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🔥🤎🎉• @esquire Good morning to Ryan Coogler, Michael B. Jordan, and the entire #Sinners team. The film landed a record-breaking number of Oscar nominations Thursday morning—swipe to see more.
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Last week, Trump went full authoritarian
Jennifer Rubin at The Contrarian:
We are no longer at a “tipping point” or “an inflection point.” We are no longer “sliding” toward autocracy. Donald Trump no longer “aspires” to be an autocrat. Last week, in case you had any doubt, the Trump regime went full-bore authoritarian. We cannot accurately describe the current United States government as a functional democracy. At best, we now live in a “hybrid regime”—one with characteristics of both a democracy and an autocracy. An apparatchik like FCC chairman Brendan Carr can force a comedian off the air; but a public boycott and popular criticism can prevail to return him to the airwaves, more popular than ever. The regime pushes out prosecutors who remain loyal to the rule of law and persecutes an opponent; nevertheless, a grand jury of ordinary citizens rejects one count, and the indictment draws widespread condemnation. The regime spews nonstop lies and propaganda and engages in coverups; there is some pushback from Congress. Whether we are a hybrid regime or a full police state is debatable, but after the events of last week, our democracy and the rule of law appear to be in tatters. Consider that in a single week, Trump:
Forced out a U.S. attorney to put in an utterly unqualified flunky who overrode the recommendation of career prosecutors and barely obtained a patently absurd criminal indictment (a classic vindictive prosecution) against former FBI director James Comey based on a “false statement.” (That statement is unspecified and, in all likelihood, not false. The government almost certainly cannot prove the requisite mens rea.)
Demanded a private company fire former Justice Department deputy attorney general Lisa Monaco.
Fired another U.S. attorney for abiding by a court order.
Declared his intent to prosecute on nebulous grounds a private foundation that supports liberal causes.
Issued a blatantly unconstitutional executive decree (based on a specious accusation that liberals are responsible for political violence) that “threatens criminal and civil investigations against nonprofits based on their point of view…. a thinly veiled ruse to crack down on its political opponents.”
Demanded (with no legal justification whatsoever) that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth deploy military force in the entirely peaceful city of Portland, Oregon. (The long-threatened deployment to Memphis is planned for this week.)
Unilaterally enacted more taxes (tariffs), this time on prescription drugs (at a 100% rate), heavy trucks, and furniture.
Gleefully celebrated yet another gift of unchecked executive power from the MAGA partisan majority on the Supreme Court (which again acted by shadow docket decree, without full briefing or a complete opinion.)
Imperiously threatened to undertake more unilateral firings and dismantle more federal government operations in the event Democrats do not provide votes to keep the government open.
More fascistic conduct is sure to come. Trump has vowed to bring more blatantly vengeance-fueled prosecutions against other perceived “enemies,” New York Attorney General Tish James and California Sen. Adam Schiff. He surely will threaten other cities with military occupation.
[...] Then, to top it off, just as we saw in Hungary and in Benito Berlusconi’s Italy, right-wing allies of the ruling regime have continued to consolidate control of media outlets, thereby tightening the stranglehold on free expression and news. (Even Jared Kushner is getting into the game, with his firm contributing to the acquisition of Electronics Arts.) None of this is acceptable in a democratic country. A single item would be cause for alarm, and ample grounds for congressional investigation and potential impeachment. The accumulation of so many constitutional violations coupled with the utter passivity of the MAGA-controlled House and Senate and a docile MAGA majority on the Supreme Court means we are not a functioning democracy bound by the rule of law. It’s no use soft-pedaling the extent of the problem, ignoring the suffering inflicted on ordinary Americans, or minimizing the Herculean work that will be needed to repair our system.
Excellent column from Jennifer Rubin on why the US is no longer a real democracy.
BREAKING: Journalist and college professor Stacey Patton goes viral by penning a stunningly powerful statement about how she was on Charlie Kirk’s “digital hit list” and recounting the horror that he inflicted on her.
We cannot allow this tragic assassination to whitewash Kirk’s legacy…
“I am on Charlie Kirk’s hit list,” Patton wrote to her 215,000 followers on Facebook. “His so-called ‘Professor Watchlist,’ run under the umbrella of Turning Point USA, is nothing more than a digital hit list for academics who dare to speak truth to power. I landed there in 2024 after writing commentary that inflamed the MAGA faithful. And once my name went up, the harassment machine roared to life.”
“For weeks my inbox and voicemail were deluged. Mostly white men spat venom through the phone: ‘bitch,’ ‘c*nt,’ ‘n****r.’ They threatened all manner of violence,” she continued.
“They overwhelmed the university’s PR lines and the president’s office with calls demanding that I be fired,” Patton wrote. “The flood was so relentless that the head of campus security reached out to offer me an escort, because they feared one of these keyboard soldiers might step out of his basement and come do me harm.”
“And I am not unique,” she added.
“Kirk’s Watchlist has terrorized legions of professors across this country. Women, Black faculty, queer scholars, basically anyone who challenged white supremacy, gun culture, or Christian nationalism suddenly found themselves targets of coordinated abuse,” Patton wrote.
“Some received death threats. Some had their jobs threatened. Some left academia entirely. Kirk sent the loud message to us: speak the truth and we will unleash the mob!” she continued.
“That is the culture of violence Charlie Kirk built. He normalized violence. He curated it, monetized it, and sicced it on anyone who dared to puncture his movement’s lies,” she wrote.
“And now, in the wake of his shooting, there’s all this national outpouring of mourning, moments of silence, yellow prayer hands, and tributes painting him as a civil debater,” Patton continued. “But the truth is that Kirk and his foot soldiers spent years terrorizing educators, trying to silence us with harassment and fear!”
“And now the same violence he unleashed on others has come full circle.”
“But what i find especially jarring is the dissonance in public mourning for a smug white man whose life work was actively hostile to certain groups,” she continued. “Kirk spent years demonizing LGBTQ people, mocking gun survivors, spewing racism about Black folks, and pushing policies that literally shorten lives.”
“It is so revolting to watch a bipartisan wave of grief sweep over this hateful racist as if he was a neutral community servant,” she concluded.
This is pure unvarnished truth from Patton. Charlie Kirk did not deserve what happened to him, but nor did his victims deserve the hell that he unleashed on them. If Americans are going to build a more peaceful future for ourselves we must condemn political violence while also condemning the hateful, bigoted rhetoric that made Kirk a multimillionaire.
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The more you know about Charlie Kirk, the more you know he did not deserve any peace.
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