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Hundreds of asylum seekers from around the globe are being trapped by the US in a Panama hotel where they'll eventually be sent to a camp in the jungle. One Chinese man said “I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights. I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”

As Ruth Ben-Ghiat explained, Trump is identical to the “Strongmen” defined by “corruption, violence, propaganda and personality cults.” But something else they all had in common: Their time in power came to an end--often very badly for them. My article deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/authoritar...

2 died of Ebola: They said Obama should resign. 4 died in Benghazi: They had Hillary testify for 11 hours, held 33 hearings, and launched a 4-year probe. 881,776 Covid deaths, an armed insurrection & theft of classified documents: They cheered, and made Trump a dictator.

There is going to come a time in the very near future where the only way to resolve this is for every non-MAGA media company to band together and simply refuse to walk into the presser or attend the event. Because he wants the coverage more than anything else. Divided you fall.

It started in Silicon Valley as a fringe idea: an inefficient democracy needs to die - replaced by a "red Caesar" dictatorship that would fire federal employees and govern with the latest tech Thiel, Musk and Trump are making this dystopia a reality. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

This rapid investigation includes a gift link

"The administration's stance is that by electing him president, the country gave Trump total authority to do anything he’d like. But that justification renders Congress superfluous. Why go through the charade of making policy and negotiating budgets if POTUS can just ignore laws when he wants to?"

This is a little on-the-nose isn't it? They just ignore any laws that get in there way. www.cnbc.com/2025/02/10/t...

Exodus 32:22 "Do not be angry, my lord,” ... “You know how prone these people are to evil. " 32:35 "And the Lord struck the people with a plague because of what they did with the calf." I'm off to make popcorn... keep my seat warm.

That's ethnic cleansing. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

You piece of shit! See? This is why I'll never let up! You'll never be able to have this narrative as truth as long as I'm around. Those terrorist attacked us because of you Donald.

Absolutely. Grind it to a halt.

Hold the fuck on — the Department of Government Efficiency, the entity which claims its mission is to end “wasteful spending”, was given SEVEN MILLION TAXPAYER DOLLARS to cover its “expenses” in the span of a single week?!?! Are you fucking kidding me?!?

Since the FBI appears to be the only agency that is both still functioning and not headed by a lunatic, the Washington Field Office needs to open an investigation into the breach of the computer systems at Treasury, stat

Hi all, We’re still here at OPM. We have a situation where we MIGHT, and I do mean, MIGHT have four of Elon’s people blocked from the building. Can we get press or a member of Congress down here? We’ve blocked them for two hours and they keep coming back and trying to go in.

Here's an ad script we'll likely see in the 2026 midterms: Senator _________ voted to confirm RFK Jr., which led to the ______________ that killed ___________.

Recall the wise words of Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Nobel laureate and great humanist author: “We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.” www.americaamerica.news/p/refusing-t...

“It’s a mistake for Democrats to try and work with Trump…The more they communicate that they accept his dominance and respect his power, the more he will exploit their vulnerability, particularly because he sadistically relishes harming and demeaning others.” www.americaamerica.news/p/refusing-t...

Dear @abc7.bsky.social @nbcnews.com - you may want to do a story on what's ACTUALLY going on before it's too f*ing late.

Excellent post