These vibes

@lawrenceodonnelljr.bsky.social: Humiliated Trump's dictatorship over Republicans is coming apart with the Epstein vote youtu.be/svoaBLhc8O0?...

So many senior appointees in the Trump admin got positions they were utterly unqualified and unprepared for because of their social media presence or Fox appearances. MAGA cheers it on. Then it constantly comes back to bite them when they screw things up - like the Texas gerrymander.

Treating anti-Blackness as beside the point, as not disqualifying, as something to be overlooked, I’d argue, is partially how we got here.

We must note that all the condemnation of Tucker Carlson platforming Nick Fuentes has been about anti-Semitism and there has been an alarming and revealing silence around his anti-Black racism and white supremacy. When the head of the Heritage Foundation apologized, he only cited anti-Semitism.

Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.

“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...

William Wolfe—a friend of Kevin Roberts & co-editor of the explicit “Statement on Christian Nationalism” manifesto—wants his fellow right wingers to know that “If you’re attacking @JDVance” (whose deputy press secretary is Tucker Carlson’s son), then “you’re not on the team.” Replies are brutal. 1/

Just restating for the record

Listen, I'm gonna GEEK for a second... the Jedi failed. That's the story arc for Star Wars. In the end, the Force was more than just the Jedi fighting for the freedom of the entire galaxy, it was the acts of Every Day People like Nemik, like Andor, like Maarva, and the Ersos. 1/3

it’s a big mistake to underestimate values of rising Christian Nationalists & their views on gender equality, in light of the reality of lengths they go to for their beliefs & power. To ignore their rhetoric or try to diminish their impact is to sacrifice our daughters & sons to a misogynist regime.

First, they came for John Bolton And I did speak out Because even though I'm not a nutty right-wing warmonger with a ridiculous mustache, I am an American who is horrified by a simple-minded tyrant using our Justice Department to avenge his petty, personal grudges.

Buckle up, everybody because this is knowledge that we all need in order to keep our communities safe:

it’s a big mistake to underestimate values of rising Christian Nationalists & their views on gender equality, in light of the reality of lengths they go to for their beliefs & power. To ignore their rhetoric or try to diminish their impact is to sacrifice our daughters & sons to a misogynist regime.

This political cartoon is not recent 👀

On a truck at the rage against the regime rally in Orlando Florida.

Who defines the words that make us illegal

“adopting a new definition of antisemitism” 👀👀👀

Nonviolent ≠ Nondisruptive

All of which are American Dreams

Where the All Lives Matter peeps at?

I’m not interested in the commodification of abuse advocacy. It will constantly tend toward just another form of hierarchy and ultimately abuse. 👀

This is what detainment for immigrants looks like in the Everglades, in the middle of the hot Florida summer, during hurricane season. This is depraved.

If the PCA Study Committee Report on Christian Nationalism never mentions Heritage Foundation, project 2025, American Reformer, the CREC, and America First Policy Institute, it’s just running subterfuge for all of them. Now if they come back actually condemning any of these, that will be something 👀

This headline is misleading and false. The PCA did NOT CONDEMN CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM. ‼️

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

The part about the 76yo not getting charged. 👀

The evangelical urge to be more upset about an F bomb than actual bombs 👀🙃

What's the evangelical theology behind Trump's Israel (& Iran) strategy? Many analysts & pundits are pointing to "Dispensationalism" (a.k.a. Rapture theology), but it's actually much weirder & more alarming than that. Here's a sample from Dutch Sheets... 1/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3rk...

Public perception is everything. If you can keep the majority of the public -or at least those with the most power and influence- you will keep control. Your first move will always be to shame and silence dissent and to cast doubt on the validity of any pushback. Abuse of authority 101.

Stayed tuned… I still need to write up the bridge to Senator Blackburn in TN, how it connects to Scott Sauls (her former pastor) and Meg Basham of Daily Wire who seemed to link arms with American Reformer, how PCA ties are mysterious incl. an event hosted at Grimke Seminary summer 2024+

I do not engage with dispensationalists. 🤪

Always follow the money

I forgot just how hot this dude was in Chick Tracts 🤪

The argument is always: - if you just obey the law - if you just don’t come here illegally - if you just get a job - if you just do what you’re told

After 35 years of teaching history in New Hampshire, John Dube left the state he called home—driven out by threats and censorship under a law that bans the teaching of “divisive concepts” in schools. He refused to stop teaching the truth. Now he’s starting over in Vermont.

I don’t think enough people comprehend just how many Americans are going to be very, very poor soon. 👀

Maybe cosplaying as plantation owners is not something we should be proud of any more? Idk 👀

Yesterday my hometown was hit with massive tornadoes. We weren't expecting them in places that have never been hit before and have no idea who will help us. FEMA is all but dead and our state is run by Republicans that hate the city. This is the canary in the coal mine. My latest.

People deal with extreme conflict and inner turmoil in various ways, a kind of fight flight freeze fawn concept. We’re seeing some try harder to disengage and shame everyone else for “being political” or too negative and not “kind” enough. It’s under the fawn category where they support abusers 👀

Trump administration is terminating $2.7 billion in research funding to Harvard: Work on breast cancer, impact of nutrition on fertility, antibiotic resistance and hundreds of other topics all dead “It feels like the academic equivalent of nuclear war" www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...

BREAKING: The Trump administration is working on a plan to permanently relocate up to 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya, five people with knowledge of the effort told NBC News.

African-American pastor was visited by ICE at home today This is the #1 story for the African-American community, so speak up about this today..

I think we’re experiencing the religious right death rattle. At least I hope so. They’re violent and loud and frantic. And they’re dying out.

The fact more people are not talking about birthright citizenship and its implications proves to me that they don’t in fact care about immigration rights.