Publius
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Updated fascism checklist for actions of Trump admin in 2025
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🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.
November 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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The Trump White is operating under the assumptions that:

1) They’re above the law
2) Lies, hate, culture war, and media control can overcome anything

If you believe that, and people suffering doesn’t bother you, then starving people while boasting about a new expensive ballroom has no downside.
I am certainly no seasoned strategist but I am a little skeptical of the political wisdom behind building a giant golden ballroom and sharing a dozen photos of a renovated marble bathroom at the very moment that millions of people are losing access to healthcare and food.
October 31, 2025 at 6:41 PM
October 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Updated fascism checklist for actions of Trump admin in 2025
October 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Please support Marisa Kabas. She's out there doing the real journalistic work and she's an independent so she's not beholden to the tiny-handed, want-to-be emperor, or anyone else.

www.thehandbasket.co/p/jimmy-kimm...
The high cost of free speech
Jimmy Kimmel's suspension shows us that nothing will ever satisfy Trump's unquenchable thirst for power.
www.thehandbasket.co
September 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper"

anyways, great news! (1/X)
September 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Have you not seen this guy? He is easily bottom 5 dumbest senators:
g.co
July 4, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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F#ck. “A provision ‘hidden’ in the sweeping budget bill that passed the U.S. House on Thursday seeks to limit the ability of courts—including SCOTUS—from enforcing their orders *** The provision ‘would make most existing injunctions…unenforceable,’” per the dean of UC Berkeley Law School. 5/22/25
'Hidden' provision in Trump's big bill could disarm US Supreme Court
The provision would bar courts from enforcing contempt citations for violations of injunctions or temporary restraining orders unless a bond has been paid.
www.newsweek.com
May 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
So, she led them into a PRIVATE hallway, which led to the PUBLIC hallway, and then they left through the PUBLIC elevator and through the PUBLIC exit? That’s the “crime”?
April 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.

He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords

Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
April 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
www.youtube.com/live/Dt_sprp...

Rubio: I don’t understand what the confusion is. This individual is a citizen of El Salvador, he was illegally in the United States and was returned to his country. That’s where you deport people, back to their country of origin.
Trump spars with CNN anchor over deportation of Salvadoran migrant
YouTube video by Fox News
www.youtube.com
April 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Anybody remember the rumor 2 days ago about the 90 day pause attributed to advisor Hassert? The WH immediately blasted it as fake news. But turned out to be real news. Was this because they needed delay to to buy everything they wanted before they released the news about the 90 day pause.
April 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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🚨MUST-WATCH: “Something very fishy is happening.”

@mrglobaltoo.bsky.social deep dives on Strategic Storage Partners, the shady self-storage real estate company Trump’s Secretary of Energy just awarded $1.4 BILLION to manage our strategic petroleum reserve🤔

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DIAXDvj...
April 4, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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The people who are implementing this nonsense are complete idiots.

Top level domains are NOT nation states.
April 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
@jennycohn.bsky.social this was certainly an odd solicitation I got in my email today:
March 24, 2025 at 1:08 AM
@whstancil.bsky.social This is your guy Will
The consultant class has a vested interest and a serious financial stake in maintaining the status quo of, as Murphy says “blowing all our money on 30 second ads.” Until the party breaks from that mentality nothing will get fixed.
March 19, 2025 at 2:01 AM
If Bluesky wants to win the battle for moderate attention spans, it needs to do more on stock market news and sports. These are the casual folks who don’t eat sleep and breathe politics, but will check in occasionally and see political takes. X has a lock on these folks right now. @jay.bsky.team
March 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I guess I should stop being surprised by this, but where is the story about Trump firing the heads of all 4 military branches and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs? @nytimes.com @mmfa.bsky.social @mattgertz.bsky.social @columjournreview.bsky.social
February 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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CDC source:

“We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff.

They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”
February 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Everyone in Congress needs to read and understand this article the replacement of the United States of America with billionaire CEO run techno-fascist “network states” is the ultimate goal of folks like Musk Vance and Vought.

theconversation.com/efficiency-o...
Efficiency − or empire? How Elon Musk’s hostile takeover could end government as we know it
Granting tech leaders direct control over government functions fundamentally alters the relationship between private power and public governance.
theconversation.com
February 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
“And we will diminish and go into the West…” [/Chiefs]
February 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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A group of anonymous authors has published this well-sourced memorandum on Musk and the Neoreactionary movement. Please share widely. The threat is not well understood. Take a moment to read the one page executive summary now; then call Congress.

america2.news/content/file...
america2.news
February 6, 2025 at 4:01 AM
@coralhei.bsky.social @rapidcityjournal.com @sdnewswatch.bsky.social

Seems like a 1.5 million dollar cut to Lutheran Services in South Dakota could have some impact?
February 3, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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What would I do? Senate, House, DNC & Dem Govs EACH need to have a Rapid React WarRoom staffed 24/7/365. They need to have a rotating Senator, Rep, & Gov on call all times to post video, TikTok, statements & do interviews. Pressers are old, tired & mostly useless.

Welcome to 2025.
January 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM