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The same crowd screaming about “cancel culture” is actively trying to legislate which books can be read, what history can be taught, who can perform in drag, and who gets to exist safely in public. That’s not just cancel culture — that’s state-sponsored suppression.

DJT’s regime is going to war with our own people on our own soil on the whims of a fascist elected by a minority of all Americans. If you can justify ICE being more dressed for combat to target people of color than those serving abroad, you are part of the problem. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Mx5Khc/

So now, as fiscal hawks (some ironically) panic over the budget math behind donald’s regime’s latest tax cut stunt, Musk suddenly positions himself as the voice of restraint? Musk & Co. helped light the country on fire and then turned off the water while yelling, “This place is a fire hazard!”

Dictators and authoritarianism don’t arrive in a single violent coup – they seep in through a thousand tiny capitulations. We are witnessing the decline of our formerly great America. Donald’s regime has destroyed it to rebuild a sycophantic nepotistic hunger games where he is the Dictator.

“Habeas corpus is the legal principle that requires the government to provide a public reason for detaining and imprisoning people. If not for that protection, the government could simply arrest people, including American citizens, and hold them indefinitely for no reason.”

Sadly, we just can’t make this stuff. It’s disturbing, alarming, and incredibly dangerous when society is being run by preening performative idiots and high-ranking officials can’t define the core principles they’re sworn to uphold. youtu.be/qPK41OPq6VY?...

donald apparently doesn’t understand basic business concepts. Yes, Walmart made billions in revenue. But revenue isn’t profit. • In 2024, WMT revenue $648 billion. • Net income was just $17 billion of that $648b. • Net profit margin of ~2.6%. So for every $100 in sales, Walmart keeps just $2.60.

Suggesting that the president can command military operations against individuals within U.S. borders for immigration enforcement veers into Posse Comitatus Act territory. This law prohibits the use of the U.S. military for domestic law enforcement unless explicitly authorized by Congress.

With Baraka’s arrest, we’re witnessing the consolidation of a federal shadow regime – shielded by private contractors, unaccountable to local elected officials, and driven by coercive federalism that punishes cities for protecting human rights or demanding transparency. 2/2 • Baraka vs Shadow Regime

Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested for trying to inspect a detention center in his own city. Run by private prison GEO Group under ICE federal oversight, Delaney Hall refuses local involvement (claiming federal jurisdiction) and blocks transparency into detainee conditions. 1/2 • Baraka vs Shadow Regime

Grok is less a chatbot and more a beta propaganda tool, trained allegedly as “truth-seeking” but structurally aligned to Musk’s cultural and political views. SEC filing shows Musk consolidating biotech, AI, space, and social media in a singular structure with little oversight or public transparency.

When your ‘ethics reviewer’ collected $115K/month from a country now ‘gifting’ YOU a $400M jet, it’s not diplomacy – it’s a loyalty program. It’s not a banana republic corruption – it’s white-collar autocracy. This is what happens when government is run like a grift, and oversight is neutered.

Laughable that people really think he’s gonna just let it sit in his presidential “library” after he’s done ruining the world. Donnie just can’t admit he wants a free luxury “gift” plane at the expense of taxpayers. In return for what, Qatar? www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... What?! You mean Musk and Zuck and other billionaires cozying up to donald aren’t doing it out of civic virtue or the goodness of their hearts? They’re doing it for regulatory capture, ego protection, and unchecked influence? Gasp.

“The rise of unapologetic assholes is, I think, a disturbing trend. It’s a celebration of the worst aspects of human behavior.”

Pure hypocrisy. DJT has long manipulated due process as his own weapon for personal protection and retaliation – frivolous lawsuits, endless appeals, phantom audits, public attacks on judges and prosecutors. At the end of the day, it’s {for} rich {men only}. Just rich. apnews.com/article/trum...

When fragile egos or partisan grudges override public interest, it’s not just bad governance – it’s a betrayal of those relying on them for protection in a broken housing system. The fact that a basic accountability and transparency measure can’t pass speaks volumes. calmatters.org/politics/202...

Supposedly we can’t afford to help US families. But somehow we can afford to break America, trash over a century of collective wisdom, erase generations of human progress... DOTUS’s regime is making us more INefficient just to funnel BILLION$ more to billionaires and stroke their rich man delusions.

So. DOTUS wants to spend MORE money to incarcerate one person in an outdated historical landmark than spend the SAME amount to support our farmers, educate kids, feed families, or support an entire low-income household? A prison originally shut because it cost 3X more than other prisons IN 1960’s??

Words shape memory. Memory shapes history. History shapes what we’re willing to tolerate — or to resist. This regime is kidnapping humans, stripping rights, rewriting history in the image of cruelty and control. If we don’t call it what it is, history will — and history is not kind to the silent.

Sanitizing brutality with “normal” language allows history’s darkest chapters to repeat unnoticed. Authoritarianism won’t always announce itself. It creeps in through normalization — kidnappings become policy debates, “officials” wrap cruelty in legal jargon, public fatigue blunts moral outrage.

What is happening under DOTUS isn’t an “administration.” It is a regime — an authoritarian regime cloaked in the hollow rituals of democracy. People are not being “deported.” They are being kidnapped. Lynched. Torn from their lives, disappeared into detention centers. Used as political weapons.

One Wall Street analyst recently described the U.S. as an emerging market economy – a reality slap to the face of American exceptionalism. It’s a term usually reserved for countries run by strongmen, riddled with institutional decay, and prone to currency chaos. Welcome to the circus.

The sheer volume of stupid insanity coming out of DOTUS is staggering and overwhelming. So many false flags and smoke and mirror noise to shift through. DOTUS somehow bought and is promoting a $5M visa that’s unapproved by Congress, has no legal basis, and dismisses US tax law to attract oligarchs?

Let it not be said that we were overtaken by greatness. Let it be remembered that we were undone by a man who mistook ego for empire – whose unraveling of the world was performatively livestreamed, punctuated by bad grammar, insecure hands, and rabid cronyism.

Fun Finance Friday Fact! High inflation helps government and the 1%. It devalues debt (even national) so it’s cheaper to repay. Meanwhile the rich own assets that inflate nicely. Your groceries go up, their portfolios do too. Funny how that works – and how many of the 1% are the government now.

A target was confirmed entering his girlfriend’s building, which was then bombed. Was the building residential? Were civilians inside? Did they follow international humanitarian law? (e.g., proportionality, necessity, distinction) Does this constitute a war crime given the green light by POTUS?

If U.S. officials coordinated and launched airstrikes via a Signal group chat – without Congress, using a civilian app, and with a journalist accidentally looped in – did we just declare war without telling the American people?

This Signal breach surpasses previous scandals – Clinton’s emails, Iran-Contra, the Pentagon Papers, even Snowden’s NSA leaks – in terms of real-time wartime action, chain-of-command bypass, and casual handling of OPSEC at the top levels of power.

To be clear, there is no direct precedent in modern U.S. history where: • sitting high-level officials, • coordinated wartime operations unsanctioned by Congress, • used an unapproved civilian consumer platform, • and then had those communiques leaked to the public by inadvertently inviting media.

In case your news sources aren’t showing you international responses to far right takeovers and this historical repeat of authoritarianism: Protests against the far right in the EU parliament, Germany & Serbia. youtu.be/WqxmaplGvzY?... www.newsweek.com/musk-afd-pro... www.msn.com/en-za/news/o...

International perspective and support www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8FEmndu/

This. A thousand times, this.

If TT is now Meta in sheep’s clothing then goodbye TikTok. Not supporting Zuck’s quasi-monopoly only to be manipulated by the 3 stooges: Zucky, Musky and donald. Investigate their antitrust issues. TT was a safe alternative to other toxic social sites. Putting it under their control makes it toxic.

With TikTok banned, Meta gains a significant advantage, consolidating a dominant position in the social media market in many regions, especially the U.S. This gives Meta with a quasi-monopoly on short-form video content, as few others have the scale or reach to replace TikTok in the USA.

And … in other news, from the world of people who don’t care about integrity or accountability or community or society… UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism www.propublica.org/article/unit...

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield is hosting training tomorrow in the OR for us to learn how to have patients bite on a stick when the anesthesia time clock ends

Oh dear what a shame. 🤣