PNW4Democracy
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PNW4Democracy
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A Grandpa for democracy.
How many thousands of Americans will die from the Trump/RFK/GOP regime? How many American children?
Trump just ended a rule limiting a type of pollution that causes heart and lung disease.

The rule was expected to save thousands of American lives every year.
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Trump’s MAGA plans will do the same to the USA
the price of populism
"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"

Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Dear Ukraine,

I apologize. I’m sorry my country elected someone who works for Putin. Someone who’s on Putin’s side. As long as he is President, America won’t stand with you. Just know tho, that most Americans DO stand with you.

Best,

A Ukraine-Supporting American Citizen
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November 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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I guess one way to distract people from your friendship with a sex criminal is to claim that you are friends with a political murderer.
November 21, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The Republican Party continues to show full obedience to Trump. A few doubtful voices are being heard. Talk is cheap. I’ll start being hopeful when they take real and meaningful actions to bring his dictatorship to a halt.
"It’s now clear that potent opposition to the dictatorship requires concerted efforts by actors across the country, both in and out of government, all directed at bringing every abuse of the regime and its dictator to the attention of a public that is already alarmed."

Read this:
New in PN: The lame duck dictatorship

"It’s increasingly clear that Trump & his captive political party are in the midst of a political reversal. Every major 'policy' of theirs is unpopular & the regime’s leader is a lame duck dictator who's poised to draw his party deeper into a political abyss."
November 21, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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TEN MONTHS IN:

The national debt is higher.

The trade deficit is wider.

The inflation rate has worsened.

The unemployment rate is up.
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Roberts has earned a prime spot in the future hall of shame. Traitor to the Constitution he swore to protect.
Of all the terrible things Roberts has done, this was the most shocking stat: "the right-wing majority has used the shadow docket to uphold Trump’s actions roughly 90 percent of the time, repeatedly bailing him out of any obligation to follow the law"
There’s one person squarely to blame for Trump’s corruption, authoritarianism & assault on democracy: John Roberts. He’s enabled so much of Trump’s lawlessness while somehow escaping accountability for it

New cover story from @pemalevy.bsky.social & me

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
November 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Inflation isn’t all the same. When prices rise because demand is strong, firms earn more and can raise wages. With tariff-driven inflation, firms face higher costs, not higher revenues—so prices go up but paychecks don’t. Same pain, less gain.
November 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Now that Trump has told the Republicans in Congress to approve release of the Epstein files, there is one thing we know for certain: the shredders at DOJ are overheating.
November 18, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The attack on democracy is a Republican Party effort. Trump serves their goal for the time being, but the GOP is committed to replacing democracy with an authoritarian regime.

So, not at all surprising to see GOP Senators attacking the judiciary.
NEW: GOP senators are advancing Trump’s war on the judiciary — demanding the suspension of Chief Judge James Boasberg just days before he rules on potential contempt for Trump-era officials.

This follows months of threats against Boasberg for stifling Trump’s mass deportation efforts.
Escalating Trump’s War on Judiciary, GOP Senators Ask DC Circuit to Suspend Judge Boasberg
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Every day ICE reconfirms their purpose to terror and nothing else. A key step in the Republican authoritarian takeover.
Racist terrorism by the government. This is a US citizen.

www.charlotteobserver.com/article31293...
November 16, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Anne Applebaum as usual on the mark. I would add: most elected Republicans quietly fold the millisecond this happens to them. So in speaking up MTG is GOP unusual.
Just in the past 3 days, I happened to speak to an academic, a US politician and a former Biden official who had all received death threats and severe harassment from the MAGA movement. It's now a common experience. I am sorry MTG has to live through the same thing, but she can't be surprised
MTG: “.. “I am now being contacted by private security firms with warnings for my safety as a hot bed of threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world. .. The man I supported and helped get elected.”

@mediaite.com #GA14
www.mediaite.com/media/news/m...
November 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Let’s start calling each of these bribery transactions John Roberts approved corruption.
“straight up giving the president a bar of gold” is where we’re at now on the “corruption isn’t real” scale

good work, John Roberts
"It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it." said one administration official.

How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.

www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
November 16, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Dear MTG,

This is called: reap what you sow.
MTG: “.. “I am now being contacted by private security firms with warnings for my safety as a hot bed of threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world. .. The man I supported and helped get elected.”

@mediaite.com #GA14
www.mediaite.com/media/news/m...
November 16, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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November 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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November 16, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Never forget, the entire Republican Party accepts, enables and supports every single one of these Trumpian horrors.
November 16, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Welcome to exactly what the Republican authoritarian regime looks like.
Here’s a story for every national news outlet:

In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.

“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”

www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
November 16, 2025 at 6:16 AM
An authoritarian takeover is the one and only item on the Republican agenda for 2026.
November 16, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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This is real. A government agency calling Americans performing their democratic right of protest “imbecilic morons.” This Trump regime is a poison and never should have gotten power. A total disgrace.
November 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Sounds like the kind of guy Trump wants among his close advisors.
A Long Island drug dealer sprung from prison by Trump has now been convicted of sexually abusing his kids’ nanny and threatening a congregant at his synagogue.

Jonathan Braun landed a 27-month sentence Monday for violating the terms of his 2021 presidential pardon with fresh crimes.
LI drug dealer freed by Trump now convicted of molesting his kids’ nanny and threatening synagogue congregant
Braun was first busted in 2010 for orchestrating a major cannabis distribution ring, smuggling millions of dollars worth of weed from Canada to New York.
trib.al
November 14, 2025 at 11:22 PM
GOP brain:
Raping an 8 year old = bad
Raping a 15 year old = OK
"don't worry, he's just into 15-year-olds" perhaps not as exculpatory as you think
Also 15-year-olds are not "barely legal." They are minors.
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM