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As Donald Trump turns the United States into one of the closest allies Russia has worldwide, it's worth revisiting the news item below, which came out immediately after Trump won a surprising victory in November:

Is this a fucking joke?

Published by Dr. Seuss in 1941

🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

What the actual hyper-grifting fuck?

US and Ukraine agree to terms on natural resources and reconstruction deal: Ukrainian official | CNN The US and Ukraine have agreed to terms on a deal over natural resources and reconstruction, according to a Ukrainian official.

Fuck 45 and his mafioso-style hostage-taking "deal making." Protect Ukraine. Leave their resources alone.

"...Americans had resisted security guarantees being included in the draft.

The precise wording regarding Ukraine’s security in the latest draft was unclear."

www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/e...

Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."

Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

seriously, fuck this guy

For those hoping to fix things in the midterms and the 2028 presidential election...

People who refuse to sanitize what’s going on, who’s in charge on the Right, how extreme their goals are, tend to be discarded as “alarmists” or “hysterics.” Those who sanitize it all are upheld as “reasonable” voices.

As a result, the broader public perception constantly underestimates the threat.

"Efficiency" should henceforth be read as "inhumanity." But, hey, at least the trains will run on time.

The Shriek of the Fox In the February darkness, a glimpse into a terrifying moment unlike any other in our history...

What do we do when working within the system no longer works? This is the great and for many, unaskable, question looming above Washington on this dark, cold February night. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

I can’t believe the Supreme Court said the president was above the law and now the president is acting like he’s above the law.

Not even trying to hide it…

This. This times every dollar every one of their cultists have ever spent on them.

The Plot Against America How a Dangerous Ideology Born From the Libertarian Movement Stands Ready to Seize America

This has been my most ambitious piece of writing so far. It's long. And I will be working on a much shorter version for a wider audience. But I also don't want to lose sight of the deep truths lurking around us. So, here is The Plot Against America. www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-a...

That link doesn’t work — use this instead: www.senate.mo.gov/Senators/Mem...

I’ve always said this was a big key to Trump’s appeal: What perversely excites a lot of people is that he represents liberation from the tyranny of basic decency.

Endless thanks to @felicia.day for all her support and belief in us from the very beginning. She is truly a magical human being.

What Trump has realized is that laws function around the expectation that they're followed, and both the political opposition and the press has resigned itself to the idea that he isn't expected to follow laws, which means he can ignore them with no consequence.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social • 5mo If we're going to conceptualize US politics as a spectrum from left to right, then we should have a name not just for what that far left end is (Communism) but also what the far right end is (fascism). Given that the GOP has continually moved rightward over the past decades, where's it heading? Hmmm 17 30 Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social • 5mo This dynamic of asymmetrical slippery-slopeism has created this fucked up dynamic in our discourse where if someone proposes, say, a Warren-esque wealth tax that looks like a modest version of what Tom Paine proposed in 1792, then OMG THAT'S FULL COMMUNISM WE CAN'T DO THAT IN AMERICA!!! But... 15 29 Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social • 5mo If Donald Trump is like "the real Americans are white Christian people and we should shoot migrants in the legs as they try to cross border and turn the DOJ and FBI into my own private Stasi" and then someone calls that "fascist" then OMG, THAT'S CRAZY TDS TALK, WE DON'T HAVE FASCISM HERE!!! ₴ 6 • 41

The sort of "asymmetrical slippery slope-ism" that structures our political discourse is a never ending source of irritation.

There it is

Every one of these guys thinks they’re Oppenheimer mixed with Andrew Carnegie and they own something called SplortDotCom that got bought by Boozoo

Their plan was to sit back and let them "screw up" while complaining about the price of eggs. Many of them are still expressing anger that people want them to do something else

This is why public information, and public education, are fundamental elements of democracy. Not bonuses, not nice to have, ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL. A vote doesn't make a country a democracy; the people are not ruling if they do not know what they're voting on.

"Perhaps voters are not easily hypnotized by pro-Musk hagiography painting his tech wizardry..." He's not a tech wizard. He's an oligarch who _uses_ tech experts to enrich himself at the expense of democracy.

newrepublic.com/article/1911... via @newrepublic.com

There's a good chance he doesn't even believe this nonsense, but is just agreeing to recruit even more fools who actually do buy it.

I bloody hope so, because it doesn't seem like y'all are doing much to fight his (and Musk's) other illegal actions. Maybe get on that? And get loud about it so we know you're making the effort. Don't just express "serious concerns," take up space and FIGHT these people. That's part of your job.