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submitted 16 hours ago • 195 comments

While Trump appoints 13 billionaires to his cabinet and Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg see their wealth increase by $217 billion since the election, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, 25% of seniors live on $15g or less and millions cannot afford rent. SAY NO TO OLIGARCHY.

submitted 5 days ago • 261 comments

Without going all Martin Niemöller here, I do think that it's bad not to speak up for immigrants, transgender Americans, civil servants, women, Ukraine, and everyone else the MAGA bullies are going after. We're beyond picking and choosing whom to defend. It's time to stand up and speak out.

submitted 6 days ago • 265 comments

'We Could Have Had a President Right Now' FULL POST: johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/we-could-h...

submitted 5 days ago • 85 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 7 days ago • 5664 comments

History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I am the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

submitted 7 days ago • 345 comments

How Close Are We to the Third Reich? - Esquire We are frighteningly close and getting closer with every executive order. The comparisons detailed here reveal a direct correlation between the two regimes. We’re at the tipping point of complete authoritarian rule.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

This is big fucking NEWS!!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Do people not understand what’s happening with the Eric Adams thing? The memo instructing the prosecution to be dropped explicitly said it was because he was carrying out the president’s agenda. It was “you’re working for me, so we’re letting you go.” It was an explicitly corrupt bargain

submitted 9 days ago • 249 comments

“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” Albert Camus

submitted 10 days ago • 240 comments

Yes, please!! This would be our best chance of saving our democracy.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

This is not just a musing from a dude with some various ideas. The next step is to hollow out the judiciary and also not follow their rulings, which have been against Musk’s efforts. This is a very obvious coup, for those not paying attention.

submitted 13 days ago • 983 comments

submitted 13 days ago • 307 comments

😂

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submitted 12 days ago • 824 comments

This year marks the 250th anniversary of the “shot heard ‘round the world,” the official beginning of the American Revolution. Current events indicate the need for another fight for freedom, to remove the control of the oligarchs who have seized power in our country.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

who is this hero journalist we need to protect at all costs?

submitted 14 days ago • 78 comments

“My friend Harold Meyerson suggests that on April 19 we stage massive peaceful protests in every city and town — crowds of Americans celebrating the anti-monarchical uprising of 1775 and pledging their allegiance to that heritage by denouncing Trump’s increasingly autocratic rule”

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Good morning!

submitted 14 days ago • 160 comments

WOW! Cory Booker isn't holding back! "There can be no bystanders in this fight. It is time that we understand the only thing necessary for wrong to triumph is for right to do nothing, for right to be silent." 🤘🔥 #DemocracyNotDictatorship

submitted 14 days ago • 691 comments

Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"

submitted 17 days ago • 2610 comments

This is a brilliant analogy of what is currently happening here. It’s also insanely frightening.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 18 days ago • 938 comments

The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.

submitted 20 days ago • 1039 comments

submitted 20 days ago • 228 comments

Let’s go FBI agents. You know what to do. They can’t fire all of you!

submitted 19 days ago • 476 comments

These are the clowns Congress refuses to stop.

submitted 19 days ago • 2229 comments

YES!!

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I am begging every Democratic committee, PAC, and candidate to get control of your damn email program right now and stop sending tone deaf fundraising emails that have nothing to do with what's happening. Stop listening to focus groups from a month ago. Stop the 2 approved talking points.

submitted 19 days ago • 811 comments

We need more of this!

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

In the 20th century, they were known as "concentration camps." Now, they are simply called "housing." Doesn't that sound so much more humane? Voila, problem solved!

submitted 22 days ago • 1099 comments

I think the reason trump went off the rails in that press conference is because he knows people will blame him for the crash and he wanted to put the blame on anyone other than himself.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

the headline is not “trump blames deadly plane crash on DEI” but “trump seizes on deadly plane crash to attack minorities”

submitted 23 days ago • 229 comments

We are now in the “muzzle the intelligent” phase.

submitted 25 days ago • 87 comments

Before we hope for the courts to save us, we might note that it's Congress whose legislative power and power of the purse that are being usurped. Congress has many ways in which it can and should act to reassert its authority. Or will it passively accept a usurpation far beyond what Nixon attempted?

submitted 25 days ago • 87 comments

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

submitted 26 days ago • 1093 comments

I’m certain that republicans hate Americans. 💯

submitted 32 days ago • 584 comments