He Tells the Truth When He Lies: a JD Vance Primer on Building Conspiracies As of this writing, all the information the public has about the alleged killer of Kirk is that he acted alone, drove his own car, used his grandfather’s rifle, and was turned in to law enforcement by...

They're eating cats & dogs!

"If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do."

- JD Vance 09.2024

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The Supreme Court gave Trump a 'license to kill' — and he's using it: analysis When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its controversial 6-3 immunity ruling in Trump v. the United States in 2024, some scathing dissent came from one of the Barack Obama appointees: Justice Sonia S...

What happens when a leader of a democratic country believes he has a license to kill & proceeds to use it?

It appears we're finding out.
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is trying to warn us about something. Are we listening? Jackson enters her fourth year on the supreme court on Monday. As its fiercest liberal voice wary of Trump’s growing power, she faces an intense battle ahead

By citing Ernst Fraenkel’s work, "The Dual State", Ketanji Brown Jackson is drawing a parallel between the drift in jurisprudence that's taking place under the combined actions of tRump & the supreme court & the legal structure of Nazi Germany.

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A senior WH official accidentally leaked details of plans to send an elite army unit to Portland, in the latest intelligence leak by the tRump administration.
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Do you know about shitposting? It’s cheap humour, rage bait – and now, it seems, US government policy | Robert Topinka Donald Trump’s White House reveals a new ‘portrait’ of Joe Biden – and in his world, if you don’t laugh, the joke’s on you, says Robert Topinka of Birkbeck, University of London

The combo of cheap humour & rage bait is the province of the shitpost, low-effort social media content designed to amuse insiders & annoy outsiders.

Like so much of internet culture, shitposting was pioneered on the message board 4chan & tRump is a natural.

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Trump, Hegseth military grandstanding an embarrassment The president and the secretary of defense disgrace themselves scolding military commanders.

As bad as Hegseth was, tRump was far worse.

He rambled somewhat incoherently & listlessly for more than an hour, airing his usual political gripes & addressing military matters only occasionally.

As is typical, he sounded both deranged & dangerous.

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Veterans react to Hegseth’s ‘insulting’ address to generals and admirals Defense secretary’s speech touching on physical fitness and doctrine of lethality was seen as ‘egotistical’ and ‘dangerous’

Kegsbreth talked about the previous commander in chief, president Biden & then talked about the ‘enemy within’. That is a dangerous slippery slope to be referring to that to the leaders of the US military. Very dangerous.
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The Silence of the Generals And the searing words of a veteran on the bench.

Can we be confident that tRump & Hegseth won’t succeed in turning the U.S. military into something more like ICE?

The thought seems incredible.

But that ICE would be doing what it is now doing on our streets would have been shocking just a year ago.
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'Fascism as a playbook': Trump says US 'under invasion from within' President Donald Trump warned all 800 of America’s top military leaders that there is a “war from within” and that the nation is “under invasion” — not by armies in uniform, he said.“America is under ...

The idea of the internal enemy was intrinsically connected to a notion about the inferiority, impurity & treasonous nature of those who were considered different from the majority. Fascists disputed the idea that citizenship defined the community.

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Michigan church shooting suspect bore a hatred of Mormon religion, locals say Michigan suspect was a Marine veteran, as was suspect in another recent shooting in North Carolina, who has been charged with murder

The suspected shooter in the killing of at least 4 people in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Michigan, Marine veteran Thomas Jacob Sanford, bore a virulent hatred of the Mormon religion which he referred to as the antichrist.

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Millions Could Lose Housing Aid Under Trump Plan Drafts of unpublished rules obtained by ProPublica detail plans that would open the door to full-time work requirements, two-year limits on living in federally supported housing and stripping aid from...

These are rules that’ll cause an enormous amount of hardship for millions of people in communities across the country.

It’s going to cause people to become homeless, kids to be pulled out of their schools, people to lose their jobs.

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Kristi Noem Fast-Tracked Millions in Disaster Aid to Florida Tourist Attraction After Campaign Donor Intervened The DHS chief has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noe...

Noem’s actions suggest the injection of political favoritism into an agency tasked w/ saving lives & rebuilding communities wiped out by disaster.

It heightens concerns about the discretion Noem has by personally handling all 6 figure expenses at the agency.

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The First Amendment as a Racist Weapon The debates over the protection of free speech have been raging since before the killing of Charles Kirk. The killing of Charles Kirk has taken this discussion into another realm. Jimmy Kimmel was a h...

The speech that’s being pushed by the political MAGA/tRump white supremacist agenda is intended to cause harm & to inflict mental anguish.

The words they use, the ideas disguised as simple free speech is metastasizing as a cancer & infecting the country.

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Trump is 'an almost perfect inversion of the moral teachings of Jesus': GOP speechwriter The former speechwriter for three Republican presidents and a senior fellow at the non-profit Christian organization The Trinity Forum explains what he calls "fully MAGA-fied Christianity" in his late...

tRump has made clear his disagreement w/& even his contempt for some of the core teachings of Jesus & acknowledged that he’s a man driven by vengeance.

It’s not simply that those qualities are part of who he is; it is that he draws strength from the dark passions.

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As Kamala Harris settles scores, Democrats face an identity crisis No corner of the party is spared from blame in the defeated candidate’s memoir. So can they make their public perception a little less ‘oat milk’?

Until Democrats work out how to bridge that divide between “they/them” & “you”, between oat milk latte & whiskey, they risk fighting the next election w/ the same flaws that doomed them last time.

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Kamala Harris’s election memoir shows just how deluded the Democrats still are | Nesrine Malik This unapologetic trawl through a doomed campaign reveals a celebrity-obsessed party high on its own supply. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so tragic, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

This unapologetic trawl through a doomed campaign reveals a celebrity-obsessed party high on its own supply. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so tragic.

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Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner leads $55B Saudi-backed buyout of EA Sports The deal, led by Ivanka Trump’s husband Jared Kushner, is set to make shareholders $210 per individual share in the biggest leveraged buyout on record

Kushner is poised to lead a $55 billion deal backed by Saudi Arabia to buy Electronic Arts.

The deal is set to pay shareholders $210 per individual share, marking the largest leveraged buyout on record.

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Michigan church shooting latest: Trump calls rampage an ‘attack on Christians’ Police believe attacker ‘deliberately’ set fire to the Church of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township

The suspected gunman was former U.S. Marine Thomas Jacob Sanford, who was subsequently killed.

Sanford, 40, has been identified wearing a “Trump 2020” shirt in a photo posted to social media.

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The Road to the Camps: Echoes of a Fascist Past The irony is unbearable. Trump has saturated public life in lies, turned immigrants and Black citizens into targets of contempt, and made corruption and violence the grammar of governance. He pledges ...

tRump has saturated public life in lies, turned immigrants & Black citizens into targets of contempt & made corruption & violence the grammar of governance. He pledges loyalty to dictators, surrounds himself w/ sycophants & thugs.

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'Engineered incompetence': Why Trump may have picked Lindsey Halligan to oversee the Comey case In an article for MSNBC published Sunday, legal analyst Barbara McQuade argued that President Donald Trump tapped Lindsey Halligan to carry out the indictment of former FBI director James Comey precis...

When individuals are appointed to high office w/o the credentials one would normally expect, they become dependent on & indebted to the leader.

The appointee is so grateful for their position that they feel beholden to the leader & eager to repay his generosity.

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A 160-year-old campaign against civil rights heads to the supreme court Louisiana v Callais could roll back what remains of the Voting Rights Act, putting the future of America’s multiracial democracy at stake

Louisiana v Callais could roll back what remains of the Voting Rights Act, putting the future of America’s multiracial democracy at stake.

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Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.
- Assata Shakur

It’s the IQ…

Stephen Miller Claims Simply Calling Trump Authoritarian 'Incites Violence and Terrorism' | Common Dreams Stephen Miller said that calling Trump "authoritarian" is an "incitement to violence and terrorism," in what may be the Trump administration's clearest statement yet of its intent to criminalize left-...

Fuck ICE

If some guy jumped out of an unmarked car or van & tried to grab me, by definition, you’re going to push back.

These are not just authoritarian tendencies; these are authoritarian actions by an authoritarian government.

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The real reason the Supreme Court is terrified Are they afraid Trump will get them killed?Ninety years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt fired William E. Humphrey from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Humphrey sued to the Supreme Court, whic...

Why would 6 people defy the Founders, spit on the Constitution & trample the rule of law, all in the service of a wannabe dictator?
They know that w/ just a few comments on TS, tRump could say things that would incite a lone wolf to come to their homes to kill them.

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Trump’s Attacks on Jobs Numbers Are Noise But Still Dangerous By now, the Trump White House has a simple strategy for dealing with what it considers bad news: Attack the messenger. They have pressured TV networks to

tRump has a simple strategy for dealing w/ what it considers bad news:

Attack the messenger. They have pressured TV networks, filed lawsuits against media outlets, & fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for releasing jobs data they didn’t like.

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The Democratic superlawyer Trump can’t silence: ‘We are in the break-glass moment of American history’ Elias has long defended high-profile Democrats and election law, resisting Trump’s crackdown on his opponents

Marc Elias has not shied away from standing up to the tRump administration & has been targeted for retribution this year multiple times as a result. He’s another one of the people people tRump considers his enemy.

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Texas Ice facility shooting: what we know so far about deadly attack One detainee was killed and two were critically wounded in shooting the White House says is ‘politically motivated’

JD Vance claimed without evidence that the shooting was carried out by a violent leftwing extremist who was politically motivated to go after law enforcement.

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Nixon’s 'corruption and abuse' were 'overwhelming' — but Trump is much worse: analysis Although four U.S. presidents have faced articles of impeachment — Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump — none of them were actually removed from office via a U.S. Senate trial...

After efforts to overturn the 2020 election, along w/ the events of January 6, tRump was rewarded w/ a return to the White House 4 years later.

Now, as his corruption & retribution have gone into overdrive, he maintains the full & enthusiastic support of his party.

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GOP has 'dark' and 'brazen' game plan to steal elections — and it just might work President Donald Trump, hoping to prevent Democrats from flipping the U.S. House of Representatives in 2026, is pushing an aggressive gerrymandering/redistricting plan in Texas, Missouri and other red...

Following typical election-denying logic, they'd eventually hit tRump’s numbers & then, Johnson could push for a full House vote to seat the aggrieved Republican candidates.

Too brazen, even for MAGA?

It so happens that Johnson has the authority to do it.

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