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#DOE #Education #SCOTUS #Fascism #alt
The Supreme Court derives its power from its legitimacy. It earns its legitimacy by explaining its decisions. The endless stream of wholly unexplained orders in favor of the Trump administration is not just indefensible—it's a threat to the court's own long-term power. This reeks of illegitimacy. -Mark Joseph Stern
#Cat #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfPixelfed #catstodon #CatsOMastodon #catsoffediverse #alt #caturday #humor
Via dryak@mstdn.science Thank you
Actually used as a tool to help kids going into surgery. ..but still
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If I were a ghost at #DoverCastle, this is where I would hang out
#tunnel #castle #Burg #spooky #haunted #old #alt #eerie #moody #mysterious #gothic #stoneWalls #SpookySaturday
#tunnel #castle #Burg #spooky #haunted #old #alt #eerie #moody #mysterious #gothic #stoneWalls #SpookySaturday
#Quotes #Soul #Love #Art #Illustrations #StaceyMcNiell #alt
Illustration by Stacey McNeill, known as "Fox Under The Moon".
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Selfishness.
Lack of accountability.
Cowardice.
Moral rot.
#LisaMurkowski #Cowardice #immorality #alt #BBB #selfishness #accountability #boost
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#politics #trump # PoliceState #fascism #alt #democracy #Concentration#Camps
Heather Cox Richardson 7/1/25
HOW MANY [CONCENTRATION] CAMPS? “IN MANY STATES”
![#politics #trump # PoliceState #fascism #alt #democracy #Concentration #Camps
Heather Cox Richardson 7/1/25
HOW MANY [CONCENTRATION] CAMPS? “IN MANY STATES"
In answer to the question “How many more facilities like this do you feel that the country needs in order to enact your agenda of mass deportations?” Trump said today: “Well, | think we'd like to see them in many states, really, many states. This one, | know Ron's doing a second one, at least a second one, and probably a couple of more. And, you know, at some point, they might morph into a system where you're going to keep it for a long time.”](/proxy/post_attachment/2006665/a5d5712742.jpeg "#politics #trump # PoliceState #fascism #alt #democracy #Concentration #Camps
Heather Cox Richardson 7/1/25
HOW MANY [CONCENTRATION] CAMPS? “IN MANY STATES\"
In answer to the question “How many more facilities like this do you feel that the country needs in order to enact your agenda of mass deportations?” Trump said today: “Well, | think we'd like to see them in many states, really, many states. This one, | know Ron's doing a second one, at least a second one, and probably a couple of more. And, you know, at some point, they might morph into a system where you're going to keep it for a long time.”")
#Cruelty #trump #ConcentrationCamps #Morality #alt #democracy #fascism #Resist #Resistance #NoKings
Thom Hartman 7/2/202
WE MUST RESIST TRUMP OR WE CROSS THE RIVER AND NEVER COME BACK
#Cruelty #trump #ConcentrationCamps #Morality #AlligatorAlcatraz#HumanRights #alt #History #Dachau #democracy #fascism
Thom Hartman 7/2/202
DEMOCRACY FALLS WITH A SHRUG BECOMES LAND OF THE CAGED
#Cruelty #trump #ConcentrationCamps #Morality #AlligatorAlcatraz#HumanRights #alt #History #Dachau #democracy #fascism #Resist #Resistance #NoKings
Thom Hartman 7/2/202
TRUMP’S DACHAU WE MUST RESIST
#Cruelty #trump #ConcentrationCamps #Morality #Humiliation #AlligatorAlcatraz #Terror #Dehumanize #alt #History #Facism #Denaturalization #DOJ #Civil #DueProcess
Thom Hartman 7/2/202
And as a special bonus, the [DOJ] memo notes that stripping American citizens of their citizenship is a civil, not criminal, process so you are not entitled to have a lawyer or any of the other normal aspects of legal procedure like a trial that we generally think of as our rights. Franz Kafka would be proud.
#politics #Cruetly #Empathy #trump #Musk #ElonMusk #USAID #Obama #GeorgeBush #Immigration #Detention #alt
Dan Rather 7/1/25
Cruel Summer
The American president salivating over suffering
https://open.substack.com/pub/steady/p/cruel-summer?r=ymxmu&utm_medium=ios
#politics #ICE #Imposters #publicsafety #California #alt #assults #rape #Kiddnapping #FernadoDiaz
Aaron Parnas 6/29/25
ICE IMPOSTERS
#politics #trump #oligarchs #fascism #greed #democracy #Autocracy #Kings #Poor #alt #PuffDaddy
Thom Hartman 6/24/25
Trump’s Empire of Lies and Loot
“It’s all about the Benjamins.”
![Thom Hartman 6/24/25
Trump's Empire of Lies and Loot
“It's all about the Benjamins.”
So, why do they constantly lie[Republicans & MAGA] to us, whether it's to justify gutting Social Security and the IRS, having unidentifiable goons kidnap non-criminals off our streets, harassing people arriving at our airports for their writings, or pushing through another $4 trillion in tax gifts to Trump's billionaire supporters?
While the “philosophers” of the hard right try to justify the brute force of the state being used against working class people and the poor to the advantage of the morbidly rich with terms like “economic freedom,” "market discipline,” “the dark enlightenment,” and “personal responsibility,” what they're really defending is a rigged system where wedalth is extracted upward and dissent is punished with savage efficiency. It's really just simple theft, with — like in the days of King George Ill — the iron fist of the state as the enforcer for and protector of the morbidly rich predators.
As Puff Daddy famously rapped, no matter how elegant their editorials and rants on Fox “News" and their elaborate political rationalizations may be for crushing unions, cutting billionaire’s taxes, and allowing monopolies to flourish, in the end, “It's all about the Benjamins.”](/proxy/post_attachment/1973267/9b91d73de5.jpeg "Thom Hartman 6/24/25
Trump's Empire of Lies and Loot
“It's all about the Benjamins.”
So, why do they constantly lie[Republicans & MAGA] to us, whether it's to justify gutting Social Security and the IRS, having unidentifiable goons kidnap non-criminals off our streets, harassing people arriving at our airports for their writings, or pushing through another $4 trillion in tax gifts to Trump's billionaire supporters?
While the “philosophers” of the hard right try to justify the brute force of the state being used against working class people and the poor to the advantage of the morbidly rich with terms like “economic freedom,” \"market discipline,” “the dark enlightenment,” and “personal responsibility,” what they're really defending is a rigged system where wedalth is extracted upward and dissent is punished with savage efficiency. It's really just simple theft, with — like in the days of King George Ill — the iron fist of the state as the enforcer for and protector of the morbidly rich predators.
As Puff Daddy famously rapped, no matter how elegant their editorials and rants on Fox “News\" and their elaborate political rationalizations may be for crushing unions, cutting billionaire’s taxes, and allowing monopolies to flourish, in the end, “It's all about the Benjamins.”")
#politics #trump #oligarchs #fascism #greed #history #democracy #Autocracy #Kings #Poor #JamesMadion #ThomasJefferson #Quotes #alt
Thom Hartman 6/24/25
Trump’s Empire of Lies and Loot
“I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.”
![Thom Hartman 6/24/25 Trump's Empire of Lies and Loot ““I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.” If all power be suffered to slide into hands [of rich property owners],” he warned, the American citizenry would “become the dupes and instruments of ambition, or their poverty and independence will render them the mercenary instruments of wealth. In either case liberty will be subverted; in the first by a despotism growing out of anarchy, in the second, by an oligarchy founded on corruption.” - Father of the Constitution James Madison “I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.” - Declaration of Independence author Thomas Jefferson [Thomas Jefferson] added with the warning that if we were ever to end up with an oligarchic government that was run, directly or indirectly, by wealthy predators who'd seized our government, America’s working people. “...that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for | can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.”](/proxy/post_attachment/1973266/9228d65d9f.jpeg "Thom Hartman 6/24/25 Trump's Empire of Lies and Loot ““I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.” If all power be suffered to slide into hands [of rich property owners],” he warned, the American citizenry would “become the dupes and instruments of ambition, or their poverty and independence will render them the mercenary instruments of wealth. In either case liberty will be subverted; in the first by a despotism growing out of anarchy, in the second, by an oligarchy founded on corruption.” - Father of the Constitution James Madison “I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.” - Declaration of Independence author Thomas Jefferson [Thomas Jefferson] added with the warning that if we were ever to end up with an oligarchic government that was run, directly or indirectly, by wealthy predators who'd seized our government, America’s working people. “...that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for | can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.”")
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#politics #trump #judges #corruption #deportations #alt #emilebove
#DOJ #professionalism #whistleblower
Arron Parnas 6/24/25
TRUMP APPOINTED JUDGE: F**K THEM”
