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The fascists are getting more violent.

"Having 80 percent of Republican voters actively supporting a fascist race war is meaningful for our societal prospects."

Some context: it took me almost a year and multiple applications to get a GS-5 ($34K annual salary) clerk job at the Department of Veterans Affairs. At the time, I had an MBA and a decade of management experience.

I talked to @jasonfurman.bsky.social about the Trump admin's decision to launch a first-in-history criminal inquiry into Fed chair Jay Powell—and what happened in other countries when leaders compromised central bank independence. (Tl;dr it wasn't good!) www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

From Hopium: - Groceries, clothing, housing, utility prices, medical care all came in way too high in bad new inflation report - New polling shows the country really turning on ICE and the terror regime - Desperate men do desperate things This, more 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/new-pollin...

A new report from the American Cancer Society shows the historic accomplishments of U.S. scientific research. As of now, 7 in 10 cancer patients survive five+ years after diagnosis. Meanwhile NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya constantly disparages the agency he oversees.

I’m happy to see the new American Cancer Society report showing that the U.S. has reached a historic milestone in cancer survivorship, where 70% of patients live for 5+ years after diagnosis. But I also see it as a requiem, because the systems that made it happen have been destroyed.

Trump promises ‘help is on its way’ and tells Iranians to ‘keep protesting’

Jerome Powell "has served with integrity, focused on his mandate and an unwavering commitment to the public interest," read the statement from nine central bank heads, including European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde and Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey. https://to.pbs.org/4sTnLvs

ICE agents have been flooding into Minnesota, outnumbering local police and creating chaos in neighborhoods. ICE needs to get off our streets.

👇🏽 🎯

4 male ICE agents tackle a woman U.S. citizen—lift her off ground with no concern over groping her breast or exposing her midriff. "Help me! Help me!" she cries out. "Check my ID!" Agents shove her into back of SUV hitting her head—literally run away from scene of crime. St. Paul, Minnesota.

LUCE: "..There is no historic precedent of a dominant power voluntarily abandoning its leadership .. ".. America’s allies are now at that hinge point between the past and the future. Trump is making their choice easier." @edwardluce.bsky.social @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/331e...

🔥 @markruffalo.bsky.social : “I gotta be honest, I’m not feeling so great. Renee Good was murdered... stormtroopers running around terrorizing. As much as I love all this, I can’t pretend all this crazy stuff isn’t happening. We have a president who says laws don’t apply to him- this is crazy.”

The night George W was elected I turned to my wife and said “Mark my words, we will be at war!” Now that the orange dictator is putting us in war mode against even our allies we have to get Congress to step up. Flood is coming.

100% this!👇

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

What he said: 💯 🎯

I’m the first congressional candidate to be indicted under the second Trump administration. But if things keep going the way they are, I won’t be the last. That’s why I need to fight these charges with everything we’ve got. Help us do that here: katforillinois.com/legal

The top three things Jesus was on about were feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and welcoming the stranger. Rich men have convinced so-called Christians to starve the hungry, gut health care, and deport the stranger to enrich themselves. It’s astoundingly anti-Christ.

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

SNAP is not the reason your taxes are high. SNAP recipients don’t need to “just go get a job”. Most of them work. The rest are disabled, elderly, children or caregivers. People need & deserve assistance Your taxes fund wars and tax cuts for the ultra rich Be mad about that

Donald Trump got mad at the TV, so now stuff costs more

More propaganda from the 2025 cabal swamp. What’s it going to take to defeat these so-called Americans?

Scott Bessent on Ontario's anti-tariff Ronald Reagan ad: "This is a kind of propaganda against U.S. citizens. It's PSYOPs."

No notes, this is a perfectly reasonable summary

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life? #TwentyfiveFortyseven

Even Marjorie Taylor Greene admitted the GOP could end the shutdown anytime they wanted, they control all the branches of government. Broken clock’s right twice a day.

Hey furloughed fed friends, Stop feeling GUILTY. It’s not your fault the work isn’t getting done. You didn’t ask to be at home or warming an office chair. This colossal waste is not your fault. Don’t feel bad for someone else’s mistakes. Unplug if you can. Rest. Take care of yourselves 💚🫂

Swear her in.

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

We need to stop thinking this isn’t happening in the USA. The bubble we’ve lived in is gone. Our democracy is going. Our history is being rewritten. Survival starts with understanding this and creating resistance responses.

Honestly, never thought "Tylenol" would be trending.

genuinely crazy to me how unitary executive advocates read the vesting clause as granting a huge scope of essentially royal "inherent" powers. one would think that if the framers intended to give the president royal authority, they would have just said so.

What happened to Vincent van Gogh after he took Tylenol? He became artistic

Look, you can either listen to the medical professionals and Epstein survivors or this administration. It honestly tells more about you than anything else.

“He said things like ‘vaccines had fetal parts,’” Monarez said, “and I had to send a note to our leadership team to correct that misinformation.”

Goebbles or Miller?

Sen. Tim Kaine: "Brian Kilmeade 10 days ago suggested that homeless, mentally ill people should be lethally injected. He apologized...He didn't get pulled off the air."

Donnie needs to toughen his skin

Remembering all the discussions I had with @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social about there being no legal mechanism to declare a domestic group a terror organization when folks were asking why we hadn’t designated the Proud Boys a terror group.

No kidding. But, that’s just a start.

PSA: A "Major Terrorist Organization" (MTO) is not a thing. The Immigration and Nationality Act *delegates* power to the State Department to designate *FOREIGN* terrorist organizations (FTOs) based on certain criteria. It doesn't apply to domestic orgs. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!