‘Active Clubs’ Are White Supremacy’s New, Dangerous Frontier This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and...

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Those are my exact feelings about the current 47 regime:

It's dirty.

You have criminals.

It's an insane asylum.

It's a work ground for the criminal element of the GOP to prey upon the good people.

A Black man circled in pink on a flyer among other people with microphones for DontMessWithOurKids Mayday USA rally/march in Seattle May 24, 2025 at Cal Anderson Park.

Here's Portland Police Chaplain Clyde Lewis on a flyer for the far-right Christian Nationalist and anti-LGBTQ+ rights group "Don't Mess With Our Kids." Their goal is to criminalize LGBTQ+ people, do conversion therapy on them, ban same-sex marriage, ban abortion, and install the theocracy.

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

The Smithsonian PURGE: Trump Team Removes Artifacts of Black Resistance Critics warn: it’s not just history being erased—it’s identity.

The Smithsonian PURGE: Trump Team Removes Artifacts of Black Resistance https://blackpressusa.com/the-smithsonian-purge-trump-team-removes-artifacts-of-black-resistance/

The Supreme Court threatens to bring “Don’t Say Gay” to every classroom in America An influential Christian right law firm asks the justices to impose an impossible burden on teachers.

The Supreme Court threatens to bring “Don’t Say Gay” to every classroom in America www.vox.com/scotus/40835...

🔴 BREAKING: Hungary constitutionalizes blatant discrimination against LGBTI+ persons. Among other things:
• Declares “a person is either a man or a woman"
• Legitimizes the Pride ban (and ban on LGBTI+ events)
• Strips citizenship from critics
The EU must act. #LGBTIQ #Hungary #HumanRights #EU

This is going to end well, I can already tell.

Lobbyist And Government Contractor Bought JD Vance’s Home For $170,000 Over Asking Price The buyer, a Trump appointee during his first term, denies any political motive—calling the $1.9 million deal purely market-driven.

New: "Lobbyist And Government Contractor Bought JD Vance’s Home For $170,000 Over Asking Price"

me, for @forbes.com

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Just got fired from being a freshman football coach, if you want to know what MAGA does to communities.

They don’t care about what helps people, because the school is certainly not going to find an ex-NFL player willing to coach there at that level, they only care about trying to hurt people.

JUST IN: The Pentagon has issued its formal guidance for currently serving transgender members of the military.

It says they will be separated from service unless they obtain a waiver meeting these criteria:
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Opinion | A Judge Warns Against Growing Threats to Judges It is not a partisan issue. Harassment comes from all quarters of the political spectrum.

“The existence of an independent judiciary is the difference between a free people and a tyranny. The judicial branch of our Republic must possess, and be perceived as possessing, a fearless, bedrock integrity.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...

Today is a really good day to do something. Read the Constitution. Have a talk with a stranger about DOGE. Volunteer at a food bank. Be kind to people. Whatever you do, don’t just throw your hands up in the air & assume Trump gets away with it all. We are still a rule of law country. Insist on it.

The Era of Purges The firing of trans officials is part of a broader pattern of exclusion

New, from me: Tulsi Gabbard purged trans intelligence officers after a Chris Rufo smear campaign.
They were targeted because they were trans, their words were mischaracterized, and they were offered no due process.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-era-of...

📌You know Gene Hackman was one of the finest actors who ever lived. There wasn't a part he couldn't play convincingly ...
But did you also know he was a lifelong Democrat who "was proud" to be on Nixon's enemies list?
RIP, my good man, I will be teeing up your movies the next few nights ...

Trump team weighs pulling funding for Moderna's bird flu shot despite outbreak The funding from BARDA aimed to create another line of defense should the bird flu become easily transmissible between people.

Trump team weighs pulling funding for Moderna's bird flu shot despite outbreak

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Services collapsing globally as USAID cuts health contracts to worldwide partners U.S.-funded health projects around the world, including those providing lifesaving care, received termination notices from Washington on Thursday as President Donald Trump's administration neared completion of a review to ensure grants are aligned with its "America First" policy.

Services collapsing globally as USAID cuts health contracts to worldwide partners

#news #worldnews

BREAKING: Acting Social Security administrator Dudek has just abolished SSA’s CREO department and put all employees on leave. That’s SSA’s statutory civil rights and equal opportunity division.

Developing story.

EXCLUSIVE: Judicial Branch Swept Up In Trump-Musk Lease Termination Spree Elements of the judicial branch, including public defender offices, have been caught...

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CONNOLLY: The gentlelady has used a phrase that is considered a slur in the LGBTQ community

NANCY MACE: Tranny tranny tranny, I don't really care, you want penises in women's bathrooms

Rep. Nancy Mace: "Tranny, tranny, tranny. I don't really care. You want penises in women's bathrooms and I'm not going to have it. No thank you. It's disgusting."

She needs help.

Page One in Boston:

@bostonglobe.com

The North Carolina Supreme Court Is Coming Dangerously Close to Stealing an Election In this moment of crisis, the courts have become the final guardrail against the forces of authoritarianism that seek to undermine the will of the voters.

Incredibly alarming piece about three Republican justices on the North Carolina Supreme Court who seem committed to nullifying tens of thousands of lawful votes so they can steal a seat for a fellow Republican. Of course they're also gaslighting us about what they're doing. slate.com/news-and-pol...

The last real existential threat to the republic, from about 160 years ago, also came from inside the house and you can draw a direct line from one to the other

In reversal, key House panel votes to release Matt Gaetz ethics report | CNN Politics The House Ethics Committee secretly voted earlier this month to release its report into the conduct of former Rep. Matt Gaetz before the end of this Congress, according to multiple sources with knowle...

Breaking - In reversal, key House panel votes to release Matt Gaetz ethics report

www.cnn.com/2024/12/18/p...

Today is the 1000th day of a war that was begun by a Russian leader who believed it would be over in three days. One of the greatest military miscalculations in recent history.

people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙

Sen Mullin on Gaetz: “When he was accused of sleeping with an underage girl, there’s a reason why no one in the conference defended him. We all saw videos he was showing us on the House floor of girls he slept with & brag how he would crush ED medicine so he could go all night.”

World is on track to massively miss Paris agreement goal of 2015

New data show that the world is increasingly unlikely to meet the goal of limiting warming to 1.5C as energy demand increases faster than renewable energy production, and as next Trump admin threatens to cut US climate measures www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/c...

Book paragraph that reads, “It’s also important to remember that social media platforms are corporate products governed by algorithms and human beings who have repeatedly stifled leftist voices, obscured state violence, and facilitated right-wing radicalization. As important as these platforms are, overdependence on them weakens our movements. We need to practice a diverse spectrum of outreach methods in digital spaces and in physical spaces, and we need to do skill-building work in our movements around those methods. Sometimes, we need to be literal about meeting people where they are at. Think about all of the places people congregate in person and remotely where conversation is possible, from restaurants to schools, parks, porches, places of worship, street fairs, text message threads—and so many more.”

Rereading “Let This Radicalize You” by @prisonculture.bsky.social and I’m hanging on to this paragraph right here…