JC Craig

Could the National Guard protect the people from ICE? That would be the best use of them.

As a survivor, I can't think of a more fitting metaphor than a rapist creating loud noises with planes as a survivor tries to tell her story. I mean... just wow. Nevertheless, she persisted.

Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.”

This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over.

Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.

Image shows an owl with a hobby horse - looks like a witch on a broomstick

I have a new hero.
This owl stole a child's hobby horse and flies around with it!

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

Something to think about

This, right here..

WTF

Watching without sound; the two "dudes" behind him are really f'in creepy.

“I hope, Senator, after you've lost, and the Empire reigns over the galaxy unopposed, you will find some comfort in the knowledge that you fought according to the rules.” — Saw Gerrera

I've been thinking the same thing. Seriously wtf

"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov

I repeat…

Yep. And the right sees good people as collateral damage.

Ok, so when I scream "Fuck you, you asshole!!!" in my sleep, it could be at many people.
But it is never my husband.

As federal workers and aid recipients reel, Trump’s team says: So what? “They get the one starving kid in Sudan that isn’t going to have a USAID bottle and they make everything DOGE has done about the starving kid in Sudan,” a White House official said.

One could use a variety of social science terms to describe what’s going on, but perhaps the simplest explanation is that the Trump White House is run by assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Hi. I've been here awhile but this is my first actual post.
This morning my husband asked me "When you're screaming 'Fuck you, you asshole!!!' in your sleep, is that at me or at Musk?"
Hint: I was not screaming at my husband.

Great point.

Please, everyone, drop what you’re doing and read this:

Well maybe that is because he successfully rigged the last one?

The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS

Eek. Some of us are just busy and slow and careful of what we say(write). Le sigh 😔