Jack Shanahan, retired US Air Force General and first Director of the Department of Defense Joint Artificial Intelligence Center:

It's incredible that from the moment Roger Stone created an organization called "Stop the Steal" in 2016 (not a typo), the GOP strategy to use propagandistic lies to justify stealing elections has been carried out in plain sight. It's the most transparent ploy imaginable, and it might work.

The State of the Union: the president is a corrupt demented sex criminal who tried to overthrow the constitution.

State of The Union = Precarious

There is no amount of brown human beings he isn't willing to kill domestically or overseas (Iran) if he thinks it will improve his odds of remaining in power indefinitely. He will burn the country to the ground if he thinks it will allow him rule over the ashes. He's a tyrant and a pedophile.

This is barbaric. There is no world where people don't die because of this policy. That's one of the many, many reasons the courts ordered these policies be changed in the first place after decades of refusal. But that's the point of this change, isn't it?

Kinda weird that the party that controls the House, the Senate, and the White House claims there's rampant voter fraud.

it’s insane that a decade ago we all agreed that giving mass shooters the attention they desired was a bad thing but now because rightwingers will quite literally lie about the shooter every single time we all have to be acutely aware of the shooters intentions and ideology

Part of the right wing project around this is making it seem like trans people just randomly appeared in 2015 and we were unreasonable. (I wonder what happened that year that made trans people a focus for them?). There were decades of quiet advocacy to get basic anti discrimination protections.

"The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi" principle/sentiment absolutely still applies to Nazis that happen to have been LGBTQ.

YES SIR MR ANONYMOUS STATUE AVATAR CULTURAL REVOLUTION ON THE WAR COLLEGES IMMEDIATELY

The Epstein/Trump Administration will fall. It will go down in history as the new gold standard of why centralized power must never be allowed to exist. It's not a novel revelation. Yet it seems humans with their limited lifespans & narcissistic tendencies require painful reminders. Unfortunate.

They can't factor in that most people have real genuine feelings and beliefs because none of them actually do. They think everyone is just faking it like they are. I've met a few of these people and they really just can't wrap their minds around it

All your life you've been trained to believe that someone else will take whatever action is needed. It's up to you to break that conditioning.

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

This is the kind of plan you would develop if you wanted to intentionally kill thousands through neglect and disease. Which, if you know history, was how large proportions of people in concentration camps died The malnutrition and disease killed millions.

These buildings do not have the infrastructure to hold this many people. They are not built for this. From plumbing to HVAC to electrical. This is going to be a humanitarian disaster. One must assume it's intentional. They have no plans for sewage, showers, clean water, or even basic food.

THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY. I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

And we don’t have to guess what they mean, because we can read Project 2025 ourselves and see that “pornography” is shorthand for LGBTQ people existing publicly. That’s what they’re working to ban, censor, and restrict online under the guise of “protecting” kids from porn

The Epstein Files: Jeffrey Epstein took a photo of his 2015 dinner with Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk and then emailed it to himself Epstein wrote an email stating that he had a dinner planned with Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk. Jeffrey Epstein was convicted as a pedophile in 2008.

~85+% of the mainstream "2A Community" is thoroughly ideologically captured... $$$$ from 🇷🇺 and $$$$ from ✝️ cultists permeates the space, organizations, and influencers like a fungal rot from the inside out... It's quite the Medusa of a problem IF you care about human liberty and justice for all.

NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

Sen. Elissa Slotkin is refusing to voluntarily comply with the Justice Department investigation into that video she organized urging U.S. military members to resist illegal orders. Slotkin's legal team is requesting Jeanine Pirro preserve all relevant documents for "anticipated litigation."

I hope lawyers, secretaries of state, and state attorneys general are preparing for what’s coming.

"Survivors didn’t beg people to panic. They begged them to act while action still felt socially awkward."

I don’t like this

“Democracy dies in darkness.” First as warning, then as how-to manual.

Quote from Trump just minutes ago: "The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places.... The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting." In modern history, there's never been a bigger threat to our Constitution and our way of life than and his enablers.

This is what embodying the American spirit looks like. Alex Pretti is America. Renee Good is America. Liam Ramos is America. We are all the disenfranchised, downtrodden, and despondent. They are us. H/t @jamestalarico.bsky.social

It would take “purged” voters months to get these “proof of citizenship” documents so that they can vote - even without the extra hurdle for women who changed their last names. The SAVE Act — when coupled with GOP-led purges—would easily allow Rs to steal midterm elections. ⬇️ x.com/jennycohn1/s...

Within half an hour of when Deputy AG Blanche told reporters that DOJ "complied with the statute...we did not protect President Trump," DOJ deleted multiple documents from the database with damning information about Trump. Among those deleted were first-person accounts of Trump raping kids.

Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, Greg Bovino. They must all resign and be held accountable.

I made a promise to Alex’s parents to continue to tell his story. An ICU nurse at the VA, an outdoorsman, a deeply generous, compassionate friend and family member, and a true son of Minnesota. Rest in peace, Alex.

“Why would you bring a gun to….” Is irrelevant under the second amendment

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

There's a reason why 'active measures' via Putin, in conjunction with domestic U.S. right wing extremists, have spent so much time and effort infecting/inflaming/corrupting the second amendment community at large. Just like they did with the Libertarian Party in the lead up to the election.

We’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun

Pretti clearly did not brandish his gun. Which means the government is saying he was killed for legally exercising his right to carry. It’s as clear-cut a violation of the Second Amendment as I can possibly imagine. And we’re about to see the bulk of the gun rights crowd defend his murder.

Why are they sending witnesses to Whipple? WHY ARE THEY SENDING WITNESSES TO WHIPPLE?

Minnesota’s justice system will have the last word.

Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

[nods] newrepublic.com/article/2055...

Ossoff: "POTUS called for this man [Mark Kelly] to be hanged. A combat veteran, naval aviator, astronaut, senator. He demanded his execution bc he stated a principle enshrined in uniform code of military justice. If we become numb to that we lose sight of how extraordinary our obligations are."

Carney: "In a time of rising populism and ethnic nationalism, Canada can show how diversity is a strength, not a weakness... Canada can't solve all the world's problems. But we can show that another way is possible. That the arc of history isn't destined to be warped toward authoritarianism".

We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.

NEWS: Survivor Lisa Phillips backs request by Reps. Khanna and Massie for judge to appoint a special master to release the Epstein files. "I have no confidence that the Department of Justice, already 30 days late in complying with the Act with no end in sight."

Just a reminder that Trump is selling Venezuelan oil and depositing the proceeds into a bank account in Qatar that is NOT under any control by the US government or Congress. He's just stealing it. It really is that simple.

Radical Republicans ca. 1871: We’re sending federal troops into states in order to curb the power of white supremacy Radical Republicans ca. 2026: We’re sending federal troops into states in order to advance the cause of white supremacy