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There are nationwide protests TOMORROW sponsored by a vast coalition of groups. GO PROTEST, if you can! It makes Trump very sad to see huge crowds of people who hate him. And building up momentum with rallies like these can help prepare people for a more militant action like a general strike.
To find a rally in your city, go to Maydaystrong.org and click “join event.”
Trump is moving faster to consolidate absolute power than almost anyone–including many experts on authoritarianism–ever imagined. We need to understand what’s going on, and how it compares to the trajectories of other recent and historical “strongmen” in other countries. And we need to act, despite the risks. We can’t depend on Trump’s stupidity and incompetence to defeat him.
UK TERFs are still basking in the warm afterglow of a UK Supreme Court ruling last week that went in their favor, essentially declaring that trans women aren’t women, legally at least. While the ultimate effects of the ruling are still uncertain, and there are still laws on the books that ostensibly protect UK’s trans citizens, it’s clear that the ruling is a disaster for trans citizens of the UK.
If you weren’t actually out there marching, or compulsively scrolling your social media feeds, you might not have been aware that there were huge protests against the Trump regime all over the US on Saturday, with some estimating a turnout as high as 4 million people. Media coverage was scant; I seem to remember a hell of a lot more coverage back in the day of Tea Party protests drawing only dozens of obvious weirdos. Apparently in 2025, millions of justifiably angry Americans, including a surprising number in tiny towns in red states, standing up to a literal fascist regime isn’t newsworthy.
Yesterday, in his New York Times column, David Brooks called for a mass uprising against Donald Trump.
Now that’s a sentence I never thought I’d write, much less read. But this is 2025, and with Trump on a rampage, things are getting very weird indeed.
So Kevin McCarthy has been ousted from his position as Speaker of the House. Meanwhile, Trump, on trial for massive fraud, has been hit with a gag order because he won’t stop running his mouth. Discuss, if you are so moved.
Oh, and on an unrelated note, I’m now a WRITING COACH! Get in touch with me if you’re facing writer’s block or any other writing malady. I can help get you unstuck!
It’s a sad day in Trumpland as our former grifter-in-chief has been hit with another barrage of indictments, these dealing with Jan. 6.
Anyway, I thought you all would appreciate a thread to talk about the indictments and whatever else catches your fancy.
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Just a little open thread to discuss the indictment of our terrible former president.
