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Authoritarian leaders often engage in "pardon sprees" not out of mercy—but as a deliberate tool to consolidate power, reward loyalty, punish enemies, and erode public trust in democratic systems. These patterns have repeated throughout history across different countries and regimes. (1/16)

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“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” ~Winston Churchill We remember all who gave everything. 🤍

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I knew this was going happen soon. And it did.. time.com/7266334/us-h...

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ICE is Trump's Gestapo. We are no longer living in a democracy. Anyone who thinks there will be free and fair elections in 2026 or that Trump will leave office in January 2029 is delusional. www.jsonline.com/story/news/b...

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"To think you can make a man richer by putting on a tax is like a man thinking that he can stand in a bucket and lift himself up by the handle." - Winston Churchill about tariffs

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German businesses heard a similar pitch in 1940. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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#2025playlist

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POINT OF ORDER: I just can’t let this go. I won’t let this go. Four service members died and our president, our leader, has said nothing. They died in Europe and Europeans honored our fallen solders. Our president, vice president, crickets. I’m disgusted still.

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There’s no good case to be made for a MAGA foreign policy. If there was, then someone in the president's circle would be able to articulate it clearly and without contradiction. New from Matt Johnson:

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🧵Please click through - this thread really captures the problems that the Signal chat exposes, and how obvious the administration's flagrant disregard for human life is. Thank you, @altusmc.altgov.info, you said it far better than I could.

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This is a ridiculous load of crap from JD Vance. You know who is truly not a good ally? It’s us. You know how to solve a national security problem? Fire those leaking classified war plans. You know how to put Americans first? It’s definitely not by taking Greenland through force.

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This is the best use of 2 minutes and 15 seconds of your time today! Please watch it yourself and then share it. 💗

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Trump is urging GOP lawmakers to defund PBS "immediately". He's not the first right-wing crook to wage war on public broadcasting. Here's what national treasure Fred Rogers told Congress in 1969 when Richard Nixon tried to gut PBS.

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🥲

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In case you’ve forgotten how we used to treat this sort of thing… There would be bipartisan calls for investigations Impeachment would be a foregone conclusion Several people would’ve resigned or been fired by end of day Back when responsible adults were in charge, not this insane clown posse

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Look, we are talking about a dipshit who almost killed someone with axe on live TV.

submitted 70 days ago • 461 comments

I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

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We were told not to share this publicly, but last year was record-breaking—America’s national parks saw over 331 million visits.

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Would love to see this. South Africa has been on my mind lately. Song off of my playlist Peter Gabriel’s “Biko” #2025playlist

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I’m just another nobody…1 of millions…

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Recently moved to this district and she has my support!

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music.apple.com/us/album/rad... #2025playlist

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Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows. youtu.be/xu8u9ZbCJgQ

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Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of billionaires.

submitted 80 days ago • 169 comments

Feeling a little rage the last couple of days. #2025playlist youtube.com/watch?v=9Hdq...

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"To throw something directly at the entire European Union, it just represents a big hand, little map approach to national security." @markhertling.bsky.social talks Trump's trade policies, such as they are, with Tim Miller on today's Bulwark Podcast:

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Exactly

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There are times when you must speak, not because you are going to change the opposing side, but because if you do not speak, they have changed you.

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If you are able to make it to any state capital, on 3-14-25, please do. If you can't, put the word out and support each other through continued boycotts and any other way you can. Stand for each other. No matter how. #TheAlliedForces

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Might save a life.

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"I don’t think Vance—or Trump, for that matter—really understands Putin’s burning hostility toward all Americans, especially American leaders." Or what he's doing to Ukrainians. @nataliaantonova.bsky.social on America's betrayal of Ukraine:

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Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

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And now this…👇 Angry yet?! This. Once. Great. Country. Is. Weeping. ✨

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