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By the way, the US striking Iran’s nuclear facilities and infrastructure gives Russia the green light to strike Ukraine’s nuclear facilities & infrastructure. This is another reason it’s forbidden under international law. Trump is escalating danger everywhere.

Viewer tips: If you're looking for Iran news on mainstream TV, BBC right now is SO much better than any of the US outlets. Dramatic, and should be studied in journalism world.

MSNBC dug up the clip of former Trump Sec Def Mark Esper saying that Trump asked him in 2020 to shoot protesters -- an order Pete Hegseth wouldn't rule out following if Trump asked him to do it today

“A U.S. citizen!” And now he’s missing. Adrian Martinez tried to defend a man ICE was harassing. Video shows six agents swarming him. He struggles but doesn’t lay hands on them. They take him to the ground & shove him into a CBP vehicle. Abuse of power. Keep recording. Don’t stop. (1 of 2)

Trump is alone, humiliated, surrounded by loser supporters, and extremely angry. This is when he'll be at his most dangerous and will do as much as possible to hurt America and the world.

"It wasn’t Ottawa that laid them off, cut their pay, froze the minimum wage, drove up electricity and insurance costs, and put their health care at risk. It was the enemy within."

We won’t amplify it, but the president posting that Dems are “sick of mind” and “hate our country” immediately after 2 Dem lawmakers and their spouses were shot in their homes is the opposite of leadership. Gas on the fire.

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, *massive.*

Be forewarned that “most entertaining” to a malignant narcissist is most deceptive, manipulative, petty, juvenile, depraved, destructive, subversive, exploitative, criminal, violent and sadistic.

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

This is an important reminder: even the LAPD acknowledged yesterday that everything was peaceful. Then Trump brought the chaos. He is responsible.

The Los Angeles Police Department has stated that demonstrations in the city have remained peaceful. Let that sink in.

Mary Oliver, always on point.

Multiple North American-based organizations have chosen to relocate their upcoming conferences — either partially or fully— after members express safety concerns about travel to the U.S.

I just read “Strongmen” by @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Everything that this administration has done so far or wants to do has been done by numerous authoritarians over and over. The current WH occupant seems to be following portions of the playbooks of Mussolini and Burlesconi (Italy).

Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social scholar of authoritarianism and author of ‘Strongmen: from Mussolini to the present’, analyses the rapid shift towards authoritarianism, personality cult, strongmen machismo and the potential for a female strongman. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUMA...

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Canada votes on Monday! As you scroll this weekend, double-check before you click or share. Not everything online is what it looks like. A little lateral reading goes a long way! #CanPoli #cndpoli #cdnpoli

The worst form of addiction that this country now faces is the greed of the oligarchy.

When the moment came, Harvard didn’t hedge or flinch—it stood up. A reminder that integrity isn’t complicated, it’s just rare.

Trump as malignant narcissist will try to silence and destroy any person or entity who criticizes him, exposes him or holds him to account because they narcissistically injure his idealized self (a fabrication to hide his conscienceless defectiveness and compromised humanity).

Guys, guys, guys. It’s not math. It’s not finance. It’s not economics. It’s all about psychology. Abnormal psychology. Read the DSM-5’s chapters on Cluster B personality disorders. And then it all becomes clear. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/b...

I’m old enough to remember when I took out a full-page ad in the New York Times last fall to publish a letter signed by 225 mental-health professionals saying that Trump’s severe personality disorders made him destructive and dangerous.

Am I depressed because of what's happening or am I depressed because of the people who somehow didn't see it coming? Both. It's both.

Just a legal historian here reminding everyone that “high crimes and misdemeanors” do not need to be felonies. They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days.

He DOES have enormous power. He DOES have immunity. He IS an injured narcissist AND a sociopath. As long as those who gave him enormous power remain fine with it, and those who gave him immunity remain fine with it, and as long as he is normalized and his disorders ignored, we will have ... THIS.

The tariff stuff is a global poop and scoop scam, but instead of false information lowering stock prices, Trump is just destroying the economy with stupid tariffs to make everything easy for the oligarchs to buy www.investopedia.com/terms/p/poop...

Don’t flatter yourself sunshine, your destruction is a means and a bonus, not a goal. The goal of the US left, as I understand it, is to introduce universal health care, labor, housing, minority and environmental protection, manage immigration humanely and make billionaires pay fair taxes.

Canadian MP Charlie Angus: I am here today to urge Canadians to avoid travel to the United States if at all possible and to call on our government to stand up for our citizens who are being denied their rights through arbitrary detention in the United States.

Kill Tesla, Save The Country open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

Use our "X Misleading and Manipulated Media Dashboard" to see other examples of fake Mark Carney pics. (Just type Carney or Grok into the search bar.) cn.deepfakestracker.org

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

need you to constantly remind yourself that the average normal person has no idea that any of the stuff we are rightly getting upset about is going on. they dont know. and we need to do everything we individually can to make them know.

“In October of 2024, just before the election, … NPR …they looked it up and they said, ‘… over 100 times, [Trump] has threatened to prosecute his enemies.’ This is Donald Trump. We are at stage four megalomania. He is just doing what he has always told us he wants to do.”

‘I feel utter anger’: From Canada to Europe, a movement to boycott US goods is spreading www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

One of these things is not like the other.

“Frightened for the safety of their families.” America, 2025.

I don't know who this guy is but he's absolute right.

Trudeau: "He talked about banking again today in a tweet, which doesn't make any sense because 16 banks are currently active in Canada holding about $113b worth of assets in this country... what he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy, because that'll make it easier to annex us."

Trudeau: "Every country is very aware that if the American government is willing to do this to their own closest ally, neighbor, and friend, everyone is vulnerable to a trade war."

Trudeau: "They're talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin- a lying, murderous, dictator. Make that make sense. Canadians are reasonable and we are polite. But we will not back down from a fight...Canada will be implementing 25% tariffs against $155b of American goods."

Major US retailers warn Americans will pay more because of Trump’s trade war with top partners, report says – live