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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5h
A problem is that many people know that the vast majority of the people who voted for the fascist in chief in 2024 would vote for him again today. So folks know that many people are politically untrustworthy. It adds to the malaise.
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 23h
The Trump era has really fucked everyone up in profound ways. Turns out electing the physical embodiment of the most demonic things about American society to the Presidency was a mistake
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 6h
Impeachments, in order: 1. Hegseth 2. Miller 3. RFK 4. Vought 5. Blanche 6. Mullin 7. Patel 8. Burgum In terms of pure body count, Rubio should be first as the destruction of USAID killed more than these monsters could even dream of. But for some reason he's still seen as one of the "better" ones.
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 7h
"Only two other countries have left GRECO before — Russia and Belarus."
apnews.com
US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups
The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 8h
The new litmus test for every single aspiring Democratic presidential candidate is whether they will send six members of the Supreme Court to Equatorial Guinea to be tortured immediately upon being sworn in. That is where the bar must be set, nothing less is acceptable.
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 8h
The evil court must be destroyed. There is no alternative.
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 18h
Few are really prepared for what 2027 is likely to look like: Constant on and off government shutdowns, subpoenas that get ignored, and contempt citations that go unenforced all while the country continues to decay and collapse in front of our own eyes.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The torture and trafficking of immigrant kids continues apace, with plans to remove the 2,500 unaccompanied kids presently held captive. We need a relentless drumbeat: What are they doing to the children? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children
Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ripping the copper wiring out of every single aspect of American life.
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The regime thugs and jackbooted stormtroopers dedicated to ethnic cleansing are operating in greater secrecy now.
theguardian.com
Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever
After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Everything that's happening--all the lawbreaking, the corruption, the authoritarianism, the chaos, the suffering, the warmaking, the sickness, the death--is because two years ago Americans wanted it to happen. They went to the polls and said yes, this is what we want.
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is truly insane framing. Yes, he desperately wants to help, he’s just a victim! Pay no attention to the tariffs or the war of course.
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This, but also maybe, perhaps, if Americans didn’t elect a convicted criminal, that might help too.
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Abusing public funds to promote the ruling party is a classic hallmark of authoritarianism. #AmericanAutocracy
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White House airs another government-funded ad, this time with Trump warning of ‘final battle’ | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is set to launch another overtly political campaign ad funded by taxpayer dollars, attacking the “fake news media” and “the sick political class that hates our country.”
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Report what we want or we will ban you and threaten your broadcast licenses" is the literal line from the regime. #AmericanAutocracy
cnn.com
Blanche says reporters ‘one-sided news’ is a national security issue worthy of barring press | CNN Politics
Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Sunday that media outlets reporting “one-sided” news is a national security issue that merits a White House ban.
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The regime and its allies have no intention of allowing free and fair elections to take place. Zero.
theguardian.com
Trump allies could use midterms ‘counting window’ to disrupt results, experts warn
Fears grow that loyalists in key states could use critical period when votes are counted to amplify false claims
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 26/09/2026
When Joe Biden took office, America’s allies were willing to treat the first Trump term as an aberration. That ship has sailed. The world is no longer waiting for us to come to our senses, and the trust we squandered may take a generation to rebuild if anyone still believes we are capable of it.
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is the party that Republicans have hitched their wagons to.
cnn.com
Germany’s AfD is so extreme it’s putting off other far-right parties | CNN
The rise of Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) is causing widespread alarm, including in unexpected quarters - other far-right European parties.
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Since he insists on referring to himself in the third person, have we considered the possibility that the president is actually 2,000 senile obese racist cockroaches in a blue suit?
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I swear that I will never get tired of this silly silly man.
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's not "rare authority." It's blatantly and wildly illegal.
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Trump administration uses rare authority to claw back nearly $1B in spending approved by Congress
President Donald Trump is canceling nearly $1 billion in spending approved by Congress. The White House announced the move on Friday, using a rare and contested power to axe funding for immigrant serv...
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Russia is attacking Europe and preparing an open assault because it knows that the US under the Trump regime will not defend its NATO allies. Just another loyal compliant puppet state.
newsweek.com
Europe on high alert as Russia sows panic with hybrid attacks
Russia is stepping up hybrid attacks against Europe, French President Emmanuel Macron has said in the latest warning by a European leader about the growing threat Moscow poses.
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Texas regime was never going to allow elections that potentially threatened its powers to occur without adding even more obstacles to a free and fair vote.
washingtonpost.com
Texas voter-registration backlog could affect midterms
County officials are suddenly facing a high volume of online applications, some nearly a year old, linked to a state error.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We’ve been in a constitutional crisis since Jan. 20, 2025 and a blue wave in November won’t fix it if Trump can just ignore legislation passed by Congress.
cbsnews.com
Trump cancels nearly $1 billion in spending approved by Congress, a move some lawmakers called illegal
President Trump moved to cancel almost $1 billion in spending that was approved by Congress, marking the second time his administration has employed a rarely used tactic that some lawmakers in both pa...
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The world knows that Trump is a symptom, not the cause. America cannot be trusted because its people cannot be trusted. They know will be another strongman because this country is sick and they are right to move forward without us.
theatlantic.com
America’s Allies Are No Longer Waiting for Trump to Leave
They now figure isolationism and protectionism will be U.S. foreign policy for a long time to come.
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I will never understand those who say that they fear that autocracy is just over the horizon. Go down a list of the characteristics that define an authoritarian state: The US under this regime checks every single box. Fascism isn't looming, it isn't coming. It's already here.
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Using government funds and public resources to promote the ruling party is one of the key hallmarks of authoritarianism.
abcnews.com
Administration's pro-Trump TV ad is taxpayer-funded
The Trump administration is running a pro-Trump ad on cable news featuring Trump boasting about his record and vowing the US "will never be a communist country."
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Republicans are going to show up for the midterms and vote far beyond the numbers the polls are telling us. They may be somewhat shy now and it may not be enough to save the House, but they're going to show up more than anyone is talking about right now.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 25/09/2026
America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The regime is going to start purging voters en masse immediately and recklessly, which is exactly what the Republican high clerics want to happen.
nbcnews.com
Supreme Court allows Trump administration to use expanded database for potential voter purges
Critics have said the data could lead to U.S. citizens being kicked off the voter rolls, but the justices noted the law prohibits broad voter purges in the weeks leading up to an election.
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Our system of government is not equipped for an authoritarian strongman who brazenly ignores court orders and rejects the rule of law. This is why it was always important not to elect a lawless maniac in the first place, but this is what Americans apparently wanted. Oops.
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Brazil 2026 has America 2024 written all over it. Lula is too old and should have stood down, but boomers everywhere convince themselves that they are indispensable.
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I like the Guardian but sometimes it becomes a parody of itself.
theguardian.com
I tried to become a gay tradwife – and failed abysmally | Arwa Mahdawi
My sourdough starter died and my lone tomato nearly ruined me financially and emotionally. How did domestic drudgery and hard labour become an aspirational aesthetic, asks Arwa Mahdawi
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The regime honestly believes that the words “national security” are a magic spell that lets the president do absolutely anything he wants. Unfortunately with this Supreme Court, he’s usually right.
cnn.com
Defending reporter ban, Justice Department argues stories on Trump’s ballroom project, Iran war threaten national security | CNN Politics
The Justice Department said late Tuesday that CNN, MS NOW and Politico can be shut out from areas of the White House at the president’s will. The lawyers argue that the outlets’ coverage of the Iran w...
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The real Trump Derangement Syndrome.
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The next president is going to need a massive investigatory force to find and return everyone who was extraordinarily renditioned by this regime all over the world. And every single victim deserves reparations.
theguardian.com
Men deported from US bound and beaten in Equatorial Guinea detention hotel, lawyers say
Group trapped at Hotel Bamy after US removal as rights groups sound alarm over poor conditions and violence
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The oil market is completely unhinged and irrational. Prices start dropping despite Trump literally threatening to obliterate Iran and kill everyone living there on the dias at the UN. The market has gone mad.
novinite.com
Oil Prices Fall Further as US-Iran Talks Raise Hopes - Novinite.com - Sofia News Agency
Oil prices continued their decline as optimism over US-Iran talks raised hopes that supply disruptions could ease through a diplomatic solution to the Middle East conflict, CNBC reported. Brent crude...
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The regime is literally doing a Great Replacement as we speak, replacing Haitians and Afghans and Salvadorans with Afrikaners.
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It’s not surprising, but does anyone else feel like there are dramatically more flight cancellations and delays than there used to be? What are the stats on this? It’s not just single events like the mess in the northeast this week, but flying feels wildly more unreliable than it used to be.
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Texas is a monstrous and brutal autocracy, the titular example of a sadistic violent fascist theocratic authoritarian regime. Freedom, democracy, and the rule of law cannot be revived until Texas is expelled, broken up, or destroyed (with the sizable minority of good people there rescued).
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The U.S. is not a full liberal democracy right now. We aren’t so broken that we can’t vote our way out of this. But the collapse is real. And it’s driven by the personal malevolence of Trump and his allies, weakened and complicit institutions, and a moral malaise in the hearts of the American people
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s very interesting the type of uncontroversial comment Josh Marshall of TPM will block you for in his relentless quest to argue that any criticism of Netanyahu is anti-Semitic by definition. Not a serious person.
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
More proof that when you want to do something truly monstrous and reprehensible, you call Texas. Texas: The easy button for evil.
theguardian.com
Trump officials sending undocumented children to Texas sparks fears of mass deportation
Exclusive: Nearly 90% of children in federal custody being directed to GOP-controlled state that has unlicensed facilities and low legal representation rates
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s going to be really depressing when everyone learns/remembers that people lie to or don’t respond to pollsters all the time and Republicans actually expand their control of the Senate in November.
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Confederacy will never allow free and fair elections to occur on its watch.
wral.com
Politically divided NC court panel upholds GOP takeover of state elections board
The 2-1 decision by the North Court Court of Appeals, with Republicans in the majority, allows a GOP-backed effort to seize control of elections from Democratic Gov. Josh Stein to stay in place.
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It’s really grim that most Americans would be just fine with all the ethnic cleansing and fascism and crimes against humanity if only gas didn’t cost so darn much.
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Most Americans still don’t realize what we’ve done: The copper wiring has been ripped out of the walls and sold. The load-bearing institutions have been fully destroyed, international trust in the US (including its people) has been permanently lost. It won’t be coming back. We did it to ourselves.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
35% of this country would *vote* to bring back chattel slavery if they could.
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Then shut it down. We don’t negotiate with terrorists.
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Still true, forever true.
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