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A lot of libertarians who have been screaming in my replies about "authoritarianism" and "tyranny" for the last four years are conspicuously quiet right now.

Curious.

Mike Johnson rejects Hakeem Jeffries' demand to debate shutdown in primetime One House Democrat, asked about Johnson refusing to accept the proposal, told Axios: "Why would he?"

Mike Johnson just ducked Hakeem Jeffries’ shutdown debate challenge because it’s hard to argue when your entire plan is “blame Democrats while burning down the government’.

#GOPShutdown #CowardSpeaker
#USDemocracy
#Pinks

www.axios.com/2025/10/06/m...

ICE shooting blank bullets at the protesters.

You know this would NOT be going on in another country.

They'd already have put a stop to this madness!

When are we gonna step up? I really want to know, dis! People are hurting. It's gonna get worse.

This is not good, y'all! They're trying to scare us, into submission, to not fight back!

The Poisoning of the American Mind: How Fox News Conditioned A Nation for Tyranny On March 15, 2025—Black Saturday—Trump defied a federal court order, marking the collapse of constitutional government. How Fox News and right-wing media conditioned America for tyranny.

theintellectualist.com/black-saturd...

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason. Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

"[A]gents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face.... I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, 'you’re free to go.'" #KavanaughStop

Hmm. We were still fighting in Afghanistan during Trump’s first term. How come we didn’t win “easy” then? Why did Trump sign a one-sided agreement with the Taliban that allowed them to take over?

SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Straight up: I’m not onboard with farmers getting another bailout when so many voted for Trump two and three times. But what Trump is doing to them is brutal.

I want to believe they’ve learned their lesson this time, but I don’t.

Watch all the way through.

In 1976 we were so worried about corruption that Jimmy Carter had to divest himself from a peanut farm. Today Trump is raking in billions from myriad grifts with no consequences.

What exactly are Democrat Agencies? Once again Trump is rejoicing in putting hard working Americans out of work.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Hold on a second. Answer the question. As Speaker, do you believe it's appropriate to use American cities as training grounds for the military, calling those people 'the enemy within'?

JOHNSON: I'm not comment on your characterization of what the president said.

S: Those are quotes

“there's been a collective forgetting that measles, and mumps, and rubella—these used to be diseases that would kill people in fairly large numbers,”- Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna serves a valuable #CupOfJoe.

Watch more: bit.ly/46a5DUE

This is a VERY well crafted lawsuit.
1) Plaintiff is natural born.
2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants.
3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property.
4) He showed Real ID both times.

The awesome video team at the New York Times helped me make this video about the shutdown and Obamacare premiums.

"Someone who says I'm against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life," the pope explained. "Someone who says I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro life."

This is simultaneously not an especially radical theological belief and, politically speaking (especially in the U.S. context), quite a thing for Pope Leo to say. www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266859/...

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Hegseth spoke at length about the military focusing on lethality in its operations.

Trump spoke at length about the military being used to quell domestic dissent.

Put those things together, and that’s the takeaway.

Trump is declaring war on Blue Cities.
Trump is declaring war on his fellow Americans.
Trump is completely out of control.

And just 12 hours later here we are.
Welcome to trump's Authoritarian America.

GOP way of life (Part 2)

The endgame for all of this is constructing a military that will obey orders when ordered to fire on citizens. That's the throughline to half of what Trump is doing.

Now he just said, “We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military.”

During Trump’s speech, he was talking about firefighters allegedly getting “shot at with bullets” by “animals in our cities” and said something to the effect of “our cities are a big part of war, we’re going to talk about that.”

I can’t find a clip of this remark, but it stood out to me.

Sounds like he wants to rename the newly renamed Dept of War to the Dept of Rape. 🤨

A TV talk show chatterbox elevated to Secretary of Defense talking about standards is an undiluted lack of self-awareness.

President Trump tells us exactly who is responsible for the shutdown, and we couldn't agree more.

Maxwell Frost: "To be honest, this is something Trump said he would do. We all knew it during the campaign. He said he would be a 'dictator on day one.' The only thing he lied about is he meant 'I want to be a dictator for the entire term.'"