We could've made this montage of liars an hour long but you get the point
“When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.” —Martin Luther King Jr., Beyond Vietnam, 1967 Quote from this article. More powerful 1/
Jim Stewartson, Antifascist@jim-stewartson.bsky.social · 3w agoThe world is very ill. The planet is rejecting a pathogen. The virus is not people—at least not most of us. Humans have lived on Earth for a long time without destabilizing our own planet. I wrote about our common disease: organized psychopathy. www.mind-war.com/p/fever-why-...
PayPal mafia revelations just keep coming. But only thanks to @jim-stewartson.bsky.social and a just few others. So many pro-democracy journos are failing to analyze today’s far-right movement—a movement that is in power! How many Platner oppo pieces do we need?
Jim Stewartson, Antifascist@jim-stewartson.bsky.social · 4w agoApartheid ended in 1994, but its germ escaped in the fractured psyche of several boys who hated the world around them almost as much as they hated themselves. I took a deep look at how the PayPal Mafia reanimated apartheid—and what they really want. www.mind-war.com/p/swart-geva...
EXCLUSIVE: Every week, Russia's Security Council reports what the Kremlin thinks. And they're not just fighting for territory in Ukraine — they are fighting to remake the world order by winning over hearts and minds globally. america2.news/what-russia-...
What Russia Believes: Weekly Reports Reveal the Kremlin's Distorted Worldview
The Kremlin's internal security bulletins reveal a fight not over territory but a metaphysical contest — one waged, and slowly won, through information warfare the West largely ignores.
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Read this if you'd like to get beyond the old polarization on this Fourth. It may be the best article published so far by @thebulwark.com, given their Never Trump Conservative mission to educate right-of-center Americans. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
How Trumpism Betrays the Declaration of Independence
Cherry-picking Lincoln, the MAGA New Right tries to rewrite—or discard altogether—the promise of human equality.
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Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate
Re-posting a Jefferson quote, with a friendly reminder to Libertarians across the USA: Your freedom from government in your pursuits is entirely reliant on the rule of law in a democracy. Do you think a "Network State" will provide checks and balances on consolidated interests and monopolies?
Cato Institute@cato.org · last mo.The Founders didn't build a government to solve your problems. They built one to stay out of your way. Thomas Jefferson said it plainly — and 250 years later, it still cuts right to the heart of what America is meant to be.
Important refresh on religious liberty in the US. The subtext of Dan Patrick’s (no r.) little voice speech is major Constitutional challenges are on the way in phase two of this administration’s “Project.” Phase two will be led by Vance, and it will be an awful attack on education & women esp.
Jim Stewartson, Antifascist@jim-stewartson.bsky.social · last mo.TX Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has a “little voice” in his head that makes moral decisions for him, gives him a friend to talk to & a shoulder to cry on in his dark moments. The government wants to make the little voice mandatory by reuniting church & state. www.mind-war.com/p/little-voi...
"I contemplate with reverence that act of the American people which declared their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State." -- Thomas Jefferson wapo.st/43YNcR4
Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission takes aim at church-state separation
The report recommends the Justice Department issue guidance to promote “an originalist understanding” of how the Constitution sees religion and government.
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Time to change that election fraud narrative! “The D@mn elections aren’t the problem” 🙏 ~Thomas Massie (R) Kentucky
Another big-tech backed anti-democracy flavored conference series, Dialog, unraveled by @davetroy.com. Rather than bringing together left and right thought leaders, it sounds more like Dialog is about bringing together pseudo intellectuals and big business interests. Fun times in a seminar setting!
Dave Troy@davetroy.com · last mo.🛑 ICYMI: Our deep dive on "Dialog," which has been hyped as Peter Thiel's "secret society," finds that it is large and not especially secret — but it is a part of a larger web of influence networks designed to find "heretics" within the world's elite. america2.news/exclusive-pe...
Noticing a piece of the new “American flag blue” liner that was partially detached from the Reflecting Pool, David Hearn said he reached in to see what it felt like. Moments later, U.S. Park Police officers arrested him on a misdemeanor charge of destruction of government property. wapo.st/4xVNzcS
“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” —Thomas Jefferson
“DOGE whistleblower's brake line was cut after Musk posted about him on X *** A police report confirms someone vandalized Dan Berulis’ car a day after Musk shared his identity online.” 6/15/26 … 1/ www.snopes.com/fact-check/m...
DOGE whistleblower's brake line was cut after Musk posted about him on X: Timeline of what we know
A police report confirms someone vandalized Dan Berulis’ car a day after Musk shared his identity online.
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* US JUDGE INDEFINITELY BLOCKS TRUMP'S ANTI-WEAPONIZATION FUND * US JUDGE SAYS WILL GIVE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ONE WEEK TO GIVE SWORN STATEMENT THAT FUND WILL NOT GO FROWARD @reuters.com
Responses from Trump's lawyers are due on FRIDAY in federal court in Florida... where a group of retired federal judges are urging the court to investigate if there was "fraud" and "collusion" in Trump's lawsuit vs. his own I.R.S.
Great summary of Blanche's Anti-Weaponization Fund and its many flaws. This case is a stunning challenge to the Federal Courts and the Constitution. And by rejecting Senate amendments that would have blocked it, R's may have helped the Court reopen the case and investigate potential fraud.
Cato Institute@cato.org · 2mo agoThe Anti-Weaponization Fund lets the president use public money to pay political allies through a process he controls, bypassing Congress' spending power. A slush fund built on legal fictions invites the very abuse it claims to remedy, writes Cato’s Robert A. Levy. https://ow.ly/WGKK50Z7myp
It’s time for libertarians to see, esp given big tech’s reach, that democracies provide the only legitimate checks and balances on consolidated interests and monopolies that have plans to take your liberty and drug you with ketamine to keep you compliant. Literally. @davetroy.com
Dave Troy@davetroy.com · 2mo ago📄 NEW: “Diary of a CEO” is now the #2 podcast on Spotify, but our investigation reveals a web of undisclosed conflicts of interest, questionable health claims, conspiracy content, and interlocking investments backed by Peter Thiel and his allies. america2.news/the-anatomy-...
A precise and much needed retrospective from Mona Charen at The Bulwark. This is how pro-democracy conservatives and Never Trumpers can best help reverse this slide toward authoritarianism, and this deep cultural decay. Restate the facts clearly and regularly so the MAGA GOP can't hide.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3mo ago"This is not just the most corrupt presidency in American history, it is among the most corrupt regimes on earth." And abject corruption on a mass scale, it turns out, is not politically popular. New from @monacharen.bsky.social:
"This is not just the most corrupt presidency in American history, it is among the most corrupt regimes on earth." And abject corruption on a mass scale, it turns out, is not politically popular. New from @monacharen.bsky.social:
Trump’s Corruption Is Going to Sink Him
Conditions are right for voters to stop turning a blind eye to his greed, grift, and gold leaf.
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The inevitable crisis for the American right is here. They can never rally around and vote for Trump again and the results of just one year of their ham-fisted Gov tear-down are in: Radically higher prices, morally indefensible scandals and policies, self-dealing corruption, and warmongering.
Today, on World Press Freedom Day, we reaffirm our duty to support and protect journalists so they can do their work free from pressure, intimidation, or harm.
@radiofreetom.bsky.social Tom, I haven't seen anything on the Joint Targeting Cycle from military policy experts like you or Mark Hertling. Did Trump's threats of mass destruction, recently tripled down on, actually prevent a large strike that Hegseth and Netanyahu may have been pushing for?
Are we witnessing the final unraveling of Donald Trump and the fragile coalition that brought him to power? His choice to pursue war in Iran has all but sealed his fate. My latest. america2.news/the-unraveli...
The Unraveling of Donald Trump
Donald Trump has seemingly permanently fractured the fragile coalition that brought him into power. Is MAGA effectively dead?
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With Donald Trump’s presidency on the brink, we need to consider what President Vance brings along with him. Between Palantir, Tesla & SpaceX, the PayPal Mafia control a Death Star valued at nearly $4 trillion. “That’s no moon.” —Obi Wan Kenobi www.mind-war.com/p/death-star...
Death Star: The Multi-Trillion Dollar Bet on American Technocracy
Palantir’s Manifesto provides a road map for the plans of the post-Trump regime
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Ending Direct File will cost taxpayers billions of dollars—money that will flow into tax prep companies. It's time to stop giant companies from profiting off a process the government once made free. I have a bill to get Congress to reverse Trump’s decision to cancel Direct File.
@crow.house.gov The ceasefire is likely only a brief opportunity for Congress to stop crimes against humanity. Dems can make it clear that the GOP led Congress is choosing to ignore its responsibility to stop threatened war crimes. Impeachment or removal of POTUS is warranted,
We’ve been warned. When this administration repeatedly threatened the very civilization of 90M Iranians, it threatened the civilization of the USA. We now have a small window for Congress to prevent these war crimes from occurring. Whatever stopped this is only temporary without an act of Congress.