@GottaLaff
Why is the Trump administration fostering #CancelCulture ? I thought the #GOP abhorred censorship of this sort.

“We shouldn’t force our opinions on other people.”— #RFKJr just now.

Irony died.

Um...

Via Steve Vladeck:

Just the <checks notes> Chair of the House Appropriations Committee going on the record to say that appropriations statutes “are not a law.”

The United States Congress, ladies and gentlemen.

#jamesPogue #ezraklein
If you listened to Ezra interview James, I’d really like to talk about it. What are your thoughts? How does it change the way you see how we got to where we are today? #USPol

Via Maddow:

do you enjoy knowing that when you deposit money in a US bank, you won't lose that money? nice, right?

it's because bank deposits are insured by FDIC.

i don't know what FDIC ever did to these people, but apparently it too is now on their blow-it-up list: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/27/fdic-bank-examiners-job-offers-rescinded/

@mmynatt He wants to destroy the people he hates, "the other," wants them eradicated, wants a Christo-Fascist "govt" and world.

💦This firehose of atrocities from #Trump?

It's intended to instill fear, cowering, compliance, and of course, to desensitize you to all the horrific actions he takes, one after the other.

People tend to forget the onslaught from yesterday after the new firehose blast today.

NEVER allow that. Don't get desensitized. Don't ever normalize this.

Follow the advice of Tim Snyder, Marc Elias, Indivisible, others, to cope and do what YOU can (do a search).

Big hugs to every one of you.

"Rubio said he was authorising visa restrictions on Colombian officials & their families “who were responsible for interference of US repatriation flight operations”

BUT:

"Colombia’s statement: Murillo & Colombia’s ambassador to US would..travel to DC to continue diplomatic dialogue & ease tensions"

+ #Colombia refused to accept 2 US military aircraft:

"“The government of Colombia … has the presidential plane ready to facilitate the return of Colombians.."
#Trump

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/1/27/how-trump-coerced-colombia-to-accept-deportees-by-threatening-us-tariff-war

Remember, the Holocaust didn’t start with gas chambers in Auschwitz.

It started with politicians dividing the people with “us vs. them”.

It started with intolerance and hate speech.

It started when people stopped caring, became desensitized, and turned a blind eye.

Remember.

“ #Ukraine Pres Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday replaced for the third time in under a year the commander of a key Ukrainian military formation responsible for defending the eastern hub of Pokrovsk that's under increased risk of falling to Russian forces.”
- https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/zelenskiy-again-replaces-commander-ukraines-key-eastern-front-2025-01-27/

Allow me to address the elephant in the room:

The Trump administration is not setting the course for a four-year term.

The Trump administration is setting the course for an everlasting dictatorship.

Are we all clear on this?

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https://open.substack.com/pub/broligarchy/p/seig-heil-tesla?r=1j96e&utm_medium=ios

@murodegrizeco
Though we can’t sue and win bc of the first amendment, there’s this :- and though I hear you’re at a loss w your dad, for others who might read this dialogue and relate- https://www.factcheck.org/
Reality, but from a source rather than your voice.
I spent the last hour thinking and searching for answers. There’s more sites like this if you’re interested. Sent w deep respect.

@murodegrizeco my heart is here for you, the 5 yr old and the elder.
I have an idealistic part that wishes we could sue Fox, Limbaugh’s estate, Jones, Shapiro- the lot of them, for the loss of reality that they caused in people like your father. A class action. As Dave Troy reinforced today, it’s a cult.

@murodegrizeco that’s heartbreaking. I’m sorry. I wonder if he knows /feels your pain, or if he is too cut off from feelings or truth. Love your way.

@murodegrizeco Heather Cox Richardson. 🙌🏼🫶🏼🙌🏼🫶🏼

@murodegrizeco would they read HCR if you agree to read something from their 'side'? I have never tried this, though I think about it.

My thoughts sometimes go to wishing bad things for people who voted for this. And I do my damnedest to reframe. something like instead of I hope you get bird flu and pay the price for your vote, to I hope you fight bird flu so you can break out of your cult and help save our democracy. I’m sorry you had to learn you voted for a cruel con artist, w a life and death lesson.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

#BREAKING: #NorthCarolina Supreme Court rejects Jefferson Griffin's emergency petition to throw out 60k votes and overturn Supreme Court race, says they'll wait for his lower court challenges to go through the normal litigation process. However, the Court maintains the block on certifying the race.
https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/north-carolina-supreme-court-2024-election-protests-rejection-challenge/