Before Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime of criminals lit the world on fire they took power by eradicating truth and morality. They called it “greatness.”
Seventy years after the bloody demise of fascism in Europe, a narcissist arose in America who tried to resurrect it in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. And—time will tell—failed.
The DeSantis blitzkrieg through higher education has included book bans and removing women’s studies, African American history, and critical race theory from university curricula.
What can you say about Hegseth? "Teenage girls are more reliable with secrets than Hegseth," or "Leaker loses his shirt over leakers. Film at eleven." Bring popcorn.
If you Trump supporters want to prove that you’re not completely lacking in human decency, you can publicly disavow him, repent of your vote, and unequivocally declare opposition to him.
Trump, and his Supreme Court see his power as absolute. There is NOTHING that applies, or restricts him from doing whatever the hell it is he thinks needs doing in the interest of national security, which means his security.
While the Trump administration goes on a tear happily deporting anyone with brown skin, his MAGA thugs stubbornly cling to their talking points like Tom Homan calling demands for due process "disgusting."
The Nazis of the 21st century share the arrogance of their brethren, a belief that they need more room, and there are too many of the inferior peoples and races breeding too fast.
We should all be demanding proof of life of every person illegally renditioned to a foreign prison on a daily basis. Honestly, it could now be any of us.
Trump's order renaming the Gulf of Mexico has triggered great alternatives: Gulf of Four Seasons Total Landscaping, Gulf of America Is Fucked, Gulf of the Dude Abides, Gulf of the Dread Is No Longer Existential and many, many more.
Trump, Musk and the GOP have hotwired our democracy, stripped it for parts, and are selling the pieces to the highest bidder telling us to enjoy the ride, while we're all bound and gagged in the trunk.
Republicans in Congress are acting like the loyal goose-stepping sycophants of another past dictator. The more they tolerate Trump's destruction of our government and its functions and the more they allow his shredding of the Constitution the more they own the result.
We need to rally every Democracy-loving, humanity-defending American into the daily, mundane and unspectacular work of fighting for change in the places we walked over the weekend.