8/ "Dystopias don’t arrive overnight. They settle in because enough people stop pushing back. Some because they’re trapped. Some because they’re scared. Some because they don’t care.

"That mix is the real warning."

7 "That’s why dystopia feels normal. It doesn’t require belief. It only requires compliance. And compliance is cheaper than thought, easier than being the person who speaks up, and easier than paying the social price for refusing to go along...

6/ "The machine feeds each group what it wants. Confusion for the uninformed. Excuses for the willfully blind. Applause for the simple-minded. The outcome stays the same. Nothing changes...

5/ "And some people are just stupid. Not curious. Not reflective. Not interested in cause and effect. Every society has them. Ours gives them microphones....

4/ "Some people know better and refuse to act. That’s willful ignorance. They avoid facts because facts threaten comfort, identity, or tribe. This group is large. Louder than they should be. And deeply invested in staying put....

3/ "Some people are genuinely ignorant. They were never given the tools. Bad schools. Bad information. No time to think past survival. That’s real....

2/ "Because the warnings have been everywhere for years. Books. Movies. History. Other countries. Our own past. The answers aren’t hidden. So why do we keep acting surprised when the same ugly stuff keeps winning?...

1/ "the warnings have been everywhere for years. Books. Movies. History. Other countries. Our own past. The answers aren’t hidden. So why do we keep acting surprised when the same ugly stuff keeps winning?...

6/ "“Following the issuance of NSPM-7 vast government resources have been unleashed to find and dismantle the violent fifth column of domestic terrorists clandestinely operating inside the United States,” he wrote on X."

5/ "Senior White House adviser Stephen Miller issued an ominous pronouncement about the administration’s crackdown on dissent in America on Monday....

4/ "“That prerogative might be wielded elsewhere — including inside the United States.”...

3/ “That is one of the concerns with the administration asserting that the President essentially has a license to kill outside the law based on his own say so,” said Brian Finucane, a former State Department lawyer who is a specialist in counterterrorism issues and the laws of war. ...

2/ "Teresa C. Meadows, the U.S. Northern Command Media and Plans chief, replied: “NORTHCOM does not designate terrorist organizations.”

1/ "When The Intercept asked if Guillot would be willing to refuse orders if, after elevating his concerns to the chair and the secretary, he was still not confident in the legality of the orders, ...

1/ "It may or may not be too late to salvage the American right and the Republican Party. But it’s never too late to speak against cruelty and lawlessness, and to speak up for justice and compassion and human dignity.

"One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world."

4/ Trump responded to America’s economic pain by recommending 50-year mortgages and reminding us that his wealthy friends were doing just fine in the stock market. When trickle-down debt failed to inspire confidence, he pivoted to scolding Americans for being insufficiently frugal....

3/ Meanwhile, Americans waited for their promised tariff refunds and DOGE checks, neither of which arrived. But veterans received a widely celebrated $1,776 check, — taxable — courtesy of a tax-exempt $2,000 originally earmarked for veteran housing and quietly rerouted....

2/ Reality became optional in 2025....Affordability was a “democratic hoax.” Climate change was a “democratic hoax.” The Epstein files were a “democratic hoax.” ...