What half of social media posts feel like, right now:
“Everyone is about to be dishonored, profaned, swindled, abused, or left for dead, in a dramatic fashion which will, in some twisted sense, be novel. Grab the popcorn.”
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What half of social media posts feel like, right now:
“Everyone is about to be dishonored, profaned, swindled, abused, or left for dead, in a dramatic fashion which will, in some twisted sense, be novel. Grab the popcorn.”
The GOP in 2017:
“It’s unfair to count the cost Trump’s 2017 tax cuts in calculating the deficit, because they are only temporary cuts.”
The GOP in 2025:
“It’s unfair to count the cost of making Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent, because the tax cuts already exist.”
The Trump administration attitude is that if you receive any taxpayer dollars, you are an employee of Trump Enterprises
29.05.2025 00:13 — 👍 1616 🔁 310 💬 60 📌 9Treating a new Covid strain like a crime and not a public health issue is deranged.
28.05.2025 23:39 — 👍 15991 🔁 3435 💬 1159 📌 402“Donald Trump has repeatedly said he could settle the war between Russia and Ukraine in one day if he’s elected president again.”
apnews.com/article/trum...
So—if you’ve been fortunate enough to have lived a long time, without having criminals break in and burglarize your house, have you spent all this time disappointed, believing that the only reason for this is that there haven’t been burglars manly enough to do it?
Ah yes, Habeas Corpus. Latin for, "Deport first, Google later."
21.05.2025 23:41 — 👍 2057 🔁 256 💬 69 📌 13
The air traffic controllers‘ radar screens have again just gone dark again at Newark International Airport. Which means there’s only one thing to do.
Devote still more resources and personnel to discourage crossings at the Southern border.
NPR thinks protests aren’t really worth covering and the only newsworthy aspect is the crowd size, you say?
17.04.2025 12:25 — 👍 981 🔁 249 💬 37 📌 14'If Your Church Won't Speak Out About a Deported Father (and Thousands More Like Him)—It May as Well Cancel Easter'
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/if-your-ch...
Isn’t it horrifying that there has been (at least, since 2021) no insurrection, and no sign whatever of an insurrection, and yet we pretty much already know that this president will almost certainly invoke the Insurrection Act, and may do so soon?
08.04.2025 03:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Same.
01.04.2025 22:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hi folks: Facebook appears to be taking down my posts. Please remember they are available for free here (no paywall), and can be received by email (also free-- just don't put in your credit card information). I guess if I'm being banned I'm doing something right?
01.04.2025 16:20 — 👍 5278 🔁 1273 💬 557 📌 122Cory Booker. 👇👇👇
01.04.2025 21:55 — 👍 15820 🔁 4214 💬 177 📌 218😡
30.03.2025 01:03 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Pathetic. Shameful. Cowardly. Disgusting. Trump and JD Vance showed the world they will enthusiastically reward the aggression of dictators and don't think freedom is worth fighting for.
They are setting fire to Reagan's "City Upon A Hill."
Alas.
28.02.2025 21:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Everyone knows what happened here. Trump can only exist around people he can causally humiliate. Guys lie JD and Rubio. He wanted to do a ritual humiliation of Zelensky and Ukraine but Zelensky wouldn’t accept that and so Trump reacted like a stung bitch.
28.02.2025 20:42 — 👍 13053 🔁 2160 💬 290 📌 92liz Cheney: Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine...
28.02.2025 19:24 — 👍 4002 🔁 897 💬 130 📌 30This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
So, basically: Ukraine knew perfectly well not to leave the house dressed like that.
19.02.2025 12:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This. Especially Senate Republicans.
16.02.2025 15:56 — 👍 4413 🔁 1127 💬 138 📌 42The author of this piece was an associate WH counsel under Reagan. He has a very polite way of explaining that what Trump is doing with DOGE is a coup. wapo.st/4hSE7Ox
12.02.2025 13:43 — 👍 8994 🔁 3271 💬 256 📌 124“Any hint of the selective suspension of congressionally authorized payments will be a breach of trust and ultimately, a form of default,” five former U.S. Treasury secretaries write. “And our credibility, once lost, will prove difficult to regain.”
10.02.2025 13:25 — 👍 618 🔁 193 💬 28 📌 14JD Vance - If you believe any of the multiple federal courts that have ruled against you so far are exceeding their statutory or Constitutional authority, your recourse is to appeal. You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny.
09.02.2025 19:34 — 👍 28332 🔁 6513 💬 1015 📌 401The struggle of our time is already, and will be, exhausting. Saving our nation and soul will not be the work of a day or a week. We must stay informed; hold, manage, and wisely deploy our outrage, equal to our strength, so that we may live another day to do it some more.
23.01.2025 15:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0