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An 81-year-old woman. But fauxprotest votes against Harris were worth it, according to some. 1/ "She previously received $298 a month, she told Nexstar’s WPIX, but abruptly had her benefits slashed to $24 a month." www.rawstory.com/big-beautifu...

"Some Republicans boosted Stein's candidacy in the hopes that she would attract voters away from Kamala Harris.[20] Stein's campaign paid over $100,000 to Accelevate, a Republican-connected signature gathering enterprise operated by Trent Pool and Pool's brother" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_St...

The most important democracy story of the day. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Governments exist to provide the legal/physical infrastructure to reduce uncertainty in people's lives. Trump and the Republican Party are an enormous engine of uncertainty. The Democratic Party has huge opportunities to address huge uncertainties in healthcare, housing, and wages. But will they?

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Don't disagree at all.

Didn't vote? Voted third party? This is on you. prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...

It becomes more obvious every day that if we want to end this regime, we the people, have to take down the big money that supports this regime. Our Congress isn't working for us. We, the 99%, have immense power in our spending. Quit Amazon and all the others. You have alternatives and POWER!

If you want to take money out of politics, take as much of your money out of their business as you can.

This is what totalitarianism looks like: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gaw...

This is where America is heading under Trump. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gaw...

Howard Cuntnik says Canada sucks. Fuck you Howie and fuck your family too. 🇨🇦

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Jill Shitstein has nothing to say about Russian war crimes.

If you're a Trump voter, non-voter, or a third-party voter, this is for you: youtu.be/3O9FFrLpinQ?...

A politician with the guts to say it: "No American child from the blue collar or the middle class should have to die fighting in Iran. Let the Epstein class fight the Epstein War." - Premier Wab Kinew at the NDP national convention, Winnipeg.

I hope someday we defeat fascism and in the far future, No Kings Day is celebrated as a federal holiday, and little children leave out dance mixtapes and cookies for the Resistance Frog, who leaves pocket Constitutions in their shoes.

Everyone congratulate Donald J. Trump on his *seventh* bankruptcy. Glory!

Did Trump call the White House kitchen and order extra big bottles of ketchup for tonight?

Understand this: There are Trump regime concentration camps in America, where innocent people are being killed and tortured and sexually abused—not to mention caged indefinitely—and that includes men, women, and children. These Nazi-style camps are on military bases to keep their activities secret.

21/21 Final verdict: The disguise exists because the project cannot survive daylight. A politics that instrumentalizes people must speak the language of care, nature, and crisis—because it cannot openly admit its goal: replacing free citizens with a managed social order.

20/21 The deeper motive is not family flourishing—it is predictability and control. Plural societies are hard to govern. Standardized family structures produce legible citizens, stable hierarchies, and fewer challenges to authority.

19/21 The demographic “crisis” is doing heavy lifting. Emergencies suspend norms. Once survival is at stake, pluralism feels irresponsible. The illusion of inevitability replaces consent, and compliance feels like maturity.

18/21 Rights language is key to the disguise. By redefining freedom as fulfilling one’s proper role, coercion can be sold as empowerment. If the state is merely “protecting children” or “supporting families,” resistance looks immoral rather than political.

17/21 This is classic Arendt. When politics becomes socially unacceptable, ideology moves underground. Domination survives by masking itself as administration, expertise, or neutral problem-solving rather than openly asserting authority.

16/21 The Heritage Foundation understands that voters will not accept “the state must command your private life.” So it reframes power as necessity: We don’t want this—reality forces it upon us.

15/21 Why the disguise? Because open authoritarianism has no democratic legitimacy. In a society that still speaks the language of freedom and rights, coercive social control must present itself as care, protection, or common sense.

14/21 Verdict: A liberal family policy does not manage a “social body.” It creates space—economic and civic—where diverse families can emerge through free action. It treats natality not as a statistic to optimize, but as the beginning of new political actors—the very condition of freedom.

13/21 There is no manufactured “civilizational emergency.” Demographic change is addressed through adaptation, inclusion, and material support, not moral panic. Policy operates in normal time, not a permanent state of exception.

12/21 Rights are not inverted. Children’s welfare is protected without overriding adult freedom or prescribing a single family model. The state sets floors (safety, education, health), not blueprints for intimate life.

11/21 Liberal policy avoids organic metaphors like “social body” or “cells.” It treats society as a plurality of persons, not an organism with functions. Individuals have dignity independent of their family status, fertility, or conformity.

10/21 A liberal framework refuses to weaponize “Nature.” Family forms are treated as political and social realities, open to debate and evolution. No structure is declared inevitable or “pre-political.” Disagreement is legitimate, not deviant.

9/21 Where authoritarian policy centers biological life, a liberal policy centers political agency. The goal is not higher birth rates, but conditions under which people can choose relationships, care, and parenthood without coercion or precarity. Citizens remain actors, not reproductive inputs.

8/21 A liberal family policy starts from the opposite premise: the state exists for the freedom of individuals, not the survival goals of the nation. Families are supported so people can live freely, not shaped to serve a demographic mission. Politics remains a space of choice, not destiny.

7/21 Verdict: The document is not trying to build a future for free citizens. It is trying to manage a “Social Body” where the individual is instrumentalized for the survival of the species. It is a biopolitical manifesto disguised as a policy paper.

6/21 The ultimate disguise is “The Crisis.” By framing demographic decline as “National Suicide,” the document argues that we must submit to these rigid definitions or perish. It creates a state of exception where “soft” coercion feels like a pragmatic survival strategy.

5/21 This is illiberalism cloaked in liberal language. It inverts “Rights” language—creating a “right” for children to have a specific home that overrides the rights of adults. It frames restriction as “protection,” masking the authoritarian intent behind “child welfare.”