For an administration that came out of the box threatening Canadian independence, Greenland’s sovereignty, the Panama Canal, etc., it sure has a glass jaw. 🤡

LOL. Collegial, “aw shucks” Ronald Reagan now part of psyops from his grave ? I view the TV ad as an attempt to deprogram the “off their rocker” GOP. Good job Canada!

Let's talk about the grotesque Führerprinzip sweeping Republican institutions. With receipts. This is one of my favorite documents from the Reagan Library: a White Paper prepared for him that led up to one of the ideas he was most impassioned about, a "North American Free Trade Area."... 1/x

Malignant narcissists often destroy what other people love. When they do, they’re acting out of pathological envy. They have a need for absolute control and a desire for sadistic pleasure. They intentionally engage in destruction to cause suffering in order to reinforce their sense of superiority.

#resist #NoKings Watch this. Between Bannon’s blunt “Trump 2028” admission, Project 2025, gerrymandering, ICE thuggery, and Trump’s daily fascist ramblings, it’s 100% clear that a Trump dictatorship is the goal. Recorded today according to this Economist link: www.economist.com/insider/the-...

So much going on in this text, which was written — we could also say "lived" — by NPR's media reporter. The most important in my view are these words from a former CEO of NPR, Vivian Schiller. "Any evidence-based news organization that reports critically is going to be accused of left-wing bias."

“Stay tuned!” Because the madman may change his mind! What an inhumane and unnecessary travesty. All of this.

LOL. Diplomacy is difficult ?

The brunchlords that own U.S. media companies prefer tax cuts, rubber stamped merger approvals, and mindless deregulation over any sort of popular, progressive reform the mass suffering and collapse of democracy is an unfortunate externality they can accept this is clearly reflected in coverage

The fourth paragraph is politically obtuse, framing this as a battle between Trump’s heartfelt desire to put an “imprint” on the White House versus “the sensibilities of many in Washington.” NO! This is an attack upon the citizenry at large and upon the basic principles of republican governance.

From Thomas Paine's Common Sense...

Trump on July 31 when asked about the ballroom: “It won’t interfere with the current building. It will be near it but not touching it, and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of. It’s my favorite. It’s my favorite place. I love it.”

Graff: “Once you elect or appoint someone who has no moral core — who then appoints people with no moral core and fires those who do — nothing else in the system of checks-and-balances turns out to matter.” 👇

Listen to this Border Patrol SUPERVISOR explain that his guys aren't "mindless gestapo," just "adrenaline junkies who want action, foot chases, and car pursuits." Imagine telling this to the media as a defense of your out-of-control agency!

You see this when they meet. Trump looks like a boy who's meeting his favorite sports star. This isn't some conspiracy theory, it's visible for everyone to see.

I talked about Paul Ingrassia on PBS Newshour tonight but I was a little inarticulate because there’s only so many ways to say, “this guy isn’t fringe. This is what Trumpism is.” 1/

Important to note that it's New York STATE that brought charges against the J6er that threatened Hakeem Jeffries. Not the DOJ.

Very thought provoking. In some ways we are all this Miles Bruner. And we're each going to have to make uncomfortable choices and difficult decisions that are beyond anything we ever imagined we'd be faced with

That ICE’s $140B windfall wasn’t a major talking point of the budget negotiations is political malpractice and our country will pay for it for generations.

All of this.

"Viewpoint diversity" about whether human activity is warming the planet, or whether vaccines work, is like "viewpoint diversity" about whether the sky is blue or whether the Earth is round. It falls outside the range of good faith scientific and academic discourse. #ScienceUnderSiege

😂 This seems correct? 👇

Somebody is fondling Napoleon’s crowns and sipping champagne right now. It’s amazing. Probably wearing one and taking selfies he can never put on Insta.

LOL. So true …..

I wonder how the right wing SCOTUS justices who've kept Trump out of prison will feel about their life choices when Chicago submits that Trump shitpost in their response on Monday, in which they were ALREADY arguing Trump invaded out of animus?

I approve this message. #resist

Wow. Tell me again exactly who hates America ? Way to be scrappy Purdue students ! #FirstAmendment #FightOligarchy #resist

"Maybe they think they have enough of the levers of power that it no longer matters what people think,” says fascism scholar Jason Stanley of the Trump Administration. But he also says, the more extreme the messaging gets, the more forcefully civil society will push back. #NoKings #Velshi

More from the #NoKings coalition:

Good job San Diego ! #resist #NoKings #SanDiego

Good job San Diego! #resist #NoKings #SanDiego

Good job San Diego! #resist #NoKings #SanDiego

Good job San Diego.l! #resist #NoKings #SanDiego

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go! Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest. /1

Hochul: "They promised to extract revenge on their political enemies & apparently any state that has a D gov. Tell me how Florida & Texas could receive these same funds w/o having to go to court? They're playing politics, but more than that, they're playing with people's lives. And that's abhorrent"

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Very straightforwardly detained by secret police for speech. I honestly don't know what establishment figures are telling themselves any more to avoid cognitive dissonance over this shit.

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples? HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

Love it. Elbows out!!! #resist

the more I read about the promises OpenAI has made, the more disgusted I am. They've promised to deploy 10GW of Broadcom chips *by the end of 2029*, a chip that has yet to tape out, in data centers yet to be planned or funded or the power acquired. We are in a black hole of ethics and good sense.

The idea that political dissent can only be the product of “paid protesters” or “outside agitators” has a long history. Here is the Mississippi columnist Tom Ethridge in June 1963 concerned that attendees at the upcoming March on Washington might be “whipped into a frenzy by skilled agitators.”

The shameless GOP lying about the No Kings gatherings scheduled for next Saturday reveals how deeply hostile much of the Republican Party is to “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” I look forward to our local No Kings event, and urge my fellow Americans to attend in their communities.

💯 Bingo! 👇

Right — “Bloody Sunday” in 1965 in Selma, but ALSO ABC interrupting ‘Judgment at Nuremberg’ to show Bloody Sunday to the nation

Our country is a disgrace. 4th-grade-level mathematical logic is beyond the grasp of our POTUS ? Wake up GOP Congress. #ImpeachTrump

And let’s not forget the El Salvador CECOT gambit and the inhumane detention of 300 South Koreans from the Hyundai plant in Georgia. Swell and peaceful guy.

Outrageous? Really ? We are now governed by ** the worst *** human beings. No self-awareness. No duty to the Constitution, human decency, or broader society. Just abominable in all aspects.

Three key points: 1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February 2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty 3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Finally, Pritzker says more Dems must sound the alarm, though he notes some exceptions (like Chris Murphy). "I am surprised that more leaders have not stood up," he says. He urges people to join No Kings protests to let the country know something's wrong. 5/5 newrepublic.com/article/2016...