TaraElla
@taraella.bsky.social
Taraella: author & musician. Moral Libertarian. My mission is to build a politics and culture based on shared values & defend the heart and soul of liberalism.
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TaraElla
@taraella.bsky.social
· Apr 1
Americans are beginning to fear dissent. That’s exactly what Trump wants | Robert Reich
Attacks on the pillars of civil society are chilling speech. But American democracy was built on criticism
www.theguardian.com
Truly terrifying stuff. Why aren't free speech activists speaking up about this? Where is your conscience?
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I'm no fan of cancel culture, but what Megyn Kelly said was so disgusting that it should be career ending. Any decent society should have zero tolerance for that.
November 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I'm no fan of cancel culture, but what Megyn Kelly said was so disgusting that it should be career ending. Any decent society should have zero tolerance for that.
In Defense of Disney Adults
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In Defense of Disney Adults
They are simply people who reject our broken dysfunctional society
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November 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
In Defense of Disney Adults
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April in Canada, May in Australia, and now November in America: the right is losing ground quickly. It is the objective truth.
November 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
April in Canada, May in Australia, and now November in America: the right is losing ground quickly. It is the objective truth.
I think it has been definitively proven now that the West is certainly not turning right!
November 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I think it has been definitively proven now that the West is certainly not turning right!
Why Trumpism is the Logical Endpoint of Movement Conservatism
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Why Trumpism is the Logical Endpoint of Movement Conservatism
It was only a matter of time for organized conservatism to turn into radical reactionism
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October 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Why Trumpism is the Logical Endpoint of Movement Conservatism
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The internet and online culture encourage political extremism. We need to wake up to this ASAP.
September 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The internet and online culture encourage political extremism. We need to wake up to this ASAP.
Giving this a needed boost. Thanks.
Blaming the prevalence of mass shootings in America on the existence of trans people isn’t just a dangerously stigmatizing, politically motivated take. It’s also bad math.
"Transgender individuals are much more prone to being the victims of violence than they are likely to commit it.”
"Transgender individuals are much more prone to being the victims of violence than they are likely to commit it.”
Mass Shooters Are Not Disproportionately Transgender
Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
www.motherjones.com
August 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Giving this a needed boost. Thanks.
Unpopular opinion: we are still in the COVID era, like it or not. The economic and political aftermath, which led to the return of Trump, is arguably the worst part of COVID. This means the COVID era will last until Jan 20 2029 at least. The 2020s should be remembered as the COVID decade, period.
August 23, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Unpopular opinion: we are still in the COVID era, like it or not. The economic and political aftermath, which led to the return of Trump, is arguably the worst part of COVID. This means the COVID era will last until Jan 20 2029 at least. The 2020s should be remembered as the COVID decade, period.
Trump can't hide this
The number of Americans receiving unemployment benefits for at least a week rose to the highest level since late 2021, according to Labor Department data.
Nearly 2 million Americans on unemployment, highest since pandemic era
Continuing unemployment claims jumped to 1.97 million in late July, according to a Labor Department report, highlighting a weakening labor market.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Trump can't hide this
Trump plays the politics game harder than anyone else. Certainly doesn't sound like an anti-establishment outsider. MAGA should have woken up a long time ago.
July 12, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Trump plays the politics game harder than anyone else. Certainly doesn't sound like an anti-establishment outsider. MAGA should have woken up a long time ago.
Too many people just don't understand that liberal norms protect all parties. Guess they have to find out the painful way now.
The Republican Party and the conservatives on the Supreme Court are unwittingly making the next President the most powerful Democrat in American history 😆
WATCH — @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “The idea that only Dems use nationwide injunctions is blatantly false. we don’t have student debt forgiveness because Republicans got a nationwide injunction.”
SCOTUS undercutting them = far more immunity & power for Trump.
SCOTUS undercutting them = far more immunity & power for Trump.
June 28, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Too many people just don't understand that liberal norms protect all parties. Guess they have to find out the painful way now.
MAGA simply isn't that different from the Bush-Cheney Republicans who upheld the forever war, pre-emptive strike ideology. It's simply different packaging. The fact is, MAGA exists on top of a Republican establishment who still believes in all those things.
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Trump Was Never a Viable Path to End the Forever Wars
The current moment simply vindicates what many of us were saying.
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June 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
MAGA simply isn't that different from the Bush-Cheney Republicans who upheld the forever war, pre-emptive strike ideology. It's simply different packaging. The fact is, MAGA exists on top of a Republican establishment who still believes in all those things.
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Good observation.
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Every Republican president in my lifetime has crashed the goddam economy and gotten us into the middle of an idiotic, poorly planned war in the Middle East.
Every Republican president in my lifetime has crashed the goddam economy and gotten us into the middle of an idiotic, poorly planned war in the Middle East.
June 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Good observation.
I think we need a new term to describe what the Trump GOP is. Whatever it is doing right now surely isn't 'conservative'. It's radical. It's radical in a reactionary way.
June 9, 2025 at 7:07 AM
I think we need a new term to describe what the Trump GOP is. Whatever it is doing right now surely isn't 'conservative'. It's radical. It's radical in a reactionary way.
Unbelievable
Nothing to see here other than the current President of the United States of America reposting that Biden was executed in 2020 and who we all believe to be Biden is actually a clone 🤦♂️
June 2, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Unbelievable
Reposted by TaraElla
Donald Trump claimed he had all the cards...
Zelenskyy replied "SNAP".
& took the whole pile of cards off Trump...
Zelenskyy replied "SNAP".
& took the whole pile of cards off Trump...
June 2, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Donald Trump claimed he had all the cards...
Zelenskyy replied "SNAP".
& took the whole pile of cards off Trump...
Zelenskyy replied "SNAP".
& took the whole pile of cards off Trump...
Trump policy is simply ridiculous
Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.
Justice Department cuts to public safety grants leave police and nonprofits scrambling
Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.
www.npr.org
May 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Trump policy is simply ridiculous
Why We Need to Shut Down Political Aggression
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Why We Need to Shut Down Political Aggression
Aggression is basically bullying, and is simply incompatible with good order
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May 19, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Why We Need to Shut Down Political Aggression
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It looks like Trump's trade wars are going nowhere. This was what everyone who had common sense expected. You can't turn back the clock on free trade. In other words, 'it's the economy, stupid'.
May 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM
It looks like Trump's trade wars are going nowhere. This was what everyone who had common sense expected. You can't turn back the clock on free trade. In other words, 'it's the economy, stupid'.
At least in South Korea, abuse of emergency powers can lead to impeachment. This is real democracy.
May 11, 2025 at 3:19 AM
At least in South Korea, abuse of emergency powers can lead to impeachment. This is real democracy.
Trump and the populist right's use of 'emergency' as an excuse to dismantle safeguards must be called out and checked. It is becoming a pattern, frankly. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
Top White House adviser Stephen Miller says 'we're actively looking at' suspending due process for migrants
The "privilege of the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended at a time of invasion. So I would say that's an action we're actively looking at," Miller told reporters outside the White House.
www.nbcnews.com
May 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Trump and the populist right's use of 'emergency' as an excuse to dismantle safeguards must be called out and checked. It is becoming a pattern, frankly. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
Vibe shift 2025, here we come...
May 6, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Vibe shift 2025, here we come...
Here's another article that takes the same view as my article re the significance of the Carney and Albanese victories. The zeitgeist is against Trump and the right now! www.salon.com/2025/05/05/t...
The world is now reversing course to reject Trumpism
The West was moving to the right — and then Donald Trump got elected again
www.salon.com
May 6, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Here's another article that takes the same view as my article re the significance of the Carney and Albanese victories. The zeitgeist is against Trump and the right now! www.salon.com/2025/05/05/t...
A decisive rejection of what Trump represents in both Canada and Australia. Last week marked perhaps the first time the populist right decisively lost ground, since it first became a phenomenon in 2016. taraella.substack.com/p/the-week-t...
The Week the Populist Right Decisively Lost Ground
And what we can learn from it
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May 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
A decisive rejection of what Trump represents in both Canada and Australia. Last week marked perhaps the first time the populist right decisively lost ground, since it first became a phenomenon in 2016. taraella.substack.com/p/the-week-t...
It seems we need to make our case in a different way than we have so far, to reach these people...
I took the time last night to discuss the current state of affairs with a Trump voter last night. One that voted for him, could admit that Trump ignoring the SCOTUS ruling to bring Kilmer back is bad, could admit that Trump is going wild with his tariffs, but still supported him. At the end, we
April 15, 2025 at 9:46 AM
It seems we need to make our case in a different way than we have so far, to reach these people...