"The New York Times reported there are at least nine court officers and additional Secret Service agents in the courtroom today, a much larger security presence than normal.
Outside the court, a local park has been turned into a stage by Trump supporters."
~ Dan Rather
#Trump #trial #crime
https://steady.substack.com/p/things-we-never-thought-wed-see
"There’s no better issue than abortion to remind us what America under a second MAGA Administration would become. …
Roe’s fall has laid bare the America that Trump and the MAGA Right want, and how catastrophic a second Trump presidency would be for America."
~ Melissa Ryan
#Trump #Republicans #abortion #fascism #women #ReproductiveRights
Jemar Tisby provides valuable backstory to Trump's blasphemous peddling of a Christian nationalist bible combining American political texts and the biblical text. The idea for this blasphemous project started several years ago with a man named Hugh Kirkpatrick of Elite Source Pro.
#Trump #bible #ChristianNationalism #blasphemy #grift
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https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/three-years-ago-we-stopped-harper
"Of all the negative reactions to my writing, 99.99% of the racist comments come from white men. Aside from their inability to resist the urge to explain Black culture to me, these individuals rarely argue the facts. Bigotry and racism are such an essential component of their identity, that they don't even notice the backwardness of their point of view."
~ Marlon Weems
#WhiteMen
As Jason Sattler notes, with the IVF debacle, Republicans are trying to lie re: what their "life begins at conception" mantra really means. But supporters like Lila Rose won't let them lie: shey says,
“Politicians cannot call themselves ‘pro-life,’ affirm the truth that human life begins at the moment of fertilization, and then enact laws that allow the callous killing of these preborn children simply because they were created through IVF."
#Republicans #ProLife #IVF
https://thecause.substack.com/p/they-dont-want-want-my-daughter-to
"Trump wants everyone to believe that Jews=Israel, but this is an extraordinarily dangerous idea. It’s not an accident that it’s exactly what today is being used to justify antisemitism directed against Jews. …
Trump himself seems to believe that if he says this often enough, eventually Jews will start moving toward the GOP."
~ Paul Waldman
#Trump #Jews #Israel #antisemitism #Republicans
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https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/dual-loyalty-used-to-be-a-slur-now
If you want a glimpse of the "pro-life" white Christian dystopia Republicans collaborating with white Christian nationalists are preparing for all of us, look at Kentucky: as Paige Oamek and Rohan Montgomery report,
"The state is making it easier to kill homeless people on private property—and that’s just one part of one of the most draconian crime bills in recent history."
#Kentucky #homeless
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https://www.thenation.com/article/society/kentucky-crime-bill/
nostr:npub14dwk8rfl9l439p6mmpmy4rtld9f0w7yspjeeszlgg6gc5t9y8g9sueqwrc Yes, he has a cunning sense of how to reach people in their most primitive and primal places and to urge the ugly id to manifest itself. He's a walking exercise in that himself.
nostr:npub1r4j89f6d2wey3ras4hlk65h86z9fj6yxpn2vqjgf4q68xayrae7q8qd8j0 Indeed. Oppression and repression only make many of us stronger on the inside, where it counts.
nostr:npub1s88wwvlvl3xlxn7yh2mgv6jhj5xtejke87erkkgnzussr5p8yuzspnlw9d 😀 I have to admit, they do me, too, especially after one ran away with me as a teen and knocked my head on a low-lying branch of a tree.
nostr:npub12z3d3v69dfwtc2uwhp0a02fk0t50mzltycratdhm7v6u6mvdtrysygmfft I thought it was great, too. I'm glad to learn more about Matthew Sheffield, whose work I've followed, without knowing much of his life story.
nostr:npub19hp9rdd6a9fpcyr4mu536te30sr6pdswvw3wlqust8c200fyuhpsj4craq You'd be right in adding that phrase. And, yes, someone who's available to any buyer poses a serious security risk for the US, and, really, for the whole globe.
Republican voters who formerly voted for Trump tell why they will never, ever vote for Trump again.
Republican Voters Against Trump (RVAT) invites you to share your own story, if you're a Republican who formerly voted for Trump: https://rvat.org/add-your-voice/
#Trump #Republicans
Jim Swift on how Republican hitman Robert Hur screwed President Biden over inhis special council report.
In short, Hur lied about what Biden said in his interview with Biden.
#Biden #Hur #age #lies
nostr:npub1tuk54lutrz8uvhd5nar4qdayzy7m4ztryw5dztq0tltncaaj2xgqj307wx I love that observation.
nostr:npub1s88wwvlvl3xlxn7yh2mgv6jhj5xtejke87erkkgnzussr5p8yuzspnlw9d If wishes were horses, we'd all ride, wouldn't we?
nostr:npub10cms20lv32u62lx7w8v0uwk6qtwwlthff0mtw0usx9m8x3wra5sqc036ex Holding onto justified rage and using it to spur ourselves to constructive action: that seems good to me.
nostr:npub1nwzgj3fzfswf6w77swry45x8334ajxqseq6f5r9srsuc56x6fj4suwppp9 Yes — I suspect it's not really accuracy of depictions of Biden but instant vilification of Biden that energizes them.