Q: You called Zelenskyy a dictator. Would you use the same word regarding Putin?

Trump: Uhhhh… I don’t use those words lightly. We’re gonna see how it all works out

Requiem For The West Trump and Vance have put a stake in the heart of the free world.

"What [Trump] is doing is not about making a tough peace deal with Russia, recalibrating NATO, or protecting Ukraine’s democracy. He is merely setting the terms of a new alliance and relationship with the criminal Russian dictatorship — directed against the European democracies." bit.ly/41hinVV

Measles outbreak tops Page One in Dallas

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We See Who Bows & Who Stands!
That this was even allowed to get this far is an egregious failure of our elected officials. Make no mistake: Trump is not a king, but he is an aspiring dictator. And come election time, the people will remember who stood up to him—and who bowed.

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Literacy is activism.
Reading is a political act.
Books are tools for liberation.

First they came for the federal employees,
And I did not speak out,
Because I was not a federal employee
...

You know the rest of the poem.

Act accordingly.

This was always about cutting the federal government so the tax cuts for the very wealthy don’t expire. This was never about “efficacy.”

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

Thousands in Midwestern GOP Districts Attend Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight Oligarchy | Common Dreams Senator Bernie Sanders is on a mission to fight oligarchy and empower the people. With a powerful message against Trumpism and billionaire influence, he's rallying Americans to stand up for democracy....

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps.

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"Golden Era"

Opinion: Why everyone should care about the Constitution’s separation of powers Constitutional separation of powers safeguards individual rights, limits private entities, promotes the rule of law and protects against the tyranny of unchecked power.

We need to stand up to the wannabe dictator.

The day after people across the United States took to the streets for No Kings Day, Trump signed an executive order consolidating executive power. He wants to seize direct control over independent agencies that were designed to operate outside of presidential influence to prevent authoritarian rule.

We will not bend the knee! Join the resistance at FiftyFifty.one.

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Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

And measles outbreaks throughout the nation.

🚨 We are mobilizing for a NEW national day of protest— March 4th Against Monarchy!

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GOP senators fact check Trump's Ukraine rhetoric, while still backing his strategy - NPR

Public education is the backbone of American democracy.

In the richest country in the history of the world, we cannot abandon our teachers and our public schools.

"A democracy becomes an oligarchy when the rich figure out how to pervert the laws for themselves...this is plain even to a blind man."
- Plato, Republic - approximately 350 BC

Spot on.

"Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.' -J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit, pub. 1937

Join 50501 in a National Day of Action on Monday, February 17th. We are reclaiming President's Day - a day that is supposed to be celebrating the Presidency. Unite to limit executive overreach. Find your protest at https://buff.ly/417VjtT, or create one.