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Crimes against humanity! I am sickened to my core! This must be stopped!

Read this right now.

Trump silences Voice of America. Ostap Yarysh a journalist at VOA: "It's unbelievable how something that has been the voice of American democracy and has endured 83 years of broadcasting... — through WW2, [and] the Cold War, can be silenced on a regular Saturday."

Please read and share 🧵 . Musk has 5 ambitions that explain every action he takes: 🟥 MONEY 🟥 POWER 🟥 FAME 🟥 ACCESS 🟥 VENGEANCE

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

Felon in Chief

Trump moved his inauguration indoors because he fears a humiliatingly paltry crowd. For the JFK inauguration it was 22F outside, Kennedy wore no coat or hat, and there were one million people there to witness it all. Trump is an insecure baby, and a small crowd would be a grave narcissistic injury.

Trump moves his inauguration indoors. What a snowflake.

Please please please watch this. Please.

Elon Musk: Drunk on power and high in ketamine. Dangerous combination.

While we’re on the LA fires…To you deniers: The US Department of Defense has been planning for and gaming out the consequences of climate change for decades. They know. The DOD has elevated climate change as a national security priority.

They want us to memory hole tearing down the American flag to fly Trump’s.

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On January 6 and January 20 I’m posting these all day…

Stumbled into this series from Australia's ABC called "America's Last Election," it explains Trump's authoritarian throughline and the progress he's making better than anything I'm seeing in the US. Their advantage is they figure their audience needs the whole story. And so do we!

Pete Hegseth promotes Christian Nationalist Views that have no place in our government. He has called for a Civil War in the past. He has no business leading our military. Call your Senators. Please. Before it's too late. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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Good morning! ☀️☕️ Friends, we need to buckle up and put our game faces on. No one’s coming to save us. It’s us. WE are the cavalry. We cannot sink into despair or continue with the circular firing squad. Focus. Get ready for the call, the bat signal, whatever. Oh, buy battery packs. Trust. 🤳

Netflix documentary Biggest Heist Ever. Wow.

Too many voters were cool with the "Who Donald Trump Really Is" part of #RoughBeast, which means that, unfortunately, the "What He'll Do If Re-Elected" chapters are even more exigent. (Once he takes over, you won't need my help to stan for democracy.) Praemonitus praemunitus.

Alex Gibney's new documentary is streaming: "In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon". Simon & Garfunkel were before my time, but I love Paul Simon's later solo work. I lived in Kenya when he released Graceland. It was being played absolutely everywhere.

cc: the don’t-vote-for-Dems-because-Gaza folks

Forgive me if this is petty but the next account I’d like to surpass here on Bluesky is CNN. They helped normalize Trump at every turn and did nothing to help tell the truth about Kamala. Time to show them what we think. Can you RT this and follow us if you haven’t. 💙🙏

Yes to the HBO documentary Yacht Rock. Mac DeMarco nails it when he defines Yacht Rock: “It’s rock, but it doesn’t *rock*”

Never forget.

Quite a few Americans like the idea of strongman rule. Essential to it is the idea that a strongman will be your strongman. He won't. snyder.substack.com/p/the-strong...

From 2023, now unpaywalled, my warning that a Trump administration could blunder into a shooting war inside Mexico. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

EVERY. WORD. OF. THIS.

Centralized power only exists because we consent to serve it. Reclaim your relationships, organize horizontally, and refuse the hierarchies that enslave us.

The president-elect and his team have spent much of November baiting and trolling their opponents while throwing red meat to the MAGA faithful. But Americans shouldn’t fall for it this time. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Trumps isolationist policies risk diminishing US influence and boosting China. My latest: adamkinzinger.substack.com/publish/post...

Resist fear. Authoritarian systems thrive on intimidation. Stand firm, support one another, and act with courage.

Do not obey in advance. PASS IT ON.

“Perhaps Americans require, every once in a while, to be jolted out of the complacency learned from their mostly fortunate history.” @davidfrum.bsky.social on what he got wrong about the 2024 election cycle:

"Deepfakes, AI and the Battle for Democracy" zeteo.com/p/deepfakes-...

📌BEWARE: Facebook is not allowing me (or anybody else) to post this saying it violates “Community Standards.” 📌This is censorship plain and simple. It needs to be shared WIDELY. Not because I wrote it, but because it is how democracies crash. 📌We are in a dangerous place right now in America. -Thx

Do. Not. Obey. Ever. 👇

Just my 2 cents. But my goal is to ignore the trolls. Give them zero attention. Block them if they annoy me. I think the worst thing we can do on this site is re-create the ad hominem/ personal attacks that occur across comments on Twitter/insta/tiktok/ etc

Now is a good time to remind everyone that Matt Gaetz was the only 'no' vote in the entire Congress against legislation that targeted human trafficking

Release the Gaetz report. Pass it on.

Yep, please take a minute to add your senators, your US rep, and your local elected officials to your phone. Then call them all the time to tell them what to do. You are the boss of them; never forget it.