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And HERE'S the original article now with 100% less nag screen bullshit...

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... reminder to everyone, please always try to share news article links using archive.ph so that people can instantly click and see what you're sharing instead of trying to jump through hoops of nonsense.

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Masha Gessen, who lived under Russia’s secret police, is sounding the alarm: the U.S. is now echoing those same authoritarian patterns. Raids, surveillance, fear tactics—it’s not theoretical anymore.

We are watching a police state take root in real time.
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YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Alliance Defending Freedom: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Here’s last night’s story about the Alliance Defending Freedom, the legal organization behind several landmark Supreme Court cases, and the theological importance of the pink fairy armadillo. youtu.be/sCAuHH5EYnE

If the system requires us to choose between two genocide supporters, then humanity requires us to dismantle the system.

Grabbed at his appointment to become a citizen. Is this who we are? 😕🇺🇸

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Sotomayor warns in her dissent that the Trump regime is arguing they can grab anyone they want including 🇺🇸 citizens and send them to foreign Prisons

Goldman Sachs chart showing collapse of foreign visitors coming to the US

This is an astonishing chart - the collapse in visitors coming to the US post Trump’s border incarcerations.

Bye-bye tourism industry.

The Supreme Court’s New 5–4 Bailout for Trump Couldn’t Be More Ominous The Supreme Court handed Trump a major victory, lifting a restraining order that had prevented the mass deportation of migrants to an El Salvador prison.

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A lot of people still think these protests are about gearing up for 2026 or 2028. They don’t understand yet that this only ends with him fleeing on a plane to Riyadh or Moscow. But they’ll learn.

Is it relevant that America’s literal origin story is that a people went to war over an unaccountable authority imposing an unreasonable tax on them. (and that tax was an import tax, a tariff)

It seems relevant

1) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse.

2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report."

3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes."

This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.

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AI generated image of a large block of cheese atop a crushed Tesla CyberTruck (AKA Swasticar, Wankpanzer, or an Incel Camino) In the background is the state capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin.

🧵Masked ICE thugs attempted to abduct the school nurse at Cooke Elementary School, located in the densely populated Adams Morgan section of DC. Workers at the school intervened, demanding a warrant and holding up their phones and ICE scurried off without making their arrest.

The image is a heatmap titled "Measles," showing measles cases across U.S. states from 1928 to 2003. States listed on the y-axis include Alaska, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. The x-axis spans years from 1928 to 2003. A vertical line marks the introduction of the measles vaccine around 1963. The color scale at the bottom ranges from blue (0 cases) to red (4,000+ cases), with shades of green, yellow, and orange indicating intermediate values (1,000, 2,000, 3,000 cases). Before 1963, many states show frequent high case numbers (yellow to red), while after 1963, cases drop significantly, with mostly blue indicating near-zero cases.

And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”

Trump says "there will be bombing" if Iran does not make nuclear deal U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Iran with bombings and secondary tariffs on Sunday if Tehran did not come to an agreement with Washington over its nuclear program.

Trump is threatening to bomb Iran if it doesn't make a nuclear deal that Trump previously pulled the US out of in 2018. This is like the tariff war but Trump gets to directly murder civilians as he flip flops and does Israel's bidding in the region.

www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

The few
The proud

Authoritarianism

It is not just that Trump donor's can get Trump to make their crimes disappear; he will also punish any prosecutor who dares to hold them accountable.
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The White House Correspondents’ Association said it fired host Amber Ruffin so it can instead focus the dinner on celebrating the First Amendment.

Which apparently can be done best by preventing a gay black woman from speaking.

The administration is trying to destroy free speech and freedom of the press. The White House Correspondents Association does not want to offend them while they're doing it. Sad days when journalists are the ones greasing the slippery slope to fascism.

Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

ICE Makes Another Student Disappear—and No One Knows Why Federal immigration officials have abducted another international student.

The Trump administration has detained another international student—this time from the University of Alabama and without providing any justification.

All are assaults on free speech and are blatant violations of immigration law

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