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Midwest Transplant. Woman. Mum. Wife. Friend. Philosopher. Political Animal. Historian. Human. 🎃 There have been as many true Free Market economies as there have been true Communist countries, ZERO.
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All of this.

Everything we’re dealing with now is fallout from decades’ worth of mistakes that have been compounded because the people who made them have hung onto power and hidden their crimes. God help us. What a truly awful moment and we’re all stuck here against our will.

I did an event in DC & there was a party for donors etc after. Was talking to 2 ppl & I said "Things are so bad." They said "No this is how it is. Things swing one way, then another. It's normal." That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.

The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.

The key to rescuing American politics at this authoritarian moment isn’t embracing the mythology of U.S. checks and balances but mobilizing mass majorities around the needs of ordinary people. Our latest forum:

Today, people—from students to federal workers, from immigrants to the LGBTQ+ community—find themselves forced to fight deportations, surveillance, and the drastic erosion of fundamental human rights. So, WIRED dedicated a whole issue on How To Win A Fight. Start ⬇️: www.wired.com/story/editor...

It’s not just that they normalize political violence. They also accuse the left of engaging in mostly imaginary violence, which gives unhinged right-wingers justification to “retaliate.”

Coyote pups at a cemetery in Chicago. Watch with sound on.

TO DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP. A VERY LARGE DOOR HAS BEEN OPENED FOR YOU TO STEP INTO. THAT WAS DONE BY US. NOW DO YOUR JOB AND WALK IN AND START FIGHTING LIKE YOU HAVE NEVER DONE BEFORE

One view in political philosophy is that the minimal requirement for a legitimate state is that it protects the human rights of its members and respects those of outsiders, with allowance made for less than perfect compliance. If legitimacy in this sense is necessary for the “right to exist”, then …

President wants to be an authoritarian, Congress is controlled by his lackeys, Supreme Court is ready to crown him King, and Corporate Media just wants to protect their owner’s wealth, but The People are meeting the moment for US.

Police advice is to call the police to see if police are really at your door. Must apply to ICE etc as well. No more masks. Clear name badges and IDs. Warrants. And the feds must stop arresting and roughing up elected officials for asking questions. This can inspire violence. Games must stop now.

“This live broadcast of the Worst Thing is brought to you by Worst Company! For all your Worsting Needs!”

Couple things I learned today: - Seniors are extremely fired up about this - "Fuck ICE" is a normie position now - People are MASSIVELY pissed off about Sen. Padilla being wrestled to the ground in LA - We all we got, we all we need

A reminder to reporters, when historians look back on this moment with the president throwing himself a military parade and the people throwing No Kings rallies across America, the media sources raving about the former and sneering at the latter are going to be quoted by name. This is your legacy!

Leaders of the American Patriots Three Percent (AP3) militia have forged alliances with law enforcement around the US. Internal files reveal their strategies for building these ties and where they’ve claimed success. (Published Aug. 2024)

Why do you think the oligarchs took direct control of social media and manipulated it towards the far right? 2020 scared the shit out of them and they spent the last 5 years making sure it couldn't happen again.

...and another!

Just so we're all clear: It's not a coincidence that the first senator they've used physical force against is Sen. Alex Padilla, a Latino man representing California.

“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -if all records told the same tale - then the lie passed into history and became truth.” - “1984” George Orwell

If a US Senator is not safe from being handcuffed and detained for free speech, none of us are safe.

So how the hell did the secret service not know the face of the goddamned US SENATOR?! WHOSE STATE YOU ARE IN TO BOOT? Are you telling me that there was no briefing of the team? No key individuals? Nothing? If so, that doesn’t seem like a good thing to not know that.

YouTube has been the biggest source of radicalization for extremists out there. Start watching a video about hunting or guns and next thing you know, you're getting recommended far right content pushing conspiracy theories. This is so incredibly dangerous. www.techspot.com/news/108255-...

When this was supposedly happening it was the greatest threat to freedom of thought and speech that had ever existed. But now that the extreme right is doing it’s fine bsky.app/profile/katt...

DING DONG!! DING DONG!!!

Someone tell me just how this is ANY different than what Hitler or Stalin did in the early days of their regimes? I will wait.

“I was a Yale-educated lawyer before I ever heard people say bad things about the traitors who killed American soldiers in defense of slavery.”

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US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll: "If you watch the videos of the president speaking before soldiers, you can see he just has an incredible connection as commander in chief with his army." "His army."

Predator drones. Over Los Angeles 👀 www.404media.co/cbp-confirms...

Keeping tabs on MAGA’s perception of the situation in LA and they are absolutely convinced the city is aflame and on the brink of total collapse. This altered reality legitimizes incredible violence and is so reminiscent of disinformation that had fueled sectarian violence.

PAY ATTENTION: They didn’t just erase our history. They criminalized it. Now they’re banning every page that tells the truth. But we remember. And we wrote it down.

Jesse never listened to Sublime.

Eventually, there will not be enough obivious (aka nonwhite) “immigrants” to round up. So, I would like to know, from GOP supporters/voters, who they think the regime will go after next. Or do they truly believe the gov’t will just be like, ok we’re done now, back to democracy?

Democracy dies where now?

Our Congress people are acting like they do not answer to the people, because they don’t. They answer to Billionaires & Corporations.

We're living at a moment when ICE is threatening not only to arrest and deport immigrants but arrest and prosecute everyday people and leaders for educating others about their constitutional rights. Helping to defend our immigrant communities is one clear action that we can all take right now. ⤵️

a borderline-senile angry guy who aspires to be a dictator in charge, surrounded by grifters and absolute right-wing freaks who don't believe in "science" or "medicine" or "equal rights for anyone who isn't a straight, white man", what could possibly go wrong. I'm sure this will all work out great.

Meanwhile, during Obama’s presidency we constantly heard shrieks of how imminent martial law was, that they were coming for the guns tomorrow, and how that tan suit was ruining America’s reputation. These “concerns” were then sanewashed by the respectability class & allowed to dominate the narrative

Happening now at the maine state house - Maine farmers are rallying together ✊