If a movement tolerates corruption but condemns compassion, your moral framework isn’t strict, it’s selective.

Still waiting for just one member of legacy media to call for Trump’s removal from office. Just one.

"I was walking in my street, a car drives by and I give him a wave. He rolls down the window and says, 'F U, fascist.' He doesn't know I'm a fascist!" -- Jesse Watters, on Fox News' "The Five" "Yes, he does. You're on TV." -- co-host Jessica Tarlove

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

The corruption in this administration is really unbelievable. All Republicans are complicit in this by allowing it to happen.

When morality becomes a weapon, it stops being a standard. Projection thrives where identity replaces structure. And virtue that depends on enemies isn’t virtue, it’s insecurity with a flag.

Narcissism reframes virtue as dominance. In this framework: strength = righteousness loyalty = goodness victory = proof of moral superiority

ICE seems to be amping up in Massachusetts. I only hope we here, (if we are next in line), can be as steadfast, fearless, and strong as the people of Minnesota, Minneapolis in particular.

Pardons should require written legal reasoning published with evidence cited. Not a press release; a legal document. The public should see law, not loyalty.

*Almost* tempted to ask AI to make me a picture of Trump searching the depths of Legal Arguments.

Administrative subpoenas are not warrants. They do not require probable cause. When used against political speech, they invert the presumption of liberty.

Trump is a symptom. In 1979 Jimmy Carter diagnosed a crisis of confidence, a loss of trust in institutions and shared purpose, and Americans chose comfort over confronting structural decay. Rather than rebuild civic will, the electorate turned to Reagan’s optimism and free-market promise.

They created the war on terror so it would never end now they are bringing that war home & calling us the terrorists

End-of-term pardons need to be automatically audited by an independent prosecutor. The most dangerous pardons happen when power is leaving and consequences disappear.

So good. @kajakallas.bsky.social is all of us.

Patriotism without constraint becomes a performance, not a foundation. Power without mechanism to bind it slides into self-preservation and self-reference. If legitimacy depends on allegiance instead of law, then what’s presented as virtue becomes just another narrative to wield.

Economic Fragmentation → Civic Withdrawal → Cultural Cynicism → Weaker Leverage → More Fragmentation

Democracy is not supposed to feel comfortable. It is supposed to feel stable. Stability means your rights survive outcomes you dislike.

Wealth is power with plausible deniability. It moves policy without voting, shapes markets without consent, and evades accountability by calling itself “success.”

in order to change our politics, we need to change *who we are*, and i think that scares a lot of people

Oh, did the fascists lie?

Epstein’s files are public in the U.S., but political consequences have been muted compared to Europe’s resignations and corruption probes. Transparency exposed networks, now rule-based accountability must follow.

Free speech protections are strongest precisely when speech is uncomfortable. Comfortable speech never needed protection.

The Trump Admin is issuing subpoenas to social media platforms, including Bluesky, demanding personal details of anyone who criticizes DHS's reign of terror in American cities. Don't like CBP killing Americans on the street? You name is added to Trump's list for retribution. I'm certainly there.

If a single person can amass more resources than entire states, the problem isn’t ambition. It’s absent boundaries.

If Congress delegates broad regulatory or war powers without sunset dates, a deadman switch should force expiration unless renewed by supermajority. Unchecked delegation weakens the very check Congress was designed to exercise.

If safety only feels real when “your” party is in power, democracy isn’t functioning, it’s fracturing. Politics should be about accountability, not existential threat narratives. Legitimate governance must protect all rights independent of which party holds office.

Penalties for perjury for ANY law enforcement should be steeper than for non-LEOs, because of the power inherent in their positions. This goes for ICE, too.

Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.

Emergency logic built DHS. Emergency logic never sunsets itself. If emergency powers become permanent architecture, liberty slowly contracts. Decentralize. Rebalance. Constrain.

DON LEMON: “I will not be intimidated. I will not back down. I will not be silenced.”

For 50 years, the median wage of hourly workers stagnated or declined while the stock market and CEO pay skyrocketed. Is it any wonder why so many feel abandoned by the system? People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void. This is why we must fix the system. AOC is right.

The Constitution’s 22nd Amendment was written to prevent more than two presidential terms. Chatter about ways around it highlights why binding rules matter.

Sanders: The American people do not want this country to be an authoritarian society or an oligarchy. We have our differences, that’s what democracy is about—we argue it out. We don’t throw people who disagree in jail. We don’t intimidate the media. We don’t send ICE agents to shoot people.

Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.

There could be video evidence of trumps crimes and his supporters would just dismiss it as AI

Powerful people are losing their jobs because they appear in the Epstein files… Except in the USA.

Minnesota’s trauma is real: two citizens killed, communities shaken, and local officials demanding accountability. When government claims repeatedly conflict with evidence, trust erodes. Solidarity with those seeking truth and transparent investigation is essential.

Executive power has expanded for decades under both parties. Emergencies linger. Orders stack. Oversight lags. Outrage spikes, then fades. The structure remains stretched.

Facing what we refuse to see in ourselves is a structural challenge. When powerful actors avoid accountability or transparency, legitimacy fractures not because of allegation itself but because institutions fail to enforce clear rules. Strengthen systems so truth and consequence align.

When executive power keeps stretching without check, legitimacy erodes. Deadman Switch Amendments, automatic constraints triggered by defined conditions (e.g., emergency powers expiry, sunset of orders, independent review triggers), force power back into its constitutional lanes.

BLUMENTHAL: What is so different about ICE that it regards itself as an exception to the 4th Amendment? LYONS: We don't BLUMENTHAL: Why did you keep your memo about the warrant policy secret? LYONS: I didn't BLUMENTHAL: We learned about it when whistleblowers came to us

Philanthropy is not accountability. Choosing where to give after extracting from the commons is not consent; it’s narrative control. Charity cannot substitute for fair taxation, labor protection, and democratic oversight.

If food assistance is cut to expand enforcement capacity, people are right to question priorities. A budget is a moral document. We need to protect baseline nutrition in statute, require transparent cost accounting, and bind enforcement growth to oversight. Build floors. Then debate ceilings.

I appreciate the optimism, but it is hard to think about a Presidential candidate, when we are under authoritarian rule by a man who historically breaks the law to remain in power. Such as; vote manipulation, bribes/blackmail, & inciting & funding an Insurrection. This isn't going to simply be over.

A) This is a lie. Other countries have it. B) Trump uses it regularly. Bottom line: They are afraid of you voting.

Meaning collapses because nothing binds behavior at the top. Bind capital to law. Bind profit to obligation. Bind scale to consequence.

You know, in a pinch you might use the top of the tank or even the lid, you don't have to use the exact surface people put their sweaty shit asses.