Bless these brave women!
Bless these brave women!
They are the new traitor confederacy.
Biden would be connecting with the families in Minnesota. Empathy is leadership. Trump is all narcissism.
Putin orders
They fear smart people.
Yet the highest cities with crime and murder are in Red States. It’s all partisan political theater. Moves of a dictator.
This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at Tesla’s self-driving legal woes and a new development approach for California's costly high-speed rail project.
David Frum: “In this second Trump term, things keep happening that would have seemed outrageous—impossible—just a few months before. Every day there’s a new movement away from the rule of law, toward arbitrary and corrupt personal rule.” @davidfrum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Tariffs are taxes
Trump's war on facts has reached a new level and the message is clear: Government officials who deal in data now fear they have to toe the line and adopt his version of reality no matter how false or risk losing their jobs. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...
A CNN investigation found Elon Musk's Tesla owes dozens of small businesses millions of dollars in unpaid bills. CNN's Kyung Lah reports. Read the full story: cnn.it/478ZOYm
"Republicans have questioned the validity of Biden’s autopen signatures, but many in Congress use the same tool. Vice President J.D. Vance’s office confirmed that he used an autopen when he was a senator." --Charles Hilu thedispatch.com/article/auto...
Gerrymandering — the intentional distortion of political districts to give one party an advantage — can disenfranchise voters and fuel deeper polarization. Draw your own map in the imaginary state of Hexapolis to help you understand how it works.
Always cover for the boy king
So much for checks and balances. (via Bloomberg Opinion)
It is not a prison. Prisons are for those who, through due process and the rigors of our legal system, are found to have committed crimes for which they face accountability... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/call-it-wh...
The governing party of the United States is shutting down the federal government to cover-up evidence the president sexually abused children so he can continue trying to implement dictatorship. That's just a true statement about the world!
So petty. Standard for the 12 years olds running the WH
Follow the money
If you are a taxpayer in the United States of America, as I am, you are paying for this.
Republicans realize that if they were to even allude to Jesus, his life and teachings would swiftly become the loudest and most powerful public rebuke of their vile movement, that his words would come and violently flip their very tables. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/republican...
@pablo.show Great show with Michael and Dan. !!
What CBS' disgraceful termination of Stephen Colbert illustrates is how quickly a Republic can fall when the media chooses cowardice instead of courage.
Call it what it is: a concentration camp.
TACO. Once again.
This administration is just not smart enough to handle a cover up.
Trump and Noem fired the people who answer the emergency phone line. It’s not really incompetence because they know what they are doing. They are intentionally breaking government - even the parts that help us when we are deep in crisis.
I will never visit again
@lebatardshow.bsky.social What is the future of Miami soccer without Messi. ?
Personal ambition before country. So sad the hypocrisy
Orders from Putin ?
Trump has apparently made his power grab on the legislative branch even more explicit in his conversations with House Republicans in the last 24 hours. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Biden built an industrial policy. It was working. We were on a comeback. This Republican budget bill - which destroys the clean energy industry in the U.S. - is a choice to surrender to China.
Make the rich pay their fair share Expand the social security requirements to all income. Real income not the BS billionaires use to pay no tax
Screw the old, sick and poor for tax cuts for billionaires. Debt reduction just a lie. Typical republicans.
REMINDER: There are ways to write bills that actually REDUCE our deficit. Our Inflation Reduction Act reduced the deficit by hundreds of billions of dollars while creating jobs across the country. This Big Ugly Bill has scam written all over it.
Ok, so Republicans just introduced a 900 page bill none of them have read. But my team is going through it line by line and on this 🧵you can see the hidden provisions we found. Will update all day. 1/ NEW Medicaid cuts, so now 17 million - instead of 16M - lose health care.
Anything for the donors. Let the 99% suffer Sinful
The fear of getting a real job. Screw the people of MT.
Another fail. These guys have no idea how to govern.
Notice how every Republican asked to comment on any actions of the administration appears to temper their remarks. It appears they know the White House is watching—evaluating whether the commentator toes the line. They fear retribution if they don’t adequately praise the “beloved leader.
Republicans always willing to let the pain taken by those that can least tolerate. Anything for $ and fear of getting real jobs.
Once again Trump acts on the whim of those that kiss his A$$
Opportunity:
So the nuclear production site is hit. Is not nuclear radiation released? A Chernobyl disaster on top of the Iranian oil deposits. …
Could it involve radioactive munitions?
A government of morons
Among the eight people who RFK Jr. announced would make up his new group of outside vaccine advisers to the CDC are an emergency physician who posted Islamophobic commentary on social media and two doctors who were paid to provide expert testimony in trials against a vaccine maker. cnn.it/3Zy8wLf
Tear gas being used on a peaceful protest in Spokane Wa
Looking so foolish as a stooge for the boy king.
What Joni Ernst was trying to say, “We are all going to die, and for the less fortunate they will die with nothing and homeless.” Joni you single-handedly destroyed your career.
Today I watched a video in which the Governor of Iowa Jodi Ernst snidely pretend she didn’t understand that cuts to Medicaid would cause people to die. She then sarcastically used Jesus as a human shield for her total lack of morality. She is an evil person who doesn’t care who dies.
Always remember Trump’s non action lead to 2 million deaths from Covid.
Send a copy to all the citizens in his district.
In a normal world, this man would be ostracized and ridiculed and driven from public life for these abhorrent, vile statements.
Please hold your republican representatives accountable when the pain and suffering from the “Big Beautiful Bill” impacts actual people. November 2026.
Anything to screw the poor, sick and old.
He’s got private golf resorts, personal jets, and towers with his name on them and yet he’s still begging oil despots for a luxury plane instead of helping people working two jobs who can’t make rent.
Thou shalt not claim to be a Christian whilst planning a reality show where you torture immigrants.
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And the local media refuses to demand explanation and accountability from the congressional representative. He is a maga lemming.
They want to make America great by making sure you never masturbate.
To make matters worse, importers are leaving inventory in China ports. Waiting for tariffs to be lowered. If they are lowered enough, there will be a crush to ship them here and transport them when they get here. That will drive transportation costs way up. = More inflation, post tariffs
Another idea for the 10year old. Jibber jabber that means nothing.
A toddler in charge of our national security
Good Night World
Barry Blitt’s first 100 days cover for the New Yorker.
Just the beginning
In 72 days, Donold has taken 14 days off and spent $26 million of taxpayer money at his golf clubs.
Sounds similar to 1935 German policies.
He's such a pathetic, vile, cowardly POS.
No press reports yet. But this Daryl Issa 'empty chair', still underway, out in California seems to have a pretty sizable turnout. Photo courtesy of TPM Reader CM ...
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukrainian troops have not been encircled by Russian forces in Kursk region, accusing Russian leader Vladimir Putin of “lying” about the situation on the ground
Just don’t go on about Scott Boris.
"Randall hosted a morning town hall Saturday in Bremerton that filled up in minutes. Rather than turning the overflow crowd away, she immediately held a 2nd session. 'I want to hear from everyone who took the time out of their day to be here,' she wrote online..." www.advocate.com/politics/hug...
'If You Don't Care About The Ukrainian People, You're Not Pro-Life' johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/if-you-don...
'He Bankrupted His Casino. Now He's Bankrupting Our Country.' johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/he-bankrup...
Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.
America was given a choice between a lawless, amoral monster and a qualified, intelligent, joyful woman of color—and it chose the monster. We need to reckon with the reality of what that says about so many of us here. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/america-ch...
The Trump administration appears to be punishing Department of Education employees for attending diversity training sessions that were held during his first term. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-i...
Donold is blaming a plane crash that killed 67 people on “DEI” with zero evidence. He is attempting to use racism to deflect from the fact it is HIS fault. He had just removed 100 FAA senior officials. It’s been 11 days and there are 67 bodies in the Potomac in Washington DC because of him.
Dear Ministers in America, Bishop Budde did something awe-inspiring, something sadly rare, and something you are also capable of doing. Sunday is here. May you greet it with courage. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dont-let-b... #Bishopbudde
President Donald Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road marketplace, delivering on a campaign promise he made to court the cryptocurrency community and libertarian voters
Elon Musk’s SpaceX (whose spaceship just exploded) “has benefited from nearly $19.8 billion in federal contracts since 2008.” www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
There has to be a stop to sinful greed.
Washington’s rent stabilization bill is back! #HB1217 would cap rent increases at no more than 7%/year, while exempting new builds subsidized housing where rent is determined based on income. This is a sensible solution that minimizes the risk of unintended consequences. Let’s get it done! #waleg
So much for freedom of speech
The insurance companies (death panels) wool only grow. See where there campaign contributions are going?
Smells funny
Scoop: President Biden is preparing to issue a decree permanently banning new offshore oil and gas development in some US coastal waters, locking in difficult-to-revoke protections during his final weeks in the White House. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #climate #oil
When do I get my check for casino losses??
Time zones are fascinating. Australia is already in 2025, Europe is still 2024, and the USA is currently in 1939.