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So long as we can still make math jokes, we might be okay.

“Because $50,000 in US paper money was not a ‘thing of value’ at English common law prior to the existence of the US government, we hold . . . .”

-SCOTUS, five years from now

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.

Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.

Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.

But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.

It is absolutely insane to me that we're having a debate over whether or not the rightwing deploys violent rhetoric within days of a Fox News personality calling for homeless people to be killed by lethal injection. There is no excuse for this obliviousness. It's unacceptable.

WASHINGTON (AP) - US inflation rose last month as gas, food costs jumped.

@apnews.com

I see people fearful to talk on social media. Posts are tightening up and people are being "careful." I refuse to do that. That...is obeying in advance. I would literally rather be dead...than submit.

Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook

Countering Trump's falsehoods can feel futile to those who are exhausted by the lies. But, if truth still matters, it MUST be amplified, published, and protected.

Democracy can't endure in the absence of truth. "Anti-democratic, authoritarian leaders know this."

🎁

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

The rule of law is all or nothing and must apply equally to everyone. If there's no rule of law for some people in America, then there's no rule of law for any of us.

I am not often quoted in @nytimes.com DealBook, but I hope the business community is listening.

His days are numbered, Trump just publicly gave him his full support. Usually, that happens days before someone "resigns".

This is a great plan, but it is also not from Liz Cheney.

Reminds of the movie A Christmas Story when a 10 year old is describing the clock in the stock of the Red Rider BB gun. This "thing which tells time." Soon they'll put out PRs about how they're doing "stuff" with public education.

Time to revisit The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. That's where this and other Trump policies will lead.

‘Fawning’ is a response where a person gives a servile display of exaggerated flattery in order to gain favor or advantage.

AKA: ass-kisser, bootlicker, toady, suck-up brown-noser, etc.

It's more than that. ill advised as the actions proposed and conclusions in that paper are, it's actually worse bc he wants our economic and influential destruction to enable the destruction of our democracy and way of life. Increasing his power and wealth in the process.

All that, AND it further weakens America's global influence and our ability to get other nations to enact sanctions against our enemies. Look to Russian and Chinese market performance in the face of these tariffs. They know.

His network has used brainwashing techniques (repetition/emotional manipulation) to cement lies as truth & make the rejection of proveable facts seem reasonable. He (through his on-air personalities) told them "we're fair and balanced, we're the only news you can trust" and his audience believes it.

The demand is certainly there (people like brain crack) but Rupert has and has always had an agenda to "persuade" people to vote against their own interests and for his interests.

Brainwashing is a thing. Cults are a thing. Mental illness is a thing. Pretending they are not real doesn't make anything better and certainly doesn't equip one with the tools to address the issue.

BUT she is correct that Murdoch is a villain here. He has brainwashed-intentionally brainwashed- millions to use them for his own agenda.

This cycle must be decisive and the next 10 cycles after that. Give it no oxygen.

It always amazes me that people value their bank accounts more than the literal lives of others. These immigration lawyers know their own personal freedom is on the line, but some big law attys won't even risk being a little less rich?

EXACTLY!!!!!

Also, remember that each firm that gives up stands alone, but each firm that fights represents 2 firms (the attacked firm and the firm it has hired to represent them in the fight).

Yes! 💯 Clients will peel off from firms that roll over easily in the face of these EOs. Who wants to pay attorneys that have shown they will quickly capitulate to an opposing party? If they'll sell themselves out, they'll sell you out!

Way to go Jenner & Block!

So, our allies hate us and are telling their citizens not to visit America because they don't want them, you know, deported or sent to detention centers. This in turn will hurt our economy and threaten US tourists and sites abroad.

Are you great again?

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Don’t forget that it was Thom Tillis who cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Seems to have lost his voice today (they always do)