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A denizen of Omaha, by God, Nebraska, home of the beleaguered Blue Dot of the Electoral College. A native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana . . . which is just beleaguered. Proud graduate of Baton Rouge Magnet High School and LSU. This occurred many years ago.
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By the time major media agree that it's a dictatorship, it will be so far along that they'll be afraid to call it a dictatorship.

Crash tackle ICE together. One love 💙

“Scholar of authoritarianism Timothy Snyder explained the larger picture: ‘On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.’”

Nothing in this to dispute. Nothing.

ICE terrorists now grabbing USA citizens.

We haven’t reached bottom yet. Because there is no bottom to his moral depravity.

Now that he said ‘Fuck off’ to the Supreme Court, not a single person or body can stop him besides the people he hand selected for this moment. We are technically a dictatorship right now and no one realizes it or cares..

Call this “Funeral for a Friend.” Love lies bleeding in our hands. #Canada, for God’s sake, beware of #Amerika. Please read.

Trump to Bukele on Salvadoran concentration camps: “Home-growns are next. You’re going to have to build about five more places.”

Remember Fiona Hill? She’s now sounding the alarm again: “We’re definitely on a path toward full-on state repression. There’s no question about it. I’ve thought about this for an extraordinarily long time.” When Fiona speaks, we should all listen.

"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...

At the end of the first quarter, your score is China 84, United States 0.

April 13, 2025

Trump’s already skirting due process. Now he’s musing about deporting citizens | Moira Donegan

I hate to say this, and it gives me the chills just to think it, but CECOT is on (and not a short way down) the road to Auschwitz.

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

Truth. Crucial yet forgotten truth.

Why should #Americans be offended by the truth? The ability and willingness to be harshly self-critical *used* to be a critical part of our national identity. Furthermore, this is a Canadian university. #Canada is a country currently being shat upon by the United States. Tell ‘em to pound sand.

Trump is destroying US weather forecasting and research because he dislikes the word "climate": "While the phrase 'climate change' refers to manmade influence on climate via planet-warming pollution, 'climate' in NOAA parlance is simply weather observed over time..." www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/c...

Which of these dog toys is the American?

Brilliant — and delicious. It seems Trump didn’t have the cards. He didn’t have the cards!

How very Soviet of the Amerikan regime.

START YOUR FRIDAY: With two stories about a U.S. Senate race in Nebraska that appears to be taking shape. First, this story about Nebraska nonpartisan potential Senate candidate Dan Osborn's poll showing a dead heat with Republican U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts. From Juan Salinas II:

Plainclothes agents. Trying to question elementary-aged kids. And lying that they had parents permission to do so.

Not one reporter asked about the Executive Orders targeting Chris Krebs & Miles Taylor during today’s Cabinet press conference. Not one. A president using DOJ to punish those who spoke out? That’s banana republic territory. I waited. The question never came. Why? Has the fear already taken hold?

"If you don't stand up and fight now, if you don't take a position now, it's going to be too late," Eric Holder tells Rachel Maddow. "The time is now to stand up and do all that we can to fight this administration."

There is a reason the regime ships these folks off to places like the most redneck corners of #Louisiana. That’s maximum persecution by the natives . . . in the most fascist locales in an increasingly #fascist country. I *DO NOT* use “fascist” lightly. I also was born and raised in Louisiana.

This is shocking and horrific. It also is a trial run — next up are American political dissidents. We are all #Russians now, and the Constitution no longer means shit. You have been warned.

Spox for Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China posted this

Just when you think these sycophants can’t beclown themselves any more than they already have… deanblundell.substack.com/p/trump-is-n...

"If you’re still paying attention, if you’re still thinking critically, if you’re still talking to people about what’s happening then you’re part of what’s left. " #resist #resistance #authoritarian #Trump #democracy #freedomofthepress

I am so old that I remember when #Sen.JohnKennedy was a Democrat and didn’t conjure up visions of Jubilation T. Cornpone every time he opened his mouth.

We have to burn down #Nebraska to save it.

#GVerse #LOL And tariffs are OFF, for now.

Not much to investigate lol

As Trump doubles down on China, it may be useful to contemplate why the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and the Philippines. “If We Make It Through December” isn’t just a Merle Haggard song.