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How Hitler seized power: 1. Create a crisis. 2. Demonize opponents. 3. Declare a state of emergency. 4. Undermine elections. 5. Make the rule of law irrelevant. 6. Rule by decree. If America falls it will be because of the people who didn’t pay attention.

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🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS: Was just passed this from a fellow service academy grad. A Coast Guard Academy graduate posted this. They are reporting that ICE entered base housing and took a USCG spouse. I can’t confirm this but I’m calling for answers from the Coast Guard and Congress. This is unacceptable.

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The fuck? This is untenable. Dude is a walking security threat.

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When the moment came, Harvard didn’t hedge or flinch—it stood up. A reminder that integrity isn’t complicated, it’s just rare.

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One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.

submitted 2 days ago • 281 comments

We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾‍♀️. Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!

submitted 2 days ago • 290 comments

Al gore is pissed off and I’m here for it

submitted 2 days ago • 1411 comments

BREAKING: 12 states sue Trump in the U.S. Court of International Trade to block his massive tariffs, accusing him of illegally imposing tax hikes on Americans and violating the Constitution.

submitted 2 days ago • 194 comments

Trump on collapsing visitor numbers to the US: “Not a big deal. We treat our tourists great.” Here’s what the rest of world thinks:

submitted 2 days ago • 105 comments

Medicaid covers... -40% of births nationwide -50% of kids with special needs -72 million people in total Remember this as Republicans move to gut the program to finance tax cuts that will overwhelmingly go to the richest 1% of Americans. "Party of family values."

submitted 2 days ago • 90 comments

RFK Jr. wants to create a national registry of people with autism The Admin wants to increase baby supply with a motherhood medal. Trump wants to deport US citizens to a third world gulag. They formed an Anti-Christian Bias Task Force to prosecute people for speech. Does this sound familiar?

submitted 2 days ago • 95 comments

Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:

submitted 3 days ago • 1684 comments

Trump is still pushing the complete lie that Abrego Garcia has “MS-13” tattooed on his knuckles. In a sane country we’d be talking about impeachment and removal.

submitted 4 days ago • 533 comments

"We cannot give everyone a trial," says the president of these United States.

submitted 4 days ago • 2777 comments

It's pretty wild, when you think about it, that the political press spent four years saying "Biden's real test: will Americans approve of his economy?" and then Trump's been president for three months and he's brutally murdering the economy and the political press is just not that focused on it

submitted 4 days ago • 121 comments

APOLLO: “It normally takes 18 months on average for the US to negotiate a trade deal. .. While markets wait for trade negotiations with 90 countries at the same time, global trade is grinding to a standstill .. if current policies do not change, then the probability of a US recession in 2025 is 90%”

submitted 5 days ago • 161 comments

I'll say it again, the tariff system is being put in place by very rich men at the top of the U.S. power system and they'll be fine whatever happens. It's worth keeping that in mind when you see something like this from the president.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

If someone is arguing against due process, just ask them if they believe someone is innocent until proven guilty. It's the same thing.

submitted 5 days ago • 509 comments

Never forget that the richest man in the world chose to take food from the mouths of the world’s poorest children. Burn in hell.

submitted 6 days ago • 34 comments

Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?

submitted 6 days ago • 755 comments

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submitted 5 days ago • 163 comments

The saviors Easter message:

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So the White House story is now: “We didn’t mean to threaten Harvard, because we didn’t mean to send the threatening letter we sent, but when Harvard rejected the threats we made but didn’t mean to make, we decided to threaten them twice more.” The country is now run by thugs and idiots.

submitted 7 days ago • 820 comments

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

submitted 7 days ago • 1750 comments

This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.

submitted 10 days ago • 1852 comments

Get yourself a senator willing to rescue you in a foreign country after your messy president wrongfully deports you… …seems like a sentence I shouldn’t have to write in 2025 but here we are. Senator Chris Van Hollen leaves for El Salvador tomorrow to initiate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

submitted 10 days ago • 483 comments

On this day, April 14, 2025, the President of the United States openly defied the Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion of April 10, 2025, ordering him to “facilitate Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador

submitted 11 days ago • 671 comments

Rep Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY): “Mr. Abrego Garcia must be returned immediately before he is killed in one of the most dangerous prisons in the world. Enough with the fake bravado. This is not America. The Supreme Court must aggressively enforce its order immediately.”

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Rising number of statements from congressional Democrats to Kilmar Abrego Garcia case Rep Maxwell Frost (D-FL): “This is government-funded kidnapping, plain and simple. No one is safe in Trump’s America; let that sink in”

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Paying taxes with tears in my eyes knowing what they're paying for - disappearing innocent people to a concentration camp in El Salvador. What have we become?

submitted 11 days ago • 1248 comments

This is the energy we need!!! bsky.app/profile/acyn...

submitted 11 days ago • 162 comments

If Trump can claim a "national emergency" to disappear legal residents without due process, what’s to stop him from doing the same to U.S. citizens who oppose him? No one is safe — not even people legally in the country, possibly not even American citizens. Fascism is here.

submitted 12 days ago • 253 comments

“He’s not a monster. He just plays one in the White House.” Whether it’s Bill Maher’s obsequious attempt to normalize Trump, or Tucker Carlson’s fawning over Putin, weak men have been capitulating to power since the beginning of time.

submitted 12 days ago • 202 comments

Make it make sense

submitted 13 days ago • 613 comments

Sic semper tyrannis

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Federal spending is up under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings. Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 14 days ago • 134 comments

Trump’s vision: no Department of Education, no dissent, no democracy. His dream is a nation of loyal subjects, not citizens. Democrats are fighting to keep the republic alive.

submitted 14 days ago • 24 comments

Sometimes this all feels like a bad acid trip. Reality TV show host Donald Trump is dismantling American democracy? With the help of the richest man on the planet? You sound insane right now

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No matter how many times Republicans say otherwise, there is no way they can pay for their tax cuts for the rich without gutting healthcare and food assistance for the poor — along with other programs that millions of people rely on. Don't believe their lies for a second.

submitted 15 days ago • 99 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 15 days ago • 2 comments

“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

submitted 15 days ago • 609 comments

I’ve seen so many different versions of this, but I like this one best. This is exactly what Trump is doing, over and over and his mob of morons keeps screaming “Art of the deal!!!” every damn time.

submitted 15 days ago • 34 comments

why is every newspaper/programme running with the headline "tariffs are paused" when they haven't been. What's happened is that every country (except China) gets a flat rate of 10% for 90 days.

submitted 15 days ago • 519 comments

The lesson for universities is you may as well fight back. You'll lose the money either way. The only question is whether you keep your dignity.

submitted 16 days ago • 73 comments

Don’t overthink this. He’s asking for bribes.

submitted 16 days ago • 1695 comments

President Eisenhower governed as a moderate conservative who continued New Deal agencies and expanded Social Security. He covertly opposed McCarthy and contributed to the end of McCarthyism by openly invoking executive privilege. Eisenhower is generally ranked in the top 10 greatest presidents.

submitted 16 days ago • 28 comments

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. Gore Vidal

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