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Critical piece: destroying civilian govt. and now replacing it with a police state. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Welcome to the nihilocracy
Trump is blowing up essential functions in ways that might take decades or longer to restore. It is nihilistic and deserves a new name.
open.substack.com
June 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Critical piece: destroying civilian govt. and now replacing it with a police state. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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This is a pretty important point!
The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.
June 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This is a pretty important point!
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BREAKING: we won vs. DOGE--again
This time it is for mishandling of personal data at the on MILLIONS of current & former federal employees
Preliminary injunction entered! Kudos to my @democracydefendersaction.org colleagues and the wonderful team listed below 👇
This time it is for mishandling of personal data at the on MILLIONS of current & former federal employees
Preliminary injunction entered! Kudos to my @democracydefendersaction.org colleagues and the wonderful team listed below 👇
June 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
BREAKING: we won vs. DOGE--again
This time it is for mishandling of personal data at the on MILLIONS of current & former federal employees
Preliminary injunction entered! Kudos to my @democracydefendersaction.org colleagues and the wonderful team listed below 👇
This time it is for mishandling of personal data at the on MILLIONS of current & former federal employees
Preliminary injunction entered! Kudos to my @democracydefendersaction.org colleagues and the wonderful team listed below 👇
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Fantastic
Jeffries: "We will not be lectured by Donald Trump and anyone in the Republican Party about issues of law and order ... he pardoned hundreds of violent felons, criminals, who brutally assaulted police officers and attacked the Capitol on January 6. That's what Donald Trump did on day one."
June 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Fantastic
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This language--"L.A. Immigration Protests and the Federal Response"--suggests that it was "immigration protests" that set off a "federal response." But this gets it backward: at every turn, the Trump administration has been the aggressor and the instigator. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
L.A. Protests Timeline: How Immigration Raids and Federal Response Unfolded
President Trump called in the National Guard on Saturday after isolated clashes between federal law enforcement and people protesting immigration raids.
www.nytimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This language--"L.A. Immigration Protests and the Federal Response"--suggests that it was "immigration protests" that set off a "federal response." But this gets it backward: at every turn, the Trump administration has been the aggressor and the instigator. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Don’t forget Trump plotted this before the election: “the bigger problem is the enemy from within…We have some sick people, radical left lunatics… it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/trump-want...
www.americaamerica.news/p/trump-want...
Trump Wanted This Escalation
Trump's calling for 2,000 National Guard soldiers to spread fear and crack down on dissent. This is a time for non-violent defiance.
www.americaamerica.news
June 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Don’t forget Trump plotted this before the election: “the bigger problem is the enemy from within…We have some sick people, radical left lunatics… it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/trump-want...
www.americaamerica.news/p/trump-want...
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"When conservatives destroy these public goods, it doesn’t necessarily lead to a Democratic backlash at the ballot box, and they see this as a long-term investment in a more ignorant population reliant on sources of information they can control — a docile population that can be easily manipulated."
Adam Serwer on America's "new dark age"
"They see this as a long-term investment in a more ignorant population reliant on sources of information they can control."
www.publicnotice.co
June 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"When conservatives destroy these public goods, it doesn’t necessarily lead to a Democratic backlash at the ballot box, and they see this as a long-term investment in a more ignorant population reliant on sources of information they can control — a docile population that can be easily manipulated."
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When it's too late, all the establishment and corporate bootlickers will realize no matter how much you try to placate MAGA, it's never enough. It's a fascist movement that doesn't care about rules or reciprocity. It's about gaining power by any means necessary. It's all projection all the time.
June 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
When it's too late, all the establishment and corporate bootlickers will realize no matter how much you try to placate MAGA, it's never enough. It's a fascist movement that doesn't care about rules or reciprocity. It's about gaining power by any means necessary. It's all projection all the time.
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Weird how he didn’t call up the National Guard on January 6th.
June 8, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Weird how he didn’t call up the National Guard on January 6th.
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A spectacular indictment of Medicaid work requirements by 2 lawyers who saw the impact up close and won a lawsuit to kill them in Arkansas. Every single member of Congress should read it. And everyone else should read it and call their member of Congress. Gift link 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...
Opinion | We Saw Medicaid Work Requirements Up Close. You Don’t Want This Chaos.
www.nytimes.com
June 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A spectacular indictment of Medicaid work requirements by 2 lawyers who saw the impact up close and won a lawsuit to kill them in Arkansas. Every single member of Congress should read it. And everyone else should read it and call their member of Congress. Gift link 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...
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Keep the pressure on the very few republicans who know none of this is okay
Bernie Sanders: "We have a president who is moving this country rapidly toward authoritarianism...to a large degree the future of this country rests with a small number of Republicans in the House & Senate who know better, who do know what the Constitution is about, and it's high time they stood up"
June 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Keep the pressure on the very few republicans who know none of this is okay
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‘The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth’ - 1984 by George Orwell
June 8, 2025 at 6:47 PM
‘The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth’ - 1984 by George Orwell
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"During a Senate hearing, Kennedy told Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester that Matthew Buzzelli is the CDC's acting director.
Kennedy called Buzzelli a public health expert.
Buzzelli's biography on the CDC website lists no public health experience..."
www.axios.com/2025/06/05/c...
Kennedy called Buzzelli a public health expert.
Buzzelli's biography on the CDC website lists no public health experience..."
www.axios.com/2025/06/05/c...
Questions swirl over who's running the CDC
Almost six months into Trump's administration, the agency has no public health official or designated point person at the helm.
www.axios.com
June 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
"During a Senate hearing, Kennedy told Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester that Matthew Buzzelli is the CDC's acting director.
Kennedy called Buzzelli a public health expert.
Buzzelli's biography on the CDC website lists no public health experience..."
www.axios.com/2025/06/05/c...
Kennedy called Buzzelli a public health expert.
Buzzelli's biography on the CDC website lists no public health experience..."
www.axios.com/2025/06/05/c...
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Pity the nation that raises not its voice
Except to praise conquerors
And acclaim the bully as hero
And aims to rule the world
By force and by torture
Pity the nation that knows
No other language but its own
And no other culture but its own
Except to praise conquerors
And acclaim the bully as hero
And aims to rule the world
By force and by torture
Pity the nation that knows
No other language but its own
And no other culture but its own
June 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Pity the nation that raises not its voice
Except to praise conquerors
And acclaim the bully as hero
And aims to rule the world
By force and by torture
Pity the nation that knows
No other language but its own
And no other culture but its own
Except to praise conquerors
And acclaim the bully as hero
And aims to rule the world
By force and by torture
Pity the nation that knows
No other language but its own
And no other culture but its own
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Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year.
The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year.
Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.
The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year.
Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.
June 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year.
The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year.
Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.
The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year.
Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.
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America has to one of the only countries in the world that will try to turn a story about crippling medical debt into a feel-good story.
June 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
America has to one of the only countries in the world that will try to turn a story about crippling medical debt into a feel-good story.
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Pete Hesgeth — who wants to rename the Navy ship that honors Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran who landed on Omaha Beach — is using that same beach for a photo op in which he promises we will “never forget” the veterans there.
What an unbelievable asshole.
What an unbelievable asshole.
June 7, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Pete Hesgeth — who wants to rename the Navy ship that honors Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran who landed on Omaha Beach — is using that same beach for a photo op in which he promises we will “never forget” the veterans there.
What an unbelievable asshole.
What an unbelievable asshole.
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Contrary to claims made by its proponents, the mass deportations' components of the Big Beautiful Bill will not improve its CBO score. Indeed, it will make it much worse. Accounting for lost net revenue from immigrants adds nearly $1 trillion in additional cost.
June 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Contrary to claims made by its proponents, the mass deportations' components of the Big Beautiful Bill will not improve its CBO score. Indeed, it will make it much worse. Accounting for lost net revenue from immigrants adds nearly $1 trillion in additional cost.
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Some of the largest Trump cuts compared to FY 2025 include a 55% reduction at EPA & 56% decrease for the National Science Foundation. It’s sacrificing the planet for political gain.
Climate change doesn’t just harm the earth, it harms our health.
www.citizen-times.com/story/opinio...
Climate change doesn’t just harm the earth, it harms our health.
www.citizen-times.com/story/opinio...
Opinion: Trump’s agenda proves to reverse course for planet, not taking climate crisis seriously
The climate crisis is real. Additional warming has effects on health and possibly irreversible changes to the Earth. Data doesn’t support Trump’s hoax claims.
www.citizen-times.com
June 6, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Some of the largest Trump cuts compared to FY 2025 include a 55% reduction at EPA & 56% decrease for the National Science Foundation. It’s sacrificing the planet for political gain.
Climate change doesn’t just harm the earth, it harms our health.
www.citizen-times.com/story/opinio...
Climate change doesn’t just harm the earth, it harms our health.
www.citizen-times.com/story/opinio...
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They said they wanted cheaper eggs, but now they’re losing their weather service, disaster relief, food assistance and health insurance in exchange for a birthday parade, a bro-fight and a ballroom.
June 7, 2025 at 1:55 AM
They said they wanted cheaper eggs, but now they’re losing their weather service, disaster relief, food assistance and health insurance in exchange for a birthday parade, a bro-fight and a ballroom.
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81 years ago, today, Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, a brave blow against fascism. I wrote about visiting not the US or UK cemetery in Normandy, but the German one--seeing the senseless costs of war created by authoritarian despots who destroy countless lives for their own vanity.
A Tale of Two D-Day Cemeteries
Reflections, for the 80th anniversary of D-Day, on my recent trip to the American — and German — military cemeteries in Normandy.
www.forkingpaths.co
June 6, 2025 at 10:28 AM
81 years ago, today, Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, a brave blow against fascism. I wrote about visiting not the US or UK cemetery in Normandy, but the German one--seeing the senseless costs of war created by authoritarian despots who destroy countless lives for their own vanity.