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Tribes Condemn Trump for Backing Out of Columbia River Deal for Salmon Recovery truthout.org/articles/tri... Salmon runs have been declining for decades. Now, Pres Trump is attacking the progress that had been made to restore those salmon runs He keeps alienating everyone except rich white males.
from WaPo Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles violated the law, judge rules in case brought by Gov. Gavin Newsom The judge did not order the remaining troops withdrawn but blocked them from certain actions.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's claim that CBS News edited her interview to hide a criminal's MS-13 gang affiliation is incorrect. The full transcript shows she made the claim. CBS added an editor's note that Kilmar Abrego Garcia has not been charged with gang-related crimes.
Happy Labor Day!
Trump Admin Circulating Plan to Transform Depopulated Gaza Into High-Tech Cash Cow www.commondreams.org/news/great-t... The president called for the voluntary transfer of Gazans to Egypt and Jordan whose leaders vehemently rejected the plan. "Voluntary emigration" is a euphemism for ethnic cleansing
Americans Take to the Streets for 1,000+ 'Workers Over Billionaires' Labor Day Rallies www.commondreams.org/news/workers... "As the federal government continues to enable the ultrarich, working people are stepping onto pavement to stop their greed and protect their families."
The Minocqua Brewing Company Super PAC Just Filed A Class Action Lawsuit to Unmask ICE in Wisconsin open.substack.com/pub/kirkbang...
Policing Has Always Been a Tool to Repress the Working Class truthout.org/articles/pol... revolutionary waves created a profound problem for the capitalist class: How could they maintain control over the working masses in the context of revolt and compel them to dutifully submit to exploitation?
What He Said…. 🤨🤨🤨🤨
Trump fired experienced immigration judges during a historic case backlog, then decided the solution was … hiring people with ZERO immigration law experience. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Trump Admin Waives Environmental Laws to Build Border Wall in TX Wildlife Refuge truthout.org/articles/tru... Following Noem’s waivers, the gov. will no longer have to follow the Environmental Protection Act, the Clean Water Act, or the Migratory Bird Conservation Act to construct the border wall
For those how missed this- or need more info Trump Just Tried to Illegally Deport 600+ Guatemalan Kids on Holiday Weekend www.commondreams.org/news/trump-d... "The Constitution and federal laws provide robust protections to unaccompanied minors specifically because of the unique risks they face,"
We do not fully grasp how damaging the SCOTUS’ presidential immunity decision was. What we know is it was a disaster and the huge damage it has caused is being compounded daily. That is because the result is a collaboration between corrupt justices, a supine Congress and a demented President.
Yes, Greed is the original sin - I've thought that for years and out of that comes a another truism- to find something rotten, follow the money
Being tough on crime means getting rid of the felon and his minions in the White House www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqkW...
FEMA Employees Speak Out After Attacks on Workers Warning of Looming Disaster truthout.org/articles/fem... Named the Katrina Declaration the letter was one of the most powerful written so far by federal employees attempting to salvage their agencies from a regime bulldozing basic gov. functions
Racist Lies About College “Quotas” Stoke Support for Trump’s War on Higher Ed truthout.org/articles/rac... Quotas have been illegal since 1978. The persistence of the inaccurate belief that racial quotas are being used in college admission is evidence of the persistence of racist ideologies
If you are overwhelmed, HCR has some hopeful words youtu.be/Qoy1ezu0zhk?...
Every Democrat needs to hear this- if you agree. please like www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxq_...
Sent to our group of parody singers at our demonstrations Just to uplift them. thanks
What I learned today that applies to Gaza protests. Judaism is a religion. Zionism is a political movement Anti-Zionism is NOT anti Semitic
Trump’s Diplomacy Is America’s Weakness open.substack.com/pub/meidasto... And now, as Putin, Xi, and Modi convene in Tianjin under the banner of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), America finds itself sidelined in a way that should terrify us all. China is now seen as the 'stable' leader
Trump’s 2026 plan to subvert democracy. open.substack.com/pub/theantho... Like many authoritarian rulers, Trump now finds himself in the trap of his own corruption: he cannot afford to lose power. To relinquish office would be to invite criminal prosecution. So He will subvert any fair election
The Supreme Court Asks Why It Shouldn’t Gut the Voting Rights Act truthout.org/articles/the... Sec. 2 of the VRA was enacted to enforce the 15th Amendment. Without it, discrimination will be allowed to continue. There is the racism again. I seem to keep finding that In conservative MAGA arguments
Nearly 1,000 'Workers Over Billionaires' Protests Planned Across US for Labor Day www.commondreams.org/news/workers... He has weakened workplace safety enforcement, eliminated rules that protected workers against wage theft.. Join Waukesha Resist on Sept 6, 12:30 to 2, at Cutler Park
Another super wealthy kook who is delusional
I've been boycotting Amazon since tRump was elected the more the better
If you can’t prove an emergency to declare emergency powers you don’t fucking have them
“After reporting internally to management and externally to regulators serious data security and integrity concerns impacting our citizens' most sensitive personal data, I have suffered exclusion, isolation, internal strife, and a culture of fear"
'AI Death Panels': Trump Pilot Program Seeks to Bring 'Very Worst' For-Profit Insurance Practices to Medicare www.commondreams.org/news/trump-a... The way the program is being structured will also give AI firms big incentives to maximize the denial of claims for Medicare recipients. So people die
The manifesto of the Minnesota shooter has been translated—and it's all about his hatred of Jews, Blacks, Mexicans, illegal immigrants, Somalis... none of this had to do with him being trans and major media *knows* it. So why won't it say so? Racism is the problem
People refused to vote for Kamala Harris because they didn't want a woman of colour as President ! Those who didn't vote elected a Fascist felon rapist dictator ! Full stop ! Political commentator Jack Cocchiarella reacts to Donald Trump's latest attack on Kamala Harris. youtu.be/_C3ZHY_2vVQ?...
Wisconsin Is Turning Against Trump’s MAGA Circus open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
OH no! Private Equity ruins everything!
The only question left is which hits the US first: a massive terror attack, a massive geopolitical crisis, or a massive public health catastrophe. We're totally unprepared for any of them. We have ceded the mantle of global leadership in exchange for trinkets.
'Fundamentally Sick': Trump Border Agents Arrest Two Firefighters Battling Washington Wildfire www.commondreams.org/news/dhs-arr... "Trump’s ICE is arresting firefighters who are ACTIVELY FIGHTING WILDFIRES," "There aren't words to describe this cruelty. It's completely absurd
Yet, trump is only the figurehead. These "policies" are direct from Miller, Vance and Vought. Project 2025. It may get worse. We have yet to determine whether the Republicans will remain fascist though..
Trump, Greenland, espionage. open.substack.com/pub/theantho... 3 Trump allies spread disinformation and collected names of US sympathizers. The aim, investigators say, was to stir divisions, push Greenland toward secession, and smooth the path for U.S. dominance. Denmark's response was swift..
Trump Refuses to Participate in UN Review of the US’s Human Rights Record truthout.org/articles/tru... the US position is “threatening global human rights accountability and international dialogue,” and this is a “critical moment for human rights!”
New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
Yes, it should. However, that would require an effective mainstream media in America — which we don’t currently have.
The Supreme Court has taken off its mask this term by creating unconstitutional de facto immunity for presidents who act illegally and by gutting the ability of public agencies and Congress to protect Americans from abuse by right-wing special interests www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
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This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
EMERGENCY EPISODE: Trump Regime Launches Full-Scale Assault on CDC - Meidas Health open.substack.com/pub/meidasto... The is batshit crazy and dangerous for our future
He's selling us to Russia From WaPo Trump, Gabbard revoked security clearance of top CIA Russia expert days after Alaska summit with Putin The CIA officer was accused of betraying her oath to the Constitution and abusing public trust in a broad, public purge of 37 current and former officials.
FEMA Suspends Staff Who Warned Trump Cuts Risk Another Katrina-Level Disaster truthout.org/articles/fem... FEMA is retaliating “against our civil servants for whistle-blowing — which is both illegal and a deep betrayal of the most dedicated among us.” What law doesn't this regime break? Impeach!
Expensive garbage men- I wonder how THEY feel about that?
'No Public Lands Are Safe': Trump USDA Moves Forward With Gutting Roadless Rule www.commondreams.org/news/alaska-... The Department of Agriculture on Wednesday moved to rescind a conservation policy dating back nearly 25 years that has protected more than 45 million acres of pristine PUBLIC lands.
So much misinformation from this regime youtu.be/mV5l9FJFuYU?...
And I suppose we are to stop and ask for ID's during a hurricane or flood- so not compassionate to our fellow human beings
thanks, got it, but the difference is only 1.6% That is the perspective I was going for- not a mandate as he claims
Wis CD 04 You were represented Thank her 202 224-3121 Capitol Switchboard
Wis CD 08 you were betrayed
Round up the Jan 6 Insurrections n death penalty for them! #arresttrump
From WaPo This is Heartless and Unamerican Trump administration moves to bar states and nonprofits, such as Red Cross, from helping undocumented immigrants after disasters. They are not criminals The rules also say that they also must comply with immigration officials and enforcement operations.
Wisconsin’s budget shifts money from schools to Milwaukee prosecutors. That may violate the state constitution. wisconsinwatch.org/2025/08/wisc... Common School Fund is used to purchase library books/instructional materials and may be the only source of school library funding for some counties.
Experts Worry About New DHS Appointee Overseeing US’s Election Infrastructure truthout.org/articles/exp... We are witnessing a dangerous trend: the elevation of known bad-faith actors like Heather Honey, she has a well-documented history of spreading election lies that have been debunked in court.
she won the popular vote- I seem to remember that trump won by taking the electoral college by a total of about 37,000 total votes in those states. Regardless, it wasn't by much soI wouldn't call that humiliation. Its the right that claims Trump got some kind of Mandate-
Her speeches are all on line so what history is being rewritten?
We'll never know now
Wisconsin Youth Sue Utility Regulator for Failing to Consider Climate Crisis truthout.org/articles/wis... The youth plaintiffs are also challenging a Wisconsin law that prohibits the Public Service Commission from mandating more renewable energy from local utilities. Thanks to Rep. in the statehouse
Kamala had a clear platform. And repeated it in all her rallies so I'm not sure what you are saying here. People want sound bites- all words but no substance?
Texas AG Demands Schools Display Ten Commandments Even After Judge's Injunction www.commondreams.org/news/ten-com... "Paxton's job is to uphold the Constitution, which guarantees the separation of church and state—not the Ten Commandments." Christian Nationalists want only one kind of Christianity.
'Indivisible' is right when it said that the media headlines should be: The regime is tightening its grip on political power by occupying the largest cities led by opposition party members.
So… Can a governor call out national guard troops to oppose national guard troops the president unlawfully calls???
PragerU's insidious plan to take over for PBS youtu.be/VUIkUTIQW6Q?... They are not an accredited academic source. If they are in your school- demand to remove them- here's why..
India's rather sarcastic criticism of Trump. This will make your day! youtu.be/lnEwzgtMMJI?...
The author of the best seller "On Tyranny" who is an expert on the history of Eastern Europe and Russia speaks clearly about the situation today in the US. youtu.be/3NIwH4nKaDg?...
🤣🔊🆙 Repost please or quote. Just spread the truth 👍
I've been told its really fascism since under communism, the workers own the means of production.. regardless, bribing a Pres to get special treatment is illegal - or used to be- can you imagine any other President doing this?
The fact that this administration is hell bent on punishing Kilmar Abrego Garcia while rewarding Ghislane Maxwell tells you all you need to know about their violent racism and misogyny.
Or RomComs where everyone seems to live in a million dollar house on a lake. Or they inherit their parents home which has 4 bdrms and a barn for horses. I have to suspend my disbelief
More Countries Condemn Trump's 'Imperialist' Saber-Rattling Against Venezuela www.commondreams.org/news/trump-v... The US has been meddling in Venezuela's affairs since the 19th century, citing the dubious Monroe Doctrine to exert control over the country and its immense petroleum resources.
Your City Will Be Occupied Next open.substack.com/pub/meidasto... There is no emergency that justifies military involvement in Chicago. Crime is not spiraling out of control. Yet the president is pressing forward, because the goal isn’t safety; it’s spectacle. And gaining control before elections
Doing our enemy Putin's bidding. This is treason- or would be if Obama did it
They will be seen as on the wrong side of history and shame will follow them and their descendants. Because dictatorships always end badly
We are actually not the minority. Power is in the hands of the corrupt cheaters who gerrymandered their way in. and that won't happen again That being said, I think there will be a revolt/war if elections aren't fair.
Wis. Republicans like US Rep. Tom Tiffany signed strongly worded letters blaming Canada for the wildfires that have led to our smoke-choked skies. It was noted the irony of the criticism coming from politicians who have gutted US Forest Service funding and remain in denial about a changing climate.
F*ck‼️ Fort Bliss Army base used for a WWII Japanese internment is now the nation's largest ICE detention center.
Succinct
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
For 17 years I have heard T-baggers-now MAGA say 'Lincoln freed the slaves/Democrats started the KKK/racist so and so in the 30's-60's was a Democrat. 1/4
Not listening to Black women is going to be the reason America collapses. That is all.
From WaPo Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago as Trump eyes crackdown Officials have weighed mobilizing at least a few thousand members of the National Guard as soon as September while also discussing deploying active-duty troops. NOT NORMAL Isn't the National Guard under state control?
Wi CD 07 Vote him out
Walmart spent $35.3B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024, enough to give each of its 2.2M employees annual bonuses of $2,719. Last year, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay of just $29,469. Textbook corporate greed.
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.
Court Ruling Clears the Way for Hundreds of CDC Staff to Be Laid Off truthout.org/articles/cou... those fired worked to keep everyone safe from violence and injuries; to track and respond to HIV outbreaks; and control diseases debilitating millions of people like Alzheimer’s, Arthritis, oral health
PragerU Wants to Capitalize on PBS Defunding prospect.org/education/20... Right wing sponsored indoctrination of our children into what appears to be white supremacy, racism, and christian nationalism.
The Epstein Scandal Deepens open.substack.com/pub/meidasto... audio recordings. Not video. Just voices on tape. And that choice matters. Why not release the video? Why not let the public see her body language, her eyes, her hesitations? Instead, we get the auditory equivalent of a shadow.
You are right there
The problem with both sides-ism. Explained youtu.be/uhnWB2BcKFs?... Equal time and weight to both sides is impossible and unfair
The Maxwell transcripts: Trump's lawyer gives away the game open.substack.com/pub/meidasto... The victims' lawyer says she was lying all through the interview
You are right, but the country has a history about "communism" - something some folks would understand how negative that was- this is our first real experience of fascism. SO I chose the word on purpose as it does fit the definition of gov. control of corps