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Notice how none of these protestors are setting up a gallows for the VP or beating their way into the Capitol?

Hands Off Rally, Oak Park, IL

This feels exactly right. It all comes down to fealty. But there's no end to the threats. It's an abusive relationship.

American companies quite literally lost one trillion dollars in a single day but on the other hand Dave from accounts receivable doesn't have to worry about using they/them pronouns when he sees Leslie in the break room

My friend Rory Truex is a professor of politics at Princeton and an expert on authoritarian regimes. You should read his substack on our current constitutional moment.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Say Yes, Michigan!

Hands Off! A bunch of big organizations (50501, Women’s March, MoveOn, Indivisible, Hands Off) are coming together on April 5 for a day of nationwide action & protest against the Trump regime. “If we don’t fight now, there won’t be anything left to save.” [kottke.org]

Feels quite hostage-y, no?

United States Disappeared Tracker https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map

TGIT: New music from Tortoise (from an upcoming release on @intlanthem.bsky.social !) accompanied by a really beautiful animation by Rob Shaw. Yes, there will be music in the dark times...

"Rather than who he is.." Who is that? A stable genius? A defender of liberal democracy? Have we learned nothing? Voicing regret and obeying in advance rather than doubling down on the truth will not spare NPR from Trump's wrath. So frustrated with NPR in this moment.

Pro-life party

Musk is winning the sycophant contest

To state the obvious... if her memory is this bad, she should not be the DNI

If candidates don't endorse Ponzi-style, betting markets, they lose. Got it.

"See no climate change, hear no climate change, and speak no climate change"

If you do not like mining and the damage it does, something very useful to do is stop driving a combustion engine fossil-fuelled vehicle. Replace it with a small EV, a bicycle, public transport, walking - it all cuts out www.transportenvironment.org/state-of-eur... @transenv.bsky.social

Just out there saying nazi shit.

JD Vamp Not gonna lie, I admire Trump and Vance's commitments to their gender care makeup routines. Now if only they could affirm that others also deserve the right to express their gender how they see fit.

Lutnick gives Trump a BEST DAD EVER mug on live tv

You hate to see it

Cult like thinking skills

This sounds like a little side story, but it worked me because it demonstrates there are more people than you would hope who are more committed to the ideas of the fascist coup than believing it carrying about their family. That is a very bad sign.

Feel free to update Elon on what you accomplished at work this week: [email protected]

Freedom of speech, freedom of expression, etc.

Trump: "We have to take care of our law enforcement."

jesus fucking christ, man, it gets really tired noting this kind of thing, but "[veterans] aren't fit to have a job or aren't willing to come to work" is the kind of headline that should absolutely destroy a fucking administration and would, if that administration were led by a democrat

For the first time in our history, the assistant to the President will be delivering the State of the Union tomorrow night.

Not defending the US military industrial complex, but of course Europe is going to stop buying from us. Trump doesn't give a damn about the knock-on domestic economic effects of cozying up to dictators and betraying allies around the world.

Insanely reckless move from the "pro-life" party

The average American voter thinks that the government is too big but that it should spend more money on everything it does. This explains a decent share of the political chaos of this country.

This can't be right... they care deeply about human life.

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

This reads very much like the White House being angry they didn’t get a signed deal on rare earths, after which they could pull away any vague security guarantees. But Zelenskyy was able to look down the game tree. www.semafor.com/article/02/2...

James Baker, Rupert Murdoch, and Donald Trump are gunning for your Social Security and Medicare. "We can’t avoid entitlement reform." I have a different answer: We can't avoid taxing the rich.

Hey everyone -- Moms of Liberty and Dept of Education launched a snitch line portal today to rat out teachers and anyone promoting anything DEI. FLOOD THE PORTAL Spam the hell out of it. Pass it on! It works! enddei.ed.gov

The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit

fReEDom oF sPeecH

Elon Musk, who has said the beneficiaries of federal spending are a "parasite class," runs businesses that have pocketed $38 billion in taxpayer-funded subsidies, loans and contracts www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

Medicaid provides 40% of the funding for community health centers. Medicaid supports 2 out of 3 people in nursing homes. Medicaid provides health care to 41 million children. Trump and his Republican friends want to enact massive cuts to the program. We won't let them.

Of the countless ways one could pantomime "sharing my heart", they happened to choose the one that looks exactly like a nazi salute. What a wild coincidence!