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Resist!

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.

Whatever happened to this? "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" Our beloved Statue of Liberty must be weeping now.

More lawless behavior by Donald Trump.

"We tried to tell y'all"

“This is how the Trump vengeance machine works. Trump is the mob boss who keeps his hands clean while others do his dirty work.”

Excellent piece by Nicholas Kristof. Please read.

Brilliant.

Former DC Metro Police officer Michael Fanone has a message to the Oath Keepers founder who was just pardoned. We share his sentiment.

Authoritarianism Unchecked: The President’s Army of Convicts In a move that has sent shockwaves through the nation, the President has unleashed an unprecedented threat to democracy: the pardon... of violent felons as a personal, unregulated militia. Read More 👇 open.substack.com/pub/kaseycon...

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, whose appeal to President Trump for mercy on behalf of immigrants and the LGBTQ community made headlines on Tuesday, was also critical of Trump during his first term. Bishop Budde is the first woman to serve as the spiritual leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington.

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” ~President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, January 6, 1941

Gotta love the British press.

If she can do it, we can all do it.

The gospel according to Saint Mariann

📌Here’s one you need to read and share. Sure, I wrote it, but I’m not fucking around here. 📌Trump has flooded the zone on social media today saying the military will be his No. 1 priority as he gets at America’s true enemies. He means us, of course. 📌WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF A NATIONAL EMERGENCY

Day 2: “We the People” strike back.

President Trump issued a barrage of orders Monday targeting Biden-era initiatives on global warming. The decisions come on the heels of the hottest year ever recorded.

https:// The most shameful pardon ever issued: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/granting-pardons-and-commutation-of-sentences-for-certain-offenses-relating-to-the-events-at-or-near-the-united-states-capitol-on-january-6-2021/

“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.” —Ulysses S. Grant h/t Luke Russert

Pam Bondi, last week on pardons for Jan 6 offenders: "I will look at every case on a case-by-case basis" Donald Trump, yesterday: "Full pardons" No review. No accountability. Nothing.

History has already shown us what happens when warnings are ignored… Stay vigilant—freedom depends on it.