@preetbharara.bsky.social 3/3 Republicans hate America. They want a feudal system in which they are on top. That’s the whole situation in the nutshell.

@preetbharara.bsky.social 2/3 But even if you take their bad-faith argument as legitimate… if the justice department was used in improperly before, a true patriot would want to see it used correctly now instead of further trashing it.

@preetbharara.bsky.social 1/3 regarding the defense that “Trump was improperly, prosecuted, so now he gets to do it,”
Any clear- eyed person can see that the Trump prosecutions were proper and legitimate based on sound evidence and legal process.

This. A thousand times this.

Mike Johnson’s Christian Values: Children Starve, Pedophiles Skate On Saturday, November 1, the real pain of the shutdown starts for people. Donald Trump and the Republicans have screamed: We. Don’t. Care.

These are Mike Johnson’s Christian values, as Paul Krugman put it on his Substack: “It sounds crazy to say Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles, but it’s actually a reasonable interpretation of the situation.”

🗳️Vote All Republicans Out!🗳️

newrepublic.com/post/202518/...

No ID, no comply

The way he rubs his inhumanity in Americans” face never ceases to stun me.

He’s illegally refusing to pay food stamp benefits…

…while he throws a ridiculously over the top Gatsby party for his right wing millionaire and corporate friends.

How are thus many people attracted to the very worst communication available?

People magazine stood firmly behind their reporter, Natasha Stoynoff, in 2016 when she alleged that Donald Trump had sexually assaulted her.

It was gutsy and impressive. And we now know how rare that kind of backbone is.

I'll always respect the magazine for that.

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

Over 30k people showed up for No Kings Day yesterday. Indivisible chapters and so many others came together to build the biggest protest in RI History.

Seeing everyone showing up was proof that there's hope for American democracy yet!

indivisiblerhodeisland.org

@steveahlquist.bsky.social

Woman dressed as Statue of Liberty wearing an American flag cape is arrested by Broadview police with assistance from Illinois State Police.

Police just detained two protesters.

One dressed as the Statue of the Liberty.

Over 4% of the population turned out, and this trash propaganda tries to make it look like a few scattered hippies. Turn to 10 for state media, komrades.

If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated. The Party could not be overthrown from within. Its enemies, if it had any enemies, had no way of coming together or even of identifying one another. Even if the legendary Brotherhood existed, as just possibly it might, it was inconceivable that its members could ever assemble in larger numbers than twos and threes. Rebellion meant a look in the eyes, an inflection of the voice; at the most, an occasional whispered word. But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They need only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it.

I was thinking about this after No Kings.

AOC @aoc.bsky.social giving students a tour of Congress because the government is shut down and there's no else to give them one.

DJT shitting on America is actually pretty honest.

I'll leave you from Portland with one last video of the @unpresidentedbrass.bsky.social, the unofficial house band of #NoKings

Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.

No Kings protest at the State Capital, Hartford, CT

BREAKING: Hundreds of students are gathering at the University of Virginia’s lawn to tell the Board and interim president not sign onto Trump’s corrupt ‘Contract’ for colleges. This is amazing.

BREAKING: Analysts are calling this the biggest protest in American history. It’s far bigger than any rally Donald Trump has ever had. This is Boston. Rallies just like this are happening in cities big and small all around the country. Let’s go.

Political cartoon. No Kings Protest (Original Version) — the Declaration of Independence.

Knows what’s weird? Turning your phone off only to have it turn itself ON in a sensitive area.

Knows what’s weird? Turning your phone off..: only to have it turn itself ON in a sensitive area.

Timothy Snyder speaking, surrounded by a crowd.

Speaking at #NoKings Cincinnati.
No kings. Freedom.

Republicans in charge of Congress have abdicated all responsibility for governing the nation to Trump. There are no checks. There are no balances. No Kings.

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

The State of Illinois is documenting the criminal misconduct of Trump secret police agents in order to bring charges against those who engaged in acts ranging from assault to reckless endangerment and negligent operation of motor vehicles in the near future, Newsweek reveals.