"They're joyless. Nothing makes them happy. Nothing even remotely comes near making them happy. And as a result, they treat the world the way that they feel, which is that they are not happy. They don't want other people to be happy. The only thing that actually gives them joy, and i's fleeting, is to hurt other people."

~ Jared Yates Sexton

#Republicans #Trump #cruelty
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https://jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/in-the-thick-of-it-the-check-in-with

In the Thick of It: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton

A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video

Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

"He’s [i.e., Trump is] cruel, he’s random, he’s chaotic."

~ Jen Rubin

#Republicans #Trump #cruelty
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https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/a-year-of-opportunity-ahead-my-conversation

A Year Of Opportunity Ahead - My Conversation With Jen Rubin Of The Contrarian

Enjoy this timely and comprehensive discussion with my good friend Jen Rubin

Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg

"This new petty cruelty follows other pettinesses in the administration of Chief Petty Officer Donald Trump, the selfsame administration that tried hard, but failed, to ban sign language interpreters from press briefings, that is now routinely humiliating trans people at U.S. Customs desks, and that has downgraded the Coast Guard’s designation of swastikas and nooses from 'hate speech' to something less … unpleasant.

#Republicans #MarcoRubio #Trump #cruelty
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"The move to Calibri had been ordered by Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in 2023 on the recommendation of the State Department’s office of diversity and inclusion. Rubio has since closed down that office."

#Republicans #MarcoRubio #Trump #cruelty
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Gene Weingarten says Marco Rubio has banished Calibri typeface for official State Department communications because it's "woke" in comparison to Times New Roman, which is to be used in its place.

"Sans serif Calibri has been shown to be easier to read for people with certain disabilities, such as dyslexia and substandard visual acuity, and people who need assistive technologies such as screen readers and voice-to-text."

#Republicans #MarcoRubio #Trump #cruelty
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https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/this-just-in

This Just In ...

— Okay, this is great.

The Gene Pool

Everything is connected.

In Ukraine, innocents suffer because of US corruption, greed, and cruelty, while in the US, innocents suffer because of the Kremlin corruption, greed, and cruelty.

Anyone who tries to argue differently is simply an idiot who is useful to many evil causes.

The evidence is all around, if one only cares enough to look. Too many are complacent, which is the same as being complicit.

Giorgio reports from the trenches of democracy in Ukraine, providing an uncomfortable truth Putin and Trump would both prefer be silenced.

Support journalism and Ukraine, share the friend link to bypass the paywall, and help the world get a glimpse of the truth in Ukraine.

https://medium.com/@giorgioprovinciali/the-russian-attrition-advantage-cb3cdb80a44a?sk=0077cf10dc90c8b20fe825810e1fd832

#ukraine #journalism #russia #russiaisATerroristState #USA #trump #corruption #greed #cruelty #betrayal #warcrimes #genocide

"I’ve been notified of🚨2 more deaths in ICE custody in the last 24 hrs — meaning that 25 ppl have now died in #detention since Trump returned to ofc -most in >2 decades. The #cruelty & #inhumanity of this admin must end."
-Rep Jayapal

ACLU/ATTYs repping detainees at CC Detn Fac🚨requested a prelim inj forcing better trt -IMMs: detained there: exp conds -worse than convicted felons serving time -detainees:💔denied mental HC have become suicidal...
#ICE facs: DEADLY.

#USPol
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook-pm/2025/12/03/california-city-immigrant-detention-00674708

Citizenship Ceremonies Are Being Disrupted By Trump’s Latest Wave Of Bigoted Cruelty

The president, who drapes himself in the flag so inappropriately you’d think it would be filing HR complaints on a daily basis, is now preventing some the best potential US citizens from beco…

Techdirt
Once upon a time, #NATO was considered an aggressive #military organization that continued the #fascism of World War II with different means but just as much #cruelty. Imagine if that were still the case. It's unthinkable. #ww2 #klassenbrüder #waffenbrüder
Mike Wood wrote: "Their core principle seems to be #cruelty for cruelty’s sake."
I replied: It would be a little more accurate to say that the core principle of the Trump Administration is cruelty for cruelty’s sake, in support of #racism.
#values #politics #ethics