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Trump's just proving my point (once again):

These MAGA fascists bitched and railed against big government for years, but now that they’re in charge with no guardrails, they want to weaponize the force of our democratic government to bend the country towards their twisted worldview. Well, we the people of the United States say fuck that.

The COVID Crew🤮 It’s Wednesday. There are 524 days until the midterm elections. Pardons for sale, covid has friends in high places and Putin’s pal spills the beans.

Trump’s campaign strategy in every election has been spectacle. He knows that attention matters more than anything else, including truth or substance, and he has been the focal point of America’s attention for a decade. He doesn’t care what’s right or true, he cares what’s useful to him, for him.

State media’s answer to Scott Pelley expressing his righteous concerns about the threat to our freedom of speech, is to use the power of the federal government to go after Pelley’s media company. Weaponizing the power of government to go after critics is how weak, snowflake fascists behave.

So a respected journalist warned the nation that the Trump administration is a threat to free speech and, true to form, its state media outlet warns that there will now surely be retribution by the administration against that same journalist and his network for his act of free speech.

This would be a great time for @dougjones.bsky.social to make another run at an Alabama Senate seat. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Spent hours working on this post and RFK just...tweeted it out. abcnews.go.com/Politics/rfk...

Another day, another scandal under Hegseth. This is not silly stuff like Hegseth using taxpayer funds for a Pentagon makeup studio. The allegation here is an illegal wiretap. If they used an illegal wiretap on a senior official, you think they wouldn’t hesitate to use it on you?

Liberalism is a fighting faith. Fight for your free liberal democracy. So many already died to create it.

BREAKING: Scott Pelley just risked everything to make one thing clear: The attack on free speech isn’t coming—it’s already here. Journalists are being silenced, critics are being punished, and most of the media’s playing dead. This is state-sponsored suppression. This is dictatorship in real time.

Yeah that is đź’Ż not how it works.

Are they practicing their Hollywood “hard” walk? 🤣

Investigators found a note inside a Russian drone that outlined a new control algorithm. The note revealed that the drones are now controlled through Telegram bots, which transmit real-time flight data and video to operators.b (UNITED24)

It's important to know the warning signs.

He has a point…

How a normal president posts on social media for Memorial Day…

You know… Important life advice that you really need to hear directly from the POTUS, and in a “commencement speech” no less at one of our military university’s graduation ceremonies.

Trump pardoning Joe Exotic so he can go to Mexico to earn $5 million to buy his deported husband US citizenship would be the most 2025 MAGA thing ever.

Power is for those who wield it on behalf of everyone except themselves. Voters must realize asap that selfish, capricious people make terrible decisions and are terrible leaders. Criticize a leader and the way he or she reacts will tell you whether or not that person should even be in charge.

"In a month, Afghans may be deported back to the government that remains allied with al Qaeda. We asked for their help... and at infinite personal risk, they gave it. Then we offered our help, giving them a safe place to live—and now we’re going back on our word." www.thebulwark.com/p/this-memor...

Donald Trump marked Memorial Day with a bitter, grievance-filled screed attacking judges, immigrants, and his political rivals—and did not even mention the men and women who gave their lives in service to our country.

Trump is always in his evil version of campaign mode because that’s all he knows how to do. -He can’t unite -He can’t govern competently -He can’t lead -He can’t empathize or relate -He can’t even make it through one post on Memorial Day without going off into some crazy, unhinged rant

Yes that’s right… He’s surprised that a brutal dictator is acting just like a brutal dictator. Morons gonna moron…

I still can’t believe Jesse Watters, a blow-dried manicured made-up soft little TV guy whose hands probably feel like pillows, thinks he’s in a position to proclaim what Real Men can do.

Grifters gonna grift: the 220 winners of the contest to attend the dinner spent $394 million on Trump’s official cryptocurrency. www.nbcnews.com/tech/crypto/...

NEW: All Texas public elementary or secondary schools “must display in a conspicuous place in each classroom of the school a durable poster or framed copy of the Ten Commandments.” Bring on the lawsuits!! www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

BREAKING: The far right extremist group, Patriot Front, is marching in Kansas City, Missouri. Remember when MAGA claimed they were Feds and the FBI. Do they now claim that these people are being led by Kash Patel?

There was simply zero need for masked, armed, unidentified agents to kidnap RĂĽmeysa Ă–ztĂĽrk off the street. It was a blatant intimidation tactic by an authoritarian administration, plain and simple.

The result of Trump’s and Putin’s 2 hour call! substack.com/@levparnas?r...

There’s always some MAGA bullshit explanation…

Do you think the masses will ever figure out how badly the billionaires are exploiting and manipulating them?

HARVARD PROF David Armitage: “We’re being made an example of by Trump — authoritarians across the world go for the universities first, because they’re set up for freedom of thought and provide critical opposition.”

Correct, Harvard today the rest of the universities tomorrow

Pretty much…

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"European officials have approached negotiations as though they are reasoning with an ally." Instead, Trump's team is pressing for "one-way offers" and has "implied this is not a give and take. It is just a take." This was Zelensky's mistake. Stop pretending the US under Trump is an ally. It's not.

This is a massive redistribution of wealth — from poor people, to defense contractors and private prison execs. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Maybe new in US history, but in a previous time they were called the Gestapo.

Aka a fucking police state! Why did people vote for this shit?

This is deeply disgusting. Wearing his pathetic campaign hat to the West Point graduation.