Minneapolis just learned that in American democracy, you have the right to assemble, speak freely, and, if you’re lucky, not get kettled for exercising the first two.

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🚨 Trump has ordered 300 National Guard troops into Chicago—calling it “out-of-control crime.”
But Illinois leaders say it’s something darker: an abuse of power and a political stunt aimed at demonizing a Democratic city.
When democracy is reduced to optics, freedom becomes collateral damage.

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Trump cosplays as Pope and it’s MAGA canon. But a Pope cosplays as POTUS? Now that’s offensive?

If your faith collapses the moment it’s mirrored back at you, maybe it wasn’t about faith—it was about power.

This is what happens when politics gets baptized in authoritarian cosplay.

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Trump To France: You Cannot Have Lady Liberty Back #ABlueView🧵1/3

I'm surprised he wants to keep such a potent symbol of Woke America as she stands for everything he & his MAGA cult members detest.

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Mark #Zuckerberg has taken on #Elmo's example and decided to skip the BS: no more content moderation and more hate speech. With not even a bare minimum of fact-checking, #Facebook and #Meta will open the floodgates to fake news, hate and political misinformation.

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We must start urgently talking about the dangers of a second #Trump presidency | Margaret Sullivan https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/25/second-trump-presidency-dangers-democracy?CMP=share_btn_tw