And it reinforces the fact that their past claims of “states rights” was always just about skirting the federal laws they don’t like, usually the ones granting equality of rights. They have no problem with an overly powerful federal government enforcing the Christofascist rules they like.

"[A] democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." - FDR (1938)

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By @shaw.al , @abrahm.bsky.social & Jeremy W. Goldsmith

This is a dangerous man, with a head harder than a rock. Children have died elsewhere because of his intransigence, and that's what he wants to bring here. No paywall for you today.

This is the logical endpoint of 40+ years of telling Americans
that "government should be run like a business."

If that's true, then the government is subject to purchase by the highest bidder--indeed, it's subject to a hostile takeover. Which is what Musk has just executed.

Curious how all the hot takes about the GOP being the anti-elite party are holding up now that the world’s richest man—who is also unelected—has intimidated congress into shutting down the government.

Seems inconsistent to me.

Rep. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social on Trump’s richest cabinet ever cutting programs for regular people (while cutting trillions more in taxes for the rich) #DOGE #DepartmentOfGreedAndExcess

We have a peculiar historical event shaping up where the oligarch billionaire class is about to fleece this country while most of their supporters are working people who are convinced that they are on their side because they hate migrants & trans people.

i’ll say that RFK is the guy that genuinely frightens me because i think he would happily let as many people suffer and die as it took for him to feel vindicated about his beliefs. a totally amoral person who doesn’t seem to believe that other minds exist.

“There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.” -- Hemingway wrote that.