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By "free speech," the Americans mean creating a media environment in your country dominated by American digital fascism preparatory to right-wing regime change. Vance essentially said as much in Munich. Give in now, forget about sovereignty later. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

The ones who support dictatorship abroad support dictatorship here. The ones who lie for Putin lie for Trump.

per Van Hollen, El Salvador wouldn't let him into CECOT, which seems notable given that multiple House Republicans have photos of themselves inside grinning and giving a thumbs-up Abu Ghraib-style

My plea to Democrats: "This isn't a battle of your choosing. But it is the battle for which you will always be judged. This is the moment you must show the world and history which side of the Edmund Pettis Bridge you are standing on." www.lincolnsquare.media/p/to-democra...

The DC attorney nominee has appeared dozens of times on Russian state media www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Like CECOT in El Salvador, Colonia Dignidad was a torture chamber to send opponents of the state to be disappeared forever. It was run by Nazi Paul Schäfer under Augusto Pinochet, who was installed with Nixon’s help in the name of “anti-communism.” www.mind-war.com/p/colonia-di...

Throw up protectionist trade barriers that hurt farmers, then bail out farmers with government handouts. MAGA Socialism.

NEW: Trump to USA: There is no rule of law. Today, Trump signaled he would not abide by court decisions and return to the US a Maryland father who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador. He won't even ask El Salvador to send him back. This is cruel & dangerous. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

We traded Europe for a guy that builds concentration camps for profit.

He almost put enough gold stuff in the White House to make it look like the Kremlin. Not quite, but he’ll get there.

File impeachment articles that are just direct quotes from the Declaration of Independence

This is how we used to treat the concentration camp guys so

Jon Stewart admits folks here were right & he wasn't: "I did not think he would get this authoritarian this fast. I really didn't. I'm sorry. Who could have known? Maybe if someone out there had yelled at me on Bluesky about this, I would have known. But no one did. Except every day. In all caps."

Look at how X summarizes the Abrego Garcia story (remembering that he is not MS-13, or guilty of anything at all)

Trump is defying a 9-0 Supreme Court ruling against him. The Constitutional Crisis is no longer some abstract idea, it's right here staring us in the face.

The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

This meets @schumer.senate.gov's test of "defying the Supreme Court." SCOTUS unanimously held Abrego Garcia "was subject to a withholding order forbidding his removal to El Salvador, and that the removal to El Salvador was therefore illegal." But Trump admin says right person, right place.

Trump’s only statement about Putin’s Palm Sunday Massacre was to blame Zelensky.

Trump is using your taxpayer dollars to pay his J6 brownshirts.

Trump again blames Zelenskyy, not Putin, for the war. If he’s not a Russian asset, he’s the most useful useful idiot in history.

And Trump and his team keep referring to Putin as a smart and good guy.

The President of the United States says that Ukraine and Zelensky started the war. bsky.app/profile/atru...

The televised Oval Office meeting with Bukele is mockery. They’re mocking the press, their opposition, the courts, and the entire concept of justice. They’re mocking everyone who isn’t them. The abuser’s playbook yet again.

Another court order that Trump is now openly defying. Republicans in Congress assured us repeatedly that Trump would never defy a court order. It is obvious that he simply doesn’t care though after the Supreme Court gave him immunity.

He still doesn't know who started the war. Or pretends not to know

When he says “home-growns”, he’s talking about US citizens. He wants Bukeke to build more torture prisons in El Salvador for Americans. Not me saying it, Trump saying it. bsky.app/profile/atru...

How long, in minutes, would it have taken the GOP to introduce articles of impeachment against Clinton, Obama, or Biden if they had said they were going to ship American citizens to a prison in El Salvador? 15? Less?

It’s moments like these when we might consider it relevant that the current FBI director who might be charged with investigating this crime appeared eight times on the podcast of Stew Peters, a Christian Nationalist who recently called for a “final solution” to America’s “Jewish problem.”

Denounce thy neighbor www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

1. The Trump administration claims that a program to protect rural Alabamans from raw sewage is racist so it is canceling the program as part of its crackdown on "DEI" According to a press release, this is about treating "every individual with dignity and respect." 🤔

Restoring order to American democracy requires a new framing of the Constitution protecting the Freedom of Reality—our right to have facts & truth, unaltered, in order to make good judgments for ourselves and the country. I wrote about Amendment Zero. www.mind-war.com/p/the-missin...

or Lindsey Graham

Trump is asked about Putin’s Palm Sunday Massacre bombing of civilians. He repeats Kremlin propaganda that it was just a “targeting error”, because when Putin speaks that is the position of the president. Trump: “They made a mistake.”

"We are living through a revolutionary change, a broad shift away from the transparency and accountability mandated by most modern democracies, and toward the opaque habits and corrupt practices of the autocratic world" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Statement from Trump on Putin’s Palm Sunday Massacre missile attack that killed at least 34, including several children, and injured another 117 people:

I'm a lawyer and this is correct. Straight line of "blatantly illegal constitutional end-runs to violate human rights" from Iran–Contra to Gitmo to CECOT paved by the only consequences the perpetrators suffering being more money, more power, and more prestige.

This is how all billionaires, and everyone in Trumpland, should be covered. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens. The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)

How Fox this morning frames Russia’s latest missile attacks against civilians: “Both sides now accusing each other of violating the 30-day cease fire agreement.”

RFK Jr's always going on about "healthy" and what he means is a mixture of nihilism and eugenics, that public health and medicine are pointless because "unhealthy" people are going to (and deserve to) die anyway. Never mind the kid's death was easily preventable. Call them "unhealthy" and move on.

Trump is waging war against professionals, intellectuals, scientists, education, writes Franklin Foer. We've seen this movie before - in Mao's China www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Russians celebrate Palm Sunday by bombing Sumy www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

Tech execs declaring all-out war on creators who don’t want their life’s work pillaged for profit

L - The official photo from the Kremlin of US Special Envoy @SteveWitkoff putting his hand over his heart as he greets his friend Vladimir Putin again this week. R - Putin’s latest missile attack killing at least 21 people, including 7 children, on Palm Sunday. Putin’s stooge.

Whitmer is a quisling in the purest sense of the word. In 1941, Churchill described a quisling as one who "is hired to fawn upon the conqueror, to collaborate in his designs and to enforce his rule upon their fellow countrymen while groveling low themselves."

The Trump regime is claiming tyrannical powers. Not an exaggeration, not hyperbole, not a partisan statement. The reality we now face.

Sic semper tyrannis