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We now have data from Trump's first full year in office. Let's review the performance of Trump and the two parties since 1989 and a new age of globalization began.

However you cut the data Trump continues to have worst jobs record of last six Presidents. 1/

Agent: These guys were all threatening us yesterday with hand guns.
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Agent: *Hand* guns, like threatening to shoot us.

Reporter: You mean like with hand symbols?

A: Pulling them out, trying to engage us.

R: Pulling out literal guns?

A: No. Making... assuming we were going to do something.

Absolutely reprehensible that AG Bondi is offering ICE stand down in exchange for access to voting rolls. Outrageous and disgusting. It shows ICE is in Minneapolis is not for law enforcement purposes. Instead it’s a way to stir up shit in blue states and extort them.

I'm a journalist and attorney, not an activist, so I've no answers on what Americans should do right now.

I only know this: Donald Trump is attempting to incite a civil war so he can cancel all future elections, and he will keep executing citizens until that outcome is achieved.

This was Alex Pretti at work at the VA honoring a veteran who had passed.

This is who they're trying to falsely smear as a terrorist and assassin.

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

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#KYgov

Headline from the New York Times, 1939: “Goebbels ends careers of five “Aryan“ actors who made witticisms about the Nazi regime.”

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

Picture of Trump, Netanyahu and Putin over the statement It's incredible how many of our global issues have been caused by three white men in their 70s clinging to power to avoid prison. @johnbourscheid

Stale, Male, and so much beyond the Pale.

Last year, in an address to the Society for the Rule of Law Institute (@chkbal.bsky.social), Ambassador John Bolton warned that, if elected to a second term, Trump would abuse and corrupt the Justice Department to carry out retribution. Watch.

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Can checks and balances survive in a polarized age?

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As you watch Trump manufacture pretexts for militarizing our cities on your TV, please note that an internal Department of Homeland Security memo recently put it in writing that officials want to see the military get much more involved in domestic law enforcement. We obtained that memo:

I feel so much better now.

Very well done, sir. Thanks for sharing your journey, and allowing us to follow along.

Fantastic photos, Nick. Will there be 2026 calendar???

Comic. [two people in labcoats look at body pierced with blade draped over bench] PERSON 1: We found him lying uncomformably on the lab bench. I wonder if the iron-rich intrusion in his back is related. PERSON 2 with ponytail: It could be clastic. Maybe a rift opened in his body, and the intrusive material later fell into the hole. [caption] The Geology Department Investigates Their First Murder

Geology Murder

xkcd.com/3112/

YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor Igor Korotchenko thanks Trump and urges him to protect Elbridge Colby

Meanwhile in Russia: military expert Igor Korotchenko thanked Donald Trump for lifting sanctions and urged him to protect Elbridge Colby. Foreign expert Alexander Bobrov surmised that Trump is losing to Russia with a devastating score.
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Here is the video showing the whole array of signs. #ResistFascism #TeslaTakedown #Indivisible #DCMediaGroup #WOFAVA #ImpeachconvictRemove

Seeing Language as a Tool of Authoritarianism - emptywheel When you speak on social media, are you saying or are you doing?

Seeing Language as a Tool of Authoritarianism

www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/06/s...

It’s time

Day 70. 🇺🇸

Trump Ripping Up the Free Trade Playbook Comes With $1 Trillion Cost The ominous trajectory of the US president’s tariff overhaul looms over the G-7 gathering.

By 2030..the global economy will be $1 trillion smaller than it would have been had the US remained in the TPP. More than a third of that loss would come because of a smaller US economy…The consequence for Americans: 690,000 fewer jobs.
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When you wonder about the impact of Trump, think about a senator like Mike Lee who exploits his power to spread disinformation and undermine the public’s capacity to know what’s true. A bad man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power.

that’s Elon Musk FRS @royalsociety.org

Two things are true at the same time: The regime is encountering a lot more resistance than they know how to handle, they are vulnerable. Yet they are also dangerous, controlling the coercive powers of the state, fueled by a paranoid, conspiratorial siege mentality that pushes them to escalate.

I was nervous, even a few minutes in as the crowd gathered. That's completely normal. By the time it was over it was truly exhilarating, even in our small-ish town, >4000 protesters came, were seen, and heard.