This will be a daily headline so long as this regime is in power: “In other news today, reality is crashing into the ideology of the Trump administration.” 
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So much corruption, and so much abject stupidity. What a f*cking mess. 
“It feels rather as if Trump is throwing any strong words he can at the wall to distract from a series of news stories that are not going his way.”
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“It says something about the Trump administration that the German government is lecturing the U.S. government about the dangers of right-wing extremism.”
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An important perspective on the impact we can make in our own ways against tyranny.
Sending support and solidarity to those who are protesting today. Stay safe out there. 
Heather Cox Richardson’s “Letters from an American”:
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/april-18-2025
#HeatherCoxRichardson #LettersFromAnAmerican #PaulRevere #Boston #Lexington #Concord #Resist #NoKings #SaveDemocracy #AmericanRevolution #History #OneIfByLandTwoIfByDC #April19 @resistancerallies
“Scholars often note that the American Revolution of 250 years ago was a movement not to change the status quo but to protect it. The colonists who became revolutionaries sought to make sure that patterns of self-government established over generations could not be overturned by officials seeking to seize power.
We seem to be at it again….”
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“Despite the attempt of right-wing media to hide the [economic] crisis, more than half of Americans have heard unfavorable business news coverage of the government’s policies. While MAGA continues to approve of Trump, he’s rapidly losing support among the rest of the coalition that put him into office.”
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@sufferforme @BrianJopek PSA - her letters are available in podcast form too. Just search for #lettersfromanamerican
JFC. “Finally today, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has proposed addressing the H5N1 bird flu that is decimating U.S. poultry and cattle farms by simply letting the disease run rampant.” https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-18-2025?r=10cse3&utm_medium=ios #HeatherCoxRichardson #lettersfromanamerican #birdflu #howdoessciencework
“The administration’s attempt to ignore the laws the Constitution charges it with executing amounts to an attack on the right of the American people to establish the rules under which we live.”
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And that serpent is back: “The idea of a small government that serves the needs of a few wealthy people, Lincoln warned in his era, is ‘the same old serpent that says you work and I eat, you toil and I will enjoy the fruits of it.’”
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-11-2025
Rather ironic, isn’t it?
“Lawmakers from Republican-dominated states are now acknowledging what those of us who study the federal budget have pointed out for decades: the same Republican-dominated states that complain bitterly about the government’s tax policies are also the same states that take most federal tax money.”
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Quoting Sen. Angus King (I-ME): “‘[W]e're experiencing in real time exactly what the framers most feared. When you clear away the smoke, clear away the DOGE, the executive orders, foreign policy pronouncements, more fundamentally what's happening is the shredding of the constitutional structure itself. And we have a profound responsibility…to stop it.’”
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-7-2024-144
“The replacement of our constitutional system of government with the whims of an unelected private citizen is a coup. The U.S. president has no authority to cut programs created and funded by Congress, and a private citizen tapped by a president has even less standing to try anything so radical.”
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#HeatherCoxRichardson does so much to make sense of the deliberately overwhelming pace of terrible #US #president decisions. https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/february-1-2025?r=10cse3&utm_medium=ios #lettersfromanamerican #potus #usnews
The chaos is intentional: “Our federal government rests on the U.S. Constitution. The three different factions of Trump's MAGA Republicans agree that the government must be destroyed, and they are operating outside the constitutional order, not eager to win legal victories so much as determined to slash and burn down the government without them.”
#Politics #USPolitics #USConstitution #RethuglicansTakeTheWheel #USConstitutionalOrder #LettersFromAnAmerican
“There is a larger story than that of Trump’s attempt to blame Democrats for a disaster that happened on his watch. His administration seems to be trying to replace the government Americans have created through their representatives over centuries to promote the interests of all Americans with a group of white men who can operate as they see best, without restraint.”
#Politics #USPolitics #Project2025 #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #DemocracyVsOligarchy #LettersFromAnAmerican
In spite of my issues with Democrats, my answer is an emphatic NO! “No matter the incompetencies of the Trump presidency … it appears the answer will be: You might not like what we’re doing, but don’t you hate Democrats more?”
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Coach Walz warned us that when someone writes a playbook, they intend to use it: “A number of the people who wrote Project 2025 have been tapped to serve in Trump’s second administration & that nearly two thirds of the executive orders Trump has signed either mirror or partly mirror the plans in that nearly 900-page document.”
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“What became known as the Lyceum Address is one of the earliest speeches of Lincoln’s to have been preserved, and at the time it established him as a rising politician and political thinker. But his recognition, in a time of religious fervor and moral crusades, that the law must prevail over individual passions reverberates far beyond the specific crises of the 1830s.”
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This is frightening: “There have been informal discussions in the department [of Defense] about sending as many as 10,000 troops to the border, a discussion that raises the question of whether Mexico would feel obliged to respond in kind.”
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