William Lindsey :toad:

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"Writing is the way I fight."  ~ James Cone 

#solidarity #democracy #HumanRights #LGBTQ

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2025-11-29 14:34:10 UTC

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"The thing that particularly worries me, and I follow this very closely, and perhaps it’s partly because of my family background, but - my history of my family is refugees from Hitler - there seems a remarkable amount, I mean, astounding amount of genuine, clear fascism, even Nazism, circulating around on the extreme right."
~ Martin Wolf
#Republicans #Nazis #NickFuentes #antisemitism #Holocaust
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/another-talk-with-martin-wolf

2025-10-29 13:12:17 UTC

Yesterday, Pope Leo posted the statement below (it's from his Dilexi te) on Twitter (aka X), and MAGA went wild plastering the posting with enraged comments. Someone shared this tweet in a Reddit posting devoted to Christianity and enraged MAGA posted so many hateful comments that Reddit took the posting down.
MAGA wants to wrap the cruelty of denying food to children in Jesus. Leo begs to differ.
#PopeLeo #Christianity #MAGA #Republicans #food #hunger #children #cruelty
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2025-09-02 14:13:00 UTC

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"It may well be that he really was just golfing, and this death watch is much ado about nothing.
But we would be wise to carefully consider all of this. Actuarial tables are actuarial tables, and facts are facts."
#Trump #health #media
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2025-08-14 15:46:08 UTC

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"Since fascists are historically awful at creating culture, they must appropriate, steal, and dominate to feed their delusional myth of supremacy."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Trump #MAGA #Smithsonian #fascism #history #RevisionistHistory #WhiteSupremacy
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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/fascists-come-for-the-culture-trump

2025-07-24 20:20:17 UTC

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"Hunger in Gaza has reached new and astonishing levels of desperation, with a third of the population not eating for multiple days in a row, according to the World Food Program.
The number of children dying of malnutrition has risen sharply in recent days. Many are literally starving."
~ Robert Reich
#Israel #Gaza #Palestinians #starvation
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-we-should-be-talking-about-imho

2025-05-17 15:08:34 UTC

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"It is made-for-TV, just like so many of the performances this administration uses to distract Americans from the unpopular policies that are stripping the government of benefits for ordinary Americans and moving wealth upward.
Such a show might appeal to confirmed MAGA. But it is a profound perversion of the American dream."
#Trump #distraction #disinformation #Putin #Russia #immigrants #KristiNoem
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2025-04-02 13:57:22 UTC

"On the morning of March 25, farmworker organizer Alfredo 'Lelo' Juarez was forcibly detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who stopped his car while he was driving his wife to work in Skagit County, Washington. People to whom Juarez has spoken say he requested to see a warrant, and when he attempted to get his ID after being asked, the ICE agents smashed his car window and detained him."
~ Derek Seidman
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #deportations
/1
https://truthout.org/articles/with-detention-of-beloved-farmworker-organizer-ice-comes-for-the-labor-movement/

2025-02-26 15:30:02 UTC

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"Elon Musk is set to attend Donald Trump’s first cabinet meeting of his second term at 11am ET this morning, despite not being a cabinet member."
~ Anna Betts
#Musk #DOGE #Trump #FederalGovernment #firings #workers #billionaires #EconomicElites #TaxCuts
/9
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/feb/26/donald-trump-mike-johnson-republicans-democrats-spending-bill-elon-musk-doge-us-politics-news-live

2025-02-26 14:26:41 UTC

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"Musk's 'fraud' rhetoric is presented as an anti-politics, as something fresh and exciting. But it is in fact a politics, a very old sort, the politics of oligarchy. As he himself has made clear himself, Musk is a politician with a program. It is to disable the rule of law, leaving no barriers to his oligarchical power. In this scheme, the only parts of government meant to function are the ones used to silence people who point out this obvious truth."
#Musk #Trump #fraud #LawandOrder
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2025-02-25 14:43:47 UTC

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"What’s in it for Trump to abandon Ukraine and embrace Russia? Money. On the very day that the US refused to back Ukraine in the UN, the WSJ reported that Trump is on the verge of announcing major economic deals with Russia. ...
Trump has long had business ties to Russia. Any guesses as to which wealthy American real estate developer will benefit from the renewed economic relations with Russia?"
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Putin #Trump #Russia #Ukraine #PutinsPoodle
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/government-is-the-name-we-give-to

2025-02-25 14:36:27 UTC

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"He’s done it brazenly and publicly. He has aligned himself—and, by extension, the United States of America—with a cruel, petty, genocidal tyrant who hates us, and who wants our nation destroyed. After the last week, the evidence for that is incontrovertible.
Continuing to deny what’s staring us in the face only helps our enemies."
#Putin #Trump #Russia #Ukraine #PutinsPoodle
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2025-02-25 14:35:54 UTC

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"Donald’s second-term priorities are focused not on making America great again (whatever that means) but on helping the Kremlin achieve its aims. ...
Donald has once again taken up the Kremlin’s cause. He’s done it brazenly and publicly."
~ Greg Olear
#Putin #Trump #Russia #Ukraine #PutinsPoodle
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https://gregolear.substack.com/p/putins-razor-yet-more-evidence-that

2025-02-25 14:35:06 UTC

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Evan Hurst offers a screenshot from Rachel Maddow's team at MSNBC showing the nations that voted yesterday along with Musk-Trump's USA against a UN resolution condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
#Putin #Trump #Russia #Ukraine #PutinsPoodle
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/new-axis-of-evil-were-in-it-tabs
https://files.toad.social/media_attachments/files/114/065/012/439/410/124/original/c8d1f59582c73a9c.webp

2025-02-24 15:41:18 UTC

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat points to Trump's purge of military leaders as a warning sign that he is on the authoritarian path and doors to resistance will be closed:
"Purges are a feature rather than a bug of the authoritarian style of governance. Trump’s early actions against the military are a sign of how extreme his administration is going to be. It will be increasingly difficult to call this extremism out."
#Musk #Trump #fascism #autocracy #resistance
/11
https://lucid.substack.com/p/preparing-trumps-military-purge-what

2025-02-23 14:20:09 UTC

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Adam Serwer says that what Republicans under Trump want to effect is the "Great Resegregation":
"What its advocates want is not a restoration of explicit Jim Crow segregation—that would shatter the illusion that their own achievements are based in a color-blind meritocracy."
#JDVance #Trump #Musk #MAGA #DEI #men #white
/4
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/trump-attacks-dei/681772/

2025-02-23 14:17:54 UTC

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"Friday night, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (who is black) and the Navy's top admiral (who is female) were fired, along with the most senior Judge Advocates General (JAGS) for the Army, Navy, and Air Force."
~ Joyce Vance
#JDVance #Trump #Musk #MAGA #DEI #men #white #YoungMen #WhiteChristians #MaleEntitlement #MalePrivilege #patriarchy #heterosexism #misogyny #racism
/3
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/friday-night-massacre-in-the-military

2025-02-23 14:16:49 UTC

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"We learned this from our bearded white male Christian Vice President who spoke at the CPAC gathering yesterday about how upset he is that 'the culture,' as he calls it, hasn’t been fair to the cohort of Americans he comes from and represents, not only as the Vice President, but as a Christian."
#JDVance #Trump #Musk #MAGA #DEI #men #white #YoungMen #WhiteChristians #MaleEntitlement #MalePrivilege #patriarchy #heterosexism #misogyny #racism
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2025-02-23 14:16:17 UTC

"Are you aware of how badly white men are discriminated against and put upon in this country? The only people who suffer an equivalent amount of discrimination are Christians, specifically white Christians, even more specifically white young male Christians."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#JDVance #Trump #Musk #MAGA #DEI #men #white #YoungMen #WhiteChristians #MaleEntitlement #MalePrivilege #patriarchy #heterosexism #misogyny #racism
/1
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/turning-back-the-clock-to-white-boy

2025-02-21 14:41:32 UTC

In a quick perusal of morning news, I read
1. Elderly Trump voters are bewildered that he's pushing to cut Medicaid and Medicare: Who knew, they're saying?
2. Farmers who voted for Trump and are now in serious economic distress due to his actions with USAID and USDA are angry: Who knew, they're saying?
3. Veterans who are hardest hit among federal employees being laid off and who voted for Trump are appalled: Who knew, they're saying?
#Musk #Trump #FederalGovernment #economy
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https://files.toad.social/media_attachments/files/114/042/391/476/610/290/original/1205498652232da1.png

2025-02-20 16:11:38 UTC

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"The DOGE firings have nothing to do with 'efficiency' or 'cutting waste.' They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning."
~ Adam Bonica
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #chaos #destruction #FederalGovernment #workers #firings #economy
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https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:25cztqjrqfedqg22bpoqjljr/post/3lil7yl2jvk26

2025-02-20 16:10:32 UTC

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"Best estimates are now that around 200,000 federal workers have lost their jobs due to DOGE and Trump. An estimated 75,000 more have accepted buyouts."
~ David Pepper
#Musk #Trump #chaos #destruction #FederalGovernment #workers #firings #economy
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https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/a-letter-from-ukraine

2025-02-20 16:09:30 UTC

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"The Trump administration is laying the groundwork to fire Federal Emergency Management Agency staff who have worked on addressing climate change or promoting equity and diversity, according to interviews and emails obtained by POLITICO’s E&E News — on top of the hundreds of probationary employees it removed during Presidents Day weekend."
~ Thomas Frank
#Musk #Trump #chaos #destruction #FederalGovernment #FEMA #workers #firings #economy
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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/19/fema-email-firings-affect-majority-staff-00204779

2025-02-20 16:08:41 UTC

"The Internal Revenue Service is preparing to conduct mass firings of 6,700 employees beginning Thursday, according to multiple employees notified of the plans."
~ Natalie Alms and Eric Katz
#Musk #Trump #chaos #destruction #FederalGovernment #IRS #workers #firings #economy
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https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/02/irs-expected-fire-6700-employees-beginning-thursday/403122/

2025-01-28 15:01:44 UTC

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"Fascist love spectacles—especially shows of force. Dr. Phil helping raise the visibility of the mass deportations of Brown people is exactly what Trump wants. But what Trump truly wants is the spectacle of U.S. troops silencing Americans who dare defy him."
~ Dean Obeidallah
#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportation #ICE #spectacle #cruelty #DrPhil
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https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/dr-phil-turns-immigration-raids-into

2025-01-28 14:54:25 UTC

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"What can you do? Don’t be quiet. Talk with people about why it isn’t okay for a president to routinely operate by breaking the laws."
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportation #ICE #spectacle #cruelty
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https://joycevance.substack.com/p/where-is-this-leading

2025-01-28 14:49:34 UTC

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Remember how leading MAGA figures want televised executions? Two sides of the same coin, with the carefully orchestrated televised ICE show.
To whom does this appeal? Obviously, to the base, to people with an appetite for cruelty, who love to turn on their t.v. as they scarf down their cheese curls or hamburgers and watch some hapless human being who "deserves" punishment be ruthlessly punished.
Barbarism, pure and simple.
#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportation #ICE #spectacle #cruelty
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2025-01-28 14:46:23 UTC

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"'President Trump is, of course, a television producer,' CNN's Abby Phillip said last night, and his administration's immigration sweeps are 'made for TV.'
'It's a story he wants the entire American public to watch,' she added: 'ICE agents in cities near you, outfitted with military-style equipment, detaining migrants that the Trump administration labels as dangerous'."
~ Brian Stelter
#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportation #ICE #spectacle #cruelty
/3
https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1738072600605080f606be7ae/raw

2025-01-28 14:45:25 UTC

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"Josh Campbell, Andy Rose, and Nick Valencia of CNN reported that the federal government has flooded the media with video and photos of agents in tactical gear, their vests bearing the words 'Police ICE' and 'Homeland Security' as they lead individuals in handcuffs. The journalists report that this is not an accident: agents were told to have their agency names clearly displayed for the press."
#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportation #ICE #spectacle #cruelty
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2025-01-28 14:44:33 UTC

"Daily deportation raids in which U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested a few hundred people in sweeps began almost as soon as Trump took office."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportation #ICE #spectacle #cruelty
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-27-2025

2025-01-22 19:37:34 UTC

Perhaps others can join me in calling for action to be taken about this posting addressed to me? If so, thanks.
https://toad.social/@npub1xzf…l8fx

2025-01-22 15:48:48 UTC

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer responding to the offense the man in the White House has taken to hearing God's word preached to him by Bishop Mariann Budde.
#BishopBudde #Trump #mercy #bible #immigrants #migrants #LGBTQ
/11
https://app.bsky.cz/profile/brcremer.bsky.social/post/3lgc7avv5wc2f
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2025-01-22 15:19:01 UTC

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"ICE is here in parts of Detroit and some suburbs with many immigrants (Arabs and Latins), including Dearborn & Hamtramck.
They applauded & voted for Trump last fall.
Because: 'Gaza.' …
We tried to tell them.
They wouldn’t listen. That’s why swing state Michigan went to Trump, and last November, those people were happy and proud of how they made that happen."
~ Pamela Hilliard Owens
#BishopBudde #Trump #mercy #bible #immigrants #migrants #LGBTQ
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https://substack.com/@wearespeaking/note/c-87784990?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2xjx0

2025-01-22 15:16:14 UTC

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"The White House Spanish-language website has disappeared, leaving behind an unsettling farewell for its users: a prominent 'Go Home' button. …
After clicking the "go home" button, users are directed to a montage of military imagery paired with triumphant music and cinematic shots of Trump, which leads to a page titled "America is Back."
~ Allison Walker
#BishopBudde #Trump #mercy #bible #immigrants #migrants #LGBTQ
/9
https://www.latintimes.com/white-house-website-tells-spanish-users-go-home-page-shut-down-572908

2025-01-22 15:12:20 UTC

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"Kentucky police are investigating after a series of racist Ku Klux Klan flyers telling immigrants to 'leave now' were distributed across the state on inauguration day."
~ Adam Gabbatt
#BishopBudde #Trump #mercy #bible #immigrants #migrants #LGBTQ
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/22/kkk-immigrants-flyers-kentucky

2025-01-22 15:01:33 UTC

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"The reason this moment today popped out for me at least is that there are very few moments where culturally or religiously, I guess, we see people stand up and say, 'Actually, no, this is wrong, no, you shouldn't do this,' because we're in this very defensive crouch for anyone who's an opponent of what Trumpism is. So I think this is why this has got some resonance. ... And maybe that sparks other people to say something."
~ Sam Stein
#BishopBudde #Trump #mercy
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5_QrbJSn1Y

2025-01-22 14:53:55 UTC

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"It is one of the most extraordinary moments of the Trump era, and reminds us, on this day after we honored Dr. King, that not all heroes wear capes. Some may also wear robes."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#BishopBudde #Trump #mercy #bible #immigrants #migrants #LGBTQ #courage #witness
/6
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/in-an-extraordinary-moment-dc-bishop

2025-01-22 14:26:08 UTC

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(continued from /5) "and asking of him what any spiritual, moral, or religious leader should ask of all of us: That we act with humanity. …
Conservatives, including elected officials, are already putting a target on her back."
#BishopBudde #Trump #mercy #bible #immigrants #migrants #LGBTQ #courage #witness
/5

2025-01-22 14:25:02 UTC

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"While so many already-rich and already-powerful people line up behind Trump so that they might secure more money and more power, or at least protect the largesse they have, the good reverend risked her livelihood and potentially her life (and definitely her temporary wellbeing) in facing Trump publicly"
~ Jill Filipovic
#BishopBudde #Trump #mercy #bible #immigrants #migrants #LGBTQ
/5
https://jill.substack.com/p/shock-and-awe

2025-01-22 14:20:05 UTC

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"And that you help those that are fleeing war zones and persecution in their own lands find compassion and welcome here. Our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger, for we were all once strangers in this land."
The man's response? He has called Bishop Budde "nasty," a word he reserves for uppity women, and he demands that she apologize.
#BishopBudde #Trump #mercy #bible #immigrants #migrants #LGBTQ
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-demands-apology-from-bishop-mariann-budde-after-she-hurt-his-feelings/

2025-01-22 14:17:57 UTC

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"they may not be citizens or have the proper documentation. But the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes and are good neighbors. They are faithful members of our churches and mosques, synagogues, gurudwaras, and temples.
I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away."
#BishopBudde #Trump #mercy #bible #immigrants #migrants #LGBTQ
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2025-01-22 14:17:04 UTC

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"In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives.
The people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings; who labor in poultry farms and meat packing plants; who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals —"
#BishopBudde #Trump #mercy #immigrants #migrants #LGBTQ
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2025-01-22 14:15:16 UTC

The man in the White House announced Monday that God had placed him there, though he avoided placing his hand on the bible as he swore an oath.
He went to church Tuesday, something he almost never does, and heard Episcopal bishop Mariann Budde preach — to him.
He did not like what the bishop said to him in the name of the God he claims he represents. To wit:
#BishopBudde #Trump #mercy #bible #immigrants #migrants #LGBTQ
/1
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-have-mercy-on-lgbtq-communities-and-immigrants-episcopal-bishop-asks-trump

2025-01-20 15:27:59 UTC

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"It would be bad enough if Trump were only duping gullible followers. But the crypto-bubble threatens the national and global financial systems."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #Republicans #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich #corruption #crypto #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #memecoin #scam
/12
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/day-one-of-the-resistance

2025-01-20 15:25:57 UTC

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"Even before Trump’s regime begins, it’s already exposing a reality that has been hidden from most Americans for decades: the oligarchy’s obscene wealth and its use of that wealth to gain power over America."
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #Republicans #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich #corruption
/11
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-im-optimistic

2025-01-20 15:23:11 UTC

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“President-elect Donald J. Trump and his family on Friday started selling a cryptocurrency token featuring an image of Mr. Trump drawn from the July assassination attempt, a potentially lucrative new business that ethics experts assailed as a blatant effort to cash in on the office he is about to occupy again.”
~ Eric Lipton
#Trump #Republicans #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich #corruption #crypto #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #memecoin #scam
/10
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/us/politics/trump-meme-coin-crypto.html

2025-01-20 15:20:11 UTC

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"This past election laid bare how much is now threatened, how there are structural, cultural, and political currents that have always been a part of the United States, pushing us backwards, and how assuming we were on an inevitable path to a better place was always an illusion."
#Trump #Republicans #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich #corruption
/9

2025-01-20 15:19:43 UTC

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"We must remember how people had to hide who they loved, how aging often meant poverty, how industries spewed unchecked pollution into our waters and air, and how little girls were told that science and math weren’t for them.
And we must remember that in all of these areas, and so many more, this nation has made tremendous strides. But that progress is always fragile."
#Trump #Republicans #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich #corruption
/8

2025-01-20 15:19:10 UTC

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"We must remember how oligarchs of the last Gilded Age hired private armies to terrorize and often kill workers, how millions toiled in deadly conditions (including children), and how there was little to no assistance for those injured or ill. We must remember how immigrants were excluded, and those who were allowed in were exploited."
~ Elliot Kirschner
#Trump #Republicans #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich #corruption
/7
https://elliotkirschner.substack.com/p/today-i-am-thinking-of-dr-king

2025-01-20 15:02:33 UTC

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"The wealth of the world’s billionaires grew by $2tn last year, three times faster than in 2023, amounting to $5.7bn a day, a report by the NGO Oxfam found. The latest inequality report from the charity reveals that the world is on track to have five trillionaires within a decade."
~ Jem Bartholomew
#Trump #Republicans #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich #corruption
/6
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/20/first-thing-donald-trump-takes-power-as-us-braces-for-vengeful-second-term

2025-01-20 14:58:37 UTC

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"We did not simply elect an autocrat; we chose, as a nation, to usher in an oligarchy—the likes of which we have not seen since the Gilded Age. …
Trump remains the MAGA figurehead, the great propagandist and instigator of resentment, fear, and anger. But it’s the billionaires who will operate the levers of power...."
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Trump #Republicans #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich #corruption
/5
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/of-for-and-by-the-billionaires

2025-01-19 14:38:41 UTC

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Michael Tomasky concurs with Joyce Vance (see /1):
"Folks, it’s time to reengage. …
You can’t tune him out, even if you wanted to. It’s time to reengage."
#Trump #fascism #disengagement #politics
/2

2025-01-19 14:35:30 UTC

To those of us longing to opt out and just get on with our lives, ignoring what's going to be happening around us, Joyce Vance says,
"Politics is not some foreign apparatus, separate from our daily lives. Everything is politically adjacent: our families, our livelihoods, our freedoms. Our future world will be the one we are willing to fight for."
#Trump #fascism #disengagement #politics
/1
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-relay-race-of-democracy

2025-01-16 15:38:24 UTC

"Trump won an overwhelming 83 percent of white evangelical Protestant women voters, according to the Public Religion Research Institute. ...
'In both 2020 and 2024, the presence of white evangelical women voters, eight in 10 of whom support Trump, are the critical mass pushing white women over the top into majority territory for Trump,' Robert Jones, PRRI’s director, tells me."
~ Joan Walsh
#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #women
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/women-voters-gender-gap-kamala-harris/

2024-12-19 15:20:51 UTC

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"Trump has brought Musk into the central circle of power. He’s not only de facto Vice President. When was the last time you saw JD Vance? He’s practically co-president. Musk is erratic, volatile, impulsive, mercurial. He introduces a huge source of unpredictability and chaos into the presidency that for once Trump doesn’t control."
~ Josh Marshall
#Trump #ElonMusk #EconomicElites #oligarchy
/10
https://snyder.substack.com/p/class-war-or-culture-war

2024-12-19 15:00:40 UTC

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"The world’s richest man wants to burn it all down. …
Needless to say, their priority [of Congressional Republicans] isn’t to well and faithfully discharge their duties. Their priority is to listen closely so that when Trump and Musk say, 'Jump,' they promptly ask, 'How high?'”
~ William Kristol
#Trump #ElonMusk #EconomicElites #oligarchy
/5
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-worlds-richest-man-wants-to-burn

2024-12-19 10:16:10 UTC

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"Elites have repeatedly made alliances with autocrats. Elites retain power and privileges, and have the potential to expand their profits, in return for supporting the autocrat no matter what he says or does. ...
Those who enter into alliances with Trump forget the lessons of history."
~ Ruth Ben Ghiat
#Trump #ElonMusk #EconomicElites #oligarchy
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https://lucid.substack.com/p/capitulating-to-trump-american-elites
https://lucid.substack.com/p/capitulating-to-trump-american-elites

2024-12-19 10:12:36 UTC

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"A dictionary definition of oligarchy is “a government in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes.” The super-rich know Trump can punish or reward them, and he’s trying to pressure them into anti-democratic alliances with him. Sadly, some billionaires are happy to do so."
~ Mark Jacob
#Trump #ElonMusk #EconomicElites #oligarchy
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https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/here-come-the-oligarchs-to-undermine

2024-11-27 14:10:11 UTC

Friends and followers who have kindly left comments here in the past day or so: I apologize for being slow to reply. I'm juggling time online with time spent baking for the holidays (Thanksgiving and Christmas). As the photos below show, in the past several days I've baked a batch of fruitcakes and two mincemeat pies, made cranberry relish, etc.
A family member close to me is dying, and this work helps me keep from obsessing about that situation.
#Thanksgiving #family
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2024-11-22 23:49:18 UTC

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"Republican lawmakers want to 'protect' us from trans women in bathrooms while they elevate an adjudicated sexual abuser to the highest office in the land. A man who brags about grabbing random women by the p*ssy."
~ Jess Piper
#Trump #women #SexualAssault
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https://jesspiper.substack.com/p/protecting-women

2024-11-17 22:33:35 UTC

For those of us foreseeing that "things are going to get very bad," Sherrilynn Ifill offers some valuable pragmatic tips about surviving:
"• Save some cash. And keep enough in the house for gas and food for a week.
• Let yourself imagine what you would do if you lost your job in terms of finding new employment, paying rent/mortgage for several months, and start building what you need to be able to meet that moment if it comes."
#Trump #fascism #cruelty
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https://sherrilyn.substack.com/p/the-truth

2024-10-18 14:07:43 UTC

FASCISM'S BAD? WHY?
Why is fascism bad, you ask? Professor Timothy Snyder has got you covered. He's produced a 10-minute video on Fascism 101, everything you ever wanted to know about it, and why, yessireebob, it's bad.
As Snyder states,
"We have the thing, but people are afraid to use the word."
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism #TimothySnyder
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https://snyder.substack.com/p/why-is-fascism-bad-professor

2024-10-13 12:52:20 UTC

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Barbaro co-hosts New York Times' Daily podcast. He responded to Sullivan's agreement with Stevens:
"“Care to explain what the issue is with these headlines?”
As she suggests, Barbaro knows full well what's wrong with them. But she explains anyway so that more of us can open our eyes and see what's going on.
The Harris headline is "a negative headline over a dubious story." It's the Times continuing its ugly attacks on Harris, in short.
#KamalaHarris #Trump #NewYorkTimes #media
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2024-10-13 12:47:05 UTC

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"Commenting on the second headline, the author Stuart Stevens, who writes about how democracies turn into autocracies, suggested: 'These two headlines should be studied in journalism classes for decades.'"
Sullivan reports that she responded (on Twitter/X) to Stevens, saying, "Not a bad idea," and got a snarky and supercilious (my words) reply from young whippersnapper (my words) Michael Barbaro.
#KamalaHarris #Trump #NewYorkTimes #media
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2024-10-13 12:42:07 UTC

Margaret Sullivan offers insightful commentary on what was colossally wrong with the New York Times' choice to juxtapose clashing headlines about Kamala Harris and Trump on its site recently — and what's very wrong with the corporate media's continued both-sidesism as they report on this presidential election.
She writes:
#KamalaHarris #Trump #NewYorkTimes #media
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https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/about-those-new-york-times-headlines

2024-10-06 15:00:59 UTC

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Thank you for what you've said in this discussion. It strikes me as significant — and disturbing — that some people are apparently unaware (or want to pretend to be unaware) that hijacking conversations shows tremendous disrepect for the person who initiated the conversation. There's a kind of hubristic arrogance to this behavior, with the implication that I have a right to hammer you with "the" truth which I alone know, that's really reprehensible.

2024-10-06 13:09:14 UTC

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You have jumped into my social media feed to coax me into an argument. That's an act of hostility. You have not only ignored the points I've made, you're implicitly ridiiculing them and anyone who wants to take them seriously. That's an act of hostility. I don't intend to waste more time and energy responding to these attacks.
Γνῶθι σεαυτόν (gnóthi ...

2024-10-06 12:16:23 UTC

"MeMaw told me or I saw it on TV is NOT research."
~ Alicia Norman, who is addressing the astonishing amount of toxic nonsense Trump is peddling about the federal response to Helene, and people's willingness to believe it
#disinformation #lies #hurricane #Helene
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https://oneangryblackchick.substack.com/p/omg-stfu-fema-is-not-done-supplying

2024-09-09 13:21:29 UTC

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My father, his brother, his brother-in-law, my mother's brother and half-brother: all soldiers during World War II. All risked their lives to rid the world of Hitler.
Classes in school focused on signs the German people "should" have seen from early on, that Hitler was a madman, was plotting mass-murder, would cause bloodshed and chaos. I taught lessons as a college teacher centered on these ideas.
#Trump #Hitler
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2024-09-09 13:20:37 UTC

When I was growing up, I heard lots of talk about Hitler. "How could anyone have listened to that madman rant and have believed what he said?" people would ask, shaking their heads sadly.
The implication was, good people like us — as we imagined ourselves to be — would have seen through Hitler from the outset and would not have been duped by the crazy talk about targeting minorities, ridding the nation of undesirables, letting blood flow in the streets to purify the country.
#Trump #Hitler
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2024-09-08 12:49:31 UTC

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Yes, a good way to analyze it.

2024-09-05 13:26:52 UTC

"For the past week [Trump] has been telling a story about a residential building in Colorado taken over by a gang from Venezuela. But it appears the story is entirely made up. Similarly, Trump on Friday said at a right-wing Moms for Liberty event that public schools in America kidnap children and operate on them to change their sex."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #crime #BigLie #immigrants #MomsforLiberty #trans #Putin #disinformation
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-4-2024

2024-08-30 20:09:36 UTC

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"We go to cemeteries for all sorts of reasons. To pray. To honor the dead. To commune with the souls of the departed. Cemeteries are solemn places. We instinctively whisper when we visit them.
You do not often see people smiling in cemeteries, though that does happen from time to time.
But I have never seen someone give a thumbs-up over a grave. Until now."
~ Jonathan V. Last
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/thumbs-up-the-story-of-no-context

2024-08-30 15:55:31 UTC

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"Is this the worst thing Donald’s ever done? Not by a long-shot. But the combination of selfishness, thuggery, menace, and his willingness to bring the entire weight of his power to bear on a private American citizen is a pretty good encapsulation of everything that is wrong with and disqualifying about him.
It's time for corporate media to catch up and refuse to let this one go."
~ Mary Trump
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans
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https://www.marytrump.org/p/be-shocked

2024-08-30 15:41:06 UTC

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Noah Berlatsky thinks that, though there's strong resistance in some quarters to the use of the term "fascism" to describe what Trump and his minions are about, the Arlington drama shows us that "we are actually at the point where fascists are silencing people."
It shows us that fascism is already here in Trump and his thugs.
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans
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https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/trumps-arlington-photoshoot-shows

2024-08-30 15:34:39 UTC

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4. Media can get past both sides coverage.
5. The future is terror.
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans
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2024-08-30 15:33:16 UTC

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Don Moynihan's optic on the gross stunt pulled at Arlington National Cemetery:
"Arlington is a small moment that offers a big insight into what a second Trump administration might look like."
Moynihan sees five takeaways here:
1. Public service as a koke; public servants as props.
2. Responsiveness to the President = lawbreaking.
3. The Purpose of schedule F is to enable impunity.
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans
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https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-arlington-debacle-shows-us

2024-08-30 15:25:02 UTC

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"The nation’s honored dead did not die for this."
~ Greg Olear
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans
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https://gregolear.substack.com/p/cemetery-gate

2024-08-30 12:24:16 UTC

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Mike Luckovich commenting on Trump's foul political stunt exploiting the graves of deceased soldiers.
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/8/29/2266624/-Cartoon-The-foulest-photo-op
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2024-08-30 12:22:17 UTC

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"You know who I’d like to hear from on Arlington Cemetery Controversy? Senator Tom Cotton, who wrote in his book that Arlington 'transcend[s] politics' and that the ANC Reps are 'some of the most respectful, professional public servants.'"
~ Jim Swift
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans #TomCotton #Republicans
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-manages-to-spoil-one-of-our

2024-08-30 12:21:19 UTC

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"And that’s the real story—that private citizens are afraid to do the right thing because the Republican nominee to be president of the United States is a low-life criminal who doesn’t care what happens to anybody but him—as long as he gets his way."
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans
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2024-08-30 12:20:45 UTC

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"It took real courage for the Arlington National Cemetery employee to try to enforce the rules in the face of Trump campaign threats and bullying. It’s understandable that she wasn’t willing to file a police report. It’s very possible that wouldn’t have ended well for her."
~ Mary Trump
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans
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https://www.marytrump.org/p/letting-it-slide

2024-08-30 12:20:05 UTC

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"But it’s also the kind of dark cutting commentary on Trump’s zero I.Q. vileness that the best parodists in the world would be hard-pressed to imagine. He does this kind of thing alot, by the way. It’s because he is a monstrous person."
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans
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2024-08-30 12:19:25 UTC

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"There’s nothing funny about Trump’s desecration of Arlington National Cemetery. Except perhaps the image of clueless Trump smiling like a moron giving the thumbs up in front of row upon row of the grave markers of fallen warriors. I mean, it’s deeply offensive. Repugnant in the extreme."
~ David Rothkopf
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans
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https://davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/nature-is-sending-you-a-message-about

2024-08-30 12:18:03 UTC

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"At Arlington, it’s not a controversy. It’s a crime.
Who are we going to believe, Trump or the United States Army? ...
Assault is a crime, but the criming didn’t stop there."
~ John Stoehr
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans
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https://www.editorialboard.com/at-arlington-its-not-a-controversy-its-a-crime/

2024-08-30 12:17:23 UTC

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"The law aside, only a gross lack of manners, decency and humility could incline a person to film a fundraising appeal over the resting places of dead men and women who cannot decline to participate in the coarse spectacle. The photo of a grinning Trump giving a jaunty thumbs up over these patriots’ graves is an indelible image of narcissism risen to the point of sociopathy."
~ Kevin Carroll
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/30/trump-campaign-behavior-military-arlington-virginia

2024-08-30 12:16:42 UTC

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Below is a screenshot of the headline for Josh Kovensky's report today at Daily Kos about the Army's statement re: Trump's desecration of Arlington National Cemetery:
"Army: Thousands of Events Are Held at Arlington. Only Trump Caused an Incident."
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/army-thousands-of-events-are-held-at-arlington-only-trump-caused-an-incident
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2024-08-30 12:13:55 UTC

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“'I don’t think I can adequately explain what a massive deal it is for the Army to make a statement like this,' political writer and veteran Allison Gill of Mueller, She Wrote, noted. 'The Pentagon avoids statements like this at all costs. But a draft dodging traitor decided to lie about our armed forces staff, so they went to paper.'”
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans
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2024-08-30 12:12:56 UTC

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"It went on to say that a cemetery employee 'who attempted to ensure adherence to these rules was abruptly pushed aside…. This incident was unfortunate, & it is also unfortunate that the… employee and her professionalism has been unfairly attacked. [Arlington National Cemetery] is a national shrine to the honored dead of the Armed Forces, and its dedicated staff will continue to ensure public ceremonies are conducted with the dignity & respect the nation’s fallen deserve.'”
#Arlington
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2024-08-30 12:10:51 UTC

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"The Army said that the cemetery hosts almost 3,000 public wreath-laying ceremonies a year without incident and that Trump and his staff 'were made aware of federal laws, Army regulations and [Department of Defense] policies, which clearly prohibit political activities on cemetery grounds'.”
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-29-2024

2024-08-30 12:08:56 UTC

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"It’s blown up because it’s a microcosm of Donald Trump’s moral squalor. ...
What happened at Arlington National Cemetery earlier this week was much more than an erroneous photo op. It was Trump on full display."
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans
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2024-08-30 12:08:31 UTC

"Yesterday, the U.S. Army issued a stern rebuke to the Trump campaign over his visit on Monday to the Arlington National Cemetery...
The incident has blown up into a big issue, but not because the Trump campaign erroneously held a political event at the Arlington National Cemetery."
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #Arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #veterans
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-cemetery-gate

2024-07-31 17:29:10 UTC

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"Project 2025 was just starting to fade from the news, given the hubbub around Joe Biden’s withdrawal and the meteoric rise of Kamala Harris because, well, happy days are here again. But now the Trump campaign, in its infinite wisdom, has thrust it back into the spotlight by lying openly about its clear ties to it."
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #JDVance #Project2025
/24
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/trump-just-pulled-a-streisand

2024-07-31 17:20:40 UTC

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"The convicted felon made clear this week he will end elections if he gets back in power. …
Our crucial response? Vote. And do not doubt: Kamala Harris is the bulwark against this danger."
~ Steven Beschloss
#Trump #JDVance #Project2025
/23
https://www.americaamerica.news/p/trump-watch-vote-while-you-still

2024-07-31 14:10:08 UTC

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"It’s bogosity piled on top of bogosity in an effort to pretend it was a rogue effort by unsanctioned people very distant from the former president. None of that was true from the beginning. It wasn’t true yesterday. And it won’t be true tomorrow. What happened yesterday amounts to a whole lot of nothing. …
The Trump campaign effort to try to make it all go away was itself incriminated by the Trump fingerprints left all over the place."
#Trump #JDVance #Project2025
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2024-07-31 14:09:17 UTC

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"Of all the Trump flailing over the past 10 days, nothing was quite as comical, nonsensical, and ineffectual as yesterday’s big push to try to shove Project 2025 – the centerpiece of MAGA world’s planning for a Trump II presidency – down the memory hole.
Where to even begin with this?"
~ David Kurtz
#Trump #JDVance #Project2025
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/dont-be-fooled-by-trumps-big-display-of-killing-project-2025

2024-07-31 13:55:20 UTC

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"Trump wasn’t crazy to want Project 2025 off his back. ...
There’s one more wrinkle to all this: JD Vance.
Trump’s VP candidate wrote the foreword to Roberts’s forthcoming book, Dawn’s Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America. (That title’s an eleventh-hour edit, by the way: Roberts was initially rolling with Burning Down Washington to Save America, complete with a cover photo of a match.)"
~ Andrew Egger
#Trump #JDVance #Project2025
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/massacre-on-mass-ave

2024-07-31 13:01:15 UTC

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" Make no mistake: The Christian Nationalist dream for the world is what lurks behind Trump’s promise to his followers that they 'won’t have to vote in four years.' Place your faith in me, he says, and I will reshape this country into one where Christianity wields total control."
#Trump #Project2025 #WhiteChristianNationalism #heterosexism #homophobia #MaleEntitlement #misogyny
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~ Jacqui Lewis
https://jacquilewis.substack.com/p/trumps-christian-nationalism-vs-the

2024-07-31 12:53:11 UTC

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"What Project 2025 accomplished was to remind Americans to look beyond the spectacle, the personalities, the drama of the campaign, and consider policy. Nine-hundred pages of policy proposals, laid out in black and white. As I said in my interview, there’s no guarantee that everything would be enacted, but we should expect nearly all of it to be on the table and a good portion of it enacted."
#Trump #Project2025
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2024-07-31 12:52:35 UTC

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"Trump himself has been actively promoting many of the Project’s most disturbing proposals: dismantling the 'deep state' and replacing tens of thousands of federal employees with loyalists, initiating mass detention and deportation of immigrants, and pursuing various mechanisms for enhancing the power of the presidency, to name a few."
~ Kristin Du Mez
#Trump #Project2025
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https://kristindumez.substack.com/p/project-2025-rip

2024-07-31 12:48:37 UTC

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As Jaime Harrison explains, Trump's Project 2025 would gut Medicare and Social Security, rip away the Affordable Care Act, demolish the Department of Education, and establish a national abortion ban.
#Trump #Project2025 #WhiteChristianNationalism #Medicare #SocialSecurity #AffordableCareAct #abortion
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https://project2025.substack.com/p/trumps-project-2025-would-gut-medicare