A short pause from antifa posting to share some of the beauty currently exhibited at the Tang Teaching Museum.

Trump says he pardoned George Santos for “voting Republican.” He says the triumphal arch he wants to build will be dedicated to himself. It’s always about him, 24/7, and never about the American people. Trump is a meglomanical despot. So what are *you* if you don’t protest against his abuses?

Broke out the colored markers to fight me some fascism. #nokings #nokingsordramaqueens

The Dumpster-Fire-in-Chief may equate dissent with domestic terrorism, but most Americans understand that the founders believed in NO KINGS. Let’s get back to basics and show these sorry ass authoritarians how out-numbered are really they. Protest is patriotic.

On October 18th, millions of brave Americans will stand up and peacefully protest against the authoritarian disease metastasizing under Donald Trump. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

youtu.be/bEvVSpN0BXg This right here: this is how you stand up for human rights.

Bondi is entirely dishonorable.

We are all the enemy. With Trumpism, there can be no loyal opposition. There are only subversive agents, plotting against the regime. Any dissent will be labelled treason; every challenge constitutes sedition. All liberals are the Far Left; all Democrats are terrorists. We are all the enemy.

#bernie and #AOC today

So that’s $200 billion, with a “b,” we can hand out to Argentina, when many Americans can’t afford groceries, medications, school supplies, etc.? So. Much. Winning.

5/5. So the Right blames everything on the Left, with its more robust vocabulary and its advantages of critical, historical perspectives. Their response is the antithesis of American values: purge newspapers of honest opinion, remove dissent from the airwaves, and NEVER let people laugh at leaders.

4/5. Trump’s favorite bogeyman is Antifa. Any anti-Trump speech is somehow a coordinated attack by Antifa. But being anti-Antifa translates into being pro-fascist, which is the sorry truth that the regime hopes to silence with this manufactured outrage over Kirk’s killing.

3/5. It’s the Goebbels’ playbook, being openly implemented in the United States. It is also backroom dealings and massive corruption, too, but it marks the steady march towards state control of media. The only “truth” Trump will allow is his pathetically transparent propaganda.

2/5. Broadcast corporations, which are not people, have been threatened by the state: they can not operate if they do not remove hosts like Colbert or Kimmel. The financial imperative of fictitious persons then dictates censorship as a practical business decision. So authoritarians mask their role

1/5. Jimmy Kimmel did NOT criticize Charlie Kirk. Kimmel made fun of Trump, and Kirk’s “matryrdom” offered Trump the pretext for pulling him off the air. Trump did NOT have to personally fire Kimmel because he has leveraged the power of an imperial presidency to flatter his ego.

Losing your job because of insensitive remarks about Charlie Kirk? I have not seen these comments, so it may be they are truly in poor taste. But I suspect they are tame compared to Kirk’s own words. “My free speech is sacrosanct, but your free speech gets you fired” is quite the double standard.

Charlie Kirk: hater, not a debater. The Far Right has crowned him a martyr of free speech, but so much of what Kirk said was vicious slander and outright lies. Conservatives scream “fire” in crowded buildings and want you to dignify it as deep thought. Not buying the bullshit they want to sell.

Once Donald Trump gets the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law – what comes next?

He’s proudly declared WAR on his own citizens. They’ll defend it as satire and say we can’t take a joke, but he’s making his intention perfectly clear: war on Chicago.

RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.

Started with this scoldacious meme, but went into the larger questions.

Tyrants and serial abusers express this sentiment. No POTUS has ever said anything so patently false and egregiously anti-democratic. NO KINGS, not even a Clown King.

Look how quickly Trump’s warmed up to being called dictator. Soon enough he’ll drop the pretense of “lots of people say…”

Ann Johnson, bringing 🔥 when speaking truth to power.

He misheard. The people are “screaming” for the 25th Amendment, you senile, sadistic fuckwit.

How the system is rigged.

Oh, hey. This is my school district and I may be quoted in this article.

Stefanik supposedly “represents” me, but she’s been largely invisible since DESPOTUS was sworn in. Like most GOP, she’s lying through her teeth and avoiding her constituents. Heckling her is a patriotic duty.

From his mouth to God’s ears.

@peterbeinart.bsky.social : “Israel has tried expulsion, blockade, occupation. What it hasn’t tried is treating Palestinians like human beings. This rally can’t just be about ending Gaza’s starvation. The people of Gaza deserve more than flour. They deserve freedom.”

$200 million for a ballroom? We can’t afford healthcare, education, medical research, weather alerts, food safety inspections, or national parks, but we can pay out for some gold-plated hall? It’s the White House, not fucking Versailles. This is simply the “let them eat cake” moment for MAGA.

#gliddenparker #fongchow #ritvapuotila

#russelwright #estellelaverne

#benseibel #evazeisel #tonihermansson

Follow the money: www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

An important voice in this deeply troubled time.

www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/pope-leos-... As someone who teaches Bible, the idea that you’d withhold what you proclaim as God’s Word from anybody, especially prisoners… I can’t wrap my head around it. The depths to which Trumpers will sink have no bottom.

What happened to Luis is what happens in dictatorships: disappearing people without anything remotely like due process. We are way past “mistakes” or flimsy excuses. The Trump regime does this deliberately and consistently, without evasion or apology. It acts like a dictatorship because it is one.

Trump 47: all CIRCUS, no BREAD.

Crockett: "I need people of color to understand that the scheme of the Republicans has consistently been to make sure that they mute our voices. I fully anticipate that's where they are going with this map."

You can justify it by calling it “draining the swamp” or “cleaning house,” but when your so-called enemies include the media, the courts, the justice system, academia, and even your own former appointees, maybe it’s not the entire system that’s corrupt. It’s you.

These thugs will spray-paint a turd florescent yellow and tell you it’s a gold nugget.

GOP rhetoric: we blame you for this terrible thing because you warned the public it would happen if they voted for us.

I tire of the hypocrisy and cruelty of a supposedly Christian nation. If you want God to bless your nation, stop cursing neighbors and oppressing strangers. I am sick of the unmethodolical madness let loose by this Clown King. I reject his vision of America as selfish, stupid, and sadistic. RESIST

FDR outlined 4 freedoms (of speech, of worship, from want, from fear) and the One, Big Betrayal decimates the last two. It sponsors terror. It creates a rising tide of poverty in which drowns the American Dream. It is an insult to everyone who works hard, plays fair, and believes in a common good.

I’ve been reviewing imprecatory Psalms, just reread 109 a little while ago, seething with rage, cranking up the ole curse engine… So, yeah, I am coping really well with the passage of the Big Bullshit bill and the murderous regime it supersizes.

A tyrant is using your tax dollars to put people in cages in the middle of a swamp. He and his cronies think it’s funny, and they are selling swamp-cage merchandise. Maybe you are not outraged, but don’t be too surprised when they disappear *you* to one of these human kennels.

The GOP successfully navigated its Big, UGLY Bill through the Senate. By any measure, it is the worst piece of legislation in my entire lifetime: a Frankenstein monster of cruelty, caveats, and reckless spending. May the flesh fall from their bones.