“Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people.” – Rob Reiner

Start naming mass shootings after politicians who take money from the NRA.

Hard to believe this is real but it is — do better, Time 😕

Are farmers going to be on welfare for all 4 years of this Trump term, or just for 3 years like the first Trump term? We get you like voting for government handouts, but we are $38 trillion in debt.

WATCH: An ICE agent pushes away a home security camera as she approaches a house. This is what a police state looks like.

They’re not hiding the brutality anymore. They want you to see it. They want you to get used to it.👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com

How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!! No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣

This gangster government steals everyone’s property and doesn’t care about the laws respecting the rights of creators. Everything they see belongs to them like the greedy leeches on this country that they are.

Twin #hockeysticks (courtesy of Gallup)

Real photo.

I stand with these veterans.

A reminder that Trump's "peace plan" for Ukraine came from Russia going back to 2016. From the Mueller Report:

Jamal Khashoggi. Say his name.

Epstein survivor: "Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government still belongs to the American people or to those who prey on them."

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Look, I know we're all sick of hearing "if this had happened with any other president ..." but it's absolutely true and absolutely can't be forgotten. For some reason, this nation gives this idiotic spoiled brat a free pass from things that would destroy the administration of any other person.

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Why would Jeffrey Epstein kill himself in jail if he had this much leverage of the one person who could give him a full pardon?

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

WATCH - @tarapalmeri.bsky.social : “Hey Megyn Kelly… you want to hear the sound of one of the girls recruited from her nearby high school by Epstein? It is pedophilia. I would recommend you go listen to the audio from the police reports.”

Yes, sadly it is real.

100% tax bracket. Create a "rich enough" threshold, and once you've passed it, every penny beyond goes back to providing for anyone who hasn't/can't make that much. You get a nice certificate each year you hit the threshold, watermarked with the faint image of a guillotine.

For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.

NPR reported this morning that, based on their review of the #Epstein emails released yesterday, Trump’s name appeared more than 1,000 times in the document— "I have met some very bad people, none as bad as #Trump. Not one decent cell in his body." - Jeffrey Epstein

Wag the dog

PBS did us a solid and dropped the whole Epstein emails. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

In terms of big disappointments, he gets honorable Manchin.

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Way more.

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

From my book THEY KNEW, written in 2021, on Trump's plans. This is what's happening now.

FACTS about SNAP: -35% to white people (largest share) -90% to people born in 🇺🇸 -86% to households with kids -70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)

Never in the history of the US has any president openly and repeatedly called for the investigation, arrest & prosecution of his political opponents. While many continue to shrug these things off and normalize them, I will never stop pointing out that this is what autocrats do.

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“I was going to school!” 16 year old citizen assaulted by Trump’s masked goons in unmarked cars and clothes. (“beaten, choked, subjected to racial slurs”) More: www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

ICE wants to operate in the dark and this president wants to let them. Trump and Republicans are using the shutdown that they caused as an excuse to give ICE coverage to operate without oversight. It’s wrong and it’s not what happens in a democracy.

NEWS: ICE rapidly expands surveillance of your social media, Trump replaces ICE officials with CBP officials to increase militarization of agency, SNAP set to run out in four days for millions, and more. An important morning update. Spread the word. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...