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Surely by now Americans should be asking each other, "Who's going to stop him?" and "How can we stop him?"
I don't think 'mid-terms' is a helpful answer.
Consider what he has accomplished in 14 months. By next January he will have wreaked havoc for another nine months.

Authoritarianism is rising because our democracy was failing before Trump.

When pro-democracy forces take back power, we can’t just restore the status quo. We need to change a political system that gives oligarchs a veto over working people.

We need a new democracy.

One rarely hears expressed such a common sense understanding of what Al Qaeda intended and achieved.

Few posters here seem to understand that using nuclear bombs in ANY context is humanity's equivalent of a home owner setting off his own suicide bomb vest to defend his home and family from a burglar.

Sunset in Malibu. Large rocks jug the shoreline meeting the Pacific Ocean. Purple and pink skies usher in the evening

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.—Nelson Mandela

Pic of the day

#photography

A moment's reflection will lead any reasonable person to conclude that, for a private prison, their business model must encourage not rehabilitation but recidivism.
Returning clients are a reliable source of revenue.

Tucker’s interview with Huckabee is shocking because pushback like that is so damn rare. He exposes not just their lies about Israel, but also the fecklessness of our media.

😕

Any political party spreading lies about voter fraud as a pretext to make it harder for every one to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

Remember this.

“I am somebody” shaped how millions of us saw ourselves as kids, including me. That message mattered. It still does.

Rest in power, Jesse Jackson
🙏🏽

‘I am somebody’: the cultural magnitude of Jesse Jackson’s Sesame Street episode His 1972 appearance showed Americans what a beloved community could look like, integrated and full of promise

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislatu…

Is there a real prospect?
youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

—The Declaration of Independence

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

—FDR, 1937

Read and share all over..he nails it

Medicare for All would save $450B a year.

Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.

Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.

Exactly.

More like we have been lying to ourselves. MAGA has just been telling us what we want to hear.

Amen to this👇

👇 is most frightening

‘The time of monsters’: everyone is quoting Gramsci – but what did he actually say? Line handily sums up people’s bewilderment at state of world, but it isn’t quite what the Marxist thinker wrote

We need more discussion along the lines of Pter Thomas's comments in as quotted in the last paragraphs:
"We get outraged or shocked at the monstrosity of these Trumpian figures, rather than trying to work out what produced it.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

The system is rigged — and Trump wants to keep it that way because his own power depends on it.

What drives Trump is simple: he cares more about protecting the interests of those with power than those with none.

So when he and his regime lash out about Epstein, understand why.

"People are trying to politicize this. It's not about guns. It's not about transgenderism. It's about mental health. It's about a lack of resources. I truly believe that she did everything she could to try to help."
- Maya's Mom speaking up for the shooter's mother.
#Prayersfortumblerridge

The USA now has CONCENTRATION CAMPS

The USA is torturing, starving, and killing adults and CHILDREN in these CONCENTRATION CAMPS

Sick
Disgusting
Abhorrent

WHAT HAPPENED TO NEVER AGAIN

The rise of vice-signalling: how hatred poisoned politics Over the last 10 years, the terms of political debate have changed completely – and week by week they seem to get worse

An excellent discussion of how public discourse went off the rails...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

What links Jeffrey Epstein and Keir Starmer’s government? A thick seam of contempt | Nesrine Malik We’re often told the PM is a ‘decent’ man. But in appointing Peter Mandelson he chose political convenience over doing right by trafficked women and girls, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Nasrine Malik nails it.
Here is the geographic fault line of today's politics.
We have lost all sight of decency.
Power is our God.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A constitution, or any law, is only worth what citizens and their institutions are prepared to invest in practicing its provisions.
Otherwise, to paraphrase Samuel Goldwyn, "It isn't worth the paper it's written on."

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

Trump the Plumber and Doodles New Sack Cartoon—-Election Deflection

A new cartoon from Steve Sack!

I fear America may not make it to mid-terms.
Or if it does, the legislative branches will continue to be powerless, regardless of the partisan seat count.
I mean, say Congress and the Senate do manage to impeach him,
Who is going to walk him out the door?
Who will take his place?