In the troubled former British colony of America, strong man leader Donald Trump has deployed heavily-armed troops to opposition-controlled cities and is threatening again to imprison opposition political leaders

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Perfect!

"I've been right about everything..." said no sane, thinking person ever.

Slip, slippin' away...

The "Horst Wessel effect" refers to a powerful propaganda technique used by the Nazis, led by Joseph Goebbels, to transform the unremarkable death of a party activist into a political myth. This strategy created a martyr figure to unify the movement and generate popular support.

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People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

Come on, Longhorns. Not looking good.

Congress? Why do we need a Congress? Why to empower the king, of course. Good boy! Now go erase all those silly laws that try to limit the king.

People from across the political spectrum need to join together to condemn political violence, no matter who the target it is. It’s never acceptable.

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Footnote 9...will now rival the famous Footnote 4.

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RIP Dave McNeely. He was reporting on Texas politics when I got to Austin in 1976.

If I say the words "this map is purely for political gains," then it gets court blessing, and the racial disenfranchisement also then gets blessed by default.

RIP Jules Witcover

Higher education: just another "industry" to run.

The South is sending troops to our nation's capitol.

Break that quorum!

RIP CPB

Look at all the incredible names of writers on the Texas Observer masthead! This is taken from the recent issue with a great obituary for Ronnie Dugger. Earlier mastheads also included Bob Eckhardt, and the Mission Statement was written by Dugger, greenlighted by Eckhardt, 1954. ##WritingCommunity

"AUTHORIZATION IMMEDIATELY GRANTED FOR ARREST AND INCARCERATION" says Trump. So this is where we have come to. No rule of law. No probable cause. No trial.

There's a new band in town: Biblical Grounds.

There's a new band in town: Recent Discoveries.

That Epstein List that was on my desk last month? It was written with disappearing ink, okay? So move along, folks. Move along. Nothing to see here. Hey LOOK! Immigrants!!

“It’s a republic, if you can keep it.” —Ben Franklin This Independence Day, let’s remember: democracy isn’t guaranteed. It takes vigilance, action, and courage. In the face of rising threats to our rights, we must keep fighting to protect the republic, for everyone.

It's a Brave New World out there.

All to give themselves a tax cut. We're witnessing the larger transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in American history. Courtesy of the "party of the working class" in the GOP.

Republicans pulled an all-nighter to: -strip healthcare away from 17 million Americans -take food assistance away from 3 million Americans -eliminate school meal access for 18+ million kids -send energy costs soaring -add $3.3 trillion to national debt -raise health care premiums for seniors

Musk: ready to die on this hill.

“What’s important for the journalist is not how close you are to power but how close you are to reality.” — Bill Moyers His speech, "Journalism Matters," March 30, 2000

Wow!

Trump's 'Big Brutal Bill' will give ICE a larger operating budget than the entire U.S. Marine Corps. So this is basically a workaround for Trump to violate the Posse Comitatus Act, which bans the military from civilian law enforcement.

So now this SCOTUS has turned Jeffersonian: the President decides himself what is constitutional and what is not.

The King may send his guards to capture a person and take him to a dungeon in a far-off place. We judges have no say in the matter. Due Process? That is so yesterday. Thus sayeth the SCOTUS.

AROUSE THE MUSE!! #WritersCommunity

open.substack.com/pub/thegodpo... Donald is having a sad..

Blondie, you're fired! Spicer, get back in here. I'll give you one Scaramucci to get me a better crowd size boast. STAT!

Does MAGA realize that Musk is mad because the BBB doesn't cut Medicaid enough? Doesn't slash your social security enough? Doesn't take away your health insurance enough?

When Elon Musk says that it is an abomination that the tax cuts wreak havoc on future generations; when he pledges to pay full tax rate and work to restore the Eisenhower era tax rates; then I will listen to him. Until then, I'll know he's the hypocritical charlatan I've always seen him as.

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Justice Barrett, meet Professor Barrett.

Tradition is important.

Very wise choice, I must say.