We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.
But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.
Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.
Troops. In an American city. Using full force.
Your now-regular reminder that Republican members of Congress are letting this happen.
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
About this Florida vaccine story:
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
Congress has decided to claw back previously approved funding for public media.
This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)
At least 31 Palestinians were fatally shot on their way to an aid distribution site in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, while Israeli airstrikes killed at least 28 Palestinians.
I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
I continue to be struck by this language of “in accordance with the president’s priorities,” which treats the executive branch as an extension of the person of the president, and not a mechanism for instituting the will of Congress
It is day 100 since Andry was disappeared by Trump admin to a gulag in El Salvador. 100 days since this photo was snapped while he begged for his mom. 100 days of wondering if he is still alive. We’re still waiting for the devastatingly slow wheels of justice to turn. #FreeAndry
JUST IN: Khalil left the Louisiana detention center where he's been since March, when ICE agents arrested him over his pro-Palestinian activism. A federal judge ruled the government could no longer detain him.
Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 5: Rebecca Bernard
Rebecca Bernard is the author of the story collection Our Sister Who Will Not Die.
rebeccaibernard.com
@ohheyrebecca.bsky.social
Instagram: @ohheyrebecca
Start every day with this reality:
EVERY HOUSE SEAT and 33 Senate seats are up for election in 2026. THAT must be the focus. Let’s get disciplined.
#LeaveNoPowerOnTheTable
ballotpedia.org/United_State...
I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few:
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
The second we begin debating guilt and innocence we have ceded to their terms. The systemic evil fades into the background, continues humming along nicely.
It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is “bring back that one innocent guy” and not “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”
Rubio on X: Last night, another 10 criminals from the MS-13 and Tren de Aragua Foreign Terrorist Organizations arrived in El Salvador. The alliance between @POTUS and President @nayibbukele has become an example for security and prosperity in our hemisphere.
Marco Rubio just announced 10 more people were sent to be imprisoned in CECOT. They were flown there from Gitmo to be imprisoned potentially for life based not on any crime for which they were convicted, but on unproven allegations of gang membership with no due process.
This is not lawful.
Federal workers: We understand you may be taking a risk in contacting us, and we take your confidentiality extremely seriously.
To collect tips, we use encrypted forms and apps, so messages cannot be read by anybody other than you and ProPublica.
➡️ Reach out here: propublica.org/tips
Every day I am reminded that evil is also very very dumb
whether they’re retiring or not this should be the last term for each of them
i am 100% certain that they are weekend at bernie-ing trump and just handing him papers to sign, the content of which is determined by whoever happens to want something to happen
Happy News! Congrats to Evan Fackler, this year's Doris Betts Fiction Prize Winner! And to all our finalists.
Thank you for reading! ☺️
oxfordamerican.org/magazine/iss... I loved this story by @ohheyrebecca.bsky.social. I had my suspicions about where it was going and ended up being beautifully surprised. Great read.
Thanks, @cincinnatireview.bsky.social for giving me the chance to talk craft & plot on the CR blog!
Thank you!
The Cincinnati review
“The theft” in the Cincinnati review
Grateful to have a story in the latest issue of @cincinnatireview.bsky.social & many thanks to @lisaampleman.bsky.social for her thoughtful edits! This one has teens, teeth, and blue paint.
Scoop a copy here! www.cincinnatireview.com/issue/21-2/
