Trump's decision to take over the police despite historically low crime and no protests etc. The President literally requires NO provocation to impose emergency measures.

As a Ukr specialist, I have mixed feelings on Iran: 1 A hatred of the IRI that is totalitar and supprts Russia BUT 2 an appreciat of why a small-med sized country wld want nukes in a world where nukes virt the only deterrent to invasion. Not defeating Russia encourages nuclear proliferation.

thanks!!!

thanks! yeah sorry. I am not adept at these things.

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Far less egregious imo than the many many Dems who fought to keep Biden on the ticket when it was obvious that he was incapable.

true!

Opinion | No One Has Ever Defeated Autocracy From the Sidelines

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

RFK Jr. Set to Launch Disease Registry Tracking Autistic People And he’s using private medical records to make it happen.

newrepublic.com/post/194245/...

How could a pope who was so good in so many areas have been so awful with regards to Russia? Genuine question. Does it have something to do w Latin American left?

The newsrooms of 21st century America exist in a parallel factual universe where questions are raised and raised again, sometimes prompting concerns, sometimes prompting further questions, but never, ever answers.

CTV Cancelled a Fact-Checking Segment in Response to Political Pressure From Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives Audio recording shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives

really awful. CTV has acted in an incredibly irresponsible manner.
pressprogress.ca/ctv-cancelle...

Look, I have my criticisms of the Trump administration.

But when RFK Jr ends autism by September, the libs are going to look pretty foolish for having doubted him.

really hard to advise ANYONE to get educated in the States right now.

This is a very good point that I haven't seen made yet.

It's not just Trump that is undermining trust in the US. It is also the inability of US institutions to stop him.

And even if you make that "inability to stop him so far," it's already too far to maintain trust.

Trump orders probes of two former officials who defied him Christopher Krebs and Miles Taylor both served in Trump's first term. Krebs questioned Trump's claim that the 2020 election was stolen. Taylor criticized his conduct in office.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat... first overt threat to directly terrorize American citizens and control targeted opponents. We are headed to a one man authoritarian state.

How many in the Trump administration do you suppose bought a bunch of stock just before Trump announced he was caving on tarriffs? The opportunities here for insider tradiing are truly astounding...

EVERY time EVERYONE stand up to Trump, he caves

Paging university presidents/chancellors

a billion frozen from Cornell!!!

But how can you say that it predicted the collapse of dmocrsacy when many whio itilize this perspective ewould see no difference between the US under Biden and the US under Trump? Genuine question.

Sort of. But many Marxists see no difference between the Republican and Democratic parties. But that is obviously wrong imho..

true. But almost everyone studying the USSR in the 1980s viewed the country as in decline. And the hiyper centralization of the party meant that Gorbachev had the capacity to destroy the system single handedly.

I know that this is the least of our concerns. But the failure of political science to in any way anticipate the breakdown of democracy in the United States is truly astounding.

Shameful...

Spartz, Republican Lawmaker, Faces Anger at Town Halls Over Musk Cuts and Hegseth Representative Victoria Spartz, a Republican, defended Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts to the federal government, drawing jeers from the crowd.

Why is the Democratic Party having such a hard time mobilizing the tremendous grassroots anger at Trump?
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/u...

Opinion | Don’t Fool Yourself Into Thinking It Will Stop With Mahmoud Khalil Don’t fool yourself into thinking it will stop with Mahmoud Khalil.

Read @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social on Trump's McCarthyite attack on campus activism www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...

I guess.. but we have not seen such an existential threat to the constitutional order ever in our lifetimes.. I would not have expected this degree of passivity/conformity by those who are so well resourced to defend themselves..

Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?