I heard Dahlia Lithwick on Amicus say (paraphrasing) that we’ve gone beyond a constitutional crisis; at this point it’s more like the failure of the rule of law 😬
Never thought that the US would be on this list... Probably, should have because of the 🔫 v*olence... But for the US government to actively & willingly v*olate their own people's constitutional & human rights... Can't wrap my mind about that accurate fact, but here we are...
Yo Ben a few things, one where is the democrat UFO policy? UFO secrecy is an ideological underbelly to the fascist administration. Use it.
Second, where is the shadow cabinet? Like the sound of a national strike. A dem organized national strike is a fantastic idea. Now you guys are cooking.
What’s up with the guy running the DNC? Did they find him at the Lackluster Emporium? He seems like everything that’s wrong with the democrats…in human form. 🤷♀️
Absolutely not. Call everybody! Don’t scream into the void ! Yell at staff members! Make your voice heard! Be angry and stay angry! Call state reps. Call congressional reps. Call senators. Do anything that can possibly make a difference!
No! That anger is also coming a from a place of white male privilege. If a Venezuelan mother cried & screamed for her child back in jail cell, she'd get raped or injected. The same strategy cannot be used for a different position. Use YOUR position of power!- not all of us can do that!
Not sure exactly what position of power you’re referring to. I was speaking to fellow Americans to call their reps and senators. I understand your position, but being a minority myself I will still make noise no matter the risk. Because I could not live with myself being quiet.
If you're looking to politicians to save you, you're wasting time. For the most part, they're not heroes. They're paper pushers, lawyers. You flood the town halls and rattle your Reps, stop buying non necessities and cost the billionaires money, or hope the military stands for the constitution.
The Dem party should be messaging on this every single day. I see ads for the Republican Party every day blaming everything bad on Biden, pumping up their party. The incumbent Reps started running for 2026 months ago. Not a SINGLE peep from Dems. Squandering the opportunity they have to fight back.
But @kenmartin.bsky.social , the DNC, and the majority of democratic elected officials are woefully under reacting. Where is the messaging?!? The opposition has gift wrapped an endless supply of talking point. Wish you were the chairman!
We’re under reacting by a long shot. Trumps incompetence can’t save us. THIS time they are playing three dimensional chess because the oligarchs who are running the show thought everything through. The pace at which they’re destroying every institution that we rely on is just breathtaking
Gay and Josh are putting up a strong fight. I don't know much about the districts, so I don't know which national figures should be speaking at their rallies.
This slimy asshat is committing crime, yet again!
He knows these judges are our last line of defense, so he's using his power and money to rig another election. Please mobilize and spread awareness!
Wisconsin, let's vote and support Judge Crawford! @crawfordforwi.bsky.social
That’s because @kenmartin.bsky.social and other Dems are failing us again. Have YOU helped? There are letters to write and calls to make and $$$ to be donated.
My team is still recruiting more canvassers and phone bankers. We have even had amazing volunteers from ALASKA and HAWAII phone banking. https://JoshWeil.us/get-involved/
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Don’t be an under-reactor, help secure democracy:
1) peacefully protest en-masse
2) vote in all local, state, & federal elections
3) go to town-halls, call reps to complain
4) volunteer to help get Weil & Valimont elected in the April 1, 2025 Florida special election. https://www.mobilize.us/?q=Weil%20valimont
Except for Bernie and AOC, most Dem politicians seem to be sitting on their decorum. When the new head of the DNC appeared recently on MSNBC I realized nothing is going to change. They are never going to switch from fundraising, which is drying up fast, to organizing. Sad.
I was thinking last night. Am I overreacting? As a woman, all my life was ‘you’re overreacting’ ‘calm down’ ‘be quiet’. No more doubt. I feel like a feral monkey, time to let her out. 🙊
Let's do this with every county in every state with every Democrat. Hold empty chair town halls in every R district. Have rallies in every state. Get the word out to EVERYONE!
Thank you - Tried to talk to my husband who cannot get to this side at all yesterday - only to be told "he didnt agree with some things the past administration did either". He is completely missing the moment and the timeline we are in
I broke up with my bf of 5 years, two weeks ago. He’s shown me that he has really discriminatory views. Our conversations about the current state of America infuriated me because of his unfounded, uneducated opinions. He yelled at my father over trans rights, and I broke up with him the next day.
I feel this. I live with a Dumper. Believe me when I say we don’t talk politics either lol. Every other red hat has been excised from my life. Working on the current one.
I have a huge political disagreement on one topic with my nephew. On everything else he's as liberal as I am. But it's a very important issue.
Don't see him that often but it's so uncomfortable when I do.
I can't imagine being around him all the time.
We need an action plan. Something thought out that we as Americans can do. Vote every election. Call your Reps in House & Senate & WH and let them know what you expect them to do. Some are boycotting products others are protesting at offices of their reps or in Washington. What else can we do?
Correct, but our Democratic leaders are under reacting. Looking at you @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @fetterman.senate.gov @gallego.senate.gov @shaheen.senate.gov!
Did I say that?!? What I’m saying is that the Democrats have a 21% approval rating right now and I seriously doubt the people in Florida are going to be inspired by Chuck Schumer showing up.
Ben Wikler and the rest of the Democratic Party, specifically, are under reacting. This should be a moment for mass recruitment to labor unions, setting up parallel institutions to replace things like the Department of Education, and monitoring federal agents, and they are... protesting. Sometimes.
This is happening BECAUSE they know the TRUTH would finish them. Evade all accountability and any consequences, and now we're in a race against time.
UNITE NOW
I’m hoping we learn as a country that we are not that exceptional and keep our country. 🤞 One of my favorite sayings has always been, “you’re special, you’re not that special”. It works in so many situations. 👍 Sometimes those words leave my mouth. 🤦♀️🤷♀️
That’s because @kenmartin.bsky.social and other Dems are failing us again. Have YOU helped? There are letters to write and calls to make and $$$ to be donated.
Hey @benwikler.bsky.social wth is being done to stop Elon and all the money he's pumping into our SC race?! He's paying people $100 to sign a petition to vote for Schimel! Isn't that illegal af?!
Every time I try to express my feelings about what is happening day after day, it makes me cry. Literally cry. I hate what is happening to our country.
Me too. I keep telling my family I need to leave this country. But to where? And to potentially never see my extended family/friends again? My heart is just broken.
This is definitely a possibility, hopefully we would be welcomed. I wouldn’t hold it against any country to say - nope, keep moving.
I think so many of us are shell shocked at the speed the destruction is happening.
Agreed! I try to talk to people and they dismiss my legit concerns like it’s all just going to blow over. Or, they say that nothing can be done. They need get off their asses and join me at local protests and in boycotting. They still use FB, IG, Amazon. Everywhere I turn, it gets more dark. 💔💙
For several generations we have had it so easy, politically, in the US… it takes time to believe this is really happening and then most need to figure out What to do. Everyone start locally and network to learn.
Good because I don't think I'm over reacting when I say our election system is under attack and asking what are the Democrats and you doing to draw the public's attention to that fact and, above all, make sure our voting system is not compromised.
For those who are trying to show others they are under reacting check out Meidas Touch - will show you what’s really happening that main stream media can’t or won’t
Elected Republicans in Congress & the Senate have definitely been underreacting to their party's alarmingly worsening reputation getting further & further irreparably ruined by the admitted fascist treasonous traitors in the White House...
I've been told that, I never believed I was. It didn't slow me down a bit. At least some now know to keep their mouths shut or bring receipts, or don't talk politics.
Schizophrenic America. Snow White premieres, Citi Bank Double Cash Card $200 cash back, unvaccinated child dies of Measles, horoscopes, Aldi Cheese recall, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, NBA Draft, Nascar race. SO many clamouring distractions, with our perilous democracy of no concern not on the radar….
Yeah but SOME of us who are actually in a position of extreme influence over one of our two political parties and could be rallying people against fascism definitely ARE under reacting.
And yes I am staring you directly in the eyes without blinking the entire time I say that.
Well not YOU, but @kenmartin.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov and @fetterman.senate.gov is just an asshole betraying his donors and volunteers and constituents.
It’s never been about efficiency. It’s tearing down the US strength, security, economy, health and education for the benefit of the tinpot war criminal and allow the uberrich to pick up assets cheap
Wouldn't refusing to pay out taxes be a legitimate peaceful option at this point? I really want to torch some Teslas, but, if that's the way the left goes with this aren't we giving the right ammunition?
Right. I frequently find myself reaching for just one more perspective, maybe a glimmer of hope, just a slightly more insightful explanation. But then, I ram into the same hard cold reality that this is real, I’m not overreacting, and even our highest level experts haven’t got this one handled.
All but one House Democrat voted against the CR.
But 10 Democratic (incl 1 independent) senators voted the wrong way on cloture allowing the CR to pass.
The House is getting the message.
Now let's make sure those 10 in the Senate get it.
You are under-reacting
I’m sorry that you profit from the government, unfortunately, we need to be bankrupting Trump at this point which means bank bankrupt the federal government, you might not like it, but it’s what needs to happen.
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I complete agree Trump is dangerous, but I we need to look beyond him. Even if he is no longer president , for whatever reason.. there is a line of people standing behind him who are just as bad if not worse.
I believe everything with Trump is frontal lobe. Whatever he hears last sticks in his brain,especially if it resonates with his thinking. We saw that time & again during those stupid Covid briefings.
Remember when Brian Stetler told us all that we were overreacting about Roe? Good times. (He deleted that shit the day that they overturned Roe without comment.)
Yup. If I've learned anything in the last 10 years of this garbage, the folks who are comfortable are the biggest cowards on the planet. I'm not praising poverty, but I learned how to stand up for myself and my neighbors before I was 10. Bullies only respond to strength.
I was laughed at, in a rather rude tone, by a Poli Sci Professor who thought I was insane for saying SCOTUS would overturn Roe after Kavanaugh was selected, because he said 'it's settled law'. He could not conceive of the possibility SCOTUS might not give a shit about that.
Trump is idiot, easily manipulated psychologically and controlled. Just look how Putin is playing him.
Putin is old school KGB (CIA equivalent). He probably had a lot of psy ops training.
We're not pissed enough! Putin is planning on spending America's 250th birthday at a BBQ in the paved over Rose Garden at the White House and all of our elderly and disabled people will be dead and whoever is left will be living in a 3rd world country.
GET FUCKING PISSED OFF!!!
This makes it all so dark. The fact that America wouldn’t make it to 250yrs and will instead celebrate what, would have been a significant milestone, under the ruling of an autocratic tyrant, with democracy and civil liberties destroyed and vile oligarchs running the government.
If we know their goals are to destroy something so damn sacred--let it light a fire in your belly. It feels dark. It FEELS scary. But they own the "narrative" and have turned up the fear factor. We OUTNUMBER them--we are SMARTER than them--and we are kinder. We will win--but only together.
DamnKim- thAnkh Yew sow much for sharing my scry. I am proud of you for advocating against evil and it is an honor to follow you. I look forward to reading and sharing more of your work as well. May the force be with you; the power of the people! (Graphic by MoeButterflyArt on Etsy). <3
Thank you. I just assumed it was bc I have boobs. Every other day I say something I think this regime is gonna do. I’m told that I’m “hysterical…dark…alarmist” then they do it and I’m told well it won’t affect you personally. And that is how most of the liberals in my life respond. 😞
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Trump regime flights of Venezuelans to El Salvador land in a constitutional crisis: https://slate.com/podcasts/amicus/2025/03/trump-regime-flights-of-venezuelans-to-el-salvador-land-in-a-constitutional-crisis?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=traffic&utm_source=article&utm_content=web_share
Democrats in Congress aren't reacting enough
Second, where is the shadow cabinet? Like the sound of a national strike. A dem organized national strike is a fantastic idea. Now you guys are cooking.
Self care. Drink lots of water. Do what you need to do.
They didn’t listen to what he was saying and have tuned out everything going on.
That’s why a shutdown was so pivotal.
Truly.
He knows these judges are our last line of defense, so he's using his power and money to rig another election. Please mobilize and spread awareness!
Wisconsin, let's vote and support Judge Crawford! @crawfordforwi.bsky.social
https://JoshWeil.us/get-involved/
Want to see a difference? Then help make a difference! ✊🇺🇲
Dems need to unite under one clear message…
https://www.mobilize.us/?q=Weil%20valimont
1) peacefully protest en-masse
2) vote in all local, state, & federal elections
3) go to town-halls, call reps to complain
4) volunteer to help get Weil & Valimont elected in the April 1, 2025 Florida special election.
https://www.mobilize.us/?q=Weil%20valimont
#YouAreNotOverreacting
#WeAreNotOverreacting
Don't see him that often but it's so uncomfortable when I do.
I can't imagine being around him all the time.
But Democratic leadership is clearly under-reacting.
Anything you can do about that, or are they starting to understand?
We are headed to a very dark period.
UNITE NOW
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Systemic destruction of all Standards and Precedent.
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Systemic destruction of all opposition.
King47 will live long after you have forgotten how they eliminated Trump.
The least violent way this ends is if 218 representatives and 67 senators step up SOON.
I think most people are under reacting.
The Russian assets, Apartheid Musk and the felon and their loyalists all need to go!
https://bsky.app/profile/no2trumpism.bsky.social/post/3lkxyohr3n22p
Some, who are not the 1%, still believe all this is not affecting them or their lives.
SECEDE & JOIN!
The Blue states should become independent Nations & form a Union like the EU with us🇨🇦.
Become a real Democracy & enjoy actual Freedom.
You can take a bus down to visit. When sanity returns, you can move back.
Thousands have done this.
I think so many of us are shell shocked at the speed the destruction is happening.
Go to a Tesla protest.
Knock on your neighbor’s door and ask how they are doing.
The resistance is local this time around. We will be ok if we stick together.
Imagine if Mahmoud Khalil had a text he could send and know that 30 people would come immediately to witness what occurred.
We’d all be better off if we had strong local networks.
There is strength in numbers. We’d better get organized, and quickly.
It was scary the first time - who knew it would get worse?
Indeed. “Best way to find FRAUDSTERS is to hold back on SS checks to see who complains first.” The sheer malignant arrogance of this man who represents the Administration of a Predator exposes their willingness to make us all EXPENDABLE.
We knew this was coming and yet it's somehow even worse.
https://m.youtube.com/@MeidasTouch
Sooo
This
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/us/politics/elon-musk-brad-schimel-wisconsin-state-supreme-court.html
And yes I am staring you directly in the eyes without blinking the entire time I say that.
https://www.salon.com/2025/02/26/from-maga-to-monarchy-how-tech-billionaires-are-engineering-american-autocracy/
#outwiththeoldinwiththenew
Tariffs are to extort and break alliances.
Unfortunately, democrat politicians are underreacting.
cowards or conspirators or cult followers
not good option
they deserve what they deserve
But 10 Democratic (incl 1 independent) senators voted the wrong way on cloture allowing the CR to pass.
The House is getting the message.
Now let's make sure those 10 in the Senate get it.
I’m sorry that you profit from the government, unfortunately, we need to be bankrupting Trump at this point which means bank bankrupt the federal government, you might not like it, but it’s what needs to happen.
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Putin is old school KGB (CIA equivalent). He probably had a lot of psy ops training.
GET FUCKING PISSED OFF!!!
Great article-btw.
Thanks for the follow-back and the reposting.