Susan Barnes

AMPHIBIANS AGAINST FASCISM flag with frog AMPHIFA

LMAO this is what happens when you fight the creatives: *Oh yeah? I've got an inflatable frog suit. BRING IT.*
#FROGTIFA #AMPHIFA #AmphibiansAgainstFascism

Authoritarians rule based on fear.

Ridiculing them this way weakens their propaganda.

It matters.

Imagine being mad you didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize while you’re busy stirring up Civil War in your own country.

The guy who keeps invading cities and bombing foreigners whenever he feels like it and keeps dangling invasion of Greenland, Canada, Mexico, and Venezuela didn’t win the Nobel peace prize this year

Nobel committee subtweeting Trump

Antifa is not a group; the president cannot designate domestic terror groups.

My @brennancenter.org colleague @faizapatel.bsky.social is out today with a deep review of NSPM-7. It is a dangerous directive that will facilitate predatory politics-based targeting: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president

Mike Johnson was born in 1972. “God Bless the USA” came out when he was 12. This is boomer cosplay.

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Way to call Trump’s bluff, Gov. Pritzker.

The president threatening to have Chicago’s mayor and Illinois’ governor arrested is serious and bad, not least since it’s because they’re following the law instead of helping Trump break it.

But his capacity is limited. He’s hoping the bluster is enough.

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

RNC-Hired Mapmaker Denies Using Racial Data in Texas Gerrymander, Sparks Debate Read more here.

NEW: today in court, the TX congressional map-maker said he
-was hired by the RNC, not TX
-reviewed the DOJ letter (urging TX to eliminate some minority districts) before it was sent
-communicated w/the white house using signal messages that autodeleted

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Today is Day 7 of the Republican shutdown. Your regular reminders:

1. Republicans control the White House, Senate and House.

2. GOP making deep cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and ACA.

3. Democrats are fighting to lower costs, cancel the cuts and save healthcare for Americans.

Agree. I showed the movie reenactment of this scene to my students this semester and we discussed satyagraha as an ethic & tactic

What a win for the Bulwark community!

As I listen to all the local announcers from the playoff teams, I’m reminded how fortunate we are to have Robert Ford and Steve Sparks. Win or lose, Ford and Sparks are outstanding analysts and transcend the local beat. #Astros

“How can Portland POSSIBLY stand against the might of the federal government?!”

“Let me introduce you to our frog.”

There is no actual democracy in the world where minority parties, controlling <exactly none> of the legislative or executive institutions of the government, are expected to save the governing majority from itself. Only in America, where Murc's Law Trumps everything else.

Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

"’People who lack legal status in the U.S. have never been eligible for marketplace coverage or tax credits, and there’s nothing different about that now,’ said Katherine Hempstead, a senior policy officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.”

"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

1. On November 1, 22 million Americans will see their health care premiums increase unless Republicans agree to extend Obamacare tax credits. (More than 125,000 people in #TX07 rely on these tax credits to make their health insurance more affordable.)

Good morning.

The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.

Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

STEPHANOPOULOS: The Democratic proposal is designed to prevent millions of Americans from losing their health insurance, losing Medicaid coverage, or paying higher healthcare premiums. Why are you against that?

MIKE JOHNSON: That's an absurd statement

STEPHANOPOULOS: It's a factual statement

Every single DC journalist should be spending this afternoon/evening finding Speaker Johnson & John Thune & asking them why the impeachment/removal has not happened yet, & continuing to hammer them with the same question over & over & over & over again & not accepting the boilerplate non-answers.

Yup.

Folks: "The enemy within" is his opposition.
However much they claim that they're searching for criminals, that's no longer who's being rounded up & disappeared.

He's training troops using US cities as testing grounds.

And normalizing the use of US troops on US citizens in the process.

Not hyperbole - this fat Elvis wannabe Patton as a dictator act is terribly dangerous.

Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House.

If the government shuts down, it's because Republicans chose to shut it down rather than work with Democrats to pass a responsible budget.

It should be referred to as a Kavanaugh stop.