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The late great Herman Kahn described the liberal states' role in winning WW2 like this, paraphrased: Liberal democracy is slow to rouse, but once roused will use extravagant force to expunge a hated enemy.

Homeland Security will gas your kids in broad daylight in the middle of a peaceful march. Shred this useless fascist agency and immiserate its armed goons for life. This is the moderate position. Hell, I was a registered Republican at one point. I'm no crazy left winger. This is common sense.

Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio? Nazi Lies in Vance's America

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
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The literal cabal of pedophiles who run the world have also orchestrated the trans panic of the modern world. These are incontrovertible facts now. It all ties together. The world is burning because men want to abuse children.

Inflation was 3% when Trump took office in January 2025.

When democracies go authoritarian, elections are usually one of the last bits to fall. It usually starts with the judiciary, free media, police and prosecutors, crackdowns on the opposition on bullshit corruption charges. Chavez, Erdogan etc all faced electoral setbacks on their way to dictatorship.

The president of the United States had his DOJ raid the Fulton County election office and seized ballots. This is clearly a dry run for 2026. Yet, this is treated by too many in legacy media as normal.

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Overview of how political violence perpetrators minimize backfire

Does this sound familiar to you?

There is one line in the beginning that leapt out to me: "For the massive [American] slave system to work, the slaves needed to be kept ignorant, in a state of anxiety, and fearful of the cost of rebellion or escape." (p. 11)

True then, true now.

*(Please buy this from a Black-owned bookstore)

I'm reading THE ROAD TO DAWN: Josiah Henson and the Story that Sparked the Civil War by Jared A. Brock, recommended by a friend in a book group who thinks I can read a book a day! :)

May my witness ever be of a god who keeps the good people safe as long as they obey the rules, a god who rains down terror and judgment and pain against those who do not comply with the whims of an unbounded government action to keep people in line.

Amen

Guard my tongue from speaking out, standing out, or shouting out lest I draw attention to myself and become part of the mass who are daily beaten and tortured, sexually assaulted, kidnapped and disappeared into foreign prisons.

A moderate's prayer:

Help me shut my eyes, dear Jesus, to the plight of the oppressed.

Keep my eyes focused on what protects me from seeing, from knowing, from caring, that I might not be troubled by the cares of others and I might not feel the pain inflicted upon the least of these.

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May my witness ever be of a god who keeps the good people safe as long as they obey the rules, a god who rains down terror and judgment and pain against those who do not comply with the whims of an unbounded government action to keep people in line.

Amen

Guard my tongue from speaking out, standing out, or shouting out lest I draw attention to myself and become part of the mass who are daily beaten and tortured, sexually assaulted, kidnapped and disappeared into foreign prisons.

A moderate's prayer:

Help me shut my eyes, dear Jesus, to the plight of the oppressed.

Keep my eyes focused on what protects me from seeing, from knowing, from caring, that I might not be troubled by the cares of others and I might not feel the pain inflicted upon the least of these.

ABSOLUTELY.

If your pastor is an ICE agent, it's time to find a new church.

Has anyone heard anything from Republican senators about the crazy letter to Norway's prime minister?

Gee if only the USA had like an amendment to get rid of obviously demented presidents

I mean it could have been invoked at least a dozen times already

MLK Jr. said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

Remember this.

Videos add new detail to 2nd Minneapolis ICE shooting in a week • Minnesota Reformer Two videos add new details to what happened before and after an immigration agent shot a man in the leg in the Hawthorne neighborhood in north Minneapolis Wednesday night. One video, a livestream of a...

He opened the door to let his friend inside, and as he went to close the door, an ICE officer shot him in the leg.

The DHS said he “began to resist and violently assault the officer.”

They are trying to gaslight us. They will not succeed.

Since his socialist ideology was written out of the history books.. In his own words:

"If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God’s children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell."

Happy MLK Day.

Sad that we're rooting for successful new alliances for China over what used to be our own country. But I don't even recognize "our" homeland anymore.
Hats off to Canada. They'll have all the benefits of trade with China w/o all Trump's BS.
BTW - Canada negotiated a great alliance w/Greenland too.

BREAKING: Former John McCain Advisor Mark Salter:

“He’s a madman, deranged by his insecurities and grievances and without a single good quality and he’s doing possibly irreparable harm to our security.”

Trump wants everyone to believe he needs to take Greenland to protect the US from the guy he made American soldiers roll out the red carpet for in Alaska.

Minnesota US Attorney’s Office is bracing for a new wave of resignations Prosecutors are alarmed by the administration's response to Renée Good's killing.

SCOOP: More resignations of federal prosecutors are expected at the US Attorney’s Office in Minnesota amid ongoing frustration over the Trump administration’s response to the fatal shooting of Renée Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis.