Elizabeth Bennett

I have worked for a member of Congress and remember how he was in this bubble and didn’t understand reality anymore, but then we explained it to him and he understood.

This has been going on a decade. It doesn’t make sense.

That makes you worth more than Musk. Congrats!

Please buy Twitter and a major news outlet now.

this felt too informative not to share

If you go back and look at Abbott’s tweets, he started laying the groundwork for Trump’s immigration ploy in early March 2021, just weeks after Biden’s inauguration. He got other TX officials on board, too, “sounding the alarm” about the “crisis” that had all of a sudden appeared at the border.

Sending troops from Texas to forcefully occupy and suppress cities in Illinois and Oregon IN OPPOSITION TO THOSE STATES' GOVERNORS is literally a civil war and it's cooking my brain that Democrats are simply pretending it isn't happening

That, in itself, is a failure of the system—that even HEALTHY AMERICANS are that close to financial ruin by our government whims.

It’s absurd that we have allowed this by placating “conservatives” who now transparently want us dead.

The Proud Boys From Brazil

But DID it take a long time? I started thinking about it in 2017. It IS infuriating. How DARE they do this to us? How DARE we let them?

A lot of us made alternative channels but are still here. It’s probably not all that smart, or is it an act of defiance or maybe faith?

lol. I’ve self-censored occasionally since 2017–well, it’s smart to think about social media anyway—but the government retaliation side. I knew if Harris lost I’d be deleting my Twitter account. I wasn’t planning to start up again here, but in the moment my attitude changed.

Can’t stand him.

Raise your hand if you’ve chosen NOT to post something in the last 9 months out of fear. 🤚

I’ve started to post things and decided not to. I realize it’s complying in advance, and I hate it, but I don’t need the FBI at my door.

I DID delete my Twitter account to keep it from Musk.

The history teacher is going to be stuck on “why didn’t the Biden admin punish sedition and why was a seditionist even allowed to run for president again” for a long, long time…Americans stopped believing they had a functional government long before they started believing they had a fascist one

They best start exercising their wresting muscles b/c they’re waaaay out of shape.

Bin Laden lit the match, but it was the GOP that torched the Constitution, with a wink from Schumer, and Pelosi

The Patriot Act. DHS. ICE.
All built by Republicans drunk on fear and power

People went along

Now we’ve got masked agents tossing people in vans and cops playing soldier in our subways.

My mission in life is to get this country to a place where I never have to think about it until I read about candidates before Election Day again.

When this is over, I’ll have completed my time in the trenches.

We were thoroughly-indoctrinated in Americaness, weren’t we?

Even after all we’ve seen, after almost a decade to get to used to what we’ve witnessed ourselves, it’s still shocking, every day, to think these things are happening here.

I have her muted so I don’t even know!

I mean, WT actual F!?

That would be impolite. The Dems don’t do impolite.

Great find, Pam!

UK Professor Christina Pagel and a few brilliant volunteers are documenting the actions, statements, and plans of Donald Trump and his regime that may pose a threat to American democracy.

Called the Trump Action Tracker, it is a free resource and available at www.trumpactiontracker.info.

Forgive me for beating this dead horse yet again, but THIS is why we kept demanding that Congress/Dems #DoSOMETHING the last 4 years.

I know many of y’all were confused about that at the time…

@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

It feels like an occupying army.

All this law enforcement abuse of power emanating from this environment was so foreseeable.

Even if this guy was just drunk, they’ve given the ok to these guys to act this way. This is America now…even white America now, pearl-clutchers.

Isn’t the word for this “extortion”?

BRAVO, brilliant anonymous artists' group Secret Handshake —for making this great piece, for employing a veteran movie-TV location manager to oversee the installation on the National Mall, and for the comedy of your public statements. A+

I can’t get enough of this energy!
This is the level of immediacy we need from everyone.

Chris Murphy says Dems should lay down a simple marker for Trump: No Dem support for anything that funds his lawbreaking.

"if you want our votes, it can’t be for rampant lawlessness. This isn't a normal time...the world [is] watching to see what we stand for." 2/

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Yeah, I mean it’s just giving a blank check to an authoritarian dictator. It went wrong that one time back in the spring, but surely it’ll be fine this time.