Critical Thought Is Powerful 🤔

👀 Sources tell me and @joshgerstein.bsky.social that veteran federal prosecutor Beth Yusi — with DOJ since 2007 — was fired after resisting the Letitia James indictment. Also Kristin Bird, with EDVA since 2019.

Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million

Grotesque corruption.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Murphy at #nokings: "The president of the United States during a shutdown, or even when the government is open, does not have the power to send masked men into our cities and pull off the streets our peaceful neighbors, and throw them into the back of vans and into prisons."

MIT Had the Courage to Say No to Trump’s Authoritarian Compact For more access to expert legal analysis, official court documents and breaking news coverage only available here at the intersection of law and politics, please consider becoming a paid subscriber.Le...

MIT Had the Courage to Say No to Trump’s Authoritarian Compact

By @askdinadoll.bsky.social

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YouTube video by Mr Global The Soft Takeover Of The United States of America

The Soft Takeover Of The United States

youtu.be/qFBFNwtPFsU?...

A friend in Corvallis, Oregon sent me this one 🤣 #NoKings

Wow, lots of American flags and peace . Sure doesn’t seem like people who hate America you absolute embarrassment Speaker Johnson

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

So no terrorism then?

We are not a monarchy. We are a constitutional democracy.

Let the world hear loud and clear today: America will never have a king.

Americans will take to the streets today to protest Donald Trump's increasingly authoritarian administration.

We put together a "No Kings" playlist fit for the moment.

🪧 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/no-kings-playlist-anti-authoritarian-songs-protests-1235449753/

"This is about a handful of the wealthiest people on Earth who, in their insatiable greed, have hijacked our economy and our political system." Bernie Sanders speaking at the No Kings rally in DC. Watch here.

So if they were truly narco-terrorists why is he just letting them back into their home countries without facing any charges of drug smuggling? If there isn't enough evidence to charge them then how the fuck do even try to justify illegally blow up their boat?

OK guys, post your best signs from today for entry into my Top 15 No Kings Sign Contest.

Chicago shows out massively for No Kings

Thank you to Chris Kluwe for letting me interview you for MeidasTouch. Your advocacy and run for local office is exactly the inspiration we need right now! @chriswarcraft.bsky.social @meidastouch.com

North to Alaska: America’s Climate Warning Guest article by Jay Inslee, former governor of Washington State

“To watch a glacier collapse is to feel the full weight of climate change.”

Former Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s new piece for Meidas+ is a breathtaking, and heartbreaking, firsthand look at Alaska’s vanishing world.

Leqaa Kordia—not a Columbia student but “a simple Palestinian girl,” as she describes herself—is the last remaining campus protester still in detention from the Trump Administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian demonstrators in the U.S. Read her story: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/mGwzBs

The Real Reason Trump Is a Threat to the Economy It’s not just the agenda. It’s also the shambolic, vibes-based way he’s pursuing it.

In the MAGA cultural universe, getting power from wind or the sun is somehow less authentically blue-collar than pulling petroleum out of the ground. As renewables get better, Trump is going to damage our economy over that fiction. ICYMI: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-econ...

Holy hell. This shit goes deep.

Los Angeles Police Department’s “Chief’s Notice” to all personnel -- July 15, 2025 This is an earlier version based on an initial TRO. It will be updated with a newer version based on a more recent preliminary injunction, which is even more favorable to press.

Los Angeles Police Department’s “Chief’s Notice” to all personnel -- July 15, 2025 This is an earlier version based on an initial TRO. It will be updated with a newer version based on a more recent preliminary injunction, which is even more favorable to press.

Los Angeles Police Department’s “Chief’s Notice” to all personnel -- July 15, 2025 This is an earlier version based on an initial TRO. It will be updated with a newer version based on a more recent preliminary injunction, which is even more favorable to press.

📣 ATTN: Reporters covering #NoKings protests in LA may want to print this notice from the chief of police to show to officers who are attempting to detain them or force them to leave.

If LAPD officers won’t follow a court order, maybe they’ll obey their boss.

🖨️ drive.google.com/file/d/1_Yao...

He’s not wrong in the sense that online gaming is a recruitment zone for the far right and fascists.

Chats are full of racism, misogyny, and Nazi references. Perfect for…well, this kind of person.

Portland’s protest frogs are dead serious about absurdity In a battle of optics and performance, Portland is primed to meet the moment.

"Nice body armor, champ, but you’re going to look stupid when you’re photographed trying to take down an inflatable frog."

When you’re making your #NoKings posters, remember… Donald Trump LOVES a good nickname.

I think Smellvis Messley might hit slightly harder than Yellvis because he knows that he smells like shit

NOTHING LIKE THIS HAD BEEN ATTEMPTED OR EVEN IMAGINED IN THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

Share this with Uncle MAGA

Are we great again yet?

Buckle up, friends. Shit is getting real

Court extends restraining order to shield more feds from shutdown RIFs At an emergency hearing, a federal judge clarified that her restraining order prohibiting RIFs also applies to unions the government has stopped recognizing.

A federal judge has moved to protect more US government employees from being fired during the ongoing shutdown amid a dispute between unions and the Trump administration about which members of the workforce were covered by a TRO the court issued earlier this week. federalnewsnetwork.com/govern...