Progress or Backwards
As the train of fascism, steadily approaching the platform, slowly pulled in, the journalist traded clever ledes while the historians made notes and the politicians wrote letters.
- my kingdom for anyone on the “dems should take culturally moderate positions” to explain what this actually means in practice? www.thebulwark.com/p/hard-calls...
- Same old 90’s leadership still trying to win back voters they lost decades ago. The Tea Party became MAGA by igniting the base… with lies, but we can do it with truth. The truth is we need progress on so many basic rights issues. Remember the war on poverty? #DumbFascism #FUMAGA
- when ppl talk about Freud they are usually talking about the legacy of Freudian thought, and fair enough, but you do have to allow that the title of his 1912 essay “On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love” is all-time
- Debaser - Pixies is a jam.
- Even the Babylon Bee Gets it #HamasForceOne #SwampForceOnce ✈️
- Big reminder the Qatari are not “good” friends. Banking meeting place for Islamic terrorist for decades. But also, how does then donating your Imperial Star Destroyer to yourself so you can keep using it make this okay?
- Regular government employee: can’t let you buy me that Diet Coke, might break the rules The president: government officials accept $400 million dollar planes all the time
- The plane is being valued at $19 by the Qatari and is within acceptable gifts limit for federal employees.
- How much more in open defiance of a court order can they be? More in contempt? Maybe they’ll arrest another sitting judge? With his national police force? Disappear some more people to El Salvador or Libya? #NeverAgainIsNow #DumbFascism
- JUST IN: Judge Xinis says the DOJ has failed to file a privilege log regarding invocation of the state secrets privilege in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case. She's giving them until 3pm or will construe it as "intentional refusal" to comply. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- They want to be treated like a regular human being after they’ve de-humanized and needlessly murdered thousands of people.
- the thing about “the FBI is now prioritizing immigration enforcement, not ‘real’ crime” could be an opportunity to point out that who defines what is crime is always a consequence of politics
- Policy dictates what laws are to be enforced. I was at the pointy end of the spear when I learned this. Dictates how they’re enforced, too. Why the F voting matters!
- Library of Congress staff just showed what resistance looks like. After Trump abruptly fired Dr. Carla Hayden, the respected Librarian of Congress, he tried to install Todd Blanche, his former personal lawyer and current Deputy Attorney General, as acting librarian. Staff weren’t having it.
- Isn't the Library of Congress an Article I institution? Why would the executive have any say at all about its administration?
- Excellent question. Every bit of federal budget went through Congress. Taking away the “purse strings” of Congress is just more petty tyrant crap. No obligation to help them commit crimes. History says do the opposite. Every evil group started out small and step by step people acquiesced.
- Stop bending the knee before you’ve even been struck down. We aren’t peasants, we have a nation of laws, we have no obligation to help them break the law, at least force republicans in congress to try and codify this destruction of our history.
- Occupy Library of Congress project is happening? Please keep us posted.
