Chris Paine

YouTube video by Robert Reich Five Ways to Fight Trump's Fascism

People are constantly asking me — what can I do? Between now and the 2026 midterm elections, here are five practical steps you can take to make a difference. youtu.be/8W-lVRQQGtI?...

Thank you to everyone at the #NO_KINGS rallies for making your voices heard & being part of history.
The massive crowds were joyful, passionate & spectacular!

So were the signs...

It's not just about shutting down the release of the Epstein files. It's also their opportunity to fire thousands of civil servants and gut the federal government.

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

They are disappearing undesirables. They are deploying the military into cities. And now they are trying to commandeer railway stations.

I can’t put my finger on it but this sounds familiar.

It is no longer a question of whether the USA is becoming a police state. It is now a police state. The only question is whether Americans care enough to try and fight the police state they are in.

Sound like he brought a lot of matched emotional baggage.

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It is true that facts have a well-known liberal bias.

the tariffs have been great for me specifically in that I get to watch every stodgy business media publication start posting like 2017 resistlibs

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

The purpose of these tariffs is to be able to lift them to those who bow down to him and sacrifice their dignity. That is what he did to the GOP, the billionaires, and is doing now to Big Law. Those who stand up will be punished, those who bend a knee and humiliate themselves will be rewarded.

If I recall correctly, Kevin Costner's "Wyatt Earp" came out the same year. It has this hilarious call-back to "Dances with Wolves" in it. That said, I don't think anyone remembers "Wyatt Earp." Everyone remembers "Tombstone."

This is a case in which what can be attributed to malice should also be attributed to stupidity!

Top Trump officials accidentally shared war plans with media Hegseth reportedly assured chat participants that “we are currently clean on OPSEC” despite the accidental inclusion of a journalist.

Do'hge!

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Quo usque tandem abutere, Elon Musk, patientia nostra!

Alina Habbard posted: NOTHING CAN STOP THIS MAN FROM FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY.
David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”

A wax figure of former President Donald Trump, dressed in a black suit, white shirt, and red tie, stands in front of an American flag. The headline below the image states, "San Antonio Wax Museum Removes Trump Figure Because Visitors Kept Punching It.

How to deal with fascists 101.

I'm betting there's an impeachable offense embedded in this "revenue sharing agreement."

🗣️ @aoc.bsky.social out fighting for the people & federal workers: “Every day our job is to wake up and say ‘what can I do today?’ — There is no act too small. Every action matters.” 🇺🇸

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

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Based Hellboy.

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