Clearly our slide into the new and improved form of autocracy can be seen in how "mainstream media" are unable to adjust to the new realities. Today's Politico headline: "Trump's Approval Holds Steady", which means he is underwater by 10-15% all summer.
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

It occurred to me that the vitriolic and hotheaded shit posting of our politicians (mostly Republican) like Mike Lee, Nancy Grace, et. al. is mostly Gen X (although the God of Shit Posting is in the White House). But maybe it's time we skipped a generation and let Millennials rule.

I hope I never, ever have to heart a Republican complain about the national deficit again.

Truth-tellers, not rioters. Protect these two men at all costs.

“You feel tough with your assault rifles and your sticks. You should be standing here with us. You’re on the wrong side of history.”

“John Lewis said make good trouble… that means make trouble on behalf of democracy.”

Financial Times columnist Edward Luce:

This feels like a sort of carnival-week funeral for the US republic. Beneath deep anger at Trump's orgy of vandalism and self-worship, I feel deep sadness. What a train wreck of a superpower.

#StateoftheUnion

2 day change -1,400

(always a tweet)

Two quotes from the week in July when Project 2025 was released. President Biden called the document "an extreme policy and personnel playbook for Trump's second term that should scare the hell out of the American people." "I know nothing about Project 2025,"

I wonder if anyone is planning on a General Strike. I keep looking for options beyond bemoaning MAGA and complaining about Dems not doing anything. Project 2025 scripted all that’s happening. Surely strategists opposed to it have concrete responses planned.

He is dismantling the gov't by design. Why? Because his Hitler program “Project 2025” (“Mein Projekt”) calls for the destruction of the social safety net, & is intended to kill people off in large numbers through economic triage to fund tax cuts, mass deportations.

open.substack.com/pub/lancefro...

A farm worker sent us this pic from where they are harvesting carrots in Santa Maria. It's hard difficult work. We're on our knees most of the time on the cold damp soil. In addition, I don't live near the field and I have to drive an hour to work. #WeFeedYou

Tech billionaires want to ‘overthrow democracy’ with social media, Spain PM Sánchez says

“The technology that was intended to free us has become the tool of our own oppression.” www.politico.eu/article/spai...

So many are leaving, or want to leave, Twitter, Threads, Facebook. BlueSky reminds me of the early days of Twitter... but doesn't have the ability to have groups of friends, to distribute information or pics to a select audience. BlueSky is open to the world... too much sometimes.