Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene
RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth*
A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel”
Person watching on tv: well if they say so
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
I wrote about the birthday boy and his tank parade, and the great weakness inherent in fascist shows of power.
And about how the people of the country *are* the country.
As a bonus tie-in, my answer to the standard terf question "what is a woman."
www.the-reframe.com/shows-of-wea...
Those are not protesters. They are our mothers, our fathers, our brothers, our sisters, our grandmother's, and our grandfathers. They are you and me.
They are the people who taught us right from wrong since we were children, standing up against the nazis who refused to learn their lessons..
"my brothers you think you're doing the right thing," one demonstrator says to police "you're not.
/5 They will use federal law enforcement and cooperative local law enforcement and the military to commit violence and to provoke more violence and to use all of that violence as justification for more violence, more emergency power, more authoritarianism.
Let’s be very clear: Los Angeles is the perfect place for this to play out for the Trumpists. The Trumpists hate California and hate Los Angeles and a vast amount of their base feels the same — even the Trumpists here, who wallow in hating the place they live.
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I'm so sorry this happened to you and hope you recover quickly. Thank you for your dedication.
Andry José Hernández Romero
Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.
No one has heard from you in 43 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
6 weeks ago today, planes flew a few hundred people to El Salvador, where they’re being held at CECOT — a place from which Salvadoran officials brag no one is ever released — at US expense.
Their continued detention there is our continued shame.
Even if Bondi is right (she’s not), it doesn’t change the facts:
• he was deported to El Salvador erroneously and in violation of a judge’s order
• SCOTUS has ordered that the administration facilitate his return
• they’re ignoring that order
• one phone call to Bukele and he’s on the next plane
It's simple. Everyone in the US enjoys the protections of the Constitution - even visitors. So if someone commits a crime here, you give them due process here. You charge them here, try them here, and sentence them here. You don't deport them to an offshore torture prison.
Here is a sitting Democratic Congressmember pointing out that the US bombing Yemen is a war crime. This is possible! It is a thing you can do, if you're an elected official.
This is a fantastic piece of rigorous, in-depth reporting. It will make you want to pass out with rage. But definitely read it.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Today was a grim, terrible day for the United States and the cause of democracy. Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
🚨 Trump & Vance just disgraced America by mocking Zelenskyy & siding with Putin. We MUST demand our leaders stand with Ukraine, not a despicable regime. Use my free @resistbot petition to flood Congress with letters.
Silence is complicity! 🇺🇦📢 Send yours now:
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Here's the whole exchange.
youtu.be/LvwrW-6oxVg?...
Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."
It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too.
Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.
Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.
Being alive during the time when the stupidest people are the loudest is fucking exhausting
