Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook
This is a very good (but also very disturbing) survey from @peterbakernyt.bsky.social of the Trump admin policies that are intended to deprive the public of accurate info about government. I might have also included the expulsions from the White House press pool.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...
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If Kevin Hassett's 'smile' doesn't creep you out, your radar is broken.
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“if you just ignore the raging grease fire and toxic black mold then this restaurant is michelin starred”
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Authoritarianism demands submission to authority. Authoritarians will shorten the lives, in every way possible, to those who challenge them.
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“We take vaccines so for granted in the United States” ...“Women in the developing world know the power of [vaccines]. They will walk 10 kilometers in the heat with their child and line up to get a vaccine because they have seen death.”
Melinda Gates
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No way older grey Epstein could go into a mall, or a fitness club, and entice children to go with him - only a posh sounding woman can do the enticing, fishing, and entrapment. This is Maxwell - she is NOT and never HAS been, a victim. She is just as evil and guilty, if not more so.
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If you don't draw a line at genocide, then you have no redlines.
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See the way it works is the victims identify the perpetrators not another sexual predator involved in human trafficking and sexual abuse.
Just use the victims’ statements and evidence.
Maxwell is a criminal who will lie 100% guaranteed, especially about Trump.
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Imagine getting fired because math hurt a man’s feelings. We’re being governed by a walking Yelp review.
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Rage Against The Regime in Orlando ✊
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Thank you for your example of courage – and always speaking truth to power.
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We’ve got enough problems in healthcare. The last thing we need is a group with a friendly-sounding name pretending to fight for patients, when they’re really funded by private equity and backing for-profit hospitals.
That’s Think New Mexico.
FACT: They’re about profits, not patients.
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Per Julie K. Brown, when Jeffrey Epstein formed his modeling company, his accountant testified under oath that he gave instructions to her to set up his company in the same manner as Donald Trump's modeling company.
Red lights flashing. Sirens blaring.
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Trump's thought-emotions of lust regarding Karoline Leavitt would be obvious to a 10-year-old.
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France, UK, Canada, Portugal, Australia, Andorra, Australia, Finland, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Portugal, San Marino, Malta, and Slovenia will recognize or formally back Palestine as a state at the UN this September. #3E #FreePalestine
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He cheated in all three presidential elections – 2016, 2020, and 2024. The margin was too large for him in 2020.
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Trump (2016): "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?"
Trump (2019): I could fake-hang someone in prison and everyone would believe it was suicide.
Trump (2025): Redux.
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The public needs to know *everything* Ghislaine Maxwell knows – but Trump wants her silence. She should absolutely not be held in minimal-security. There's only 2 ways he can ensure she doesn't talk. One is to dangle a pardon (for which this could be a preamble). And Epstein knows the other method.
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Maxwell is just as culpable as Epstein.
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My first cartoon back as a freelance cartoonist with two-a-week for The Salt Lake Tribune
The issue: homeless non-services, courtesy of our Republican overlords
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Ex-CIA Whistleblower: "The NSA Audited The 2024 Election, Kamala Harris Won"
Math doesn’t lie—people do. A buried NSA‑authorized audit paved the way for this unelected illegitimate regime.
This should be a Five Alarm Fire on every G'ddamned media outlet in the world.
I very rarely post a link to someone else's newsletter...as I have my own. This, however...is a MUST see.
open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
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How many minutes will be missing in Ghislaine Maxwell's minimum security prison video?
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The head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics during Trump’s first admin.
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When you get an F, you can't fire your teacher. Trump thinks he can rewrite reality because he knows nothing about economics.
I stand 💯 with Erika McEntarfer.
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BREAKING: Trump (is deliberately crashing the economy – and after yet another weak jobs report, he) fires the Commissioner of Labor Statistics – accusing her of falsifying jobs numbers.
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Trump doesn't want you to know what's in the Epstein files – so he's repositioning nuclear subs around Russia.
Do you think he's guilty yet?
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YouTube video by MSNBC
Conway warns ICE agents: you have NO immunity
Trump's minions do NOT have immunity. "I was just following orders" will come back to haunt you.
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Someone waived Ghislaine Maxwell's sex-offender status. Imagine that. I wonder who?
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