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The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties.

Hello?

Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party.

Enough of the false equivalence.
DO NOT normalize:

👉ICE arresting US citizens

👉👉Deploying National Guard to intimidate

👉👉👉Administration posting partisan messages during shutdown

“Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.” - spoken by Nemik in Andor
Yesterday they were shooting priests in the head with rubber bullets. Today they're arresting journalists. If you have anyone in your life who doesn't regularly follow the news and doesn't understand how bad things are and how bad they're about to get, you need to tell them right now. Time is short.
"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
Thank you for sharing and it’s these powerful stories that remind us of the promise and possibilities of America 🇺🇸
Exactly - I always think about Mon Mothma’s Senate speech in Andor:
“The distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss. Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil.”
If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.
We’re in the United States of Upside Down:

This administration has convinced people that the “business case for diversity” is scarier than the “business case for fascism”…which is unfolding in real time with the help of tech billionaires

💙 #democracy #diversity #inclusion #fascism #business 💙
Mabel & I hope all our fellow Californians vote YES on Prop. 50!

#FightFireWithFire
It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.
This administration is best described by Hannah Arendt’s ‘banality of evil’:

👉Normalization of immoral acts
👉Conformity as test of loyalty
👉Weaponized bureaucracy

Even if you’re not an ‘evil’ person, you will be unrecognizable to yourself as you support in more and more extreme ideas and lies
Y'all, this is a white supremacist regime intent on re-segregating the United States and removing Black people from positions of authority and access to opportunity. This must be stated as a simple 'matter of fact' and condemned at every turn.
Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration
www.nytimes.com
"A rival petition began circulating Sunday, calling on the Rutgers chapter of TPUSA to be disbanded, accusing it of inciting violence. As of today, that petition had several hundred more signatures than the petition calling for Dr. Bray’s firing..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...
Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Receiving Death Threats
www.nytimes.com
Proud to have you as our CT Senator. They’re inflicting trauma on a national and global scale - we will need to collectively heal in order to rebuild this great nation
How many felons do you think are working for ICE at this point? I definitely think it's a a non-zero number. If they weren't a felon when they started, I suspect many of them are...now.
Indeed #strongertogether and thanks for the follow back!
Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House had more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and it appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records.
SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records
The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.
www.beltway.news
I know this sounds extreme. It is.

I know I sound overly alarmist. I don't think I am.

Trump is enacting a well thought out plan so he and his allies can rule forever.

But it's not too late to stop them. We can peacefully and forcefully mobilize now. We have the power.
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.

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