George Washington's Bust
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Analyzing and critiquing political rhetoric and speech acts. Probably should have chosen Aristotle's or Cicero's bust. I have the relevant degrees (around here somewhere). #FightEverywhereFightOften.
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Pete Hegseth’s War on Religious Freedom and the Constitution - Bucks County Beacon
The Secretary of Defense nominee is not only a proponent of Christian Nationalism … but an advocate for a revolutionary theocratic vision for the overthrow of the Constitution of the United States.
buckscountybeacon.com
Great article over @buckscountybeacon.bsky.social about the Christian Nationalist (dominionist) aspect of the Trump Administration, focusing on Sec Def Pete Hegseth's attacks on religious liberty and the Constitution.
buckscountybeacon.com/2025/01/pete...
buckscountybeacon.com/2025/01/pete...
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If I were Beyoncé, the Boss and Bono I would host the biggest free concert in the history of fucking time on the same day as Trump’s teeny peen birthday parade.
May 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
If I were Beyoncé, the Boss and Bono I would host the biggest free concert in the history of fucking time on the same day as Trump’s teeny peen birthday parade.
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Protest on June 14th in DC it is! Bring your flags and pitch forks.
May 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Protest on June 14th in DC it is! Bring your flags and pitch forks.
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"This is like Gestapo-type of stuff, and it just blows my mind that there's a certain, certain ugly segment of the American pop population that's enjoying watching these families getting ripped out of their homes and, and you somehow think that America's gonna be better if this is done." - Bill Burr
May 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"This is like Gestapo-type of stuff, and it just blows my mind that there's a certain, certain ugly segment of the American pop population that's enjoying watching these families getting ripped out of their homes and, and you somehow think that America's gonna be better if this is done." - Bill Burr
Following MAGA the antidote is obviously to proceed like you have no shame.
Trump official Ed Martin says DOJ will pursue people even without charges: "If they can’t be charged, we will name them. And we will name them and in a culture that respects shame they should be people that are ashamed." @glennthrush.bsky.social @alanfeuer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...
If We Can’t Prosecute Trump’s Foes, We’ll ‘Shame’ Them, Justice Dept. Official Says
www.nytimes.com
May 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Following MAGA the antidote is obviously to proceed like you have no shame.
Until @democrats.org realize their political opponents are waging a religious war cloaked in politics and message about this threat to people's religious freedom, they will never gain the upper-hand again.
Burn it all down
"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth led a Christian prayer service in the Pentagon’s auditorium on Wednesday morning, during working hours, in which President Trump was praised as a divinely appointed leader."
"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth led a Christian prayer service in the Pentagon’s auditorium on Wednesday morning, during working hours, in which President Trump was praised as a divinely appointed leader."
Pete Hegseth Leads Christian Prayer Service in the Pentagon
www.nytimes.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Until @democrats.org realize their political opponents are waging a religious war cloaked in politics and message about this threat to people's religious freedom, they will never gain the upper-hand again.
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If Democrats want good coverage from political journalists, they should simply copy the Republican playbook of simply ignoring the media's demands, threatening them with lawsuits, constantly belittling them with insults and suggesting their followers should physically assault them.
May 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM
If Democrats want good coverage from political journalists, they should simply copy the Republican playbook of simply ignoring the media's demands, threatening them with lawsuits, constantly belittling them with insults and suggesting their followers should physically assault them.
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“Their radical anti-American ideology is centered on the empowerment of girls and women,” said Secretary of State Marco Rubio
theonion.com/state-d...
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State Department Designates WNBA As Terrorist Organization
WASHINGTON—Promising to stamp out the extremist movement as well as its sympathizers, the U.S. State Department announced Thursday that the WNBA had been designated as a terrorist organization. According to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the organization has as many as 156 terrorists spread across 13 known cells in the United States, and several of […]
theonion.com
May 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
“Their radical anti-American ideology is centered on the empowerment of girls and women,” said Secretary of State Marco Rubio
theonion.com/state-d...
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This is what I keep getting at when I say MAGA is foremost a religious movement whose policy reforms aim to establish the US as a properly Christian state. Dems must emphasize how this project is antithetical to how most Christians practice their faith.
This is a must-read: The Trump administration's use of anti-semitism to attack immigrants and higher education mirrors plans by a group of Christian nationalists in the Heritage Foundation (which produced Project 2025). 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...
The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement
www.nytimes.com
May 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This is what I keep getting at when I say MAGA is foremost a religious movement whose policy reforms aim to establish the US as a properly Christian state. Dems must emphasize how this project is antithetical to how most Christians practice their faith.
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it’s pretty remarkable how the Democratic Party is self-flagellating more in 2025 after swapping out their candidate and losing the popular vote by 1.5% than republicans did in 2021 after losing the popular vote by 4.5% and inciting an insurrection
May 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
it’s pretty remarkable how the Democratic Party is self-flagellating more in 2025 after swapping out their candidate and losing the popular vote by 1.5% than republicans did in 2021 after losing the popular vote by 4.5% and inciting an insurrection
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Democrats need to stop hand-wringing about their limited power in Congress and to start extracting whatever political price they can from the Republicans who are abetting Trump's corruption.
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Opinion | Conduct oversight on Trump’s graft — or censure James Comer
House Democrats must pressure Republicans to fulfill their constitutional duties.
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May 15, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Democrats need to stop hand-wringing about their limited power in Congress and to start extracting whatever political price they can from the Republicans who are abetting Trump's corruption.
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for fuuuck's sake
I wrote an article last year about the 8th Circuit sticking a toe in the voter suppression waters
not letting people sue under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is basically soft-launching a repeal of the 15th Amendment
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
I wrote an article last year about the 8th Circuit sticking a toe in the voter suppression waters
not letting people sue under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is basically soft-launching a repeal of the 15th Amendment
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
May 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
for fuuuck's sake
I wrote an article last year about the 8th Circuit sticking a toe in the voter suppression waters
not letting people sue under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is basically soft-launching a repeal of the 15th Amendment
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
I wrote an article last year about the 8th Circuit sticking a toe in the voter suppression waters
not letting people sue under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is basically soft-launching a repeal of the 15th Amendment
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social rightly using un-American to describe Republican behavior lately. Gotta keep this line of attack up so the default association people have when they here "Republican" is "un-American".
Jeffries on J6 officers: "This Republican Congress has refused to comply with the law. It's time to honor those heroic officers. It's unconscionable. It's unpatriotic. It's unfathomable. It's unacceptable. And it's un-American."
May 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social rightly using un-American to describe Republican behavior lately. Gotta keep this line of attack up so the default association people have when they here "Republican" is "un-American".
The new Democratic mantra needs to be: Treat others the way you want to be treated unless someone treats you poorly, then treat them how they treat you.
May 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The new Democratic mantra needs to be: Treat others the way you want to be treated unless someone treats you poorly, then treat them how they treat you.
The problem with legacy and corporate media as it largely exists today that claims to just call 'balls and strikes' is that it does so without any sense of the rules of the game and what counts as balls and strikes. This makes their utterances meaningless.
May 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The problem with legacy and corporate media as it largely exists today that claims to just call 'balls and strikes' is that it does so without any sense of the rules of the game and what counts as balls and strikes. This makes their utterances meaningless.
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"The new pope, like the old pope, does not support MAGA’s christofascist nationalism. MAGA, confronted with the fact that they do not control everything or everyone, responded in their usual fashion — by wailing and gnashing their teeth." — @nberlat.bsky.social
The new pope is latest sign that the world rejects Trumpism
From Vatican City to Canada, Trump increasingly represents everything people of goodwill oppose.
www.publicnotice.co
May 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
"The new pope, like the old pope, does not support MAGA’s christofascist nationalism. MAGA, confronted with the fact that they do not control everything or everyone, responded in their usual fashion — by wailing and gnashing their teeth." — @nberlat.bsky.social
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All you need to know about the Republican tax plan:
The wealthiest 5% would get tax breaks.
Everyone else would see crucial health care and nutrition assistance programs slashed.
Call your reps.
The wealthiest 5% would get tax breaks.
Everyone else would see crucial health care and nutrition assistance programs slashed.
Call your reps.
May 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
All you need to know about the Republican tax plan:
The wealthiest 5% would get tax breaks.
Everyone else would see crucial health care and nutrition assistance programs slashed.
Call your reps.
The wealthiest 5% would get tax breaks.
Everyone else would see crucial health care and nutrition assistance programs slashed.
Call your reps.
Now's the time, folks.
The assault on the Constitution is happening *right now*. We cannot wait to defend it.
Just since I left town on Friday:
-Stephen Miller floats suspending habeas corpus
-ICE arrests a mayor under dubious pretext
-DHS threatens to arrest members of Congress
-Qatar gives Trump a $400 million plane he *gets to keep*
-Trump's emissary is negotiating with Russia using Putin's interpreters
-Stephen Miller floats suspending habeas corpus
-ICE arrests a mayor under dubious pretext
-DHS threatens to arrest members of Congress
-Qatar gives Trump a $400 million plane he *gets to keep*
-Trump's emissary is negotiating with Russia using Putin's interpreters
May 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Now's the time, folks.
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The assault on the Constitution is happening *right now*. We cannot wait to defend it.
Just since I left town on Friday:
-Stephen Miller floats suspending habeas corpus
-ICE arrests a mayor under dubious pretext
-DHS threatens to arrest members of Congress
-Qatar gives Trump a $400 million plane he *gets to keep*
-Trump's emissary is negotiating with Russia using Putin's interpreters
-Stephen Miller floats suspending habeas corpus
-ICE arrests a mayor under dubious pretext
-DHS threatens to arrest members of Congress
-Qatar gives Trump a $400 million plane he *gets to keep*
-Trump's emissary is negotiating with Russia using Putin's interpreters
May 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The assault on the Constitution is happening *right now*. We cannot wait to defend it.
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You don't lead with praise for the opposition. You say "About damn time." If these people are a threat to the republic then for the love of the country stop praising them.
May 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
You don't lead with praise for the opposition. You say "About damn time." If these people are a threat to the republic then for the love of the country stop praising them.
Are people who run podcasts and newsletters aiming to uncover the nefariousness of the Trump Administration actively targeting Trump voters in their media silos? Or are they passively attracting audiences interested in their messaging? Hopefully both, but it seems like the former must be a priority.
May 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Are people who run podcasts and newsletters aiming to uncover the nefariousness of the Trump Administration actively targeting Trump voters in their media silos? Or are they passively attracting audiences interested in their messaging? Hopefully both, but it seems like the former must be a priority.
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"The Brewing Civil War in the Democratic Party"
I talk to Dem strategist @julieroginsky.bsky.social, who says the party's leadership & messaging is outdated, fake, & inaccessible & must be replaced by authentic fighters willing to take on fascism & Trump.
Wide-ranging convo. Give us a watch.
I talk to Dem strategist @julieroginsky.bsky.social, who says the party's leadership & messaging is outdated, fake, & inaccessible & must be replaced by authentic fighters willing to take on fascism & Trump.
Wide-ranging convo. Give us a watch.
May 6, 2025 at 2:23 AM
"The Brewing Civil War in the Democratic Party"
I talk to Dem strategist @julieroginsky.bsky.social, who says the party's leadership & messaging is outdated, fake, & inaccessible & must be replaced by authentic fighters willing to take on fascism & Trump.
Wide-ranging convo. Give us a watch.
I talk to Dem strategist @julieroginsky.bsky.social, who says the party's leadership & messaging is outdated, fake, & inaccessible & must be replaced by authentic fighters willing to take on fascism & Trump.
Wide-ranging convo. Give us a watch.
The reason why MAGA is attacking "due process" is b/c most don't know what it means. So, don't defend the concept of due process by using "due process". Instead use "inalienable right". The terms are not equivalent but the latter is more effective to gain public support for.
May 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The reason why MAGA is attacking "due process" is b/c most don't know what it means. So, don't defend the concept of due process by using "due process". Instead use "inalienable right". The terms are not equivalent but the latter is more effective to gain public support for.
*Narrator* Yes you did.
CHATTANOOGA-based @FreightWaves CEO: "I did not vote for a neutron bomb to wipe out supply chains and small businesses 100 days in.” www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/ap...
May 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
*Narrator* Yes you did.
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Basically you want to pit them against themselves and their own professed values and identity. Don't get them to argue against the Democrat/Liberal position. Get them on their heels defending their own behavior in relation to MAGA values. Flip the script. Also harangue them for good political ads.
May 1, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Basically you want to pit them against themselves and their own professed values and identity. Don't get them to argue against the Democrat/Liberal position. Get them on their heels defending their own behavior in relation to MAGA values. Flip the script. Also harangue them for good political ads.
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Better bring the fire because they are going stonewall you. And by 'fire' I mean ask them weird from left field about whether they are Christian or not, then ask how a good Christian could turn his/her back on the country by being so loose with US National Security.
May 1, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Better bring the fire because they are going stonewall you. And by 'fire' I mean ask them weird from left field about whether they are Christian or not, then ask how a good Christian could turn his/her back on the country by being so loose with US National Security.