Jack Goodyear

This is what fascism looks like - using a conspiracy theory about a dehumanized outgroup as a pretext for seizing political power and wielding arbitrary authority. What you read about in the history books is happening right here, right now.

Trump's Military Birthday Parade Was a Gross Failure Trump got the expensive military parade he wanted on his birthday, courtesy of Lockheed Martin, Palantir, and American taxpayers.

it is Illegal to not enjoy this. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Chicago congresswoman @repdeliaramirez hands Kristi Noem a letter of resignation and encourages her to use it 👀

Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

Make America Great Again can be loosely translated as “renewed fetish for confederate generals.”

Donald Trump promised that any protests of his military parade will be met with "very heavy" force. Democracy is under attack.

In Donald Trump's America, if you say "I am Senator Alex Padilla, I have questions for the Secretary," you get thrown to the floor and handcuffed.

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

Since Jan, Trump administration members have 1) endorsed the Confederacy, 2) endorsed white Afrikaner attacks on the post-Apartheid South African government, 3) given a Nazi salute at the inauguration, 4) endorsed the neo-Nazi party in German elections.

There's a pattern here, but it's subtle.

New PRRI Poll: Three-Quarters of Americans Oppose Trump’s Military Parade As the 250th anniversary of the United States Army approaches, which also coincides with President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday, Washington is preparing to mark the occasion with a large-scale…

BREAKING @prri.org: 76% of Americans, including 52% of Republicans, oppose spending $45 million to hold a large parade of soldiers, weapons, and combat vehicles on the streets of Washington, D.C., in celebration of the Army’s 250th birthday and President Trump’s birthday.
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

How do people take him seriously? All this talk about Biden being out of it…

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

Remember when Republicans argued that changing the names of military bases and removing statues was tantamount to erasing history?

They forgot to add that this only holds for straight white men, who made war on the United States during the Civil War.

The real cover-up is of Trump's disordered mental state Sanewashing didn't end with the 2024 campaign.

New in PN: The real cover-up is of Trump's disordered mental state

"Despite the endless handwringing about Biden Old, a sitting president acting like a cross between a 4Chan thread and Q truly is a major concern — one the mainstream media actively minimizes."

For a pro-life party, they’re kind of pro-death.

Remember when “death panels” was a Republican talking point against expanding health insurance coverage with Obamacare?

Now, cutting coverage and actually sending people to their death is a policy position of the Republican Party.

Can anyone explain why Democrats are not considered better at the economy by a long shot?

If you consider DJT’s Memorial Day post acceptable, ask yourself why.

BREAKING: Scott Pelley just risked everything to make one thing clear:
The attack on free speech isn’t coming—it’s already here.

Journalists are being silenced, critics are being punished, and most of the media’s playing dead.

This is state-sponsored suppression. This is dictatorship in real time.

Duh

Just call it the Self-Inflicted Wound Era, when we took a bunch of stuff that was working largely fine (vaccines, weather monitoring, friendly relations with like 175 countries, cancer research, renewable energy credits, the FAA, global trade, etc etc) and just broke them for giggles

The entire Republican Party has lined up solidly behind a would-be fascist dictator with a narcissistic psychopathic personality disorder. But the real problem is that Democrats spent too long backing a president who often looked and sounded old.

Walmart should STOP trying to blame Tariffs as the reason for raising prices throughout the chain. Walmart made BILLIONS OF DOLLARS last year, far more than expected. Between Walmart and China they should, as is said, “EAT THE TARIFFS,” and not charge valued customers ANYTHING. I’ll be watching, and so will your customers!!!

The pivot to blaming companies for the obvious consequence of your tariffs has begun

Trump admits (1) the company thrived during the last year of Biden’s economy and (2) will be bearing the brunt of tariffs in Trump’s economy

As you stand on the rubble of the in progress Luka statue

Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.

Opinion | West Point Is Supposed to Educate, Not Indoctrinate

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

Excellent article:

"However much I admire America, uncritically asserting that it is “the most powerful force for good in human history” is not something an educator does."

Seven Things to Know About the American Pope Pope Leo XIV is here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And he's all out of bubblegum.

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