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Just bone chilling. And when the imprisonment of critics is combined with his offer to enrich and immunize his loyalists, this is how democracies die fast.

But it's still our choice. Don't let him silence you.

Ex-Justice officials: 'It's our duty to sound the alarm' Scores of officials who have resigned or been forced out of the Justice Department this year are speaking out against its "destruction."

“We believe it’s our duty to sound the alarm about this administration’s degradation of DoJ’s vital work, and its assault on the public servants who do it,” according to an open letter signed by 282 former officials.

It will take years to rebuild our Justice Dept.

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We have the Insurrection Act for a reason—

But it's not so a President with 34 felonies can ignore court orders and punish cities he doesn't like with military intimidation.

Especially not when the courts are telling him his claims of insurrection are "untethered to the facts."

The Wrecking Ball Named Russ Vought: How One Man Is Taking a Sledgehammer to Democracy How a Christian Nationalist Turned OMB Into a Weapon Against Democracy

Schedule F: the boring-sounding guillotine that could end the Republic. Russ Vought doesn’t want to “drain the swamp.” He wants to salt the earth.👇
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This is due to a law signed by Ronald Reagan and has nothing to do with this shutdown fight.

But consider this...

Emergency Medicaid spending in 2023 cost $3.8 billion — just 0.4% of total Medicaid spending.

Now what about the $20 billion taxpayers are giving to Argentina?

ACA Marketplace Premium Payments Would More than Double on Average Next Year if Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Expire | KFF KFF estimates that, if Congress allows the enhanced premium tax credits to expire at the end of this year, ACA Marketplace enrollees on average would see their premium payments more than double next y...

New data shows the cost of Republican plan to jack up health care prices:

– Premiums will more than double
– A 60 year old couple would have to pay $22,600 more a year

"There is an amazing history of Christian activism, but it always manifests itself in resistance to Christian Authoritarianism." --John Fugelsang.

MAGA Christianity may be defined as both authoritarian and "Jesus-free," and its about power.

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What a pathetic lie, JD. Nobody’s arguing for benefits for people who are undocumented.

But now that we’ve cleared that up, are you saying you WILL support continued ACA health care tax credits for millions of U.S. CITIZENS?

That’s what we’re fighting for!

Trump is planning to hand farmers $10 billion in cash bailouts with taxpayer money—yet he values American farmers at only half the price of his Argentinian bailout.

"The 'left’s agenda' is being 'cancelled,' Vought tweeted with drunk-on-power rapture. Gosh, how exciting! Once again, the invincible President Trump is totally owning his enemies!"

Using the framework of war against non-state actors and an abstraction (terror itself as the enemy) for the Global War on Terror gave the Bush Administration devastating free rein to violate human rights and trash everything. Here comes more of same.

If only he weren't the only governor doing this. If you take away the financial incentive for caving to Trump, there would be a lot less of it.

You mean “how to exploit it”.

These so-called "DEMOCRAT AGENCIES"...

-Ensure our food is safe to eat
-Keep our air and water clean
-Alert us to natural disasters
-Protect us from financial fraud and scammers

Remember what Trump is actually attacking.

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

Just two friends having a great time.

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!!!

Kevin Ryan
@kevryanforillinois.bsky.social

Just to note. January 23, 2019 there was a vote to reopen government (HJ RES 28, roll call vote 46) when the govt had been shut down for 30 days.

Mike Johnson voted “no” on that.

They didn’t seem to mind shutdowns then

Trump defends use of U.S. military against 'enemy within' Earlier, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the purpose of the department would exclusively be "war fighting."

JUST IN: President Trump has told top U.S. commanders that the military would be used against "enemy within."

President Donald Trump suggests using ‘dangerous cities,’ including Chicago, as military training grounds President Donald Trump told top military brass that American cities run by Democrats should serve as “training grounds” for troops.

President Donald Trump told top military brass that American cities run by Democrats should serve as “training grounds” for troops.

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.

I don't know how to yell any louder.

Putin won 🤬

As a former gamer, I cannot overstate how big of a deal this right-wing takeover of Electronic Arts is.

Are they going to create video games where they kidnap and dismember journalists like Jamal Khashoggi?

Trump has to put farmers on welfare after putting them out of business.

Socialist Farmers for Trump. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Donald Trump’s America is taxpayers paying farmers to grow crops only to let them rot unsold while grocery store prices are through the roof as he tells us everything is cheaper than ever despite the fact that he has never been shopping in a grocery store in his entire life.

Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals The Pentagon has summoned military officials from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Top generals and their staffs don’t know the reason for the meeting.

Imagine the response if a Dem Administration removed every top general and admiral from every US military post all around the world (including conflict zones), in order to force them to attend a big in-person meeting in DC (with a former cable news co-host).

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Right-wing Sinclair Broadcasting owns all these local media stations and many others all across America. This is not journalism, it is scripted propaganda.

CBS parent company Paramount canceled Colbert to win approval from Trump's FCC to merge with Skydance.

Now ABC parent company Disney suspends Kimmel as it seeks DOJ approval to buy Fubo — and its affiliate Nexstar seeks FCC approval to buy Tegna.

See how this works?