@dorijean.bsky.social
It’s still a thing.
03.10.2025 23:40 — 👍 110 🔁 20 💬 5 📌 0Beautiful
11.10.2025 15:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Making people fear that:
- They’re gonna lose their healthcare
- Their families & friends are gonna be deported
- They’re gonna lose their Social Security
- Their kids are gonna lose their education
IS
RADICAL
DOMESTIC
TERRORISM
Pass it on…
An unelected emperor—who has now placed himself above the Congress and the courts—working with a cadre of coders with no knowledge of governance, has been installed by what seems to be a figurehead president to deconstruct the component pieces of government that he disfavors. As Garrett Graff ably illustrated over the weekend, if this were happening in any country other than the United States of America, it would be acknowledged as a coup. Just because the president is authorizing it doesn’t make it lawful. And just because Congress has done nothing to stop him doesn’t make it legal. The fact that it doesn’t quite look like a coup, because there are suits and ties and papers involved, is by design. This is the dismantling not just of entire federal agencies, but of an entire architecture of democratic self-governance, by a man who believes we will not be able to name it quickly enough to stop it.
What is it called when an erratic billionaire, whom nobody elected, rampages through the federal government, purging civil servants, seizing functional control over trillions of dollars, and attempting to destroy entire agencies—all in violation of the law?
This is a coup. slate.com/news-and-pol...
It’s only Wednesday night but the events of the week thus far have convinced me beyond any reasonable doubt that more Americans need to eat kimchi
05.12.2024 03:54 — 👍 14933 🔁 1025 💬 623 📌 69.
SOMETHING TO KEEP YOU OFF THE LEDGE:
"If you ever get the blues about the status of American culture, there are still more public libraries than there are McDonald's. During the worst of the Depression, not one public library closed its doors."
~David McCullough
