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Assistant Professor of Economics, Franklin & Marshall College (J.D., Ph.D) [Living in the Orwellian age of Trump, where the criminal is the aggrieved, and the prosecution is persecution.]

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Morales: I don’t care if you’re the most individualistic person on the planet—because you “lift yourself up by your bootstraps” and think government should stay out of your business and “don’t tread on me.” Climate change is already treading on you, and you should care about this issue.

07.11.2025 05:35 — 👍 4330    🔁 915    💬 66    📌 43
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“He’s having a seizure and they’re trying to rip the baby out of her hands”

07.11.2025 03:48 — 👍 11180    🔁 6744    💬 1200    📌 913
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The Sociopath-In-Chief couldn't be bothered to even turn his head in the direction of a man in the midst of a medical emergency who collapsed in his office. Completely incapable of empathy, the EPSTEIN Files can't be released soon enough.

25/47

07.11.2025 20:20 — 👍 12134    🔁 2895    💬 1030    📌 179
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Trump Officials Accused of Bullying Tactics to Kill a Climate Measure

We are the baddies.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/c...

07.11.2025 12:46 — 👍 120    🔁 31    💬 2    📌 0
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What he said Part 3: 💯 🎯

03.11.2025 19:14 — 👍 23821    🔁 6960    💬 539    📌 224
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nixon to trump...

04.11.2025 05:20 — 👍 84    🔁 37    💬 1    📌 0

Lest this appear entirely doomer-gloomer, my point is - there's going to have to be a massive unprecedented GOTV campaign. If the whole GOP is going to go full-scale autocracy, it's got to be blatantly obvious to even the most low-info voter.

30.10.2025 18:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trump's playbook is their playbook. If Johnson won't even seat Grijalva for BS reasons, why should we think he will seat Ds after the midterm? He'll echo Trump and say "fraud" etc.

30.10.2025 18:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

And if - if - Ds overcome all that and get enough votes, we already know Trump will scream "fraud" and play victim (his signature move.) But this time all of the GOP is MAGA through and through.

30.10.2025 18:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

He's already well into purging the DOJ; and he's now trying it with the military. And DHS/ICE are turning into his personal goons.

30.10.2025 18:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The amnesia around Jan 6 still stuns me. The only thing that stopped Trump from using troops is that he didn't have the cooperation of Mark Milley (joint chief of staff) and others.

30.10.2025 18:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Obstacles include re-districting; possible evisceration of voting right act by SCOTUS; DOJ attempts to interfere with states running elections; further restrictions on voting at Federal and State level; and, yes, deployment of troops.

30.10.2025 18:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The midterms will not be normal.
That should be clear by now - right?
There is absolutely no way that Trump and GOP/MAGA will let Ds take control of the House.

30.10.2025 18:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The federal criminal justice system is being systematically dismantled and destroyed piece by piece and turned into a mob boss’s network of corrupt consiglieres and thugs, where good people simply doing their jobs are rooted out and eradicated.

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Former chair of the Tennessee libertarian party 👇🏽

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Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

17.10.2025 02:02 — 👍 37738    🔁 10473    💬 1422    📌 746
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Pritzker: Illinois is not a place you can conquer and our people are not your subjects

16.10.2025 17:37 — 👍 21839    🔁 5601    💬 311    📌 201
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I am sounding the alarm that the GOP is engaged in an all out attack voting rights and free and fair elections. Voter suppression, gerrymandering, and troops in blue cities are just some of the ways they are using to try to rig the rules to keep power in 2026 and beyond.

Pay attention and act!

15.10.2025 22:34 — 👍 22615    🔁 9778    💬 648    📌 398

MORE OF THIS

13.10.2025 19:42 — 👍 465    🔁 117    💬 10    📌 2
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"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

13.10.2025 16:25 — 👍 21494    🔁 8352    💬 546    📌 472
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Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

13.10.2025 19:19 — 👍 16477    🔁 6103    💬 366    📌 296
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The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

13.10.2025 03:27 — 👍 23800    🔁 13936    💬 1585    📌 986
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When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

13.10.2025 02:04 — 👍 16023    🔁 7472    💬 1187    📌 506
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I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

08.10.2025 16:49 — 👍 29985    🔁 7849    💬 888    📌 306

Nothing says America first like 300 federal agents descending on a Chicago apartment complex at 3:00AM on a Tuesday morning, zip tying its residents (some of them CHILDREN) and denying them the opportunity call a lawyer.

Government sanctioned domestic terrorism is all you can call it.

08.10.2025 23:07 — 👍 1216    🔁 419    💬 31    📌 11
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This strikes me as pretty bad

07.10.2025 21:49 — 👍 22846    🔁 9269    💬 2085    📌 769

We can’t take you seriously if you think “wokeness” is a bigger threat than authoritarianism.

[cough cough Bari Weiss]

07.10.2025 13:41 — 👍 109    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
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I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You? Read more here.

I refuse to let hopelessness prevail. This may just be one essay, by a lawyer few have heard of, in a newsletter read by a fraction of the public. But I will not stay silent.

Will you?
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-re...

07.10.2025 23:13 — 👍 6202    🔁 1843    💬 139    📌 76

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