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Mike Johnson refuses to swear in a Democrat who won her election in a landslide just so he can block a vote on the Epstein files. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Who’s who in the MAGA Christian far right movement to end secular democracy and install a Christian Dominionist state? louisianavoice.com/2025/09/10/c... #baptists #Christian #MaGa

‘America 250 Civics Education Coalition. This landmark initiative is dedicated to renewing patriotism, strengthening civic knowledge, and advancing a shared understanding of America’s founding principles in schools across the nation. Trump #educationnews www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

“This is a colonial project, aimed at tech empire,” says Gil Duran, a former political consultant. “It sounds like colonization 2.0. When you go to another person's country and create your own country there.”

Lots of tech folks went. He was constantly at events sucking up to them www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

We’re at a point where ICE is the President’s personal secret police, the DOJ is the President’s personal inquisitor & tormentor of his enemies & the National Guard is the President’s personal army to occupy Black & brown communities. 2025 America

Trump just signed an illegal executive order designed to target his political opposition by designating them terrorists and using the DOJ, IRS, FBI, and the JTTF to investigate and charge liberal organizations, funders, members, and protesters. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The highly dubious article supposedly analyzing domestic terrorism by @theatlantic.com has amazing timing. What’s up with that? Insights? @jfallows.bsky.social @davidfrum.bsky.social

But Hilary’s emails. So many failures led to this point. The double standards. The fecklessness. The relentless pursuit of clicks. The laziness. The cowardice. Now both Comey and the NYT are under attack by the criminal maniac they helped to unleash. www.nytimes.com/2016/07/06/u... #ruleoflaw

Let’s spell this out. Trump fired a qualified U.S. attorney who refused to do his bidding and installed his own personal lawyer to punish a perceived opponent. Justice needs to follow the law, not politics. This is an attack on the rule of law. Full stop.

Trump dismantled real terrorism prevention and empowered cronies loyal to him personally to target critics using domestic terrorism as a false pretext www.propublica.org/article/trum... #ruleoflaw #crimenews #dictator

Total Nazi move.

Just for the record, the Hitler Youth was a bad thing. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...

I'm a reporter not a political strategist, but one answer to the question of "What can the opposition do?" is "Use the extraordinary investigative powers members of Congress have even when in the minority to get new information courts and journalists can't get."

The president isn't supposed to order TV shows off the air. The president isn't supposed to order the murders of people on the high seas with no legal process. The president isn't supposed to order criminal charges against people he doesn't like. That's what fascist dictators do.

NEW! A Senate report claims that DOGE has put *every* American’s social security number at risk; that staff at GSA, OPM, and SSA wouldn’t or couldn’t say what DOGE was doing; and that agencies claimed that DOGE actually doesn’t exist at all. For @wired.com www.wired.com/story/armed-...

Armed Guards and Muscle Milk: Senate Investigation Reveals DOGE Takeover Details www.wired.com/story/armed-...

NEW WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened. This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

Trump lies all the time about everything. The media spreads disinformation with headlines that start with ‘Trump says’ If he’s lying, headline should say, ‘Trump spreads lies about…’ #journalism #disinformation

Interesting @apnews.com article. apnews.com/article/elec... #Arizona #nonprofit #MAGA

KIMMEL: “He’s gunning for our journalists too — they want to pick and choose what the news is… it’s so important to have a free press, and it’s nuts we aren’t paying more attention to it.”

Documents from ICIJ's Paradise and Pandora Papers leaks showed the "full extent" of the hidden financial schemes set up by Marcial Maciel, the Catholic priest behind the Legion of Christ religious order. Learn more about the new TV series on HBO:

Any journalist or commentator who writes a wrap-up of this speech that suggests that any of it was normal, worthy of respect, not absolutely deranged, not an insult to the audience, not an embarrassment for the US, should be relieved of their jobs.

Headlines ignoring all the deranged and stupid things he’s saying, acting like this was a remotely normal speech.

Trump and his cronies lie all the time about everything. Why do press headlines STILL fail to make that clear?

It is a good time to learn how to find accurate information online. We’re offering virtual training sessions over the month of October, teaching you Bellingcat’s investigative techniques…

"If we’ve learned nothing else from this administration’s second term so far, and I don’t think we have, is that giving the bully your lunch money doesn’t make him go away, it just makes him come back hungrier each time. They are never going to stop.”

New: The Trump family is now worth an estimated $10 billion, having nearly doubled its net worth since last year’s election. @danalexander21.bsky.social, @kylekhanmullins.bsky.social for @forbes.com

‘He was so vocal in his willingness to spread unsupported claims and outright lies — he said that the drug #hydroxychloroquine was “100 percent effective” in treating the virus, which it is not — that Twitter temporarily barred him in early March 2020.’ #covid #Kirk

New: "Turning Point USA Raised $389 Million Under Charlie Kirk—Including $13.1 Million From A Texas Foundation Overlooked Until Now" me, for @forbes.com

‘‘Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem...these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise.” ― Barry Goldwater #ChristoFascists #Trump

#Arizona has a very large and politically active Mormon population. What are #Mormon elders saying about the fact that the alleged Kirk assassin came from a devout Mormon family? Are journalists interviewing Mormons and asking? (As they would with any other religion?) #Martyr #journalism

‘The president also credited Mr. Kirk for being among the first to tell him about Mr. Vance, when he was running for Senate in Ohio, and for uniting Mr. Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now the health secretary, at an event in Arizona last year.’ - NYT #measles #Polio #antivax #christiannationalism

Just in from the Department of What-Could-Go-Wrong? YouTube Thinks AI Is Its Next Big Bang, @wired.com www.wired.com/story/youtub... #Youtube #AI

Would love to read some excellent and detailed reporting about the people lining up at the stadium in Glendale Arizona. What do they believe is happening? What do they think they are honoring? What do they want?

Jimmy Kimmel’s show wasn’t suspended because of comments about Charlie Kirk. Major media like the NYT keep saying that, but Kirk was just a pretext. In July, when Kirk was still alive, Trump reacted to the cancellation of Colbert’s show by saying “Jimmy Kimmel is next.” it’s not about Kirk.

Deification is weird.

At the risk of staying the obvious ... If you sign this, you are in no way a journalist.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Those of us who said Trump was a fascist got scolded for overreacting, catastrophizing, exaggerating, taking him too seriously. But we were right. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/we-were-ri...

HUGE NEWS: Governor Newsom just signed into law our bill to ban ICE & other law enforcement from wearing ski masks & other extreme masks. The No Secret Police Act (SB 627) will help stop the masked secret police who are kidnapping people in our communities. Show your damn faces.

Turning Point USA netted $85 million in revenue in 2024 alone, up more than 142% over the last five years. The vast majority, 99.2%, of that revenue comes from charitable contributions. trib.al/08ryyyc

Don’t forget that a small handful of Republicans in the House and Senate can put a stop to all of this.

Among the signs removed in response to Trump's directive are ones referring to "slavery, the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and conflicts with Native Americans."

Lacking any moral compass, Bob Iger made a calculation. A bad one. He betrayed the beloved and immensely powerful media company that is #Disney along with its cast members and ‘guests’ and struck a blow against democracy, freedom of speech and rule of law. And wrecked the brand. #boycott

Goodbye, Disney+!

Trump is grooming the US military to get used to murdering civilians in times of peace with no due process of any kind, simply because he ordered them to. Is the military going to allow Trump to use American soldiers as his personal army? It’s unconstitutional and illegal. #crime #ruleoflaw

Michael Eisner, former Disney CEO "Where has all the leadership gone? If not for university presidents, law firm managing partners, and corporate chief executives standing up against bullies, who then will step up for the first amendment?"