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Stephen Miller Says ‘Quiet Part Out Loud,’ Claims Trump Has Unlimited ‘Plenary Authority’ Before Going Silent in Interview | Common Dreams

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Miller, ever the poster boy for crushing dissent, hit CNN to explain why sending troops into U.S. cities is totally fine—except for those pesky federal courts that still think the Constitution means something.

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During an ominous interview, Trump's deputy chief of staff argued that Trump has "plenary authority"—essentially limitless power—to use the military in US cities. He then abruptly went silent, prompti...

Opinion | Where Trump Is Vulnerable and How to Act on It

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#Trump’s grand plan to “remake” America only works if everyone bows down, so his team’s busy bribing the obedient, crushing the defiant, and calling it patriotism.

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Inside one federal judge's fiery rebuke of Trump's 'dishonorable' attack to 'terrorize Americans'

moxy @moxymcmxlvii.bsky.social · 2d

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The world’s most powerful man nearly unleashed deadly force on Americans—after watching a five-year-old Fox clip. Who needs intelligence briefings when you’ve got cable reruns?

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Judge William Young of the Federal District Court in Boston is a Reagan appointee who has been on the bench for 47 years. Last June, he received a threatening postcard. Handwritten in all caps, it rea...

These 8 Trump-appointed judges have accused him of 'blatantly violating the law': analysis

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moxy @moxymcmxlvii.bsky.social · 2d

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Eight months in, and Trump’s own judges are already torpedoing his policies. Who knew “loyalty” had an expiration date shorter than a carton of milk?

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President Donald Trump's administration has argued that its policies are being stymied in the courts by Democratic-appointed judges, but one new analysis shows that multiple Republican judges – includ...

'I voted for none of this': Trump-friendly podcasters now walking away from him

moxy @moxymcmxlvii.bsky.social · 2d

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Trump’s deportation spree impressed even Joe Rogan—who couldn’t quite believe innocent Venezuelan hairdressers were sharing cells with gangsters. Guess “law and order” now includes bad highlights.

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Several prominent internet personalities who helped boost President Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign are now publicly distancing themselves from his administration, nine months into his secon...

The Real-Time Demise of American Democracy Under Trump | Common Dreams

moxy @moxymcmxlvii.bsky.social · 2d

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The “shining city on a hill”—now with flickering lights, crumbling walls, and a new management team specializing in authoritarian makeovers.

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Our democracy is no longer guaranteed—from Wall Street to the White House, power is slipping into the hands of a few oligarchs at the expense of working people and ordinary families.

'Unhinged Despotism': Critics Slam Trump's Willingness to Invoke Insurrection Act | Common Dreams

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Trump graciously offered to crush future protests with the military—because nothing says “law and order” like staging your own chaos to heroically put it down.

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"A Trump-led deployment of federalized guard and active-duty troops to quell a fabricated insurrection inside American cities should only be understood as war on the American people," said one observe...

RFK, Jr. Threatens a Century of Medical Progress

moxy @moxymcmxlvii.bsky.social · 4d

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At a Senate hearing, RFK praised Trump’s vaccine miracle, then said the vaccine didn’t work—so, Nobel Prize for failure? Now this self-contradicting chaos merchant is in charge of public health. Perfect. What could possibly go wrong?

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Arguably the most important medical innovation of the 20th century is under attack, in part because it’s been so effective. We live in an era when

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moxy @moxymcmxlvii.bsky.social · 4d

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Everyone gets hurt and holds grudges—it’s called being human. But most of us don’t turn bitterness into a hobby or start crafting an “enemies list” That’s less emotional growth and more Bond villain energy with a side of therapy needed

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America’s Toddler-in-Chief: When Personal Grievance Becomes National Policy | Common Dreams

If progressives hope to counter Trump effectively, we must remember: We are not simply debating policy, we are confronting a man whose every political act is an attempt to soothe his private wounds.

The Supreme Court gave Trump a 'license to kill' — and he's using it: analysis

moxy @moxymcmxlvii.bsky.social · 4d

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The Supreme Court’s GOP dream team just ruled presidents can do anything “officially”—even offing rivals—no problem! Sotomayor called out the absurdity, but hey, who needs laws when you’ve got absolute immunity and friends in high places?

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When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its controversial 6-3 immunity ruling in Trump v. the United States in 2024, some scathing dissent came from one of the Barack Obama appointees: Justice Sonia S...

Free Will, Determinism, and Other Absurd Ways to Add Fun To A Lunch

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Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Albert Camus that trinity of Left Bank café philosophers found themselves locked in passionate disagreement over Albert Camus’s provocative assertion that there is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.

Sartre, Beauvoir, and Camus on the Only Question That Actually Matters

Boardrooms to Battlefields: Men Silence Rational Women, While the World Is on Fire

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When left unsupervised, women commit the unforgivable crime of producing peace instead of body counts—a vile witchcraft against the testosterone gods, whose holy writ insists no woman dare soil the sacred boys-only turf of the Nobel Prize.

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The persistent treatment of women as second-class citizens is a tangled mess of cultural myths, patriarchal traditions, economic…

The end of the FBI—in one act

moxy @moxymcmxlvii.bsky.social · 6d

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The FBI’s new motto: “Friend of a Trump enemy? You’re fired.” Agents who dared probe Russia or Jan. 6—and even their buddies—are shown the door. Justice now comes with a MAGA loyalty test.

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What the Comey indictment portends for an agency already in turmoil.

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moxy @moxymcmxlvii.bsky.social · 6d

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With record-low approval and zero qualifications, he’s totally the guy to trust while he and his cronies strip rights, crush dissent, and build their own little fascist playset—sorry, “national security” initiative. What could go wrong?

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Weird Drivel and Loser Shit: This Looks Like Terrible | Common Dreams

Our authoritarian theater lurches on amidst the forging of a police state by an avenging "Peace President," equally deranged and malignant, who conflates lies, raves, phantasms - see wacko AI videos -...

Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread

moxy @moxymcmxlvii.bsky.social · 6d

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Assuming we still have a country after Trump’s term is over. We may have time to celebrate our return to sanity.

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moxy @moxymcmxlvii.bsky.social · 10d

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This has been male civilization’s strategy, at least if one defines civilization as where men strut about in crowns and scepters while women are expected to do laundry and, if time permits, invent nuclear physics between childbearing and supper. READ MORE it’s free...

Boardrooms to Battlefields: Men Silence Rational Women, While the World Is on Fire

The persistent treatment of women as second-class citizens is a tangled mess of cultural myths, patriarchal traditions, economic…

A Movement-Based Opposition to Trump and MAGA

moxy @moxymcmxlvii.bsky.social · 10d

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Trump’s violent tantrums against cities and foreign nations? Peak alpha male energy! Nothing screams ‘stable genius’ like attacking your own people when poll numbers tank. His MAGA mayhem isn’t strength—it’s a toddler’s meltdown with nuclear codes.

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As President Donald Trump launches illegal armed attacks against American cities, peaceful civilians, and people in foreign countries that have not

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moxy @moxymcmxlvii.bsky.social · 10d

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Trump’s foreign policy? A masterclass in incoherence! His ‘bold’ rhetoric and ‘transactional genius’ have devolved into pure theater. Those norm-disrupting tantrums that once seemed strategic? Just a toddler’s tantrum dressed up as diplomacy.

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Trumpism isn't 'going to survive': analysis

In an article for the Washington Post published Sunday, Karen Tumulty, the outlet's chief political correspondent, argued that much of what once defined President Donald Trump’s foreign‑policy posture...

The US Has a Religious Fundamentalism Problem | Common Dreams

moxy @moxymcmxlvii.bsky.social · 10d

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Another flock of bleating sheep worshipping their orange deity. We smugly studied foreign ‘extremism’ while learning about our ‘rational’ democracy. How precious—we thought fanaticism was export-only. Enter Trump, homegrown lunacy.

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We condemn extremism abroad while ignoring the holy mandates shaping law, policy, and life right here at home.

Religion: Humanity’s Oldest Fraud, Televangelists & Mega Churches

moxy @moxymcmxlvii.bsky.social · 14d

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Oh sure, for centuries, this cosmic soap opera has totally dazzled us—while we bumbled through history like tipsy toddlers hunting meaning in the dark. But hey, chin up! Everything’s “looking up”… unless you’re still face-down in sacred sand.

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Eleven Ways Faith Poisons Everything (and Calls Itself Love)

Humans, Wolves, and Walls

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Trump-era policies on deportation of Latinos offer a masterclass in existential dread, tribal paranoia, and the subtle art of scapegoating with a side of military disguises.

How Trump’s Fascist Deportation Crusade Channels Primal Fears in the Name of ‘Survival’

Religion: Humanity’s Oldest Fraud, Televangelists & Mega Churches

moxy @moxymcmxlvii.bsky.social · 16d

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As of 2024, Kenneth Copeland’s “Believer’s Voice of Victory” empire had swelled into a monstrous $300 million testament to the gullibility of his flock.

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Eleven Ways Faith Poisons Everything (and Calls Itself Love)

The Ourobourean Age: America at the Precipice of Self-Destruction

moxy @moxymcmxlvii.bsky.social · 16d

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No big deal. The Constitution is totally fine, right? Just a little “relentless assault.” Everyone’s living in their own alternate reality, leadership’s a mess, and autocracies are popping up everywhere. But hey, no worries, we’ve never been in this much danger before.

The ancient symbol of the ouroboros—a serpent devouring its own tail—has long represented the cyclical nature of life, destruction feeding creation,

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moxy @moxymcmxlvii.bsky.social · 16d

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What a surprise. In just ten days, Kirk’s death has been transformed into a martyrdom spectacle. Who cares that his org went from pro-free-market to a #MAGA echo chamber? Let’s ignore all that, and glorify the guy who “embodied” #Trump’s finest traits. Classic.

A Martyr For Truth and Faith and Memorial Plazas | Common Dreams

The canonization of Charlie Kirk continued Sunday with a packed, jarring, often vicious memorial service - part MAGA rally, part revival meeting, with fireworks. The event in an Arizona football stadi...