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This, x1000. I have been banging this drum: we are under an authoritarian regime, the question is whether it consolidates or is beaten back.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

So much for the 1st Amendment… If only half as much time was spent defending the first over these past few decades as the second.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The executive targets his opponents w/bogus investigations. His government disappears people w/out due process and vanishes them beyond reach. He usurps legislative power, controls public funds at will, & consolidates power. Loyalty is expected — or else. Authoritarianism isn’t coming. It’s here.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Yes! THREE branches of gov't were the foundation of U.S. democracy - providing checks to ensure a balance of power. Those checks are missing. And the notion that "our institutions will hold" is now but a fantasy. This 🧵 is good.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I am convinced a major factor in the tariff disaster is that Trump has so consistently been met with cowardice and capitulation from every quarter in American politics that he imagined other countries would just as easily fold to bullying.

submitted 6 days ago • 86 comments

All. Of. This. 👇🏼 Call it what it is. Kidnapping. Human trafficking. Concentration camps. I hope we get a Nuremberg Trials Part 2

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

If you voted for Allison Riggs in the 2024 NC election check here to see if your ballot is being challenged. If so, then you have 15 business days from whenever they mail the notices to cure your ballot, but best to check now & cure yours as soon as possible, even if this ruling might get overturned

submitted 10 days ago • 19 comments

Call your GOP reps-make sure they know that you know your 401K is gone b/c of tariffs. This isn't about supporting US businesses or strengthening national security (arguments my rep used to defend tariffs last week). Until Congress checks the executive branch, the GOP owns these tariffs.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

If one of us stands up, they can pick that person off. If ten or a hundred or a thousand, they can pick those people off. And they're picking off people--immigrants, dissidents--to make an example of them. But if ten million people stand up, they cannot stop us all.

submitted 9 days ago • 98 comments

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submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

This. They're not nostalgic for the factory. They're frustrated that--unlike their parents/grandparents--they can't afford to live in a "nice" house in a "nice" neighborhood, get married, raise kids on one income, and retire comfortably at 65 unless they also take on mountains of student loan debt

submitted 12 days ago • 32 comments

Again, Trump’s deliberate attempt to damage the US economy is also blatantly illegal. If only the Framers had thought of a mechanism for addressing such conduct….

submitted 10 days ago • 38 comments

People who are looking for a way to fight Trump, I have it for you in one name: Kilmar Abrego-Garcia. He's the poor guy who got pulled off the street, declared a gang member for no reason, then sent off to that hell-hole in El Salvador. Fight for him because this case will unravel everything. 🧵

submitted 10 days ago • 25 comments

Just found out that one of my closest friends had a PhD offer rescinded because the NIH grant funding the program was cut. He’s considering Europe, as are a lot of researchers and scientists. Our research sector was the envy of the world. We’ll never recover. No hell hot enough

submitted 10 days ago • 89 comments

Good explanation of why costs of goods will increase (even if they are made in the states) and how that will hurt both US businesses AND consumers. #GOPTariffs

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I just shared this with my cousin because HE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND the Tariffs issue, AT ALL. This breaks it down in a way that he will get. bsky.app/profile/diew...

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

If you're headed out to a protest today, and didn't have time to do any safety, self-defense, or de-escalation training beforehand, the Sierra Club has a good, brief overview of safety considerations: www.sierraclub.org/safety/prote...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

🚨🚨Calling all North Carolina voters!! Here is a list of every voter that Jefferson Griffin is trying to disenfranchise, please if you are a NC voter check to see if your name is on here, you have 15 days to cure your ballot to make sure your vote counts. thegriffinlist.com/assets/griff...

submitted 11 days ago • 243 comments

Same

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Please share!!! This is getting ridiculous—they just can’t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.

submitted 10 days ago • 462 comments

submitted 11 days ago • 39 comments

Today is a good day to remember how we had it all just a few months ago. This is not a FAFO moment. It's a sad day in America when millions placed their trust in an incompetent dimwit who is destroying the economic stability President Biden and Vice President Harris built for all of us.

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

PSA…

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Reminder to the House and Senate GOP: you can get rid of this guy anytime you want, save the economy, and be heroes

submitted 13 days ago • 185 comments

I think the remarkable thing about Cory Booker's speech is that much of it is a good speech. He's not just filling time, he's using time while the spotlights on him.

submitted 14 days ago • 340 comments

This is how we could help uninformed or inactive voters connect the dots.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

If you haven’t tuned into Booker yet - this is historic. I haven’t been able to watch nonstop, but every time I tune back in, the message is even better. 🔥

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Empathy is at the core of humanity.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

The opposite of soft power is not hard power. It is weakness.

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

There was no “government error” in sending that Maryland dad or anyone else to be disappeared. The performance of total capriciousness is the point. You are meant to feel that at any time it could be you.

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submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

This is why it’s important to record, broadcast and share these abductions whenever possible. As in BLM, the disconnect between what “most Americans” think is happening and what is actually being done in their name is severe. But when it finally breaks through, the effects will be significant.

submitted 15 days ago • 27 comments

Can someone please explain why journalists have stopped pointing out that the executive branch has no constitutional authority to end these programs?

submitted 15 days ago • 15 comments

The “methods for doing so” are (1) getting two thirds of Congress and three fourths of the states to repeal the 22nd Amendment and (2) declaring himself king. That’s it. Stop treating this despotic bullshit as if it’s some worthwhile thought experiment we have to consider as legitimate.

submitted 16 days ago • 331 comments

Diversity initiatives were meant to overcome the old patterns of nepotism, so I guess it makes sense that the enemies of diversity are big fans of nepotism.

submitted 17 days ago • 204 comments

submitted 17 days ago • 399 comments

🚨Hey Tennessee —both your senators just voted to overturn a Biden rule limiting bank overdraft fees to $5 Who are @senatorhagerty & @marshablackburn serving? The Banks or The People? No wonder they won’t do town halls. Also: Will local outlets report that they did it? 🤷🏼‍♀️

submitted 18 days ago • 48 comments

Oklahoma too. “Flyover states” have been the testing ground for so much of what we are now seeing on the national stage.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments