The surest cure for fascism is mathematical. It starts with 86 and ends with the square root of 58.07

I am just so fucking proud of her.

Weeks before his death, you say?

#scoundrels #ICC

Yeah, Vought is on record in memorable ways saying he wants bureaucrats to feel "trauma" as he weakens and fires them. I have no idea who Johnson was trying to appeal to with this statement

When you recall that political reporters ran interference for Trump over his "opposition" to Project 2025, remember that even AT THAT TIME there was a hidden camera interview with Vought where he said that was bullshit and he didn't mean it. www.mediamatters.org/russ-vought/...

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Gov. Pritzker: "ICE is running around harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago that was illegal in the United States. Now, ICE is making it commonplace. That’s not making America great."

The thing about Trump bailing Argentina out to the tune of 20 billion while shutting down the US government to kick Americans off healthcare… Argentina has universal healthcare. 😑

Wow. This really says it all.

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

In speeches, Vought spoke of “demoralizing federal workers to the point that they don’t want to do their jobs.” “.. we want them to not want to go .. because they are.. viewed as the villains,” he said. “We want to put them in trauma.” from 2024: @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/vide...

Isn't Fetterman just basically a street corner ranter in homeless chic at this point?

Many are uncomfortable with the word 'evil'. But there are certain situations, with certain kinds of people, for which no other word suffices. It's not about metaphysics. It's about unbounded hate and a joy in the destruction of other human beings.

This is exactly how Democrats should frame it. "If the GOP wants to pass this monstrous spending bill they can go right ahead, but we absolutely refuse to be a part of it until Trump and the GOP agree to some basic human decency."

RIP Jane Goodall 💔

This is so indefensibly insane: Speaker Johnson is refusing to seat Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva because she'll be the 218th vote to release the Epstein files. Johnson swore in Rep Walkinshaw (VA) w/in 24 hours. Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator

When you see how excited Trump, Russ Vought, and Republicans are about the government shutdown, it becomes pretty obvious the reason why they refused to negotiate a compromise with Democrats is because they wanted this and they completely own this, regardless of their lies.

These so-called "DEMOCRAT AGENCIES"... -Ensure our food is safe to eat -Keep our air and water clean -Alert us to natural disasters -Protect us from financial fraud and scammers Remember what Trump is actually attacking.

The word that keeps running through my head about this administration (among others) is "adolescent." These are people with a little boy's idea of what sounds manly.

This was always the plan "Don't even work with Democrats"

Just astounding. The reason they can shove through 100 Trump nominees at once is because the GOP changed the rules to eliminate the 60-vote requirement. Something they won’t do to fund the government. Yet they blame Dems.

"The Department of War isn't preparing to fight the Chinese. It's getting ready to fight Americans." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-depart...

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

We'll certainly need testimony on that

The Epstein files have turned the entire GOP in Congress into a bunch of Gym Jordans. They know the truth about a pedophile but are actively covering it up.

Reality check: There is a bipartisan House bill to extend the ACA tax credits for one year—and just 14 Republicans have signed on. 14 out of 219, less than 7%. The vast majority of House Republicans want this to expire, or at least don’t want to be associated with an extension.

As the government shutdown begins, remember that one of the biggest deficit drivers of the past 20 years are Republican tax cuts for the wealthy & corporations. The issue isn't programs that help millions of Americans, it's giveaways to the rich.

Just to note. January 23, 2019 there was a vote to reopen government (HJ RES 28, roll call vote 46) when the govt had been shut down for 30 days. Mike Johnson voted “no” on that. They didn’t seem to mind shutdowns then

I’ve lived through government shutdowns. Under normal circumstances, I understand why compromises are made to keep the government running. These are not normal circumstances.

"ICE goes masked for a single reason—to terrorize Americans into quiescence. To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history, we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police."

Despite a government shutdown, Republicans will make sure Argentina gets their $20 billion.

How can you negotiate with Republicans in Congress to fund the government when as soon as you reach an agreement you know that Trump’s OMB director will just withhold the funds?

The central point is that when fascism came to America it wouldn't call itself that, nor would it be wearing a swastika. It would call itself "patriotic" and "100% American."

"Is it not the Republican Party that's added a quarter of all debt in Trump's first term and added $4 trillion because of this budget?" Mick Mulvaney: "I'm not gonna debate a podcaster."

Democrats have leverage — and they need to use it to fight back against this regime. Any Democratic senator who votes for a continuing resolution offered by Republicans will effectively be green-lighting the cruel policies passed in Trump's big, ugly bill. Do not cave in.

One may serve, perhaps, the Sword and endure, for a while, but how could one endure such yoke placed in spite by the fool?

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

In light of today’s absolutely fucking deranged “I’m in a war movie” speeches by Trump and Hegseth, I give you the plaque at West Point.

2A pussies stand down

Where are all you 2A pussies now!?!

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

Trump: San Francisco and Chicago, New York, Los Angeles… We'll straighten them out one-by-one. It will be a major part for some of the people in this room. It’s a war too. It’s a war from within

Trump summoned the top American military officers stationed around the world to VA to tell them that the enemy they should be primarily concerned with now is American citizens.

The reason we're rounding up grandmothers and shoving them onto concrete floors for months at a time with no habeas corpus is in part because soft human trafficking is an incredibly lucrative business for some people in this administration.

Hundreds of generals and admirals had to fly in from all over the world so Pete Kegseth can live out his Patton fantasies.

@marcelias.bsky.social This on the official HUD website this morning seems mildly illegal?