Somewhere

"But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right." ― The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

— Amy (@amymerz.bsky.social) June 2, 2026 at 9:46 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

Time to start preparing for locking Hegseth up

Sen. Mark Kelly sued Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to block a Pentagon move to strip his retired rank and pension after he urged troops to refuse illegal orders, calling it unconstitutional retaliation that chills free speech and legislative independence. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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— Mickey Kuhns (@mickeykuhns.bsky.social) January 12, 2026 at 4:34 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

If the fascist shoe fits...

The land of free speech, where disrespecting the Dear Leader’s image gets your pass revoked.

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— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) January 6, 2026 at 12:25 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

Photo bullets

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

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— onion person (@junlper.beer) November 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

So our military is no longer pledging to defend the Constitution?

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

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— Scott Nover (@scottnover.bsky.social) September 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

 

It's about everyone

We intentionally did not put Rosie in the headline because this is not about Rosie O’Donnell it’s about everyone

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— Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) July 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

The only speech Trump brought back was hate speech

Trump, who has ejected the Associated Press from White House events because they won't call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America & who today called for criminalizing student speech at protests claims to have brought back free speech in America

— Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) March 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

Stand up to the mother fucker, cowards

This means nothing. Useless. Empty words, zero action. Boycott his events. Refuse to cover his photo ops and propaganda signings. He’s addicted to coverage and hates being ignored. Until you band together and do something, these statements are utterly pointless & pathetic.

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— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) February 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

This is how much the Constitution means to the GOP

Just an item in today's Reliable Sources newsletter

Sen. J.D. Vance has asked Attorney General Merrick Garland if his department will "open an investigation" into The WaPo columnist Robert Kagan for authoring a piece waring that a "Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable."

— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) December 7, 2023

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

This is what the GOP will do to America

Police stage 'chilling' raid on Marion County newspaper, seizing computers, records and cellphones - Kansas Reflector

This happened in a Red State Kansas and a Republican district. So much for conservative calls to protect 1st Amendment rights. https://t.co/0LANG2pNsT

— Alexander S. Vindman ❎ (@AVindman) August 12, 2023

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

Fascists gotta stick together

This is what a "free-speech absolutist" looks like? Under Elon Musk, "Twitter has approved 83% of censorship requests by authoritarian governments." such as criticism of the ruling party in India and Turkey. https://t.co/ROQjh8trPJ pic.twitter.com/kMaj90Tv2d

— Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) May 29, 2023

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

MAGA only wants their speech to be free

It's stupid to think about because we all know it's just a cover for making sure people stay oppressed but: Imagine if the people who act as if they care a ton about "speech" pretended it bothered them when someone got killed for the way he was speaking on a train?

— Jenée (@jdesmondharris) May 4, 2023

Republicans = Nazis 

Peace,

emaycee

Another pathetic performance from The New York Times

Just a reminder that “freedom of speech” refers to freedom from *the government* restricting your speech, NOT freedom from criticism for what you say.

Yes, I am referring to the NYTimes editorial.

— Natalie Jackson (@nataliemj10) March 18, 2022

Republican = Traitor

Peace,

emaycee

 

The University of Florida hops on the Fascism Train

Toughening penalties on public protest, making it tougher to vote, authorizing citizens to sue fellow citizens exercising a constitutional right, overriding blue local govts, preventing public u profs from opposing state decisions: the red state pattern is both clear & ominous. https://t.co/IprDffCjDT

— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) October 30, 2021

The Republican Party Is Now a Fascist Cult Just Like Nazi Germany

Peace,

emaycee

 

Gag orders

If you can't handle the heat, get the fuck out of the kitchen

In a long line of chilling aspects of the coronavirus pandemic (not the least of which is the utter incompetence of the Trump administration), one that has come to light (at least for me) in the last few days is the increasing calls to muzzle criticism...with many of them coming with explicit threats:

• A doctor writing in the Daily Kos noted how he and his fellow healthcare providers are being told to not criticize the hospitals they work for for supply shortages or the inability to adequately protect their workers from the spread of COVID-19...doctors and nurses have been asked to delete posts and tweets under threats of their losing their jobs.
• In an ill-advised but unsurprising move (the NFL is full of racist, old, rich men who worship the moron Trump), the National Football League has decided to still hold its annual draft later this month.  The kicker?  Its idiot sycophant commissioner, Roger Goodell, threatened disciplinary action against any team publicly criticizing his decision.
• While it's understandable that Google would be monitoring ads for scams offering coronavirus cures and elixirs or ones that are disseminating misinformation, it is certainly not understandable to ban ads that are critical of the Trump administration's epic failure to protect Americans from the virus...especially when still allowing the Trump campaign to run highly politicized ads.

Desperate times may call for desperate measures, but the last thing we as a nation need right now is the curtailing of criticism to save corporate bottom lines at the expense of dispensing information that can slow the spread of coronavirus and/or keep Americans safer and healthier.

These kind of gestures reek of totalitarian states like Russia and North Korea, and certainly are not a reflections of a nation that is supposed to be a beacon of freedom to the rest of the world.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

Further proof America elected Hitler

You know, it's one thing when some numbnuts like Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh makes some outlandish statements about political protesters with whom they disagree, but it's a whole 'nother ballgame when the President-elect of the United States says people who burn the flag should spend a year in jail or be stripped of their citizenship.

And just how long, do you suppose, it is before Mr. Trump starts declaring that not just flag burners, but anyone who disagrees with him or his republican enablers should be sent to jail or stripped of their citizenship as well?

Dissent is the backbone of democracy, and the punching bag of fascism.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

A profile in courage

A few random thoughts on the young woman wearing the "America Was Never Great" hat at Home Depot:

• How stupid do you have to be to believe that there would be no backlash to the unadulterated racism of the Trump campaign?  You want to hate people of color?  Fine--but be prepared to be called (deservedly) an asshole for it.  By the way, there's nothing in the U.S. Constitution or your Bible that condones your viewpoint.
• Commenters have said that the hat is a slap in the face to veterans--how exactly is that?  Aren't you the ones always screaming about how our troops fight for our freedoms?  When did free speech stop being one of our freedoms?
• One supposes that those who claim the hat is an embarrassment to "all" Americans never had any ancestors brought over here on slave ships, never suffered institutional racism in all aspects of life in America from housing to jobs to where they can fucking sit on a bus, or any who were lynched for the basest of reasons.
• As for all those who have sent death threats to the young woman--really?  Threatening to kill an American for exercising their right to free speech?  Quite the testament to America's "greatness."
• And calling her a coward? Seriously?  In all likelihood her job is gone (trust me Home Depot will find a way to get rid of her), she's probably a pariah at work (especially with her supervisors), and she's endured all kinds of hatred from the low grade morons who make up Trump's supporters, for having the guts to express her feelings. Yeah, that's the stuff cowards are made of.
• It's not as if Home Depot is exactly some liberal bastion.  It's pathetic CEO, Ken Langone, once threatened to have all his richie rich friends stop donating to the Catholic Church and its charities because Pope Francis had the audacity to point out what anyone with the IQ of a slug or better already knows:  God doesn't take too kindly to greedy assholes.  The horror!

In the end, Home Depot issued a statement saying the hat was "inappropriate," which is the same statement 99.9% of companies would have made under the circumstances.

Left unsaid, of course, is exactly how unhinged Donald Trumps supporters are.  It's a fucking hat, for Christ's sake.  Get over it.

Peace,

emaycee