Trudy Gonzales

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"'get away from me right now,' King—retired Army captain who served in Iraq and earned a Purple Heart and Bronze Star—can be heard telling 3 male guard members. 'you have absolutely no authority to detain me.'" when violent fascists violate your rights take their asses to court, end of.

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Military veteran and D.C. resident Anna King has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the Idaho National Guard, saying three guard members assaulted her while detaining her in front of her home. n.pr/4wyjw9S

Prison slavery. According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), roughly 800,000 of the nation's 1.2 million incarcerated individuals are prison laborers. ✅13th Amendment loophole-Abolishing slavery EXCEPT as a punishment for crime.

A group of people in orange uniforms work in a field with blue bins and a tractor under a cloudy sky. Text discusses prison labor and low wages for picking lettuce.

Darwin never said the strongest survive. “Survival of the fittest” wasn’t even his phrase — the philosopher Herbert Spencer coined it, & Darwin only borrowed it in a later edition. “Fittest” never meant fiercest, richest, or most dominant. It meant best fit... open.substack.com/pub/shadowso...

Fitness Is Not a Fist: The Misreading at the Root of Our Endless Wars

Shadows of Empire — Welcome to our new series on where late-stage capitalism is taking us and what it’s costing.

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“He hates being trapped in Iran... that Epstein won't go away. He hates being told his dinner speech was inappropriate. He hates that his name needed to come off a building. He hates losing in court. And he especially hates his own mortality." Result: Hypomanic Episode.

Trump suffers 'hypomanic episode' with classic signs of psychiatric sickness: experts

President Donald Trump’s flurry of about 60 Truth Social posts over two hours on Sunday left documentary makers behind the Shallow State X account alarmed.Conservative attorney and avid Never Trumper ...

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Trump is deep in a hypomanic spiral. 60 posts in two hours, mostly AI images, all soaked in malice, grievance, & paranoid revenge fantasy. He's trapped in Iran, haunted by Epstein, humiliated in court, & terrified of his own mortality. Declining alignant narcissists never go down quietly. Or alone.

I can’t help think of the fact that Katie Porter just went from frontrunner to nonstarter in the CA gov race for exactly this kind of behavior. The double standard for white men in leadership is appalling, and so are his actions. Ken Martin should resign. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/u...

Inside the Phone-Throwing Drama at the Troubled, Broke Democratic Party (Gift Article)

The Democrats should be well positioned to make gains in this year’s midterms. But inside party headquarters, every week brings paranoia, worries about money and, on occasion, emotional eruptions.

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A shapeless, nagging terror has gripped kremlin rulers since time immemorial: the fear of discovering that russia lacks meaning and coherence: a fragmented empire of peoples Moscow colonized in a hurry, forever searching & never finding a unifying national idea www.realclearworld.com/articles/202...

Russia's War and Putin's Choice

This article first appeared in German in Neue Zürcher Zeitung Few medieval figures loom larger in Russia’s origin story than Yuriy Dolgorukiy, the prince credited with founding an outpost o

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We have to tax billionaires not just because thats what tax is fucking for, but because they’re almost by definition sociopaths, so will do the absolute dumbest, cruelest, weirdest shit. You don’t allow world-changing power to only be given to people who don’t actually share your world with you.

In all seriousness, Trump and Republicans are setting the stage right now to attack our democracy, steal our elections, and violently crush any dissent. Wake up, America.