This is really happening. Right now.

He. Is. A. Sociopath.

i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate

CORRECTION: They dissolved *some* of the Washington Post journalist's body in acid. The *rest* they barbecued on a grill until it was incinerated. I know because I wrote a chapter on it in Proof of Conspiracy (Macmillan). Trump thereafter bragged about "saving MBS's ass." These are all monsters.

The president of the most powerful nation on Earth is so terrified of the tales that an imprisoned sex trafficker can tell that he plies her with a comfort puppy and custom meals and is holding out the prospect of a pardon. 77 million people voted for this.

The New York Times could have prevented this. All of this. Mainstream Media failed us. Support Independent Media.

They’re all just looting the treasury now

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

petro is so beast

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

1/ First, the indisputable context. Major-media journalists who omit the context are committing malpractice in the age of metajournalism. “Donald Trump, the convicted felon and adjudicated rapist who has faced 67 discrete allegations of sexual misconduct and has regularly expressed attraction to...

Blanche didn’t ask Maxwell a single question about any of these emails. Then he moved her to Club Fed where she is served individual meals and has a puppy and numerous other special privileges while she prepares her clemency petition. WHY?

A convicted felon who had also been found liable for sexual assault and committed additional crimes in plain sight was close with a notorious child sex trafficker and likely participated in some of those crimes too got elected with much of that known and spent his presidency railing against “crime.”

NPR reported this morning that, based on their review of the #Epstein emails released yesterday, Trump’s name appeared more than 1,000 times in the document— "I have met some very bad people, none as bad as #Trump. Not one decent cell in his body." - Jeffrey Epstein

Please don’t do this, America. Please don’t act like the Trump-Epstein emails we saw today were our first glimpse of something. Don’t buy the narrative that these emails are useful because they *hint* at misconduct. We *know* there was misconduct. You can read a fully sourced book on it for free:

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

this is literally never not accurate

After a decade of getting the shit kicked out of us by fascists the Democrats swoop in at the last second to tie our arms behind our back right when we're about to land a jab.

They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

Cull the Democratic Party. Systematically chip away all the weak, corporate centrists and corrupt, gutless elected officials who refuse to fight and instead suck at the teat of the oligarchy.

I don’t even have words for this. One of the 2 guys responsible for this mass death wants a peace prize and the other wants $1trillion to be a bad CEO.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Trump is fighting as hard as he can to starve kids for negotiating leverage.

Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???

They're Nazis. Don't ever apologize for calling them Nazis. If they didn't want to be called Nazis, they wouldn't be Nazis. So: Nazis are back, they're American now, and they're not hiding what they are. Whether it's Randy Fine, Nick Fuentes, or the anonymous Twitter account below Elon Musk loves.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

my god, what a paragraph (from tonight's @hcrichardson.bsky.social)

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.” — G. Orwell, 1984 If you go to the website for Trump’s interagency DC Task Force—the personal Trump army designed to facilitate a *successful* January 6-style self-coup in 2029—this is its logo, I shit you not:

Bunkering down in military housing. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

‘In every age, it has been the tyrant, the oppressor, and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism or religion or both to deceive and overawe the people.’ Eugene V. Debs

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

The federal criminal justice system is being systematically dismantled and destroyed piece by piece and turned into a mob boss’s network of corrupt consiglieres and thugs, where good people simply doing their jobs are rooted out and eradicated.

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

This 2017 HuffPo piece contains more wisdom & insight on current politics than 1000000 consultant polling reports.

The reason Trump illegally used an anonymous billionaire to pay soldiers during the Epstein Shutdown is because he's going to need troops for the Insurrection Act and martial law. The reason he'll let the poor die is because he doesn't give a shit about them. Their lives don't advance his schemes.

Making Argentina Great Again. Indefensible.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year. In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

Sunday President diarrheas on the country, Monday President bulldozes White House, Tuesday President steals $230 million, Wednesday President... fucks a horse? Let's see if he fucks a horse.

Trump’s new ballroom you’re paying for is going to be bigger than the White House itself. Because he believes he is more important than the country. The symbolism is disgraceful and obvious. Again: Republicans would lose their minds if Obama did this.

ICE is stockpiling weapons. It’s disappeared 170+ citizens. It’s gassed cops, arrested vets and shot priests in the head. It’s the personal army of a rogue POTUS—a fascist ex-con and rapist—and it’s masked, armed, nameless, faceless and insignia-less. It’s intended use is exactly what we fear it is.

They just straight up nominate Nazis now. It is unclear if there are more than one or two Republicans willing to stand up to Nazism. There are no words left to describe how far this country has fallen. We can only use analogs from other countries, or else go back to the 1850s here.