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Here for the news. "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." H. L. Mencken
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Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

"Money spent on conventional manned weapons systems increasingly looks to be as wasted as spending on the cavalry in the 1930s." gift link wapo.st/3Hoj3lX

They promised to root out waste and abuse and found none, and in the process wasted money and abused innocent people. They promised to deport 20 million people but are not getting anywhere near that, so they are desperately arresting anyone they can get their hands on whilst wearing face masks.

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Ukraine could’ve launched the attack on civilian population centers, like Russia does to them daily. Instead, they chose a strictly military target - the very bombers being used to kill Ukrainian civilians. A brilliant operation solely designed to defend their own people.

Early rumors are that up to 40 Russian strategic bombers were destroyed in one of the most audacious operations I’ve ever seen. Get fucked, Vlad.

“We’re not in love with the law” is a pretty good motto for this group

At some point you simply have to become a believer

"Thomas Jefferson said: “‘When the public fears their government, there is tyranny. When the government fears its people, there is liberty.’” Booker said “We the people have to make our politicians fear the consequences of…doing wrong more than fear Donald Trump"

Hiding their faces, hiding their names by using pens to hold their pocket flaps up, hiding their names. ICE agents have “consciousness of guilt,” know they are committing crimes. They need to be unmasked, named, and charged #UnmaskICE

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if it takes years, has to be consequences for all these people, and even more for those who gave the orders.

how it sounds arguing with die hard capitalists.

From The New Republic’s Michael Tomasky, in his article yesterday, “The Only ‘Judicial Coup’ in This Country Is By Trump Against Judges.” “It’s funny. But it’s worth noting that Trump doesn’t always chicken out. Most of the time, he just loses.

“.. these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Desperate and pathetic.

Phenomenal piece by @michellegoldberg.bsky.social here. (Gift link)

In some ways an even worse indictment than the use of AI is that simply having a couple of humans read and fact check the report before release cld have mostly or entirely removed the evidence. Just sloppy dumbfucks, basically. The guys who are getting rid of all the vaccines.

Republicans have so diminished the value of truth in our society that this will have no impact on public approval of Trump. His backers either enjoy his lies or are utterly unaware of what's happening around them. It's up to the rest of us, decent people, to reject a government built on fraud.

How did we get to this: If farmers support it, it's probably bad for the land. If Christians support it, it's probably bad for the poor. If CEOs support it, it's probably bad for business We are in the upside down timeline.

If according to the Unitary Executive theory, all executive powers are concentrated in the president, and also that the president is absolutely immune for official acts, then the executive branch is effectively above the law.

Fake citations are a sign of an AI product

If you know anything about RFK Jr the fact that he falsified the MAHA report should not surprise you in the least.

More of this please

I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t. Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...

Kamala is spot on

Kamala Harris on “the big, beautiful bill:” “It’s an agenda...a narrow, self-serving vision of America...where they punish truth tellers, favor loyalists, profit from their power, and leave everyone else to fend for themselves.” Nailed it! 🔥

This checks and balances / separation of powers thing really doesn’t work when the majority in congress doesn’t agree with it.

#ResistanceRoots Today is Nothing to Fear Day, an annual observance inspired by FDR’s first inaugural address. FDR declared “that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” /1

Might I suggest that the fact that folks are continually surprised when their friends or family get detained by ICE despite this pretty clearly being administration policy is indicative of both a failure to curate information diets, but also a media failure?

" . . . I think sheer insanity now rules America. We have gone mad, and the consequence is that sanity now feels itself like a disorder." www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...

"How did a man who admitted he has brain damage from a worm and who has spent decades spreading deadly disinformation about the efficacy of modern medicine become the head of our nation’s health services? " www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...

Systemic protections and guardrails are essential to a functioning society. Nature understands this even if oligarchs don't.

Remember when I said to look up "competitive authoritarian regimes" and how autocrats "rule by law" (which they control) instead of following the "rule of law" (which binds them), here we are: May 27, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

They don’t even bother badly lying anymore. They’re doing their crimes right out in the open. That’s how little they think of us.

Vladimir Putin is a sworn enemy of the United States. Appeasement was never going to work. Why is that so difficult to understand?