Tim Stevens

Opinion | Fight Like Our Democracy Depends on It The patriotic response to today’s threat to American democracy is to oppose Trump soberly and strategically.

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In 100 Days, Trump Has Invented Something New: Clown-Show Fascism The Trump administration is a serious threat to democracy. They’re also laughably incompetent. But the result is no laughing matter.

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American Concentration Camps | Chris Hedges Once a regime starts to send people to concentration camps including those in El Salvador it creates a system of detention that eschews due process and disappears citizens into black holes.

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Well then, I suppose it is incumbent on those of us wondering why it blew your mind to find out why.

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The House just passed its budget resolution, so reconciliation is now officially underway. This is their bill to destroy Medicaid and SNAP while cutting taxes disproportionately for the rich.

THIS IS VERY REAL and can be enacted even if all Ds vote no.

Thread on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT.

Krugman: “His numbers have nothing to do with reality… bad day for the 🇺🇸 economy…”

This was….five months ago

Again.

Grocery prices are soaring.

Housing costs are skyrocketing.

Retirement savings are plummeting.

But Donald Trump thought today would be a good day to play car salesman.

Trump is shredding the First Amendment under the guise of “national security” Trump’s retribution campaign is now targeting prominent Democratic lawyers — with broad implications for every American.

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They have probably already thought about that, not that I intend to mention that. Shuttering colleges and universities would not be a bug, but a feature. They are not trying to reform the economy, they are trying to burn it to the ground so that they can rule over the ashes.

More reasons for modest optimism This week’s 10

More reasons for modest optimism
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News anchors and legal analysts, PLEASE. I beg you. America begs you: stop calling these SCOTUS justices "CONSERVATIVE." They no longer meet that definition. They are radical right wing activist justices.

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, but only if they pay me 5 million dollars for my instant-citizenship Gold Card.💰” -Comrade Krasnov
#GrifterInChief

We Crushed Fascists Before — It’s Time to Do It Again The last time American fascists tried this, FDR and Wallace took them down. Will we?

We Crushed Fascists Before — It’s Time to Do It Again
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Democrats! Wake the hell up! Boycott Trump’s address to Congress tonight. If you must go, make good trouble.

Democrats! Wake the hell up!
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Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

Having two dogs ourselves, I can completely understand that sentiment. 😊

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy What might happen if Putin and Trump fall out, as is likely?

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Leaders of the free world stand united in London

The United States is not among them

Could not agree more. The Prez & VP are shameful, embarrassing Putin puppets & a disgrace to our country. 🤮

#SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦

Five Failures in the Oval Office (video) America hurt itself badly today.

Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)
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There was only one person acting presidential in the Oval Office today: Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

He stood up to bullies in a Kremlin-style shakedown.

What will it take to awaken the conscience of the country after such a shameful display?

More class in his pinky than Trump has shown his entire life.

The American Dream of Being an Expat I confess that I'm a little lost presently.

Maybe this was never the place I thought it was. That image is likely just the selective memory or the idealized version of it as filtered through a younger, more naive, less aware, more optimistic version of myself. Still, the sense of loss is the same.

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Perfect