Brittney B

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
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Just in case those of us fighting for democracy in court didn't need another challenge, Big Law turning collaborators is here and growing. My firm and others continue to fight.

We will never back down. We will never bend a knee. We will never obey.

Donold sends people with soccer tattoos to El Salvador and lets people with swastika tattoos go free.

Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name.

It is blatantly unconstitutional.

Hey, @schumer.senate.gov :: you better not be playing cute with your language about stopping the SAVE Act. I hope you intend to VOTE NO ON CLOTURE, as opposed to what you did with the CR when you told us you'd vote no on the bill, but still voted YES on cloture. We are in no mood for games.

Dow futures tumble more than 1,500 points as the massive market selloff continues | CNN Business US stock futures declined sharply Sunday evening after two sessions of selloffs that wiped away over $5.4 trillion in market value.

JUST IN: US stock futures declined sharply Sunday evening after two sessions of selloffs that wiped away over $5.4 trillion in market value

Here's your warning. I think he means it. This won't end well.

Adjectives I like…

Welcome to the dumbest administration

Longest speaking filibuster ever was 24 hours, 18 minutes by Strom Thurmond in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

In a few hours, that record will be shattered by Sen. Cory Booker, a Black man, laying out the case for saving democracy from an aspiring despot.

Exclusive | FDA’s Top Vaccine Official Forced Out In his resignation letter, Dr. Peter Marks cited “misinformation and lies” from Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr.

“‘It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies,’ Dr. Peter Marks wrote in a resignation letter referring to HHS Secretary RFK Jr.”

A collage of news headlines covering countries which have warned their citizens about visiting the United States. The countries covered by the nine different headlines are: UK, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Denmark, Finland and Canada. Similar warning have also been issued by the Australian and New Zealand governments. The sources are Newsweek, CBS and New York Times

International tourism is worth $200 billion every year to the US economy.

Sorry, *was.

Gosh. If only there were an historical analogue we could study to learn about the horrors of rounding people up without due process and sending them to torture camps in other countries.

Just in NIH grants, It looks like beautiful Iowa City, home of the U of Iowa, will lose $71m in funding. That's almost $1k per resident. And that's before all the other cuts to SSA, FDA, etc.

Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight?
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H/T to Prathima !

It's simple. Everyone in the US enjoys the protections of the Constitution - even visitors. So if someone commits a crime here, you give them due process here. You charge them here, try them here, and sentence them here. You don't deport them to an offshore torture prison.

There's no gaslighting your way out of this.

Professional liar Karoline Leavitt says the Signal chat – involving specific plans for F-18s to hit specific enemy targets – did not involve "war plans" but was a "policy discussion."

Can you IMAGINE if Kamala Harris did something like this. Don't EVER say a WORD about DEI. So far we see a bunch of white male clowns making a mistake so egregious as likely to warrant a criminal investigation in a normal world. Imagine a lowly military grunt doing this.

Disgraceful response. They never take responsibility. Pete Hegseth put our national security at risk. He is completely unfit to lead.

"IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA"

"in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending..."

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The fact that a reporter was inadvertently given access to this in real time shows that Pete Hegseth & the rest of this crew are bumbling incompetents who are going to get a lot of intelligence officials and others killed at some point. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Amen. 🇺🇸

They want you to believe this is radical. It isn’t.

J.D. Vance Is the Most Disliked New Vice President in History | Washington Monthly The public isn’t taking to J.D. Vance's obnoxious style, which bodes well for politics in the post-Trump era.

JD Vance is now officially the most disliked new Vice President in American history, according to data.

Honest question for those not in the cult… what do you think it will take for them to finally admit that he’s ruining the country & put pressure on Repubs to turn their backs on him & finally hold him accountable?

Remember that this is where his discussions with El Salvador began. The migrant detentions there are the dry run. He wants to ship U.S. prisoners to El Salvador.We cannot sleepwalk through this.

MAGA Influencer And Fox News Guest Indicted On Child Sex Abuse Charges The right-wing personality known as Raw Ricci built his following by filming homeless people in San Francisco.

Guy filmed himself raping minors to sell as child pornography.

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I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment being expressed by citizens and governments around the world to the effect no one should be traveling to the United States at this time.

Under our current government, we are a danger to ourselves and everyone else, and should be avoided.

Raskin: "There's an absolute attack on the Constitution taking place by an administration which views the Constitution as just inconvenient furniture that's gotta be kicked out of the way."

Truer words were never spoken.