Fascism was supposed to bring peace and order to Europe, so Mussolini and Hitler and the puppets of the satellite states told their followers, until they led their countries and the Axis to ruin

This tells you how terrified Trump, Brendan Carr, and Bari Weiss are of James Talarico. So much for “free speech absolutists” when it comes to someone who knows how to speak to Americans with heart and guts. Bravo to Colbert.

Imagine if a woman running a company that earns billions from government contracts showed up at an investor meeting wearing a t-shirt with unbrushed hair and then, while gesturing like a meth addict, celebrated killing people.

Good for Tara Palmeri. Wow! Silence. I've wondered this for a long time. Who is paying Michael Tracey to harass and smear Epstein's survivors? Which powerful men are behind this propaganda effort?

👏 Just keep repeating the truth.

Two days before the most consequential day of the 2016 campaign, Jeffrey Epstein’s assistant Lesley Groff told someone that “Jeffrey has an important lunch on Friday with Peter Thiel and Vitaly Churkin.” Friday was 10/7/16. Means, motive, opportunity. All in one room. —Thiel and

I know we've all gotten used to trump's deranged daily rants, but hearing him repeatedly say "I can do anything I want... I can DESTROY the country" is unnerving, and way worse than Biden's bad debate. He gets worse every day. And none of this is normal.

Trump is deranged and dangerous and is only going to get worse. He is emboldened by success in his power grabs and lashes out like this when rebuked. The most pathetic thing is the GOP is never going to do anything about it. An orchestra of fiddle players as Nero throws matches.

This is the inner sanctum I describe in #Strongmen - cronies, people from "the old days" family members, sycophants. All autocrats have such groups of decision makers.

Senator Murphy, as someone with first-hand experience in authoritarianism and media consolidation, I can tell you that this kind of power is being accumulated rapidly under one political roof precisely to guarantee that political control will never be lost.

Acts of war unauthorized by Congress. The U.S. is attacking Iran according to AP. apnews.com/article/iran-u…

You know I think if we had more members of Congress who were more likely to be drafted than to be sent to a nursing home we’d be a hell of a lot less likely to send our young men to go die in a new war in the Middle East.

Indeed. Why is Ukraine a special exception to so many unwritten rules?

Is someone in power saying the QUIET PART OUT LOUD? These are three words that are inextricably wound together.

The more evidence that surfaces, the more it seems Kathy Ruemmler was a spy that significantly shaped outcomes in the Obama presidency.

A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States. This would provide Donald Trump with a pretext to try to cancel or “federalize” the coming Congressional elections. snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire-f…

Yes. This is transparently the plan. It is a destructive and unconstitutional plan. And it can be stopped. It can even be turned into an electoral issue that hurts Trump. But only if we face this now.

Megalomania alert. Never ends well.

All part of the Trump design to wreck America! American reaearch and ingenuity must be sacrificed so that autocrats can prosper and Putin and Xi's dreams of the US as a third rate power can be fulfilled.

This looks really serious. Russia has closed down the internet even in Moscow. GPS does not work, not even for taxidrivers. Modern Russians live of and with the internet. This Stalinist nonsense suggests that the authorities sense they are losing political control.