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The good news is that the constitution provides ways for Congress and the Judiciary to reign in a power-hungry president. The bad news is those people are all scared of him.
17.04.2025 16:47 — 👍 39444 🔁 9682 💬 1984 📌 623The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.
17.04.2025 18:21 — 👍 53825 🔁 13588 💬 1872 📌 796What would motivate Trump to follow said court order if he’s immune. They have no recourse if he doesn’t follow it, correct? He can’t be prosecuted if he’s carrying out presidential acts, correct? Didn’t they give him that power last year? Something tells me they are going to regret it.
11.04.2025 11:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0BREAKING: The Supreme Court says the government must facilitate the RETURN of Abrego Garcia from El Salvador to the United States. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
10.04.2025 22:55 — 👍 18973 🔁 3868 💬 997 📌 384
JUST IN: In new sworn declaration, DOGE administrator Amy Gleason says DOGE has 89 employees and no “formal front office or organizational chart.”
20.03.2025 02:58 — 👍 3001 🔁 828 💬 435 📌 257BREAKING: A federal judge in New Hampshire has granted yet another injunction against President Trump's birthright citizenship order.
10.02.2025 14:34 — 👍 2866 🔁 414 💬 30 📌 10
OK, I've had it. All my life I've been paying attention. But the people who don't get as much of a vote as I do. And I'm pissed.
27.01.2025 02:06 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Please pay attention to this case being argued in the 4th Circuit tomorrow. It could determine whether the GOP succeeds in stealing a NC Supreme Court seat by disenfranchising 60,000 voters.
Follow @democracydocket.com for full coverage of this critical case.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
He incited them,
He summoned them,
He sent them…to obstruct.
I remember Jan. 6th 2020
Your vote does not erase history. It’s not only his legacy, it is now yours.
Well done RollingStone for reporting it accurately.
23.12.2024 16:24 — 👍 41524 🔁 13863 💬 808 📌 561
Musk draws first blood with spending bill bombshell.
Chaos is the cheapest ingredient in a revolution.
It takes zero effort to destroy things. To sabatoge, throw a temper tantrum, & burn it all down.
Chaos agents are weak & have too vapid of an ideology to build a functional system.
Revolutionaries who come only with chaos, come with nothing.
Photo of a smiley Dalmatian.
Photo of the sun coming through some Spanish Moss.
Photo of the sun coming up on the horizon of a church steeple.
Photo of the sun shining through an oak tree in a cemetery.
Rest is not a retreat from progress, it's the foundation that sustains it.
It takes enormous fortitude to be aware of the truth and not be destroyed by it.
So pay attention a little less (or focus on truths that are not demoralizing) to sustain the path forward.
Trump didn’t divide the country; he fractured families that once lived in harmony, where Republicans and Democrats could freely discuss the issues of the day. Those days are now a distant memory.
11.12.2024 13:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention
26.11.2024 16:14 — 👍 27986 🔁 8707 💬 663 📌 934
Just because we lost an election doesn’t mean we were wrong. We’re still in this fight together.
27.11.2024 11:48 — 👍 16028 🔁 2780 💬 568 📌 179Why take the Resistance off of X?
Some people think that "resisting" means only "fighting." But actually "fighting" means only "fixating." And "resisting" means also "abstaining."
Let's practice abstaining from fixating over our political enemies. So that we can stay sane & move ourselves forward.
True. I found in 2022 when I was organizing marches that the more work I did, the less need I had to argue with others.
We don't have ultimate power, but we have a little bit of power. And when we exercise it - it alleviates a lot of our fears and tension.
It's a productive use of our anger.
Eric Trump says tariffs will "cost billions." True! He just forgot to mention who will be paying. Somebody buy this guy an econ textbook.
26.11.2024 20:22 — 👍 1929 🔁 138 💬 144 📌 4I’m starting to think that the longer we shield Trump voters from the worst economic outcomes, the worse things actually will get.
Sometimes people just have to find out the hard way, sad as that is. Yes, we will suffer. But at least they will learn that elections do have consequences.
