Brie Aristine

Unfortunately, I know Trump supporters who actively want America to become a dictatorship. They have literally expressed their support for a dictatorship and actually named it as such.

@brcremer.bsky.social Your post that was on Facebook just a few minutes ago is now gone. Was that intentional? Or did Facebook remove it? Just want to check!

Editorial Cartoon By: Drew Sheneman / Tribune Content Agency Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer waving a white flag and saying, "I surrendered, but in a very stern tone of voice."

Chuck Schumer still thinks it's the era of polite letters and handshake deals. But those days are over.

Fighting the rise of authoritarianism demands steely resolve - not compromise. Schumer’s time is up.

Only bold, unflinching leadership can save our democracy.

@schumer.senate.gov
The Reformers

Washington Post backs out of ‘Fire Elon Musk’ ad order The Washington Post this week backed out of a “Fire Elon Musk” advertising order that was to run as a wrap on some of its Tuesday editions, according to the advocacy group Common Cause.  The group …

"Democracy dies in darkness"
...You know, I always thought that line from #TheWashingtonPost was a warning, not a goal.
#JeffBezosIsAnOligarch
thehill.com/media/514849...

They don't want us to exist at all. 😕

An Act of War YouTube video by PoliticsGirl

America is under attack.
youtu.be/2B6gS_WyXKo

Congrats on escaping!! 🎉
I feel for you though, not being able to go see family. Maybe they can come see you? I hope so.
I'm trying to put together an exit plan, & moving away from the people I love will be one of the hardest parts.

He might. But don't comply in advance. We need to use all the power that we still have and keep using it.

It is an awful, sickening feeling to be erased by your own country.

Being erased by your own country is an awful feeling.

Hi, neighbor-to-the-south. I feel for you being in Oklahoma. Embrace those good people; we need safe, supportive communities of fellow human beings more than ever in these dark times.

I'm crying right along with you. 🫂

I almost cried at this.
Please don't give up on the American people who don't want what our government is doing.

I sincerely hope you are correct.

I hope we are still able to by then. I am not confident that we will be able to have an authentic election by then. 😢 ...And I hope I'm wrong. I desperately hope I'm wrong.

Dear World, (An Apology From Decent Americans) Dear World,

Dear Leaders of the Free World,

Fight him at every turn.
Make his life miserable.
Expose his ignorance and sociopathy.
Oppose and condemn and marginalize him.
The decent people of this nation are not with him.

We stand with you.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dear-world...

Thank you! Those of us in the USA who are alarmed by what is happening here are really grateful to be able to access WHO information.

I needed this reminder. 💙

Great advice to check info from a neighboring blue state!

Sadly. Don't forget about those of us who are very sad and very scared blue dots in a red state.

This is really important information for people in Kansas right now!

This is especially true in the United States.

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

Don't let them rob you of all your joy.

#hopepunk is my new favorite term! 💯

If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.

By pardoning the most violent January 6th attackers, Trump is telling them to commit more violence in his name, and if and when they do — he will protect them.

We are all in terrible danger.

In an attempt to stop doomscrolling on Facebook, I have begun doomscrolling on Bluesky. 🤦 *Sigh*

to recap:
— Trump was *for* the TikTok ban
— which the GOP Congress passed
— and the GOP Supreme Court upheld
— and even though Biden said he wouldn't enforce the ban, TikTok shut down anyway
— so that Trump could "save" it
— and the media fell for it
we really do live in the dumbest fucking country