It’s only day 6. 🙃

After J6, our system allowed Trump to run for president again. They literally gave permission to an insurrectionist, to destroy our country. He's doing exactly what he said he was going to do. SCOTUS, Republican Party, DOJ, all of you hold the responsibility of this. The election came later.

The people who'll tell you today's murder victim in Minnesota shouldn't have turned up to a protest carrying a gun are the same people who said Kyle Rittenhouse was perfectly entitled to do the same thing.

Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is

There’s a special kind of grief many of us are feeling tonight. Because it didn’t have to be like this.

“Just one more thing, Ms Bondi… … If The Epstein Files are a hoax, why the redactions?”

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

even among really smart folks, i think ppl have greatly underestimated just how much resources the ultra-wealthy have put into culture war bullshit to get us to fight each other instead of them

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

Whenever I see stories about Mar-a-Lago face I think about the part of the Hunger Games books where Katniss muses that don't the people in the Capitol with all of their surgeries and modifications know how grotesque they look to the rest of us?

Good morning to everyone but especially to Lady Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, whose judgement against Rudy Giuliani for defaming them and turning their lives upside down cannot be pardoned away by the president

Very hunger games coded

🗣I want to be put on in the worst way.... Happy Birthday, MC Lyte 🎂🎉 This remix 30 years later is still 🔥🔥 Brandy, Yo-Yo, Queen Latifah

I’m supposed to believe both that trained and paid journalists couldn’t see through Project 2025 spin but also they’re the people best positioned to tell me what’s happening and how I should feel. Why? They failed at their jobs by their own admission.

War is peace! Freedom is slavery! Ignorance is strength!

Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

the two americas

I’m absolutely speechless. May our children and our children’s children forgive us.

I used to read books like Lord of the Rings or watch movies like Star Wars and think the villains were unbelievable. And of course, now watching the tech oligarchs (who could not spend all their money if they tried) destroy civilization for power, I’m like, guess I was wrong. People are that awful.

And if we let it slide, it sets the precedent that Congress doesn’t matter, the people don’t matter, and the only will that counts is the president’s.

This is so crazy. Millions wanted & voted for this.

On the left, my warning from September 2024 about what Trump 2.0 would look like. On the right, recent headlines. I wish I'd been wrong. But because Trump is following a classic authoritarian playbook, it’s up to state and local governments to push back on this tyranny while it’s still possible.

I've been frustrated for weeks because the women spaces don't want to discuss what women of color face, but what women of color face is a canary in the coalmine for what's coming for white women, poor and middle class people, and EVERYONE ELSE.

Yep, either directly or indirectly.... millions voted for this. #They never hid their plans. #They told everyone what #they were going to do & how #they would do it....

Right now....Undocumented gramma's and auntie's What's next? Birthright Citizens LGBTQ's People of Color Disabled Protestors Registered Democrats

Sigh… Shitlibs? You didn’t save a single life. Not 1. You made it worse…there and here. IDC how many times you try to make yourself feel better about what you did. I’m going to keep reminding you that you made it worse. EVERYTHING IS WORSE.

No one.

We know those folks lacked empathy & were truly trash after they mocked 6 year-olds getting murdered at Sandy Hook, the murder of 12 year-old Tamir Rice, etc. We know if that was a blue state, #they would be celebrating…. We don’t have to be like #they, especially when it comes to children.

I’m going to be very honest and clear. I am fully preparing myself to die under this new American regime. That’s not to say that it’s the end of the world. It isn’t. But I am almost 50 years old. It will take so long to do anything with this mess that this is the new normal for *me*.

Get on alert folks. We are getting pretty far down that “first they came for…” list. www.npr.org/2025/06/30/n...

ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas. So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget? The answer is: you.

In case you missed it, Trump's CFPB has quietly dropped 18 lawsuits against banks, mortgage firms, and subprime lenders accused of offering predatory loans to millions of vulnerable consumers. Trump is making his corporate backers even richer by letting them swindle you.

I’m never going to see precedented times

Black people are the one group people in the US who don't need to be lectured about "nuance" and "pragmatism" in the context of politics. Every civic action we have ever taken in the entirety of our history here involved hard tradeoffs just to move the progress ball a few yards. But move, we do.

They launched a coup, suffered no consequences for it, won back power, and have used the power to pardon everyone involved while remaking the country through violence and intimidation. It’s just ridiculous to talk about the political violence of yelling at ICE agents within that context.

I'm from Austin, and I won't stop when I drive through Waco to get to Dallas. That place scares me, it's so red. I'm truly shocked that that many people turned out in Waco. Impressed, but shocked.

When violent criminals are pardoned due to partisanship… When tribalism excuses violence against the opposing political party… When justice depends on political affiliation… People. Will. Die. GOP leadership must stop this.

We’re seeing one of the hallmarks of authoritarianism: the criminalization of dissent and its suppression by violence.

America, here's something you need to know that only an older person can tell you: never kneel. It's too damn hard to stand up again. This isn't just about knees. It's also about democracy. #Resist

My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.

America was given a choice between a lawless, amoral monster and a qualified, intelligent, joyful woman of color—and it chose the monster. We need to reckon with the reality of what that says about so many of us here. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/america-ch...

I want so badly for the judicial branch to halt what RFK Jr. Is doing. Everyone is celebrating wins for the other areas of the country being dismantled but nobody understands science so they dont understand how BAD this is or how what RFK Jr. is doing will affect your EVERYDAY LIFE. TODAY.

finally doing that thing you didn't want to do because now you have something you want to do even less

And what have you learned?…