Qatar is Trump’s new bestie. “…Trump signed an Executive Order stating that the ‘United States shall regard any armed attack on the territory, sovereignty, or critical infrastructure of the State of Qatar as a threat to the peace and security of the United States.’ time.com/7324968/qata...

Before engineering the Trump administration's government shutdown response, Russ Vought spent years building Project 2025 strategy. “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said in 2023. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work.” (Pub. Oct. 2024)

Cowards.

Fascism 101: Propaganda & Unreality - claim the undesirable groups are doing to you exactly what you are doing to them. Gaslight people into not believing what they see with their own eyes and only what dear leader tells them to believe. www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

This is who Russ Vought is when he thinks no one is watching. He explicitly says he wants to “rehabilitate Christian Nationalism.” youtu.be/PY_chqyaRHo?...

This is not a coincidence. www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

Fascism 101: Anti-Intellectualism Requirements include: -Limit international students -Adhere to definitions of gender approved by the administration. -prohibit policies that would “punish, belittle and even spark violence against conservative ideas.” www.thedailybeast.com/trump-pressu...

Holding differing personal opinions is not dissent nor disloyalty. It’s already illegal to reveal unauthorized national security information. Hegseth will be paying for at least 5000 work hours with taxpayer money to polygraph people for no reason. What a waste of time and resources.

GOP Senate Leader John Thune said, “Well, vote to open up the government and that issue goes away, right? I mean, it's pretty straightforward.” Ummm, that’s coercion. It’s highly unethical, and if it isn’t already illegal in this scenario, it should be. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

NEW: In the lead-up to Trump’s second term, a PA businessman hired Tom Homan as a consultant and said he could put together a group of companies wanting to get in line to win contracts for a massive immigration enforcement plan, sources said.

#governmentshutdown #propaganda #fascism #trump

Charlie Kirk's organization, Turning Point USA, continued its national tour of college campuses with a stop at Virginia Tech ahead of pivotal elections in the state. Conservative media pundit Megyn Kelly got into a heated exchange with an attendee over political violence. https://cnn.it/4pFvqvJ

I have no words.

🙄 Even a cursory look at the independent histories of autism and Tylenol shows zero correlation, let alone causation. Even if there was some kind of correlation (which there isn’t), correlation does not equal causation. This is just ridiculous opinions couched as (very bad) pseudoscience.

"President Donald Trump made a clear calculus when he was stocking the highest ranks of his administration after the 2024 election: The premium would be on loyalty and disruption, often at the expense of demonstrated competency," writes Aaron Blake | Analysis https://cnn.it/4plqKep

It wasn’t clear who or what exactly Trump would designate; Antifa is a loosely organized movement without a distinct leader, membership lists or structure.

The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss. A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Since the killing of Charlie Kirk, the response on the left has been shock and horror. No one of prominence has justified the killing; hundreds, from Democratic leadership on down, have condemned political violence. But below the unanimity is a subtler debate: how to think about Kirk's life.

"Trump is not offering a neutral guideline for making American political debate more civil," @jonathanbchait.bsky.social writes. "He is proposing a rule that binds his opponents but does not protect them, and protects him and his allies but does not bind them":

More of this, please, Mr. Washington! Keep up the good work! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/u...

I feel bad for these teachers. This guy could not care less about actual education. This is about indoctrination. www.oklahoman.com/story/news/e...

Parts of Fascism #4 Unreality #project2025 #news #fascism #education #authoritarianism #trump #trumpadministration youtube.com/shorts/iz7I7...

President Trump is sending tanks rolling through the streets of the capital not to honor service, but to celebrate power, @eliotacohen.bsky.social writes:

BREAKING: SENATOR PADILLA HANDCUFFED AND THROWN TO THE GROUND AFTER BEING FORCIBLY REMOVED FROM PRESS CONFERENCE.

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., introduced a bill this week that would give the federal government the ability to withhold federal dollars from cities deemed "lawless."

California Sen. Alex Padilla was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference and handcuffed. "I am Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary." Video from @Elex_Michaelson on X via Padilla's staff.

Parts of Fascism #3 Anti-Intellectualism #project2025 #fascism #education #trumpadministration youtube.com/shorts/ku83n...

The Trump administration urged the Supreme Court on Friday to allow officials to gut the Department of Education, a key priority for the president that has been stymied by a series of lower court decisions.

Trump’s travel ban once sparked outcry—but “Trumpism is a kind of authoritarian autoimmune disease,” @adamserwer.bsky.social writes. It’s “been ravaging the American body politic for so long that there are fewer small-d democratic antibodies left to fight it.”

Parts of Fascism #2 Propaganda #fascism #education #project2025 #news #trumpadministration #propaganda #trump youtube.com/shorts/pYX0E...

OPINION by MSNBC opinion blogger Ja’han Jones: “The actual value of hosting a parade — which, in a fashion reminiscent of dictatorships, will feature dozens of military vehicles and thousands of service members — is debatable at best.” READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

President Trump’s allies were trying to discredit the findings of experts even before the new forecast that their signature legislation would add $2.4 trillion to the federal debt.

🚨 FOLLOW LIVE: Russ Vought, Trump's budget director who said he wants to put federal workers "in trauma," is testifying on Capitol Hill. I'm reporting on Vought. I'll be live-tweeting the hearing. (Link to livestream below.) Send me your questions and tips. 1/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1sZ...

Parts of Fascism #1 - The Mythic Past. #fascism #education #howitworks #project2025 #news #trump #trumpadminstration youtube.com/shorts/voJeH...

A judge on Wednesday declined to release Mahmoud Khalil from an immigration facility in Louisiana, even though he found that the government’s use of a foreign policy law in Khalil’s detention was most likely unconstitutional.

The preliminary injunction would prevent the federal government from revoking Harvard's ability to enroll international students.

Amid growing concerns within the Federal Emergency Management Agency that internal turmoil has left it unprepared for the fast-approaching hurricane season, the agency is taking significant steps to bolster its disaster response workforce and training infrastructure.

“If I am understanding the numbers correctly, the latest version of their tax scam, the top 0.1 percent stand to gain $255,000 on average in 2027 alone,” McGovern said. “That is $700 a day every day.” https://trib.al/AOj6BKO

Text of the 1,116 page bill that House Republicans passed through the Budget Committee. They just announced a Rules Committee markup at 1am Wednesday. docs.house.gov/meetings/RU/...

Habeas Corpus is a FUNDAMENTAL right. Not a privilege. #fundamentalrights #habeascorpus #immigration youtube.com/shorts/QdGAw...

The audience's response says it all

After months of baseless claims about “extreme levels of fraud” within Social Security, Musk's DOGE has found only 2 likely fraudulent claims out of over 110,000—that makes it a rate of .0018%. So DOGE found virtually no fraud and made an integral American system less efficient.

Life-saving drugs should be accessible, not grossly overpriced just to explode unjust profits. It's time to end the practice of these extreme price hikes and the unjust corporate concentration and market monopolization that makes it possible. We need fair competition and just pricing.

This is what the Trump regime looks like. #trumpadministration #habeascorpus #police #fascism youtube.com/shorts/coWWi...

Conspiracy theories? Really? #education #oklahoma #news youtube.com/shorts/QvY1e...

"They need to not step back and close the doors to a building that is designed for us to be here and talk to people. This was our chance to talk to them, and they shut us down. They silenced us, so we're here to be loud..." www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...