Tina

at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans

1/3 Listen to Masha Gessen, a journalist & expert on authoritarianism, warn we are entering “the most dangerous phase” normalization in the decline of democracy.

This is the stage when repeated violations of democratic norms—actions that once shocked us—become part of everyday life.

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence.

They are in charge.

I’m still baffled at how America took one of the basic principles of the presidency — the occupant shouldn’t be able to benefit financially from the office — and just said, nah, that just doesn’t count for this one guy.

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1/ He wasn’t kidding when he told people 2024 was the last election they’d ever have to vote in if he won www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

What’s even worse is that Hegseth leaked that Kim and Hugo got PINNED.

New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.

They’re sticking it to us. But we the people are starting to push back. We need to push a lot harder!

This means nothing. Useless. Empty words, zero action. Boycott his events. Refuse to cover his photo ops and propaganda signings. He’s addicted to coverage and hates being ignored. Until you band together and do something, these statements are utterly pointless & pathetic.

One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.

Law and Order Party Ends Law and Order

Worth asking yourself what they’d be doing differently if they were under explicit instruction from hostile foreign governments.

There it is

Dear US senators: You can ABSOLUTELY say you're voting against these nominees before their hearings. You'll save yourself some grief and us a lot of time. There are no norms here to uphold; don't pretend they're in any way qualified or valid candidates. Just say you're not voting for them. Thanks.

The cover of the book Parable of the Sower.

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."

She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

If you understand that the only even _theoretical_ check on the coming presidency, which will be the first presidency without any guardrails whatsoever, is the U.S. military, you understand why Trump has said he will go to the mat for—more than any other Cabinet pick—Hegseth as Secretary of Defense.

ATTN: THREAD: The loyalty interviews have begun in DC. As someone who has direct experience with this, I have a couple of recommendations for all federal workers. Please share this widely, and with any federal government employee you know. 1/

YOUR ENEMIES LAMENT YOUR VERY EXISTENCE. HAVE YOU EATEN TODAY?

🤔 Just like that people are worried about mysterious Drones! Who could afford Volkswagen size drones? Pay Attention people!

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I’m never gonna forgive the media for failing spectacularly to discuss Donald Trump’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

22. The point isn’t to move Trump voters. The point is to decimate the Republicans’ standing with the public and the press.

The thing is, *we know they are going to trigger another crisis*.

12. Then and only then do the Democrats offer solutions to the public. They never say “I told you so” when they have every right to say it. And because they don’t say it, the Democrats expose themselves to the idea that the crisis wasn’t caused by bad people making bad choices for bad reasons.

10. The Democrats do not say, once the Republicans have triggered it, that this crisis is what happens when democracy empowers grifters who care about themselves more than the people. And the Dems do not blame the Republicans for triggering the crisis when the Dems struggle inevitably to fix it.

I am the mother of three sons.

I would sell my soul to the devil to save each of them.

Especially if I recognized the devil.

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record.

They run them bc people react to them the most.

If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change.

It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

My take on the Hunter Biden news is that trump has proposed creating a network of concentration camps to deal with the undocumented millions in our country