"some future Gibbon chronicling the descent into authoritarian corruption of the once-republican United States of America may very well sift through the archives of our era and decide that nothing sums up our decline and fall quite like the events of May 22, 2025."

Tomasky goes on to talk about the double whammy of the Republican bill and Trump's big crypto dinner.

#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #corruption #chaos #destruction #education #science #ignorance #disinformation #diversity
/9

"If the world still exists a hundred years from now or, even more improbably, a thousand, and people are still writing and reading something that vaguely resembles a 'book,'" (continued in /9)

~ Michael Tomasky

#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #corruption #chaos #destruction #education #science #ignorance #disinformation #diversity
/8

https://newsletter.tnr.com/index.php?action=social&chash=2b8eba3cb0d0f1d761cb74d94a5ace36.1780&s=cdd6377d8462caad2b4695418c877aea

"Already this year, we’ve had 886 tornadoes, a 35% increase over last year. Plus, hurricane season is right around the corner,too. Seems like a really ridiculous time to be sabotaging the National Weather Service, doesn’t it? But Donald Trump is doing just that."

~ Jennifer Schulze

#Trump #chaos #destruction #education #science #ignorance #tornadoes #weather #NWS
/7

https://jenniferschulze.substack.com/p/tornadoes-dont-take-the-night-off

"He and his regime are mounting an assault on the American mind. Why? Because ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #corruption #chaos #destruction #education #science #ignorance #disinformation #diversity
/6

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-i-told-the-ed-school-graduates

#Justice should not be afforded only to some & without a full & fair day in court. We need a process & #SCOTUS must reject the govt's emergency request for a stay that would lead to mass #deportation & #chaos.

These cases have MAJOR consequences for the #US & shouldn’t be decided on a whim. #Deportation of almost a million people overnight will lead to #chaos. An estimated 500k people are involved in the #humanitarian parole case alone.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24A1079/358884/20250515154331434_RESPONSE.pdf

"The choice of the three Middle East nations was intentional, of course. Trump & his family have extensive business ties with each of these oil-rich states, and Trump saw an opportunity to bring his top corporate donors and big petrol dollars together. …

This vulgar sucking up to wealthy Arab states—along with shady transactions that lack transparency and line the pockets of Trump and his friends—directly threatens our national security."

#Trump #corruption #stupidity #chaos #normalization
/8

"For his first official international trip, Trump passed on visiting our neighbors Canada or Mexico, along with all of our NATO allies. He instead elected to go on a jaunt through Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar, three autocratic states with deeply problematic records on human rights and support for international terrorism."

~ Jay Kuo

#Trump #corruption #stupidity #chaos #normalization
/7

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/america-for-sale

"The ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs were a turning point; it is not just that they were brutal or unfair, it is that they were profoundly stupid."

#Trump #corruption #stupidity #chaos #normalization
/6

"For those of us outside the United States, we face a twofold challenge. The first is not to convince ourselves that the new Trump presidency can be treated as a normal state. During the first Trump administration, there was a tendency to believe that the President could be managed by the fabled ‘adults in the room’. It has become increasingly clear that that will not be the case in this term."

~ Liam Connell

#Trump #corruption #stupidity #chaos #normalization
/5

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-most-childish-imperialism/