Zhi Zhu 🕸️

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2026-04-02 21:59:50 UTC

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"We are hated as a nation now.
One man has done this."
- Charles Pierce
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a70790567/united-states-reputation-falls-democracy-trump/
#DonaldTrump #Trump #GOP #Politics #News #Press #Quote #US #USA #UnitedStates #America

2026-04-02 21:56:19 UTC

"We have ourselves a Dunning-Kruger president, one who is supremely confident in his abilities on a range of topics where he is completely ignorant. And now he has taken us into a Dunning-Kruger war, defined by that fatal combination of ignorance and confidence."
~ Paul Waldman
https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/a-dunning-kruger-war-courtesy-of
#DonaldTrump #Trump #Iran #War #IranWar #GOP #Politics #News #Press #Quotes #US #USA #UnitedStates #America

2026-03-24 22:15:00 UTC

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"The #Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a disclaimer of opinion on the U.S. government’s FY 2025 financial statements — the 29th consecutive year it has been unable to determine whether the statements are fairly presented. This is primarily due to serious, ongoing financial management problems at the 👉 Dept of Defense👈 [which failed EVERY audit ever given it] and weaknesses in accounting for interagency transactions"
https://fortune.com/2026/03/23/us-government-insolvent-fiscal-crisis-fix/
#Trump #Politics #Military #News #US #USA

2026-03-24 22:09:38 UTC

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"Importantly, the $47.78 trillion in reported liabilities does not include the unfunded obligations of social insurance programs like Social Security & Medicare...
The government’s consolidated balance sheet position... deteriorated by nearly $2.07 trillion between FY 2024 & FY 2025, reaching a staggering negative $41.72 trillion. Total liabilities are now nearly eight times the value of reported assets."
https://fortune.com/2026/03/23/us-government-insolvent-fiscal-crisis-fix/
#DonaldTrump #Trump #GOP #Politics #Economics #News #US #USA

2026-03-24 22:03:40 UTC

"The U.S. #government is insolvent. That’s not hyperbole — it’s the conclusion drawn directly from the #Treasury Department’s own consolidated financial statements for fiscal year 2025, released last week to near-total #media silence. The numbers: $6.06 trillion in total assets against $47.78 trillion in total liabilities as of September 30, 2025."
https://fortune.com/2026/03/23/us-government-insolvent-fiscal-crisis-fix/
#DonaldTrump #Trump #GOP #Politics #USPol #Finance #Economics #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #America #Debt #deficit
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2026-03-20 15:29:44 UTC

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"“We want her under oath because we do not trust her. Why don’t we trust her? Because she’s a liar.”...
“We want her under oath because she has shown that she is involved in a cover up…. This is not a briefing... It is a fake deposition, where no one can see what’s going on, with zero transcription... and where no one is under oath, and they are allowed to freely lie to members of Congress.”"
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-19-2026
#PamBondi #Bondi #DOJ #Trump #Epstein #Politics #News #US #USA #UnitedStates
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2026-03-20 15:20:30 UTC

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"March 18, #Bondi & Deputy AG Todd Blanche appeared at that “briefing,” a closed-door hearing... in which they were *not* under oath. #Democrats asked repeatedly if Bondi intended to comply with the subpoena; she refused to commit. When Summer Lee (D-PA) asked Comer if he would compel Bondi to comply and hold her in contempt if she doesn’t, Comer told her she was “bitching.”
Ultimately, the Democrats walked out of the briefing."
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-19-2026
#Trump #Epstein #Politics #News #US #USA
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2026-03-20 15:12:42 UTC

"After yesterday’s revelation that the Dept of Justice (DOJ) is blocking the release of a memo related to a Drug Enforcement Agency investigation into sex trafficker #JeffreyEpstein and 14 co-conspirators, Attorney General #PamBondi added more evidence to the idea that the #DOJ is engaged in covering up the relationship between members of the #Trump administration, including President Donald J. Trump himself, and #Epstein."
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-19-2026
#DonaldTrump #EpsteinFiles #Politics #News #US
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2026-03-19 13:31:45 UTC

"it wouldn't really disrupt the US #economy ... It would hurt consumers,... but that's really the last of our concerns"
- Trump's National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett
🤯
He just flat out states that working-class Americans being hurt by rising prices caused by Trump's #war is not important. The "economy" -- in the form of the American oligarchs who own most of it -- is all that matters to Trump and the GOP.
#Trump #KevinHassett #GOP #Politics #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #America
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2026-02-22 13:29:54 UTC

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"The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office announced Saturday that it is conducting an investigation into the police response to a walkout by Quakertown High School students who were protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions."
https://whyy.org/articles/bucks-county-district-attorney-investigation-quakertown-police-student-ice-protest/
#ICE #Protest #Police #ACAB #Children #Students #News #Quakertown #Pennsylvania #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #FirstAmendment #Resist #Resistance #FreeSpeech
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2026-02-22 13:22:50 UTC

The student protest in Quakertown, #Pennsylvania was peaceful until the #police showed up -- Including the police chief in plain clothes -- and started grabbing students and tackling them to the ground. The chief put a young girl in a choke hold.
#video:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:clrz2dor4orqkvvqr3qwrary/post/3mffhwg4ztk2w
Weasel-worded local news article that performed stenography for the police (though the photographs and video are useful):
https://centralbucksnews.com/news/2026/feb/20/lockdown-at-quakertown-schools-friday-afternoon-after-canceled-walkout-leads-to-confrontation/
#ACAB #ICE #Protest #FirstAmendment #News #USA #US #UnitedStates
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2026-01-21 09:46:48 UTC

"Let me be absolutely clear about what you just read: The President of the #UnitedStates is explicitly stating that because he didn’t receive an award he wanted, he “no longer feel[s] an obligation to think purely of Peace” and is therefore justified in threatening to forcibly take territory from a #NATO ally.
This is the stated reasoning. From the President. In writing. To a foreign head of state."
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/20/everyone-knows-our-mad-kings-greenland-obsession-is-insane-why-wont-congress-stop-it/
#DonaldTrump #Trump #Politics #News #US #Norway #Greenland #Denmark
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2026-01-21 06:38:41 UTC

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@nprofile…9rzs
The rich are afraid of what will happen if all of the people who actually work for a living realize how badly the rich have been screwing them over.
So the rich are constantly manipulating working class people into turning against one another based on lies that provoke fear and distrust.
"Other" working class people are NOT the reason your life sucks. The rich corporate owners are the ones making your life miserable.
#Meme #Inequality #Politics
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2025-12-16 20:50:33 UTC

"At the beginning of November, I ordered a 32GB DDR5 kit... and 3 weeks later those very same sticks of DDR5 are now listed for a staggering $330– a 156% increase in price from less than a month ago! ...how could this happen THIS quickly? Well, buckle up! I am about to tell you the story of Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal, or: How the AI bubble, panic, and unpreparedness stole Christmas"
https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal
#SamAltman #OpenAI #AI #Tech #Technology #News #Press #World #SouthKorea #US #USA
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2025-12-15 18:51:07 UTC

"“You won’t meet anyone more conservative than me, and I didn’t vote for this,” Zink said."
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/12/15/doge-cuts-donald-trump-montana-00681695
[Yes, Zink did vote for this. He just doesn't want to admit it to himself.
Based on Trump's first term and his campaign rally promises, the evidence was clear. Anyone who claims they didn't know how bad #Trump would be for the #US is lying to themselves. Some part of them knew. They just wanted to have their hate/cake and eat it too.]
#GOP #Politics #USPol #US #USA #America
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2025-12-03 14:09:36 UTC

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@nprofile…lhws
Would you enjoy hatting a hen and her chicks?
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2025-10-19 16:22:12 UTC

I went to a #NoKings rally in #Texas, yesterday. I didn't go in to Austin, but went to a medium sized city near Austin. The crowd was pretty big, overflowing the original protest area by a couple of city blocks. I'm not good at estimating numbers of people, but probably 300-400?
Everyone was friendly and having a good time. There were quite a few inflatable costumes, 2 frogs, several unicorns, a giant chicken, some dragons, etc... Several people creating bubbles. Lots of US flags!
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2025-09-12 01:59:33 UTC

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@nprofile…qgrt
The Trump regime is just setting US taxpayer money on fire because they hate women.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/health/usaid-contraceptives-destroyed-trump.html
In July, they incinerated tons of specialized food for starving children rather than distributing it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/07/usaid-emergency-food-incinerate-trump/683532/
What will the Trump regime burn next?
#Trump #GOP #USPol #Politics #Misogyny #Children #USAID #US #USA #UnitedStates #News
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2025-09-06 23:33:23 UTC

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@nprofile…efkj
Shame! Shame on the US Tennis Assoc. leadership for asking broadcasters to censor out any negative reactions in response to Trump's appearance.
It is NOT the USTA's responsibility to support Trump's public image. If tennis fans want to "Boo!" Trump, that should be covered by the broadcasters. And the USTA should not try to censor it.
#Sports #Tennis #USOpen #TV #Press #Media #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #FirstAmendment #Protest

2025-09-06 21:19:37 UTC

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" #JB Pritzker and #GavinNewsom said, effectively, precisely the same thing...
But Newsom’s intervention worked differently for several reasons...
This isn’t just about confrontation...
This is about confronting #Trump in a way that undercuts his basis of power, even while embarrassing the #press of all stripes to stop normalizing Trump’s #authoritarianism."
- @nprofile…9pnq
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/02/a-tale-of-two-governors-confronting-versus-dick-wagging/
#USPol #Politics #GOP #Fascism #Democracy #Democrats #US #USA #News
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2025-09-06 21:05:49 UTC

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"Liberals and journalists understand language differently than fascists do. Liberals want to argue about truth, which Pritzker did exceptionally well. He laid out crime rates, he laid out how IL has addressed it, he laid out policy issues.
But right wingers want to grab and hold attention and mobilize emotion."
- @nprofile…9pnq
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/02/a-tale-of-two-governors-confronting-versus-dick-wagging/
#USPol #Politics #Trump #GOP #Republicans #Democrats #Policy #Press #News #Media #US #USA #UnitedStates

2025-09-06 19:47:56 UTC

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Does #Trump realize that he is casting himself as one of the worst war criminals ever depicted in #film?
Lt Colonel Kilgore is a bloodthirsty, sadistic, amoral warmonger, who enjoys killing innocent civilians throughout his part in the #movie. He is clearly depicted as an evil little man. Even his name reveals what a sicko he is: Kilgore = kill + gore.
What is wrong with Trump (and the #GOP) that he sees this horrible villain as a hero to be emulated?
#MAGA #USPol #US #USA #UnitedStates
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2025-09-06 19:24:51 UTC

Will this be exhibit 1 during Trump's 3rd impeachment? (Or if they ever invoke the 25th Amendment on him?)
"The president of the United States, a Vietnam draft dodger, declaring war on an American city (with AI slop implying that he will burn it with napalm)"
-Ben Raderstorf
https://bsky.app/profile/raders.bsky.social/post/3ly6pa6dpv22g
#Trump #GOP #Republicans #SocialMedia #DonaldTrump #War #Chicago #Illinois #USA #Meme #Memes #US #USPol #Politics #UnitedStates
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2025-09-04 19:00:16 UTC

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"The #Trump regime offered no legal justification —let alone a moral one— for blowing up in international waters a #ship carrying civilians from a nation with which the #UnitedStates is not at #war. Or why the standard practice of warning & then interdicting a ship believed to be involved in drug trafficking — and arresting any suspects & bringing them to trial — wasn’t followed in this case."
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/trump-boat-bombing-venezuela-20250904.html
#Hegseth #Venezuela #Boat #GOP #Politics #USPol #military #News #Press #USA
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2025-09-04 18:47:35 UTC

"That small boat was attacked off the coast of #Venezuela which is over a 1000 nautical miles away from here. The #UnitedStates was obviously well out of range of that boat...
This civilian, non-military #boat was not struck in self-defense... they just summarily killed everybody on board...
extrajudicial murder...
Whatever pretext this admn may claim, this looks for all the world like a flagrant violation of #US & international #law”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyNxeMIIF94
#Trump #Hegseth #Politics #News

2025-09-04 01:17:12 UTC

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Trump arranged for US military jets to do flyovers during the Epstein survivors' press conference. He was trying to drown out the survivors' voices. Trump failed. His attempt only showed how desperate he is to distract from the #EpsteinFiles.
Cartoon by Michael de Adder
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/operation-squirrel
#Trump #Epstein #JeffreyEpstein #EpsteinSurvivors #Press #Media #News #EditorialCartoon #Cartoon #PoliticalCartoon #Politics #USPol #USPolitics #US #USA #UnitedStates #GOP #MAGA #Republicans
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2025-09-04 01:09:03 UTC

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@nprofile…efkj
"Why are politicians from both parties so unable to see the moral and strategic necessity of changing course?"
AIPAC money.
If US politicians were to speak out against the genocide Israel is committing, they would lose access to the money and campaign support that AIPAC provides.
#Corruption #Politics #USPol #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #War #WarCrimes #US #USA #UnitedStates

2025-09-03 21:08:29 UTC

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@nprofile…krhr @nprofile…ysde
I cancelled my cable/satellite subscription several years ago because there was no way to avoid giving money to Fox News with the subscription.
I haven't missed it at all.
We pay for a couple of streaming services now, and it's actually cheaper than cable/satellite was.

2025-09-03 20:13:13 UTC

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"Massie and Khanna are pushing for a vote on their bill using a “discharge petition,” which allows any #House member to bring a bill to the floor for a vote ― even against the wishes of the speaker — if they can get 218 signatures from House lawmakers... Massie’s got only four of the six Republican signatures he needs, and the #WhiteHouse is lobbying hard against motion"
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/epstein-victims-call-trump-release-files_n_68b84e37e4b06793d89cbbb9
Call your Representatives, tell them to sign (202) 224-3121
#Epstein #EpsteinFiles #Bills #News #US
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2025-09-03 19:35:02 UTC

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I can't find a transcript of the whole #Epstein survivor press conference, but I highly recommend watching the #video of the whole thing. It's heartbreaking and enraging.
The sound of jets flying over (which Trump apparently arranged) interrupting the women's voices just emphasizes how desperate #Trump is to silence these women and quash the whole #EpsteinFiles issue.
Video part 1:
https://www.msnbc.com/ana-cabrera-reports/watch/epstein-survivors-lawmakers-speak-on-capitol-hill-246547525915
Video part 2:
https://www.msnbc.com/ana-cabrera-reports/watch/epstein-survivors-say-they-re-creating-their-own-list-to-release-246546501856
#JeffreyEpstein #Press #News #Media #US #USA

2025-09-03 19:16:56 UTC

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"Epstein's reach went to the very top of fashion, arts and entertainment. This did not just happen to underage girls in #Florida. In #NewYork City, hundreds young ambitious #women were abused by him.
#Epstein was not just a serial predator. He was an international human trafficker, and many around him knew, many participated, and many profited.
And yet, he was protected."
https://www.msnbc.com/ana-cabrera-reports/watch/epstein-survivors-say-they-re-creating-their-own-list-to-release-246546501856
#JeffreyEpstein #Trump #GOP #Politics #USPol #Press #News #World #US #USA #UnitedStates
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2025-09-03 18:54:44 UTC

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"“Her voice was elevated way before our voices were elevated... And that same calm, manipulative voice that she had, so polite there that day with Todd Blanche was the same, polite, coercive, manipulative voice that I heard as she was grooming me to then send me off to home of #JeffreyEpstein where he would assault me.”
...nothing that #Maxwell says can be believed...
"...I sat there and listened to this woman’s voice lie.”
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-administration-epstein-files-09-03-25#cmf44zxo6001l3b6n5y4ijnkl
#Trump #Epstein #Politics #News #US #USA
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2025-09-03 17:48:45 UTC

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"she was working 3 jobs to help her family when she found out about a $300 job to give "an older guy a massage". But her dream job became her "worst nightmare"...
at the age of 14. "I had never been more scared in my life than I was that first time that he hurt me"...
told by #Epstein & #Maxwell that if she talked... she would face severe consequences "including death".
...Epstein bragged about his friendship w/ #DonaldTrump"
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cpwywe5ee84t?post=asset%3Aed87f545-e926-47af-9155-f97fe958c663#post
#News #USPol #US #USA
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2025-09-03 17:38:41 UTC

"Another Epstein victim, Lisa Phillips, said... "us #Epstein survivors have been discussing creating our own list."
"We know the names. Many of us were abused by them. Now, together as survivors, we will confidentially compile the names we all know, who were regularly in the Epstein #world. And it will be done by #survivors and for survivors. No one else is involved. Stay tuned for more details,""
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/epstein-victims-press-lawmakers-support-bill-release-hidden-files-say-americans-appalled
#Trump #EpsteinFiles #Press #News #Media #Video #USPol #Politics #US
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2025-08-25 15:36:32 UTC

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"What’s remarkable here is both red and blue America seem, for once, to agree on the facts: That this takeover is a power grab by Trump, the representative of incurious, racist America, and that its main purpose is to punish D.C. residents for being more cosmopolitan and liberal."
- @nprofile…6802
https://www.salon.com/2025/08/25/maga-knows-dc-takeover-isnt-about-crime-which-is-why-they-love-it/
#DC #WashingtonDC #Politics #USPol #Trump #MAGA #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Bigotry #News #USNews #US #USA #UnitedStates

2025-08-25 15:21:36 UTC

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@nprofile…vkcf
Wouldn't that be socialism?
Actual socialism, as opposed to all the stuff the GOP claims is socialism, but isn't.

2025-08-25 11:31:23 UTC

"Corruption isn’t just about what a politician gains, it’s about what the public loses."
- Zohran Mamdani
Yes, exactly.
I wish more journalists would emphasize this. Every corrupt act by an elected official *hurts* the people they are supposed to be helping.
#ZohranMamdani #Politics #USPol #Trump #GOP #Corruption #NewYork #NewYorkCity #US #USA
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2025-08-24 09:32:16 UTC

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@nprofile…66c8
Archived version, no paywall:
https://archive.is/wmCS4
#Russia #Ukraine #war #History

2025-08-23 12:44:01 UTC

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@nprofile…efkj
Trickle down economic policy has always been a lie.
"The money was all appropriated for the top in hopes that it would trickle down to the needy.
Mr. Hoover didn't know that the money trickled up.
Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow.
Bit it will at least have passed through the poor fellow's hand."
~Will Rogers
#Memes #Quotes #TrickleDown #Lies #Economy #Business #USPol #Politics #US #USA
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2025-08-21 07:11:23 UTC

"We've officially reached the "show me your papers" phase of Trump's fascist takeover."
-Marisa Kabas
https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3lwutywcay22g
#Trump #GOP #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Politics #USPol #UnitedStates #America #US #USA
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2025-08-21 07:04:49 UTC

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@nprofile…vkcf
What Trump meant to say was, "and the CROOKED game of **democracy** is over"
Even under Trump's desired dictatorship, there will still be political maneuvering, there just won't be democracy.
#Trump #GOP #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Dictatorship #Politics #USPol #SocialMedia #US #USA
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2025-08-20 14:52:57 UTC

If, like me, anyone else was confused about Anne Telnaes "The Wannabe Dictator" political cartoon (see link below), it is referring to a scene from the classic Charlie Chaplin film, "The Great Dictator":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jj-PaqFrBc&t=1s
Link to #AnneTelnaes cartoon:https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/the-wannabe-dictator
#Humor #Cartoon #EditorialCartoon #PoliticalCartoon #Politics #USPol #ClassicFilm #CharlieChaplin

2025-08-20 05:32:42 UTC

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"Trying to beat a drip-feed of highly alarming #crime #videos by brandishing #statistics showing such crimes are in fact becoming more rare is like bringing a pool noodle to a gun fight...
As he takes over DC, #Trump isn’t acting like a politician so much as a film producer. The goal isn’t quiet on the #DC streets. It’s making something new for the content beast: #video of clashes between masked cops & DC residents."
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-wants-cop-violence-in-your-feed
#DC #WashingtonDC #Politics #USPol #News #USNews #US
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2025-08-20 05:26:24 UTC

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"Many of these #Americans don’t even trust their own experience—at least not first and foremost... How do they get their sense of what’s what out there?... by scrolling their #apps and soaking in the #algorithm...
Why do #Republicans think #America in general—and its cities in particular—have a massive raging #crime problem? Because their scroll surfaces them a parade of crime content... and a barrage of right-wing influencers"
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-wants-cop-violence-in-your-feed
#Trump #Politics #SocialMedia #News #US
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2025-08-20 05:22:07 UTC

"Here’s something #Trump has grasped much more quickly than the rest of us: After a decade of feeding at the slop trough of our online political discourse, a critical mass of #Americans... have essentially given up on the idea that broad #facts... are knowable at all. The graphs, the numbers, the charts... These voters either won’t ever see them in the first place, or, if they do, they’ll assume prima facie that the numbers are cooked."
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-wants-cop-violence-in-your-feed
#USPol #UnitedStates #News #US
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2025-08-20 03:20:56 UTC

"In case it's not obvious, Republicans aren't satisfied with red-state National Guards: Pirro is rolling out the red carpet for white nationalist militias to come to Washington DC and patrol the city."
- @nprofile…rkcx
https://bsky.app/profile/waldo.net/post/3lwsf7g6vtk2a
#Trump #GOP #Fascism #Authoritarianism #WhiteNationalism #USPol #Politics #DC #WashingtonDC #JeaninePirro #News #Press #Media #US #USA
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2025-08-19 02:52:18 UTC

"Republican leadership in #Texas refused to let Democratic state Rep. Nicole Collier leave the House chamber after she refused to agree to a 24/7 police "escort."
... #Democrats who left the state would only be allowed to leave the chamber on Monday if they signed an agreement to be accompanied by an escort from the Texas Dept of Public Safety...
Collier was "locked into the House chamber" because she refused to sign the document."
https://www.rawstory.com/nicole-collier-texas-house/
#GOP #Politics #USPol #News #US #USA
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2025-08-18 03:52:21 UTC

"On Wednesday, September 3rd, at 10:30 a.m. ET, Representatives Ro Khanna (CA-17) and Thomas Massie (KY-04) will hold a press conference, joined by survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's abuse — several of whom will speak publicly for the first time."
https://bsky.app/profile/pamspaulding.bsky.social/post/3lwn7g56i4c2h
#Trump #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #DonaldTrump #JeffreyEpstein #GOP #Democrats #USPol #Politics #Press #News #US #USA
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2025-08-18 03:43:26 UTC

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@nprofile…6gnj
"the masked agent issued a warning: “More of my guys are coming & we’re going to take care of you.”...
“It’s literally a threat,” said Fonseca Tapia. “...People are wearing masks & refuse to identify themselves, and one of them tells you he is going to call more of them to ‘take care of you’?” This is for sure an intimidation tactic to instill fear in people who are working to alert the community when there is an #ICE presence.”"
https://theintercept.com/2025/08/11/ice-agent-caught-on-camera-disguised-as-a-construction-worker/
#Fascism #Trump #News #US
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2025-08-17 02:29:03 UTC

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@nprofile…efkj
"Federal Agent in D.C.: “Proud Boys? They’re great guys. They love the United States.”"
You cannot claim to "love the United States" when you fear and hate half of the people who make up the United States.
White nationalists are NOT patriots. They are cowards who hate the idea of equality, liberty and justice for all that the USA stands for.
Racists are not patriots, they are simply fear-filled bigots.
#Memes #Quotes #Racism #Bigotry #ICE #Trump
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2025-08-17 01:59:55 UTC

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@nprofile…frsn
Trump's version of Hitler's Gleichschaltung.
Trump wants every aspect of US life to align with Trump's own twisted worldview, just as Hitler tried to force everything in Germany to "coordinate" with his own Nazi worldview.
#Trump #Hitler #Nazi #Politics #Art #Education #News #Media #Press #USPol #Memes #Gleichschaltung
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2025-08-16 23:46:52 UTC

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@nprofile…z8kp
See Wilhoit's Law (below) about in-groups and out-groups.
The wealthy and well-connected are the in-group, and EVERYONE ELSE is part of the out-group whether they realize it or not.
Even straight White men (who are not rich and not well-connected) are actually part of the out-group whenever it benefits the rich and powerful. (e.g. low level workers thrown under the bus to protect the big boss)
#GOP #Republicans #Politics #USPol #Memes #Quotes
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2025-08-14 22:24:10 UTC

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"Selling increasingly vaporous goods for ever more profit... raises questions about what buyers are really getting for their money... [Trump's] thirst for cash makes questions about conflicts of interest all the more pressing.
Did #Trump strike tacit deals w/ Justin Sun or C.Z., or w/ the #media companies that paid him big settlements, or w/ Gulf monarchs?...
Almost anyone who sees what’s going on has to assume that this money is buying the President’s favor.”
#Corruption #Politics #News #US
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2025-08-14 22:15:58 UTC

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"three and a half Billion dollars in Presidential profits—even though my accounting is necessarily approximate—is a dizzying sum...
Trump’s #profiteering resembles that of an Arab monarch: he treats his #public office as personal property, as an asset that is his to exploit as if he owned it. Kalman said, “One of the differences between a #monarchy and a #democracy is that the President should not start to view the Presidency as his personal fiefdom.”
#Trump #Corruption #USPol #News #US
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2025-08-14 22:07:39 UTC

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"By the time I finished adding up the Trump family’s profits, I was almost inured to it all. To address conflicts of interest among elected officials, U.S. laws generally require only disclosure, allowing voters to judge any self-dealing for themselves. Nobody can say that Trump has failed to disclose his recent money-making; he might as well have shouted about $TRUMP from the White House roof."
https://archive.ph/Z9rQ1#selection-567.0-571.170
#Trump #Corruption #Business #Politics #USPol #News #Press #US #USA

2025-08-14 22:03:51 UTC

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"hard to isolate his Presidential profits... because estimating how much his businesses might have made if he weren’t President would require detailed comparisons w/ similar enterprises that have non-Presidential owners...
That blurriness is why #ethics experts say that any outside #business can pose a conflict of interest & may open a conduit for #bribery... I was after a fair, dispassionate quantification of the Trumps’ profits from 2 Presidencies."
https://archive.ph/Z9rQ1#selection-567.0-571.170
#Trump #News #US
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2025-08-14 21:46:03 UTC

"Although the notion that #Trump is making colossal sums off the Presidency has become commonplace, nobody could tell me how much he’s made. Norm Eisen, a #government ethics lawyer... said, “We don’t know the full amounts.”
...
A more considered accounting seemed in order. I decided to attempt to tally up just how much Trump and his immediate family have pocketed off his time in the #WhiteHouse."
https://archive.ph/Z9rQ1#selection-567.0-571.170
#Corruption #DonaldTrump #GOP #USPol #News #Press #US #USA
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2025-08-14 21:23:06 UTC

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@nprofile…49cc
Please, remember that when copying shortened links with "..." in them, you need to use "Copy Link" not just "copy" in order to copy the actual link and not just the shortened text.
When you just copy the shortened text, the pasted link does NOT work.

2025-08-13 20:07:47 UTC

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@nprofile…qz4x
Rich White men are the in-group. Rich being the most important qualifier.
Everyone else who is not rich and powerful will eventually be part of the out-group.
All those working class white men who think they are part of the in-group will be surprised to find out that they are part of the out-group whenever the rich decide to treat them as such.
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2025-08-13 00:15:50 UTC

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@nprofile…r5mx
Ewwwww... What is wrong with those men?
No wonder they can't get dates.

2025-08-12 23:07:24 UTC

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@nprofile…efkj
Trump's own version of Hitler's Gleichschaltung.
Everything must align/coordinate with the Trump/Nazi vision of society.
Sadly, the GOP is perfectly willing to allow Trump to remake US society according to his own selfish vision.
#Trump #GOP #Hitler #Nazi #Gleichschaltung #Memes #Meme #USPol #Politics
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2025-08-11 23:57:15 UTC

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"This means telling better #stories, creating more compelling myths...
if we don’t start creating aesthetic experiences that compete with the mythologies currently colonizing human consciousness, we’ll lose not through being wrong but through being boring...
The circus needs better performances, not better reviews of the performances currently dominating the tent."
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/democracy-needs-art
#Art #Politics #USPol #Mythology #Music #Memes #Democrats #US #USA
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2025-08-11 23:41:35 UTC

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"Why Art Succeeds Where Arguments Fail
A #song doesn’t fight for your attention—it rewards it with pleasure. A #story doesn’t demand focus—it creates the desire to know what happens next. A #mythology doesn’t need to argue for its relevance—it becomes the lens through which #reality makes sense...
The #CivilRights movement didn’t succeed through policy papers but through #songs that held attention while transforming consciousness."
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/democracy-needs-art
#Politics #USPol #Art #News #US #USA
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2025-08-11 23:35:32 UTC

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"this isn’t just #information chaos. It’s an aesthetic war where every faction that understands the rules is competing to colonize human imagination...
whoever controls aesthetic experience controls consciousness itself...
They understand that #art does something arguments cannot: it holds attention naturally while making moral reality undeniable through aesthetic experience."
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/democracy-needs-art
#Trump #MAGA #Politics #USPol #News #Stories #Newsletter #US #USA
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2025-08-11 23:28:56 UTC

"Democracy is dying of aesthetic starvation...
we’ve missed something fundamental that our opponents understand perfectly: #democracy doesn’t just need better arguments or stronger institutions. It needs #art that can hold human attention long enough for moral recognition to occur.
...liberals bring fact-checking to a mythology fight. We critique the stories dominating human consciousness rather than telling better ones."
-Mike Brock
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/democracy-needs-art
#Politics #USPol #News #US #USA
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2025-08-11 22:54:12 UTC

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@nprofile…kamz
It's NOT a long poem, people.
Pay attention.
"First they came" was written by Martin Niemöller (1892-1984), a Lutheran minister and early Nazi supporter, who was later imprisoned for opposing Hitler’s regime.
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2025-08-11 22:17:30 UTC

"Israel has bombed the home of prominent Gaza #journalist, Motasem A Dalloul. At least 10 are dead.
Israel is exterminating #journalism in Gaza, prior to enacting its final solution...
it was a “double-tap” strike by Israel. Hitting Dalloul’s family home then hitting the rescuers once they arrived.
It comes 24 hours after Israel assassinated the entire, remaining Al Jazeera crew in Gaza City."
See thread: https://bsky.app/profile/newseye.world/post/3lw5ktm4sxc2y
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #War #WarCrimes #News #Press #Media
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2025-08-08 19:09:48 UTC

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@nprofile…3a02
"Repetition cannot create truth,
but repetition can create belief."
#Truth #Lies #Memes
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2025-08-06 17:15:52 UTC

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@nprofile…qgrt
You can view things posted on XTwitter without giving engagement to XTwitter by adding "cancel" to the URL between the "x" and the ".com". It (xcancel.com...) works about 98% of the time, but it takes a few extra seconds.
To see the thread that Sean Casten is linking to without going to XTwitter, for example, use:
https://xcancel.com/DanielSeidemann/status/1952976961179140221
#Xcancel #Twitter #SocialMedia

2025-08-03 15:40:54 UTC

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"The president’s decision to fire Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of #Labor Statistics, came just hours after her office issued its monthly report showing that job growth in July was just half as much as last year’s average. The bureau also revised downward the estimated job creation of the two previous months.
Trump erupted at the news and ordered her dismissed"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/us/politics/trump-bls-jobs-facts.html
#Trump #Fascism #Authoritarianism #USPol #Politics #Jobs #Business #News #Press #US
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2025-08-03 15:31:08 UTC

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"Trump has never been especially wedded to facts, routinely making up his own numbers, repeating falsehoods... But his efforts since reclaiming the #WhiteHouse to make the rest of #government adopt his versions of the truth have gone further than in his first term and increasingly remind scholars of the way #authoritarian leaders in other countries have sought to control #information."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/us/politics/trump-bls-jobs-facts.html
#Trump #Lies #Fascism #Authoritarianism #GOP #USPol #Politics #News #Press #US
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2025-08-03 15:20:03 UTC

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"Trump’s war on #facts reached new heights on Friday when he angrily fired the #Labor Department official in charge of compiling #statistics on employment in #America because he did not like the latest #jobs report showing that the #economy isn’t doing as well as he claims it is. Trump declared that her numbers were “phony.” His proof? It was “my opinion.”"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/us/politics/trump-bls-jobs-facts.html
#Trump #GOP #Fascism #Authoritarianism #USPol #Politics #Economics #Business #News #Press #BLS #US #USA
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2025-08-03 15:16:26 UTC

Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an #Authoritarian Playbook
In firing the head of the agency that collects employment statistics, the president underscored his tendency to suppress #facts he doesn’t like & promote his own version of reality.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/us/politics/trump-bls-jobs-facts.html
"An old rule in Washington holds that you are entitled to your own opinions but you are not entitled to your own facts. #Trump seems determined to prove that wrong."
#Fascism #GOP #USPol #Politics #News #Press #US #USA
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2025-07-30 12:43:00 UTC

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"This is conduct... creates horror beyond the ability to imagine, and this allows most Israelis to deny it...
The #Israeli public's silence is a betrayal not only of the entire world of values it claims to hold; it is an absolute betrayal of #Holocaust victims, in whose name we demanded a state for ourselves where we could ensure our existence...
It is a betrayal of the entire long legacy of #Jewish existence as a persecuted minority. It is a betrayal of humanity in general"
#Israel #Gaza
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2025-07-30 12:28:40 UTC

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"Whether our mother was there in body or not - we are all second, third & fourth generation to victims of #starvation & extermination. And the one commandment the victims left us, all of us, is simple: #NeverAgain
...
But in 2025, the #Israeli army, on orders from the political echelon, is destroying #Gaza & exterminating its population...
Gaza's besieged population has also been deliberately & systematically starved."
https://robertreich.substack.com/i/169603272/silence-in-the-face-of-gazas-starvation-is-absolute-betrayal-of-holocaust-victims
#Israel #WarCrimes #Politics #News #WorldNews
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2025-07-30 12:16:40 UTC

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"The #Nazi regime reduced the ghetto's boundaries & squeezed its residents, whose numbers dwindled daily, into increasingly smaller areas...
My mother somehow survived the starvation & the #war, but the Mintzer children who wasted away before her eyes remained with her always...
80 years after they were starved to death, my country, the #Jewish state, would decree... the #starvation & extermination of tens of thousands of #children like them... children in #Gaza"
#Israel #Palestine #News
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2025-07-30 12:08:47 UTC

"In her childhood, my mother was starved by a dark regime. When the #Nazi army occupied Poland and #Jews were pushed into ghettos, they were forced to make do with less and less #food... My mother was 7 years old when the Lvov ghetto closed in on her. Fortunately, both her parents were alive and did everything to ensure her survival.... my mother was lucky. Other children wasted away and died."
https://robertreich.substack.com/i/169603272/silence-in-the-face-of-gazas-starvation-is-absolute-betrayal-of-holocaust-victims
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #WarCrimes #News #Press #WorldNews
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2025-07-22 02:23:34 UTC

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@nprofile…r5mx
“... in America, we were richer, safer, more powerful, better defended, better fed, more entertained than any civilization had ever been in the history of the world.
And we were willing to burn it all down so we could be mean to people again.”
-Heidi Cuda
https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/hot-type-complying-in-advance-to
#Meme #Memes #Quote #Quotes #Trump #MAGA #GOP #USPol #Politics #US #USA #UnitedStates #America
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2025-07-01 17:43:27 UTC

from @nprofile…h54n
Know your ICE agent:
Being able to discern between a federally authorized ICE agent and a criminal kidnapper within seconds of first interaction is absolutely essential.
If your abductor is an ICE agent, you must obey, comply and submit. If your abductor is a criminal kidnapper, you are free to fight for your life.
#Cartoon #Comics #Humor #Politics #ICE #Trump #GOP #USPol #Immigration #US #USA
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2025-06-21 22:27:35 UTC

"The “echo chamber” critique of #SocialMedia has been thoroughly debunked by researchers, who have consistently found the opposite to be true: people *not* on social media live in more sheltered #information environments than those who are...
social media essentially breaks down the echo chambers... exposing us to a lot of things that we’re not exposed in our everyday lives."
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/20/community-and-choice-are-not-bubbles/
#Research #Tech #News #USA #World #Fediverse #Mastodon #Bluesky #Threads #Meta #Facebook
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2025-06-11 20:50:31 UTC

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@nprofile…49cc
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist.
...
Then they came for me, and there was no one left
To speak out for me.
-Martin Niemöller (1892-1984), Lutheran minister and early Nazi supporter, who was later imprisoned for opposing Hitler’s regime.
It's not a very long poem, people.
No one is safe in an authoritarian regime. The regime will always need new "enemies" to throw to the masses.
#Trump #Fascism #USA #Politics #Meme
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2025-06-01 23:12:25 UTC

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@nprofile…vkcf
Being unable to keep track of time in a linear fashion is one of the symptoms of dementia.

2025-06-01 23:07:43 UTC

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@nprofile…sz9j @nprofile…r5mx
Then they also will answer Him, saying, “Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?”
Then He will answer them, saying, “Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.”
-Matthew 25: 44-45
#Bible #Quote #Memes #Christian #GOP #Hypocrisy #JoniErnst #Politics #USPol #USA
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2025-06-01 22:48:46 UTC

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"When financial regulators are picked for ideology rather than expertise, markets fail... When disease researchers must pledge fealty to political positions, public #health suffers. The consequences won't be abstract—they'll be measured in lives lost and futures destroyed.
For 142 years, the merit-based civil service survived because both parties recognized that functional #government requires professional expertise. That consensus is dead."
https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/how-to-dismantle-a-democracy-one
#Trump #GOP #Politics #USA
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2025-06-01 22:40:54 UTC

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"While 19th-century patronage was transparently transactional— #jobs for political support—this iteration comes wrapped in #Orwellian language about "merit."
The contradictions are glaring. Applicants must explain their "commitment to the #Constitution" while pledging to "advance the President's Executive Orders"—but what happens when those orders violate the Constitution? The structure makes clear which loyalty matters more."
https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/how-to-dismantle-a-democracy-one
#Trump #GOP #Politics #USPol #News #USA
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2025-06-01 22:32:42 UTC

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"This pattern is grimly familiar from democratic backsliding worldwide. Hungary required "national commitment" pledges. Turkey purged its bureaucracy of the insufficiently loyal... In each case, the rhetoric—efficiency, reform, national values—matches what we see in OPM's memo. In each case, the result was identical: competent professionals replaced by incompetent loyalists, leading to #corruption, dysfunction, and democratic decay."
https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/how-to-dismantle-a-democracy-one
#Trump #GOP #Politics #USPol #USA
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2025-06-01 22:17:55 UTC

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"Under this plan, every federal #job applicant... must now write essays explaining how they would "advance the President's Executive Orders and policy priorities."
...The hiring reforms aims to complete the systematic takeover of the federal #government as outlined in #Project2025 taken directly from the #Authoritarian playbook... A merit-based civil service that took generations to build is being dismantled via memo."
https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/how-to-dismantle-a-democracy-one
#Trump #GOP #Politics #USPol #News #US #USA
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2025-05-07 02:16:51 UTC

Jim Bakker who scammed hundreds of millions of dollars (if not billion$) from gullible followers over the years is saying he'll be out on the street if he isn't given $1000 from 1000 people soon.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3s6y66t4asr2jsijpj3fslnv/post/3lojfu3swas23
Another scam? Or will this conman soon be homeless?
The comments are the best part.
"Stop buying avocado toast for your dolls"
#Religion #Lies #Politics #Humor
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2025-04-29 19:54:03 UTC

"You’ve likely seen this by now, and you have probably seen people discussing this in the context of Martial Law. You may have questions. As a lawyer, I wanted to take a moment to explain some of the things in this #ExecutiveOrder in as neutral and calm terms as possible. Buckle up. 🧵"
https://www.threads.com/@jpatrickhanley/post/DJBUtGFumux
#Trump #GOP #MartialLaw #EO #Military #Law #LawEnforcement #DueProcess #Politics #USPol #US #USA #Thread #Threads
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2025-04-23 15:27:31 UTC

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"LGBTQ+ youth who attend schools with an inclusive sex education curriculum report lower levels of depression and suicidality," explained the American Psychological Assoc... Listening to the mean-spirited arguments from the right before the #SupremeCourt today, it's hard to shake the sense that this shame is the desired outcome."
- @nprofile…6802
These #Republicans WANT to erase #LGBTQ kids from life. Republicans want LGBTQ kids to be depressed & commit suicide.
#GOP #Bigotry #USPol #News

2025-04-07 23:32:31 UTC

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"There are 1280 US #protests listed for today and many more not on the list. THAT is BIG. 686 were counted in the #US for the January 21, 2017, Women's March, in which 1% of the country marched, and that was until today the biggest single day of protest in this country's #history."
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/millions-stood-up-april-5-hands-off-day-of-action/
#Resist #Resistance #Protest #HandsOff #USPol #USPolitics #News #US #USA
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2025-04-07 23:20:44 UTC

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"I scoured the news for reports on the more than one thousand other rallies. Of course people would show up in the big cities & the bluest places, but what really exhilarated me was to see the turnout in reddest America--#Utah, #Nebraska, #Missouri, #Indiana, #Iowa, #Idaho--and small communities not known for their #protests...
some early estimates say well over three million people showed up."
- Rebecca Solnit
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/millions-stood-up-april-5-hands-off-day-of-action/
#Resist #Resistance #Protest #HandsOff #USPol #News #USA
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2025-04-07 23:03:40 UTC

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More #photos of the #HandsOff protests from the New York Times article.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/us/politics/anti-trump-protests-hands-off.html
#Resist #Resistance #Protest #Protests #NewYork #Phoenix #Arizona #Georgia #USA #USPol
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2025-04-07 22:58:28 UTC

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More photos of the #HandsOff protests from the New York Times article.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/us/politics/anti-trump-protests-hands-off.html
#Resist #Resistance #Protest #Protests #Chicago #USA #US #News #USNews #USPol
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2025-04-07 22:44:57 UTC

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"They came out in defense of #NationalParks & small businesses, public #education & #health care for #veterans, #abortion rights & fair #elections. They marched against #tariffs & #oligarchs, dark money & #fascism, the deportation of legal immigrants & #DOGE.
Demonstrators had no shortage of causes as they gathered in towns and cities across the country on Saturday to protest Trump’s agenda."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/us/politics/anti-trump-protests-hands-off.html
#Resist #Resistance #HandsOff #Protest #Trump #GOP #USPol #News #USA #US
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2025-04-07 22:27:33 UTC

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"Yesterday, millions of Americans rallied nationwide at #HandsOff! protests, taking a stand against the Trump-Musk chaos regime... The energy was electric as #Americans delivered a clear message to #Trump & #Musk: Hands off our #Constitution.
Now, the real work continues. We must never stop fighting for #democracy. Never stop organizing. Never stop speaking out."
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/april-5-millions-take-to-the-streets
Video of #protests around the country.
#Resist #Resistance #Protest #Video #Politics #USPol #US #USA #News
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2025-04-07 22:18:10 UTC

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Marisa Kabas wrote about a #HandsOff protest with a very specific message in the small conservative town Sackets Harbor. Of about 1300 residents, apx 1000 came out to protest against the unlawful detainment/disappearance of a hardworking mother & her three children. All of whom were going through the proper procedures to become legal immigrants.
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-harbor-tom-homan-jaime-cook
Here's a thread of her article:
https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/114293023693850921
#Resist #Resistance #Protest #Immigration #ICE #NewYork #USA #News
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2025-04-07 22:00:35 UTC

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"“There is no noise as powerful as the sound of marching feet of a determined people.”
- MLK
Truly an incredible day.
Thank you those who marched and rallied, and thank you to those who organized these events around the country. I know how hard you’re working.
My rally in #Cincinnati was packed with thousands, and we marched from Music Hall to City Hall"
- David Pepper
https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/marching-feet-of-a-determined-people
#Resist #Resistance #Protest #HandsOff #Quote #MLK #NoKings #Ohio #USA #US #USPol
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2025-04-07 21:52:42 UTC

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Some protest signs from Don Moynihan's article about how #SocialSecurity is under threat from Trump, the GOP, Elon Musk and Doge.
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/as-savings-crater-social-security
#Resist #Resistance #Protest #ProtestSigns #US #USA #Politics #USPol #Trump #Musk #Doge #GOP
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2025-04-07 21:42:41 UTC

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"those who were a part of the #HandsOff gatherings had a momentous experience, wherever they were...
Millions gathered in all 50 states, several territories, #Canada, #Mexico, and #Europe to protest #DonaldTrump and #ElonMusk. ...
people joined an estimated 1,400 protests... a response to the “hostile takeover” of #American rights and freedoms"
- Dan Rather
https://steady.substack.com/p/fortunate-son-now-and-then
#Resist #Resistance #Protest #ProtestSigns #Trump #Musk #GOP #Politics #USPol #US #USA
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