When the Administration violates Constitutional rights and then ignores court orders to restore them.
So, now.

Opinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?

“When citizens must think twice about criticizing or opposing the government because they could credibly face government retribution, they no longer live in a full democracy.”

Salt Lake City and Boise Adopt Official Pride Flags in Response to State Laws

Salt Lake City, Utah, and Boise, Idaho, adopted official Pride flags on Tuesday in response to state laws barring the display of any nonofficial flags at schools and government buildings.

Having worked in both public and private medical research for 33 years, I wrote the attached essay in an attempt to dispel commonly held myths about research sponsored by the NIH.

Steely Dan

In Trump’s case we know of at least two rapes, for which he’s suffered no consequences.
A known rapist who won the popular vote for president.

In college I borrowed Who’s Next from a neighbor and played it until the grooves were gone

Haven’t seen If I Fell, one of the great love ballads of that era

Paul played drums as Ringo had temporarily quit the band

Musicologist Andrew Hickey’s favorite song by John.
His favorite Paul song is “For No One” which should also be on the list.

And its fraternal twin “Strawberry Fields Forever”
No one I think is in our tree.

Their most experimental work. Second place to Tomorrow Never Knows

Admire your courage here.
9 and 10 are ear worms, not great songs.
Consider: In My Life, Help!, Within You, Without You, Hey Jude, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, I Feel Fine, Lady Madonna, and of course A Day in the Life, which is their greatest.

Why don’t they call it Roundtine?

She is fantastic

Please explain: DOGE appears unconstitutional in both the conditions of its creation and in how it is doing what it claims to be its job.
It is also a naked power grab by an oligarch.
If Ezra starts “both siding” we are in even graver danger than I thought.

I guess you’d say Obama was a monster. Certainly Trump and Musk would agree.

Thought Pelosi was key in getting Obamacare passed.
Didn’t that help tens of millions or do you not care?

Imagine if you will, rural ERs after Musk’s Medicaid cuts. So much sadder. Nursing homes, too.

Yes, just as advertised. War crimes will be part of the battle plan going forward.

Not ours!
Just attended a town meeting with Rep. Jayapal, and it was more like a revival meeting for the resistance.
I’ve never had a member of Congress ask me to sign up for nonviolent civil disobedience.
Seattle is getting organized!
❤️❤️❤️

The phrase “no business as usual” was coined for moments like these.
They wanna break things we’ll teach them to be careful what they ask for.

Go to a demonstration or town hall, make a modest donation, call your reps.
A little something everyday to strengthen the resistance.
Trumpian fascism is a paper tiger.

Hot anger is ineffective.
What’s your plan other than screaming?

But “fuck you” gets you nowhere.
It’s like you’re celebrating your own impotence.
The worse news is you’re also neglecting your responsibility.
Our greatest opportunity against the fascists is that they approach the world like petulant children. If we do likewise, that edge is lost.

What I’m seeing is that they are responding to internal pressure from people like you and me, and doing more to oppose the fascist regime.
What’s the gain from continuing to denounce them?
When you make equivalence between Joe Biden and say Steven Miller you act just like the mirror image of MAGA.

And my Rep. Pramila Jayapal is stellar. All the anger at the Democratic Party is justified but it’s necessary to swallow it to save democracy such as it is.
I voted Bernie in 2016 and Elizabeth Warren in 2020.
Yeah I’m *extremely* disappointed, but Musk/Trump are letting Sudanese children starve.

OK what are YOU doing?
The circular firing squad will guarantee the triumph of fascism.

So unfair. He clearly poisoned that worm with his toxic brain.
Credit where due.

If SCOTUS goes all in for tyranny then we need to get out in the streets and stay there.
Nationwide strikes and all manner of obstruction and civil disobedience.
Bring it all to a standstill and dare the army to shoot at us.
That’s how the Warsaw Pact nations got their freedom back.