Historian of fascism here. This is an escalation of an attempt to normalize extreme violence, ritualize violence, militarize the country, and make violence entertaining so when they ask you to commit violence in their name, you will be ready.
The man who took out full page ads demanding the death penalty for five Black and Latino teenagers falsely accused of rape is out here worried that the seven majority white Cornell frat boys accused of rape "won't get a fair shake".
“Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” The judge asked.
“I don’t know,” Angel, 13, replied before bursting into tears. He stared ahead stoically and continued to cry, eventually saying: “I have no one. I have nothing.”
Imagine the amount of arrogance it takes to demand that people call America a “Christian nation” when we are doing barbaric things like this to human beings.
MacCallum: How concerned are you about the socialist part of the equation that we are seeing with El-Sayed and with AOC?
Dingell: I hate labels. What do you call me? I'm one of the leaders of medicare for all. My father-in-law was one of the authors of social security and got called a communist at the time. Do you think there is any senior right now that would call social security communism?
Yale University has found that the Medicare for all system would save at least 114,000 lives and reduce U.S healthcare costs by 1 trillion dollars a year annually.
The most annoying thing about being human right now is knowing we already have the intelligence and resources to end world hunger, fight climate change, and cure cancer, but greed and billionaires keep millions suffering instead. The wasted human potential is heartbreaking.
🚨EMERGENCY EPISODE: A bombshell whistleblower complaint, submitted to Sen. Richard Blumenthal's office, reveals that the U.S. Postal Service allegedly kept building a new system to restrict mail-in ballots even after federal courts ordered it to stop it. https://t.co/kfRy5h5TN7
We are watching our elected officials actively seeking to destroy a lifelong public servant who helped ferry us through a horrifying time. I would honestly never have thought it possible before living through this past decade. We are in an era of astonishing shameless indecency.
Bulldozers have begun tearing up Big Bend National Park just a stone's throw from Santa Elena Canyon. DHS waived every environmental & cultural resource protection. No surveys have been done. We don't even know what kind of cultural history they are destroying. 📷Natalie Newman.
Trump is an abomination, but he doesn’t succeed alone. If we were a more moral people, he would have been held accountable at some point in his sordid life. Instead, he was excused, enriched, and empowered. Let’s not pretend this would happen in a healthy society. It wouldn’t.
Dear @SenSchumer and @RepJeffries
Seriously...WTF do you guys do?
I have not seen you stop one major Trump horror.
Not even one.
Do you realize what is happening to the prisoners in these facilities?!
Imagine the amount of propaganda it took to convince millions of people that healthcare, food assistance, social programs, clean water, clean air, good wages, housing, equal rights, diversity and a healthy planet for all people was somehow a threat to America and to Christianity.