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📽️ VIDEO: Donald Trump’s second term isn’t just about bad policies — it’s about breaking America’s democratic institutions for good. Marc Elias explains why we must build a long-term pro-democracy opposition movement against Trump. Watch below ⤵️

Please watch and then watch again.

Sobering and constructive thoughts on our way forward. Please watch, comment and share @marcelias.bsky.social

We need to build a new opposition movement. In this video, I lay out the challenge ahead and what I think we need to do to make it happen. Please watch, comment, and share. youtu.be/_GUgnpAYMCc

🤗 let the be light ✨⭐️🌟💫

Hegseth fires general officers and JAGs, cracks down on dissenting views in military, orders killing civilians at sea without legal rationale, calls generals to Quantico to demand loyalty. Trump deploys troops to U.S. cities. "What are Trump and Hegseth up to? It's a mystery!"

One reason Trump 2.0 is so different from Trump 1.0 is SCOTUS immunity decision. Without fear of criminal prosecution, Trump’s full wrath has been unleashed.

No one outside the U.S. is confused and no one here would be confused if they saw this happening in another country.

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

😱😱I may need to check out the hellhole that is Portland myself!🤦‍♀️

They’re trying to relitigate 2016 in 2025 because they don’t want everyone talking about how Donald Trump raped little girls in the 1980s #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

Here are handy facts about #Portland, which Trump should BRAG about Instead, he's invading us SEEMS WEIRD #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

Kash Patel’s FBI has been steadily purged of those not loyal to Trump — competent professionals, that is. So how are we to believe the agency isn’t selectively releasing evidence that supports a narrative of left-wing violence? www.publicnotice.co/p/dallas-sho...

Be skeptical of those who insist we “can’t afford” to take care of people when they can always find the money to terrorize them

"Churkin’s passing marked the sixth unexplained death of a Russian diplomat since November 2016, soon after Trump was elected President, prompting observers to connect the dots in what appears to be a troubling pattern." #ReleaseTheFiles #epstein

We need more of this🔥 substack.com/@boricua4kam...

The far right in America today: a quick primer. #Politics #Democracy

It speaks to the interest in Epstein that a detail from Dems today has created a frenzy about Peter Thiel. But anyone already following knows there are many ties between Thiel and the pedophile. As my colleague @mattgoldstein26.bsky.social reported: Epstein invested w/ Thiel as recently as 2016.

🎯The BEST thing about Friday!! Thank you @jsalmoncomedy.bsky.social 💙

❣️This is SO COOL!! What a great teacher, wish I had him around when I was a kid❣️ Check out, follow, and share @howiehua.bsky.social 💙

Diaper Diplomacy www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRRE...

🚨 This is an outstanding video for those who teach gun handling/safety on everything one should not do, and why. No way has that man had ANY training. 1/2

VP J.D. Vance urged Americans to report anyone suspected of celebrating Charlie Kirk’s murder. When leaders turn grief into surveillance, democracy slips toward fear—and his rhetoric echoes Orbán’s Hungary, not the traditions of the US. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/jd-vance-u...

Going independent has meant having the freedom to say that ICE is kidnapping people, to describe our government as authoritarian, and to say more directly when fascism is happening. I hope we'll start to see this more in large newsrooms before it's too late.

As the Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu entered the hall of the UN General Assembly to address fellow nations, dozens of members staged a mass walkout in protest of Israel’s war in Gaza

🚨BREAKING: 6th Circuit Court of Appeals DISMISSES Republican National Committee lawsuit challenging Michigan's voter roll maintenance practices. www.democracydocket.com/cases/michig...

Motherfuckers. And I don't even like Comey.

Where is the NRA now that actual tyranny of govt is here? Where is the TEA Party now that tariffs are here? Where are the Christ (an immigrant) followers now that the govt is disappearing migrants? Last where are protectors of children now that the GOP is protecting pedophiles? They’re so quiet.

Trump attempts to project a resistance-is-futile aura. trib.al/DWi3eU1 His most deranged displays—claims about crowd sizes, dumb imagery of his face attached to cartoonishly steroidal bodies, ineffectual occupation of U.S. cities—have a quality seemingly designed to be overbearing.

It really is staggering to see so many people willing to abandon our 249 year experiment in democracy for an increasingly unstable criminally convicted reality show charlatan.

Viktor Orban has made Hungary one of the poorest countries in the EU www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

A child in Los Angeles has died from SSPE, a rare but fatal brain disorder that can appear years after measles infection. The case underscores the deadly risks of falling vaccination rates. buff.ly/QPOOYSx #vaccineswork

Trump just said Hep B is sexually transmitted so there’s no reason to give it to a baby, wait until they’re 12 years-old. If that’s not a tell I don’t know WTF is.

If you think Tylenol is bad for children’s health what until you see what guns do.

I call bullshit. They are just making shit up now and while we are at it there are legitimate questions about Tyler Robinson now as well. Starting with he didn't have a rifle when he went up the stairs to the roof and he didn't have one when he jumped off the roof.

Only in the 5th and 6th paragraphs do we get the perfectly innocent explanation that a member of the U.S. delegation inadvertently triggered the escalator stoppage. Yet Karoline Leavitt and Fox act like it’s an international incident. 2/2

ICE *detainees* were the ones shot.

Crockett on Homan: For instance, when you are talking about solicitation, and it has to do with, say, prostitution, it's not a matter of whether or not the prostitution took place. The solicitation is complete. Once you actually engage in the agreement, that is enough for solicitation.

We really need to work on the messaging for this Nobel Peace Prize campaign

Still no Rapture? If only the Lord were as punctual as He is wrathful. Glory!

Donald Trump isn't just the stupidest American to become president; he's the stupidest American to become famous.

If you've been watching Alien: Earth wondering how they have spaceships and robots, but still no cure for cancer, the answer is probably Trump, as I laid out in this @couriernewsroom.bsky.social video — one of the rare times my political video work and love of horror intersect

Is there a Guinness Book of World Records category for the most times saying “what a fucker” after hearing Trump say something on TV? If so, where do I claim my prize?

New statement from The Post on Pete Hegseth’s new crackdown on the press at the Pentagon:

For everyone saying this is an impeachable offense and worse than Watergate: Of course it is. But that doesn’t matter in the slightest, because this GOP Congress has completely abdicated their duty and will never do anything to hold him accountable.