Trump appears to be openly considering ordering the construction of an imperial monument to his vanity as the gateway to this republic's most solemn national gravesite.

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

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I only share that part because it raises a good question re why some states you wouldn’t expect to get such laws passed did and some states you would did not. Like the GA legislature is NOTHING like the CA legislature on lots of dimensions. Could it be quality of advocacy? Just wondering aloud.

But…”other states, including Republican-led states, have already passed similar reforms. Bolts reported last year on Oklahoma passing a law giving incarcerated survivors a new chance at freedom, emulating a similar law in New York. Georgia’s governor signed similar legislation earlier this year.”

No money flowing to USAID and hardly any to PEPFAR despite their duly enacted funding; well north of twenty billion dollars being deployed for other weird hair autocrats. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Did a quick post earlier to reinforce that in the places where Trump says crime is out of control crime is demonstrably under control.
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“The Nobel Committee is an independent body and the Norwegian government has no involvement in determining the prizes. But I’m not sure Trump knows that.” 🫤

Adventures in framing:

Headline presenting this as a real-world question. Rather than as another sign of deepening vortex of narcissistic delusion and detachment from reality.

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“He received several death threats, including one vowing to kill him in front of his students.” 😑

Decimating the alert system for critical infrastructure so as to provide for more raids of Home Depot parking lots

The criminals must be hiding in those costumes.
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Go Portland 💪🏽🎵
Twerk Against the Machine.

Trump is defunding and reducing actual police so he can move these resources into his secret political police, which is designed to silence his domestic adversaries

Delightful!

This is the lesson of 2025

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We at The Steady State have studied the indicators of authoritarianism for decades — usually dry words in intelligence reports. But sometimes, a single photograph says it all.

Authoritarianism doesn’t arrive all at once. It creeps in under cover of “order,” cloaked in uniforms, justified by fear.