Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Hard to miss the comparison to ante-bellum “slave patrols” that “enforced discipline” against enslaved people in the U.S. south. They’re even ready to deputize citizen volunteers like we saw in the Tulsa Race Massacre (1921)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/us/politics/trump-national-guard.html?unlocked_article_code=1.g08.OW7H.BBqqww7zPNo4&smid=url-share

"members of the National Guard … are trained for the battlefield … They did not sign up to fight crime. And when we call them into service, we are reaching into local communities & taking people who have jobs & families away from their neighborhoods & those who rely upon them.

… Earlier today, Donald Trump asked for me personally to say, 'Mr. President, can you do us the honor of protecting our city?' Instead, I say, 'Mr. President, do not come to Chicago.'"
https://mastodon.social/@mckra1g/115091599379180965

From Jeff Cox on 🦋:

#Florida bans "The Diary of Anne Frank" in school #libraries. Whoever made this decision should have to eat every page of that amazing book, page by page.
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Me:
Hashtags mine.

This was such an inspirational book for me when I was a kid. And the movie even moreso.

Courageous human beings protecting innocent fellow human beings from unspeakable evil - WTF is wrong with that?

#BookBans #Books

RE: https://www.threads.com/@bulwarkonline/post/DNyakDP0skX

A burglar broke in. I put the red dot on his chest. The cat did the rest.

Fack SCOTUS. They're just drumpf's lackeys.

"In case there was any doubt as to the motivation behind Trump’s military occupations, take note ... 8 of the top 10 states with the highest homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states is Illinois,” Pritzker said. https://trib.al/2tOVD9k

"Last night on MSNBC, I said it straight: the FBI raid on John Bolton’s home and office is only the beginning. Trump’s enemies list is long, and he intends to check off every name. Indictments will come. Prosecutions will come. And if history is any guide, imprisonment will follow. Retribution isn’t a campaign slogan for him; it’s a mission—and one he intends to win."

~ Michael Cohen

#Trump #Republicans #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #JohnBolton
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/trumps-america-is-my-birthday-nightmare

"On Inauguration Day, I listed 12 tripwires of tyranny – developments to keep an eye out for that would indicate our country had become a dictatorship. Seven months into Trump’s term, we’re already there with five of the tripwires, we’re getting there with five others, and we haven’t moved much on two others. …

Clearly, we’re far down the road to a dictatorship."

~ Mark Jacob

#Trump #Republicans #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator
/11

https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/are-we-living-in-a-dictatorship-yet

The people around him are so afraid of him that they won’t even tell him how math works

Q: During the campaign, you called Kamala Harris a communist, but the Biden-Harris admin never called for nationalizing a private company like you're proposing with Intel. Is this the new way of doing industrial policy?

TRUMP: Yeah. Sure it is. I want to try to get as much as I can.

Heather Cox Richardson put it plainly: the collapse isn’t just physical, it’s cognitive. The man who once bullied his way through interviews with brute-force bluster now drifts off mid-sentence, slurring fragments of half-remembered grievances as if volume alone can stand in for coherence. Weakness masquerading as strength is still weakness, but Trump’s weakness is now paired with the unchecked machinery of state power. - Mary Geddry

https://marygeddry.com/p/the-rotting-strongman-and-his-armed

#Florida paints over Pulse memorial's pride colors again https://www.advocate.com/politics/florida-pulse-memorial-painted-over #LGBTQIA

WE'RE DONE WAITING! RELEASE THE GODDAMNED FUCKING EPSTEIN FILES!!!

#ChildRapistTrump #GhislaineMaxwell #JeffreyEpstein #TrumpEpsteinFiles #MAGA #DonaldTrump #PamBondi #USPol

Trump threatens new investigation of Christie over ‘Bridgegate’ scandal
https://wapo.st/4mr56mU

He is decreptating before our eyes, but Biden was old..

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cxrua73vvgqw4lel4nkccky7/post/3lxagunr4c326