It’s sort of impressive how a sizable portion of the country seems to have totally lost its spine in face of authoritarianism because Donald Trump barely won the popular vote.

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

🧵The Trump regime knows that they are destroying the economy. They will never admit this in public, but they do in private. Treasury secretary Scott Bessent was photographed reading a text from AgSec Brooke Rollins saying that Trump's tariffs made China shift soybean purchases to Argentina.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Violent rhetoric exists among low level left-wingers, but within the Republican party, this is something that the very highest people regularly engage in. No Democratic president would ever appoint someone with such a history of insane rhetoric.

🧵 In the latest Theory of Change, I spoke w/ @karenattiah.bsky.social about how anti-Trump leaders need to be much more serious about power and money if they want win. "It's not enough just to be right. It's also, you also have to be resourced and organized." plus.flux.community/p/to-stop-tr...

After what must be millions of canceled subscriptions, Disney restored Jimmy Kimmel's show. Trump's power grabs are not inevitable. We will not stand for them.

This regime will be remembered as the one that promised transparency and produced zero data. They don't want anyone to know how shitty everything is. The party will tell you how you are doing. The party will inform you how you feel about this. Oh, big brother. apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump shows off his Caesar's Palace bathroom Oval Office makeover to the grifter children of "All In." Russ Vought and Stephen Miller found the perfect shiny bauble to distract him while they run the country into the ground.

He’s always seemed like a guy who is very out of control in his life and basically going along with anything because he’s miserable. But yeah, that’s fucked up.

Here’s a lot of the stuff about Charlie Kirk that the right is now currently engaged in a nationwide witch hunt to suppress. Share it, repeat it, don’t let evil win. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Let's lighten things up a bit. Can I get a Happy Birthday from @markhamillofficial.bsky.social !! 39 years and a Star Wars fan ‼️

🧵 Liberal elites have become pathological, so committed to their own Rawlsian neutrality that they are unable and unwilling to defend their own philosophy. This thread is a summary of the latest "Theory of Change" episode featuring @polphilpod.bsky.social. Continue here or click through 👇

something to keep in mind is that everything the right is currently doing to trans people is just what they have wanted for decades to do to gay people; they just can’t get away with doing the latter right now

The sad part is near the end of the article, when discussing what motivates people to join white supremacist movements, many individuals are marked by neglect, emotional abuse, and societal rejection, and it's suggested that most of them join not because they have an ideology they believe in...

Welcome new followers! Thanks so much for being here. I'm a former Republican operative who left *before Trump* because I saw too much religious extremism and intolerance firsthand. Here's a profile of me if you would like to hear the story of my escape. prospect.org/politics/202...

I know these “interviews” with Justice Barrett are carefully scripted. But if she’s going to keeping urging Americans to “read the opinions,” and not just commentary, it sure would be nice if someone would ask her what we should do when—as is so often the case these days—there’s no opinion to read…

More of that violent left wing rhetoric I keep hearing about. Brian Kilmeade should be fired for this. He's calling for a literal genocide of fellow Americans.

Podcasters running the FBI hopelessly trying to track down the assassin of another podcaster while the ex-reality show president and the ex-FOX News host Secretary of Defense stoke fascism and people wonder why I’m constantly bitching about how we should be teaching critical media literacy in K-12.

way too many outlets reporting "Hey fascist! Catch!" without the "Up arrow, right arrow, 3 down arrows" part that was all the same inscription because its a very specific video game reference to Helldivers 2 all we know about Tyler Robinson right now is he is terminally online

Does this mean that the shooter of Charlie Kirk was a right-winger? Of course not, but these are facts that Trump and co. do not want the public to know. Ultra-right Republicans are constantly threatening their own side. And given how much more violence they commit, we have to point this out.

There's a long record of ultra-right people committing or threatening violence against their own side. Mitt Romney has explicitly said that fear of being killed by the far-right motivates many elite Republicans.

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Pretending to be the real liberals has been a decades-long deception by the reactionaries, as detailed in the link below. What's different this time is they're buying off purported lefty thought leaders. Previously it was just buying the politicians and calling libertarians liberals.

The establishment is surely not the party of the President, Speaker of the House, the Supreme Court, the largest political donors, largest tv infotainment operation, almost the entirety of talk radio, and the largest podcasts. This party is just a bunch of ragtag renegades fighting for free speech!

If the fossil fuel industry didn’t have our president and corporate America by the throat, we could have nice things like this too.

Unfortunately "single issue fast food voter" was the defining demographic in 2024

It's very misleading to conclude that Republicans mean the same thing by "democracy is in danger." They mean because trans people exist and that they say an atheist tv character who was black.

Trump followers are absolutely desperate to avoid the conclusion that the vast, illegal conspiracies they believe in aren't real, and thus will never be prosecuted www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

🧵 Right-wing extremists like Libs of Tiktok and Charlie Kirk totally concocted the Sydney Sweeney "outrage." The supposed left-wing outrage at Sweeney essentially never happened. Republicans made it up. And as a former GOP media consultant, I know the "one weird trick."

I recorded a great Theory of Change episode with @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social about how we need literary criticism more than ever during a time in which so many people believe in fictionalized reality plus.flux.community/p/in-an-age-...

Just posted yesterday's livestream with @delong.social about Trump's firing of Erika McEntarfer, and how it's part of American reactionaries' decades-long war on sound economics and expertise in general. We also got into AI and the economy. Full transcript and chapters included!

With each accommodation this administration makes for Ghislaine Maxwell, it retraumatizes the victims and minimizes the harm she caused. And we're supposed to believe that these are the people who are super concerned with pedophelia and sex trafficking? Are MAGA supporters still buying this shit?

Can't get any more official than this. Trump's tariff taxes on the economy are driving up inflation.

Powell: "Increased tariffs are pushing up prices in some categories of goods. Near-term measures of inflation expectations have moved up on balance over the course of this year on news about tariffs."

Reactionary American Christians think that forcing their faith into public spaces will make people more religious. In fact, evidence shows the exact opposite appears to be the case. Keeping religion out of government protects citizens and protects faith. plus.flux.community/p/government...

Oklahoma's public schools are 49th in the country in achievement. So naturally, the Republican state superintendent is asking PragerU to set up a loyalty test meant to weed out "woke" teachers--even as he's facing an instructor shortage. Republicans do not care about their own voters.

Actor Jeff Daniels on Donald Trump: “We’ve lost decency. We’ve lost civility. We’ve lost respect for the rule of law. We’ve normalized verbal abuse. We’ve normalized bullying. Out the window goes character, integrity. He’s everything that’s wrong with not just America but being a human being.”

As Trump works tirelessly to protect the Jeffrey Epstein files, his administration has terminated more than 1,300 jobs in an agency that combats human trafficking. Makes you wonder... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

1/ Donald Trump's obsessive defensiveness about Jeffrey Epstein is causing a deep rupture within his far-right base. It's an echo of the last time this happened, when he tried to tell MAGA to get vaccinated. They didn't listen. Here's why. Click through or continue here...🧵

🧵 Social media permanently changed American political campaigning, but only Republicans have changed with it. Donald Trump won the 2024 election, not because people liked him, but because his party understands network marketing. @rynnreed.bsky.social and I discussed. Click thru or continue here...

Despite being labeled a budget bill, the OBBB is a critical part of a larger and long-term anti-democratic project by the GOP; with its passage, Trump has helped them press down on the accelerator. My latest @flux.community plus.flux.community/p/with-his-p...

I’m a sexual assault and rape victim. It took me 7 years after the act occurred to even tell anyone. Let alone go to therapy. And I was FORCED to go therapy when I was in the brig. This Puffy verdict just shows why victims don’t want 2 or feel afraid to come forward. Nobody believes or cares anyway.

Lisa Murkowsi has no soul. She could have easily voted against a very unpopular bill which she herself acknowledged was terrible. But she did it anyway--purely for power.

Someone has gone through and actually run the numbers on molestation crimes against children. The politicians who commit these crimes are overwhelmingly Republican. 67% of politicians convicted between February 10, 2023 and May 23, 2024 nationwide were Republicans. www.whoismakingnews.com

I'm tracking the far right anti-LGBTIQ activists, Christian Nationalists, White Supremacists, and extremist groups targeting LGBTIQ events during Pride Month. There are now 90 anti-LGBTIQ incidents mapped — including 29 incidents of vandalism and 6 incidents of anti-LGBTIQ violence or threats.

Most Trump supporters do not know that he is cutting Medicaid, killing rural hospitals, and taking away insurance from hard-working people. When they find this out, they change their opinions of Trump's Big Brutal Bill plus.flux.community/p/majority-o...

🧵 Talking to Trump super fans about politics is often a surreal experience. They literally do not understand what you are talking about. Why is that? Because Trump devotees actually believe that truth derives from authority rather than reality. Continue here or click through for prose version...

i see this kind of sentiment all the time and i think a lot of people forget that the American South's idea of libertarianism is "the government won't interfere with your segregation policy"