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“The next president must say on day one: We’re tearing down this arch; we’re razing Trump’s ballroom…Washington ceremonial architecture must be returned to the purpose for which it exists—to promote democracy, not the demented, bruised ego of one sick man.” newrepublic.com/post/209211/...

Trump’s Sycophants Just Approved the Tackiest Monument to Him Yet

The Arc de Trump isn’t about America. It’s about one man. It must die.

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A particularly evil week for ICE flights in Africa. Since Tuesday, ICE has deported people to Algeria, Ethiopia and Kenya, plus two possible third-country removal trips to Ghana, and one confirmed third-country removal trip of 15 Latin American nationals to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

An FR24 map showing Journey Aviation’s N588TN landing in Algiers. This was an ICE flight. An ADSBx map showing Talon Air’s N50JE going from Accra to Addis Ababa. This was an ICE flight. An ADSBx map showing Journey’s N62FF landing in Nairobi. This was an ICE flight. An FR24 map showing Omni’s N207AX landing in Kinshasa. This was and ICE flight.

Ukraine Navy says clearing naval mines in the Black Sea will take 3-5 years after the war, starting with a 5-8 month urgent phase to secure ports and approach channels. It also signals readiness to deploy two mine countermeasure ships for operations in the Strait of Hormuz. - 100%

The thing I love most about Zohran Mamdani are his ideas for how to make working people’s lives better. I also love how those same ideas make the most greedy people alive utterly furious.

They want to freak you out, to paralyze you. Shock Doctrine is meant to demoralize you + make you cede your rights, fight, and freedom to them. Do not let their psychological tactics work on you. Set boundaries. We hold the line IRL and in our heads. Defend your psyche so you can defend democracy.

If binging news about our corrupt christofascist SCOTUS ruling in alignment with their unitary executive theory Christofascist ideals is stressing you out and causing you to spiral: please get off the internet. Set limits to your consumption of news that sends you into a spiral.

"The rule of law is not a given in this Nation, nor any other. It is a precept of our democracy that will endure only if those brave enough in every branch fight for its survival. Today, the Court abdicates its vital role in that effort." —Justice Sotomayor

If I'm running a news room now, I assign everyone who has done piece on Biden's final-years fitness-to-govern, and have them apply same standards here. (Once heard Bill Clinton give 45-minute ad-hoc on what diff *counties* in Arkansas had done in Civil War. Trump doesn't know WHAT YEAR it was.)

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Trump: "If you look at the end of the Civil War -- the 1800s, it was a very turbulent time. If you take the end day -- was it 1869? Or whatever."

This is an appropriate time to remind folks that the judiciary was never going to save us. They are a useful tool to slow down the march of the fascists and buy us time. But they were never never never going to save us. We, The American People, will save us. Stop waiting for a rescue. Get to work.