"Drug-Sniffing Police Dogs Are Intercepting Abortion Pills in the Mail"

https://theintercept.com/2024/10/16/abortion-pills-mail-usps/

"The fact that a registered Republican shot at the Republican presidential candidate with the gun that Republican politicians have worshipped so much they literally wear it as a badge of pride and pose with it in Christmas photos like the weird family you warn your kids to bike nowhere near, no, that doesn’t mean that Democrats bear the responsibility for this attack and that Democrats have to adjust their rhetoric."

~ Kevin M. Kruse

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/23

"Now it’s the existential threat of climate change and a far-right politics that makes even the worst fears of a prospective Richard Nixon presidency seem tepid by comparison. The white backlash remains and is, it seems, eternal."

This bears repeating: "The white backlash remains and is, it seems, eternal."

Racism still fuels the engine of Republican politics, and many of us never intend to get over the ugly racism that determines our political decisions.

#Trump #violence #fascism #MAGA
/22

"The unrelenting pace of events echoes 1968, the standard for tumultuous years in politics, with the assassinations, an incumbent Democratic president who is unpopular despite his historic legislative accomplishments, and his party’s convention in Chicago. The backdrop is different. Then it was the Vietnam War, white backlash to the civil rights movement, and a generational moment as the baby boomers came of age."

~ David Kurtz

#Trump #violence #fascism #MAGA
/21

"Support for political violence is not evenly distributed across the population. Across all surveys, we find a consistent pattern. ...

Republicans are 2.5 times more likely than Democrats to support political violence. One-third of Republicans (33%) believe that true American patriots may have to resort to violence to save the country, compared with 22% of independents and 13% of Democrats."

The figures are from: https://www.prri.org/research/threats-to-american-democracy-ahead-of-an-unprecedented-presidential-election/

#Trump #violence #fascism #MAGA #Republicans
/20

"We have to remain clear-eyed about where the real threat to our security and democracy lies. Today, that threat disproportionately lies with Trump’s MAGA movement, which has taken over one of our two political parties, and with Vance who is now aiding and abetting it. These conclusions are backed up by clear evidence."

~ Robert P. Jones

#Trump #violence #fascism #MAGA #Republicans
/19

"Why would an assassination attempt make a candidate more popular. Because we live in a country where many people’s entire philosophy of life can fit on the front of a t-shirt."

~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#Trump #violence #fascism #media
/18

"The news media proclaim the image of him with fist raised 'iconic,' begging us to behold him in all his majesty:"

~ Paul Waldman

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