When you come up with a way for the minority party in both Chambers to do anything more than write letters, please let us know. A minority party under current rules is largely powerless.
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When you come up with a way for the minority party in both Chambers to do anything more than write letters, please let us know. A minority party under current rules is largely powerless.
The Trump dictatorship is in talks with European leaders about sending mercenaries to hold the line in Ukraine against Putin's war of aggression, The London newspaper The Independent reports:
This is evil:
Mass deportations will spread from America to the United Kingdom, far right politician Nigel Farage vows. He wants to deport Afghanis, many of them worked with the British military, back into the violent hands of the Taliban!
Back to teaching at RIT in less than 10 hours! Yay!
Donald Trump is incapable of laughing at himself so let's use humor to undercut his dictatorship while it's still weak. Here's the danish parliament reaction when Trump said he was going to buy Greenland: www.instagram.com/reel/DHyumH8...
Trump kakistocracy today: 1. As retribution for criticizing our 1st American dictator, FBI raids John Bolton's home & office. 2. FBI is lowering standards to become an FBI agent (article gifted below). It will get worse as dictator Trump consolidates his power.. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...
Below is a huge victory not just for Donald Trump, but for the growing numbers of similarly brazen white-collar criminal families in America, who steal by lying on documents, failing to honor contracts, and misleading bankers and investors:
The nationally prominent religious bigot James Dobson has died, ending his decades of efforts, through Focus on the Family, to spread hate by distorting what is in the Bible through a cunning strategy of cherry picking, ignoring, and lying.
New— Nazis with giant swastika flags marched in downtown Indianapolis on Saturday with two police escorts. They shouted “white power” and said to the woman who took this video (reshared here with her permission) “fuck you, n***** bitch.” Police did not intervene. I cannot find local news coverage.
A reminder: Woke = good manners Woke = civility Woke = regard
The U of Rochester's renown Eastman Music School seems to have badly bungled a sexual harassment complaint from a female graduate student studying orchestral conducting, a VERY male dominated field. My Letter to the Editor: rochesterbeacon.com/2025/08/16/u...
Yesterday I did nine TV appearances in Europe and Asia about what turned out to be the debacle in Alaska. This one for (London) Times Radio is getting a lot of viewer attaboys from Canada to Berlin: youtu.be/m5mBjuCmZNk?... thank you so much David, video doing really well!
Beat police officers while trying to murder the vice president a & Donald Trump will give you a pardon, but God forbid you throw a tunafish sandwich at masked ICE agents. For that 20 officers will show up at your apartment to haul you away so you can be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
By the time these cancers develop RFK Jr. will be gone from HHS and perhaps gone from life so he won't even have to deal with people screaming in his face his idiocy shortened their lives.
What a disgusting excuse for a human being.
substack.com/@democraticw...
From the NY Daily News, the latest on Trump's promise to arrest immigrants who are murderers and rapists:
My latest for DCReport about how Trump is creating the most opaque presidency in modernAmerican history: www.dcreport.org/2025/08/15/h...
This is E. J. Antoni, Trump's nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Notice the image behind him. It's the Nazi battleship Bismarck, as verified by several factor checkers. Discuss. Please, discuss.
Snarky social media posts don't do much, but this does a lot: getting out the vote:
Nonsense. Take your meds.
Evidence? Link to news or other verifiable source?
Powerful simple line drawing:
Jeff Danziger nailed it again:
Where is RFK Junior when it comes to generic drugs made in dirty, and unsafe factories overseas?
Sadly, it's not and never has been a newsroom convention to explain routines and normal. But NYT, WaPo, AP, MSNBC etc., have in fact called out Trump's lies and cited stats on declining crime.
I often used this reporting technique: Ring every few minutes until secretary gets annoyed, then ask nicely when she takes her coffee break. "In one minute..." Dial back in two and, voila, the boss answers their own phone. Mission accomplished.
The cancellation of almost $500 million in contracts involving mRNA vaccines by the United States government could halt progress on cancer research. Story via @19thnews.org www.dcreport.org/2025/08/07/a...
Apart from the escalation of the war with Hamas, the decision by Benjamin Netanyahu to target Gaza City & order months of occupation is filled with unnecessary risks towards an uncertain end - but the threat of constant war is nothing new, says Terry Schwadron. www.dcreport.org/2025/08/10/e...
As the use of AI becomes more prevalent by the day, writer Tom Cantlon cautions against blindly relying on it to be in charge of important decisions. www.dcreport.org/2025/08/11/w...
Since Donald has given China another delay before imposing his illegal and unconstitutional tariffs we need a new nickname for flip-flopping, chickening out Donald - Taco Supreme.
That's a great edit!
In 2011 I warned that if Donald got to the WH he would never leave peacefully. Politics journalists err in assuming that Trump is a politician with an unusual POV when in fact he's a 3rd generation career white-collar criminal, a con man with no conscience who is appallingly ignorant.
You mean the way The New York Times put those words together.
Said, it should be noted, by The New York Times and simply posted by Maddow.
Maybe we need a new name for dilly-dally Donald - Super Taco:
I'm scheduled to be on The Beat on MSNBC tonight at the 6 o'clock hour about Donald's new found fortune.
Meidas Touch interviews me about what's coming, fast and furious, as dictator Trump consolidates his power: m.youtube.com/watch?v=jHtX...
The fanatical and very poorly educated right wing influencer Charlie Kirk is calling on Trump to have the military take over the streets of every big city in the country. It's a halt and imaginary crime wave. Crime rates have been falling for decades. www.threads.com/@mediamatter...
Eight years ago today - Trump's early militia:
A very good man makes some very good points:
Video indicates ICE agents ransacked a restaurant while stealing food and equipment. www.threads.com/@richardglas...
Valid story about what Trump admin is doing.
Now that @kamalaharris.com has decided not to run for governor of California, there's a crowded field of prominent Democrats looking to succeed term-limited Gov. Gavin Newsom. Story via @gracepanetta.bsky.social and @19thnews.org www.dcreport.org/2025/07/31/w...
Angered over the optics of downward monthly job numbers for June, Donald Trump has fired the Labor Bureau Commissioner. As he repeatedly shows us, Trump starts with the presumed outcome of his policies, and then impatiently expects his will to become fact. www.dcreport.org/2025/08/03/i...
A murder of crows has been around since before I was born.
Terms I recommend to describe gatherings of (as in a herd of cows or a murder of crows): Pedophiles - A Groping of Child Rapists - A Trump of Masked ICE agents - A Cowardice of Racists - A Hatred of MAGA - A Fool of Biblical literalists - A Cherry Pick of "Pro-Lifers" - An Abortion of
Have you checked the authenticity of the photo to make sure it's not AI? It's important to deal with actual facts because #FactsMatter
Tonight at 7PM I'll speak on How to Save Our Democracy at the Riviera Theatre in Geneseo about 30 minutes south of Rochester. The Riviera Theatre 4 Center St Geneseo, NY 14454
Gotta love Apple dictation!
This is the Harvard-educated, GOP congresswoman Maria Salazar of Florida. She wants to make sure the Epstein files stay sealed as a favor to her leader, Donald Trump. Never forget that Ms. Salazar cares more about protecting accused pedophiles and child rapists than their victims.
Claiming to be on a mission from God, cretins are filing baseless liens on the property of elected officials they dislike, the LA Times reveals. I wrote about similar tactics 25 years ago in the NYTimes, but few & scattered cases. This appears to be organized abuse. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Alan Dershowitz, a.k.a. Captain Underpants, gets a taste of girl old-fashioned New England shunning. The cop is a model of proper police behavior, FYI . www.instagram.com/reel/DMvVG1S...
Donald Trump, who has denounced student loan forgiveness, has changed his tune for a small group of Americans willing to do his dirty work:
Investor alert: as inflation increases, job growth stalls, and tariffs hit imports, the broad stock market shows excessive exuberance, which at some point will be corrected by a severe drop in prices.
Once again Mehdi is spot on:
You really haven't thought through the first two words of your post. However, if you want to live under a permanent Trumpian dictatorship, keep thinking that way.
Smart, political art:
Donald Trump can survive all sorts of lies, criminal conduct, including his close association with a major cocaine trafficker, but his presidency cannot survive irrefutable evidence that he's a serial child rapist. There are many threads to follow in the Epstein case. We need to pursue them all.
Fellow journalists: The president doesn't have the power to impose tariffs, with extremely limited exceptions. Failing to point out that only Congress has the power to impose tariffs is bad journalism.
Jeffrey Epstein's brother Mark:
Dictator Donald isn't just erasing the history of Black, Brown, Asian, and women Americans. He's also doing Orwellian edits benefitting himself:
Dictator Donald is so worried about cutting government spending that he's adding a White House ballroom costing $200 million.
That was widely reported at the time.
And now for a much-needed laugh:
The daddy Maxwell stuff has all been widely reported in the subject of books and the other stuff you mentioned is being reported you just have to read widely and thoroughly
Destroying justice department records is a crime and there would be fingerprints left behind as to who was involved so only the most self sacrificing Trumper would participate. Also, deleting records rarely works, and it certainly makes folks grasp that you have something to hide. The helicopter
Thank you for this. And a great deal of the news coverage has been atrocious.
Some or many, but by no means all, a word choice that diminishes you and suggests you are a bigot. #NuanceMatters
Asking the wrong question (the answer to which is that lobby security isn't effective against either a lucky or ruthless assault).
EVIDENCE 1 From the FBI’s 2019 raid of Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse: -A trove of CDs, DVDs, hard drives, and computers, many labeled with names or dates. -Photos and videos, some locked in a safe behind a false wall. -A 2019 court filing described “compact discs with hand-written labels”
Bad journalism alert: Trump doesn't have legal authority to impose tariffs (with very limited exceptions). Only Congress can (Art1, Sec 8, Cl 1) impose taxes, duties & imposts, which includes tariffs, a form of tax. But reporters keep embracing Donald's naked assertion that he is in charge.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Newsmax has started referring to Ghislaine Maxwell as a “victim.”
Investing overseas rather than in America, Donald?
A new - and truthful - GOP logo:
The conviction was in federal court.
Link(s) to verifiable news report(s), please.
Nobody "killed" the story. As you yourself just pointed out. It was reported. Indeed, it was fairly widely reported.
Exactly:
Dictatorship Watch, culture division, per The NYTimes:
Three decades ago, I was virtually alone in national journalism in documenting growing inequality, expecting it to steadily worsen because of government policies. Below, from The Guardian, shows just how awful it's become. Trump and the GOP ensure that the wealth gap will continue to widen.
Want to lay odds on Trump pardoning Brett Hankison in the murder of Breonna Taylor since the ex cop from Louisville was sentenced to 33 months instead of, as the Trump administration sought, one day?
Ten years ago today, one of many despicable official acts showing the persistence of racism:
Donald Trump's modeling agency operated illegally using young women with no right to work in the US, some of whom say he molested them, per the article below and a Guardian expose. There are many angles to pursue the allegations that Trump is a child rapist. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Delusional Donald's message to his delusional followers today, note the last item:
