I find it amazing too that Republicans’ boycott of Washington isn’t the biggest story of them all.
The shutdown can’t end if they refuse to show up for work.
Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
Tech Fascists: We shall weaken the nation, destroy the economy, replace the dollar with crypto, replace people with AI, and create new Network State cities everywhere.
Normie Journalists: Folks, this is total chaos and incompetence with no structure or plan.
they are sick, sick motherfuckers and actually trump's whole thing can be called a "sick system"
www.issendai.com/psychology/s...
here's a good piece about their sadism, by judith butler.
we must win the information war.
I'm confused about how the AP put out a story titled, "Why conservative American evangelicals are among Israel’s strongest supporters" with no mention of evangelical beliefs about Israel helping kick off the end times and the return of Christ.
THAT'S THE MAIN THING.
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Thank you, Senator! Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden demanded answers from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent after reports surfaced that personnel affiliated with Elon Musk have sought access to a highly sensitive Treasury Department payment system.
In the Desert
III
In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it.
I said, 'Is it good, friend?'
'It is bitter bitter,' he answered;
'But I like it
Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.'
Stephen Crane
Sarah McBride: "It is an attempt to distract ... Every single time we hear them say the word 'trans,' look what they're doing with their right hand. Look at what they're doing to pick the pocket of American workers, to fleece seniors by privatizing Social Security and Medicare."
"Elon Musk, whose companies have received nearly $8 billion in government funding through an assortment of federal grants, tax breaks, government subsidies and contracts, proposed today that senior citizens need to 'tighten their belt' to help balance the national budget."
See? It's not hard.
Here one of Elon Musk's lickspittles explains their plan: Persuade regular Americans to accept huge cuts to Social Security and Medicare so that billionaires can get gigantic tax cuts. I don't think they'll be able to pull it off, but we'll see.
"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
This incredible woman has more courage than any Republican member of Congress. Representative-Elect Sarah McBride responds to the pathetic transgender bathroom ban just announced by the coward Mike Johnson.
House Republicans haven’t been able to pass their own budget for the past two years, but they are laser focused on the bathroom situation in the Capitol after wrapping up the Hunter Biden investigation.
Flashback to 1975: Margaret Hamilton, the Wicked Witch of the West, appeared on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood to show kids the magic behind the makeup. She even transformed into her iconic role, proving costumes are just storytelling—not scary! 🧙♀️💚 #salemma#witches#WizardofOz#MrRogers
Despite the negative costs, people join cult-like groups because of social-identity benefits.
@psychunseen.bsky.social, Joe Pierre, Health Sciences Clinical Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UCSF.
From the Cambridge Disinformation Summit archives.
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