“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
- Theodore Roosevelt, 1918.
Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…unless it embarrasses Donald Jesus Trump or makes his Cult Members angry.
~ 1st Amendment, 2025 Edition
Troops in the streets is not a distraction. It's something that was widely planned, discussed, and part of Trump's 2.0 agenda.
It's a major component of the authoritarian project to suppress critics and advance Trump's agenda.
Dear Democrats: Please stop with the talking point that somehow the militarization of blue cities is a "distraction" from something something.
It's kind of the main thing right now. Downplaying it as a "distraction" minimizes the crisis and dodges responsibility for doing anything about it.
As a reminder: Trump’s first act was to pardon HUNDREDS of J6 rioters who assaulted and beat DC police officers. Trump’s been responsible for a large percentage of the total assaults (and many of the worst/most brutal) on DC police in the last decade.
Trump: "You know, they love to spit in the face of the police ... They’re standing and they’re screaming at them an inch away from their face, and then they start spitting in their face. And I said, ‘you tell them you spit, and we hit’, and they get hit real hard."
The nation’s capital will be secure soon and ready for the final coup which will not be 2028 but will be before midterm elections making those elections completely unnecessary. Buckle up.
BTW, I don’t blame the writer.
This is 100% the fault of the *editor*.
Part of being an editor (and I was one) is working with writers so that if they are—say in journalistic writing—accidentally burying ledes, they get out of the habit.
The NYT’s editors have been asleep at the switch for years.
The Epstein scandal will soon disappear. Ghislaine Maxwell will totally exonerate Trump (by lying of course) and Trump will give her a pardon. I can just imagine the press conferences.
Florida fascist idiot Anna Paulina Luna announced that she wants to bring in key investigators of the Warren Commission of President JFK’s assassination to Congress for questioning.
Problem with that is they are all dead and buried. It’s scary that idiots like her are in office.
Today, Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna of Florida stated that she intends to call members of the Warren Commission to testify for her investigation of the JFK assassination.
The problem, of course, is that all seven members of the Warren Commission have been deceased since 2006.
The United States is under attack. Elon Musk—who has been elected to nothing and is a deeply troubled person—is literally destroying our government from the inside and doing so without authority or consent of the governed. Working on a report on this right now. It’s an emergency.
Neither. He was the wrong person for the job, and did not understand the moment he was in or the adversary he was facing—and was attempting to appeal to principles that didn't apply to the situation and maintain norms that the situation had already broken.
He would've been competent in another era.
Americans overwhelmingly opposed this.
He did it because he wants to send a signal to far-right domestic extremists all over the country that he will soon call on them to again commit violence to keep him in power—and if they do so well enough, they will face no consequences.
The message is clear.
It’s not about Trump supporters. It’s about giving the 75m people who DIDNT VOTE something to vote for
Legitimate discussions on this platform offer that path