Jilltopia
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Jilltopia is a tiny micronation completely surrounded by the United States, having seceded from the U.S. in early 2017. We have a small self-governing population, and our constitution simply requires that everyone here has to be nice to each other.
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
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This is so deeply at odds with the vision and history of America. Take pretty much any ethnic or racial group that are part of the American mosaic America today - they have all faced the same accusation. The moment these accusations are turned into policy are some of the most shameful in US history
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This is so deeply at odds with the vision and history of America. Take pretty much any ethnic or racial group that are part of the American mosaic America today - they have all faced the same accusation. The moment these accusations are turned into policy are some of the most shameful in US history
Beautiful aurora last night, from Indianapolis, Indiana. The colors were easily naked eye visible. Hope we see more tonight!
November 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Beautiful aurora last night, from Indianapolis, Indiana. The colors were easily naked eye visible. Hope we see more tonight!
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The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
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The Republican Party in a single tweet.
October 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
The Republican Party in a single tweet.
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This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
October 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
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Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
October 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
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Huge turnout at the No Kings protest in Indianapolis today. This photo was taken as it was winding down and the crowd had thinned out. #nokings #50501 #indianapolis
October 18, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Huge turnout at the No Kings protest in Indianapolis today. This photo was taken as it was winding down and the crowd had thinned out. #nokings #50501 #indianapolis
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I grew up in Washington DC and it has never felt safer or cleaner. Trump's "emergency" is fake, straight out of the authoritarian playbook
August 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I grew up in Washington DC and it has never felt safer or cleaner. Trump's "emergency" is fake, straight out of the authoritarian playbook
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inexcusable... in a foreign country we would sanction the perpetrators under Magnitsky Act: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Horrific’: report reveals abuse of pregnant women and children at US Ice facilities
Report from senator Jon Ossoff’s office found 510 credible reports of human rights abuses since Trump’s inauguration
www.theguardian.com
August 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
inexcusable... in a foreign country we would sanction the perpetrators under Magnitsky Act: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I still can’t believe that all NIH grants to my colleagues at Harvard and Harvard Medical School have been nullified. And that, as a nation, we’re somehow okay with this illegal, arbitrary, and petty act. Just think of the consequences: scientists, students, and patients will all suffer.
July 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I still can’t believe that all NIH grants to my colleagues at Harvard and Harvard Medical School have been nullified. And that, as a nation, we’re somehow okay with this illegal, arbitrary, and petty act. Just think of the consequences: scientists, students, and patients will all suffer.
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Trump is now talking about the Jeffrey Epstein hoax.
But it’s obviously not a hoax. His own Justice Department and FBI spoke of a thousand victims and realms of evidence, and you can also read the 2019 indictment (and about the indictment and trial of Maxwell).
www.thebulwark.com/p/sorry-trum...
But it’s obviously not a hoax. His own Justice Department and FBI spoke of a thousand victims and realms of evidence, and you can also read the 2019 indictment (and about the indictment and trial of Maxwell).
www.thebulwark.com/p/sorry-trum...
Sorry Trump, You Can’t Wish the Epstein Story Away
Plus: The spiritual psychobabble of Trump’s faith office luncheon.
www.thebulwark.com
July 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Trump is now talking about the Jeffrey Epstein hoax.
But it’s obviously not a hoax. His own Justice Department and FBI spoke of a thousand victims and realms of evidence, and you can also read the 2019 indictment (and about the indictment and trial of Maxwell).
www.thebulwark.com/p/sorry-trum...
But it’s obviously not a hoax. His own Justice Department and FBI spoke of a thousand victims and realms of evidence, and you can also read the 2019 indictment (and about the indictment and trial of Maxwell).
www.thebulwark.com/p/sorry-trum...
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Cutting USAID will kill millions
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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Cutting USAID will kill millions
USAID is the best of America.
open.substack.com
July 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Cutting USAID will kill millions
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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BREAKING: we & wonderful partners just won the very first national birthright class action certification & injunction!
Written order to come by COB. Kudos to my colleagues @democracydefendersfund.org, @aclu.org , LULAC & many more
Written order to come by COB. Kudos to my colleagues @democracydefendersfund.org, @aclu.org , LULAC & many more
* US JUDGE BLOCKS PRESIDENT TRUMP'S BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ORDER IN NATIONWIDE CLASS ACTION
@reuters.com
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July 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
BREAKING: we & wonderful partners just won the very first national birthright class action certification & injunction!
Written order to come by COB. Kudos to my colleagues @democracydefendersfund.org, @aclu.org , LULAC & many more
Written order to come by COB. Kudos to my colleagues @democracydefendersfund.org, @aclu.org , LULAC & many more
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Trump’s Big Ugly Bill delivers $170 billion for border and immigration enforcement.
This is on the scale of supplemental budgets passed by the United States when we enter war.
Here's what you should know: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-anti-immigrant-police-state
This is on the scale of supplemental budgets passed by the United States when we enter war.
Here's what you should know: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-anti-immigrant-police-state
July 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Trump’s Big Ugly Bill delivers $170 billion for border and immigration enforcement.
This is on the scale of supplemental budgets passed by the United States when we enter war.
Here's what you should know: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-anti-immigrant-police-state
This is on the scale of supplemental budgets passed by the United States when we enter war.
Here's what you should know: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-anti-immigrant-police-state
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Trump’s refusal to release the Epstein files can only mean a few things, none of them good.
July 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Trump’s refusal to release the Epstein files can only mean a few things, none of them good.
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The neo-reactionary blogger Curtis Yarvin wants to destroy American democracy. With the Trumpian right embracing strongman rule, his ideas have found mainstream purchase.
Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.
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July 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The neo-reactionary blogger Curtis Yarvin wants to destroy American democracy. With the Trumpian right embracing strongman rule, his ideas have found mainstream purchase.
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I’m sorry for the long post but a lot of you have followed me for a long time, since 2016 when I was one of the first to repeatedly call out Trump for being a Russian asset.
I don’t know how else to say this, as a person who has studied cults (wrote a bestseller about it) and totalitarian states.
I don’t know how else to say this, as a person who has studied cults (wrote a bestseller about it) and totalitarian states.
July 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I’m sorry for the long post but a lot of you have followed me for a long time, since 2016 when I was one of the first to repeatedly call out Trump for being a Russian asset.
I don’t know how else to say this, as a person who has studied cults (wrote a bestseller about it) and totalitarian states.
I don’t know how else to say this, as a person who has studied cults (wrote a bestseller about it) and totalitarian states.
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The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.
July 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.
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Damn, it looks just like the photos of the disappeared that were put up by relatives in the South American dictatorships
July 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Damn, it looks just like the photos of the disappeared that were put up by relatives in the South American dictatorships
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People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
July 4, 2025 at 5:01 AM
People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
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And the NIH budget gets cut by approx 40%…hope that GOP voters are happy with less cancer & Alzheimer’s research & more kidnappings 😤
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
And the NIH budget gets cut by approx 40%…hope that GOP voters are happy with less cancer & Alzheimer’s research & more kidnappings 😤