Long time independent, fiscally responsible, socially and environmentally liberal. Retired USAF. Trying to enjoy retirement, however the groundhog said 4 more years of insanity, so trying to do my part to end the madness.
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The Chicago Police Department will be barred from helping federal authorities with civil immigration enforcement or any related patrols, traffic stops and checkpoints during the surge, according to an executive order signed by Mayor Brandon Johnson. https://to.pbs.org/4oYtsGe
We still have a felon at large, last seen at 1600 Pennsylvania ave.
I’m sure you all know the irony here
I'm shocked.
“The officers followed the driver…and wrote in the affidavit that they smelled “a strong odor of burned marijuana” while driving behind the car.” On the highway? At a high (no pun intended) rate of speed? More jacked-up federal police performing forTrump www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
I have an op-ed at @inquirer.com today. All of us who care about democracy need to decide how we'll respond as we see our institutions, our work, and our communities being attacked. Many of us in academia are standing up for our values and our students. www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
Find a protest near you at maydaystrong.org.
In Atlanta, staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gathered to applaud colleagues who resigned following the firing of Director Susan Monarez. With four top officials stepping down, many now feel that the CDC is effectively finished.
Real scientists will leave the country. Research will move to Europe and China. Innovation will happen elsewhere as one more American industry succumbs to the poisonous effects of corruption. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-cdc-th...
This man should resign in shame!
"'Trump’s rhetoric is incredibly damaging to tourism,' one D.C. restaurant owner said, asking for anonymity to speak candidly. 'People are too scared to put out numbers, but the tourism industry in D.C. is hurting.'" www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-s...
Susan Collins shamed at ribbon cutting ceremony for not having held a town hall in 20 years.
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez has left the agency less than a month after being sworn in, a Trump administration official tells Reuters, though no reason was provided for her exit reut.rs/3HTobz1
Something is wrong with a system where 76% of workers say they’re worried to make ends meet, while greedy corporate CEOs make 285x what the median worker does. Working people don’t have to accept this. A union contract is how we fight back.
This isn’t bad luck or coincidence or predestination. This is our choice. To live in a nation where our leaders teach hate, and military style guns are everywhere.
Denmark’s foreign minister summoned the top U.S. diplomat in the country for talks after the main national broadcaster reported Wednesday that at least three people with connections to President Donald Trump have been carrying out covert influence operations in Greenland. https://to.pbs.org/4my9BvZ
Read Will Sommer's full story in his False Flag newsletter: www.thebulwark.com/p/candace-ow...
"This is going to be one to watch for sure, potentially millions of dollars in damages and legal bills on the line for Candace Owens, the future of her media empire possibly at stake." @willsommer.bsky.social on Owens and the Macron lawsuit:
#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue #DV1 Is 🌈 more of a “concern” than gun violence victims? The Pulse Night Club shooting happened. Many people in LGBTQ communities lost their lives. The FL government wants you to forget everything. Do You?
The predicate for this investigation is that Trump is in the Epstein Files.
Just after SCOTUS granted it access to Social Security, DOGE uploaded a database containing the private information of hundreds of millions of Americans to an unsecure cloud. DOGE isn't fighting fraud — it's potentially exposing Americans to more of it. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
"It's going to be dangerous if the financial markets perceive that Donald Trump, of all people, the most erratic man on the planet, is in charge of monetary policy."
Despite backsliding in the US, global investment in renewable energy stayed strong in the first half of 2025. This is the energy of the future, and the GOP is letting the rest of the world develop it.
Thank you for explaining the GRIFT so clearly: Trump & Republicans are taking more tax money from working people, and less tax money from rich people. That's how you steal from the poor & give to the rich. Oh, and they cut healthcare, social security because they gave all that money to the top 1%.
Don't do this. The NG isn't doing anything unethical right now (they aren't really doing anything right now). Direct your animus at those who are making them waste everyone's time, money, and attempting to use them to intimidate. wjla.com/news/local/s...
US accused of conducting hostile campaign designed to destabilize Denmark, a close democratic ally amp.dw.com/en/denmark-s...
People need to be held to account because of this .
Looks like Trump admin put 300M Americans’ most sensitive data at risk. The perfect DOGE cocktail of arrogance, malice, and incompetence.
Social Security and Medicaid aren’t red or blue—they’re dignity or despair. HANDS OFF these life-saving programs!
The perfect Putin Puppet!
More waste of federal funds and assets
National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Imagine celebrating this.
It’s been 3️⃣6️⃣ days since Republicans shut down Congress to stop the release of the Epstein files. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles ⏰
@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social: All the President’s ‘Butt Snorkelers’ A must-read Morning Shots @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-pr...
"It is without a doubt the most illegal search I've ever seen in my life," U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said from the bench. "I'm absolutely flabbergasted at what has happened. A high school student would know this was an illegal search." unreal quote 😭
Celebrity chef and D.C. icon José Andrés pushed back on Trump’s propaganda in a post on X, writing: “I understand why you are confused… all your time in D.C. you haven’t eaten ONCE outside the White House or your own hotel.
Trump and his MAGA movement have mastered the art of projection, accusing the left of doing what they themselves have done. But now, Trump has taken that to a new level, becoming the manifestation of an oppressive state that the right has always warned against. So why aren't more sounding the alarm?
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. used part of his presentation during a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday to provide an update on a physical fitness test between himself and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
What a waste of tax payers dollars and a threat to humanity
After a successful 2024 cycle in which the president reversed himself to encourage the practice, Trump now seems intent on going back to his old conspiratorial, paranoid ways. Another way Trump hurts his own party. The latest Press Pass from @cheetah.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-drop...
This man is completely delusional and has lost touch of reality, or he truly is the Putin Puppet
FOTUS is responsible for the 10's of thousands of deaths that happened under his incompetence and lies during his denial phase of covid
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The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right. The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter. Everyone must choose which side they’re on.
Guess who’s making an appearance? No doubt she’d LOVE to see you there! I know we would 😉 indivisiblebangor.org/2025/08/25/a...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi.... Taco strikes again.. played like the Putin Puppet he is.
According to Google AI: Louisiana, Mississippi, & Alaska are top of the list for crime. Do you see Trump sending troops there? No, because they’re red states. This is not about crime. This is about a fascist takeover of blue states to stop the midterms. Stand up. Stand strong. #ProudBlue #Pinks
If your government subscribes to the conservative belief that you deserve nothing, then nothing is what you will get. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
While Judge Dianna Gibson did not weigh heavily on the map’s specific design, she struck it down as unlawful on the grounds that the Legislature had undermined and disregarded the independent redistricting commission created by voters to keep the process fair.
The map, put in place in 2021, split Salt Lake County, Utah’s most populous area and a Democratic stronghold across all four congressional districts, each of which has since reliably elected Republicans.
Thank you, Your Honor, and way to go, Utah! The state’s Legislature will now be forced to quickly redraw its congressional districts after a judge ruled Monday that lawmakers had sidestepped voter-approved safeguards designed to prevent partisan gerrymandering.
It will take all of us to defeat these fascists and turn hope into reality. Get connected — fiftyfifty.one. Get trained — nokings.org/rise. Get bold — maydaystrong.org.
Exactly what FOTUS said, what are you doing about him?
Spotted yesterday near the Civic Center in San Francisco 👀👀👀👀 “Palantir data-driven genocide for ambitious dictators” Love to see it.
Tim Walz: "I always get in trouble for it and I'll continue to say it, I don't think we do any favors when we don't name it -- these are fascist policies."
I’ve heard military law experts advise, if you are given an illegal command as a soldier, do not blindly obey. Call your attorney. Obeying an illegal command can result in a court martial.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Gov. Wes Moore: "We continue to listen to the president make just blissfully ignorant comments about Baltimore...If he came and spent time with the people on the ground who are actually doing the work, he could see the progress that's being made."
Name one.
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
Florida banned The Diary of Anne Frank. Whoever signed off on that should have to eat every page of that book — one by one — and choke on the lesson they’re trying to erase. 📚🔥 #BannedBooks #AnneFrank
Truth Art! #arresttrump #art
And FOTUS bought that line, I am sure. Peace prize here I come...
The man is a genius , who knew... lol
And to be clear this has been going on for some time. There are many segments of the party doing serious, strategic work.
Must be nice to have no oligarchs on your supreme court.
If you haven’t read Heather Cox Richardson’s letter from yesterday, it’s well worth your time.
"Trump showed the world what an 'America First' foreign policy looks like in practice—attacks on allies, capitulation to dictators, and the abandonment of any remaining pretense that the United States will support and defend democracy around the world."
SORRY (from Australia) The USA should not be allowed to host the world cup next year 🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️
Welker to Lavrov: “Russia has hit maternity wards, churches, schools, hospitals, a kindergarten just this week. So either the Russian military has terrible aim or you are targeting civilians. Which is it?" 🤡Lavrov: We never attack civilians.
9/1 Nationwide #MusicFestival! Check the line up for your local WORKERS OVER BILLIONAIRES at www.FiftyFifty.one #50501Movement #FiftyFiftyOne #NoKings #PeoplesMovement #GoodTrouble #FuckTrump #Resist #FightFascism #SolidaritySeptember #WeThePeopleArePissed
It is who you are now.
This is an important win for voting rights in Mississippi. Black voters deserve to have their voices heard.
🚨🚨🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been ARRESTED by ICE in Baltimore, Maryland, and faces potential deportation to Uganda. AUTHORITARIAN Trump’s ICE is ripping his family apart to terrorize immigrant workers. This about abuse of power, cruelty, and fear.
Andrew McCabe casts doubt on Ghislaine Maxwell’s interview with DOJ: “It‘s so suspicious. When you listen to the tapes, you get the sense that Ghislaine Maxwell went into that room knowing what information she had to deliver…to get some sort of benefit that she is pursuing from the administration.”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Thousands of ICE agents are doing a lot more damage to our social fabric than millions of undocumented immigrants.
The Trump Admin has launched an assault on clean energy jobs, costing the U.S. 64,000 jobs. That is 64,000 people who lost access to good-paying jobs, benefits, and the ability to put food on the table. This is the reality of Trump’s policies. Real people are losing jobs, and we must fight back!
But think of the whales he is saving. 🙄
Once again, Trump ignores the Republican states with the highest homicide rates, and instead targets blue states, blue cities, and Black leaders. Trump hasn’t threatened to bring his authoritarian spectacle to any red states. If this was truly about crime, he’d start there.
Wes Moore: "The president seems to be more concerned about my future than he is about the future of the American people."
Putin Puppet!
Rangappa: Do you believe that Ghislaine Maxwell is guilty? Ferguson: Yes Rangappa: She denied her guilt the interview. Ferguson: Most criminals lie, newsflash. That's, like, not shocking. Rangappa: Then why on Earth would you believe anything she said?
Republicans do more trickle down economic policy every single time they get a trifecta, and it's never worked. Not once. Not ever. And we always get a recession within a few years. But people keep falling for it.
😆 Newsom's is bigger...
Look squirrel!
BREAKING: We have a major Jeffrey Epstein update. Congressman Robert Garcia tells me the Justice Department gave the House 33,000 documents, but only 1,000 contained NEW information. Spread the word and watch this. They are stonewalling us. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
🚨BREAKING: Hours after Texas passed its new map, my law firm has challenged it in federal court. In addition to violating the VRA, HB 4 violates the 14th Amendment because it unjustifiably considers race and partisanship as part of a voluntary, mid-cycle redistricting. @redistrictfdn.bsky.social
This is what's going on y'all. Do not be silent #Resist.
"Trump’s audience are his supporters mostly living in suburbs, exurbs, and rural areas. He’s priming them to accept outright war against US cities. In this case, it might be as simple as 'they hate us for our freedoms.'" — @playtyperguy.com
As I said after the GOP rammed through its Big Beautiful Bill, Trumpers were funding a coup. Now the coup is starting to gain force, on both coasts.