They told us Democrats would turn America into a show-your-papers society. They told us Democrats would strip away the Second Amendment. They told us Democrats would jail us for what we say. They told us Democrats would drag us into more foreign wars. They told us Democrats

But this time actually mean it

Schrödinger’s Second Amendment: - Guns are a mandatory prerequisite for the government to respect your rights. - Guns immediately invalidate your rights and the government can execute you on the spot if you have one.

We're gonna find out if libertarians are real

"There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes." Ernest Hemingway It really sucks to be living at a time when this quote is relevant.

The hope was that public video would make law enforcement think twice, resting on the naive idea that we're dealing with generally law-abiding officers. ICE beats people up and kills in full knowledge they're being filmed. They have lethal impunity.

When Charlie Kirk was killed MAGA reacted like no one had ever died before, let alone at the hands of a disaffected young white man raised in a conservative home, as Kirk’s assailant had been. They wanted the world to stop and then they turned into a branding event and grifting

Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it. —Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

How does Authoritarianism happen? It starts slowly, in slogans and small acts. It starts in the eroding of decency and empathy. It starts with a "Leader" undermining faith in any "Truth," the deliberate disorientation of the citizen's mind. And then? It stirs in the heart of

It just get worse. Instead of administering CPR to a man who might still be alive, DHS officers were leering over the body, counting the bullet holes.

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

This is an excellent piece out today from NYT Magazine which calls this the ‘unraveling of America’ nytimes.com/2026/01/25/mag…

Spot on. Anyone who is surprised at what is happening is frankly a fool. It was all laid out, from Project 2025 to the campaign speeches. We tried to warn. We were called hysterical and melodramatic. Except we were right. Those who voted for this historically awful man are

We have to see the logic of the killings as well as the killings themselves. The horror is a truth in itself. But it is also a sign of a political logic, one known from the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century. snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-law…

Lies are loyalty tests in an autocracy.

"Recent events have brought Trump’s governing style into sharper focus. Fascist best describes it, and reluctance to use the term has now become perverse." Yes, It’s Fascism. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/…

“I just checked—it turns out that Art. II, Sec. 1 of the Constitution of the United States does *not* say ‘The executive Power shall be vested in a bunch of sociopaths who think they can do whatever the f*ck they want and make sh*t up as they go along.’” — George Conway

"A competent autocrat selects his enemies with skill. Trump’s Achilles Heel is that he gets worse at this with experience." Me on his administration's darkly comical and profoundly inept depiction of Pretti and Good as terrorists. ft.com/content/623d65…

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