Reposted by Spicy PepperAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/09/2025From Milton Mayer's "They Thought They Were Free" I first read it in November and I'm rereading it now. It crushing feeling the exact same things as this academic did. It's the same process. 151005326
Reposted by Spicy PepperMike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 18/09/2025the joke that got Kimmel kicked off ABC isn't even at the expense of Charlie Kirk. the way the US is accelerating in fascism is truly scaring the shit out of me! 231060238
Reposted by Spicy PepperChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie. One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears. They will all live forever with the horror of this bill. 25803454210836
Reposted by Spicy Pepperjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/06/2025honestly does seem like the basic dynamic in american politics right now is that a critical number of voters treat Democrats like their (nagging) mom or their (bitch) wife and treat Republicans like the “cool” dad or husband who is at best a deadbeat 24493501339
Reposted by Spicy PepperJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/06/2025We bombed Iran without congressional approval and I still have chores and work and kids in sports and supper to make. Living through autocracy and another possible forever war while living day to day is wild. 469132381916
Reposted by Spicy PepperGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far: A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime. 18024421210271
Reposted by Spicy PepperJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 22/06/2025AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.” 3267066816139
Reposted by Spicy PepperMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16/06/2025I'm trying to imagine a Democratic president saying openly and proudly that he would be sending federal agents to target the 'Republican Power Center' in Texas, Florida, and Tennessee. We would be in the midst of a civil war before he'd finished saying those words. 42193272305
Reposted by Spicy PepperKumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 05/06/2025The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy but I still like seeing them fight 404313095069
Reposted by Spicy PepperElizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 05/06/2025This! This! @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social the things we wrote in February seem so quaint now: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...foreignaffairs.comDoes DOGE Pose a National Security Risk?Uncertainty about access and authority will worry allies and tempt adversaries. 18828
Reposted by Spicy PepperAnat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 05/06/2025The enemy of my enemy is a deranged, dictatorial, dickhead with whom I have absolutely zero reason to align because my cause is freedom for all. But, by all means, carry on and fracture MAGA. 218530
Reposted by Spicy PepperBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 24/05/2025“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” — Treaty of Tripoli, signed by the United States in 1797. 19694087311777
Reposted by Spicy PepperThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/05/2025In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”nytimes.comOpinion | We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S.The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action. 769137504897
Reposted by Spicy PepperHillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 14/05/2025No one gives someone a $400 million dollar jet for free without expecting anything in return. Be serious. 1373421818976
Reposted by Spicy PepperAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/05/2025Trump is having a hard time keeping his eyes open in Saudi Arabia 99758371407
Reposted by Spicy PepperSidney Morss @sidneymorss.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Has anyone ever gifted you a plane? 21859291617
Reposted by Spicy PepperRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 13/05/2025it was not right that Hasan was stopped however his encounter seems to have ended when he asked if he was being detained. if this happens to you the script is simple am I being detained? If no: may I go If yes: invoke the 5th 6461041157
Reposted by Spicy PepperAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/05/2025AOC: The math is not adding up. Their claim is that one million undocumented people are on Medicaid. So why are they trying to cut 13.7 million Americans off their healthcare? 9054736413185
Reposted by Spicy PepperJazzReads📚🏀 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 10/05/2025My love of reading is strongly link to this man… 355147403496
Reposted by Spicy PepperAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Raskin: Our chairman… How does one go from a libertarian railing about the deep state and the fbi and the doj coming down on the rights of the people to becoming a supine submissive authoritarian who votes against providing basic due process rights for the people against the government? 372182615071
Reposted by Spicy PepperJess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Watch this before you eat that chicken dinner. 😬🐔 45768202890
Spicy Pepper @spicypepper001.bsky.social · 30/04/2025I hope all the retailers who donated to him (target + Amazon etc) really enjoy this new simplistic lifestyle we are all in for 😉 love that Mr. Golden toilet is telling us we don’t need that buy that much stuff. 100
Reposted by Spicy PepperDan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 30/04/2025The speed with which Congress not having the power of the purse, law and the Constitution be damned, has been normalized by the press is the most terrifying thing to me. 17886421895
Reposted by Spicy PepperChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/04/2025This is the best 100-day recap I’ve seen — and it begs the damn question: Why is his approval rating still 39%? Are folks in a coma? 1077137605698
Spicy Pepper @spicypepper001.bsky.social · 30/04/2025This is so fucking deranged. “Why don’t you just say yes he does and we go on to something else”. He does not live in reality and he is insisting you shouldn’t either. 020
Reposted by Spicy PepperD. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 29/04/2025📌Hold on, goddammit: If tariffs are so good for our economy, why doesn't the White House want us to see what they are actually costing us?????? 604176824202
Reposted by Spicy PepperKatie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 29/04/202520 ARMED men bust into your home. They claim they’ve got a search warrant. They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear. They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings. The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore. kfor.com/news/local/w...kfor.com'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspectsA woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were … 1410199268867
Reposted by Spicy PepperAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Jamie Dimon says the *best case* scenario for the US is now a recession. Cool, cool. From the best economy in the world to a self-inflicted recession in 4 months. Gotta be some kind of record. 938260206287
Reposted by Spicy PepperAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/04/2025AOC: We heard that we should take your word that Medicaid will be protected — that we should trust you that no one is going to be affected by this. But as a woman, the word was given that my rights would not be taken away by the Supreme Court — and that wasn’t true. 5443760510457
Reposted by Spicy Pepperderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/04/2025personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down 9405494611532
Reposted by Spicy PepperJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/04/2025I see the already historically unpopular president is exploring how to get the military invovled in “assisting” local law enforcement just a few weeks before the real shortages caused by his inept economic policy start hitting. Probably nothing to worry about. 387142604193
Reposted by Spicy PepperRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/04/2025“It’s hard to see how Trump would have acted any differently if he were a Russian asset than how he has acted in the first 100 days of his second term.” Huh. You don't say. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/u...nytimes.comHow Trump Plays Into Putin’s Hands, From Ukraine to Slashing U.S. InstitutionsMany of President Trump’s actions have been seen as benefiting Russia either directly or indirectly, so much so that Russian officials have celebrated some of his moves. 30486512176
Reposted by Spicy PepperBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Trump says that any American who shows “dissension” against MAGA should be “immediately ejected” from their member of Congress’ town halls. This is fascism. 1140108123091
Reposted by Spicy PepperChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/04/2025Trump signed an executive order letting educators physically discipline kids—and this school principal’s response is perfect: “No. We’re not going to be doing that. It feels like a set up.” Because it is. 19841051350
Reposted by Spicy PepperKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Biden, 52%: “low end approval” Trump, 39%: proceeding “as expected” 16159641427
Reposted by Spicy PepperThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/04/2025The Golden Age of Corruption www.politico.com/news/2025/04... 51285363645
Reposted by Spicy PepperMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/04/2025If Biden, as president, had fallen asleep at the Pope’s funeral, it would have been the top story in America for days. Trump falling asleep at the Pope’s funeral today won’t be, because our media is broken. 348118122607
Reposted by Spicy PepperChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/04/2025If you needed any further proof that the arrest of Judge Dugan was a propaganda opportunity and a fear tactic, here you go. Nothing about this is normal—it’s authoritarianism! 810129283841
Reposted by Spicy PepperJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 26/04/2025The President said of the U.S. economy: "We are a department store, and we set the price. I meet with the companies, and then I set a fair price, what I consider to be a fair price, and they can pay it, or they don't have to pay it." And then... I lost it. 30774952221
Reposted by Spicy PepperJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 26/04/2025DOJ personnel don’t comment on anything beyond the four corners of a charging document in order to avoid prejudicing a defendant’s rights. Here’s the policy. The Attorney General of the United States violated it yesterday. 36570942594
Reposted by Spicy PepperAndrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 26/04/2025If deporting US citizen children with cancer isn’t your redline, it’s time to reassess your priorities. 496228905735
Reposted by Spicy PepperChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/04/2025Remember these words… “I will vote for you if you are brave…” 480106093365
Reposted by Spicy PepperMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Why isn’t Trump in prison then? 34895131654
