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ohmpills.bsky.social @ohmpills.bsky.social · 21h

Democrats attachment to niceties dulls urgency & narrows the space for bold, breakout leadership.

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Democrats are captive to outdated etiquette. It’s endangering democracy | Ryan W Powers

The establishment left’s attachment to rigid rules leaves the party out of touch and failing to meet the moment

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ohmpills.bsky.social @ohmpills.bsky.social · 22h

The Insurrection Act would allow the president to deploy the U.S. military domestically for law enforcement purposes. The military is typically not allowed to be deployed on U.S. soil for domestic law enforcement.

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Vance says Trump is 'looking at all his options' as the president threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act

The Insurrection Act would allow the president to deploy the U.S. military domestically for law enforcement purposes.

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ohmpills.bsky.social @ohmpills.bsky.social · 1d

tRump has signed a little-noticed national security directive identifying “anti-Christian” & “anti-American” views as indicators of radical left violence.

Called National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, it’s being referred to as “NSPM-7”.

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Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”

New directive targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions

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ohmpills.bsky.social @ohmpills.bsky.social · 1d

Qatar, one of the biggest financiers of terrorism in the world made a deal w/ tRump to train fighter pilots on American soil.

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'It's a threat': Trump admin tries clarifying Qatari base in US — but MAGA isn't buying it

In response to a wave of social media backlash from critics as well as MAGA voices, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a “clarification” on the social platform X Friday about a newly announced mili...

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ohmpills.bsky.social @ohmpills.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago is now ground zero in the tRump fascist regime’s assault on democracy, the rule of law, social justice, decency & the common good.

www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/10/t...

Trump Wants Martial Law: A Report and Reflections from Chicago

Chicago is now ground zero in the Trump fascist regime’s assault on democracy, the rule of law, social justice, decency, and the common good. Recent events here (I am writing from the Loop) include a ...

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ohmpills.bsky.social @ohmpills.bsky.social · 1d

Vought is a right-wing activist who was a chief architect of the Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” plan for weaponizing the federal government against Democrats & centralizing power in Republican political appointees.

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White House will fire over 4,000 federal workers as government shutdown drags on

White House says more than 4,000 federal workers will be affected

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ohmpills.bsky.social @ohmpills.bsky.social · 2d

States in a recession:

Wyoming, Montana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Kansas, Massachusetts, Washington, Georgia, New Hampshire, Maryland, Rhode Island, Illinois, Delaware, Virginia, Oregon, Connecticut, South Dakota, New Jersey, Maine, Iowa, West Virginia &Washington, D.C.

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ohmpills.bsky.social @ohmpills.bsky.social · 2d

Marco Rubio talked about Machado, calling her the “Venezuelan Iron Lady.”

tRump's secretary of state said that she was “the personification of resilience, tenacity & patriotism.”

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When Trump's state secretary Rubio called 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado ‘Iron Lady’

With Maria Corina Machado's win and snub to Donald Trump, Marco Rubio’s comments about the Venezuelan democracy activist have again come to the forefront

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ohmpills.bsky.social @ohmpills.bsky.social · 2d

The Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado has won the Nobel peace prize for her dogged struggle to rescue the South American country from its fate as “a brutal, authoritarian state”.

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Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize

Opponent of Maduro regime receives award and praise for keeping ‘flame of democracy burning’

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ohmpills.bsky.social @ohmpills.bsky.social · 4d

Plenary authority refers to a single government official having absolute power on a particular matter.

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Plenary authority, the dictator phrase that caused Stephen Miller to stop talking

Miller suggests Trump wields absolute power over decisions to send in the National Guard, before suddenly stopping speaking in an awkward interview moment

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ohmpills.bsky.social @ohmpills.bsky.social · 4d

tRump is doing everything he can to goad his opponents & will have an increasingly authoritarian response if any of them respond w/ violence.

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How Trump is setting a deadly trap by goading opponents

Tensions in Chicago and Portland, Oregon are high as President Donald Trump moves forward with his federal crackdown on those heavily Democratic cities. In his column for The Bulwark, Never Trump cons...

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ohmpills.bsky.social @ohmpills.bsky.social · 5d

What is being carried out against Venezuela is not an operation against drug trafficking but rather a regime change operation.

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“We Will Blow You Out of Existence:” Trump’s Caribbean Spectacle

On 23 September 2025, US President Donald Trump delivered a dramatic address, explicitly threatening those allegedly involved in drug trafficking to the United States with being blown “out of existenc...

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ohmpills.bsky.social @ohmpills.bsky.social · 5d

Put forward a prototype for a new type of American government, for a post-tRump country, that carries forward part of the existing institutional framework that is worth preserving, alongside radical change in response to tRump.

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Blue states should come together to declare an emergency. Here’s how | Thomas Geoghegan

States opposed to Trump can create a compact – a new prototype for American government – even if it’s perceived as political theater

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ohmpills.bsky.social @ohmpills.bsky.social · 6d

Hyper extraction describes how the wealthy have come to touch nearly every single part of American’s. everyday life largely through private equity, which allows wealthy individuals to invest in private companies & look to parts of the economy to squeeze more.
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Boom time for US billionaires: why the system perpetuates wealth inequality

As the super rich grow even richer, inequality expert Chuck Collins says the system is broken – but it can be fixed

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ohmpills.bsky.social @ohmpills.bsky.social · 6d

The tRump administration abruptly cut $500 million in deliveries from a program that sends U.S.-produced meat, dairy, eggs & produce to food banks & other organizations across the country.

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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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ohmpills.bsky.social @ohmpills.bsky.social · 6d

Equality & those rights must be essential parts of a constitutional democracy. In the law & in our moral realm, no one must be disadvantaged by reason of religion or creed, ethnicity, race, national origin, sex or other characteristics.

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Ex-justice reveals 'warning to judges' as Supreme Court docket threatens equal protections

After Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr., a Richard Nixon appointee, announced his retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court in 1987, President Ronald Reagan struggled to get a nominee confirmed. Reagan's first...

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ohmpills.bsky.social @ohmpills.bsky.social · 8d

They're eating cats & dogs!

"If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do."

- JD Vance 09.2024

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He Tells the Truth When He Lies: a JD Vance Primer on Building Conspiracies

As of this writing, all the information the public has about the alleged killer of Kirk is that he acted alone, drove his own car, used his grandfather’s rifle, and was turned in to law enforcement by...

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ohmpills.bsky.social @ohmpills.bsky.social · 8d

What happens when a leader of a democratic country believes he has a license to kill & proceeds to use it?

It appears we're finding out.
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The Supreme Court gave Trump a 'license to kill' — and he's using it: analysis

When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its controversial 6-3 immunity ruling in Trump v. the United States in 2024, some scathing dissent came from one of the Barack Obama appointees: Justice Sonia S...

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ohmpills.bsky.social @ohmpills.bsky.social · 8d

By citing Ernst Fraenkel’s work, "The Dual State", Ketanji Brown Jackson is drawing a parallel between the drift in jurisprudence that's taking place under the combined actions of tRump & the supreme court & the legal structure of Nazi Germany.

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is trying to warn us about something. Are we listening?

Jackson enters her fourth year on the supreme court on Monday. As its fiercest liberal voice wary of Trump’s growing power, she faces an intense battle ahead

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ohmpills.bsky.social @ohmpills.bsky.social · 8d

A senior WH official accidentally leaked details of plans to send an elite army unit to Portland, in the latest intelligence leak by the tRump administration.
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ohmpills.bsky.social @ohmpills.bsky.social · 10d

The combo of cheap humour & rage bait is the province of the shitpost, low-effort social media content designed to amuse insiders & annoy outsiders.

Like so much of internet culture, shitposting was pioneered on the message board 4chan & tRump is a natural.

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Do you know about shitposting? It’s cheap humour, rage bait – and now, it seems, US government policy | Robert Topinka

Donald Trump’s White House reveals a new ‘portrait’ of Joe Biden – and in his world, if you don’t laugh, the joke’s on you, says Robert Topinka of Birkbeck, University of London

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ohmpills.bsky.social @ohmpills.bsky.social · 11d

As bad as Hegseth was, tRump was far worse.

He rambled somewhat incoherently & listlessly for more than an hour, airing his usual political gripes & addressing military matters only occasionally.

As is typical, he sounded both deranged & dangerous.

www.seattletimes.com/opinion/trum...

Trump, Hegseth military grandstanding an embarrassment

The president and the secretary of defense disgrace themselves scolding military commanders.

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ohmpills.bsky.social @ohmpills.bsky.social · 11d

Kegsbreth talked about the previous commander in chief, president Biden & then talked about the ‘enemy within’. That is a dangerous slippery slope to be referring to that to the leaders of the US military. Very dangerous.
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Veterans react to Hegseth’s ‘insulting’ address to generals and admirals

Defense secretary’s speech touching on physical fitness and doctrine of lethality was seen as ‘egotistical’ and ‘dangerous’

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ohmpills.bsky.social @ohmpills.bsky.social · 11d

Can we be confident that tRump & Hegseth won’t succeed in turning the U.S. military into something more like ICE?

The thought seems incredible.

But that ICE would be doing what it is now doing on our streets would have been shocking just a year ago.
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The Silence of the Generals

And the searing words of a veteran on the bench.

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ohmpills.bsky.social @ohmpills.bsky.social · 12d

The idea of the internal enemy was intrinsically connected to a notion about the inferiority, impurity & treasonous nature of those who were considered different from the majority. Fascists disputed the idea that citizenship defined the community.

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'Fascism as a playbook': Trump says US 'under invasion from within'

President Donald Trump warned all 800 of America’s top military leaders that there is a “war from within” and that the nation is “under invasion” — not by armies in uniform, he said.“America is under ...

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