The authoritarian threat is not just at the federal level

There should be an inverse to the civil litigation immunity for the president stating the president cannot conduct civil litigation until he is out of office. www.npr.org/2025/09/29/n...

Not to be a conspiracy theorist but I thought at the time it was insanely egotistical for Elon or Sam to spent what was obviously a ton of time and money fine-tuning their own models to generate images of themselves. But there’s another reason why they might want to do that! bsky.app/profile/ncal...

Look, I hate him as much as anyone, but when you mock an evil person for their body, you are also mocking all of the nice people with the same type of body. It rather puts me off, because I immediately imagine hateful MAGAs mocking my friends who don’t tick all the ‘masculinity’ boxes.

“The memos classify huge swaths of political advocacy and belief as potentially contributing to political violence and domestic terrorism, directing law enforcement and federal agencies to investigate and possibly charge advocacy groups and their funders.” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-tru...

C.I.A. Deputy Director Has Replaced Agency’s Top Legal Official With Himself It is not clear what is behind the move by Michael Ellis, a Trump loyalist. A legal ethics specialist said it could raise conflict-of-interest issues. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

It's not just about James Comey. Or Jimmy Kimmel. It’s about freedom in America. Donald Trump is working to bend ever part of our nation to his will. And if Republicans don’t start to stand up for our democracy, there will be little of it left in four years.

The New York Times political headline idiom of winning, victory, triumph, strength, prevailing, success, and domination is now more or less exclusively reserved for far-right conservative / reactionary / authoritarian actors.

Federal immigration authorities have picked a surprising place to ramp up their efforts to surveil the social media activity of those who are in the country illegally: Vermont.

😭 IG newberlinlibrary

So everyone on the right so upset about the political violence of Charlie Kirk’s murder (even before we knew the facts) is going to speak out loudly and clearly about this too, right?

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

If a federal judge, appointed by Trump, can call him “simply untethered to facts,” our White House press corps can as well. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The extent to which these people try to blame shit Republicans are doing on Democrats is truly astounding

“NO I AM A BASED INDO-ARYAN SIGMA RAPIST WARLORD CHAD” “In this craft room, we use our inside voice. Now, would you like to make a quilt about human equality, or a needlepoint about being nice to animals?”

What If Obama Had Done That Tho

I am going to keep tapping this sign.

The skeleton key to unlock the Trump administration is to understand that everything it does is for the sake of posting. It wants to get likes and shares. And it is specifically captured by a neo-Nazi, fascist audience that wants images of torture, violence, and murder, especially of minorities.

Kavanaugh said citizens who are Latino have “no good basis” to think they’ll be racially profiled & “certainly no good basis” to think an unlawful stop is “imminent" Leo Venegas, a citizen who is Latino, was racially profiled & wrongfully detained 2x in 3 weeks ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...

they’re intenionally advertising to and recruiting far right loyalists. they post and reply to explicit groyper memes. they’re not super subtle about what this government is

Again, patriotism isn’t about loving America as is, it’s about believing it can be something better. Also, anyone who says my grandfather fought in a segregated unit at Normandy for fascism can take a hike.

This is all they want. They don’t care about a trial or a conviction.

No warrants, no probable cause, detaining citizens. Zip tying children, using flash bangs, repelling through people’s windows and destroying their homes at night. This Administration is lawless and abhorrent to our Constitution. We are the frogs in the boiling pot.

This this this this this this this, please god THIS Were it possible to broadcast this with megaphones in every street in the nation, I would not hesitate

This, in passing, is why the Dem leaders’ insistence on only talking “kitchen table issues” is missing the moment. There’s an opportunity to cast the Dems as the /conservative/ party, in the sense of respecting the “ancient liberties” of America, against the authoritarian innovations of Trump.

Breaking on MSNBC: An FBI agent in the Washington field office has been fired for refusing to arrest and perp walk James Comey. This news was first reported by Reuters.

Conservative influencers are going to march into lesbian basketweaving co-ops in Park Slope and demand to pay for their 100% lesbian-woven basket entirely in Trump coins and then scream about how they’re breaking the law by not accepting them

The way we save this country is to abolish from the minds of leaders the diseased idea that every political or legal act must be rationalized for an imagined Real American audience of yokels, slobs, racists, and nativists that are presumed to be watching from some indeterminate Midwestern locality.

Fascists always hate the legit media because the truth is their enemy. Liberals usually love the legit media because the truth is their friend. But when the legit media fails to discern the moral difference, everyone hates them and they crow that they must be doing something right!

this is a guy who denies that the USSR did the Katyn massacre. there is a publicly available Beria memo which says 'we are going to do the Katyn massacre.' it has Stalin's signature. the Russian government apologized to Poland for doing the Katyn massacre in 2010. did it happen? no, says Furr.

It's so sad to me how media outlets continue to go out of their way to use euphemisms like "total control" and avoid accurately telling readers what this is. It's authoritarianism. There's a word for it. And it's important to use it. www.axios.com/2025/10/03/t...

The Trump Admin is using government websites and the emails of civil servants to promote blatantly partisan propaganda about the government shutdown. This is an intolerable abuse of power and a form of bureaucratic identity theft from federal workers.

"One of the main distinctions between our country and Putin’s Russia, Xi’s China or Kim Jong-un’s North Korea is that government services and communications channels may not be perverted into instruments of partisan propaganda.”

Look on the rewards of honorable service. Look on this vast betrayal of our nation’s noblest citizens, of the very best among us—of the most scrupulous, the most patriotic, the most honest—on this betrayal of those who forsook fame and wealth to perform works of unsung good.

They were literally gloating about it and then gaslighting people about the sincerity of the gloating

There is not a single example in American history of a president doing something like this: having a secret agenda that's incredibly, unbelievably unpopular, spending the entire campaign pretending it's fake, and then, upon winning, going "psyche!" and not just embracing it, but expanding on it.

But for some reason, our media doesn't want to talk about it like that. Our political class, which considers things like "if you like your insurance you can keep it" to be five-alarm whoppers, acts like Trump has a mandate for Project 2025 and it must be respected. Again: it polled at FOUR PERCENT.

The story of 2024 is this: Trump had a plan to destroy American government called Project 2025, which had, literally, not a typo, a 4% approval rating. He lied constantly and said he wouldn't do it. Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.

Ok they’re just straight up stealing now

I have been saying for a bit that constitutionalists need to get heavily into audiovisual media formats, partly because there is so much functional illiteracy on the other side. There’s a reason that talk radio and then YouTube were, and are, so preferred by the right.

One time, I interviewed the Secretary of Agriculture. I worked for about a week to make sure that I didn’t ask a question that would violate the Hatch Act. Meanwhile, these MFers exist…

I cannot emphasize enough that this dude is trampling on a principle of Anglo-American government that goes back almost 1000 years. Because the American Revolution was comparatively recent, people are not understanding just *how* utterly, insanely abnormal and transgressive this is!

hate to say it but this is a very good skeet

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That May LEAD to?!

nuh uh bro theyre just tryna distract you from the fema camps that the freemasons put underneath the denver airport! And why doesnt the BILDERBERG GROUP release hussein obama’s dental records????????