One thing that my parents, who lived through the collapse of the Shah's regime, always told me is that they were surprised with the speed and ferocity with which it happened. Things that seemed impossible one day were simply happening the next.
FEDERAL AGENCIES CAN NO LONGER CREATE STANDARDS IN THE INTEREST OF PUBLIC SAFETY BY WHICH PRIVATE COMPANIES MUST OPERATE. IF A COMPANY SAVES MONEY BY PUTTING SHRAPNEL IN YOUR DAIRY PRODUCTS NOBODY CAN STOP THEM.
“Young voters do not look at our politics and see any good guys. They see a dying empire led by bad people.” Sounds like they have a pretty good read on the situation in that case
BREAKING: Donald Trump, star of Donald Trump's Real Estate Tycoon! (2002), has been found guilty on 34 of 34 felony charges of falsifying business records.
KSTP: I think at one point you vowed never to come back to Minnesota after you lost the state in 2020.
TRUMP: Well, I never said I'd never come back. I never even thought of that.
KSTP: *cuts to tape of Trump saying "if I lose Minnesota, I'm never coming back" at a rally*
28-11: The Florida state Senate passes a bill to remove local governments' authority to adopt heat standards, such as guaranteed shade and rest breaks, for workers.
The bill would make all local heat protections “void and prohibited.”
The IDF raided the home of a family that requested accommodation to evacuate their child with cerebral palsy—grenading the kitchen, schrapnel piercing the kid’s eye and brain; they executed the parents; then berated the 2 other kids about tunnels, before sending them out on foot.
A sitting U.S. congresswoman is calling for a fellow congresswoman - a Black woman & a U.S. citizen - to be *deported*. This is what has been normalized in America today, by politicians and media alike. Even a decade ago, this would have been career-ending for a House Republican.