Trump's Presidencies have so far involved numerous Saturday Night Massacres, dozens of Watergates, and a never ending parade of Tea Pot Dome scandals. I worry that we're about to enter the "dozens of Kent State's" portion of the story.

I absolutely believe that this is correct. Watch out for serious military (and militia) crackdowns in the weeks and months to come.

What good are deeply held principles if they’re not also extremely flexible?

He makes me miss Harry Reid, that’s for sure.

This! We’ve normalized more than just trump’s nastiness and authoritarian nature. We’ve normalized the sheer ignorance and anti-intellectualism.

Just as they refer to "The Ukraine" as opposed to just "Ukraine", in an effort to relegate a sovereign nation to being just a region of Russia.

This seems like good strategy. So many people don't even realize that their friends and neighbors are contracting, directly or indirectly, with the federal government.

Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businesses U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans.

US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more.

- US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID
- $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes.
- Food stranded in Houston
- Aid stopped in transit.

The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.

2/5/2025- Beware www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/fe...

Sitting comfortably in his complacency.

The crucial bit here is "and various other participating countries", which means Ukraine. So, it’s essentially a threat to halt all trade and place sanctions on Ukraine and other European nations that support them in various ways.

The greatness of the upper reaches of our society is too often won by the toil and sacrifice of the lowest among us, and here today we work to guarantee that it will ever be so. Shame on us. Deep, deep shame. 6/6

….while the rest of the country can’t help but remember Jim Crow, the demonization and brutalization of countless groups of immigrants, the subjugation and control of women, and the crushing grip of poverty for far too many of our citizens. 5/6

We are telling the dictators and autocrats of the world that they will find no opposition from The United States. We glorify a non-existent era of unblemished American Greatness, which only ever existed in the imaginations of a small, sheltered and privileged group of Americans, while….. 4/6

…..we definitely should not be surprised when they no longer feel safe around or wish to associate with us. We are telling our allies that we do not respect them, and will not stick up for them or for the values that we have long claimed to share. 3/6

We are teaching our young girls that their bodily autonomy does not matter, and that they must accept their diminished lot in life as just the way things are. We are telling our gay and trans family that we do not care about them or acknowledge who they really are, so……. 2/6

I’m so, so disappointed in us. We are holding up and glorifying the worst among us as our exemplars. We are teaching our young boys that bullying, grift, violence, rape, and lies are all acceptable and will not hold them back from advancing to the highest levels of our society. 1/6

@claytoonz.bsky.social pulls no punches.

I second this recommendation.

Un Village Français is a great WW2 drama set in a French village. Very much worth watching as we deal with the rise of fascism in the U.S.

@mrlovenstein.bsky.social speaks my language.

Yes. I also feel that people should also make an effort to credit editorial cartoonists and the like. A lot of the memes that go around are in fact someone’s work product.

Incredibly powerful. I’m sobbing for this man and what he’s been through, and for all the others like him.

The 24hr news cycle needs a lot of opinions to fill time, increasingly blurring the lines. Combine that with ever worsening media literacy/discernment by the public, and here we are. News needs analysis & opinions for context, but the lines need to be clearer. @mollyjongfast.bsky.social

In final inaugural (1945)--near end of World War II--FDR quoted this:
"Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights. Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward...Remember...that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend."

Wow.
Transportation Secretary Arnold Palmer’s Giant Penis.
Controversial choice.
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