McMcSweeney

Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America

"why is any of this happening" is a question largely answered by my book btw!!!! in case you were wondering!!!
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RFK Jr was just confirmed.

The man who vehemently disagrees with vaccinating children…The man who believes covid vaccines don’t work.

He’s now the Head of Health and Human services.

There are no words for how devastating this appointment will be for Americans. Especially our most vulnerable.

Just remember you can’t wear them if it’s wet outside 😂

Same 😭 same.

Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie holding up the Vince Lombardi trophy like a winner while Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts stands behind him.

There’s something very America about the rich old white guy who didn’t do shit holding up the trophy like a hero while standing in front of the Black man who actually did everything.

Why does the world's richest man want to gut the CFPB?

Because it would shield him from having to follow financial laws to keep customers' money safe — and give him access to confidential records about his competitors.

Follow the money.

I honestly don't understand how someone who has read a thing in their life could deny that Trumpism is fascism at this point. But then I felt the same way on 1/6/21, so I'm certain they'll figure something out.

A memo listing all of the clubs eliminated by USMA.

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

Great. Same energy about DHS please!

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

I have 1.45 hr left in Brothersong, and oh eff T.J. Klune, but if you kill Ox… 🫣
#booksky

Do something!

Elon Musk keeps talking about saving taxpayers a few billion and government efficiency but the simplest and most efficient way for the government to recoup hundreds of billions all at once is to just take it from Elon Musk.

It’s literally your job to do something about it. This is not a wait and see…

cannot be said enough that for a decade a critical number of americans have simply refused to accept that he means what he says

So the world's richest man spends a fortune backing Trump and is given the go-ahead to...

-Run an "efficiency" agency despite having billions in govt contracts

-Replace civil servants with his own cronies

-Gain access to sensitive Treasury payment systems

See the problem?

Someone go arrest this man because what is going on 🙃

I know Dems want to focus on the price of eggs but I do think “end of checks and balances,” “coup by Elon Musk,” “racism and cruelty,” “destruction of civil service and federal government,” and “total chaos leading to global collapse” are also things that might energize voters against the GOP

I love that a white guy was flying the plane, a white guy was flying the helicopter, and a white guy gutted the FAA last week but somehow the blame is too much diversity.

And also, wrong Gaza

Please fucking listen to marginalized people I am fucking BEGGING YOU.

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

We are living through Republicanism boiled down to its essence: Everyone should be deprived of everything, because otherwise, somebody I don't like might get something I don't want them to have. We call it an ideology, but it's really a personality: Greedy, withholding, suspicious, angry, cruel.

Donald Trump has just released a national under 18 trans care ban executive order. I am working through specifically how it tries to do this, and will live tweet here section by section as I read through it.

It is not yet on the website, but has been released via press release.

Boy, these last eight days feel like a good reminder why democracies generally avoid letting people who attempt a coup come back to power….

i will say that we have never experienced anything like an administration trying to essentially freeze the activities of the entire federal government while making a series of illegal power grabs. genuinely unclear to me what kind of response, if any, these guys are generating against them

Halting spending approved by Congress.

Firing independent inspectors general from federal agencies.

Replacing civil servants with loyalists.

All plans pulled from Project 2025.

Remember when Trump denied knowing about the playbook and the media gave him a pass?