Why did Congressional Republicans jam through an unpopular budget with the largest Medicaid cuts in history? It could be because nearly 70% of them would financially benefit from the bill's extension of Trump's tax cuts for the rich. Reverse Robin Hood.
This is the place to go for people who love their neighbors and care about their communities. Those who won't tolerate secret police ripping them apart, and insist that our Constitutional civil liberties be restored. Can you do any of that for us, JD? Zero tolerance for posers, liars, and grifters.
Can you imagine living in a “Democracy” where armed masked men are kidnapping people off the streets every single day?
Thoughts on this ceasefire: - Israel is *lighting* Tehran up right now. Some of the most intense strikes so far - Khamenei says Iran will not surrender - Trump says ceasefire will hold “forever” which is fucking laughable - nobody cares that 400kg of uranium is missing?
what federal agents did to a father of three Marines while he was cutting grass in Orange County on Sunday has happened in some form daily — and deliberately — all over Los Angeles for 18 days.
The Trump administration wants to put Emil Bove on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, despite his unethical conduct when he was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Manhattan. I asked the SDNY for information that Congress needs before giving someone a lifetime seat on the federal bench.
100 days. 💔
She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election. open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
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It's bigley embarrassing to have someone as dumb and incompetent as #Felon47 in the highest office in OUR government.
Yes, much like the 9/11 terrorists were only at war with our landmarks, not America Does _anyone_ in the Trump administration hear how deranged they sound?
JD Vance to Kristen Welker: “The president has clear authority to act to prevent proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.” Kristi Noem testified before Congress that Iran didn’t have nukes. Iraq War 2.0 thanks to Donald Trump.
Republican priorities.
The United States is now at war with Iran. Anyone who has doubted Trump’s intention to replace American democracy with a dictatorship should now be fully disabused. Some thoughts on what's going on... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-dogs-of-war
Launching the U.S. into what could be yet another unpopular and costly forever war, while simultaneously pushing for an unpopular budget bill at home that will take food and healthcare away from millions of people. The "peace president."
Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?
Woke up this morning, thought to myself that I would post that Trump is definitely not going to wait 2 weeks to bomb Iran, then said oh whatever, I'll just post that tonight Too late: he just took America to war If you want to understand how I knew he was always going to take us to war, read this:
This chart is absolutely essential. It explains why Trump removed America from the Iran Nuclear Deal in 2018. Because it was *working*. Trump needed a cause for war, so he manufactured it. This has all been in the works for some time now. He was never "weighing options."
Here is the dirty secret no one is speaking out loud: Trump does not believe that bombing the hell out of Iran is going to send Iran back to the negotiation table, nor has anyone in his inner circle suggested to him that outcome. He fully knows he has entered America into a war.
BREAKING: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth moments ago: “Many presidents have dreamed of delivering the final blow to Iran’s nuclear program, and none could until President Trump.” This is garbage. Other Presidents could have done the same thing but they chose not too.
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I wouldn't be out there if I didn't believe that America can come through this moment, if each of us is prepared to play our role in demanding and delivering a better future.
IOWA: “It is a complete pleasure to hear somebody speak in complete sentences.” *Pete Buttigieg gets a rousing Ovation at the #VoteVetsTownHall* 👏🏽
Watch Donald Trump and Stephen Miller try to suspend THIS!
Amazing!
Putin suggested holding direct negotiations in Turkey on May 15. President Zelenskyy with his team arrived in Turkey. Putin is absent. Instead, he sent a non-representative delegation with no decision-making mandate. Does Putin want to achieve peace and stop the war? The answer is obvious - no
“We are heartbroken to announce we have to cancel our upcoming European tour,” wrote Texas psych-rockers Lord Buffalo. “Our drummer, Yamal Said, who is a Mexican citizen & lawful permanent resident of the US, was forcibly removed from our flight to Europe by CBP at Dallas/Fort Worth Int’l Airport.”
@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social: "Trump’s open corruption and lawlessness is fundamentally different from run-of-the-mill corruption and furtive law-breaking. The difference is that it is far more dangerous." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-want...
Dozens of American CEOs and VIPs, invited by the Saudis, flew thousands of miles to attend President Trump's visit. That's emblematic of how business interests have largely bent the knee to Trump.
BREAKING: Pam Bondi Had $1-$5M In Suspicious Trades During Trump Tariff Announcement. krassencast.com/p/pam-bondi-...
Here they go.
Trump to American troops stationed at Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar: “As you know, we won 3 elections—and some people want us to do a fourth. I don’t know, we’ll have to think about that. You saw the new hat: Trump 2028. We’re driving the left crazy.” (Trump didn't win 3 elections)
The real reason Trump is utterly, shamelessly, blatantly uninhibited...(And how to stop him) https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-real-reason-trump-is-utterly
New: The State Department has intervened on behalf of Musk's satellite internet company Starlink in five developing nations. In Gambia, U.S. diplomats have lobbied and browbeat at least seven government ministers as part of a “maximum pressure” campaign.
Don’t forget, Chauvin’s state crimes can’t be pardoned - and that’s the longer of the two sentences. Also don’t forget the people who support that murderer.
NASHVILLE: “Panic at Trump supporter Steve Smith’s restaurants indicates his own Broadway empire relies on employing immigrants not authorized to work in 🇺🇸” Kitchens closed to avoid ICE in at least 3 bars— including @KidRock’s… Imagine that! www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...
The carried interest loophole lets rich private equity execs pay lower tax rates by treating their income as capital gains. The GOP's "big, beautiful bill" makes devastating cuts to social programs but leaves this loophole intact — despite Trump promising to end it. Priorities.
A few weeks ago, Trump’s meme coin looked moribund, its price tumbling toward zero. Then it was suddenly imbued with something of real value: access to the president.
BREAKING: A sweeping ProPublica report reveals the U.S. State Department is interfering with foreign countries on behalf of Elon Musk. Officials in both Washington and Gambia have aggressively pushed for the West African country to approve a license for Starlink, of which Musk owns a $150B stake.
While Trump's cabinet is made up of conspiracists and sycophants, Democratic leadership in the Senate is finally taking a stand against their actions. I look at RFK Jr and Kristi Noem's hearings and commend those holding them accountable. Watch here: youtu.be/MJyW9-D0Mew
Just got word that Secretary Noem is asking for an addition to her budget - a new private Gulfstream 5 jet for her personal national photo op tour. She's already got a private plane but wants a tricked out new one. All while she supports kicking 13 million people off Medicaid.
Sounds like Gabbard fired them for telling the truth. Not much “intelligence” going on here… www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social. #TrumpTariffs
60% of American households can’t afford a minimal quality of life. Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 — the biggest one-year increase ever. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.
Attorney General Pam Bondi sold $1 million to $5 million worth of shares in President Trump’s media company last month on the same day that he announced expansive tariffs that led to a stock market rout, according to disclosure filings.
So let me get this straight: Donald Trump gets to fly around in a $400 million luxury jet while the rest of us have to worry about whether our plane will make it off the ground?
This was published in 2019 btw, I wonder how validated Seth Abramson feels now.
What's in the Trump/GOP big, beautiful bill? -Tax cuts skewed to the rich -Medicaid & SNAP cuts -Ends IRS Direct File -New powers for Trump to target nonprofits -Blocks state/local regulation against AI, including rent-gouging software like RealPage The oligarchy's wishlist.
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Trump’s attempted takeover of the LOC may also be a test case to see how susceptible congressional Republicans are to his power grab. If they let him install ideologues throughout the LOC, maybe they’d let him do the same to other indispensable legislative entities.
For it all to make sense of why Qatar would give Trump a $400 + million jet, please read another well written, well sourced article from Seth Abramson. The frigging media should just follow behind him, reporting what Seth just wrote and give him the long overdue credit he deserves.
@jenpsaki.msnbc.com Our little group in Kennebunk, ME, every Thursday for the last 15 weeks.
Just playing some pool.
Nothing Donald Trump could do at this point will reveal anything further about his weakness of character. But the character of the Republicans who go along with him? Who refuse to speak up amidst the unrelenting corruption. More is being revealed about them every minute.
Warehouse workers at Bergen Logistics, a luxury fashion fulfillment center, are fighting to unionize. While workers package $1,200 pieces of clothing, the company has cut back on benefits, ignored injuries, and refused measures that would reduce dangerous workloads. Solidarity.
Once you correctly recognize Trump's tariffs as a way to fund his intended upper-class tax cut with an immediate tax increase on poor and working Americans ... you can't see the tariffs any other way. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
"The Texas Dream Act didn’t give me a scholarship. It didn’t magically erase the barriers I faced. I still had to work multiple jobs. I still had no access to federal financial aid... But I got to attend and graduate from college." @immcouncil.org immigrationimpact.com/2025/05/09/i...
American Bitcoin (20% owned by Don Jr & Eric Trump) and majority owned by Hut 8, will go public via merger w/Gryphon Digital Mining - will trade as ABTC on Nasdaq Ex Cambridge Analytica exec Brittany Kaiser is a Gryphon director (former Board Chair until Sept '24) www.coindesk.com/markets/2025...
TOMORROW: Pete Buttigieg joins Veterans and Military Families in Cedar Rapids for a #VoteVetsTownHall. He’ll break down how Trump and Musk are putting Veterans at risk—and what’s next in the fight for a safer, stronger America. Watch on VoteVets’ socials and YouTube.
As part of House Republicans’ must-pass budget reconciliation bill, lawmakers just snuck in a ten-year federal preemption of state-level artificial intelligence laws — effectively nullifying all local efforts to regulate the explosive spread of AI technology.
NEW: Trump’s takeover of the Library of Congress is about taking control of the legislative branch. One expert says it’s “dangerous,” given agencies within the Library provide legal advice to lawmakers and police their misconduct.
One reason Trump (and Musk) began attacking DEI initiatives—besides the racism; racism is always key, well that and political opportunism—is the Every Accusation Is a Confession maxim: the world Trump inhabits is small (as he requires evil henchmen to function) so he hates legitimate hiring praxes.
The Qatari jet bribe saves NO MONEY, because Trump keeps it after he’s president! Democrats, why arent you making it clear to any nation bribing Trump or hosting American prisoners, that there will be hell to pay when Dems are in charge?! Discourage further corruption!
Trump hired several corporate lobbyists — including Pam Bondi and Sean Duffy — to run his second administration. Now their former firms and clients — including Amazon and pipeline giant Enterprise Products — are lobbying their offices. "Drain the swamp."
One key in life is to find things (1) you haven’t done yet, (2) you’re willing to do, (3) that’ll surprise you and put you outside your routine in a benevolent, productive way. So maybe not skydiving—unless thrill-seeking is already in your wheelhouse—but something tied to your skills and interests.
He embarrassed himself—and all of us—and got _nothing_ in return. And we’re _still_ going to experience shortages and price increases this summer. To which CNN has now responded by... ...praising this asshole and his whole political team. I would say “unbelievable,” but it’s all too believable.
When Trump... -Holds a private dinner for his crypto coin buyers -Promotes Teslas on the White House driveway on behalf of a multibillionaire who spent $277M backing him -Uses state visits to advance his hotel business It's corruption, plain and simple.
A major U.S. pension fund has moved to halt new purchases of Tesla stock hopefully others will follow.
DOJ is Trump's personal lawyers—its view means nothing. In any other scenario this would be deemed illegal Bribery—thus impeachable—and an Emoluments Clause violation. And more people should be pointing out that Trump has been more upset over AF1 not being ready than anything, so this gift is huge.
When you watch these heartbreaking videos showing the cruel and thuggish behavior of ICE agents, remember that these people are not being FORCED to commit these acts — they do so willingly. They could quit their jobs at any time. They could say “enough!” ICE agents CHOOSE to do what they do.
Medicaid covers... -40% of births nationwide -50% of kids with special needs -72 million people in total Remember this as Republicans move to gut the program to finance tax cuts that will overwhelmingly go to the richest 1% of Americans. "Party of family values."
“Do not assume that your voice does not matter. It does. You also choose truth by what you read, how you choose to spend your time. If people no longer care about reality, authoritarians learn that they can do whatever they want.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
RFK Jr., DOGE gutted legally required offices. Courts may undo it all. Federal workers, Democratic lawmakers, state officials and independent legal experts say keeping offices afloat in name only – with minimal or no staff – is an unconstitutional power grab.
Legality aside, how pathetic for the American head of state to fly around in the plane he got as a valentine from the Emir of Qatar. A kept little man.
Please be a resignation!
In Trump’s America: kids can’t have more than two dolls, but the president can accept a $400 million ultra-luxury jet from Qatar’s royal family, just weeks after the Trump Organization signed a deal to build a luxury golf resort there.
Surprise Surprise: krassencast.com/p/trump-anno...
"No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression." -- Abraham Lincoln
Is he resigning? Fingers crossed!
We are living in a time when monsters roam the globe. They are destroying countless lives, fueling hate, spreading fear. What is our moral obligation as human beings in the face of this? How do we maintain integrity in a time of monsters? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-68f
Exactly this!
Looking forward to traveling to Cedar Rapids on Tuesday for our town hall with @votevets.org. If you can't join us in person but want to tune in virtually, sign up here to watch the livestream:
BREAKING: Trump confirmed he’s going to accept the $400 million luxury Boeing 747-8 jet from Qatar, claiming it’s not corruption because it’s done “in a very public and transparent transaction.” Open bribery is still bribery, even if you tweet about it.
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