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But of course!

submitted 6 hours ago • 30 comments

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 20 hours ago • 411 comments

Remarkable: Trump's own pollster just found that in swing House districts, Dems lead by 5 points and voters want tax policy to prioritize working people, per Politico. Yet GOP is about to brutally slash the safety net and give the rich huge tax cuts! New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1918...

submitted 10 hours ago • 222 comments

What a fucked-up framing from the #BrokenPost. Trump is surrendering Ukraine and the West to Putin but here the burden is on Zelensky to "salvage his relationship." Can Zelensky salvage his relationship with Trump and save Ukraine? wapo.st/4it7ZS3

submitted 9 hours ago • 55 comments

Authoritarian leader cult alert

submitted 9 hours ago • 71 comments

New in PN: AOC shows how to fight back and stand strong "Prominent figures standing up can undermine the climate of fear that MAGA relies on to impose terror. AOC’s work on behalf of her constituents and refusal to be intimidated are models of resistance other Democrats would do well to imitate."

submitted 1 day ago • 207 comments

Causing "global catastophe" will be judged one day as crimes against humanity. A reckoning will come. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 21 hours ago • 35 comments

You can really feel the anti-Trump sentiment building, and it's not Kitchen-Table Americans complaining about egg prices, it's about the contempt for the rule of law, the reckless cuts, the abandonment of allies, the mistreatment of other Americans

submitted 21 hours ago • 63 comments

The most notable thing about this clip from the president's address to the governors is the way Maine Gov. Janet Mills stood up to Trump. And the second most notable thing is the absolute stone-faced silence from the other governors in the room. www.c-span.org/clip/white-h...

submitted 22 hours ago • 69 comments

Shakedown politics: obey or I end you

submitted 1 day ago • 134 comments

Things are getting a little uncomfy for GOP members

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

This is who is in charge of our govt due to the Trump Musk coup

submitted 1 day ago • 105 comments

First Bolsonaro then Milei this makes 3 Mr. Chainsaws

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

Being the target of a shakedown for hundreds of millions of dollars to avoid being persecuted - what it's like doing buiness in Trump's America www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

He said he wanted to be a dictator...

submitted 3 days ago • 65 comments

I tried to warn everyone...is why Trump is in my book #Strongmen and here, a year ago: open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...

submitted 4 days ago • 43 comments

“The goal of Trump--like all autocrats and dictators--is to make you feel that “resistance is futile,” but history shows that people standing up to that leader has inspired others to do the same.” @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social talks with @deanobeidallah.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/deanobei...

submitted 6 days ago • 81 comments

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submitted 7 days ago • 18 comments

Consider the possibility that the Trump White House WANTS this fight. Wants journalists to act like opponents instead of observers. If the entire press pool skipped a Trump photo op in solidarity with The AP, wouldn't the White House welcome Breitbart and One America News to take their places?

submitted 8 days ago • 2729 comments

A 71-year-old woman has died after her oxygen supply was cut off when Trump announced his federal funding freeze.

submitted 10 days ago • 256 comments

The coming moral reckoning and rethinking will be necessary to achieve the democracy we want for the future. From this reckoning we can work to realize democracy’s potential as the expression of social justice, inclusivity, equity, and solidarity, and love. @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

The other day I wrote about how President Trump "is making himself inescapable." Some people love his ubiquity, others don't, but I want to call attention to the point that history professor @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social made... www.cnn.com/2025/02/09/b...

submitted 11 days ago • 21 comments

Just finished ‘ Strongmen ‘ by @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social READ THIS BOOK! It foretells the Now we are in. From Mussolini to now laid out in exacting detail. If 2.0 continues we are in for a hell of a ride & there will be no joy. Interview article: jpr.winchesteruniversitypress.org/articles/100...

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

Relaxation of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 👀

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments

Stopping FARA is opening the door to massive corruption

submitted 16 days ago • 77 comments

I think this is our future unless someone stops him. Musk’s plan for X has been for it to replace the entire banking system. His keen interest in seizing control of Treasury payments (and its tech) may forebode an intention to have such payments go through X www.theverge.com/2023/10/26/2...

submitted 20 days ago • 483 comments

There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.

submitted 21 days ago • 817 comments

Listen to Brooke on this. Causing economic crisis creates bargains for Trump and Musk autocratic partners

submitted 20 days ago • 50 comments

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass

submitted 21 days ago • 4939 comments

This is a national emergency:

submitted 21 days ago • 2194 comments

This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

submitted 22 days ago • 1830 comments

This is heartbreaking and that is the point. Create as much chaos and misery as possible while creating a huge purse of $ to try and plunder.

submitted 21 days ago • 76 comments

"Autocrats may well find an even warmer reception in America during the second Trump administration. Our democracy will pay the price." ICYMI, by @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social: Tulsi Gabbard Fits Right Into Trump’s Vision for America www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/o...

submitted 21 days ago • 8 comments

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

submitted 22 days ago • 4421 comments

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

submitted 102 days ago • 4669 comments

Ask who in the world benefits from the removal of US public health info, suspension of federally-finded cancer and other research, anti-vax propaganda, and other actions to make Americans diseased and weak.

submitted 22 days ago • 36 comments

Great piece by @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social on the danger Tulsi Gabbard poses for American national intelligence. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/o...

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

Do not miss @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social's latest in the @nytimes.com: If Gabbard is nominated, "Autocrats may well find an even warmer reception in America during the second Trump administration. Our democracy will pay the price." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/o...

submitted 23 days ago • 8 comments

Literally the only NYT column I’ve read in months, because @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social wrote it. “If one thinks like an autocrat, the foremost quality that would seem to disqualify her from service — a simple lack of experience — is an asset, not a liability.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/o...

submitted 23 days ago • 8 comments