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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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a lady in a wheelchair holding a mass deportation now sign

i think about this photo a lot

Typical Trump voter, he can't understand why people won't empathize with him now that his family is suffering under the policies he voted for.

He sure didn't care about the mass deportations or the stripping of rights from women and LGBTQ people. He voted for OTHERS to suffer, not him. Now he mad.

we are living in fascism right now

Jesus fucking Christ 😭 you’d think if they wanted workers for their factories, they’d at least want to keep us alive

CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.

3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie).

Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

They are obviously slow learners

yeah man, please make my 85 year
old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration.

So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives.

So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.

Good morning.

Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.

It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

🤦🏼 WHOOPS — An economist whose work Trump used to calculate the tariffs says they massively screwed up the math: “I would strongly prefer the policy be scrapped entirely, but barring that Trump should divide the results by FOUR.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...

Sending anyone from this country to a foreign gulag, particularly without a court hearing, should rightfully end a presidency. Full stop.

Sotomayor is right. According to this Supreme Court, the US can now kidnap, detain, and fly legal immigrants and citizens to a foreign country's prison, even if it's a whoopsie.

America, people. Freedom and stuff.

Am I depressed because of what's happening or am I depressed because of the people who somehow didn't see it coming?

Both. It's both.

“They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

~The Great Gatsby

White House: we want reciprocal tariffs

Vietnam: fine, let’s do zero percent

White House: fuck you

Absolute clown car administration

BREAKING — The family abducted by ICE is returning home, per email from Sackets Harbor Superintendent:

As bad as rest of the market is doing, Tesla is crashing twice as fast.

the emperor’s favorite concubine fired one of his top internal security officers while rumors abound that the household eunuch has lost the emperors favor

Wall Street bets discord is so goddamn funny right now

Ohh "America First" was a hit list

If our democracy dies, this is its epitaph

you have to be genuinely stupid as fuck to think american companies are going to respond to tariffs by building factories and moving manufacturing to the US. i don't know how else to say it. you have to be genuinely braindead

There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers.

Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

Joel Webbon deserves to be spit roasted and fed to dogs.

i'm a jew and even i know that the pope said this was total bullshit as far back as the middle 1500s