Not all clowns are funny.
NYT, October 2024.
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This is not a drill, but it is a test.
For many USAians, the moral choices we make now will define us for the rest of our lives. It may seem bleak or useless or frightening, but you WILL be transformed by these events ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.
Only two choices:
1. Collaborate, capitulate, detach, turn inward.
2. Defend, endure, demand, commit to truth, engage.
Which is your camp? Your legacy?
These are not serious or even decent people. Bad faith is lethal to democracy.
Via Guardian: Pam Bondi denies knowing Ice agents wore masks during raids despite video evidence
#uspol #democracy #RMOL #LiveInTruth
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/25/ag-pam-bondi-ice-masks-raids
The Guardian · Pam Bondi denies knowing Ice agents wore masks during raids despite video evidence
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Consider this…
Of the 53 Republican members of the Senate, 43 have never served under a Republican president other than Trump.
They know nothing about GOP governance except the MAGA/Trump program. To them, this is all quite normal. Business as usual.
That’s how #authoritarianism puts down its roots.
Marco Rubio thinks it’s “lunacy” to import disruptive activists to the US.
Keep talking, bro, while we ramp up domestic production.
The New York Times · Losing International Students Could Devastate Many Colleges
Campus chapter of AAUP organized a lunchtime demonstration on the Academic Quad today.
Radical left lunatics “ideologically captured” by constitutional democracy and the Bill of Rights.
Small college, big feelings.
Guy who was slapped with two class action suits for running a fake university with no accreditation calls Harvard U., which has produced 132 Nobel Prize winners, “a joke.”
NBC News · Federal court approves $25 million Trump University settlement
Reposting cuz post-totalitarian dictatorship is here.
Continued thread
Made a thing.
How far will it go?
Am I safe as a natural born citizen? There has to be a line somewhere. This isn’t Russia.
The answers are clear…but who wants to accept and internalize them? Recall what Trump has told us already.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/13/politics/trump-military-enemy-from-within-election-day/index.html
CNN · Trump suggests using military against ‘enemy from within’ on Election Day
#April5 #HandsOff #uspol #democracy #RMOL #UK
More UK coverage from Sky News. At the end of this report Trump’s press secretary unsurprisingly claims Trump isn’t listening. Maybe not, but the rest of the world is.
The fact Trump may attempt to modify the system in order to extend his presidential term (journalistically known as “pulling a Putin”) is a massive red flag. Consequently, these protests are very important and really do count…
https://news.sky.com/story/thousands-protest-against-trump-and-musk-at-rallies-in-every-us-state-13343002
Sky · Thousands protest against Donald Trump and Elon Musk at rallies in all 50 US states
They will minimize it. Mock it. Insist there’s no point.
But we know.
Next round on #May1.
If everyone who protested today brings one more person…BOOM. 
#Trump #DonaldTrump #USA #America #Protest #antiTrumpProtest #President #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Musk #ElonMusk #antitrump #RMOL
#handsoff2025 #antitrumpprotests #April5 #HandsOff #uspol #democracy
If the protesters decide to take a tour of the Capitol building and make a few interior design modifications, I’m sure Trump won’t mind. He pardoned the people that did it on January 6, 2021.
Sky · Thousands protest against Donald Trump and Elon Musk at rallies in all 50 US states
Old protest story:
Guy standing alone on street corner with “STOP GOVT ABUSE” sign.
Car stops and driver says, “You don’t really think you’re going to change the govt standing here with your little sign.”
Protestor laughs and shakes his head: “I don’t do this to change the govt. I do this so the govt doesn’t change me.”
#CoryBooker still making good trouble on the Senate floor.
I hope this breaks through. Do we have a public discourse anymore, and, if so, is this going to be part of it?
“My voice may be shaky, but I’m going to use it.”
Resist much, obey little.
https://www.newsweek.com/cory-booker-speaking-live-senate-floor-speech-today-2053478
Newsweek · Cory Booker "filibuster" live: Senate floor speech passes 10 hoursThe Democrat, 55, who has been attacking cuts under the Trump administration, vowed to keep going "as long as I am physically able."
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Resist much, obey little. #RMOL
American Civil Liberties UnionKnow Your Rights | Protesters’ Rights | ACLUThe First Amendment protects your right to assemble and express your views through protest. However, police and other government officials are allowed to place certain narrow restrictions on the exercise of speech rights. Make sure you’re prepared by brushing up on your rights before heading out into the streets.