Chief Pro-Democracy Schadenfreude ❌👑

Letter from FBI Director Kash Patel firing veteran FBI agent Walter Giardina, whose wife died of cancer last month at age 49. Patel accuses this agent, a Marine combat veteran, of “weaponization.” Many of his FBI colleagues told me he did his job scrupulously and ethically.

My friends on the Left need to embrace that 2nd Amendment as much as the Righties, train, practice, and maybe form some paintball clubs. Don’t be caught off guard and unprepared if things go (further) south. Don’t Be Defenseless!

The Anatomy of “Othering”: How Authoritarians Build Permission for Violence

🧵The Anatomy of “Othering”:
How Authoritarians Build Permission for Violence

All autocratic regimes need enemies.

Authoritarians invent them to seize power.

Learn how you’ve been othered by MAGA👇

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Saving Amerikkka from roving gangs of shopping cart enthusiasts?

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We may have our differences, but at the end of the day when we take off our pillow cases we all have upsettingly yellow pillows

I'm sorry, Charlotte, but this list needs to redone in Scaramuccis.

@scaramucci.bsky.social

Thou shalt not cry about being mocked when you are literally the person in charge of ICE kidnapping people off the street.

YouTube video by The Bulwark Alan Dershowitz Melts Down Over...Pierogies? (w/ Max Tani)

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Putin is COMING TO THE UNITED STATES? Even by Trump 2.0 standards, this is beyond belief. U.S. diplomacy is dead.

No, he’s not giving Putin Alaska, but he is giving Putin a huge gift: the legitimacy of touching down on US soil at the invitation of a US president. A reward for the full-scale invasion of a sovereign, democratic country that the United States and its European allies support.

LISTEN, DONALD TRUMP IS A PIECE OF SHIT, WE KNOW THAT HE IS. BUT IN A FUNCTIONING DEMOCRACY, HE STILL WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO GET AWAY WITH THIS. BUT HE'S BEEN ABLE TO GET AWAY WITH THIS BECAUSE THE HOUSE REPUBLICANS ARE COMPLICIT. HE'S BEEN ABLE TO GET AWAY WITH THIS BECAUSE SENATE REPUBLICANS ARE COMPLICIT. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, THE COURTS, ESPECIALLY THE SUPREME COURT, IS COMPLICIT." REP. JASMINE CROCKETT

#JasmineCrockett ~ You are perfectly right. Thank you for speaking the truth!

#Pinks
#ProudBlue

Gavin Newsom: “We will nullify what happens in Texas. We will pick up five seats with the consent of the people.”

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When I was an E5 in the Navy, I was walking down the hall one day, and as I approached a Navy Captain coming towards me, I said, "Good morning, Sir." He didn't even acknowledge me. I was livid.

I thought, "I pay you all due respect, and show common courtesy, and you ghost me? Oh...f*ck no."