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davidcorn.bsky.social • 19 days ago

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hjelms.bsky.social•19 days ago

saxaddict.bsky.social•18 days ago

https://youtube.com/shorts/kAckvu2fRcg?si=AaLc3fLqoTjwlhYi

blacktranstexas.bsky.social•19 days ago

Many people fail to recognize the harsh reality that trans people are facing a significant threat. It’s important to clarify that while high profile politicians frequently claim that everyone is being targeted, the truth is that the communities truly under attack are trans people and undocumented

rkew.bsky.social•19 days ago

He needs to be impeached for the first time he tried a coup against our country and he's/they're back to try it again at a chainsaw/wrecking ball pace, cuz their pro25 has been exposed and it is another blatant coup against our democracy and country!

patrick-bartoch.bsky.social•19 days ago

Thank you! I think most of us probably think it will happen eventually but it helps to put some concrete thinking to it.

syk1331.bsky.social•19 days ago

WITHOUT LAWS...Nations Quickly Descend into ANARCHY - then - Complete Darkness... WITHOUT any HOPE of a FUTURE!

kennethstremsky.bsky.social•18 days ago

Discussed some of things we should be doing under replies to Anne Applebaum. Amendments will likely be necessary to fix things that got broken when Wilson was President

Democracy is tyranny by the poorly educated mob that like to be poorly educated - US Supreme Court, etc

USA is Federal Republic.

ianhickey.bsky.social•19 days ago

Fascism. This doctor of history explains it way better than I ever could. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/magazine/robert-paxton-facism.html

anita72.bsky.social•19 days ago

I saw it in 2016 when he used "Fake News" to discredit the NY Times, Washington Post and CNN. The actions were slower in coming, but the intent was visible.

shadow61.bsky.social•19 days ago

I never really realized it can really happen.

ianhickey.bsky.social•19 days ago

Same. First I thought it was just because Steven Miller, the Nazi was writing his speeches and controlling the immigration policies (Muslim ban and all the other fucking horrible racist shit. Family separations?).
Then you hear about his NYT page and to convict innocent black kids. Fascist as fuck!

anita72.bsky.social•19 days ago

Yes. I started calling them The Party of Fascist Values in 2017, when they failed to do oversight on the trip to China where Ivanka came back with dozens of trademark contracts.