Gone Nonlinear

What happens to these criminals will determine whether, at some point in the near future, some not-huge number of years down the line, this country is a liberal democracy or else has a consolidated authoritarian regime and/or collapses into civil conflict. That's not hyperbole, it's what's at stake.

It is fucking insane that a military contractor (and biggest GOP donor) undermined the performance of services paid for by the DOD, and future GOP Presidential hopefuls are bending over backwards to come up with competing and bizarre excuses for why its all fine, actually.

What happens after the midterms? In the new season of “Autocracy in America,” @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu talks with the political, cultural, and economic leaders working to reverse the slide toward autocracy. Sign up now—the first episode airs November 10:

Ten years ago today. In just the last few days: Trump made a deal for the U.S. to buy Russian diesel, an economic lifeline for Putin; he and Elon Musk blamed each other for an order that slowed down Starlink satellite connectivity over Ukraine...

Time for an era of tech trust-busting?

*putting a bomb in a car* cars will soon be able to explode

farritor and kliger are the two who i want to see in orange jumpsuits being hauled off to prison

It’s cool POTUS just made up a diplomatic agreement out of thin air and it’s like the 5th news item of the day

My greatest frustrating has been with policy wonks who persist in thinking we can just keep doing normal policy analysis ("calling balls and strikes") in this situation. The President of the United States is both lawless and out of his mind. That preempts all normal discussion.

What should the next president do with Trump’s White House ballroom? “Knock it down” says @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu. She argues the ballroom is about more than architecture: “It’s Trump seeking to remake the institution itself.”

Tear it down in broad daylight

The USA can never recover until this arch is torn down, brick by brick.

Trump's foreign policy is not isolationist. On the contrary, his ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve American crypto, mineral and tech companies, many with links to the president. Read more here: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Gallego says he supports tearing down Trump's ballroom and arch and explains why

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My suggestion is - unless providentially hindered - do not vote by mail this midterm. Go in person.

I find myself on a "blame the voters" kick lately. Maybe it's the midterms coming up.

Democrats are screwing up the US-Canada relationship and their own political best interests by not clearly committing to undo Trump’s actions here. www.slowboring.com/p/democrats-...

These people said the same thing after J6: “oh, I’m done with Trump.” Then, after a while, they returned like a dog to its vomit.

Tremendous insight into the inner workings of the Trump administration that the NSA/SecState was allowed to go down in a fireball but the person who posts AI slop for the President qualified as needing to survive at all costs.

Donald Trump stands out historically in one way. He has demilitarized the US military more quickly than any other political leader in US history. A full blown pacifist would have struggled to throw away weapons faster than he has.

I know this would be closing the barn door after he horse has been reelected president, but if Democrats win both chambers I'd really like to see a concurrent resolution deeming January 6 an insurrection under 14(3). 1/

The Interior Department is lying. DOJ is lying. DOD is lying. It goes without saying DHS is lying. And whatever setbacks they suffer (which are good!), they will keep on lying. The Trump administration won't change. It can't be fixed. The task is to weaken it, and limit the damage it can do.

Audit the White House. Find every penny of ill-gotten gains and get the money back!

"There's a series of institutions that have been created, going back decades actually, that are designed to prevent foreign interference and other interference, and actually the Trump administration [has] pretty systematically dismantled them," said @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu.

Audit the White House and claw back every single fraud dollar.

I think it should be on every TV and cable outlet and radio and broadcast on giant screens everywhere. I'm serious.

FREE SPEECH UNDER ATTACK: Marco Rubio just had a man arrested and jailed, and is seeking to deport him, because he publicly supported Petro and opposed a presidential candidate in Colombia that Donald Trump would prefer to be elected. He committed no crimes and had an asylum application pending.

@dicknixon.bsky.social, sir, you've spoken before about knowing how to hate. Is it something that can be taught?

This is what they meant by "free speech"

Graham Platner: ‘I Didn’t Know Extramarital Sexting Was A Symbol For Cheating’

one might ask why a free speech org is scrutinizing the small dollar political donations of private citizens

the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

Eric Trump joining Donald Trump on an official state visit to China is much more corrupt than anything involving Joe and Hunter Biden, yet New York Times coverage indicates the opposite. I show the contrast here, and challenge anyone to explain how it isn’t media bias in Trump’s favor.

“You know we’re in a war,” President Trump said yesterday, as a White House letter to Congress asserted that the War Powers Act doesn’t apply because there’s no war. Utter contempt. Congress is cool with it. Because the GOP majority also has contempt for the law, Constitution, country, and people.

This is so fucked. www.thebulwark.com/p/exclusive-...

Somebody you've compelled to fork over millions of dollars in a show of abject servile bootlicking and obvious corruption is somebody who can never credibly oppose you. That's what it's about.

Please, everyone, stop butchering the American flag for your own pet cause, regardless what it might be.

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

It’s a mark of how completely normalised the corruption & depravity have become that we barely bat an eyelid at the thought of two *property developers*, one Trump’s nepo baby son-in-law, being sent to represent the USA in peace negotiations with Iran. Sometimes it all hits you afresh.

I don't know if you saw, but JD Vance was in Georgia this week.

Winning campaign slogan here if anyone wants it.

Threatening to wipe out an entire civilization is morally bankrupt and a major war crime, risking the lives of innocent civilians - including children. He seems detached from reality. I don’t know who (if anyone) can get through to him. Congress needs to step in and stop him.

After Trump wrote, in reference to Iran, “A whole civilization will die tonight,” the entirety of the House Democratic leadership issued this joint statement:

Has President Trump lost his mind? Threatening to wipe out an entire civilization in a war the American people do not want is insane and makes us less safe. Hegseth should be fired immediately. History is watching.

This is an extremely sick person. Each Republican who refuses to join us in voting against this wanton war of choice owns every consequence of whatever the hell this is.

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