Daniel Allen

Reposting for the morning people -
My family needs assistance with our cats' medical needs. They are sweet and fussy and much loved, but also very expensive.
Anything at all would help and my deep thanks to those who have already reposted.

This can't just die down and go away.

In light of Trump’s worsening cruelty, vindictiveness, and ever more belligerent attacks on democracy, many of you ask: “What can I do now?”

Here are a baker’s dozen of recommendations. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-can-do-f3d

Quite possibly, it's a racketeer's paradise.

They're not going to kill her. Stop saying that. They're going to have her explain all the sick, twisted stuff that all those evil Democrats did and how Trump had *nothing* to do with it and he's good and pure, and then she'll get pardoned.

And then, *maybe* she disappears.

It is not an accident that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was established during LBJ's Great Society and it's not an accident that it's being dismantled now.

Most of the public goods tied to the fed government were established between the 1930s New Deal and the late 1960s Great Society.

Again.

“Both of them.”

Thank you, Sen. Schiff, for staying focused and seeking always to hold him accountable.

The IRS's free tax filing tool is now reportedly "gone," according to Trump's IRS chief.

This comes after Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, lobbied the government for years to block IRS free file.

Intuit donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration.

See how this works?

Seriously though, who hasn't cut a billionaire sex trafficking best friend out of their life after he poached one of your 16-year-old "spa attendants" from your golf-course country club of rich old white men?

The fucking nerve, amiright?

Oh, please. "Conflict of Interest" hasn't been a thing since, like . . . 2002.

Mullin blocking Gallego resolution calling for release of the Epstein files: What we’re simply trying to do is give [Trump] cover

We have done this experiment one billion times and it has worked great all one billion times.

Again, "I, Donald J. Trump, am enacting measures to ensure that the Republican Party is the only legally recognized political party in the United States. Americans who identify with any other political party will be arrested. Thank you for your attention to this matter!" is where we're heading.

democracy! 🤷🏼‍♂️ 🇺🇸

This is the weirdest goddamned episode . . .

Because you touch yourself at night.

Since when did spiders get rhythm?

Katie Marovitch *actively* driving Brennan Lee Mulligan insane, while Matt "Mark" Mercer, is scrabbling to enjoy himself and finding *nothing*. Aabria Iyengar, I'm convinced, could find glee in the remnants of an office fire.

"Reich citizenship will not be laid in the cradle of every one born in Germany, but will be ceremoniously conferred on him after he has shown himself worthy of it through special accomplishments, through loyal services to the State." NY Times, July 6, 1933.

Fascist Cosplay Barbie.

Because you *vastly* underestimated how much pure, unadulterated *stuff* Alan Moore can have crammed onto a page.

Democracies do not use their military to try and intimidate their own citizens with “shows of presence”.

This is fascism.

What the fuck do these Temu-ordered RamBros think they're gonna do with A FUCKING MACHINE GUN IN A CITY PARK?

This kind of shit is why the Founders didn't want the US government to have a standing army. Because kings use such armies to oppress their citizens.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

First, the fascist said he will deport undocumented immigrants with a criminal record but he is deporting all undocumented immigrants. Now his regime is saying they will deport naturalized citizens with a criminal record but they will deport us all - 24.5 million of us!

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics…

NEW: Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

We now have a concentration camp in Florida.

Stop pretending any of this is normal.

If you claim to be a good person and you're not outwardly opposing this regime, you're not a good person.

Be human.

FUCK