Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
Must be from winter or spring—lots of snow.
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
Climate change can feel like a slow-motion catastrophe. But what if parts of the climate system could alter abruptly, with dramatic consequences? Listen to “Babbage”
What can be done to persuade FOX ownership to start being “fair and balanced” in the USA? Democracy is on the line here.
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Well the president has several medical degrees so his ‘vision’ cannot be questioned. Ha ha.
He is very nearsighted, needs different glasses that improve character.
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Hmmm. Interesting handle.
Donald Trump has demanded Washington DC hold illegal executions in a sinister escalation of his military invasion of the US capital.
This is bad bad bad. The president of vengeance and violence.
Read this vital piece on Trump's attack on the African American history museum and help push out TODAY? People really need to grasp the high stakes of this fascist move. "Why Trump’s attack on the Smithsonian matters" | Kimberlé Crenshaw and Jason Stanley www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Comforting.
playbook — 1. this place is a hellhole, i’m sending troops 2. my troops can now carry guns, just in case 3. the troops had to open fire! i’m declaring martial law 4. they’re protesting my martial law. it’s an insurrection 5. because there’s an insurrection, i’m suspending elections
There’s plenty of disinformation trying to blame the nascent offshore wind industry for whale deaths without evidence. Not only is that misleading, it also takes the focus away from solutions that might actually address the leading causes of death — vessel strikes and entanglement with fishing gear.
re-upping this old scalia clip: “if i were king, I would not allow people to go about burning the american flag. however, we have a first amendment…”
Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."
This is illegal, plain and simple. FEMA workers are doing their duty as public servants by blowing the whistle on the dismantling of their agency -- and whistleblowing is protected under federal law.
Trump’s America is starting to look a lot like Mao’s China.
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
President Trump’s attempt to push out a sitting Federal Reserve governor underscores how far a president can go in jeopardizing the Fed’s independence. Experts say the move holds potentially dangerous long-term consequences for the fragile U.S. economy.
If Trump goes “I’ll cut your federal funding,” and you go “please no, not that, let’s negotiate to satisfy your concerns,” he’ll demand more later brandishing the same threat. Then more. And more again. If instead you say no, maybe you lose that federal funding. But that’s all, you’re not beholden.
"There has just never been a president in recent American history who has gone out of his way to free more criminals and accommodate more crimes than Donald Trump," says Chris Hayes.
Thank you.
I’ve lived here for 33 years, and it’s a flat-out lie that half the restaurants have closed because of safety. But restaurants will close because you have troops with guns and federal agents harassing people, making people afraid to go out.” Agree 💯!
Major media once thought a Trump dictatorship was impossible, so they didn't warn the public about it. Major media now see the dictatorship arriving, so they're afraid to warn the public about it.
The fundamental choice has not been as stark since World War II: democracy and freedom, or dictatorship and tyranny. Trump and his sycophants are siding with the latter. The rest of us must loudly, proudly, and boldly proclaim our allegiance to the former.
The new order being imposed on American industry doesn’t come from a vast authoritarian bureaucracy. It’s personal and arbitrary. A single so-called “strongman” is beginning to control everything. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/whatss-fascist-capitalism-and-which
Yikes. Indeed we are.
Attempting to rig elections on his behalf. Turning the military on citizens. Toying with the idea of declaring martial law. Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out against his regime. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
LFG!!!!
And here’s the language from Trump v Wilcox:
Cable news keeps broadcasting Trump as he tells blatant lies, and only rarely do they correct him. Which means they're amplifying his lies. It's complicity with fascism.
🧪This is a powerfully written & justified statement by FEMA workers. Please consider supporting it. FEMA is an indispensable Government service, & needs to be run by qualified and experienced people. Not clowns. And definitely not someone who doesn't even know that there are hurricane seasons.
Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war. She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza. tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb
TRUMP: “A lot of people are saying maybe we’d like a dictator.” He’s saying it. Are you listening? 🇺🇸
Gives new meaning to “trumped up” charges.
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"I don't want to be defense only. We want offense too" -- Trump says he wants to change the name of the Department of Defense back to the Department of War
Or: who will defend the Capitol if it is attacked again?
Signed
This isn’t about republicans vs. democrats anymore. Party lines hold little meaning. It’s about whether we continue to exist as a constitutional republic or completely devolve into an autocracy. Every American should be outraged in their bones about what’s going on.
Grrrr. Sick and scary.
Disgusting propagandist and henchman of evil.
Sending troops into US cities against their will. Strong-arming corporations and extracting gifts in exchange for tariff exemptions. Calling on state governments to gerrymander in his favor. Trump is the "big government" nightmare conservatives have always warned us about.
Everone i know or meet is considering what country to move to- and when. Nobody likes what is happening to America. No one wants to live under a dictatorship-police state
Over a quarter of all homes sold in the first three months of 2025 were bought by real estate investors. If we want to make housing affordable again, we must get Wall Street out of our homes. https://youtu.be/q9TOGxDJ0TE?feature=shared
DRUMMOND: “.. Ultimately, this era in history is a WIRED story: The United States’ authoritarian turn, aided and abetted by the tech industry’s complicity. And that’s how we’re covering it.” @status.news @oliverdarcy.bsky.social @katie-drummond.bsky.social @wired.com www.status.news/p/wired-kati...
Are you sure about this?
Hating Trump is counterproductive. We are FOR something: our Constitution, the rule of law, equality, honesty, fair representation, leaders with integrity, etc.
The State of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from the federal government asking if we need assistance, and we have made no requests for federal intervention.
Once upon a time I was rudderless in a small sailing dinghy in narrow Rich Passage with a ferry blaring its horn at me.
You can entirely discount the “crime” narrative. It is bullshit. Domestic law enforcement is not a job for the military. Ordering the US military to do it is illegal, unamerican, and wrong. That’s true even if the White House weren’t lying about crime, which they blatantly are, making things worse.
Remembering the days before mansions . . .
The headline is misleading; the article has some interesting points about perceptions.
The US Administration is now deleting its internal communications, in brazen violation of the Federal Records Act, in order to conceal its other illegal acts. Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.
In case anyone is still wondering why Bolton was raided
Trump has purchased at least $103 million worth of corporate and municipal bonds since he took office again, according to new filings from the Office of Government Ethics. Trump made about 690 purchases from Jan. 21 through Aug. 1. The active trading by a president of the U.S. is unprecedented.
What possible reason could they give for banning this book? (They don’t want people to know what’s coming??)
Florida bans the Diary of Anne Frank. A literary classic that serves as a cautionary tale about the rise of fascism and the importance of documenting atrocities as they’re occurring. We all must document this time in history. Keep copies. Write everything down. Make sure that the truth will out.
“We”. . . “Help”. Orwellian.
Oh don’t they look so wholesome!
Crazy. Why should the government be in the chip business, other than encouraging in usual and legal ways?
Former National Guard Vice Chief Major General Randy E. Manner says deploying the Guard to D.C. will ruin how the average American views the military.
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Former president Barack Obama says he supports California Democrats’ moves to redraw congressional districts to offset similar efforts from Texas Republicans. “We cannot unilaterally allow one of the two major parties to rig the game,” said Obama.
Watch this. Apparently, police followed Rep Collier into the bathroom and threatened her with a FELONY for being on a press call with Senator Corey Booker and Governor Newsom.
Reporter Eddie Kim went downtown to cover the detainment of an immigrant by ICE this morning. Then he was pepper-sprayed in the face by an ICE agent standing a foot away. Completely unprovoked. See our exclusive story and video from @eddiekimx.bsky.social here: sf.gazetteer.co/i-reported-f...
“I want you to overturn this” texted Maria Bartiromo to Rudy Giuliani about the elections in 2020
RIP MSNBC soon to be MSNBCdead.
Agree. I wish homes with kids still had land lines so grandparents and grandkids could easily chat.
Set foot.
The people of D.C. are not messing around. They know how dangerous this takeover is and are fighting back across the city.
PNW life.
Some useful advice fromt he the ACLU.
Grrrr.
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Washington State is 100% mail-in/drop box voting. Let’s see him try to eliminate that!
Can you say Emoluments Clause? #LockThemUp
This is how you do it! As Jim Acosta said, one of the best campaign ads ever. Here’s to authentic ppl in office! Remember the bitch who said “well we’re all going to die” in response to losing Medicaid? Well let’s help Josh show her the door. 🚪 You in Iowa? Spread the word! #Pinks
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.
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has posted statement saying: “American soldiers and airmen policing American citizens on American soil is UnAmerican”
Declaring a fake emergency as an excuse to deploy the military to police civilians is one of the most canonical examples of authoritarian takeovers. Overseas, people see clearly what Trump is doing. Here in America most people — especially those with power or influence — are in denial.
Perfect pose for a black-tailed deer.
This is my concern.
As he unleashes troops to combat "crime," Trump is simultaneously gutting the cops on the beat that stop corporations from harming us — the EPA, IRS, SEC, Labor Department, FTC, CFPB, Consumer Product Safety Commission, FDA, and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Hello?
Extortion of Nobel Prize is Hall of Fame level abuse of office. Every single Democrat should be mocking this clown for being so fragile, so insecure, so weak, and so openly corrupt.
Trump be like, I will bomb your country to pieces unless you give me the peace prize.
Mr President: Tariffs will slow the economy and raise inflation. Come at me bro.
Dear Sen. Cotton, you voted to approve the Senate intelligence committee report released in 2020 that concluded Russia attacked the 2016 election to help Trump and that the Trump campaign tried to block attribution of the attack to Moscow. That is, you affirmed the IC conclusion.
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
Orwellian revisionist whitewashing of US history. Also probably no women did anything significant. Thanks project 2025 and Taco.
Trump's BLS pick EJ Antoni has said that Social Security, America's greatest anti-poverty program, is a "Ponzi scheme" that needs to be sunset. Reminder that BLS data is what determines annual cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security benefits. This is a five-alarm fire.
The White House is launching a review of Smithsonian museums to ensure alignment with President Trump’s view of American history. Authoritarians know that if they can convince us our country has never been wrong, they can make us believe our ruler is always right. Be warned.
You know what would actually reduce crime and homelessness? Universal healthcare, free education, affordable housing and a basic living wage. When people have their most basic needs met, they have happier and healthier lives. Those hoarding the wealth don’t want to give us those things.
Weaponizing ICE indiscriminately. Military takeovers of cities. Destroying vaccine records. Hiding job numbers. Concealing child trafficking files. Again, good people don't support him. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/no-good-pe...