No, tax laws you don’t like, proposed or passed through the normal democratic legislative process, aren’t anything like illegal fascist extortion

Hard to pick the most morally indefensible thing the Supreme Court did this year, but the most legally indefensible thing they did was say Humphrey's Executor is overturned except for as it applies to the Federal Reserve because their sugar daddies don't want that.

DOGE/SSA marked this person dead and *removed his savings from his bank account,* cancelled his social security and Medicare. #seattle https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/

I think what’s worse is building a belief system that Posting Isn’t Important and then being forced to ignore the slow collapse of democracy from posting because acknowledging it would prove you wrong

(This is what basically all elites left of center are doing)

If the Washington Post situation doesn't make it clear enough: journalists, you have a week to start covering Trump with the urgency he demands, or you're going to be forbidden to ever do it again. You know fascist threats of violence don't belong on A12. A1, 60-point font, go down fighting.

I'm apparently undertaking a re-branding of the different "twenty rules for resisting authoritarianism" or etc that I've seen, by headlining each rule with quotes from the Lord of the Rings.

Parent thread for 20+ antifascist proverbs from Middle Earth...

"Let us first do what we must do." - Legolas 1/n