These are my recommendations for anyone who wants to make a plan to resist a Trump Dictatorship:
- First: Do a little light reading. Pick up 'On Tyranny' by @timothysnyder.bsky.social. The Twenty Points Snyder outlines are your starting point. The plan is what you create using it.
Modi and Xi forge strong new ties as Trump shreds America's relations with India over Nobel Prize lies. Yet again, China reaps huge gains through Trump's inept and corrupt conduct. www.ft.com/content/890c...
This is the type of person Trump pardoned. He proudly asserts that they should have injured a US Capitol Police Officer worse than they did on January 6th (@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social) had to medically retire).
But MAGA supports law enforcement? Seriously? Then show me by condemning this guy.
Absurd and outrageous map would lead to a 7-1 GOP margin in a state that is often split about 60-40 GOP by creating an absurd district 5 that spans about two thirds of the way across the state, 200 miles from West to East
Oppose this.
This is an unconstitutional and authoritarian power grab.
The constitution grants power over federal elections to the states and Congress - not the president.
President Trump said late Saturday that he would issue an executive order to require voter identification for all U.S. elections, a continuation of his efforts to overhaul the nation’s election laws, which he has long attacked and falsely blamed for his 2020 election loss.
Why do you appreciate unions?
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
The Trump plan for Gaza includes the relocation of the entire population - 2 million people - a US “trusteeship” and the creation of a tourism and tech hub.
Landowners get digital tokens worth $5,000 and rent subsidies. Investors are promised 4x return on $100 billion.
This is a great time to remind everyone that EOs aren’t laws, the federal government doesn’t manage voting in this way, and it’s all a scare tactic and any reporting that doesn’t provide that context is enabling potentially lawless activity.
Trump declares intention to issue an Executive Order mandating Voter ID for all votes, restricts mail-in voting to exceptions, and insists on paper ballots only.
His Mea Culpa:
"It’s all about the famous hat, of course. Yes, I took it. Yes, I did it quickly. But as I’ve always said, life is first come, first served,” he claimed."
If you have any business dealings with this slime ball, keep this in mind. HE comes first; HE gets served first.
“ILLEGALS” MY ASS!
Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store.
He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
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I am lightly horrified by how many people have now looked up their books and found out their publishers (who often were required contractually!!!!) just... didn't register the copyrights on books. Not all of them! Just sporadically!
This is not just one publisher, I've seen all the big ones now.
The Trump administration is undertaking an unprecedented strategy to try to undermine our elections. They are doing so by rewriting election rules, targeting election officials, supporting election deniers, and retreating from protecting voting rights. bit.ly/4l1lUPP
Most people dream of him in an early grave. I'd prefer to see him hale and hearty, and enjoying the inside a prison cell after being removed from office.
Trump has not made any public appearances in the last several days. His public schedule shows no public events or appearances scheduled on August 29 and 30.
Makes you wonder…
Alan Dershowitz has become a querulous, lawless buffoon and serial abuser of the legal system. This lawsuit was indefensible and a contemptible example of the sentiment “I am famous and important, you can’t disrespect me.”
JUST IN: 11th Circuit upholds dismissal of Alan Dershowitz's libel suit against CNN over his remarks during 1st Trump impeachment about scope of presidents' immunity for official acts. 3-0. Grant (Trump), Lagoa (Trump), Wilson (Clinton). Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
He rose to power through crying about censorship from the medical establishment.
And now Vinay Prasad is spending his time as an FDA official censoring his critics.
My YouTube channel has like 300 followers and 99% of it is just videos of our medical establishment.
Today, I learned they are trying to censor me, instead of doing their job.
Our client, Mohsen Mahdawi, just finished his citizenship interview when ICE arrested him in retaliation for his pro-Palestinian activism.
Now, the government is asking an appeals court to re-detain him for no other reason than his speech. We won’t back down from protecting our right to dissent.
Something blue states will need to explore: how to create cross-state compacts dedicated to a functioning government as the Trump administration walks away from it's responsibilities.
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me.
Dem govs must step up and fill the void.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R
A federal judge has ordered Florida to shut down "Alligator Alcatraz," after the state spent a staggering $218M to build the now-vacant detention camp.
Closing it will run taxpayers another $20M.
An utterly cruel and costly waste.
Every sick, evil, thing Republicans claim Democrats will do to citizens becomes a horrible reality under Republicans.
Guns, health care, the economy or our environment... the GOP has proven time and time again that they are a Death Cult.
What a cursed sentence (gift link)
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Reason 4857 why health care should never be for profit: AI DEATH PANELS.
This is the same kind of program used to deny claims at United Health, and they want to use this for VA claims, too.
What a cursed sentence (gift link)
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
He's a union buster, Trump megadonor, noted friend to multiple sex criminals, and an incompetent, paranoid dope who let MSG be used for a Nazi rally before the election. But yeah, keep posting these cute lil vids.
🎶 Boom! Here comes the boom! 🎶
🎶 Ready or not, here comes the boys from the South 🎶
🎶 Boom! Here comes the boom! 🎶
🎶 Ready or not, how you like me now? I say... 🎶
this is one of the president's' closest advisors. the mainstream media refuses to reckon with this so substitutes in a fictional sanewashed trump and fictional west wing in which loomer doesn't participate in their stories. telling the truth would not help trump so they don't do it
What a cursed sentence (gift link)
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
A group of 19 Democratic governors on Thursday condemned President Trump’s threat to send National Guard troops into major cities like Chicago, Baltimore and New York as an “alarming abuse of power.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
A couple of months ago, the Navy dishonored civil rights hero Harvey Milk by removing his name from a ship.
Now, the Air Force is dishonoring itself by celebrating a domestic terrorist called Ashli Babbitt.
Missouri; Sickest State of the Union...
"Mandatory paid sick leave will officially end in Missouri on Thursday, putting an end to the voter-approved policy just months after it went into effect. Gov. Mike Kehoe signed House Bill 567 into law earlier this year... "
"Business owners were clear: Proposition A’s paid leave and minimum wage policies were a job killer," Kara Corches, president and CEO of the Missouri Chamber {of Commerce]..."
"More than 57% of Missouri voters in the November 2024 general election supported passing Proposition A."
...and it *appears* that one of the first businesses to take away sick leave from employees - even hours that were *earned* - is that fine, Christian-centered restaurant, Chick-Fil-A:
I am lightly horrified by how many people have now looked up their books and found out their publishers (who often were required contractually!!!!) just... didn't register the copyrights on books. Not all of them! Just sporadically!
This is not just one publisher, I've seen all the big ones now.