Chris Fobare 🇺🇦

And you caved to an authoritarian. As democracy is burning down around us, you asked the arsonists to put out the fire. That’s your legacy. You betrayed the will of the people less than a week after a Democratic landslide. I’m sure you’ll be “shocked” when Repub’s vote against extending ACA credits.

I can’t wait to see your statement when millions and millions lose healthcare. I’m sure it will be the stereotypical statement professing how you are “shocked, just shocked” that authoritarians lied. As our democratic institutions burn around you, at least you can yammer on about bipartisanship.

So you decided to capitulate to authoritarianism! When Republicans vote no on healthcare b/c you obtained no guarantees, I can only imagine we’ll hear some weak excuse about how you couldn’t imagine they’d go back on their word when they’re waging war against our democratic institutions daily.

As if we needed any evidence, this image illustrates powerfully that Donald Trump is a soulless vessel who doesn't have a shred of decency or humanity. Someone is literally having a medical event behind him, and like all of those suffering from Trump's policies, he intentionally ignores it.

Republicans have officially caused the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

Folks aren’t getting paid, families are wondering if they'll have food on the table — and now they’re closing off airspace right before the holidays. (1/2)

The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler) on Threads 🇺🇸 TEARFUL NAVY VET: “I never thought this country would see this day. 20 years in the navy fighting for our freedom — for somebody like Trump come in and take it away.”

My grandfather was a World II veteran. He fought against fascism abroad only for his grandson to become a historian and have to fight against a uniquely American version of fascism at home. Want to know the importance of teaching history? We see it unfolding around us daily.

Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’ From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and ...

Reporter @virginiagewin.bsky.social interviewed 19 current and former US federal agency scientists about the science being dismantled at EPA, NOAA, NASA, CDC, NIH, & USGS.

They say it's making America unprepared for environmental and public health crises.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In Our New Gilded Age, Everything Is for Sale I struggled to find a unifying theme for the latest parade of...

This article offers a decent breakdown of the staggering level of corruption unfolding at the hands of the Trump administration. None of this is normal. And it will only continue to get worse as long as Republicans are in power.

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...

The No Kings protests offered a glimmer of hope. It's crucial that we continue to struggle for the resurrection of American democracy. ICE is a shadow military, the Supreme Court has granted Trump tyrannical powers, and the Republican Party has destroyed the system of checks-and-balances.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’ Vice-president downplays messages such as ‘I love Hitler’ in chat by 24 to 35-year-olds to ‘stupid jokes’

It’s pretty stunning to hear the VP of the U.S. wave off the celebration of Nazism and genocide. He did the same thing when it came out the a member of DOGE proudly posted he was “racist before it was cool.” All of this builds a clear cut case for who Vance is and what he believes.

Our crony capitalist oligarchy is propping up another crony capitalist. What a surprise 🙄.

Trump Admin Tells Federal Employees To Set OOO Message Blaming Democrats For Shutdown One health department employee said the directions seemed to be "coercing" subordinates into political activity.

Wild stuff. Furloughed employees within HHS got an email this morning telling them to set an out-of-office reply blaming Democrats for the shutdown.

"I take that email as coercing subordinates to engage in political activity," one worker told me.

www.huffpost.com/entry/out-of...

Yesterday, Trump told ~ 800 generals that American citizens are "the enemy within." Today a Republican Party that controls all three branches of government shut the government down and are using government website to push their propaganda. This is what the weaponization of gov't. looks like.

Spot On:
"Republicans have chosen the rules of legislative engagement. Now that Democrats, for once, have a cudgel, they’re supposed to be a pal(s) and help the Republican-only approach keep chugging along. That’s absurd and Democrats should be saying as much."

September 19, 2025 Today U.S.

September 19, 2025

Trump's moves against media outlets mirror authoritarian approaches to silencing dissent Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has waged an aggressive campaign against the media unlike any in modern U.S. history, making moves similar to those of authoritarian leaders that...

“What we’re seeing is an unprecedented attempt to silence disfavored speech by the government,” said Brendan Nyhan, a political scientist at Dartmouth College. “Donald Trump is trying to dictate what Americans can say.” https://to.pbs.org/46AYg7U

Just so I'm clear:

TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal

TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft.

TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism.

Free speech, everyone.

If you are a wealthy criminal defendant, it makes sense under this administration to hire the AG’s brother to represent you.

It’s the 21st century equivalent of offering military burials with full honors to Confederate soldiers in the wake of the Civil War. Another powerful illustration of just how far democracy has slid in this country. Like Confederates before them, MAGA Republicans share a violent disdain for democracy

Fed Governor Lisa Cook just sued to block Trump’s attempt to fire her. No president has ever tried this before. If courts allow it, the Fed stops being independent - and the economy becomes just another arm of politics.

Another sign of the real danger the Trump administration poses. I've long been tired of people trying to rationalize Trump voters returning a man to office whose incompetence and corruption are legendary. In every way possible our lives are in danger because of those who voted for Donald Trump.

August 25, 2025 This morning, President Donald J.

The Posse Comitatus Act forbids using the military as a domestic police force. The Supreme Court's radical conservative majority issued a disastrous ruling in Trump v. United States, claiming presidents are immune from criminal prosecution. Trump seized on the decision to become a tyrannical despot.

Reframing Jan. 6: After the Pardons, the Purge

Trump pardoned those who committed the constitutional definition of treason and his lackeys have purged nearly all who upheld the law and oversaw court cases that led to January 6 insurrectionists' convictions. The Trump administration weaponized government in service of undermining the rule of law

Historians are in search of the truth, which is very different from MAGA Republicans’ call for revisionist histories that promote counterfactual myths to promote white supremacy. Confederates did a similar thing in the late nineteenth century, which was crucial to the rise of the Jim Crow South.

John Roberts Is Responsible For America’s Embarrassing Gerrymandering Mess This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...

More needs to be said about how the Republican Party's theft of two Supreme Court seats in 2016 and 2020 paved the way for a radical conservative majority that empowered Trump to become a tyrant as part of the broader erosion of American democracy.

Do you know how insane and infuriating it is to live in a country where one party claims, with media and public support, the mantle of being the ‘tough on crime’ party while its leader openly calls for convicted criminals to be released from prison ‘or else’?

Totally agree. Gerrymandering should be outlawed nationwide, but since the Republican Party is using it to consolidate power in service of destroying democracy, Democrats must tax a maximalist approach to pull our nation back from the brink.

White House announces Smithsonian review amid Trump’s cultural reckoning The administration wants the museum system to “celebrate American exceptionalism” and “remove divisive or partisan narratives” ahead of the country’s 250th anniversary.

"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book
has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute." --George Orwell, 1984

What if History Died by Sanctioned Ignorance? We must mobilize now to defend our profession, not only with research and teaching but in the realm of politics and public persuasion.

The Trump administration's war against the factual teaching of American history and the production of factual history scholarship is indefensible and unforgivable. But it is part of a larger effort to bring about a coordinated effort to destroy American democracy that was outlined in Project 2025.