Coons on Epstein files: "My hunch is that AG Bondi, having just been ordered on social media by the president to open an investigation into a series of high-profile Dems, will promptly say, 'No, there's an ongoing investigation, we can't disclose any of this,' and the president will back that up."

(Free access) The U.S. is not an autocracy today. But it has started down an anti-democratic path, and many Americans — including people in positions of power — remain far too complacent about the threat. Here are 12 benchmarks to understand and measure the direction Trump is taking the country.

A year ago, I launched my book #OnFreedom in a war zone – in Kharkiv, Ukraine, 35 seconds from Russian artillery. Today, I'm launching the paperback in Portland, Oregon. Which is NOT a war zone. There is a difference in the real world between what's a war and what is not, and between truth and lies.

The new MAHA — Making America Hungry Again. Editorial cartoonist Dennis Goris weighs in Trump’s priorities, which closely mirror King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.

Division is key for bullies

Since Tr$mp has retaken office, nearly a million Americans have lost their jobs. That's the largest number of layoffs since 2020, during his previous term.

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Tied to Qatar

Helpful website to check on claims about my beautiful home, Portland, Oregon ❤️🌻❤️

And to claim they are following the teachings of Jesus while doing it. It is sickening.

Jasmine Crockett: “Stop believing the lies they are putting out there. The only person that is harming you right now is the old white nepo baby that is sitting in the White House that is causing all the destruction, pain, and problems you are enduring”

Amen

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals? J: I didn't see it D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

American taxpayers are bailing out Argentina when American soybean farmers are losing their exports.

The only thing Portland looks like from WWII is Germany from 1933-1939.

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

Inflation is so bad these days that taking a $50,000 cash bribe can't even get you indicted. SAD!! Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Guys like this are almost always crooks in addition to be degenerates and abusers. Yet another reason for the opposition to remind everyone. No one stays in power forever. The time will come.

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash. Pam Bondi knew. Kash Patel knew. Emil Bove knew. And they made the investigation go away. A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Grifters and ***holes

So the white dude from Fox News said we should kill mentally ill homeless folks, he apologizes and they’re good; @karenattiah.bsky.social posts an accurate quote and says she’s not in the mood to mourn and gets bounced.

I think it’s fair to say there have been more overt attacks on and threats to freedom of expression in the US since January than in our entire history. And recently they are accelerating and getting more brazen.

xAI has a $200 million contract with the Department of Defense to provide... whatever this is.

Stop Acting Like This Is Normal

Cory Booker: "You cannot say that you're about making America healthy again when you are doing so much to hurt people's access to healthy foods -- like suspending nutrition programs -- to healthcare itself, and also making our environment so much less healthy."

“BUT HUNTER BIDEN”

Apocalypse Now is about an American failure and moral depravity during war- in this case, the war in Vietnam. He is incredibly ignorant.

Oregon legislator shares why he’s switching parties…

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Six cities in red states rank in the top 10 in murder rate, all located in the South or Midwest- interesting we aren’t hearing about them.

I'm trying to understand this. They're going to filter out the people who are losing employment to hurt the president's employment numbers? I'm not being sarcastic. Is that what he's saying?

You can understand the problem in America right now with just two numbers. Yesterday we learned Trump has made $5 billion for himself while kicking 17 million Americans off health care.

Massie: "The Speaker of the House just offered a fig leaf to my colleagues. They're gonna vote on a non-binding resolution today that does absolutely nothing ... they're allowing the DOJ to curate all of the information that the DOJ is giving them ... the perpetrators are being protected"

Hearing the the Social Security Admin whistleblower who whistleblew a few days ago has now “resigned” involuntarily. Trying to get additional confirmation. This is the chief data officer of SSA.

Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this: “I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”. It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.

CDC is no longer surveilling outbreaks caused by campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia. What could go wrong?

wow. we’d heard rumors to this effect. now it’s more than rumor.

So gross.

Historian Hannah Arendt: "Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."

Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the immigrant who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador in March, has been released from criminal custody and is on his way to join his family in Maryland, his lawyers said in a statement on Friday. nyti.ms/4fRCh0r

Trump defied a subpoena and conspired to hide the illegally retained classified documents and destroy evidence. Garland made the call to execute the warrant and a judge signed off after being presented with evidence of a crime, and evidence of a crime was found. That’s why Mar a Lago was searched.

Do you know how insane and infuriating it is to live in a country where one party claims, with media and public support, the mantle of being the ‘tough on crime’ party while its leader openly calls for convicted criminals to be released from prison ‘or else’?

Watch this. Apparently, police followed Rep Collier into the bathroom and threatened her with a FELONY for being on a press call with Senator Corey Booker and Governor Newsom.

Again: this is not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Does my Epstein look big in this flag?

So hang on…. Trump is going to offer to open up FUKKIN ALASKA TO THE RUSSIANS?? Wow. Let’s see republicans defend this