The White House directive for the Smithsonian to "align messaging" with a political task force is a sanitized term for creating a ministry of truth. This is how democratic erosion accelerates. We must not be silent.

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4/ I hope a third political party will emerge that will capture the moderates in the Democratic and Republican parties that I think still make up the majority of Americans, and restore the notion that cruelty is a vice.

3/ the increase in funding for ICE to increase deportations (and expand Trump’s secret police force) all exemplify a rapid turn away from the vestiges of liberalism remaining in the US and towards totalitarianism.

2/ The GOP are not just cruel and ignorant people, they are misologists prone to excessive sentimentality. The horror and absurdity of the Alligator Alcatraz concentration camp; the massive funding taken away from an already inadequate social safety net;