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Edward Little as a Peanuts character

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Back during the campaign, Trump pretended his “Dictator on Day 1” talk was just a joke. One hundred days in, it’s clear he was not joking.

WASHINGTON — However scared you might be for our democracy, you are not scared enough.

The president of the United States, from the moment he regained the office, has been step-by-step following the autocrat’s playbook. He has gone after universities for not obeying his decrees. He has extorted law firms for having on staff, or just once-upon-a-time having had on staff, people who crossed him. He has targeted for prosecution former aides who challenged him. He has arrested a local judge for not helping him round up migrants for deportation. He has attacked the free press for not bending to his will. On his very first day in office, he released from prison hundreds of domestic terrorists, effectively a personal militia, who assaulted police officers in his name.

And now, not 100 days into his term, he has done what so many democracy advocates have feared he would eventually do, something that no president has dared try in the more than two centuries since Marbury v. Madison’s precedent that the judiciary would be the ultimate authority on what is and what is not legal: He is straight-up defying the United States Supreme Court.

And — here is the truly terrifying part — he is getting away with it. No one is getting fined. No one is going to jail. In fact, much of America doesn’t even realize it’s happening.

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The physics of balancing toys 🙃

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rb this to give the person you reblogged from a very tiny frog

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but i’ll be there for you as the world falls down

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If I had a nickel for every time everything was distinctly not "All Well", I'd have two nickels-- which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice

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starting a compilation of my favorite "no thank you" buttons from when they want you to subscribe so bad

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Crozier: *Asking for Ned to do some of the most physically demanding and emotionally taxing tasks*

Meanwhile….

Ned:

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Wishing you an open polar sea this christmas 🌟🎀

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Wishing you a Terror-ific Christmas 🌟

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'Krampus with cat' by Mac Jaffe, 1901

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𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘉𝘌𝘈𝘜𝘛𝘠 𝘖𝘍 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘏𝘖𝘜𝘚𝘌 𝘐𝘚 𝘐𝘔𝘔𝘌𝘈𝘚𝘜𝘙𝘈𝘉𝘓𝘌; 𝘐𝘛𝘚 𝘒𝘐𝘕𝘋𝘕𝘌𝘚𝘚 𝘐𝘕𝘍𝘐𝘕𝘐𝘛𝘌.

-Piranesi

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Cute video from EACon4 from the cast of The Last Kingdom. Posted by Nevastalgia on Instagram.

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ICH SCHREIE

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‘Street in the Evening, Prague’ by Jakub Schikaneder (1855-1924)