-constitutional” Right. He desires to vanquish his enemies - and itches to unleash a rightwing “counter-revolution.”   Some thoughts from this piece:

How the fuck is someone posting about shutting down the US government and having secret meetings with foreign and domestic enemies of the US keeping his huge government contracts to run our satellites and space program. Seems—what is the word?—bad.

Especially true in #Florida.