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.🧵
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.🧵
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
MAGA: The left is LUNATICS they think PRESIDENT TRUMP is DEAD & has been BODY DOUBLED what a BUNCH of [slurs] they are LAUGHING Also MAGA: If I drive this train into the military hospital ship hard enough JFK Jr will rise from the grave to save the underground Central Park adrenochrome molechildren
So good
What?
This imagery is the kind of thing you see in video games to let you know you’re in a totalitarian city or country.
"Everybody else in the entire world ... (is) watching out there, because they understand history, and they're seeing what happened with Franco ... they're seeing what happened with Hitler — this is how it's done. ... It's time for Americans to wake up. This is serious."
Usually theres a hole in a bagel jake
My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"
Proud to join Denmark Foreign Affairs Minister @lars-loekke.bsky.social and Ambassador Sørensen to sign a new partnership between California and Denmark. Our message to the rest of the world is clear: California is a stable, reliable partner — no matter who's in the White House.
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The Bolton raid should chill you: my emergency video (full video linked) adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...
Here, fixed it.
Do you know how insane and infuriating it is to live in a country where one party claims, with media and public support, the mantle of being the ‘tough on crime’ party while its leader openly calls for convicted criminals to be released from prison ‘or else’?
Because nothing says “you should feel free to come visit Washington” like standing in front of dozens of armed soldiers next to a guy who thinks women shouldn’t be able to vote 🙃
There was a time when America could tell who the bad guys were.
At (another) Hampton’s fundraiser with Republican donors on Saturday, Andrew Cuomo said it plainly: he’s expecting Trump’s help to defeat us in November. “I feel good about that,” Cuomo said. New Yorkers won’t.
Theyre not stupid. Stupidity is an out. Theyre intentionally malicious, hoping you think their stupid because stupid gets punished less than intentional malice. Youre falling for their trap.
Man sees bird in the woods
Sorry if i came off rude thats my fault. I see it as he feels guilty that he let himself get tricked, not guilty that his vote hurt others. Again didnt mean to be rude sorry.
Renewables will be the world’s top power source next year, but America won’t be competitive because of Trump/fossil fuel corruption. Consumer utility costs will be higher, and America will be less innovative.
Dont be a mark hes looking for sympathy. The second he gets a chance hes voting for trump again or the next guy who says everything trump says but hopefully for him wont trick him again. The guy *IS NOT* taking responsibility
To me saying i was tricked manipulated is short of saying "i made a mistake" or "its my fault". Its not a means of taking responsibility
Every activated Guardsman has a family, a job, school, or something that they are leaving to do their duty. It’s one thing when it’s a war… or a real mass civil disturbance, which those only last a few days. But to rip these people from their lives for a show… is awful.
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Trump Rushed To Walter Reed To Watch Breast Exam theonion.com/trump-r...
Genuinely incredible that she's saying this with 2 accused rapists on either side of her
Hes not stupid hes malicious
There's probably a French word for what I experienced reading his posts today, but this version of Andrew Cuomo is what Trump would've sounded like for the last ten years had people in positions of power shut him out of public life instead of enabling him.
Mamdani on Cuomo "conspiring" with Trump: "It is time for us to make clear that what this city deserves is a mayor who when he sees Donald Trump attacking the people of this city will stand up and fight back against that vision, who will not get on the phone with the architect of that vision."
@govpritzker.illinois.gov: "There ought to be independent commissions in every state. The fact of the matter is that doesn't seem like it's possible. We have to recognize that, even though I'd love to see it for Illinois, we're not going to unilaterally disarm when R states are drawing crazy maps."
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For the last six months, I’ve asked, “What can, or should, be restored in the After Times?” PEPFAR, Radio Free Asia, various Kremlin-watching bodies, at the Department of Justice and elsewhere? Honestly, someone should be keeping a list. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...
"So the tariff is paid in this country by the importer, is that right?" -- Eugene Robinson guides Scott Bessent into acknowledging that tariffs are in fact paid in the United States, not by foreign governments
Sweeping tariff regime would usher in new age of abundance? Hasn’t happened Manufacturing jobs will come back “very quickly?” Manufacturing activity has seen some of the largest contractions in years in the last few months Yikes
Wow — REPUBLICAN Rep. Thomas Massie points out the hypocrisy of Republicans crying foul about Texas Dems leaving to stop Trump from stealing 5 seats in Congress as Speaker Johnson and the GOP flee Washington to help Trump cover up the Epstein files.
“An attack on our democracy… a red alert…” @aoc.bsky.social @repcasar.bsky.social and others sound the alarm about Trump and the Republicans stealing seats in Texas. 🇺🇸
The average Tesla factory worker earns between $41k to $48k per year — less than a living wage. That means that those workers are forced onto taxpayer-funded social safety nets to survive. If Tesla can afford to give Elon $29B, they can afford to pay their workers a living wage.
Did you know: Gislane Maxwell was transferred to a nice minimum security prison after talking with trumps lawyer. A sex trafficker, was transferred to a nicer place by Donald Trump. Wonder why? Also looks like GOP is the pedo defenders.
New York has entered the chat 💬
Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Strengthening unions and fighting for higher wages. Medicare for all, paid family leave, universal childcare... This is the progressive populist agenda we need in America.
What I think about the Sydney Sweeney controversy is that Trump should release the Epstein files.
REP. @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “Texas Dems are fighting back— we’re leaving the state, breaking quorum, preventing Republicans from silencing our voices & rigging the election… we’re not fighting for the Democratic Party, we’re fighting for the Democratic process.”
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Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
Based on today’s economic news I’d say it’s “Smithsonian exhibits today; government economic data tomorrow.” The raptors are always testing the bars.
Kaine: "Get this guys, we have a trade SURPLUS with Brazil, but President Trump has announced a 50% tariff. Why? Because they don't like the fact that Brazil is prosecuting a friend of his for corruption and an attempt to overturn the election."
Another day, another reminder...
I loved lost. It feels fashionable to hate on it now adays.
Whats your fear?
The corrupt fossil fuel industry paid big money for this result, and they’re getting what they paid for. Corruption in plain view.
It’s coming to light that even some of the trade deals that are “done” haven’t actually been signed. They are frameworks, or supposed verbal agreements. This is all looking very shaky.
Some generations were asked to storm beaches. Ours is being asked to stay engaged. That’s not too much to ask. I wrote this piece not just as a veteran or former congressman but as a dad. We are not the generation that lets this flame die. Not on my watch adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/we-are-not...
1. There is no file - check 2. I'm not in the file - check 3. I'm in the file but it's fake - check 4. I'm in the file but it's not a big deal - stay tuned 5. I'm in the file and it's a great file and I'm glad I'm in it - TBD 6. I'm creating another file and selling spots in it - TBD
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This party needs to wake up. These guys aren't screwing around... They're assassins when it comes to the way they weaponize grievance and the way they play politics. Enough! What more goddamn evidence do we need? They have rolled back the last half century in real time!"
The same people who spent the last decade whining about the “woke mob” and “liberal snowflakes” are now melting down over a cartoon! youtu.be/NLvNJYUdWW4?...
I want to know if the President of the United States is a pedophile. And I know the American people do too. I'm shocked that Republicans would rather shut down Congress than stand up to a dead pedophile. So why not release the files?
They just sent Congress home to cover for a pedophile who was best friends with the president so it's time to wheel out Crooked Hillary. Eat your slop rubes!
Drink water please bro
Heading into NYC for a live shot, and this is the sign on one of the overpasses
He had Felloutofawindow Disease.
My tax credit for first-time homebuyers would help make the American dream a reality for the young Americans who have been left behind in President Trump’s billionaire-first economy.
We have been warned about this moment for all our lives. Now it's here. What will you do about it?
I'm not loving a country that pays its adults half as much to teach children to spell as it does to kidnap them.
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Hate is powerful. In fact it’s powerful enough to convince people to destroy the programs they benefit from, to give more money to the very rich, because they somehow believe it hurts the people they don’t like.
The story about Colbert being cancelled because…. Trump doesn’t like him, should be a warning shot to everyone. The oligarchy has the power… they will use their money to silence you. Time to rise up.
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Trump’s ankles are swollen. His hand is bruised, and now covered with makeup. That’s not normal. Possible causes? Congestive heart failure, IVs, blood thinners…of course we have no idea, because the most transparent White House ever won’t tell us a thing.
Not a single House Republican voted in favor of releasing the Epstein files. Not one.
When you protect wealthy pedophiles while telling people that you’re the party “protecting kids” you’re telling on yourself.
If you’re talking about the autopen today, when the whole world is FINALLY demanding answers on Epstein, then you are the very type of Deep State elite-protecting shill that so many on the right have spent years decrying.
Even in the world where Trump is somehow right and Epstein was an elaborate blackmail operation by the U.S. government to ensnare every prominent American political aspirant over the last 40 years… I would like to know that. That is also bad. It would be good information to have.
Kristi Noem must resign now.
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @andertoon.bsky.social )
"This is the kind of thing that anybody in America would look at happening in another country and say, this is clearly the result of some authoritarian regime run amok. They have no insignia. They're not identifying themselves. They're throwing people into trucks, effectively kidnaping them."
All the "i will bote for dona trunk" people still dancing or what?
“If ICE was a military, it would have the 16th biggest budget in the world. You wanna talk about America First? Think about all the things we could do in this country, like giving a [hurricane] warning system to these folks in rural Texas, instead of plucking brown people out of their homes.”
Theyre putting in people like this so boston rob doesn't get evicted first.
The before and afters are delightful
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
The fiscal conservatives in the GOP just added $4 trillion to the deficit to give the wealthiest people on earth a tax cut. The pro-family party just took healthcare away from 17 million Americans to give ICE a bigger budget than Brazil’s military. The single most inhumane bill ever passed.
Breaking: The US lost 33,000 jobs in June. They were expecting to *gain* 100,000.
I can not disagree with you more. You have a better chance convincing me 2+2 does not equal 4, than elon being "apolitical" Please dont take peoples disagreements as insults and try to see where were all coming from.
Everything is a “redistribution of wealth” — the only question is which direction it’s heading in. Stop letting them convince you the only valid direction is from the bottom to the top. They’ve been selling that snake oil for decades.
If there was ever a time to call your Senator, this is it. Voting has begun on the GOP plan to cut off health care for working-class Americans and slash taxes for the wealthiest.
He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore. Make it make sense.
Wow so you’re telling me everyone who cheered on the Iraq war is on board with this now too? And so are the people who opposed the Iran nuclear deal and killed it? You’re kidding.
And just like that, the ‘No New Wars’ people are all-in on a new war. Proving yet again that they really believe in nothing other than what one man tells them to believe today. Which could be different tomorrow. The very definition of a cult.
I feel pretty sorry for all those MAGA sheep who blindly gobbled up Trump's bullshit lies that "the Russia-Ukraine war would've never happened if I was president! The Israel-Gaza war would've never happened if I was president!"
This came up on my feed and the pain in my heart from rdr2 hit
I did an event in DC & there was a party for donors etc after. Was talking to 2 ppl & I said "Things are so bad." They said "No this is how it is. Things swing one way, then another. It's normal." That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.