Firing an entire federal arts commission to clear the path for your own triumphal arch? It’s a textbook indicator of authoritarian executive overreach — the exact trend we warned about in our assessment. #authoritarianism #DemocraticDecline #SteadyStateAssessment

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

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I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Jane Doe - an Epstein survivor - just sued the Bank of New York Mellon for funding Epstein and failing to file a Suspicious Activity Report. A Mellon heir is the one who gave $130M to pay the troops. Seems bribey to me.

This is the ad Donald Trump woke up furious about. Would be a shame if it went viral.

The government may be shut down, but Trump is still managing to get some work done in Washington—like illegally demolishing an entire wing of the White House to build himself a ballroom. Lifting a finger to lower your health care costs? Not so much.

The Trump administration is spending $172 million on two jets for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other senior officials

Absolutely fascinating watching committed Trump voters sprint headlong into insanity to avoid admitting they fucked up Imagine waking up and being like "fuck, I've gotta find a way to support King Trump defecating on Americans"

One day, historians will explain why a sitting U.S. President posted an AI video of himself flying a plane that drops feces on Americans, during a shutdown, on the same day as the largest protest in U.S. history defending Social Security, health care, and the Constitution.

In 2005, I wrote an article called "Inventing Akromiya" about how the government of Uzbekistan made up a group called Akromiya to justify a massacre of civilian protesters. Twenty years later, the US is more like Uzbekistan, and I wrote "Inventing Antifa": sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-...

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

Soccer will never be the same for me again. 😭😭😭

Trump’s shutdown layoffs are targeting programs that serve the most vulnerable: students with disabilities, homeless families, and seniors. The admin is slashing the very services that keep people alive, calling it “efficiency,” but this was always the plan from the beginning.

While he helps Wall Street get richer, Trump wants to make it harder for you to open up a small business.

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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"A great way to get censored in this country is investigate Epstein and Maxwell and to research the origins of the Maxwell family and Robert Maxwell's ties to organized crime." www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtTW...

I keep thinking of these four shows that aired before the 2016 election and how combined they presaged so much that happened: 1) Scandal 2) Mr Robot 3) UnREAL 4) The Americans

As a former gamer, I cannot overstate how big of a deal this right-wing takeover of Electronic Arts is. Are they going to create video games where they kidnap and dismember journalists like Jamal Khashoggi?

The same guy telling you Portland is war-ravaged, told you Mexico was going to pay for the wall and people were eating your pets in Ohio.

In what used to be America, five members of the Supreme Court would be tried for treason!!

From THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP, on the stripping away of American rights. The book is mostly a family travelogue. But new laws were devised midway through our travels, and I got mad, and wrote that down too. www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com

Apple has pulled The Savant, its series starring Jessica Chastain’s about hunting down white supremacist cells across America, from its immediate release schedule.

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger

Nancy Mace really needs to learn how to check which account she’s tweeting from before replying to herself in her own fanfiction. This isn’t the first time she’s been caught doing this.

going from "transgender ideology" to "look at the poor misguided white kid" without even taking a breath, unconscionable

We are cooked

I have gotten in hot water for using the term "failed state" to describe the US as there are historical conditions that have to be met for the term to be accurate, so let's just say we're in the on-deck circle

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Nine years ago exactly, an interesting series of events happened in Uzbekistan concerning their dictator...

Perhaps you are unmoved by Gov Gav’s shittiness toward trans people? Well, fear not! There are so many other ways he’s terrible!

"This is why liberals operate solely in reactive mode when it comes to Trump: Trump is the one constant when all else is chaos. This is a very unhealthy habit. We have a much better chance of combatting autocracy if people are creative instead of reactive." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/mafia-stat...

Little kids with brain cancer. That’s who Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are screwing over by cutting health care.

On why the media is suddenly covering Epstein: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/mafia-stat...

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

what a fucking stupid time to be a person who cares about other people

"It never does any good to suck up to an autocrat. He will screw you over anyway. You should preserve your integrity and your dignity if he's going to try to steal everything else." www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CaI...

Are we finally going to talk about the racism, especially from Eastern European players, in tennis?

Remember when John Bolton defunded the CDC and the next year we had an enormous global plague?

Dear Smithsonian.......send your historical records to Canada before they're destroyed.

Five years ago today, I repainted my kitchen door with chalkboard paint

You and me Bono, you and me both