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Retired, recovering Democratic insider. I tried and obviously failed. Worried about my country.

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The Fool❌👑 @thefool37.bsky.social · Feb 12

On the Polity web site, Marshall says, "The USA is no longer considered a democracy and lies at the cusp of autocracy; it has experienced a Presidental Coup."

Coach of the Year Nat Fan Club President @donachaidh.bsky.social · Feb 12

Happy Wednesday

A screenshot of a post on LinkedIn by Monty G. Marshall, Director at Center for Systemic Peace:

"Congratulations America! The Polity Project has downgraded its score for the USA from +8 (democracy with factionalism/polarization) to 0 (freely elected executive, 8; total lack of constraints on executive action, 1; restricted factionalism, 6). President Trump began ruling by decree on "Day One"; Congress has done nothing to rein him in; there is some reaction by the courts but time has proven that Trump is an expert in delaying, ignoring, or otherwise avoiding legal accountability for years (until legal action becomes irrelevant). Ignoring the Constitution and Rule of Law is the functional equivalent to suspending the constitution. USA scores 4 on democratic authority and 4 on autocratic authority
(POLITY = 0). This change is considered an
autocoup (executive coup) and an Adverse Regime Change."

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The Fool❌👑 @thefool37.bsky.social · 3h

Donald Trump elaborating one of his delusions

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump: "You can go and eat at the restaurants. The restaurants are booming. They were closing one after another and now they're booming, they're opening. Nobody has ever seen a transformation like they have in Washington DC. It's as hot as it can get."

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 6h

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The Fool❌👑 @thefool37.bsky.social · 5h

They don't have stores?

The Fool❌👑 @thefool37.bsky.social · 10h

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Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Alumni urging UT Austin to reject the federal funding compact

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The Fool❌👑 @thefool37.bsky.social · 10h

This should be a HUGE deal. The Trump family is telling absurd lies about Daddy Trump's crimes. Eric Trump is a real nutter.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Eric Trump accuses Jack Smith of "planting classified documents at Mar-a-Lago"

The Fool❌👑 @thefool37.bsky.social · 10h

Take on the "Anti-American, anti-freedom" MAGA authoritarian tyrants.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15h

The Trump regime is having trouble prosecuting James Comey on frivolous charges, and hasn’t been able to get charges against Letitia James.

They couldn’t keep Kimmel off the air.

Their desire for authoritarianism is bottomless, but their capacity is not. Hurting people yes, but bluffing a lot too.

Kimmel and Comey Highlight the Trump Regime's Limitations

Their desire for authoritarian abuse is bottomless, their ability to carry it out is not

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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 15h

It's not a distraction.
It's subjugation.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 17h

Pritzker/Newsom see it as a defining fact of the moment that Trump is consolidating authoritarian power daily and using it to subjugate Blue America like an enemy nation within. Other Dems should stop the Beltway-speak about Trump laying "traps" for them and engage.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 16h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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The Fool❌👑 @thefool37.bsky.social · 14h

Mike Johnson is on board with tyranny 100%. He won't let tyranny or treason or the common good stop him for one second...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

The Fool❌👑 @thefool37.bsky.social · 14h

Mike Johnson is on board with tyranny 100%. He won't let tyranny or treason or the common good stop him for one second...

The Fool❌👑 @thefool37.bsky.social · 14h

You gotta like this Henry Farrell op-ed based on the first sentence alone, which simply states:

"President Trump is trying to seize power that he is not entitled to under the law or the Constitution."

Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 15h

Henry Farrell on the Trump admin’s proposed “compact” for universities, arguing that the rollout signals weakness, and that academics need to band together to reject this authoritarian attack on university independence and academic freedom.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

The Fool❌👑 @thefool37.bsky.social · 14h

"this effort to use the military against American citizens...makes a mockery of the longstanding conservative claim that theirs is a movement of small government and states’ rights...here again, we see that their commitment to small government is merely rhetorical."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | Trump II Is America’s Worst Moments Redux

www.nytimes.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

U.S. Military Carries Out Strike On Scuffy The Tugboat https://theonion.com/u-s-military-carries-out-strike-on-scuffy-the-tugboat/

U.S. Military Carries Out Strike On Scuffy The Tugboat
Pentagon Claims Little Red Vessel Working With ‘Narco-Terrorists’

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

The US has a signed, ratified trade deal with Canada. Trump is ignoring it & flagrantly violating the law. We should not keep normalizing this in the headlines and articles by simply not talking about it anymore.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Canadian dollar edges lower as investors await tangible trade deal progress reut.rs/4mPk85j

Canadian dollar edges lower as investors await tangible trade deal progress

The Canadian dollar edged lower against its U.S. counterpart on Tuesday as Canada's trade deficit widened more than expected and investors assessed a White House meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Greg Abbott sends the elite Meal Team 6 from the Texas National Guard into Illinois.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Just because polling locations are allowed to operate freely, it doesn't mean votes haven't been actively suppressed, in ways large and small, for weeks and months prior to an election.

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Your initial link to Trump was a public bribe, honey child. You have no legs to stand on at all.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."

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The Fool❌👑 @thefool37.bsky.social · 1d

Tuberville is lying and he knows it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Tommy Tuberville on the 2020 census: "The Democrats were letting illegals come in for a different count. They obviously had a census going that was all rigged. The 2020 election basically was rigged."

(Believe it or not, Donald Trump was president in 2020.)

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ncperiodista.bsky.social @ncperiodista.bsky.social · 1d

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

it's really striking how we have this entire enormous political and legal infrastructure built around the sanctity of the Constitution and then Trump comes along and is like "yeah right, I'm not doing any of that" and those Very Serious People are like "yep alright! okay!"

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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The Fool❌👑 @thefool37.bsky.social · 1d

2/ After his illiberal ways led straight to Donald Trump and the end of American freedom, Kristol all of a sudden developed 20-20 political vision. The same miracle manifested simultaneously across many Never Trumpers who all suddenly developed 20-20 political vision! God be praised!

The Fool❌👑 @thefool37.bsky.social · 1d

1/ Bill Kristol is living proof that god works miracles even in the present day. Poor Bloody Bill used to get everything wrong all the time. Worse, he pushed his nonsense on everyone else and accidentally got up to a million of the wrong people killed.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d

As you read reports of 8 GOP senators reasonably suspected of being involved in a coup plot intended to violently overthrow our democracy being investigated by the FBI, do remember that the FBI they were investigated by was run by a man appointed by Donald Trump.

Biden had f*ck-all to do with it.

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