The normalizers, the minimizers, and the rationalizers are fascism's lubricant, enabling the transition to authoritarianism while seeking to maintain a respectable distance from its leaders. They are pernicious as hell.

“The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.”

This is an awesome quote.
WE ARE ALL SUSCEPTIBLE to closing the door to any view that does not reflect our own. This is DEFINITELY a both sides issue.

States rethink a long-held practice of setting speed limits based on how fast drivers travel Road safety activists and some states are pushing to depart from a longstanding rule that sets speed limits in the United States based largely on how fast drivers actually travel.

This is good: States rethink a long-held practice of setting speed limits based on how fast drivers travel - known as the "85th percentile" rule.

apnews.com/article/spee...

(via @theoverheadwire.com

Two big takeaways from yesterday. First, by “joking” that if the U.S. were at war in 2028 there would be “no more elections,” brushing aside the constitutional mandate for regularly scheduled votes. Then later, when a hot mic caught him telling French President Macron that

NEWSFLASH: Slavery is bad and should be taught about.

I can’t believe that I have to remind people about this!

Hard to Disagree with Mr. DeNiro,
About Chump.......

Dear Smithsonian.......send your historical records to Canada before they're destroyed.

BREAKING: Vladimir Putin is pushing to meet Zelensky in Moscow and Zelensky has obviously turned this down.

Why would Zelensky meet Putin in the country that wants him killed?

This is all a big joke to Putin. He has no plans on stopping. He has no plans for peace.

Trump's "Truth" About Voting It’s one of those days with so much going on that it was clear to me early in the day I needed to do a standalone post on the topic of Trump’s most recent attack on our elections to give that topic th...

It turns out that Trump’s “truth” about voting this morning is full of lies. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The election tampering begins. Trump announced on his social media that he would push to eliminate mail-in ballots and sign an executive order to “help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections.”

Being against vaccines when diseases are rampant (measles, Covid) is like adding chlorine to the gene pool. Darwin is watching.

"ICE" does not exist in any way that resembles what it was in its former life. This warrantless....non-identification bullshit...is the extension of the most evil, lawless...heartless son of a bitch in the United States of America.

So red states are illegally sending troops into blue cities to enforce the fascist agenda of their leader and, um, we don't see that as a bit, I don't know, extraordinary? Worrisome even?Could it be that's because what remains of our media is buying into the idea it has to do with "fighting crime?"

BREAKING - Zelensky:

“Russia must end this war, which it itself started.”

European Leaders to Join Zelensky for Meeting With Trump

Is it just me, or does this have the feel of The Avengers getting assembled to go fight evil?

This is a desecration of a public shrine and I am furious.

I am a bit of a broken record on this, but are local DAs going to let this continue indefinitely? The ICE agents didn't have any kind of warrant, didn't identify themselves, and then recklessly started firing. Let them argue federal immunity.

ICE just posted this video taking down the sign in Mount Pleasant on Twitter.

COVID surges nationwide with highest rates in Southwest as students return to school COVID-19 rates in the Southwestern United States reached 12.5% — the highest in the nation. It comes as California students return to the classroom after RFK Jr. nixed the CDC's recommendation that th...

COVID-19 rates in the Southwestern United States reached 12.5% — the highest in the nation. It comes as California students, for example, return to the classroom after RFK Jr. nixed the CDC’s recommendation that they receive booster shots.
www.latimes.com/science/stor...

Putin is a war criminal.

Ukraine is a sovereign nation. Remember that tomorrow.

It's just so sad and pathetic to think that Marco Rubio of all people—who long reviled Putin and who spent his Senate career championing human rights—would be reduced to echoing Neville Chamberlain ("A quarrel in a faraway country, between people of whom we know nothing").

Exactly right. I don’t think we have ever had a meeting like this in the White House before. Because we have never had a president this horrible before.

In response, many people have started using coded language (referring to protests as “music festivals,” “community picnics,” or even “art walks”) to avoid censorship. Remember to get creative with your wording.

Across social media (TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook) you might notice a new trend: posts that include the word “protest” are often suppressed by platform algorithms.

This is kind of a weird way for the secretary of state to approach this issue

(8/16/25) Video from inside the man's car shows Customs and Border Protection officers breaking the windows before three shots were fired. Eyewitness News spoke to one of the men inside that vehicle a... TikTok video by ABC7LA

This is maybe the most outrageous ICE incident yet. Don’t ID themselves of present warrant, break windows of car, when driver attempts to drive off the fire three rounds and then LIE about entire chain of events. Luckily no one was killed. This time. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6xoFY62/

Witkoff has a piece of paper bearing Herr Putin's signature promising that the Russian Empire will make no further territorial demands and assuring the world of Peace in Our Time.

Thank you, Martha Raddatz

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To become forced labor camps