I heard a catchy tune today. It's called "22 U.S. Code § 1928f" 😀

Quit talking about Trump. Address everything, every issue to Miller and Vought. Make Trump irrelevant, his ego will not let him be out of the spotlight and you’ll see Miller and Vought removed and the rest of the administration collapse.

"Under threat? Does [American democracy] exist? I don't think it exists. It's a veneer. It's the end of the Roman Empire. You have all the symbols, the iconography, and the language of a democracy, but internally, corporations and oligarchs have seized all levers of power." -- Chris Hedges

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Hate has never solved any world problems. ✋🏻🚫 “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. I have decided not to be reduced by any events, social or political, that aim to rob me of my dignity” — Maya Angelou #SheShed

www.axios.com/newsletters/... Can't disagree with the theme, and definitely feel that 80% of us indeed do agree on 80% of everything, but for some reason, the notion still comes across as a bit naive at this time?

"There is one matter in which many democracies have been unsuccessful, and that is the control of the police. Given a police force which is corrupt and unscrupulous, and judges who are not anxious to discover its crimes, [1/3]

GERMAN PRESIDENT STEINMEIER: “.. the United States has broken with the values that it helped to establish .. “.. we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe.”

"Now the legal penalty for not complying fast enough, or complying with the wrong set of conflicting instructions being screamed at you by multiple people, or reflexively hitting the gas when there’s a gun pointed at your face, is death by firing squad."

Split Screen: The Reality Show Presidency and the Maduro Capture.. fascinating and GREAT catch that these people are watching X not the military actions open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

I invite all Americans to join Minnesota in a day of unity tomorrow.

Wow

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Insider trading on war crimes seems like peak criminality.

This is why they want us talking about day care scams.

The function of AI must not be to make the wealthiest people on Earth — Musk, Bezos, Ellison, Zuckerberg, Gates — even richer. This revolutionary technology must benefit ALL of humanity, not just the privileged few who own it.

The grasshopper gets it — divide and conquer. Today’s robber barons use the same playbook. But together, we have all the power. Watch.

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I’m old enough to remember when CBS News would never have surrendered to a demagogic president or any other politician. Remember Edward R. Murrow?

Rob Reiner: “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."

"Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement. The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself." -- George Will, The Washington Post, Dec 2, 2025

Signs of collapse newrepublic.com/article/2040...

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

A country run by banks will always be in debt Healthcare run by Big Pharma will never cure disease A state run by war will never know peace A nation run by media will never know the truth

Enjoyed reading a new novel from one of my favorite authors, FX Holden: "World War H: A Future War Novel". While I find Mr. Holden's writing entertaining and gripping, this work has a strong streak of non-fiction in it: We are already in the early stages of such a hybrid war like the one in the book

The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years. Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.

All decent Americans must resist the criminal regime in the White House. Do it for patriotism, or do it because it's getting worse and everyone you love will suffer. You can try to avoid politics, but politics will not avoid you.

The Citizens United decision has corrupted our government and is destroying our democracy. Here's a way to get rid of it. robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get...

Pretty much sums it up.

Finally got around to watching "Downfall" this evening. It has a very peculiar resonance about it at this time.

Let's do this thing!

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

This is excellent. This is the kind of guidance needed in the face of a lawless regime.

I really think putting staggeringly dumb rich people who are also total jerks in charge of everything was a bad call.

A small business owner laid it out plainly: “If they raise me, I’m going to have to raise you. I apologize.” Trump’s tariffs don’t punish China — they punish *you.* Higher costs. Higher prices. Higher pain for families already stretched thin. This is the Trump Tax, and it hits everyone.

It's had a good run: 40 long years. Time to lay it to rest? That small step alone would improve global cybersecurity by at least 50%, right?

hypercentralizers are not having a good day today -- #github has joined #cloudflare to block or slow down millions of folks from doing stuff. Maybe a good time to checkout out this new ACLU article about the current Apple/Google app-store oligopoly […] [Original post on chaos.social]

Great Daily Beast podcast episode: shows.acast.com/e6144023-f22... Helps to put things in the proper perspective...

Tonight was a very bad night.

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