Jems
"I wish it need not have happened in my time" said Frodo.
"So do I" said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
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- Reposted by JemsShutting down the Kennedy Center is even more serious than it looks Trump is showing his desire to control American culture, echoing similar moves by autocrats around the world. And the Kennedy Center is a test case.
- Reposted by Jemscontrarian.substack.com/p/voters-wan... Ordinary Americans, as we have often noted, repeatedly demonstrate that they are far ahead of politicians from both parties at defending democracy, clamping down on government abuse, and protecting their neighbors. especially true when it comes to immigration.
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- Reposted by JemsThis NYT piece never mentions the most important detail of the hearing. THESE PEOPLE ARE UNLAWFULLY being held--and many are unlawfully being snatched in the first place. The reason there's such a caseload is bc ICE is kidnapping people illegally.
- Flooding the zone with shit, but for the legal system. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
- Reposted by JemsThe morning after mass layoffs, The Washington Post publishes this as their lead editorial. The owner and publisher clearly have no idea why they are losing subscribers. Meanwhile they have destroyed a storied brand. Support independent media. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
- Reposted by JemsTrump lied when he said he'd target “the worst of the worst.” TPS protects those who would otherwise be in grave danger. They are legally residing here & contribute to our economy & communities. Glad judges have halted Trump’s reckless termination of TPS for Haiti & Ethiopia.
- Reposted by JemsIan McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
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- Reposted by JemsIf Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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- Reposted by JemsNew: Immigration agents have shot a dozen people since Sept--yet police are often skipping any investigation After agents near Chicago killed a man, an officer asked if chief who would investigate. The answer: “You’re not going to investigate a federal officer” www.propublica.org/article/why-...
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- Reposted by JemsPeople keep debating whether Epstein is more tied to Russia or Israel without understanding it's the same people: dual Russia/Israeli citizens involved in organized crime. The modern roots of this operation, going back to the 1980s, are detailed in the excerpt from HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT below.
- Reposted by JemsThe SAVE Act would block millions of American citizens from voting by effectively requiring a passport or birth certificate to register to vote. More than 21 million Americans lack ready access to those documents. bit.ly/4qS8wBr
- Reposted by JemsChildren at an ICE family detention facility have been denied clean drinking water, medical care, and legal access. Now they may be exposed to measles. Toddlers don't belong in detention, and Congress must end funding for these sites of abuse.
- Reposted by JemsGabbard held this up for 8 months with a truckload of excuses from executive privilege to "It's too classified for Congress." They have FINALLY transmitted the whistleblower report to Congress. www.cbsnews.com/news/intelli...
- Reposted by JemsIf you want to FINALLY watch Scott Bessent get pinned down on specifics about the illegal money laundering operation being conducted by the Trump admin from someone who knows WTF he’s talking about, this clip is your chance. Bessent gets destroyed.
- Reposted by JemsTrump’s EPA has gutted lifesaving environmental protections, including limits on harmful chemicals and toxic pollution produced by: -Gas and coal power plants -Oil and gas refineries -Petrochemical & chemical manufacturers -Pesticide manufacturers “Make America Healthy Again.”
- Reposted by JemsThis made me tear up a little. Go Birds and F' Trump indeed
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- Reposted by Jemsone of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things
- Reposted by JemsI think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
- Trump pulled this shit with the Bonwit Teller building when he lied about preserving historically-significant art from that building and he's been lying and pulling the same scam ever since. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
- Reposted by JemsTrump plans to tear down the Kennedy Center. He claims he does not plan to tear it down, just like he said he would not tear down the East Wing. He has announced, however, that he plans to remove everything but the steel girders, and will then inspect those (as a prelude to removing them).
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- Reposted by JemsWhen Jeff Bezos bought WaPo, he immediately took control of the opinions section. Now, he's laying off hundreds of journalists, including those covering Amazon. This isn’t a coincidence. It’s the result of billionaires with vested political agendas taking over our media.
- Reposted by JemsThe entire annual operating losses of the Washington Post amount to a single-digit percentage of the everyday noise in the signal of its owner's finances
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- Reposted by JemsI see people posting various laws that supposedly allow the president great powers to oppress American citizens. I say bullshit. The Constitution guarantees a number of important rights to every American citizen. Laws that contradict that are not legitimate. We WILL NOT OBEY unconstitutional laws.
- Reposted by JemsHeads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3
- Reposted by JemsWomen who took their spouses’ last names (& others with name changes) could get around the birth certificate problem if they have passports. But not everyone has one. And getting one takes time & $$$. The GOP’s bill doesn’t even offer to cover the expense, making it equivalent to a poll tax.
- Reposted by JemsI think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.
- “If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Reposted by JemsIn 2009, this was the mask of a UK SAS character in “Call of Duty.” By 2015 it was de rigeur among Iraqi government commandos and Shiite militiamen. In 2018, in “Sicario 2,” it was what CIA surrogate characters wore to disguise themselves as cartel gunmen. Now US law enforcement wears it.
- Reposted by JemsSome US soldiers dropped Ace of Spades cards to mark kills in Vietnam. It's a move that got picked up by some white supremacist accelerationists, and now by ICE. They are dropping death cards when they disappear people and building concentration camps. We need to be very plain about the severity.
- Reposted by JemsNow we are at a moment when my worst fears have -- almost -- come true. And the sad part of is that you and I were both right: Bezos was indeed showing us what he was going to do with his property. And its loss, or severe diminishment, will be a blow to an informed citizenry and a boon to power.
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- Reposted by JemsTwo days ago, we discovered Trump has engaged in the most corrupt behavior of any president in history—giving secret technology to China's ally in exchange for the Trump family getting half a billion dollars. And nobody is still talking about it. #Corruption www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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- Reposted by JemsAs victims of ICE torture testified in front of Democrats hearing on Capitol Hill. No Republicans would show up to hear the abuse the victims had to go through by the hand of the King Trump's Gestapos. This just shows that the Fascist Party is perfectly fine with ICE.
- Reposted by JemsThe CIA World Factbook, a reliable source of information about the countries of the world, has been publicly available since 1997. It is now going away. Please consider supporting @wikipedia.org and @ourworldindata.org. The world desperately needs trustworthy data. www.cia.gov/stories/stor...
- Reposted by Jems📌So the Republicans have the Executive, the House, the Senate and the Supreme Court, but Democrats cheat in elections so they need to be federalized. That’s some nuclear-powered fascist GOP propaganda right there …
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- Reposted by Jems4/ “Alabama election officials inactivated the registrations of 3,251 individuals on the grounds that they were potential noncitizens but then acknowledged last month at least 2,074 were actually eligible voters…” 11/5/24 www.npr.org/2024/10/12/n...
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- Reposted by JemsThe GOP’s new Voter Suppression bill, the so-called “SAVE Act,” would disenfranchise many of the 69 million women who took their husbands’ last names, as explained in my summary. It proposes *no penalties* for erroneous voter purges but potential *prison time* for erroneous registrations. WTF?! 1/
- Reposted by JemsMoulton: This is state-sponsored terror. This is what you would expect to see in North Korea or Iran or the old Soviet Union. We’ve got to crack down on the government before they crack down on the American people.
- Reposted by JemsNEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.
- Reposted by JemsWhat Bannon is proposing is illegal. Brennan Center: “It is illegal to deploy federal troops or armed federal law enforcement to any polling place. In fact, it is a federal crime for anyone in the U.S. military to interfere in elections in any way.” www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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