Democracy is in peril in Florida

Here for the #Resistance. No dm's please.

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

Dear MAGA,

I know many of you are upset at Trump's pro-war picks. You expected him to be anti-war. I hate to tell you but your favorite 'independent media' hosts were lying to you the entire time. Here's Trump's 1st term foreign policy:

- increased drone strikes 432%
- 2,243 drone strikes in his first 2 years alone (more than 8 years of Obama)
- kept us in Iraq
- kept us in Afghanistan
- 330% increase in civilian deaths in Afghanistan
- bombed Syria twice
- bombed somalia
- occupied a third of Syria to “take the oil”
- Increased the military budget every year
- let Israel illegally annex the Golan heights (which is Syrian)
- assassinated a top Iranian commander who was fighting ISIS
- tried to coup Venezuela
- ripped up the Iran agreement
- armed Saudi Arabia as they did a genocide in Yemen and vetoed a bill to cut off the weapons
- dropped the 'mother of all bombs' on Afghanistan
- hired John Bolton, Mike Pompeo & Gina Haspel (all insane neocon warmongers) and let them run his foreign policy
- Pardoned black water war criminals
- signed pro-torture executive order
- his first military raid as president killed a little American girl

I haven't even included in this list what he SAYS he wants in his 2nd term (war with Mexico, allow Israel to annex the West Bank). Stop listening to scam artists who don't know the first thing about policy and only care about vibes.

With love,
a guy who gives a shit about policy

[Lesley Abravanel 🪩 @lesleyabravanel]

Fun Tulsi Gabbard facts:
1. Gabbard worked closely with her father’s anti-LGBTQ+ organization that worked to pass a measure against same-sex marriage in Hawaii and promoted conversion therapy.
2. Gabbard has railed against the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law &CHIPS &Science Act.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Donald Trump's White House attorney from his first term shreds his plan to pardon treasonous January 6th rioters as a "tragic event" and rips into his record as president.

And he was just getting started...

"I don’t think anybody in our history has more tarnished the rule of law than Donald Trump and I don’t think it restrains him at all, the concept that he might do that again. I think it’s highly possible that he will go forward with these pardons," said attorney Ty Cobb on CNN.

"I would join the choir with the former vice president whom I respect and know to be a man of great character and who loves his country," Cobb continued. "I think this would be a tragic event further demeaning the rule of law to those of us in this country."

"And it's not going to go unseen around the world. I mean this is the type of conduct when viewed internationally makes it impossible to distinguish the United States from a third world country or a South American dictatorship," he went on.

"This is really lawlessness of the highest order and there's no principled basis for it. I think it would be a very sad event," Cobb added.

The second election of Donald Trump represents the most direct assault on the rule of law in the history of American democracy. He is totally lawless and his supporters are following his lead.

We must prepare ourselves to stop these criminals and traitors, and we do that by sweeping the mid-term elections in two years. It's a long road ahead, but if we keep the faith and band together we can save this country.

Please retweet and ❤️ if you think that Trump is an avowed criminal who's deeply unfit for office — and consider joining the growing exodus to Tribel, a new pro-democracy social network that is exploding in popularity because Twitter and Facebook are trying to stop its growth — which is only making Tribel grow even faster. Please follow us on Tribel to get all of our breaking news alerts sent straight to your phone or computer by clicking the following link: https://t.co/HnJzSKj4Hp

[Malcolm Nance @MalcolmNance]

DON’T LEAVE X/TWITTER: THERE IS A PLAN IN PLAY:

Download your past data … you created that. Open a new account where the sky is blue. And stop using it … don’t engage the Red Coats.

What will happen will be Epic.

Wait for the sign announcing …
The #GreatTwitterBlackout

[Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp]

Funny, in a dark way, that the new head of DNI is herself a major counterintelligence risk

[Marlow Stern @MarlowNYC]

here’s pete hegseth, fox news host and trump’s pick for secretary of defense, nearly killing a drummer with an axe on live TV https://t.co/b1RHmVz6vZ

[Tom Davis @TrdDavis]

@JoJoFromJerz OMG

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

War criminal Eddie Gallagher stabbed a teenage Islamic State captive to death for no reason and then forced his troops to pose for a photograph with the corpse. Members of Alpha Platoon’s Seal Team 7 testified that Gallagher had also shot a teenage girl and an elderly man from his sniper’s roost. They described him as “evil” and “perfectly OK with killing anybody that was moving.”
Donald Trump pardoned Gallagher in 2019.
And he did so at the behest of…

Pete Hegseth.

[Mr. Spock 🖖 (Commentary) @SpockResists]

I will admit that this last week had been hard. A sort of numbing. An almost complete paradigm shift. I like being a kind and honest person, not a pushover in the slightest. But good. I thought this is what we aspired to.
When you look at history. It doesn’t support this. In the

[Social Security Works ❌👑 @SSWorks]

Last night, 172 House Republicans voted for a bill that would reduce the Social Security benefits of 14 million workers, including public school teachers, firefighters, and police officers.

https://t.co/BXIWayK6qI

[Social Security Works ❌👑 @SSWorks]

Donald Trump ran for President on a promise to protect Social Security.

But just days after the election, Trump and his fellow Republicans have already broken that promise — three times!

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: MAGA fascist Stephen Miller gets humiliated as his own uncle comes forward to slam his disastrous and cruel immigration policy — and brings up family history to do it.

This is just too perfect...

"More than 70 of our family who were denied entry to the US from 1925-1940, because of their ethnicity/religion, due to the xenophobia of the ‘America First’ political faction of the day, were all gassed or machine gunned by the Nazi Einsatzgruppen in WWII," Dr. David Glosser told The Daily Mail.

Miller, well-known for his deeply fascist and sadistic beliefs, has already been named Deputy Chief of Staff by President-elect Donald Trump.

"The killers‘ political masters’ rhetoric had portrayed them as being sub-human, criminal, or even demonic elements that needed to be expelled, expunged, and eventually exterminated," said Glosser, a retired neuropsychologist said.

"The same pattern of seeking power by exciting and exploiting racial anxieties and blaming scapegoats in times of plague, economic, or social turmoil has been a tragic element of human history since time immemorial," he added.

Dr. Glosser has absolutely nailed it in his analysis. Trump and Miller blame immigrants for all of this country's problems, but the real culprits are self-serving men like them who spread hatred while further lining the pockets of the rich and corporations.

Please retweet and ❤️ if you think that Stephen Miller is a deeply evil man — and consider joining the growing exodus to Tribel, a new pro-democracy social network that is exploding in popularity because Twitter and Facebook are trying to stop its growth — which is only making Tribel grow even faster. Please follow us on Tribel to get all of our breaking news alerts sent straight to your phone or computer by clicking the following link: https://t.co/HnJzSKjCwX

[Seth Andrews @SethAndrewsTTA]

This gives me no pleasure, but given Elon Musk's history, claims, and behaviors, I can't let Richard's "welfare of the world at heart" line pass without comment.

While watching Elon's rise to greater power (and the fawning of his fans), I started keeping notes. Thread (1)

[The Editorial Board @johnastoehr]

I haven't seen totalitarian politics articulated quite so clearly before. I don't care if a majority wants totalitarianism. The majority is wrong.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

We have to take whatever good political news there is whenever we get it now. And we can't expect a ton of it. And we have to redefine "good" as "less terrible than it could be."
That said, here's some good news:

Rick Scott is OUT of the running in the race for Senate Majority Leader.