Trump's military occupation of DC crashes into reality—literally
Armored vehicles running red lights, feds busting residents for pot. All coming to a city near you.
A recent collision of a red-light-running, 14-ton armored vehicle with an SUV isn’t the biggest news involving the federal takeover of Washington, DC.
But it’s a tidy metaphor reflecting the counter-productive, heavily militarized display that Trump has embarked on while overriding democracy.
25.08.2025 15:17 — 👍 233 🔁 97 💬 12 📌 5
Few charts show our current American weakness like this one.
The minute Trump came into office, Putin knew he had the green light to do whatever he wanted and kill as many innocent civilians as he wanted.
25.08.2025 15:20 — 👍 1314 🔁 590 💬 59 📌 31
This is such an outrageous not to mention idiotic lie. This whole charade would be a joke were it not also so dangerous.
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TRUMP: “A lot of people are saying maybe we’d like a dictator.”
He’s saying it. Are you listening? 🇺🇸
25.08.2025 15:26 — 👍 4218 🔁 2025 💬 647 📌 378
Here are the Declaration of Independence’s grievances against King George III. Many apply to Trump.
It's uncanny.
Two hundred and forty-nine years later, many of the grievances levied against King George III apply to the reign of Donald Trump.
Here’s a look at how Trump stacks up against the Mad King.
03.07.2025 22:11 — 👍 831 🔁 308 💬 25 📌 18
Watch @garrisonhayes.bsky.social explore the connections between America’s culture wars, rising political violence, and the horrifying assassination of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman—and reflect on the alarming speed with which the country moved on.
04.07.2025 14:37 — 👍 2246 🔁 893 💬 106 📌 52
GOP Plan: Deny MILLIONS of Women the Right to Vote
They see the election results, and they know women are a threat to their majority.
The SAVE Act doesn’t save anything. Its main effect is to make it harder for women to vote, especially those like me who changed our names when we married.
Hands Off Her Vote
www.digitaldrumbeat.com/p/gop-plan-d...
01.04.2025 01:15 — 👍 5443 🔁 2300 💬 147 📌 111
If y’all still want social security, veteran’s health care, safe food, safe aviation, cancer research, a history which isn’t whitewashed, women’s autonomy over her body, a functional US Postal Service, transparency in government, due process….NOW is the time to exercise your 1A right
18.03.2025 15:30 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
If you care about preserving online resources being scrubbed from federal gov't websites, support the work of the Internet Archive. I've used it for teaching, research, and writing. I donated & hope you will, too.
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Balboa Park
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Fitting for this VD.
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05.02.2025 07:23 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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.
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Musk's assault on USAID -- which has been one of most important tools of U.S. foreign policy (in addition to saving countless lives) since JFK -- is also being openly cheered on by the Putin regime.
03.02.2025 18:32 — 👍 2400 🔁 613 💬 66 📌 14
It’s imperative that we stick together in these hard times. Support each other and the good in the world. I love yous 💕💕💕
03.02.2025 20:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Want to know what a federal funding freeze does? It takes money from families that just lost their home in a wildfire. It takes resources away from vets. It leaves 72M Americans without access to healthcare. Trump, Elon, & their billionaire buddies laugh their way to the bank while Americans suffer.
29.01.2025 00:03 — 👍 6783 🔁 1926 💬 202 📌 75
Warren: "He can stand there, smile at you and say, 'anybody can vaccinate their kids who wants to,' but he literally could bankrupt the vaccines manufacturers with the power he will have. And since he's got a financial incentive to do that, we cannot trust him in that job."
30.01.2025 01:38 — 👍 46214 🔁 10866 💬 608 📌 346
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