Meganne Masko

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

JD Vance dismisses bipartisan outrage over racist and offensive Young Republican group chat The public release of a Young Republican group chat that included racist language, jokes about rape and flippant commentary on gas chambers prompted bipartisan calls for those involved to be removed f...

Um...Nazis are bad. Why are there people who still disagree about this?
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The silencing of late night hosts should strike fear in the heart of every American. It will not stop here.

Things are worse for him because they are worse for us all. And he’s not hit bottom because neither have we.

New 'Thought Policing' Bill May Let Rubio Strip Passports from US Citizens Over Political Speech | Common Dreams Free speech advocates fear a new bill could let the Secretary of State strip passports from US citizens based on their speech. "Rubio has claimed the power to designate people terrorist supporters bas...

You can use @resist.bot to tell your members of Congress that our Constitutional rights are not up for debate.

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#poetry

Of The Empire
Mary Oliver

CBS shifts to appease the right under new owner CBS' new owner, David Ellison, has taken concrete steps to address the concerns of the news division's sharpest critics — particularly President Trump and his allies.

Every day is scarier than the day before. We learned nothing from WWII.
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It's the hypocrisy for me.

The Wall Street Journal is now walking back its earlier reporting that "transgender ideology" messages were found on the shooter's ammunition.

But it's too late. That story is all around the country and the world. Most who have read it will not see the update.

Thanks, WSJ.

The Supreme Court Has Always Upheld White Supremacy Receipts show the current Court's right wing extremist rulings are not aberrations, but manifestations of SCOTUS history—and that must change

This week SCOTUS issued a ghastly ruling—that Trump's ICE fascists can use ethnicity as a ‘relevant factor’ to detain people, targeting Latinos.

The harsh truth is this white supremacy is not new, but what SCOTUS has *always* done throughout most of US history.
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What is the ‘Seven Mountains Mandate’ and how is it linked to political extremism in the US? • Ohio Capital Journal The Seven Mountain Mandate calls on Christians to “take dominion,” over seven key areas of culture: religion, family, education, government, media, business and the arts. Here's an overview, and how i...

We talked about this in my #ethics class today in #seminary.
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Following public backlash, the military is reversing its decision to halt the distribution of critical weather forecast data. The Navy’s Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center confirmed it will continue to release information from the

#Jesus Overturning is a celebration of Jesus' activism. A reminder that with love, it is also a moral duty to flip tables when we see things that are corrupt, immoral, and unjust. I think it’s a good reminder for us all.

What tables are you going to flip? (No matter how small)

What Israel has done in Gaza has and will always be a genocide. This stands on the shoulders of all nations that did not intervene (and the individuals that stood in the way, gaslighting) or who kept supplying the Israeli state with mass casualty ammunition and weapons without any oversight. #3E

No formula, no food: Mothers and babies starve together in Gaza - NBC News

When a network lays off one of America’s greatest satirists, it’s not because he failed. It’s because he succeeded too loudly.

Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it will shut down its Office of Research and Development and eliminate thousands of agency jobs. According to the agency, this office has long served as the scientific backbone of its efforts to protect both public health and the environment.

You’re not evil for asking why the president cut services and let your family drown.

We live in a country that will spend billions to kidnap children off the streets, but very little to look for other missing children. #Priorities

Church doubles down after preacher encouraged prayers for LGBTQ deaths A preacher from the Sure Foundation Baptist Church in Indianapolis said LGBTQ+ people "deserve the death penalty."

In his sermon, the pastor of a Baptist church in Indianapolis encouraged LGBTQ people to commit suicide.

As @ffrf.org is fond of saying: "The is no hate like Christian love."
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V for Vendetta

The worst part of America isn’t just the giddy cruelty of the fascists. It’s the quiet indifference of the apathetic masses.

What, exactly, are we celebrating this Fourth of July?

Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?

Our new concentration camps?

Our dying economy?

Our ditching due process?

Our corruption?

Our broken Congress?

Our corrupt Supreme Court?

Our ridiculous buffoon President?

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Happy "Republicans Read the Declaration of Independence and Lose Their Collective Shit" Day.

Rebellions are built on hope.

As we’ve reported before, ICE facilities are rife with human rights violations. Now, the Department of Homeland Security is trying to hide them, formally requiring members of Congress and their staff to give seven days’ notice before visiting immigration detention centers.