@revmagdalen.bsky.social Japan just appointed its first female Prime Minister.

Now Trump wants the DOJ to just hand him another $230 Million directly. A bottomless pit of greed and corruption. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

I go to every protest/rally, I'm not a newbie, but this past Saturday at No Kings not only was the crowd of 500 in my small town 2X the size of the usual, but I met many folks protesting for the first time‼️They felt like the criminal Trump regime was out of control & it was time to do something🇺🇸💙🇺🇸

It's working! As predicted, we are successfully reprogramming their brains using their insecure group identity, coupled with reinforcement learning. 🐸🐸🐸 Tuesday is still early though. I expected it would take a week. Hmm... should we do the Pavlov move now, or wait a week? #resist

*Trump destroys the legal and constitutional heritage of the US* Dems: "We can't make noise about this, it's not concrete enough for voters" *Trump destroys the literal, physical White House* Dems: "We can't make noise about this, not when the legal and constitutional heritage is at stake"

That rage you feel, as you watch the White House get leveled? That's how we beat Trump. Harness that, refine it, find ways to get other people equally enraged. Get them so mad they can't see straight. None of this kumbaya BS. White-hot, unreasoning anger, that demands the people who did this PAY.

The second phase, where Hamas disarms and gives up brutal authoritarian rule over the Gazan people, so their legitimate, democratic PA gov can return, was always going to be the hard part. Hamas is executing Gazans resisting them, and doesn't seem to have any intention to abide by their agreement.

What if we made the Constitution into a trading card game, to get the kids to read it? If they can memorize 250 Pokemon, they can memorize the law of the land! Be out here like "Oh you have the Emoluments Clause card? That's super rare! I'll trade you three Preambles and an Article I for it!"

Mike Johnson has given the house a very very very very very very very very very long vacation because he’s worried about the Epstein files

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I’m deeply upset about Trump’s destruction of the East Wing to build his mar-a-lago ballroom, but it’s not like we have a real White House at this point.

They voted for that asshole out of bog-standard racism and sexism. It had NOTHING to do with the economy. Our media kept feeding the economy line BECAUSE it gave cover to the bog-standard racism & sexism at play. People interested in the economy ask QUESTIONS about economic plans. They DO NOT

Incredible stuff

Science is to the Left of everything else. Cancer is to the Right of everything else. Peace And Long Life! 🖖

REAGAN: “When someone says let’s impose tariffs, it may look like they’re doing the patriotic thing… but over the long run trade barriers hurt every 🇺🇸 worker.” 🇨🇦 Ontario just ran this👇🏽powerful ad using Reagan’s voice against Trump’s trade war during game 7 of the ALCS ⚾️

Yes, sadly for us and our democracy, the MSM does not seem to know how to cover protest if there isn’t violence…

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

"We are deeply concerned with anti-Semitism. As for The Jews, they are on an express train to hell with all the other Non-Believers"

Big Sour Grapes energy: "Getting 7 million people to publicly oppose fascism and to exercise their right to peaceful assembly and protest is not organizing!" Yeah, "organizing" is only when you're being a terminally online cosplay revolutionary who's all talk.

New in PN: No Kings was a huge success. Just look at Trump's response. "Calling this movement 'No Kings' turns out to have been a stroke of genius, because Trump’s response was to essentially say *Yeah, I’m the king — and because I’m the king, I can poop on people!*"

"..The Xylom estimate that as many as 8.2 million people turned out to oppose the Trump admin... The mood at the protests was joyful, peaceful, with protesters holding signs that championed American principles of democracy, free speech, equality and the rule of law" open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Schools in South Carolina recently sent home unvaccinated kids, to stem a growing measles outbreak. Turns out 5 of them were infected and, if they'd been at school, could've unwittingly infected their classmates for days. That kind of precaution is now illegal in Idaho.

Science is to the Left of everything else. Cancer is to the Right of everything else. Live Long And Prosper! 🖖

Fun fact: There were ZERO arrests of #NoKings protesters yesterday, however there were 22 MAGAs arrested for attempting to incite violence.

We currently have a president who is so childishly crude and grotesque that newspapers consider it indecent to accurately describe the video he recently posted, and TV shows think it is indecent to show it. But many Americans are OK that the Oval Office is home to the nation's crassest toddler.

Trump: "I want China to buy soybeans. One of the things I want is China is gonna buy soybeans."

So, pick a fight with your trading partners, Tariff the fuck out of them, and then whine when they don't buy your stuff. More "winning"..

#Satire #BewareStatueOfLiberty And always remember the Statue of Liberty was fabricated in France. Where's her VISA? She's an illegal immigrant! bsky.app/profile/opsn...

Education is a political movement that goes back to the first campfires of the human race. Science fiction is a political party. It was founded by cats.* *Shut up. Am poet. Have licence.

In the absence of anything approaching an actual uprising, Trump still threatening military action against American citizens.

There's just no way to exaggerate how cooked your brain has to be to think like this. Trump is an unprecedented, law-breaking, norm-breaking, increasingly demented maniac who is destroying this country's basic institutions. Like, right now! As we speak! But media elites find that boring.

How do they fail to mention the diarrhea? The president of the US is metaphorically shitting on his countrymen and laughing about it, and no one wants to talk about it.

The so-called Homeland Security Secretary is a corrupt and malignant fraud. This video she sanctioned is fake. Manipulated by cowards who hide behind masks while violating the law.

Organizers say the “No Kings” protests drew more than seven million people across 2,700 cities. The crowds included high-profile politicians, A-list celebrities, and more than a few creative inflatables.

We love our Marines and owe a debt of gratitude to Camp Pendleton, but next time, the Vice President and the White House shouldn’t be so reckless with people’s lives for their vanity projects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

#A_NewHope ✊

A stunning story of critical developments that the US press missed entirely

⚡️Updated: Zelensky should not be pressured to give up territory, Poland's Tusk says. "None of us should put pressure on Zelensky when it comes to territorial concessions. We should all put pressure on Russia to stop its aggression. Appeasement never was a road to a just and lasting peace."

He means “Colombia”, like the country. (Not “Columbia”, like the university.) 🤡

Stupid robot thinks Antifa is a group!🤖🦃

You know, I’m actually pretty upset that the leader of my country has no regard for the laws that are supposed to protect my rights, my free speech, and my tax dollars, that he seems disinclined to ever cede any power, and that he regularly insults and demeans half the country, including me.

The media’s overriding concern is not being accused of bias by the right, which means all coverage is framed around granting the right the maximum benefit of the doubt, however implausible. Such that sewage becomes “a brown liquid” until other possibilities are ruled out. Maybe it’s cake batter!