Chris Peterson
@thechrispeterson.bsky.social
Lifelong Democrat behind the Orange Curtain. Enjoying retirement.
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"We all do better when we all do better." --Paul Wellstone
Resistance is not futile.
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"We all do better when we all do better." --Paul Wellstone
Resistance is not futile.
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Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
November 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
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It's wild that we've reached a point where the President openly admits to firing people for political reasons, and his OMB director tweets about it like it's a victory. This is page one of the authoritarian playbook, happening in plain sight.
October 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
It's wild that we've reached a point where the President openly admits to firing people for political reasons, and his OMB director tweets about it like it's a victory. This is page one of the authoritarian playbook, happening in plain sight.
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You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.
October 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.
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Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?
#TwentyfiveFortyseven
#TwentyfiveFortyseven
October 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?
#TwentyfiveFortyseven
#TwentyfiveFortyseven
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ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'
A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.
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October 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
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When are all the terrified people who know this is wrong but think they can just wait out the next three years going to wake up and take their heads out of the sand?
September 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
When are all the terrified people who know this is wrong but think they can just wait out the next three years going to wake up and take their heads out of the sand?
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In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?
If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?
Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?
Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
September 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?
If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?
Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?
Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
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He wants to dictate what the press can say.
What a university can teach.
Whom a company can employ.
And to whom the law shall apply.
He who wants all this is not a president,
But strives to be a dictator.
And all who succumb are not citizens,
But subjects.
What a university can teach.
Whom a company can employ.
And to whom the law shall apply.
He who wants all this is not a president,
But strives to be a dictator.
And all who succumb are not citizens,
But subjects.
September 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
He wants to dictate what the press can say.
What a university can teach.
Whom a company can employ.
And to whom the law shall apply.
He who wants all this is not a president,
But strives to be a dictator.
And all who succumb are not citizens,
But subjects.
What a university can teach.
Whom a company can employ.
And to whom the law shall apply.
He who wants all this is not a president,
But strives to be a dictator.
And all who succumb are not citizens,
But subjects.
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Inflation is so bad these days that taking a $50,000 cash bribe can't even get you indicted. SAD!! Thank you for your attention to this matter.
September 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Inflation is so bad these days that taking a $50,000 cash bribe can't even get you indicted. SAD!! Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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There’s only one person he cares about.
September 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
There’s only one person he cares about.
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Americans have short memories—keep reminding them. PLEASE SHARE!
September 12, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Americans have short memories—keep reminding them. PLEASE SHARE!
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Now that Kirk's killer seems to be caught, maybe the news could spare a moment's attention for the right wing, from the commentariat up to the GOP and president, whose immediate reaction was not mourning, but to seize the opportunity to try to incite violence against groups they hate
September 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Now that Kirk's killer seems to be caught, maybe the news could spare a moment's attention for the right wing, from the commentariat up to the GOP and president, whose immediate reaction was not mourning, but to seize the opportunity to try to incite violence against groups they hate
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Big sigh. Watch this.
Can you see why the Yankees’ moment of silence, the lowered flags, the promise of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, feel like a gut punch to the very people he spent years targeting?
No one wished death on this man, but what we’re seeing right now is too f*cking much.
Can you see why the Yankees’ moment of silence, the lowered flags, the promise of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, feel like a gut punch to the very people he spent years targeting?
No one wished death on this man, but what we’re seeing right now is too f*cking much.
September 12, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Big sigh. Watch this.
Can you see why the Yankees’ moment of silence, the lowered flags, the promise of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, feel like a gut punch to the very people he spent years targeting?
No one wished death on this man, but what we’re seeing right now is too f*cking much.
Can you see why the Yankees’ moment of silence, the lowered flags, the promise of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, feel like a gut punch to the very people he spent years targeting?
No one wished death on this man, but what we’re seeing right now is too f*cking much.
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Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
August 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
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BREAKING: The US government has just removed sections 9 and 10 of Article I of the US Constitution from their website.
Note that sections 9 and 10 deal with:
- Writ of Habeas Corpus
- Congresses ability to control tariffs.
See screenshot below: Notice that 9 and 10 are gone.
Note that sections 9 and 10 deal with:
- Writ of Habeas Corpus
- Congresses ability to control tariffs.
See screenshot below: Notice that 9 and 10 are gone.
August 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
BREAKING: The US government has just removed sections 9 and 10 of Article I of the US Constitution from their website.
Note that sections 9 and 10 deal with:
- Writ of Habeas Corpus
- Congresses ability to control tariffs.
See screenshot below: Notice that 9 and 10 are gone.
Note that sections 9 and 10 deal with:
- Writ of Habeas Corpus
- Congresses ability to control tariffs.
See screenshot below: Notice that 9 and 10 are gone.
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“It’s just one glaring example from a week that bore many authoritarian hallmarks — purging dissenters, rewriting history, criminalizing opposition and demanding total institutional loyalty.”
www.axios.com/2025/08/02/t...
www.axios.com/2025/08/02/t...
Trump's authoritarian streak
With one social media post, Trump threatened to eviscerate the integrity of U.S. government data.
www.axios.com
August 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM
“It’s just one glaring example from a week that bore many authoritarian hallmarks — purging dissenters, rewriting history, criminalizing opposition and demanding total institutional loyalty.”
www.axios.com/2025/08/02/t...
www.axios.com/2025/08/02/t...
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Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
August 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
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"What we are watching is the potential dismantling of the remaining portions of the Voting Rights Act." Marc Elias
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"FIVE ALARM FIRE!” BOMBSHELL Supreme Court development
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
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August 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
"What we are watching is the potential dismantling of the remaining portions of the Voting Rights Act." Marc Elias
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Could you imagine a president of the United States tanking the bond market to distract from a sex scandal?
Not possible, right? Like some kind of crazy movie script too absurd even for Hollywood?
Not possible, right? Like some kind of crazy movie script too absurd even for Hollywood?
July 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Could you imagine a president of the United States tanking the bond market to distract from a sex scandal?
Not possible, right? Like some kind of crazy movie script too absurd even for Hollywood?
Not possible, right? Like some kind of crazy movie script too absurd even for Hollywood?