JV
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Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism.

If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone.

Americans of conscience must stand against this now.
April 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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This speaks volumes:

Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.

leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...

munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
Stanley from Yale to Toronto
Jason Stanley (philosophy of language, epistemology, political philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, has accepted a senior offer from the University of Toronto, where he will be thr...
leiterreports.typepad.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Welp, there goes the US defense industry.
March 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Truer words were never spoken.
March 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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This was quite the meltdown! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VgT...
March 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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I feel like I'm a scientist in a disaster movie who spent years trying to warn people of the impending disaster. Only nobody listened. And now that the disaster is upon us, the authorities are like "Yo, smarty-pants, what should we do about this here disaster?"

And I'm like: "THE FUCK DO I KNOW?"
March 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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It's not even really left versus right anymore - it's the billionaires versus the rest of us 👇

#ResistTrump
March 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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When people talk about "American Exceptionalism" they now usually mean that Americans are exceptionally bad a running a country.
March 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Do you know why rural and working people are listening to Walz and AOC and Bernie?

Because they tell the damn truth. Because they are passionate about people. Because they are authentic. Because they care.

They are the new face of the opposition.
March 16, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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The smallest red carpet ever. And it’s in a puddle.🤣🤣🤣

Bravo Canada 👏🏽
March 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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After years of alarm over unelected bureaucrats pulling the strings, what better example can you find than this moment the US government is in? DOGE is the thing it claims to fear the most. Elon Musk is the problem he purportedly wants to solve.

Doge *is* the Deep State. @brbarrett.bsky.social:
DOGE Is the Deep State
A shadowy group of unelected figures reshaping the federal government to their own benefit from the inside? Sounds familiar!
www.wired.com
March 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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What a time to be alive, witnessing 80 years of fragile world peace crumbling to dust before our very eyes at the hands of a rogue leader.

Great job American voters. You should be proud.

As for me, I am ashamed.
February 28, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]
February 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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February 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Trudeau: "There's not a snowball's chance in hell that Canada will ever be the 51st state"
February 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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"Many of my good friends have their funding withdrawn or frozen based on the DEIA wording such as 'diverse microbes'" a scientist reliant on federal research grants told me, adding NSF proposals with terms including 'disabilities' and 'female' have been put on hold
February 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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If anyone whines that we "self-segregated ourselves from X" and "aren't in the conversation anymore," feel free to show them this screenshot of my "For You" tab.
February 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Are the next 4 years really going to be logging on everyday to sentences like "a 19 year old doge intern called Big Balls has your social security number" because I'm already at capacity for this sort of thing
February 3, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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You know what?

The EU & UK should put tariffs on US goods (from red states) in solidarity with Canada and Mexico.

Rather than watching others get bullied and waiting our turn - we should unify against this bullying until the bully drops that behaviour.
February 2, 2025 at 9:44 PM