The mob mentality described by @aselrod.bsky.social is key. Other attitudes commonly portrayed are also corrosive: that social life is a competition, that wealth is paramount, that punishment for wrongs should be swift and extrajudicial, that aging and death are to be denied, more.

“Marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice” is the most accurate description of what we’ve been doing with internet’s easy access to “information”

“this anti-social way of taking in the world around us corrodes the foundations of liberal democracy”

You know who! 😉

It's easy to be numb because it's par for the course nowadays, but repeatedly calling a reporter who asks a reasonable question "stupid" is conduct unbecoming for a small-town mayor, let alone the President of the United States. The press exists to play a watchdog role, not be a supplicant.

If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey. This isn’t controversial. A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.

@shaheen.senate.gov Do not cave in to Republicans. This administration is an insult!

@hassan.senate.gov Do not cave in to Republicans!

It’s not getting enough coverage but the Washington Post did cover it. bsky.app/profile/rieg...

Because it was never about freedom of speech, but freedom of ONE speech. And they call us snowflakes...

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Chris Coons: "He's not listening to concerns about lowering costs. Instead he's worried about decorating his new Marie Antoinette ballroom or engaging in trying to figure out how to get his name on more statues and stadiums, or he's sitting across the table in the Oval Office with authoritarians."

Haver of Great Gatsby party costing undisclosed taxpayer funds, builder of $300M ballroom, taker of 70+ days golfing since January, seeker of $230M in personal damages from DOJ, holder of power to do whatever he wants with government...is *desperate* to feed Americans? Who's buying this?

This! A million times!

He. Doesn't. Understand. Life. Or. Death. donald trump is a sociopathic toddler who thinks we're all dolls and life is his tea party

Okay I love the military too, but I can’t write a check for 130 million. this week I don’t have a spare 100 to send let alone putting a million after it. Maybe Trumps well intentioned friend should be paying a bit more tax? He could write a check to the Government that would go to lots of things.

Mamdani is already getting the criminals out of NYC!

We should have listened to Bernie earlier. We must listen to Bernie now. youtu.be/nUn1A0sEDrc?...

An essential feature of authoritarianism is that the leader - not courts - decides who is guilty and who is not. Santos - who Trump said is getting a commutation bc he “votes Republican” - is the 10th high profile loyalist to get a pardon or clemency. We cannot accept this.

FYI congress just got another week of vacation! Maybe this will encourage more people to run… get paid to never go to work

A small group of well-off people get upset that the government is offering financial assistance to people hurt in a financial meltdown? PATRIOTS WE MUST HEED Thirty times that number upset that the president has sent armed troops into their cities, shut down the government and robbed it blind? MEH

Authoritarianism doesn't happen in a vacuum. It requires enablers. When a leader posts fantasies of monarchical rule, and his entire party looks the other way, they become complicit. The issue isn't just Trump's posts; it's the institutional decay of a party that refuses to be a check on his power.

Lying MAGAt pos

mr trump as your comms strategist i can only encourage you to keep depicting yourself as a mad king dumping shit on people

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

No Kings includes Shaun King

Ronald Reagan said it. #NoKings tomorrow 10/18

Our federal tax dollars are being used to fund a network of government social media accounts that pump out disinformation 24/7. Even during a government shutdown. It’s definitely not essential work.

Following the teachings of Jesus my ass!

ICYMI — @gallego.senate.gov : "The only reason Adelita Grijalva is not being sworn in right now is because he wants to protect whatever is in those files. Arizona does not have a congresswoman right now, during flooding, because Speaker Johnson is covering for pedophiles."

Karoline Leavitt has lost all credibility. The press needs to boycott until they replace her with a mature individual. If the new individual is on par with North Korea's PR representative, the press needs to stop showing up entirely.

Hochul: "They promised to extract revenge on their political enemies & apparently any state that has a D gov. Tell me how Florida & Texas could receive these same funds w/o having to go to court? They're playing politics, but more than that, they're playing with people's lives. And that's abhorrent"

One of the terrible things about the conservative elites’ attacks on higher education is that they are giving their constituents the impression that the universe isn’t big, complicated, and fascinating — that it really does take this many people to work out how even a small fraction of it works

When I studied the Second World War I genuinely could not understand how the Germans found so many people to participate in their worst excesses. And I mean across the whole war, not just concentration camps. I don't have a problem understanding it any more...

He just sounds sane and smart (and what he’s saying here is true)

Billionaire tax cuts are a policy choice. Cutting healthcare for millions is a policy choice. Cutting food assistance for children is a policy choice. Taking from the poor and giving to the rich is a policy choice. Make no mistake: Trump and the GOP just chose to do this.

I have no hopes for MAGA acting even remotely sanely, but I have a feeling that even them can’t stand J.D.’s wet noodle personality. What was Peter Thiel thinking?

You don’t even need context. You just know this much is true! 🤣

Here’s a cheat sheet for ya burn book…

This sums up their lying perfectly www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.