GERMAN PRESIDENT STEINMEIER: “.. the United States has broken with the values that it helped to establish .. “.. we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe.”

Limited by Trump’s morality

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Trump’s assault on the Smithsonian: ‘The goal is to reframe the entire culture of the US’

Folks look at you Iike you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & then it’s Wednesday. Presidentialism, & the post-WWII imperial presidency now being fully weaponized by the authoritarians, was a grave mistake: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

it is the policy of this government to treat democratic-led states as conquered territories and the people therein as something like hostiles or even enemy combatants

It has been an obvious, sometimes even almost stated project of Trump 2.0 to engineer a redo of the post George Floyd protests of 2020, this time with much more state violence. And now a federal agent has shot and killed a woman in a car at point blank range a mile from where Floyd was murdered.

Imagine what this tattered and failing republic will be like by 2029.

Just gonna throw this out there that no book is more prescient for the times we face. It’s not hyperbole to say that the similarities to right now are chilling. You won’t vote your way out of this with a spineless opposition party and this is going to end very badly for many, many people.

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

So the US taxpayer will spend billions of dollars to make the Venezuelan regime even more repressive so that it can protect American oil companies who won’t actually do anything except themselves receive billions more dollars of taxpayer subsidies. MAGA

Last night I wrote to you about Trump’s desperate efforts to rewrite history. Today, on the taxpayer funded WH website, he’s using our resources to pursue Orwellian 1984ish revisions. It’s our job to stop him. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

BREAKING: The U.S. drops the number of vaccines it recommends for every child in an unprecedented overhaul of childhood health protections.

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

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Are you worried things can’t get stupider? I assure you they can and will

If Trump attacks Greenland, does Article 5 kick in?

BREAKING: An American military operation in Venezuela killed 32 Cuban officers over the weekend, the Cuban government said in the first official acknowledgement of the deaths.

The United States Congress has the Constitutional power and the patriotic duty to stop this insanity immediately, for the good of all Conservative and Liberal Americans’ future.

The Constitution is just some more or less worthless old scraps of paper unless it is enforced.

so, we're bringing war to the Caribbean, South America, the North Atlantic, Iran, and, oh, taking aggressive action against NATO and the EU? what the fuck is this demented place?

Trump in a single gaggle on Air Force One just threatened: -- a second strike against Venezuela -- Cuba -- Mexico -- Colombia -- Iran -- Greenland (which in turn would be an attack on the EU and Denmark)

Total war will only bring total chaos

It's also wild that this hasn't ended Trump's presidency immediately. We used to be a serious country, where things mattered. Or maybe we never were, & it's just the mask being fully ripped off. Hard to tell, frankly. Observationally equivalent. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

America is a rogue and malevolent state and global bad actor

Oil and distraction Trump attacks Venezuela anntelnaes.substack.com/p/oil-and-di...

What an awful place this is.

what the fuck is this?

we're going to do what now?

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slurring old meat sack struggles to read script

fuck these fucking ghouls to the end of fucking forever.

Never any funds for common sense programs while also infinite funds for blowing shit up.

Cicero de Legibus 1.18.10 Igitur doctissimis uiris proficisci placuit a lege, haud scio an recte, si modo, ut idem definiunt, lex est ratio summa, insita in natura, quae iubet ea quae facienda sunt, prohibetque contraria. Eadem ratio, cum est in hominis mente confirmata et <per>fecta, lex est

Good morning. You are waking up to the irony of a convicted felon president, who spent years avoiding his own criminal trials, capturing the president of a sovereign nation and holding him captive for criminal trials.

A Mad King has usurped the power of Congress—which represents the American people. That is, he has seized power that belongs to you and me collectively. He has declared war without consultation with or approval from Congress. And with no imminent threat. This is a profound betrayal of the republic.