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

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Dumping people without recourse into foreign gulags

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Even to the extent that she was there on Michigan's behalf, what is it going to take to convince people normal politics is over? If it's not undesirables who haven't done anything being sent to a gulag or people getting arrested for their opinions, what will it take? What would Trump have to do?

submitted 10 hours ago • 57 comments

Unprecedented crimes & constitutional violations requiring immediate impeachment & removal, now happening on a daily basis, & 🤷‍♂️

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

Unprecedented corruption happening right in front of us

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

"But the DoJ won't do it and Trump will just pardon them!" Which gets us beyond this moment where people can claim this is normal.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

fun times in competitive authoritarianism land

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One way you can grasp the massive, unprecedented magnitude of his crimes & misdemeanors is that one would not pursue such a massive legal protection racket unless one had committed massive, unprecedented crimes & misdemeanors.

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HOW IS ANY OF THIS LEGAL!? Social Security decimated and now only communicating through the Billionaire Bro’s failing social media app!? Make this make sense: gizmodo.com/social-secur...

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The idiotic MFs in this administration are playing god with people's lives. Americans who get these messages will probably be ok, but non-citizens could end up in a foreign gulag.

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Bring your love for National Parks to our next Defend America’s Essentials rally on Thurs, Apr 17, 4-6pm outside the Mn Science Museum in St Paul: www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve... #nationalparks

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I started a newsletter. My first post is going to be a deeper dive into insider trading on Wednesday. I’ll be writing about tech, San Francisco, politics, and AI. With kindness. I’d be grateful for any boosts as I’m excited and nervous for this. data-and-politics.ghost.io

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Started a newsletter. My first post is going to be a deep dive into insider trading on Wednesday. I’ll be writing about tech, San Francisco, politics, and AI. With kindness and snark. I’d be grateful for any boosts as I’m excited and nervous for this. data-and-politics.ghost.io

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The US Administration is seizing control, with threats and coercion, of the law firms that would be necessary to challenge its actions in court.

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I’m leading a letter with Rep. Terri Sewell and 131 colleagues demanding answers from the White House, USTR, Treasury, Commerce, and the SEC. Who knew about Trump’s tariff reversal? When did they know? How did they know? $300B didn’t move by accident. This is market manipulation.

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

Ready to hit the streets again? This/every weekend: @teslatakedown.com 4/17: Day of Action for Higher Ed; Communities Not Cages Day of Action 4/19: @50501movement.bsky.social is back! 4/23: Earth Day at the national parks with @resistancerangers.bsky.social 4/26: official rollout for #SunDay

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amazing how it seems like everyone at NYT has an ivy degree and the paper normalizes folks like rufo. i’m beginning to think it’s the ivy degrees, y’all.

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Indeed! Here's the text of the 24th Amendment, added to the Constitution in 1964, which is a key constitutional provision for the Civil Rights-era constitutional regime which created the first substantial period of multiracial democracy in US history.

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This is naked corruption that uses federal policy to pour money into the pockets of the President's largest campaign donor. Forcing the nation's 70-some million Social Security recipients to sign up for the website owned by a Nazi saluting billionaire is outrageous.

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Political epistemology rules everything around me

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Stop treating pretextual claims seriously

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Elon Musk's xAI is accused of worsening air pollution in Memphis -- and of running more than double the number of natural gas-burning turbines it secured permits for there... story @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/04/10/e...

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

What are some banger ideas that come from abroad that the Trump regime would like to lock out of America is they could? I'll start: co-determination, where workers control seats on corporate boards of directors, allowing them to force more equitable division of firms' profits & protect jobs.

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They're trying to kill Rumeysa Ozturk for writing a fucking op ed

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

Share this everywhere. I believe there should be immigration enforcement. I believe there shld be an immigration enforcement agency. But this one is simply lawless to the core. That fact is just inescapable.

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

In Nazi Germany, the targeted population was encouraged to self-deport and the state sought to impoverish them to force them to leave.

submitted 2 days ago • 92 comments

Authoritarianism in action - a kill shot aimed at the head of Columbia. Must be resisted if academic freedom is to be preserved and to prevent this playbook from being extended to future targets across civil society.

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I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of law professors and judges cosplaying as historians until they figure out how the hell to do history

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

This is not ok or in any way normal.

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The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic is asking the public to help them track changes the Trump Admin is making to history-- in national parks, websites, wherever. Please share-- and please contribute! thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/t...

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Minnesota GOP Rep. Drew Roach and GOP Sen. Bill Lieske called the Jan. 6 insurrection a “hoax” and repeated a false conspiracy theory that the Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol were “actors,” during a video podcast posted Monday. minnesotareformer.com/2025/04/09/m...

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

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