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Texan waves with sad, understanding eyes. 👋
Kindly Retire. Establishment Democrats are ruining the nation alongside the GOP. We need a Working Class party. No stocks, dark money, AIPAC money, lobbyist money while in office. Senate/Congress salaries in line with minimum wage & no free healthcare for y’all unless the whole nation has it.
"The gap in confidence between high- and low-earners is now the widest it has been in the seven years of tracking the data." helluva time to be writing a book about middle class culture www.wsj.com/economy/cons...
In my new book, AUTOCRATS VS. DEMOCRATS, I write in detail about how Xi has invested in multilateral organizations of autocrats, like the one meeting in China now. At the same time, the US has built new clubs for democrats. This dangerous trajectory must be reversed. www.amazon.com/Autocrats-vs...
I’m in Texas so 😩.
I am one that refuses to use Facebook or Nextdoor so I can pretend I have normal, caring neighbors. It is the delulu I prefer to dwell in.
"Siri, find me the ultimate Nextdoor posting..."
William Pulte and Ed Martin will be all over this one, I’m sure. Which of the three houses will Martin start staking out?
Happy Workers’ #LaborDay! At 1,000+ events today, America’s unions are celebrating the workers who make America run and make our labor movement strong. We’ll keep fighting so ALL working people get the freedom, fairness and security they need. Join us: WorkersLaborDay.org
British baby dies from whooping cough as vaccination rates fall. A relative of mine has married an antivaxxer who now refuses to allow their infant to have the MMR. It's caused a major family rift. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
🫰 period 🫰
As the DoJ tells the court that it will not remove unaccompanied minors to Guatemala, we can only hope they’re telling the truth.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
As a retired former DHS U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Supervisory federal officer, my advice to other federal officers is this... "A badge is not a license to dehumanize."
̶D̶i̶s̶g̶r̶a̶c̶e̶d̶ ̶f̶i̶n̶a̶n̶c̶i̶e̶r̶ ̶ Child Rapist
Me on repeat.
German technologist Sebastian Majstorovic has taken it upon himself to save the data Trump and his henchmen are deleted in the US at portal.datarescueproject.org Ein Back-up der Realität www.zeit.de/2025/37/date...
RADDATZ: You talk about what can be done. After shootings in Buffalo & Uvalde, Congress passed a bipartisan Safer Communities Act. It provided hundreds of millions for schools to expand mental health services. You didn't vote for it. Why? TOM EMMER: I don't remember the reasons I didn't vote for it
Our children deserve better than this. Agree? Take action now: BradyUnited.org.
Jesse Watters: “You weren’t ever on Jeffrey Epstein’s jet, were you?” RFK Jr: “I was on Jeffrey Epstein’s jet two times.” Release the freaking Epstein Files. Believe the survivors and their families. We want accountability.
"Utilities don’t want to run the risk of building too many power plants or transmission lines. If the AI hype is overblown or the tech industry doesn’t ultimately need as much electricity as projected, other customers would get stuck with the infrastructure costs."
Around 10 ICE agents showed up at Malcolm X Park to detain an unarmed man peacefully sitting on a bench. Wouldn't it be great to see them raking leaves instead of harassing innocent, harmless people and using the National Guard for free maintenance labor? What a total disgrace. #OnYourSide
www.npr.org/2025/08/29/n...
Almost 60 years later, this song is so relevant again. youtu.be/gp5JCrSXkJY?...
NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...
The new head of the CDC has no medical education. But he did found the [Peter] Thiel Fellowship.
“Filming ICE agents making an arrest or amassing in your town helps promote transparency and accountability for a system that often relies on intimidation and secrecy and obscures abuse and law-breaking.” También disponible en español. “Sí, tienes derecho a grabar a los agentes de ICE.”
They loaded up those planes with children - some as young as 10. I don’t believe they had a safe place to go in Guatemala. And the government did not care. This admin is the least compassionate of any in my lifetime.
Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay. Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas. Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art
I gotta admit, these new MAGA hats are 🔥
Trump wishes he looked that good. The AI generated art flatters that traitor too much.
"The straw man being put forward is that it's either we have the military or we're going to get our throats cut at night in DC. Is there no middle ground? Do local law enforcement account for nothing? We've got the National Guard GARDENING right now in DC. Is that an efficient use of our resources?"
There is no excuse for this delay by the EU or the US.
Expend their resources. Waste their time. Put a Mexican flag decal on your car as a white person. 🇲🇽 Waste Their Time!
This article is on the spot! Read it, read it again. Please don’t understate the power of small acts. We have history that tells us they work. #resistance #altcitizen www.thenation.com/ar... 1/2
"Nobody wants to be a cop [in DC]. They were abused. They were spit on." "When you when you say they were abused and spit on, I'm assuming you're talking about January 6th, correct?" "All you guys want to do was bring up J6 about the answer to everything."
U.S. Margin Debt jumps to $1.02 Trillion, a new all-time high 🤯👀
ABC is still traumatized by the lawsuit they stupidly settled.
When she's done reading select quotes from the plaintiff's declarations, Judge Sooknanan sums it up as follows: "And so this doesn't quite line up with what I'm hearing from the government.
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
“They came armed with poles to attack a group of predominantly women at a peace camp,” co-founder Keiran Stewart-Assheton told the ABC. Fascists are cowards. Always cowards!
Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe, whose uncle Robbie Thorpe established the camp, wants the attack investigated as a hate crime. “The aim of this attack was to cause fear and terror in the hearts and minds of our people.” www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/nationa...
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
The state of Florida wasted more than $200 million on 'Alligator Alcatraz' stunt: jasongarcia.substack.com/p/the-state-...
Child murderer and his buddies 🤮
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🫰 preach 🫰
I believe we could dramatically reduce dis/misinformation if we collectively agreed to ignore any news article with a headline or lede following the general template of "[name of individual or organization] says" "Elon Musk says ..." "Experts say ..." "Trump official says ..." "Critics argue ..."
About the weird DOJ Trump/Epstein interview: “It was a damage-control operation… not so much investigating Epstein and Maxwell’s crimes as attempting to exculpate President Donald Trump….“
The plan is completely illegal; it’s openly in violation of black letter law. Nevertheless, the Trump admin is trying to claim that the budget bill effectively amended the law; even though it was a budget bill, and cannot by definition amend the law.
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
The press is the enemy
Fatality.
Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré saved more lives than we will ever know about. God bless him and his family.
Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, who led recovery efforts as commander of Joint Task Force Katrina, urges people to be prepared for future disasters.
Trump isn’t just axing the Constitution. He’s axing something we all love. Watch. https://youtu.be/HS7IJaB5NDc?feature=shared
It's a legit news site but reads like an article from The Onion. www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/mil...
Clam inside
WASH POST: “A postwar plan for Gaza circulating within the Trump administration would turn it into a trusteeship administered by 🇺🇸 while it is transformed into a gleaming tourism resort… temporary relocation of Gaza’s more than 2 million population…” 🤔 www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
In my town in Texas a business put up a giant billboard of this image with the Constitution behind him. Fun fact: one month after his inauguration that same company replaced the billboard with another featuring a Latin man in a construction hat.
Project 2025 Russell Vought "Put Govt. employees in trauma."
Reminder: they project strength while nervous behind the scenes. They speak as if we are done for while hoping we do not collectively rise up & topple their board game that wrecks our communities & nation. Do not accept defeat on mere false statements. They are losing in courts. Period.
SIGNS OF FASCISM 🪧
The United States, just months before its 250th birthday as the world’s leading democracy, has tipped over the edge into authoritarianism and fascism. — @vermontgmg.bsky.social
when he does finally go i will demand not just the death certificate but the long form death certificate
I dislike spiders yet love these feisty little ones. So much personality. So mush gusto. Love when they bow up.
The new Pulte-Trump crackdown on mortgage occupancy fraud is nothing if not selective.
Q+ 🙄 just what we need.
Song for the occasion: bsky.app/profile/marc...
youtube.com/shorts/tmH7c... …Just wanted to hear these words spoken again…
"If you don’t want to tear it down and start from scratch, you’re part of the problem. If you *do* want to tear it down and start from scratch, congratulations, you’re hired." Not much more to it than that.
RADDATZ: One of the things they are trying to do in DC with the National Guard is have them back up local law enforcement WES MOORE: They are picking up trash
Not a very long path from "Why wouldn't you want the regime to deploy federal troops in your city when it reduces carjackings?" to "Why would you be opposed to the erection of internment camps for deviants when it reduces crime?" And a good chunk of mainstream media will just follow along.
Failure of the press.
Period bsky.app/profile/mich...
Your concern about RFK Jr.’s nonsense policies would have been more effective if you had them BEFORE voting to confirm him.
Team Trump is purposefully raising your electricity prices, hoping you’ll be mad at your electric utility and not blame them. The benefit to them is extra dollars for their greedy fossil fuel donors. Here’s how it works.🧵
GORKA: Instead of blaming an inanimate object, which is the weapon, how about addressing the human being instead? KEILAR: DHS cut funding in July to the Minnesota Dept of Safety and the Hennepin Country Sheriff's Office in July that is the kind of funding used to assess mass violence threats
Hey friends, Defend Public Health has a new campaign if you’d like to join in. Write your elected reps about ensuring that COVID19 vaccines are available this Fall!
Take a moment and send a message today ⬇️
The “don’t erase history” people have sent in the police to guard their erasure of history
Scientists know that extreme weather events are becoming more severe, Austyn Gaffney reports. But the Trump administration’s actions are holding them back from predicting how bad floods could get:
This whole thread is exhausting. The questions vary between insulting to teachers’ professionalism, trivial, and irrelevant (but requiring a particular set of beliefs). Nothing about actual teacher qualification.
Sadly in Texas they are instead passing a law making Ivermectin available at the pharmacy without a doctor prescription.
States have a lot of power to dictate health policy for their residents. The New Mexico Department of Health has issued a public health order to help ensure all New Mexicans can access the COVID-19 vaccine. I hope other states follow suit. www.nmhealth.org/news/vaccine...
RFK Jr: “If you’ve ever compared an unvaccinated kid to a vaccinated kid… you see the bright eyes, the engagement, the social interactions, the curiosity. And you compare them to the child who even had one or two vaccines, and they’re completely different.“ This man is an existential threat.
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
It's 5 years since the best thing I've ever written and will ever write aired on Mad As Hell
GOP i.e. rightwing propaganda eroded confidence in the CDC. For those of us that have a memory and do not worship the GOP can recall this. Good news, Texas is making Ivermectin available without a prescription. Unproven but touted by the same GOP. Idiocracy.
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Found his video of this on YouTube and posted it for those who don't have Spotify. youtube.com/shorts/8SHLa...
Masked ICE aren’t about safety; they’re about fear and evading responsibility. Demand transparency and accountability by adding your name to this petition:
The Police are more trouble than they’re worth. Completely unhinged and out of control. Just randomly closing down streets and causing chaos. They’re currently making all these drivers angry and everyone is laying on their horns right outside my windows. FUCK THE POLICE! #ACAB #FreeDC
