Shanaka Anslem Perera (@shanakaanslemperera) In 1974, Henry Kissinger brokered a deal with Saudi Arabia: price your oil in dollars, recycle the surplus into US Treasuries, and America guarantees your security. The arrangement was never a formal ...

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This will be 100% #TrumpsGovernmentShutdown

September 2024 headline in USA Today from Trump town hall in Michigan. "Trump promises death penalty for illegal drug dealers at town hall"

Newsweek headline today: "Trump Pardons Ross Ulbricht After Urging Death Penalty For Drug Dealers"

Kirk and Lyn Ulbricht, with their future drug dealer son Ross, at his high school graduation. Just a normal, white, Texas family.

Yea, as recently as September, Trump called for the death penalty for drug trafficking. Then yesterday, he pardoned the Silk Road drug trafficker. Because Libertarians-Ross was a big Ron Paul supporter.

Oh, and because he was a bitcoin "pioneer "- that's how drugs were bought.

Oh, he's white.

"Ulbricht, known by the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts," operated Silk Road between 2011 and 2013, facilitating more than $200 million in transactions for illegal drugs, hacking services, and counterfeit documents."

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User 'Nick Knudsen' tweets, "Donald Trump said that his Presidency would be used to help working people. Instead, his first order of business was to pardon convicted felons who tried to overthrow democracy. These are not the priorities of the American people."

It’s as if the Joker threw open the prison gates of Gotham.

Unbelievably petty! The Spanish language version of the White House website was deleted after the inauguration yesterday.

Look what happens when you hit the “go home” button!

Just saying.

anyone seen the Von Trapp Family Singers? They were supposed to perform at the inaugural ball tonight, but they haven't shown up. weird.

Biden commutes sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier Peltier was convicted of killing two FBI agents in a case indigenous activists have long disputed.

Biden commuted the life sentence of indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents in a case long disputed by Native American advocates.

Ketamine is a hell of a drug.

Exclusive-Trump administration canceling flights for nearly 1,660 Afghan refugees, say U.S official, advocate Nearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to resettle in the U.S., including family members of active duty U.S. military personnel, are having their flights canceled under President Donald T...

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Nearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to resettle in the U.S., including family members of active duty U.S. military personnel, are having their ...

Reading Parable of the Talents now by Octavia E Butler. Found this passage relevant to our times. Actually this entire book is relevant to our dystopian reality. #booksky #booktok

For all Trump's talk of manufacturing jobs, you didn't see the CEOs of GE and Caterpillar sitting in the prime seats today. You saw the CEOs of Amazon and X and Meta and Google and TikTok.

It's the attentional oligarchs whose power he cares about.

The Internet is forever. I can't believe my own eyes.

Donald Trump returns — so here are 17 ways to keep democracy alive in 2025, brought to you by cognitive science professor George Lakoff and political strategist Gil Durán.

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January 30, 2024: I posted the longer version of this video on TikTok. It was instantly banned—I should have known then.
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Trump cannot abrogate birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment by way of executive order. That’s not how constitutional rights work.

Whatever happens to my family, know this: No pardons were offered or discussed.

I cannot begin to describe the level of betrayal and hurt I feel.

Just so we're clear: trying to suspend birthright citizenship = trying to suspend the Constitution.

History has already shown us what happens when warnings are ignored…

Stay vigilant—freedom depends on it.

Under the GOP's SAVE Act, Tribal IDs would NO LONGER be accepted as valid identification to register to vote.

This is a direct attack on the voting rights of Native American communities.

#StopTheSAVEAct social.demcast.com/s/EC9Y1x2d

Republicans want to tell you what books you can read, what bathroom you can use, what words you can say, what history you can learn, what you can or can’t do with your own body and what gender you are… but tell me more about how the Dems are “coming for your freedoms”.

Idiots.