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Leila Warner @leilabelle.bsky.social · 10h

How psychotic do you have to be to rename your Dept. of Defense the "Dept. of War" and then demand that you be given the Nobel PEACE Prize?

Leila Warner @leilabelle.bsky.social · 10h

A repentant Republican? No such thing. He's very likely a Trojan horse — another Manchin, Sinema or Fetterman.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 12h

I know Mike Johnson says there is nothing for the House to do but there is.

You see by law a budget was supposed to be in place by Sept 30th, but Rs haven’t passed one. The reason? There isn’t a GOP budget. They haven’t even started working on one. This is what the House should be doing FFS!

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Leila Warner @leilabelle.bsky.social · 13h

Why does ANY fascist regime hate having their population rise up in resistance? As for the actual, practical purpose of labeling it terrorism, it's so that Trump can invoke the Insurrection Act and declare martial law.

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Leila Warner @leilabelle.bsky.social · 20h

"Trump learned cruelty from his dad but learned how to weaponize it from his second daddy: Roy Cohn, Joe McCarthy’s henchman, who taught Trump how to use fear and media manipulation to break your enemies — a group now encompassing most Americans." — Greg Palast

Greg Palast @gregpalast.bsky.social · 1d

Thom Hartmann’s new book, The Last American President, is one giant fact check on the Whopper-in-Chief, and much more — a disturbing dive into the roiling miasma of self-aggrandizing, self-deluding, psychologically shattered, wailing man-child who is Commander-in-Chief.

Cc. @hartmannreport.com

The LAST American President

Thom Hartmann’s new book, The Last American President, is one giant fact check on the Whopper-in-Chief, and much more — a disturbing dive into the roiling miasma of self-aggrandizing, self-deluding, p...

gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com

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Leila Warner @leilabelle.bsky.social · 1d

Impeachment isn't an option because Trump's party is in control, and his party supports him 100%.

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Sarah Wood @sarahwood.bsky.social · 1d

A man who has declared war on American cities is not deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

from Thursday’s post, on the batshit White House ‘anti-antifa’ roundtable that featured Donny Convict, ICE Barbie, and a fetid fucktangle of MAGA halfwits and hangers-on.
you can read the whole thing in all its glory here: bit.ly/4mSP3Ol

Chris Wray — who had been appointed FBI director by Donny — had it exactly right. antifa isn’t an organization. it’s a belief — that fascism is bad.

pro tip: if you’re against the idea of antifascism, you’re on the wrong fucking side.

this is something that Pizzagate Jack and his buddies don’t seem to realize.
fast forward to today. Chris Wray is gone, replaced by Krazee-Eyes Kash. Donny no longer has adults in the room.

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Leila Warner @leilabelle.bsky.social · 1d

The test he's referring to measures the rate of mental decline in a person already understood to be in the throes of dementia. You administer the test periodically to track the decline. It is NOT an I.Q. test or even a run-of-the-mill intelligence test. IT IS FOR DEMENTIA PATIENTS.

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Leila Warner @leilabelle.bsky.social · 1d

They're outraged that Trump hasn't received the Nobel Peace Prize, when he recently blew up multiple fishing boats 2,000 miles from our shores, killing more than two dozen people, bombed a country (Iran) that had not attacked us, and is using the military against his own population.

Leila Warner @leilabelle.bsky.social · 1d

There IS nothing left of American democracy, and as for the Dem party, they long ago abandoned their principles, when they started accepting bribes ("donations") from corporations and the super-rich. All that's left are a handful of principled progressives with no party structure to back them.

Leila Warner @leilabelle.bsky.social · 1d

Grand jurors only get to see and hear what the prosecutor wants them to see and hear. There is no way for them to know if the morsel of evidence they're being fed is legitimate. It's very easy for a dishonest prosecutor to get an indictment.

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 1d

Chain-link cages. Flooded tents. Clouds of mosquitoes. Malfunctioning AC. Scarce food. Zero recreational time: Inside the hell of Alligator Alcatraz. (1/x)

Inside the hell of Alligator Alcatraz

Despite shocking conditions and rampant “psychological warfare,” copycats are popping up around the country.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats should just start insisting that they saw very real videos of people rioting at Mar-a-Lago -- overturning golf carts, setting fire to the brunch buffet, stabbing busboys with carving knives, whatever -- and calling on Trump to send the Illinois National Guard there to restore order.

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Leila Warner @leilabelle.bsky.social · 1d

"... in two weeks."

Leila Warner @leilabelle.bsky.social · 1d

"When white people say, ‘This isn’t who we are,’ what they really mean is: ‘This isn’t the America I thought I lived in.’
But that version of America — the one where everyone has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness — has always been fiction."

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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Leila Warner @leilabelle.bsky.social · 2d

SHOPPING plans?!! You're kidding, right? You think we're all going to suddenly get all festive and celebrate the holidays in the midst of a depression worse than the 1930s, with a second Civil War raging, as well?!!

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Leila Warner @leilabelle.bsky.social · 2d

If they were "Antifa," why did you pardon them?

Leila Warner @leilabelle.bsky.social · 2d

Mike Johnson is SO slimy.

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Leila Warner @leilabelle.bsky.social · 2d

Pritzker Plays Shocking Video At Press Briefing Decrying ICE Operations In Chicago

YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News

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Leila Warner @leilabelle.bsky.social · 2d

Kimmel on the Epstein files:

"Trump doesn’t want us to see these files, which is ALL you need to know. I mean, you walk in on your teenager and he suddenly pulls up the covers and slams his laptop shut, I think you have a pretty good idea of why. You don't need to see his browser history."

Leila Warner @leilabelle.bsky.social · 2d

Monica Crowley on Fox: “What a difference a presidency makes, Jesse, right? ... I mean, we are in an era of REAL masculinity, thanks to the bold, muscular leadership of President Trump and our Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth.”

Kimmel: “It sounded better in the original North Korean.”

Leila Warner @leilabelle.bsky.social · 2d

Reporter: Will furloughed workers get back pay?

Trump: "It depends ... we’re gonna take care of our people, but some really don’t deserve to be taken care of, and we’ll take care of them in a different way."

Kimmel: "Why does he always sound like the dumbest member of the crime family?"

Leila Warner @leilabelle.bsky.social · 2d

After 249 years of this extreme polarization (slavery, KKK, lynchings, discrimination, anti-democracy propaganda, voter suppression, neo-Nazi rise, reversing course every 4-8 years, etc.), it's time to acknowledge that we CANNOT continue as one country under one government.

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Cats for Democracy @catsfordemocracy.bsky.social · Aug 29

Do you know who predicted this?

Kamala Harris.

Tweet by Matthew Gertz:
“The sort of image which, if you predicted it would come to pass last October, people would have accused you of having Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

Image shows armed National Guard soldiers on patrol Tuesday in Washington, D.C.

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