NEW: Historians worry a Trump library will be an airbrushed 'MAGA' tribute to a twice-impeached president https://t.co/1MWRjE3WlN by @rbravender & @davelevinthal ($) @Politicsinsider

Historians and presidential-library buffs say they're worried that any sort of Donald Trump presidential library or museum will be used entirely to glorify the ex-commander in chief while promoting lies about his administration and attacking his critics.

Construction could wind up being a major battleground over the legacy of the 2x-impeached president. Historians & DC insiders are speculating about whether Trump's kids might lead the effort, where it would be located, & whether the federal government might withhold its support.

"It will be ostentatious. It will be like Trump Tower. It'll be like everything he does — over the top & not very subtle," said Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University.

"I think he'll use it to promote his memory or his understanding of what's happened. Not only the things he accomplished, but the people he doesn't like," Zelizer added.

Since Donald Trump has decided to decree that a statue to Hannah Arendt be erected in the National Garden of American Heroes, I thought I would take a few moments and share some of Arendt's thoughts on monuments. https://t.co/kFJ4U6Y9ZL

First let me say that the irony of this order is beyond laughable. After Hannah Arendt escaped Nazi Europe, she emigrated to New York in 1941. She was a housekeeper, a journalist, & an adjunct professor before she wrote her first major work The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1951.

Origins is about the emergence of totalitarianism in the 20th century. Looking to the history of antisemitism, colonialism, capitalism, imperialism, fascism, authoritarianism, and tyranny she argues that all totalitarian movements are rooted in organized loneliness.

Organized loneliness is the mass experience of loneliness felt by a society when people are radically cut off and isolated from one another. It's achieved through the dissemination of political propaganda which distorts a person's ability to tell what's real from what's not real.

Once you've made it impossible for people to distinguish between right and wrong and destroyed their sense of reality through consistent lying you can do anything you want with them--And this is precisely what Donald Trump has done from day 1 of his political career.

Hi Guys!

Thought I would give you an explanation of what is happening tonight and more importantly, tomorrow!

For many, this is all passing by without notice "Biden won, Trump lost and is a bad loser", which is 45% of the USA and probably 85% of the rest of the world.

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This is what is happening:

1. Today is the senate run-off vote. There are 2 congressional seats up for grabs, both happen to be in the state of Georgia.
The US Senate has 100 seats. The party with the most seats has a majority and therefore is in

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control of legislation in the USA.
At this time the Republicans hold 50 seats, the democrats hold 48. 2 are up for grabs today.
These two seats are extremely important. The republicans need 1 of the 2 to be able to stop an eventual Biden presidency to push through all of

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his ideas (as he already would control the house). He will immediately start by rejoining the Paris climate accord (the green new deal) that effectively kills the oil industry and nuclear power industry over the next few years.
So make sure you keep an eye out for the

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winners!
It's live on CNN, FOX, and others right now.

2. Tomorrow, is in my view, one of the most important days of our lifetime. It will decide if the WORLD will end up with THE NEW WORLD ORDER or if we will be witnessing the GREAT AWAKENING.

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1/ Why Trump Will Weather This Nonsense: "I view the video, and more than 95 percent of the people who made their ways inside clearly were just drifting and roaming around, walking mostly in single or double file, as in a tour of the Capitol."

As 2nd impeachment looms, the Republican Party paved the way to this inevitable end of the Trump presidency by enabling, excusing & abetting an openly racist & authoritarian president who did not hide his contempt for the rule of law or disdain for democracy

Republicans found reasons to excuse Trump after "very fine people" in Charlottesville; "go back" to House D women of color; calling Black Lives Matter "a symbol of hate"; and repeatedly denigrating the intelligence of Black women legislators & journalists.

Rs found nothing to sanction (& often actively supported) as he weaponized the postal service, distorted the Census, obstructed the Mueller inquiry, blocked Congressional oversight, openly extorted the government of Ukraine, pressured prosecutors, dispensed improper pardons.

After the election, 2/3 of House Rs and Republican state Attorneys General backed the lawsuit 2 make him president again by invalidating 20m votes. Rs echoed his spurious claims that the election was stolen in large cities w/big Black populations, even as courts found no evidence

R electeds weren't alone. The conservative media ecosystem slavishly defended Trump. One pundit explained that while elites took Trump "literally not seriously," his common-sense supporters took him "seriously not literally." Another insisted: "There Will Be No Trump Coup."

Big things are going down my patriots friends

Since the media refuses to cover any of the things that have happened today, I’m happy to oblige.

The FBI is raiding legislative offices and homes in Tennessee as we speak. Stay tuned for that.

First of all, I just passed 6k followers and I’m floored. I am absolutely amazed that so many people find why I say interesting enough that they might wasn’t to here more.

Or the memes make you crack up.

Either way, I thank you all

Recently I posted a ridiculous painting of trump portrayed as a hero... I absolutely suggested that, by portraying him as a hero, the artist should bear some responsibility for inciting violence.

By this I did not mean legal responsibility, but rather a personal responsibility.

It probably will not surprise many of you, but I am an artist.

Art is definitely protected by the first amendment.

I have said

before that those with an audience and any influence bear some responsibility for what they put out. That’s the top of the info supply chain. If you use your influence to peddle disinformation /hate speech and incite violence, then the results are on you.

I hope this helps clarify my intent.

When I was a kid, the news, with the exception of the occasional fluff piece, was terribly boring.
Monotone anchors told the audience about the days events.

They reported facts with no spin on it.

I think news as infotainment

A short thread on the Nazi/Trump parallels, drawn from research from How To Stop Fascism (see bio): 1/ The modern far right grows from the same ideological rootstock as Hitler/Mussolini - Nietzsche, Sorel, Chamberlain - it's the same crap... but...

2/ In the immediate aftermath of WW1 the German far right was splintered, with the biggest action - not words - being perpetrated by the Freikorps, first against the Spartakist uprising (exactly 102 years ago), then Baltic States...

3/ ... then the Bavarian Soviet. So when Hitlers NSDAP took off it was as a magnet for all paramilitaries, militias, aristocratic fascists etc... but there still remained Trump-style authoritarian conservatives, some even "populist"...

4/ The Beer Hall Putsch was the result of the authoritarians bottling out of their own coup against the Stresemann government... crazed generals, a power-crazed triumvirate, and Hitler's SA and a big militia movement...

5/ The Munich police ended the BHP by opening fire on Hitler's armed mob (who fired first). That's an unfortunate lesson all modern police forces have to remember... so there are clear parallels but let\s be careful...

Washington, DC, during the final 100 hours of the Trump Administration. A few scenes from my morning walk with @mkimmage

By Farragut Square

Dupont Circle bus stop

Old Executive Office Building

Washington Monument, as close as you can get

JUST POSTED: The Trump administration is rushing to approve a final wave of large-scale mining and energy projects on federal lands, encouraged by investors who want to try to ensure the projects move ahead even after President-elect Biden takes office

Let's take a look at some of these projects awaiting actions in the remaining weeks of Trump's tenure. MASSIVE mining projects on federal lands. First stop, ARIZONA. Sacred Native American lands now in a national forest are targeted for destruction to make way for a copper mine

Next stop SOUTH DAKOTA. Area near Black Hills planned for massive new uranium mine, on land also historically held by Native American tribe. Groundwater would be contaminated to extract the radioactive uranium.

Next stop, NEVADA, were one of world's largest lithium mines slated to be built starting soon on federal land. Final "Record of Decision" on project by Interior Department expected in EARLY January.

Next stop, UTAH, where Interior as soon as NEXT week, slated to give approval to what could soon be one of the large helium drilling operations in the United States on land in and around an iconic federal WILDERNESSS area.

he's on

1)Our 17 friend LOVES to have multiple meanings to just about everything so I thought I would cover one of those things in this thread. Today's cover is....

WATCH THE WATER.

Before President Trump took office China/DS was pressuring NK to use its newly acquired (from U1 Obama

Per Playbook:
Backstory on Raffensperger recording Trump's call:
After Graham's attempt in Nov to get him to throw it, Brad felt threatened, so he recorded Saturday's call
After Trump tweet attacked him yesterday, BR released it to WaPo & AJC
Here:

2-"It started on Saturday when Trump and his team reached out to talk to Raffensperger, who, according to an adviser, felt he would be unethically pressured by the president. Raffensperger had been here before:

3-"In November he accused Trump ally and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham of improperly exhorting him to meddle in the election to help Trump win Georgia. Graham later denied it.

4-"So why not record the call with the president, Raffensperger’s advisers thought, if nothing else for fact-checking purposes. “This is a man who has a history of reinventing history as it occurs,” one of them told Playbook.

5-"“So if he’s going to try to dispute anything on the call, it’s nice to have something like this, hard evidence, to dispute whatever he’s claiming about the secretary. Lindsey Graham asked us to throw out legally cast ballots.

Trumpworld is excited: Breitbart is reporting that the State of Texas has filed suit against MI, PA, WI and GA in the Supreme Court in an attempt to get the election results tossed out in those states.

This lawsuit ticks a lot of Trump boxes:
🟣As a dispute between states, it starts out in SCOTUS
🟣It seeks to put enough EVs in play to swing the whole election result
🟣It's the 'big beautiful lawsuit' Trump has wanted all along

Breitbart hasn't published the actual complaint, and it doesn't appear to be anywhere else yet, but we can say some things about it from their reporting:

1. This is not a fraud claim. There won't be any Dominion or Chavez or North Korean submarines shipping Dem votes etc in it.

From the tiny excerpts published, it sounds like the Texas claim is essentially "These states didn't follow their own election rules and that's not fair on Texans"