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You cannot comply your way out of tyranny

my d&d guy is a green Mage who specializes in summoning off-Leash pitbulls from the doggy day care dimension . and using him is not politics

Grrrrrrrrrrr!! by Roy Lichtenstein, 1965 #artbots #guggenheim https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137662

ICE is going to parks in Los Angeles and kidnapping nannies who are caring for small children The children are witnessing these kidnappings and being held in custody until their parents are contacted Women and children in parks

My daughter’s punk played a show tonight. At one point she gave a little speech (this was a surprise to me), and she began by screaming FUCK ICE! The room packed full of fellow teens went absolutely apeshit. The kids are alright. (The band is 14-15 y/o)

US Veterans peacefully protesting Trump’s military birthday parade arrested at Capitol Hill. This is the moment a 80+ year old US veteran is taken away in handcuffs for practicing his 1st Amendment right. #3E #NoKings #NoKingsProtests (🎥 @gregjstoker.bsky.social )

every time i watch it again i'm amazed at just how quickly Dr. Strangelove gets going at full stride. they send out Attack Plan R within like first few minutes. keeps up a crazy pace for a movie that's almost entirely composed of guys sitting down having conversations

le sigh

Well, I'm pessimistic about the potential for US involvement.

Forcing the lawyer to do the trolley problem in real life.

Are there any pieces in the major outlets explaining the ramifications of Kristi Noem's comments yesterday that she's going to liberate us from our mayor and governor and what that actually means? I'm genuinely asking if someone has followed up with her and DHS, because I would really like to know.

True. Not good, but true.

I once saw Jason Schwartzman at Uniqlo in Manhattan.

What do you think will happen in DC tomorrow? 1. Big media spectacle, otherwise unremarkable 2. Mostly peaceful protests draw as much or more attention than the parade itself 3. Cops provoke protestors into an all-out riot

Has anyone made a book that collects all these ads? It was a very deranged chapter in advertising history.

loooool

If it turns into a riot it will cost a lot more than that.

The difference will be that it's a whole crowd standing in front of a tank.

The head of the department of homeland security announced that she planned to use military force to take over a democratically elected government in the state of California and we are arguing about whether a California Senator properly identified himself at the door.

Nothing like checking notifications to find hundreds of likes and comments about a fucking typo.

Mass civil resistance movements are far and away the most effective strategy for defending against authoritarian takeovers. We all have a chance to be part of a movement that can stop Trump from becoming a full-on dictator. Get to a protest this weekend.

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I now have more followers here than I ever did on Twitter.

Also cannot be emphasized enough: Barack Obama successfully negotiated the shutdown of Iran's nuclear program. It exists today because Trump deliberately tore up that agreement. The deaths happening right now can be laid at his door.

No more news, please.

The people railing about Cowardly Liberals right now really don’t seem to understand how I bet at least 90% of the people who show up to protest would self-identify as if you asked them about their political beliefs

Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."

Seems possible that Israel and Iran could fully go at it at the same time that the constitutional order of the United States fully dissolves.

This is what happens because we didn’t string them up for storming the capitol.

Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.

What to do? End unanimous consent, call for leadership resignations by tomorrow, and if not, impeachments.

I just did this. You can too. Tell them that after what's happened to Padilla, they need to deny unanimous consent and use every other tool to shut the Senate down. Find your senators at reps.fyi

The thing about this administration’s obvious and transparent lies about ridiculous things - like claiming they had no way of knowing that was a Senator - is that that’s part of power. They know we know they know they’re lying and that they can keep doing it anyway.

SHUT. IT. DOWN. A senator was dragged out of a press conference for standing up for his constituents and against fascism. Watch how your representatives and senators respond to their own colleague being treated like this. That'll show you how they'll react when it's *you* on the ground.

MSNBC with a great speed debunk of DHSs justifications for tackling and handcuffing Sen. Padilla. Padilla is the top Dem on the Senate Judiciary immigration subcommittee -- there's no way Noem (who meets regularly with senators on this topic) didn't know who he is.

A few key points: - Senator Padilla is the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety - He identified himself as a Senator - Right before this happened Noem literally said she was there to liberate Los Angeles from its elected leadership

Gotta identify and name the security officers who did this.

I just called my rep and both my senators and demanded that Noem be impeached and that all senate business stop until she is. You should do it, too.

Padilla interrupted after Neom said she was there to remove the democratically elected leaders of LA and California!

This is what Trump's government thugs are willing to do in broad daylight, to a US Senator, with cameras on. They are sending the message that anyone who disagrees with Trump isn't safe in America. This is authoritarianism.