Mark Ritchie, PhD

Graphic from: THE RESISTANCE Trump admin ads vs Nazi Germany ads What do you notice about the Department of Labor's new social media ad campaign when compared to Nazi Germany's ad campaigns?

MAGA Republicans:

“StOp CaLLiNg uS NaZiS‼️”

Also MAGA Republicans:
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This needs to happen.

I’ve had dengue. It’s awful. And you can get it more than once since there are multiple strains.

But there is now a vaccination for it! I don’t know if it’s available in the US or not, but it is a two shot sequence. Major game changer.

Little late, Historic Preservation Group! 🤷🏼

“Trump’s proposed 90,000-square-foot addition would overwhelm the White House itself (it is 55,000 square feet) and may also permanently disrupt the carefully balanced classical design of the White House.”

www.cnn.com/2025/10/21/p...

The Guardian is reporting that since Israel and Hamas signed the ceasefire and full hostage exchange agreement, Israel has violated the ceasefire 47 times, killed 38 Palestinians, and wounded another 143 more.

Meanwhile Hamas has released all remaining hostages.

It Was Never About The Hostages.

So in western Alaska, thousands of people are homeless due to flooding rains, one person is dead & two people are missing. But yet, the regime hasn't said a word, no thoughts or prayers, nothing.
Once again, they could care less about Americans, it's about enriching themselves through GREED.

Will Staley on Twitter writes: "Maybe this is an artifact of Elon's stewardship of this website, but the "No Kings" stuff — the language, the iconography, even the notion that Trump wants to be a *monarch* — is just totally foreign to me. I don't know where it comes from. Definitely not here."

Independent headline reads: "What order? Trump team ignoring 1 in 3 major judicial rulings against them, analysis finds" ACLU headlines reads: "Supreme Court Grants Trump Broad Immunity for Official Acts, Placing Presidents Above the Law"

Reuters headline reads: "In a switch, Trump White House seeks to reward colleges for abiding by its ideological terms" ABC News headline reads: "With Comey, Brennan, Soros, Trump steps up his retribution campaign"

Politico headline reads: "White House pauses new round of largely blue-state projects" AP headline reads: "Trump’s moves against media outlets mirror authoritarian approaches to silencing dissent"

amazing how you can write about culture professionally and still have no idea what’s going on in the world

Nasty business

"They know that in a functioning one-person-one-vote democracy, they could never pass the unpopular self-enriching policies they want. So they know they must focus on preserving and expanding the precedents that permit them to buy American democracy."

🔗 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

Apparently, they don’t hand out a Nobel Peace Prize to those who negotiated a ceasefire they had sabotaged a year ago just to get elected.

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

‘The damage is beyond repair’: The CDC faces another round of deep staff cuts | CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suffered another round of deep staff cuts late Friday, with disease detectives, outbreak forecasters, policy and data offices among those impacted, ac...

“The administration did not like that CDC data did not support their narrative, so they got rid of them. They didn’t like that CDC policy groups would not rubber stamp their unscientific ideas, so they got rid of them”.

The damage to the CDC is “beyond repair”.

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In a nutshell.

“We are the salt of the earth… and never forget - salt always melts ICE.”
-Rev. Otis Moss III

We are in a moment where we must choose faith over fear, justice over injustice, courage over silence.

So proud to stand with all of you who are choosing faith over fear right now.

Black Lives Matter was the last true bastion against fascism that posed a real threat to what the regime is now

And instead of supporting it, many of you “both sides’d” it because of your loyalty to carcerality and lack of imagination

Our ancestors fought for a world they’d never see. You can too

Spot on.

The rule of law means that civilians who commit crimes are prosecuted in courts of law with benefit of due process. Extrajudicial executions in international waters are an affront to our Constitution and the law of nations. It isn’t national defense. It’s murder.

The end of due process for immigrants is the end of due process for citizens.

Few understand this.

No. And if they don’t sing their Gen X card is forfeit.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for life. Transform a man into a fish and you enable him to roam the cool waters of the Atlantic, free from the burdens of the human world

Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.

Not remotely an original observation but I’m continually struck by how a major reason why marginalized people are so much better equipped to meet this moment than most white mainstream liberals is that we aren’t deathly afraid of political disorder given that it’s a feature of our lives

Listen to the Dictator Trump and his cronies aren't even hiding it anymore. Listen to them.

Trump told the military he plans on using them to fight a war against the people

Surviving and defeating a dictatorship is incredibly hard, but it begins with a very simple thing. Listen to the dictator when he tells you what he intends to do

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/listen-to-...