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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸

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Irreverent antiquity and history enthusiast. Army Desert Storm vet. GENX Midwesterner with a passport full of stamps, a takeout menu collection that rivals my bookshelf, and delightfully eccentric friends.

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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · Mar 28

When America transforms neighbors into adversaries, the shame many citizens feel isn't unpatriotic it's the clearest expression of genuine patriotism. Those most trapped by their country's actions often love most deeply what it could be, while grieving what it has become.

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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 2d

Trump warns the radical left is dangerous while his Justice Department indicts three critics within weeks of his social media posts. The radical right merely objects to immigrants. The radical left gets predawn FBI raids. One radicalism involves opinions. The other, prosecutions.

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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 3d

Sixty Five judges warn the Supreme Court is destroying judicial legitimacy through unsigned orders favoring Trump. Congress says nothing. The Court dismisses a decorated 85 year old Reagan appointee for failing to read their tea leaves.

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Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 3d

Trump posts a hit list on social media. Within weeks, three critics face federal charges. Congress says nothing, having learned that complicity requires less courage than resistance. The republic died not with a bang, but with the sound of senators checking their phones.

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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 3d

The president tweets a hit list. His Attorney General obliges within weeks. Congress watches in silence, proving the Founders' mistake: they designed checks and balances for people with spines. We have only ambition wearing the mask of patriotism, and cowardice calling itself prudence.

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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 3d

Three critics indicted after Trump posts their names on social media. Congress, that vestigial organ of a dead republic, says nothing. We've dispensed with the pretense of law and simply let the emperor point at his enemies. Nero would blush at our efficiency.

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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 5d

They indict a man before discovering what crime he committed, then confess in open court they're still learning their case. Justice in America: first the gallows, then the trial, then perhaps we'll check if there was actually a law.

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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 5d

They're prosecuting Comey while still learning why. One admires the confidence, if not the competence. Justice delayed is justice denied, but justice confused is rather more entertaining.

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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 5d

This is the authoritarian playbook Baldwin warned of criminalizing dissent until justice itself is on trial. When Trump can summon grand juries for personal vendettas, law ceases to be law; it becomes vengeance with stationery. America is dancing on the edge of tyranny
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New York AG Letitia James indicted by grand jury after Trump called for charges

New York Attorney General Letitia James previously sued President Trump in a civil case that led to him and his company being held liable for business fraud.

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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 6d

Nothing says transparency like firing the corruption investigators who investigated corruption. Patel dismantled the unit that looked at senators coincidentally, he now needs those same senators. How wonderfully circular our democracy has become. share.google/sKSmijDWYRiz...

FBI shuts down corruption group, fires agents after they monitored GOP lawmakers

The firings come after Fox News reported agents had monitored communications from nearly a dozen Republican senators.

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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 7d

Dut to an error Iowa's Secretary of State says multiple cities and school districts "missed" candidate filing deadlines ballots won't list names. Voters must write in candidates they may not know about, suppressing turnout.

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34 Iowa candidates will not be on November ballot after missed deadline

Thirty-four school board and city candidates across seven Iowa counties will not be listed on the ballot in the November election due to errors made by filing officers.

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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 8d

The irony: He's celebrating America's semiquincentennial by putting himself on the commemorative coin rather than any of the founders, patriots, or historical figures who actually built the country he's dismantling.

Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 8d

Trump is minting himself on US currency, violating the 1866 law preventing living people on money to avoid appearing like a monarchy. Treasury deleted the webpage explaining this rule, claims a 2020 law allows it. America's 250th birthday coin features Trump, not Washington or Jefferson but Trump.

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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 8d

Trump just told the Navy he warned America about bin Laden before 9/11. This is a documented lie, no such warning exists. He's fabricating national security credentials to military leaders while prosecuting the FBI directors who actually fought terrorism. Stolen valor for a draft dodger.

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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 8d

Trump is addressing military leadership with fabricated claims about his national security credentials while: Actually ignoring intelligence briefings during his first term. Having fired career intelligence officials. Currently prosecuting former FBI directors who fought terrorism.

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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 8d

No evidence exists that Trump warned anyone about bin Laden before 9/11
His book "The America We Deserve" 2000 mentioned bin Laden once in passing as one of many threats, written by a ghostwriter. This is not the same as "warning" authorities
The 9/11 Commission found no record of any Trump warnings

Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 8d

Resign in protest → Replaced immediately with loyalists, accomplish nothing. Refuse orders → Court-martialed, jailed, replaced with loyalists. Speak out → Fired, lose pension after decades of service, family suffers. Follow orders → Betray oath to Constitution. What would you do?

Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 8d

The brutal reality: Once courts lose enforcement power and Congress won't act, individual citizens have very limited recourse against a government willing to use military force domestically at a certain point, resistance becomes martyrdom rather than effective action.It's time to leave the US.

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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 8d

Dear Americans, there may not be a "solution" that restores normalcy quickly. Authoritarian consolidation is happening faster than democratic resistance can organize. You're watching it in real time. History may be the only accountability available. Welcome to the United States of Trumplandia.

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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 8d

We are in a constitutional crisis. When the executive branch ignores court orders, prosecutes political opponents, threatens to use military force against judicial oversight and Congress refuses to check any of it, the system of checks and balances has failed. We the people need to legally act.

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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 8d

275+former DOJ employees demand oversight as 4,500 staffers flee and 75% of Civil Rights Division attorneys are driven out. Former officials say loyalty to Trump now trumps the Constitution. Kash Patel told fired agents: "The FBI tried to put the President in jail and he hasn't forgotten."

Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 8d

Trump's Cabinet calls protesters and judges "insurrectionists" to manufacture justification for the Insurrection Act. The 200 year old law lets the president alone decide what counts as insurrection no oversight. They're creating the language to justify military occupation of American cities.

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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 8d

When a president purges the generals who swore to defend the Constitution and a spy chief makes himself judge and jury, the republic isn’t reforming it’s rotting from the top. Democracies don’t collapse overnight. They’re dismantled piece by piece, oath by oath, in plain sight.

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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 8d

Trump threatens the Insurrection Act because a judge blocked his illegal troop deployment. When courts enforce the law, he calls it "insurrection." This is textbook authoritarianism redefining constitutional checks as rebellion while actual law-breaking becomes patriotism. The inversion is complete

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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 9d

Yes, those are commemorative coins not coins in circulation.

Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 10d

In Afroyim v. Rusk (1967), the Supreme Court ruled the 14th Amendment bars the government from revoking citizenship. Once you’re born an American, you stay one unless you choose otherwise. No president can erase that it’s the Constitution’s final word on belonging.

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