Rebekah Young

Historian here, this was a long interview on how Trump is criminalizing political dissent, politicizing the armed forces and civil service, asserting unchecked executive power, as a path to create the dystopian world of Project 2025. A couple of sentences made it to the final clip!

Leavitt: “You guys are framing this like the president wants to do the exact thing he says he wants to do.”

It’s getting worse and worse

Now I’m falling asleep and she’s calling a cob

Should've used this photo

The plan in 2026 is to rig the election.

A Budget truck with about five armed men seen inside. It's dark out and the taillights are lit. The photo is attributed to KT O'Loughin.

Going back to that raid on the South Shore apartment building. It hasn't gotten much focus that the goons reportedly traveled the same way Patriot Front does: in UHauls.

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NO KINGS SINCE 1776

🪧NO KINGS NYC
📍 47th & Bwy
📍 The red steps
📆 October 18th
⏰ 11am
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This is a peaceful, nonviolent march.
There is no rally.
The march will start at W 47th St & Broadway.
The march route is south on 7th Ave, dispersing at 14th St.
Spread the word!

🤦‍♀️The hypocrisy….

The National Failure at the Heart of the Jeffrey Epstein Story It is a great challenge to pay sustained attention to any one of the onslaught of moral or legal indignities unfolding in this moment.

Epstein’s victims number about a thousand, which means that the number of people who were complicit in their exploitation was not in the twos or threes or tens or twenties. slate.trib.al/d9zQZ38

More people should wear funny costumes at anti-ICE protests. If we're going to live in a very weird, very stupid reality, it should at least be hilarious

Fascism 101: Control the media.

LOOK AT ALL THE PEOPLE DESPERATELY RUNNING 26 MILES, 385 YARDS TO ESCAPE A WAR ZONE

“If we read this bad faith thing as if it were good faith, it doesn’t sound that bad.”

10/10, no notes.

It is amazing how nearly all U.S. news now is marked by endless bouts of crisis, confrontation, and standoffs, not imposed by any outside circumstances, but by the government of the United States itself: purposely in order to divide and weaken the country.
What a disastrous self-own by the voters.

Trump has been saying-for years-that left wing protesters were burning down Portland

This week, he had the chance to prove it to a federal judge-one he himself appointed

Not only did he fail
Miserably

But the judge ruled that he was essentially delusional

Everyone now realizes he's going to pull this trigger. Just a matter of when. Then all the eggheads clinging to "almost" a constitutional crisis & "almost" authoritarian rule can go jump.

We've been there. You just didn't want to believe it bc then you'd have to DO SOMETHING.

He counted on that.

I strongly object to the comparison many are making these days between Stephen Miller and Joseph Goebbels.

I think it's deeply misguided, and unfair, to compare them.

Goebbels was a far better propagandist, and didn't execute much policy.

Miller far more closely resembles Heinrich Himmler.

Has Ft. Knox been checked yet?

if this is what is going to pass for "news" why not just put up a screengrab of Sal's Pizzeria burning

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

There’s just not enough attention being paid to how unqualified, psychologically unfit, and dangerous so many of these new ICE hires potentially are.

If we had a Congress, there’d be investigations & oversight into this.

Trump’s Bizarre War on New York City Infrastructure It’s nonsensical, writes columnist Ross Barkan. But Trump has less a theory of power than a theory of revenge.

It’s nonsensical, writes columnist Ross Barkan. But Trump has less a theory of power than a theory of revenge.

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

Serious question: What's stopping the State of Illinois from arresting Stephen Miller & charging him with incitement?

The Senate didn't confirm him. He's just a guy.

At some point, the states MUST use their authority to prosecute, because the federal government certainly will not.

Sorry I’m late for work. I was briefly the prime minister of France…

Congrats again to Chief Keyser Söze, whose greatest trick was convincing the world that actual John Roberts doesn't exist.

Folks, he wants all of this. It is the game he’s been playing at for 25 years now, since he was busy stealing an election & making sure everyone’s vote wasn’t counted in 2000.

I'm so sick of the casualness of their constant lying.