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There is no greater single imperative right now than removing Donald J. Trump as President of the United States. He is the clearest, most immediate, and most powerful danger to our biosphere, our health, our welfare, our safety, our privacy, our lives, and our freedom in the world today.

There have been millions of people like me who have been shouting this at the top of their lungs. And tens of millions more have this thought on their lips, yet to take form.

My campaign began when I realized how close we are to losing what makes this country worth loving. Not with rage, but with clarity, I thought—we deserve more than this. America wants to live again, I know it. And if we mean that, really mean it, we’re going to have to move with conviction, and fight with purpose.

Congress dithers, posing for pictures glad-handing local notables, all forcing smiles while the walls of autocracy go up around us, brick by brick. This is the worst national emergency of our lifetimes, and Democratic leadership has failed to address it in remotely accurate terms. Donald Trump has broken America. And when the enemy is cheating, we must refuse to play with a rigged deck. When the enemy is ignoring norms, you can’t keep clinging to them like a life raft. Clinging to the past is drowning us. We need to swim for something new, or we go down for good.

Congress today is full of a bunch of corpses they haven’t gotten around to burying yet. Soundbites instead of spines. Press releases instead of plans. Dinosaurs dutifully manning the slow grind of bureaucracy, pretending they can outlast a meteor.

My name is Jesse MacKinnon. I am a history teacher. I am a parent. I am a longtime local of CA-10. I am someone who believes in individual liberty and working-class dignity. And I am bone weary of watching people with no imagination and no urgency try to “wait out” a fascist movement that never sleeps.

I know I’m not the most likely candidate to run for Congress. But I believe deeply that either Mark DeSaulnier and our Democratic leaders will do more to confront this growing despotism, or that I will go to Washington and try to help stop the pillaging of America myself. I’ll leave that choice to the voters.

Originally Posted By u/mackinnon4congress At 2025-04-24 03:30:27 PM | Source

Originally Posted By u/bluesunset90 At 2025-04-24 12:14:12 PM | Source

In case you missed it, trump is signing executive orders targeting law firms that represented his political opponents. Then after they agree to work for him for free, he reveals the orders. Finally two firms said no and sued, but more than six law firms already caved and agreed to do free legal work in order to get the president to stop illegally retaliating against them for the crime of representing trumps political opponents.

Why is this not a bigger story?

Originally Posted By u/D2Foley At 2025-04-24 08:36:26 AM | Source

This is protected speech going all the way back to Watts v. United States in 1969.

Originally Posted By u/Accomplished-Unit343 At 2025-04-24 08:53:54 AM | Source

"Take back America" protest set for 4th of July. Rain or shine. In front of Washington D.C. capitol building. Starts 2pm. Repost this flyer and copy/paste this info. Post this flyer literally everywhere censorship is at an all time high. See you guys there!

Originally Posted By u/Fucknsa_ At 2025-04-24 08:25:22 AM | Source

Originally Posted By u/LazyDirector At 2025-04-24 03:19:05 AM | Source

I think part of this fight is getting our message across effectively and I think this photo does such a great job.

Originally Posted By u/DigExisting9971 At 2025-04-23 10:52:27 PM | Source

Originally Posted By u/Mobile_Emergency_822 At 2025-04-23 10:23:56 PM | Source

Call out their hypocrisy!

Originally Posted By u/SinisterPaperclip At 2025-04-23 10:52:18 PM | Source

Musk immediately addressed his efforts with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency under President Donald Trump, saying he would be reducing his federal budget-slashing efforts starting in May.

“I’ll have to continue doing it for, I think, probably the remainder of the president’s term,” Musk said on the call. “So I think I’ll continue to spend a day or two per week on government matters for as long as the president would like me to do so and as long as it is useful, but starting next month, I’ll be allocating far more of my time to Tesla,” he added.

Here are five key quotes from Musk on the Tesla earnings call, as transcribed by FactSet:

Future of Tesla: “The future of the company is fundamentally based on large-scale autonomous cars and large-scale and large volume, vast numbers of autonomous humanoid robots.

So, the value of the company that makes truly useful autonomous humanoid robots and autonomous useful vehicles at scale at low cost, which is what Tesla is going to do is staggering. I continue to believe that Tesla with excellent execution will be the most valuable company in the world by far.”

Financial impact of robotaxi: “I said I think on the last earnings call that we will start to see the prosperity of autonomy take effect in a material way around the middle of next year. We expect to have – be selling fully autonomous rides in June in Austin as we’ve been saying for now several months. So, that’s continued.

But the real question from financial standpoint is when does it really become material and affect the bottom-line of the company and start to be a fundamental part of the – when does it move the financial needle in a significant way? That’s probably around the middle of next year, second half of next year.”

Optimus robots: “And with regards to Optimus, making good progress in Optimus. We expect to have thousands of Optimus robots working in Tesla factories by the end of this year, beginning this fall. And we expect to scale Optimus up faster than any product, I think, in history to get to millions of units per year as soon as possible. I think we feel confident in getting to 1 million units per year in less than five years, maybe four years. So by 2030, I feel confident in predicting 1 million Optimus units per year. It might be 2029.”

Tariffs: “Now tariffs are still tough on a company when margins are still low. But we do have localized supply chains in both America, Europe, and China. So that puts us in a stronger position than any of our competitors. And undoubtedly, I’m going to get a lot of questions about tariffs. And I just want to emphasize that the tariff decision is entirely up to the President of the United States. I will weigh in with my advice with the President, which if he will listen to my advice but then it’s up to him, of course, to make his decision.

I’ve been on the record many times saying that I believe lower tariffs are generally a good idea for prosperity. But this decision is fundamentally up to the elected representative of the people being the President of the United States. So I’ll continue to advocate for lower tariffs rather than higher tariffs, but that’s all I can do.”

Tesla energy segment: “With respect to energy, our energy business is doing very well. The Megapack … enables utility companies to output far more total energy than would otherwise be the case. When you think of the energy capability of a grid, it’s much more than, let’s say, total energy output per year. If a power plants could operate at peak power for all 24 hours as opposed to being at half power, sometimes a quarter power at night, then you could double the energy output of existing power plants.”

Originally Posted By u/ChiefHippoTwit At 2025-04-23 03:12:27 PM | Source

I know, the title is dramatic. Yet, I mean it. I am autistic. I have ADHD. I am neurodivergent. Please don't abandon us. With all this talk of a registry of autistic individuals, I am scared. This is a fascist administration. This is a regime. Call it what it is. It is a state that, when it gets enough power, will go after "undesirables" like myself. I'm not making things up. We've seen it before in Nazi Germany. There will be no place for people like me in this new state.

So I ask you to not abandon us. You are the only hope we have. Ordinary citizens like yourselves are the only hope we will have. We're stronger together. I wish I could say more, but I do not know what to say. Just, please support us.

Originally Posted By u/Crazy_Coyote1 At 2025-04-23 05:16:42 PM | Source

Originally Posted By u/RoyalChris At 2025-04-23 05:31:43 PM | Source