The U.S. deserves nothing good until we've eschewed fascism from our midst.

Who is making macho art of Trump, and whyyyyy

Oatmeal is the highlight of my day. That's how bad it is.

"Only rarely does brute force advance peaceful ends. Typically it inflames existing problems – and that’s what happened here. When will these angry old men get it? Probably never, unless and until democrats summon the courage to defy them." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"I think our country sinks beneath the yoke;/It weeps, it bleeds; and each new day a gash/Is added to her wounds." (Malcolm, from Macbeth Act IV scene iii)

I'm 54. I don't see this country recovering in my lifetime.

Life would feel so much easier if I just didn't care. It's times like this that I envy the ignorant.

"Critics say Trump’s drive this year to declare national emergencies with tenuous or phony legal bases pose clear dangers to democracy." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Five things to remember about war:

Can we just have the smart, joyful woman I voted for now?

How am I supposed to sleep now?

I'm just...tired. *sigh* How much longer before I can quit this constant defense of democracy and go back to my natural state of introvertedness?

"Missouri generally ranks among the states with the highest rate of firearm deaths for kids." missouriindependent.com/briefs/misso...

Authoritarians don't mind you pointing out their hypocrisy. In their minds, the hypocrisy is proof that their power is absolute.

Reminder:

What a buncha Nazis.

“If pregnancy required men to gain 40 lbs, rip their genitals open, & risk death, not only would abortion be legal in all 50 states, it would be federally funded for any man who wanted to get one.” -Ian Lightfoot

Similarities between ICE & the Gestapo

"[C]onservatives deem false headlines to be true more often than liberals—but...the difference drops by half when people are [financially] compensated for accuracy." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

"A simple question keeps coming up: How can they do this to us? "They do it because they can. "Until enough voters decide they can’t." missouriindependent.com/2025/05/26/w...

Just bought a physical copy of the Constitution. Never before thought I'd feel the need to do that.

The ICE contract allows them "to attract more jail staff and raise the pay from about $13 to $18 an hour. In addition to mileage, he said ICE pays $18.50 an hour for drivers transporting detainees, as well as time and a half for overtime." missouriindependent.com/2025/05/19/r...

MAKE NOISE ON THIS ONE‼️ They didn’t just deport him—they sent him to CECOT in El Salvador. Agelviz came here legally through the refugee resettlement program—fully vetted. But when he landed in Houston, CBP snatched him over a tattoo: a clock and a rose. No charges. No record. Just a suspicion.

I'm attending AAM's event, “Mass Meeting To Stop the Abortion Ban” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/aam/event/79...

“The battle’s back on.” missouriindependent.com/2025/05/15/m...

"[W]hen human nature is thought of as analogous to the nature of God, the consequences are extraordinary" (212).

"Low-engagement voters — those people who don’t pay a lot of attention to the news — swung hard for Trump in November. Now, they have similarly soured on Trump, swinging more than 30 points away from him since January." www.vox.com/politics/412...

"Trump is a classic bully who craves submission and fears conflict. His fervent supporters want him to be Michael Corleone, but he’s more like Biff Tannen. Standing up to Trump does not mean that you win. But giving in guarantees that you lose." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The corruption isn't even subtle.

"'What this does is, it re-educates the immune system,' says NYU bioengineer Jeffrey Hubbell. 'So then it says: "OK, I’m good, I don’t need to attack this, because I see that it’s not a threat."'" 🙏 www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

"Let’s accept, for the sake of argument, that lawmakers didn’t intend to imperil pregnant women. Intent doesn’t matter. As Brattin put it: 'negligence of the law is no excuse.'" missouriindependent.com/2025/05/12/p...

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Reminder: it's not normal to question the constitutionality of nearly every move a presidential administration makes.

"He has no heart. He has no soul. He has no conscience. To call him a clown is a disservice because it avoids the true horror of his condition. His blatant and irredeemable inhumanity." - Bernie Sanders

"Millennia is not known for being a good landlord. It has a national reputation of being a bad landlord." sgfcitizen.org/steve-pokin-...

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist" (474).

"The problem with running as the candidate of people’s dreams is that, eventually, they wake up." www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Lamenting the days of yore when I could have challenging, enlightening conversations with conservatives, who used facts and evidence to support their claims rather than disinformation they gathered on 4-Chan or spewing absurd insults and name-calling like elementary school bullies on a playground.

"This may be the key insight of Trump’s second term. The first time around, aides were constantly warning him that the stove was too hot. This time, no one is even telling him not to touch the stove." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

"[Missouri Abortion Fund] received a subpoena on March 19 from Bailey’s office demanding it turn over any records involving minors seeking abortions." "Missouri doesn’t have explicit laws requiring parental consent for minors getting abortions." missouriindependent.com/2025/04/29/a...

How many L's will MAGA have to take before they realize Trump's a loser?

⬇️💯

"President Trump signed an executive order ramping up his efforts to embolden law enforcement across the country and shield them from accountability." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

100. And every one of them is an attack on our way of life. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

"The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any" (468).

Good. missouriindependent.com/2025/04/30/o...

"'Missouri Right to Life represents hundreds of thousands of people across Missouri,' Klein said. "'Where are they?' Lewis asked." missouriindependent.com/2025/04/30/m...

Jess Piper knows what's up.