Important read. I knew most, but not all, of the firings & dismantling of programs which F47 & his ilk have done.
We, the People, *must* continue to come out locally & nationally in every election in numbers too big to ignore. Hungary did it despite similar riggings by Orban! We can do it here! 🙏🔵💪
The world is all horror these days, but AMOC collapse is the scariest to me. We can absolutely beat the fascists, but we are locked in for so much climate horror and the fascists and their bombs and deregulation and fossil fuel fetishes are pedal to the metal racing off a cliff.
I told y’all we ate paint chips as children.
Barely Rubble
A series of posts from journalist Mark Chadbourn reporting on the acceptance speech of Péter Magyar after Hungarian elections: Péter Magyar: "Our country wants to live again. It wants to be a European country again." Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 24m Magyar's speech is powered. From a contact in the audience: "He's basically just asked all the puppets, all the supreme justices, all the heads of media, all the heads of the ministries to leave their jobs tomorrow and not wait to be fired." •.. Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 22m He's announced that Hungary will join the European Prosecution Office so anyone in the country can be charged. Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 21m Magyar: "No mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions." ... Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 20m Magyar says he's starting work with the EU and NATO immediately. "The EU doesn't have to worry anymore."
From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.
In competitive authoritarianism, leaders abuse state power to tilt the electoral playing field in their favor, manipulate the media environment and minimize opposition voices, maybe even steal close elections by lying about fraud. But they usually can't overcome a large majority voting against them.
Viktor Orban accomplished so much of what the Trump movement wants to accomplish here
he ruled for 16 years and rewrote the rules in his favor
and still, they threw him out
and you know what? they did it by voting
don’t let anyone tell you voting doesn’t matter
"Known informally as the “Arc de Trump,” the colossal arch would soar to a height of 250 feet. It features a prominent 60-foot golden Lady Liberty statue and will include an observation deck for visitors. The phrase “One Nation Under God” is envisioned to span across the top of the monument, according to the latest plans submitted by Harrison Design, as reported by The Guardian. These mock-ups have been submitted to the Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) for review. The CFA is scheduled to convene on April 16 to deliberate on the proposal. Last year, all six commissioners of the CFA were replaced by individuals loyal to Trump, raising questions about the impartiality of the review process."
"Trump" is just "triumphal" with führer letters.
NOTE TO: CNN, The Times, ABC...this is what you get when you let a bully steal your lunch money. It's never enough and he'll come back for more. All your ass kissing isn't ever going to keep you in his favor.
there is no politician so irreplaceable that we must overlook sexual misconduct because nobody else could possibly fill their shoes
how much money does the marine corps lose
Also, the U.S. waited *years* to join that war, doing nothing while Hitler overran Europe.
it was never ever going to stop with banning care for minors (care that their parents consented to btw)
⬆️Exactly! ⬆️
Project 2025 started building a long, long time ago. The counters needed to mete out appropriate consequences and build solid protections against future wannabe fascists (among other things), are going to need ongoing plans for at least the next 50 years. But it is possible. 🙏🏽💪🏽🫱🏼🫲🏾
By "stuff" he means campaigning for an authoritarian dictator.
He's been busy interfering in Hungary's elections
The editorial boards are going to be soooo mad when the Democratic 48th President of the United States doesn't have the Strait fully and freely reopened by Memorial Day 2029.
Israel bombed it on Passover.
The silence of Republicans as their president threatens to commit genocide is deafening.
They're all complicit.
I am here for messaging that the THREAT alone - regardless of if it's carried out or walked back - should end his presidency.
The die is already cast. You cannot wield the power that man has and say that kind of shit.
I'm the daughter of an Army paratrooper who refused orders during our illegal invasion of Vietnam back in the day. He went to LBJ military jail.
Dad taught his girls this: "Just following orders" is NEVER any excuse for anyone who's complicit in war crimes. You MUST refuse heinous orders.
I know Congress probably won’t do anything, but I contacted my Representative anyway and asked him to get back to DC and move for immediate impeachment and removal.
same Overton Window-shattering tactic he’s always used: Even if worst doesn’t happen tonight - rhetorically he’s opened up possibility of the unimaginable, making lesser (but still horrible) actions seem moderate by comparison… all increasing likelihood that one day the worst really will happen
Call your senators and member of Congress today and demand they stand up to genocide. Democrat, Republican, independent - it doesn't matter. Call them.
If you don't know your rep's contact, call the capitol switchboard and they'll connect you.
(202) 224-3121
The UK must immediately and unequivocally suspend support for the US military.
The Government have tried to appease him, then they tried to say they're standing up to him.
Words aren't enough - it's time for action.
I just called my Congress person and basically went on a "Do something" rant.
Everyone's job today
Vance said he wants to help Orban “as much as I can” ahead of Hungary’s parliamentary elections on Sunday.
The irony klaxon exploded when he then accused Brussels of trying to interfere in the vote, describing it as “one of the worst examples of foreign election interference.”
Any republicans in congress feel like "A whole civilization will die tonight" might cross your own personal line? No? Hm.
Republicans in Congress,
When you fail to rig the midterms and your majority is gone, consequences will come for you.
No one will ever forget that none of you could find a morsel of patriotism nor the integrity required to honor the Constitution and not bend the knee to a pedofascist tyrant.