Traitors are running our government.

He is dangerous in the same way that a cornered, rabid raccoon is dangerous. He is looking for points of weakness where he can escape. Stay focused on the reasons why the walls are closing in. Don't flinch when he froths at the mouth.

Democrats are still busy trying to figure out how strongly to word a letter

All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house. This is where America is now

Reminded of this for some reason.

From 2016 "And he cannot be stopped in part because, over many years, conservative media trained its audience to respond to tribal signaling more than rigorous debate; to reflexively dismiss any complaints about speaking disrespectfully about others as bogus “political correctness;"

will be potentially millions in the MAGA base who would watch this video and would be affected by many of her points. So I am encouraging folks to share the video with their MAGA relative to simply ask them, if they have seen it yet? And ask the follow up, I am

Burns' six-part documentary uses voiceover, reenactors and drone footage to tell the story of America's founding. And it reminds viewers that the quest for a more perfect union is far from over.

Trump's wannabe dictator playbook: 1) Create fake emergency 2) Bypass Congress and public debate 3) Grab emergency powers 4) Repeat (from June) www.theframelab.org/trumps-fake-...

Trump's Epstein Betrayal Triggers MAGA 'Hero Frame' Collapse With his flip-flop on the Epstein Files, Trump is reframing himself. The hero frame is collapsing into what we might call a Betrayer frame. www.theframelab.org/trumps-epste...

although most media still doesn't dig deeper than using the term "cult of trump." Undue influence, which includes brainwashing, thought reform, and mind control, is the #1 issue facing humanity in this digital age. There is no freedom or democracy without explaining it

Misinformation *is* central to democratic problems today, but the solution is *not* to correct such epistemic failures directly. Instead, we must address them at their roots, in social identity. Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social. blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

Propaganda does not rely entirely on unassailable evidence and impeccable logic to discipline its targets. Neither can the response, writes Calum Matheson, an associate professor and chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh.

Every disaffected Dem & swing focus group we do begins with people asking what's real. They hear, at times, this is authoritarian takeover threatening lives & livelihoods. But perceive most "leaders" not acting as if this were so.

Schumers 9 years of control and suppression ended last night. Regardless of views/policy, this is the path to defeating fascism.

#gaslighting as always. 1) SNAP was funded during the last shutdown when Trump was POTUS. 2) He refused to do it this time. 3) Dem AGs sued to make him do it this time. 4) He lost in court. Twice in one day. 5) The way to do it is OBEY THE COURT!

Pathetic fool claims he is setting aside his crown in phony try to show respect for rule of law

“The Times editorial board has compiled a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion, with help from scholars who have studied this phenomenon. The sobering reality is that the United States has regressed, to different degrees, on all 12.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

noteworthy that rather than funding experiments into challenging conservative message domination on the local level or building between-election outreach capacity at the state level, centrist donors are throwing millions at what amount to online factional battles among a couple dozen people

This explains the effect of repetition burned into the subconscious of those who don’t ask questions. Lots of resources need to be directed to the response. Good stuff @mitch.social

Hope right here that the 2 million years spent by humans cooperating with each other is still relevant in our individualistic and isolated (phone) world. Keep helping each other when you can and be kind.

Yesterday, Stephen Miller questioned details re 170+ Americans detained by immigration agents. “Abject lies,” he wrote. Here’s the thing: We tracked, catalogued, and compiled every one of those 170+ cases. Because...we do our homework. propub.li/4o2eeiL

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

Until SCOTUS says "Nevermind. He can do whatever."

At this point, if you're interviewing a Republican about the president's latest transgression and you *don't* have the video or post or whatever cued up and ready to show them when they pretend they haven't seen it yet -- I'm just going to assume you're in on the con yourself.

(🧵) I’m going to say some things that may cost me followers. That’s only appropriate, given that what I say in this thread is about exactly that: how utterly meaningless everything is right now besides saving America—because without rule of law and democracy, nothing we dream of will ever come true.

Important: Sen Chris Murphy just sent pointed questions to Kristi Noem about DHS's account of shooting of US citizen by Trump's paramilitary forces in Chicago. The official line is imploding. Murphy wants Noem to explain why DHS misled. More like this, Ds. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2019...

This is fantastic 32 part free video course on youtube from Robert Sapolsky. youtu.be/g26stRqDrKE?...

The propaganda did not match the reality on the ground. Sending troops to LA sought to cause disorder but the desired outcome by Stephen Miller did not result. The recent deployments to DC, Portland and Chicago all failed to createc the circumstances to support the insurrection act.

This is just one entry of a 16-part Bluesky series sharing what I learned about smart development aid while filming my 2020 public television special “Hunger & Hope: Lessons from Ethiopia and Guatemala,” which is streaming free and ad-free on the @pbs.org app and at www.ricksteves.com/hunger.

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

As predicted last week. And to repeat: Pushing forward with this will fragment the armed forces and risk not just the security but the existence of the Republic. For no reason at all.

Kahnamens describes the system 2 brain (critical thinking) as lazy and seeks to conserve resources. The problem is that the conserved resources are likely to be used for unproductive dopamine highs through Tik Tok and streaming videos. The question is how many will turn into the humans from WallE

An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.

This is who Chuck Schumer thought he was going to negotiate with I am sick of Democratic leaders who have no idea the level of danger this country is in and how far we have fallen from the democracy we had just 12 years ago

So much has gone wrong in US press reporting on Trump because the White House reporters are people who have exclusively covered US politics. They need people who have worked in Hungary, Turkey, etc. The relevant knowledge isn't Reagan factoids; it's the dynamics of competitive authoritarianism.

The mentor newrepublic.com/article/1797...

Genuinely one of the most evil things I’ve ever read, and these dudes are American citizens who went to Gaza for the chance and joy of killing www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

From Daniel Bell’s “The Dispossessed” written in 1962: The politics of the radical right is the politics of frustration—the sour impotence of those who find themselves unable to understand, let alone command, the complex mass society that is the polity today…

The resurrection started with Kevin McCarthy's desire for the speaker role that led to a visit with DJT at Mar a Lago and was fueled by the alt right content generators www.thenation.com/article/soci...

When I tell people that the problem with the party isn't "The DNC" or "The Donors" they don't believe me. I keep telling them: it's a cadre of incredibly wrong, well paid and politically inept consultants at DCCC/DSCC assuring Dems in tough seats they have to be cowardly in order to survive.

Hear hear. Times a 1000. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@democrats.org @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Experts in the psychological war destroying our Republic exist and are available to help. Hire experts and fire the political consultants.

Donald Trump’s and Pam Bondi’s corruption of the Rule of Law in America will continue apace until the American People stand up and cry out “No More. We’ve had enough. We are a nation of laws, not of men.”

Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.

Tim Walz: "Think of how easy it would be to be a damn Republican. 'Oh, what should I wear today? This stupid frickin' red hat. What should I say today? I don't know, just make sure it's cruel. Who do we listen to? That guy -- the felon in the White House.'"

One thing no one warned me about was how enraging, on a minute by minute basis, living under fascism by the dumbest people on earth would be.