Jon Thomason

When the D.C. Bureau Chief of the Independent drops a truth bomb.

The Anti-Democracy Alliance: What We’re Actually Up Against What if the fight we’re in isn’t just domestic? What if the other side is already coordinating?

One of the most dangerous myths in American politics today is that authoritarianism is something that happens “over there.”

It doesn’t.
Not anymore.
Not in 2025.

Because the fight for democracy — and against it — is now global.

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Note to Kristi Noem:

It is far better to be mocked in a cartoon for how you look than to be shoved into the back of a U-Haul and kidnapped for how you look.

Everyone should shun Nazi collaborators

Kristi Noem Ripped After Offering Groanworthy Nickname For New Migrant Detention Center This woman is sick in the head.

She really is sick in the head.

I’m Not Panicking. I’m Outraged. Read more here.

What if Pam Bondi did decide to open an investigation into why I stopped posting on Twitter? Would the legacy media treat it with outrage or with skeptical bemusement?

Or would everyone just look away and hope it doesn’t happen to them next? www.democracydocket.com/opinion/im-n...

A little math about that prison camp in Florida. $450 million per year for 3,000 people is $150,000/person per year. The cost for one person receiving SNAP for one year is $2256, yet they're telling us that's too expensive. threads.com/@unapologeticallyzae

The agreement "WAS NOT PUT IN WRITING"

This is not a serious government, but a mad king making arbitrary decisions with local politicians and foreign governments saying whatever crap they hope will pacify his current obsessions.

No business can make long term investments in such an environment.

JUST IN: Federal judge orders a temporary stop to construction of Alligator Alcatraz concentration camp in Florida amid environmental lawsuit

Good indeed. This could have been what pushed Trump over the edge to win (if he really did legitimately win, something that’s looking more questionable now). Go Bernie!

Imagine this in Russian on Russian state TV

The word for what Jesse Watters is describing here is un-American. A shredding of the constitution.

There nothing funny about it.

GOP Utah Senate President Slammed After Changing Law To Help Relative Who Raped 13-Year-Old Absolutely horrendous.

This is absolutely horrendous.

“Medium income” 🤡

@megancnbc.bsky.social

Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

NEW: Police bodycam footage introduced at the trial of Jared Wise showed him berating police officers on Jan. 6, 2021, and yelling "kill 'em" as rioters attacked law enforcement. He’s now working as a senior adviser for the Department of Justice.

We are going to end up with something like the Waffle House Index to measure distress in the economy

Release ALL the Epstein files. Let the shit fly!

I just fired my car because the odometer differed from my hunch.

White House Slammed After Using Popular TikTok Meme To Mock Deported Immigrants The cruelty is the point.

The cruelty is always the point with this administration.

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "We can, in essence, likely neuter the total number of districts that Trump is looking to get with Abbott in rigging those [Texas] maps, here in the state of California. Hope other governors consider doing similar things. You've got to fight fire with fire."

“The 2020 Senate committee investigation, which interviewed more than 200 witnesses and reviewed a million documents over three years, came to the same conclusion. ...
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Just watched a YouTube video about male Gen Z fashion trends and I swear to god the first two things were tucking your socks into your pants then wearing flip-flops on top of your tucked-in socks. The last two things were bowling sneakers and bowling ball bags. I now believe in the fertility crisis.

This is truly insane. We are witnessing one of the most corrupt cover-up schemes in history—and it's all playing out in plain view.

This is too easy.

While the Department of Justice is meeting in secret with Ghislaine Maxwell to coach her on testimony, it is hiding from us three discs containing court-authorized recordings of her phone calls. [Source: ABC News] That is the REAL evidence. And this is a cover-up.