$50T wealth transfer from bottom 90% to top 1%, started with Reagan and finished with Trump
$50T wealth transfer from bottom 90% to top 1%, started with Reagan and finished with Trump
Serious thought, do you think at this point that MAGA's dogs are better-vaccinated than their kids? I assume they still trust vets re: rabies, right? And distemper, kennel cough, etc etc?
NV ransomware cyber attack has crippled much of state’s IT since Sunday. Per Tim Galluzi at the Governor’s Technology Office, the investigation “has found evidence that indicates some data has been exfiltrated, or moved outside of our state network, by the malicious actors" An outgrowth of DOGE?
This one got me too. Made me think of the Vietnam napalm girl. Gun manufacturers, NRA and MAGA GOP have brought war to our streets
Ah, except beyond the TSA checkpoint in an airport. Can't imagine why that is.
Seems we need to make the CEOs of the gun manufacturers famous. Since they are the power behind the NRA let's get them on stage to debate Mehdi and defend their positions.
What can we do? Where is the pushback? Well, ICYMI, here is what it looks like. So I thought I would do something I rarely (if ever) do… share the whole damn thing. No snark. No spin. Just the whole speech. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
Let's see what Susie Wiles has for us in today's episode of As the Nation Burns.
Trump is keeping his right hand below the table so the camera can't see it
Peter Thiel, Musk, Stephen Miller, and Russell Vought realize their King is sick and dying. This is why they're ramping up towards a dictatorship. To ensure their groomed boy toy, JD Vance, has all the power to do their bidding.
Absolutely incredible video of a woman standing up to ICE. This is resistance 1/2
#Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell #SarahRansome Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome reveals Ghislaine Maxwell's role
the thing I love about Zohran’s campaign is that instead of “this place fucking sucks and I alone can fix it” his message is “being a New Yorker rules, we live in the best city in the world, let’s make it even better together” show some damn pride in the places you want to govern
👀 incredible — and he didn’t even have to slip them cash in potato chip bags to show up #ZohranForMayor
They gaslit you all throughout the election.
Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I have spent the last 17 years in my own prison for what she, Jeffrey, and all the co-conspirators did to me. I was raped three times a day. Ghislaine must die in prison.”
People are constantly asking me — what can I do? Between now and the 2026 midterm elections, here are five practical steps you can take to make a difference.
Important. Clear, concise, imperative. Please watch.
Strongly analyzed, argued and written by the strong Anne Applebaum.
He's so worried, he is reverting back to his sniveling Santa Monica High School student days. Was condescending to the janitors then. To old white people now. (Q: Did he ever leave high school? Has any MAGA?)
Stephen Miller: “We’re not going to let the communists destroy a great American city…[T]hese stupid white hippies…all need to go home and take a nap because they’re all over 90 years old, and we’re gonna get back to the business of protecting the American people and the citizens of Washington, D.C."
If at this point someone is concerned about the word authoritarian, then they have misplaced concerns. It's here and it's obvious.
💡 Once you spot the DARVO flip — Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim & Offender — you can’t unsee it. It’s the abuser’s playbook: get caught, lash out, then cry victim. Exactly the same trick far-right populists use every time they’re held accountable.
Am I understanding this correctly? Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend wants to eliminate mail-in voting because an enemy of the United States and a violent dictator who is on his own fifth Presidential term is for some reason very invested in American elections
The body language alone speaks VOLUMES. #SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦
Tough choice, NYC! (From @waltermasterson.bsky.social )
Mark Zuckerberg has spent $110M to buy 11 houses in one Palo Alto neighborhood. He's turning the homes into a compound. That's on top of his 30 bedroom, 30 bathroom compound in Hawaii and another in Lake Tahoe. I don’t want to hear that billionaires can’t afford a wealth tax.
What a ghoul.
“Putin would eat you for lunch.” Today, exactly that happened.
Some of the sights and sounds from DC last night now that National Guard is deployed and DC Police is federalized... Lots of super weird vibes all around. People are really uncomfortable with all of this policing.
Who? Was he on Green Acres?
Rolling out the red carpet for a dictator who bombed a maternity hospital.
is it a bad look when your uniformed military personnel bow down and literally roll out a red carpet for the leader of a nation dedicated to destroying you and all western democracies
Really smug conversation on “Morning Joe” from some smug Newsweek editor at large about the necessity of Cuomo or Adams to beat “far left” Mamdani. These people are living in the past. They don’t grasp the rising anger with their corrupt, do-nothing corporate, centrist Democrats.
Putin will be landing at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska. It is outrageous that the United States military will be hosting a mass murdering war criminal on US soil.
No that’s not true; being a sycophant is not what’s required. It’s much worse. What’s required is actively helping him to destroy our government. This is not about appeasing Trump. It’s about helping him to destroy us so he can sell off the parts. And people like Antoni et al will do that.
Senator Trucknuts to the rescue
We need to beat Amodei
‘Help me, please!’ Plainclothes “ICE” agents snatch a man outside Los Angeles’ largest courthouse on Wednesday. A tactic that has been repeatedly condemned by the legal community. Painful to watch. Even more painful knowing there are people who not only accept this, are happy about it.
Oh and if we’d let Bork on we wouldn’t be here? Bork’s Saturday night shenanigans showed a disdain for rule of law. Likely, we’d have gotten here sooner.
“I began my career in live television at the 1993 Kennedy Center Honors. I was twenty-two years old at the time, studying acting in Washington, D.C. and working as a waiter in a barbecue restaurant.” open.substack.com/pub/noelcasl...
Okay sorry. I totally missed it! 😂
Perhaps it's that I don't know Ben's background well enough, other than significant time in the Senate. Perhaps he focused on constitutional issues in his role. But you seem super cool.
In all seriousness, I've got to ask - are you joking? You are banging the shit out of elected Dems for capitulating w/o a fight to republicans. But we should be giving a guy who ruled that Trump is above the law the benefit of the doubt? Tell me you are joking.
Policies of Projcet 2025 and Yarvin. But these aren't compatible and we should be working to drive wedges between these groups. Theil/Yarvin et all are faker Chrisitians than Trump. Project 2025 lunatics are true believers. And they are all weirdos.
(The fight with Trump now, yes. With all of them. But seems they are just using him, and will use Epstein to start moving on.)
Vance's strong callout for Epstein files and tying to Democrats, was only meant to inflame MAGA base again. Orchestrated by Thiel/Yarvin/Musk is my bet. Via Doge, Musk got full Epstein files -- and now JD has them. Just took a shot at the king. Our fight isn't with Trump. It's with Yarvin, et al.
And this guy's gonna get us to Mars, huh? More Donner Party on the I-80. (Guess that's what you get for Trump Hauling Service. Should've gone with Saprano's.)
Trump named Pete Hegseth as defense secretray because he knew Hegseth wouldn't hesitate to order American troops to fire on American civilians. Sending the military into our cities is a major step toward imposing a dictatorship. It's so obvious that mainstream media are afraid to say it.
Multitasking matters. Yes, the news cycle is chaos, but don’t let this week’s distractions bury the Epstein story and Donald Trump’s role in it. He’s counting on you to look away. Don’t.
Looks like Pulp Fiction's "bring out the gimp"
It's why I read Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens.
For me too. Seems if you click into the Post itself and play video from there it works. (Not 100% sure, but seems to)
And World Cup. Won't be safe here for many countries' fans.
Of course don't vote Republican. But we need to work with the ones who aren't MAGA or obstructionist.
It's a priority to win. That lets us do the other things.
If FDR and Churchill could work with Stalin to defeat Hitler and Mussolini, then we can work with Republicans like @adamkinzinger.substack.com etc to defeat Trump and MAGA And a Republican is still a Republican -- like @walshfreedom.bsky.social? Terrible take.
MLB needs relegation and promotion
Let’s hold state level Epstein hearings
Rule of Lies versus Rule of Law
2/ This is the CBS News investigative piece that calls into question the credibility of the Trump admin on the Epstein video. The piece well-researched, fact-based, objective. David Ellison got his merger, he should leave CBS alone to keep doing good work like this. www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey...
💙 THESE JUSTICES NEED TO BE REMOVED!!! 💙 👇👇👇👇
The fact that Republicans are unfazed that Donald Trump is giving special treatment to a woman who ran this country’s most notorious pedophile ring on behalf of its most notorious serial pedophile is the latest sign of the GOP’s complete moral rot.
If you’re an immigrant with legal status who’s committed 0 crimes you can be sent to a torture prison where you’ll be raped and dehumanized. If you’re old pals with Trump and ran a pedophile ring you get sent to a cushy minimum security prison despite being ineligible because you’re a sex offender.
This is Virginia Guiffre's statement to Ghislane Maxwell, read by Guiffre's attorney in court the day Maxwell was sentenced. I had to divide it into 2 parts. Please read each & share. These are the words of a child rape victim, a victim of the monster Trump now protecting & arranging her freedom.
And be hated by dogs. That was the biggest tell for dog-loving rural MAGA and they missed it.
Oh, Don Taco Now Don Eladio or Don Hector, they could solve 6 (drug) wars. But not you pobrecito.
@arimelber.bsky.social @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose. Billionaires have lots to lose. More from all of us consumers than from Trump
Not cheat on his wives.
So, how about this. Gavin gets however many Calif GOP reps he needs -- tells them he's going to gerrymander them out of office. Their way to avoid this is to immediately throw their support behind Newsom as Speaker, along with all Dems. California Governor and Speaker of the House to fight MAGA
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Senator Trucknuts. Not smart.
And Nutlick, that talentless clown, is worth $3B.
“She’s worse than Epstein. She’s a monster… Epstein was Pinocchio, she was Geppetto.”
Monster.
Do the Dems just not get it to an extent. Seems a large contingent of politicians are class dunces. And with shear volume of horrible, the good ones only have so much bandwidth. And a lot of these decisions come home to roost in the intermediate to long term for your average egg voter.
He knew RFK Jr. and his rhetoric was dangerous. His questioning in the confirmation hearing made it obvious he knew. But he’s up for reelection in 2026. He chose politics over science, medicine, and public health.
When you strip away humanity
This.
"Execs at CBS’s parent company Paramount may have dumped Colbert not to appease Trump, but to join with him. There’s ample evidence that billionaires genuinely, sincerely like Trump’s vision of authoritarian rule by billionaire, and want to do their part to crush dissent and discipline the proles."
Newsom on redistricting: The game has changed. They don’t even want to play by the same set of rules. *firetruck drives by with siren* Newsom: It is a five alarm fire for democracy.
Just a reminder: we don’t need Ghislaine Maxwell to expose the truth. The answers are already buried in DOJ files they could unseal today. She’s not some key witness—she’s a convicted liar, predator, and trafficker. Blanche isn’t seeking justice. He’s buying her silence. That’s it.
Peter Thiel is back in the game, quietly donating more than $850,000 this year to finance Republican incumbents attempting to retain their party’s control of the House in next year’s midterm elections.
And believed our own eyes and ears
So just to be clear - the “protect the kids” party is now shutting the government down to protect sexual predators? Do we have this right?
Remember when Obama had all his supporters storm the Capitol to stop the certification of Trump's win? Remember how Obama sat by as the mob beat cops and tried to hunt down members of Congress? "Indictments for those who are responsible for trying to steal out democracy is essential."
He’s literally on tape boasting about sexually assaulting women so yes this is the way he talks
The thing about the Epstein disgustingness that strikes me hardest is that hundreds of rich old men raped underage girls and the only person currently in jail for that vile behavior is a woman.
It’s what entrepreneurs would do.
A serious democratic senate would have an actual war room setup with people from a variety of disciplines and worked out basic obstruction options a long time ago. They have nothing like it and it shows.
Good boy, Nutlick
How about Fascist Cuck, Greg?
There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem
Let's be clear people: Russell Vought and Steven Miller are reigning over us now. Trump has essentially handed over day-to-day decision-making to them and others. Congress and the Supreme Court have ceded their authority to unelected men in the White House. Trump is a figurehead.
