Saw Mickey 17 last night and it was great! My only disappointment is seeing all the review bombing from Trump/Musk stans

Their democracy died. They have lessons for America about Trump’s power grab. Hungarians who lived through Viktor Orbán’s 2010 power grab warn Americans: Act now, before it’s too late.

In 2010, Viktor Orbán launched a power grab nearly identical to Trump's. It led to the death of democracy in Hungary.

Hungarians I spoke with pleaded with me to learn from their experience — and act before it's too late.

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Omg I’m so sorry that happened! Are they gonna come fix it soon?

Any news outlet reporting Mexico conceded anything to Trump to get him to delay tariffs has not done its homework.
Trump boasts he got Mexico to commit to stationing 10K troops at our border. Apparently he didn't realize Mexico already has 15K troops deployed there
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Being pulled inexorably into living under an authoritarian state is a hell of a drug

Pentagon removes major media outlets, including NBC News, from dedicated workstations as part of a new 'rotation program' NBC News, The New York Times, NPR and Politico must vacate their office spaces in two weeks for other news organizations — including at least one that did not request to be added.

Now who could have predicted this

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Of course they did. No, I suppose irony doesn’t quite cover it. Unfathomable delusion might

nfortunately, even if there was incontrovertible evidence of cheating directed by Trump himself, it would not change anyone’s mind or affect any sort of change. Ironically, the “stop the steal” folks would be the very ones telling Dems that they’re conjuring a witch hunt

Freya is a fantastically appropriate name for her

Man I literally just did this

If it were true, you’d have a southern border crisis of your own. I know plenty of young women in my own life that would be some of the first in line simply because they fear the consequences of living in a white nationalist, Christian state that views them as little more than brood mares

Was visiting with my grandmother yesterday and she told me they used to buy big tubs of the stuff and that they used to come with capsules of yellow coloring that you could mix into it

I never knew this and holy shit it’s funny as hell to read that Robert Brownlee predicted it would happen because of the results of the Pascal-A test. And funnier still to find out that said “manhole cover” was actually a 900-kilogram (2,000 lb) iron lid that was welded over the borehole

I really want to bring this game over to your house so you can at least watch me, Ren, and Solér play. It’s enjoyable enough that I think you’d get a fair amount of enjoyment by proxy

I guess they don’t call us militant vegans for nothing

It was indeed used accordingly by inspiring the coalition that swept Trump into office. Look no further than the attendees on stage at Trump’s inauguration to see that the playbook is still in use. Not to mention, it is no coincidence that CPAC has been repeatedly hosted in Budapest in recent years

And it’s no coincidence that US conservatives have been hosting CPAC in Budapest multiple years running

Lol I’ll give you three guesses

Fired official defies Trump and must be escorted out The White House fired about 17 independent inspectors general last week.

Until a resistance party/coalition can form (hopefully), we need exactly this kind of resistance from everyone in Washington. Force them to drag you from your desk kicking and screaming. Do not go quietly.

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Great that they’re not going with the rest of the corporate herd on attacking DEI. However, I would caution anyone seeking to get new memberships with Costco to hold off until the strike ends. The Teamsters Union Costco strike begins at midnight this Friday.

Good work! Now, how do you and the rest of the Dems plan to keep this momentum? This is the tip of the iceberg from Trump. Look at Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia. Same playbook of grasping for the levers of power by attacking the system. Dems need unifying policy initiatives or else

Dems in Washington need to stop clutching their pearls and get mean real quick. This administration is going to keep chipping away at the pillars of the system. So they better take their own unprecedented action against the unprecedented actions they claim to want to fight or else we get tragedy.

Everyone Who Was Supposed to Protect You From This Failed Miserably Donald Trump will now be the president again. A colossal failure by every Republican, Democratic, legal, corporate, and media institution got us here.

Because the democrats cannot, will not fight an ascendant oligarchy when they themselves are part of the capitalist system that birthed it

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Hilarious for them to say that they are protecting their customers and employees with this.

He will never reverse course. He’s enacting the same playbook Viktor Orbán did. There’s a reason the Republicans repeatedly hosted the CPAC in Hungary. They want authoritarianism. What is the Democratic party’s strategy to counter this? Because neither bipartisanship nor waiting him out will work.

We had to sit and watch during nearly two terms of Obama’s presidency and the entirety of Biden’s while Republicans played dirty. They mounted a successful resistance which then became a coup. They will never play by the rules. Bipartisanship is dead. No more going high while they go low. 🔥 with 🔥

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White House offers buyouts to hundreds of thousands of federal workers The Trump administration said on Tuesday it is offering hefty financial incentives for nearly all civilian full-time federal workers to resign as part of plans to drastically shrink the size of the government.

Gov’t employees: this is your chance to resist by calling bullshit and refusing to leave your post. Warnings over not being able to guarantee the future of your employment is a classic corporate empty-nesting tactic. Don’t make it easy for them to clean house.

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Good for you for trying with him.When I was younger, I fell prey to the hustle thinking too because I just wanted to (not be poor) succeed so badly. Eventually, my critical thinking skills and empathy kicked in lol