For a year, I have been saying that if Trump puts a wrecking ball to NATO, then Europe, along w several other countries, should create a similar alliance and include Ukraine, South Korea, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand Well, looks like a new alliance without the US is being discussed.

this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

Time to put grandpa in a home I’m sorry GOP

EXACTLY. Wake the fuck up already.

It's hard to believe that the dumbest person in the world, the most evil person in the world, and the most brain-damaged person in the world could be the SAME person - but based on his 🤪letter to the Norwegian ambassador... meet dumb evil damaged Donald Trump:

This is literally what I've been writing and podcasting about for years. I was planning to do an essay on this, but here's a 🧵. The main reason is psychology. Due to personal, family, and cultural histories, some people are inherently scared of the world.

Striking description of Mussolini's fascism: Nationalism plus mythology plus aesthetics. This may as well have been written about Trump's rise to the presidency. Especially the 2016 meme wars.

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

Homeland Security is protecting us from roofers, doctors, cooks, musicians and the lady who gives your elderly mom a bath.

We now have a full-blown European-American crisis, and for no reason that the president is able to articulate

BRENNAN: Noem called on your to set up a safe zone where protest would be contained. Is that something you're looking at? JACOB FREY: First Amendment speech is not limited to one park or one section of the city. You're allowed to protest so long as you're doing it peacefully

Mark Carney said Canada would be prepared to defend itself—even against the USA—in response to Trump’s deranged threats to invade NATO allies. In just 12 months, Trump has turned America’s closest friendship into an adversary. The world’s *longest* undefended border is our border with Canada.

Gallego: "We cannot vote for anything that actually adds more money and doesn't constrain ICE ... we cannot keep funding this type of goon squad"

Long after 92-year-old Sen. Chuck Grassley is dead, our country will be suffering from his collaboration with a corrupt FBI to help the dictator punish his enemies. (NYT gift link)

It's beginning to look like all of those guns Americans buy to keep government in check were only ever bought for school shootings.

A Majority of Americans Now Believe Trump Knew About Epstein — And Nearly Half Think He Was Involved open.substack.com/pub/beinglib... Yes. Release the unredacted, unedited Trump/Epstein files in full, NOW.

Talked to a Somali man today who said his mosque last night was surrounded by neighbors ready to protect them against ICE if needed. Made me feel proud to live in this city.

Seems like they’re just not that into us 🤷🏼

Eric Swalwell answering a question on how the next governor of California will protect Californians from ICE. “They're going to lose their immunity. They're not going to be able to drive. I will take your driver's license. Good luck walking to work, assholes.”

Investigate and prosecute political opponents, sell pardons to your rich friends so they can commit crimes with impunity. Authoritarianism isn’t coming, it’s here, whether people realize it or not.

Amazing that it takes a lawsuit simply to get ICE to obey the law.

Think about what's going on in this country right now and then go view the front pages of @nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com and ask yourself if that reality is reflected in those papers. The tone, proportionality and sense of urgency is completely lacking. Legacy media is a monumental failure.

We have to get rid of Schumer and Jeffries. This is about saving our country now. They have to go.

What a fucking, lying dweeb. Trump is arguably the most dishonest, corrupt, lying politician in American history. The only thing sadder are those who believe his tripe without a shread of evidence.

We should all send our childhood participation trophies and random stupid medals for 6th place T-ball to: Attn: The Littlest Middle Finger Boy Who was Never Loved 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington D.C 20500

This IS the result of the Supreme Court of the United States of America giving the most amoral person in America immunity from his crimes. Crimes that stack up daily. Including 115 counts of 1st-degree murder of unarmed civilians suspected of crimes not punishable by the death penalty.

Gov. Walz to MS NOW: "Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system … is a dangerous, authoritarian tactic. "The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her."

DOJ is out of control. The crime of impeding federal agents requires physical force. Speaking out against the way ICE is being deployed is not a crime. www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...

Good to know Chuck Schumer's meeting with Trump yesterday really worked in curbing the Republicans and their brutal crackdown on Democrats and innocent Americans in Minnesota. Must have been a helluva convincing meeting. Well done, Chuck! Oh, look, the DOJ is now investigating Walz and Frey.

what the hell is this revisionist nonsense? This *did not happen*—except in the minds of the far-right. You're buying their bad faith bullshit. MAGA called for and now is building a white ethnostate b/c *they are white nationalists*. That's what they do. FFS

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Who else is excited that Canada has dropped tariffs on Chinese EVS from 100% to 6.1% for the first 49,000 units?

What we are seeing in Minnesota is what authoritarianism looks like in real time. Racism, dehumanization, and state-sanctioned violence are tearing at the foundation of this country.

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MAGA, a movement of cynical cruelty that is fueled by atomization, has accidentally created the conditions for in person communities to be formed around resisting their repression bsky.app/profile/aaro...

Shoot this right into my veins.

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Happy week, everyone!

Congrats again, on our August/September 2024 National Conversation™️ about how Kamala Harris was not answering enough detailed policy questions on airport tarmacs & in sit-down interviews with elite access journalists.

A prime example of stenography as normalization: This dangerous insanity is swallowed whole as if it were just him "weighing" policy. No! It is imperialistic fascism. Greenland & Venezuela are the Rhineland & Sudetenland. Report with history & context, or it is not journalism. It is complicity.

If you follow right-wing psychos you know this is all they have posted about for days. Instead of pointing out how desperate these hypocrisy arguments are getting, the Atlantic commissioned someone to make it in more polite-sounding language.

CNN: A majority of the country, 58% say President Trump's first year has been a failure. That includes two thirds of independent voters. Now, why is that? Across the board, Americans disapprove of how the president is handling every major issue.

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Heads up: a group of local unions and community organizations in Minneapolis is calling for a state-wide general strike on January 23rd We should all join them