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1. Do not obey in advance. 2. Defend institutions. 10. Believe in truth. 15. Contribute to good causes. 16. Learn from peers in other countries. 17. Listen for dangerous words. 18. Becalm when the unthinkable arrives. 20. Be as courageous as you can.
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The Gilded Age is Trump's ideal--let's check the stats, shall we? --most Americans disenfranchised --most Americans in extreme poverty --most Americans worked 12 hour workdays, 6-7 days a week --most Americans consumed unsafe food, water, medicine The Gilded Age was great only for the rich folks

The poster child for white male mediocrity, Pete Hegseth, is firing qualified Black men and women from the military.

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

From United Humanists on FB

“I didn’t own a home when the FED GOVT bailed out the mortgage industry I didn’t own a car when the govt bailed out the auto industry The fact that we draw a hard line at the 19 year old who wants to go to college and turn around poverty in her family….we have a problem” - Rep. Hayes Brilliant.

He nails it.

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

If you don’t think Trump is taking over the US Mail to do away with mail-in voting, you haven’t been paying attention.

Starting to think the right’s mEmE KiNg WhO LeGaLiZeD CoMedY is actually just a whiny little bitch with a fragile ego.

here's today's post: "bizarros, freaks and incels gather at buffoonpalooza" — the CPAC circus is in town. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

Something odd just happened—an article that had been widely published on media sites has suddenly disappeared without any retraction or explanation. Many may have come across it on Reddit.

This is really something

For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13. For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26. Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency. It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.

Honest question: Why are people obeying DOGE?

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

Wow! What a hero! 💙

I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :) Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.

fear and loathing at cpac

Carville: USAID spent $41 billion the federal budget is 6 trillion. Actually comes to something like .014%. So take that and put it against the 6 trillion and see what you have done when your president is responsible for more federal debt than any president in the history of the United States.

When FAA employees are telling us it’s not safe to fly, we should probably listen.

Spineless, yellow-bellied, lily-livered, weak-kneed, pusillanimous chickenshits.

The waste is coming from the White House. 👇

Folks, I can’t stress this enough: Lock your credit! Lock your credit! Lock your credit! Lock your credit! Lock your credit! Lock your credit! Lock your credit! Lock your credit! Lock your credit! Lock your credit! Lock your credit! Lock your credit! Lock your credit! Lock your credit!

The head of the teamsters is a pussy.

A reminder I will be providing at least once a month for all of the remaining years of my life: Months before the 2024 election, the Department of Justice announced that there were at least six hundred Russian assets inside the United States and that some...were SITTING MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.

Resisting comes in all forms. Here is a very creative one starting to pop up.

Trump's latest executive order puts independent agencies — including the FTC, SEC, and NLRB — under his direct control. It's a blatant attempt to shield his corporate donors and his own business from agencies that hold the powerful accountable. This is an alarming power-grab.

We’re cooked

Trump wants you to forget that he gutted the Aviation Safety Committee and ousted the FAA administrator during his first week in office. Don’t forget.

Our latest scoop: Engineers who work for Elon Musk’s SpaceX have been brought on as senior advisers at the Federal Aviation Administration. Some have been onboarded at the agency under a policy designed to increase “employment opportunities for people with disabilities.”

Over 120,000 Japanese Americans forced into imprisonment in internment camps simply because they were of Japanese heritage.

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

the “make america healthy again” agenda appears to be an elaborate op conjured up by sentient strains of listeria and salmonella www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

We’ve seen this movie before.

Brazil shows that it can be done. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

-The Question: How the hell did we get here? -The Answer: Citizens United.

BREAKING: Renowned legal scholar Donald Trump declares himself and Pam “Drop the Charges” Bondi are the only people that can state their opinion about the meaning of the law on behalf of the United States. Free speech, amirite?

"working to swiftly rectify the situation..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

JD Vance owns AcreTrader, an app that lets wealthy—often foreign—investors buy up U.S. farmland. Guess who’s deliberately tanking farm economies so JD and his billionaire tech buddies can scoop it up for pennies. civileats.com/2024/09/18/j...

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

theintercept.com/2025/02/17/e...

Richest man in the world muses about Jailing reporters, nothing to see here