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  Noting that the election of a Democrat in the district in Florida representing Trump's Mar-a-Lago adds confirmation to the expectation of a blue wave in the coming elections, D. Earl Stephens writes: "Let’s start here today, patriots: Republicans are in charge of the House. Republicans are in charge of the Senate. Republicans are in charge of the Executive. Republicans are in charge of the Supreme Court." #Trump #MaraLago #BlueWave #elections /1 https://dearlstephens.substa...

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  To my followers here, a note of both sincere gratitude and apology for my protracted silence. As I posted on May 3 (see the link below), out of the blue and with no notice or explanation from this Mastodon instance, on May 3, I received a spate of notifications that multiple postings of mine had been removed. This happened on the eve of a trip I was making to see a friend I hadn't seen in eight years. #Mastodon #censorship /1 https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/116511134915128358

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  "Donald Trump has done almost everything imaginable to get Americans to stop talking about the Epstein files. ... Trump picks a fight with another media enemy. That’s nice. What about the Epstein files? ICE agents kill civilians in the middle of a crackdown. Horrible. What about the Epstein files? Trump ratchets up martial posturing in American cities and dares critics to stop him." ~ Kristoffer Ealy #Epstein #Trump #EconomicElites #coverup /1 https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the...

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  "The State of the Union is that we have a president who is prepared to go to war with Iran to prevent files leaking out that show that he’s a rapist of children. That’s not even a lie. That’s the state of the union. That’s where we are right now." ~ Greg Olear #Epstein #Trump #PamBondi #EpsteinClass #coverup #Iran #war #StateoftheUnion /1 https://gregolear.substack.com/p/ramble-on-the-files-v-defilers

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  "The shooting in Minneapolis is a perfect microcosm of what the right has done to the idea of being a man. They have warped their own brains into believing that cultish, boot-licking obedience to an undeserving man is something to be proud of. They have convinced themselves that using strong words, unaccompanied by action, is enough to make them real men." ~ Lincoln Square #AlexPretti #Trump #MAGA #masculinity #men /1 https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-rights-war-on-masculinity

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  It drives many of the MAGA white Catholics who have voted in the majority three times now for Trump when fellow Catholics speak of Alex Pretti as a martyr. Their rage does not deter Fellow Catholic Terence Sweeney. He writes, "Alex Pretti was a martyr. I am not using this term merely rhetorically. artyrdom is one of the most essential categories of Christian life." #AlexPretti #Trump #CBP #ICE #violence #murder #execution #immigrants #Minneapolis #martyr /2 https://www.commonwealma...

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  As she calls for a media reckoning, Parker Molloy speaks truth that will resonate with a lot of us, I suspect: "For years, major news outlets have twisted themselves into knots trying to appease critics on the right. In the process, they've alienated not just the left but anyone who cares about honest, fearless journalism." #media #MediaFail #Democrats #Republicans #KamalaHarris #DonaldTrump /1 https://www.readtpa.com/p/its-time-for-a-media-reckoningno

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  I came to Mastodon's Toad Social on 1 December 2002 after deleting my Twitter account the day Elon Musk took over there. Since that time unti today, I remember receiving notices of perhaps two posts being removed — for reasons never clear to me. Today, I get a notice of multiple posts being removed all at once. What's this about, I wonder? Why all at once? What's behind actions like this? I'd like to know. Are others experiencing this? #Mastodon #censors...

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  "Almost all the job growth we have seen lately has come in one area: health care. I made this graph to illustrate: It shows that while we keep adding more jobs in health care, as a whole the rest of the economy has been adding little or nothing in new jobs. In fact, in nine of Trump’s first twelve months, the rest of the economy lost jobs." ~ Paul Waldman #Trump #economy #jobs #JobGrowth #healthcare /1 https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/trump-will-never-stop-dragging-the

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  "When we define 'never again' as being strictly about the Holocaust, it becomes too easy to let ourselves off the hook. Nothing is as bad as that, so we can't compare ourselves to it. Things couldn't get that bad. We haven't gone that far. Which means almost any atrocity short of murdering 6 million people isn't 'far enough' to sound the alarm about and move heaven and earth to stop." ~ Michael Podhorzer #fascism...

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  Noting that 88% of weekly-attending white evangelicals voted for Trump in 2024 and 60% tell pollsters that God got Trump elected, and 58% of Catholics voted for Trump, Patrick Brennan talks about brood parasitism. The cuckoo does not build its own nest, but lays eggs in the nests of other birds. When its chicks hatch, they push the eggs of the other birds from the nest. #PopeLeo #Trump #Catholics #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism /1 https://complexsimplicity.substack.com/p/ten-years-of...

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  Toby Buckle offers (to my way of thinking) stellar analysis of what's going on politically as large numbers of Americans, our media, and corporate leaders jump with alacrity on the Trump bandwagon: it's not the old "economic anxiety" canard. Rather, "Our country has been captured by a force that has its own ideas about our future. One that is ancient, compelling, and evil." #Trump #economy #race #gender #cruelty #solidarity #CommonGood /1...

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  "Asked by a reporter about Epstein today, Trump said: 'I don’t know anything about the Epstein files. I’ve been fully exonerated.' Trump’s name is, in fact, all through the Epstein files, and the DOJ’s clumsy attempt to hide files that discuss him has only called attention to them." ~ Heather Cox Richardson #Epstein #Trump #PamBondi #EpsteinClass #coverup /1 https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-27-2026

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  "Many theologians and lay Christians argue that this kind of bloodthirsty religion isn’t recognizably Christian. … If we look at this as a numbers game, the trouble for Trump is likely on the Catholic side. Over 80 per cent of white evangelicals voted for Trump, but the evangelical vote is concentrated in deep red districts where MAGA can afford to lose a few votes." #PopeLeo #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelials #Catholics /5

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  "Now, the price at the pump has once again spiked to its highest level since the war began, while experts continue to warn that Americans will see elevated energy prices well beyond the summer months." #MayDay #EconomicElites #billionaires #workers #economy #Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #BrentCrude /6

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  "John Roberts life’s work of repealing the 20th century is essentially complete. What is clear about him is that he is determined to use the Supreme Court to systematically dismantle every outrage against white supremacy and oligarchy that were passed by 20th century congresses and upheld by 20th century Supreme Court majorities:" ~ Joy-Ann Reid #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #GildedAge #JimCrow #corruption /1 https://www.joyannreid.com/p/a-sunday-reid-john-robe...

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  As Amy Goodman reminds us, when Martin Luther King gave his famous sermon "Beyond Vietnam" at Riverside church in New York in April 1967, calling for the US to stop the war in Vietnam and undergo a "revolution" of values, he was denounced by Life magazine as a demagogue and the Washington Post as undermining his civil rights cause. But Dr. King turned out to be right about the war, and the media turned out to be wrong. #MartinLutherKing #media #journalists...

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  "Everyone (myself included) who is still on Twitter has some hard questions to ask themselves. There is no pretending any more that Twitter is anything other than a far-right social network headed by a CEO who revels in chaos and is platforming extremism. So why are news organisations still on it? Why is anyone who considers themselves to have liberal values still on it?" ~ Arwa Mahdawi #Twitter #Musk #journalists #media https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/03/twitter-...

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  "Trump rejected that proposal from Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, perhaps in part because it would not address Trump’s demand for total termination of Iran’s nuclear program. But the New York Times had an extraordinary detail about the Iranian offer: 'A U.S. official also said that accepting it could appear to deny Mr. Trump a victory.' Paul, apparently that’s the single most important factor in all of this, right?" ~ Greg Sargent #Trump #Iran #war /1...

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  "Donald Trump [has just] called for mandatory mental competency evaluations for anyone running for President of the United States." ~ Aaron Parnas #Trump #MentalCompetency #MentalDecline #IQ #intelligence /1 https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/important-thursday-night-update-epstein

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  "For all the effort that Supreme Court justices put into insisting they are not 'partisan hacks,' when the Court resolves awful democracy cases, elected Republicans have remarkably little trouble understanding what they are supposed to do, and how quickly they are supposed to act." ~ Jay Willis #SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans /1 https://ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/the-republican-justices-want-to-help

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  "Today is May 1. Under the War Powers Resolution of 1973, President Trump’s authority to continue military operations in Iran without congressional authorization expires today. As of 0600 EST this morning, the administration has filed nothing — no authorization request, no 30-day extension certification, no supplemental appropriations." ~ Rudy Martinez #Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #WarPowers #Congress /1 https://www.restoftheworldreport.com/p/the-rest-of-the-world-report-may

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  "The em-dash was not invented last November in a Silicon Valley server farm. It has been a staple of English prose since roughly the seventeenth century, and a darling of the literary canon for nearly as long. Laurence Sterne built Tristram Shandy on it. Lord Byron reached for it to grieve." ~ Chitown Kev #EmDash #SiliconValley #AI #language #writing #literature /1 https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/26/800028011/community/abbreviated-pundit-roundup/

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  "Alex Karp, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and others are on edge and on the warpath right now. They have invested billions of dollars and huge amounts of time and social capital in the project of capturing a superpower and using the information ecosystem to spread racism, biopolitics, and versions of Fascist and other authoritarian systems of rule." ~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat #TechBros #SiliconValley #fascism #Trump #ElonMusk #PeterThiel #AlexKarp #Palantir /1 https://lucid.substack.com/p/t...

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  "A close reading of the Justice Department’s charges Monday afternoon against 31-year-old Cole Allen hint that he didn’t fire any weapon at all. In fact, it’s not clear from what we know that this was a 'shooting' at all. ... Here is what to me is a more likely scenario than what the government is telling us so far:" ~ Garrett M. Graff #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner #WHCD #violence #shooting #DOJ #ColeAllen /1 https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/is-the-justice-department-ly...

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  "Shockingly, the Miami Herald found that approximately two-thirds of the 1,800 immigrants who were held at Alligator Alcatraz, the Florida Everglades immigration detention center in July, were missing from ICE’s online database in August. Neither their attorneys nor their families know where they are. The United States government is now disappearing people." ~ Julie Roginsky #Trump #StephenMiller #fascism #immigrants #ICE #MaskedThugs /1 https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p...

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  "Nobody in the history of American politics has weaponized incidents of violent crime to turn them into political capital like Donald Trump. His campaign’s use of the incident in Butler, PA as well as the Laken Riley murder in sick and perverse ways were instrumental in returning him to the presidency." ~ Ron Filipkowski #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner #WHCD #Trump #Republicans #violence #media #ballroom /1 https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-358-42726

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  "The western media has been admirably clear that Putin has a closer relationship with Trump than any previous US president (and admirably critical of this relationship). But there has been no similar level of transparency in the media about Israel’s influence on US policy, even though Israel’s foreign influence on US policy now and over time is much more transparent than Russia’s (after all, Russia is an ally of Iran)." ~ Jason Stanley #Trump #Netanyahu #media /1 https://www.theg...

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  "For a decade I have been following the twists and turns of Donald Trump’s America with the privilege of journalistic distance. On Saturday night I felt the darkness come viscerally close. ... The past 10 years have witnessed a shooting at a congressional baseball practice, a deadly white supremacist march in Charlottesville," (continued in /2) ~ David Smith #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media /1 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/26/white-house-correspondents-dinner-...

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  "Multiple scientists who serve on an independent board established to guide the nation’s nearly $9 billion basic science funding agency were terminated from their positions Friday by President Donald Trump." ~ Carolyn Y. Johnson #Trump #science #research #NationalScienceBoard #chaos #destruction /1 https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026/04/25/national-science-board-members-dismissed/