Former natl political blogger, Pam's House Blend (2004-2013) during OG citizen journo era. Dipping back into pol discourse here. Spinal fusion vet (3x). DM only if I know IRL. Durham, NC native, now in Central Valley CA. PHB history: https://is.gd/7GbAv2
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I think you can guarantee that under Trump, the worst aspects of psychiatric hospitals in the '50s-'70s would return...and even be worse as Trump does everything on the cheap. He wants the mentally ill and disabled eliminated. Flashback doco: youtu.be/5F7CrMAwCw4?... 2/2
He's completely incoherent in the interview (referring to 2 hospitals in NY as being closed that are open), but he notes that psychiatric hospitals were too costly to operate before...but he's willing to open them again. Just to get mentally ill off the street. 🤯 🧾 share.google/nJf9VVyIG5mO... 1/2
JFC...it's almost as if the WH is trying to prep his base posting suck-up odes to the decomposing dictator. FELON still has not stepped before cameras to speak to the press for days; the WH has also been busted posting old photos *as current* & none of him actually golfing. Read 🧾: is.gd/pRjRTd
Flush Susan Collins and her concern away... More on Graham Platner: The Political Awakening of the Oyster Farmer Taking on Susan Collins | The New Republic share.google/CX0TCMmPT1o1... 📺 bsky.app/profile/ronf...
Wanted to elevate this so more people see this 31-tweet assessment of Trump's health that only raises more 🚨 that the press is not doing its job asking the most basic Qs. It's over on X but I compiled it here so you don't have to visit the hellscape: share.google/iPfZyFmPxI5W... What say you?
The real news is Trump has not been seen speaking and someone else is typing out social media statements. Who GAF of Giuliani getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom since its honor been so degraded at this point by the decomposing dictator? WHERE IS THE PRESS?!
Ready to pass the baton for the fight ahead, thx, Rep. Nadler! “Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, & I think I want to respect that,” adding that a younger successor “can maybe do better, can maybe help us more.” 🧾 is.gd/g0yamQ
There is a kick-ass 31-tweet assessment of Trump's health that is cited in Graff's article, I compiled it so you don't have to go over to the hellscape: 1/31 by @adamscochran(Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth)) | Twitter Thread Reader 🌐 share.google/iPfZyFmPxI5W...
🚨 MUST READ! @vermontgmg.bsky.social has 6 Qs re: 1) The bruised hands. 2) The recent changes in patterns. 3) The years of health record lies. 4) Trump’s obviously diminished capacity. 5) The swollen ankles. 6) Biden Precedent. Why is the press negligent in covering Trump's health? 🧾 is.gd/pRjRTd
Pulaski, Wisconsin — control these wilding white supremacists. If you read the news article, the victim, 14, said it was the result of a *case of mistaken identity*! These a-holes were beating up the wrong black target! JFC. 🧾 www.wkow.com/news/top-sto... 📺 bsky.app/profile/cweb...
🧵 This Labor Day, let's remember that it's about the victories of the working class over the capital class that would send National Guard to shoot striking workers who dared to ask for safer conditions, decent work hours, and support in sickness and old age. Capital would rather you forgot. 👇🏻1/12
Yes got an answer for you. Official head count at the peak around 11:00 a.m. is 175.
Not sure but I think I know who to ask and will do so before leaving.
#MERCED, CA: Labor Day! September 1, 2025 WORKERS OVER BILLIONAIRES RALLY! Our little town is fired up today even though it's supposed to get up to 105°! 🔥 Streets filled up even more since! 3/3
#MERCED, CA: Labor Day! September 1, 2025 WORKERS OVER BILLIONAIRES RALLY! Just getting started... photos.app.goo.gl/LtNQRK9NDCWA... MORE PIX AFTER JUMP ⬇️ 2/3
Our little town is fired up today even though it's supposed to get up to 105°! 🔥 #MERCED, CA: Labor Day! September 1, 2025 WORKERS OVER BILLIONAIRES RALLY! Pix: photos.app.goo.gl/LtNQRK9NDCWA... Courthouse Park M & 21st St Indivisible Merced is.gd/5zVrGC MORE PIX & VID AFTER JUMP ⬇️ 1/3
No way the Ds should cave to pass any funding without concessions: - No military invasion/occupation of cities for "crime emergencies"; - End terrorist ICE raids; - Fire RFK Jr., as Rs & Ds know he endangers public health. - #EpsteinFiles Town Halls & feedback are clear from voters: #DoNotComply
Guest: Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT), who serves on the House Judiciary Committee: “Our job is to hold their feet to the fire and make our colleagues in Congress squirm. Are they comfortable with giving cover to a convicted pedophile and sex trafficker?” #EpsteinFiles #Maxwell 📺 youtu.be/XrS_n1Bkagc?...
#MERCED, CA: Labor Day! September 1, 2025 WORKERS OVER BILLIONAIRES! Protest @ Courthouse Park M & 21st Street 10AM-12PM Indivisible Merced is.gd/5zVrGC
What is factually incorrect in the Wired piece? This isn't a blog, but a reputable publication with an excellent editorial team. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. I have no problem w/critique, of the reporter & the subjects — both are fair game. I wouldn't want the same info hidden about the RW.
It all needs to be out in the open. After all, we need to be able to trust what we read regardless of the source — how or if it's being shaped —and if it's being paid for under terms that may control the content. Transparency shouldn't be an issue.
“I have the government attempting to remove minor children from the country in the wee hours of the morning on a holiday weekend, which is surprising.” —Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia 🧾 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
This govt is evil. Deporting 7 & 10-year-olds, some orphans. In the dead of night, the Trump admin tried to deport more than 600 Guatemalan children. Guest: Efrén Olivares, Vice President of Litigation at the National Immigration Law Center, whose team stopped the action. 📺 youtu.be/Pw2v3IYOaGw?...
Many survivors, now brave adult women, have come forward and members of Congress need to remember what they looked like as children when they were raped & trafficked to powerful men by predators Jeffrey #Epstein & Ghislaine #Maxwell. Read their powerful statements. #LetSurvivorsTestify #September3
No I just came across it and I know it will be panned. I just had no feedback about it in my browsing around topics. Been mostly focused on trying to get Epstein news out.
This is a horror show for people who really want to give of themselves to their own country. 😩
(I'm not a big enough influencer these days to get an invite; wasn't support of this kind out there to 👍🏼 or 👎🏽to when I had much larger #s in the 00s 🤓🤣). Interested in your views. Author of the Wired piece, @taylorlorenz.bsky.social, has a vid up: 📺 youtu.be/6Skdqe5e6Eo?... 3/3
The Chorus contracts sound onerous, but unsurprising: "Among other issues, it mandated extensive secrecy about disclosing their payments and had restrictions on what sort of political content the creators could produce." You know many creators mentioned. Take a read... 🧾 is.gd/lCsNeC MORE ⬇️ 2/3
This @wired.com article hasn't circulated much, it deserves your attn. The RW has long supported/paid influencers (we saw Putin had some biggies on the dime 🙄). Now there's a dive into the folks on *our side* paid on the DL to shape discourse... 🧾 www.wired.com/story/dark-m... 1/3
People also need to stop turning most of their thinking skills over to Skynet, er, AI.
Perhaps the White House is working on a reenactment of the movie Dave. 🤣 Forget it; just pull the plug. Do you think lazy, access White House press corps will wake up from its vacation nap and ask serious Qs about the decomposing dictator's health?
Good grief. He will never take responsibility for any failure on his watch. And he certainly won't point the finger at Putin. I just want to know what the F are the deets on the kompromat?
That's why this hope that "the generals" are going to somehow stop Trump from misusing the military seems a pipe dream. He's let #DUIHireHegseth move quickly to the ones that would follow the Constitution with lackies.
Sickening, bc you're not going to see National Guard walk off or disobey until it's an unlawful order. Trump knows they will continue to take this kind of abuse unless there is enough public pressure. I've given up on Congress using its voice or power. 🧾 www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
JFC. Typical Trump. Stiffing people, this time, the National Guard. Serving on his orders and he's cycling them on 29 day scheds to keep them from getting full housing & health benefits (saving $2,500/head). 🧾 www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri... MORE ⬇️
This statement is weird. The DV victim flagged him down in a town or on the highway...what?! The narrative moves on to the actual accident. Was he driving? Was he moving when struck? At a traffic light? How did he get to the hospital? What about the other driver? 🧾 share.google/BuZ8AzAX9cmN...
Epstein Victims Will Meet With Congress Committee Members share.google/6yuJ812psTAi... #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #UnredactTrumpInEpsteinFiles #LetSurvivorsTestify #Epstein #Maxwell
📣NEW! James Comer & Members of the House Oversight Committee will meet *privately* w/some of the #Epstein #Maxwell survivors on Tuesday. Congressmen Ro Khanna & Thomas Massie will also hold a presser on Capitol Hill. Guests: survivors Teresa Helm, Jess Michaels. 📺 youtu.be/Wexfuh93RVo?... MOR# ⬇️
There's the rub. He will try to roll it out, like he has w/the others, until a judge tells him it's unconstitutional. He loses, then he runs everything up the flagpole to SCOTUS & hopes he wins. This one is clear, but so is the ability to tariff. He's losing in the courts but implemented them.
"The cost of a Barbie doll at Target, for example, is up 42.9% since April." (No worries, no one's shopping 🎯 anyway.) 😂
Who's telling the Decomposing Dictator that the manufacturing isn't re-shoring here, small bizs will go under, AND consumers will pay more? "two-thirds of U.S. companies operating in China intend to maintain their planned investments in the country." 🧾 www.politico.com/news/2025/08... MORE ⬇️
2/2 “As many as 11% of eligible voters do not have the kind of ID that is required by states w/strict ID requirements, & that percentage is even higher among seniors, minorities, people w/disabilities, low-income voters, & students.” — Brennan Center for Justice IOW, enough to affect an election.
Glad The Guardian puts the unconstitutionality in the headline. Elections are controlled at the state level, & only Congress can enact nationwide election laws or regs. POTUS = ZERO role. Note: 36 states require ID at the polls, w/remaining states & DC using other forms of ID. 🧾 is.gd/WfU8Tb 1/2⬇️
All of this is terribly difficult when too big a demo is addicted to TikTok/FB; not primary news sources. But the formerly more trustworthy legacy media is access focused, or capitulated. Fox News is a cesspool. The weight is on critical thinking, media literacy, & civics ed — all in woeful shape.
Trump & his administration's malice & retribution against professional & elected black women is right there in the open & escalating, w/little pushback. That's why you see "black fatigue" in the pop, the feeling of what more do we have to do — w/o the requisite privilege to do the heavy lift?
Rough times ahead. People have to ask themselves what are they willing to do...I fear too many will just check out & do nothing bc we have such weak leadership willing to guide even the motivated. The Rs are moving full steam ahead. 🧵 bsky.app/profile/pams...
But I can't sit on the sidelines & watch my 🇺🇸 expire. So I'm stepping up, online & offline in my community, to fight this fascist regime. As physically disabled as I am, I can't be on the front lines now, but I cannot be a passive observer, either. (Elna, I hope your work wasn't in vain).
Personally, I'm torn between the sentiment I've heard that ⚫ folks just need to sit this sh*t out, that this is something ⚪ folks need to clean up & use their privilege to rein in their peeps & being all-in. (Ex: You think if that DC Hoagie Hurler was 🟤 or ⚫ he would be unharmed, walking free?) ⬇️
Mourn for undocumented human beings that made their way to this country, where 🇺🇸 *offered them jobs*, or TPS, employers look the other way, consumers eager for the fruits of cheaper labor. Many of the same celebrate Mass Deportation™, disconnected from the consequences. 🙄 🇺🇸 is a failed state.
Just like the demos of elections show us, black women turn out & vote. Against bigotry, tyranny, & fascism that was boldly promoted w/P2025. We warned, not enough listened. Too many checked out, laid back, or worse, bought the lies, sold themselves out. We knew we would pay the price first. SMH.
Well, that kind of fits in with Trump/Temu Goebbels & Mass Deportation™, doesn't it? Ethnic cleanse the 🟤 women out of the 🇺🇸, take the ⚫ women out of middle class professional jobs, & send 'em back to the fields, into their *rightful places* as caregiving (mammies 😲?), & domestic workers. #MAGA
Just a coinkydink, right? 🧐 The most recent labor statistics show that nationwide, Black women lost 319K jobs in the public & private sectors between Feb & July. - White women saw a job increase of 142K; - Hispanic women a 176K increase; - White men saw the largest increase, 365K. 🧾 is.gd/x7RUAc
An elected official. Smh.
Little Marco sold his soul (and loses no sleep at night) because he wants Big Daddy to anoint him as successor. Forget it, Marco — the oligarchs picked Couch Blaster. 📺 bsky.app/profile/impl...
I'm sure the "respect the troops" folks will be up in arms when they learn about this right? I mean what could be more disrespectful to the troops than not providing the healthcare they were promised? Oh, I'm hearing that kneeling during the anthem is worse? Ok wow.
@govpritzker.illinois.gov issued a Burn 🔥!
Solutions-based thinking to combat snowflake state govt bigotry in Florida! 😃 🏳️🌈
“I’ve got a phrase I want to say so bad. But I won’t throw you under the bus. It was extremely good. It kind of addresses the immigration issue up in my area of the woods, I’m afraid. 'Shoot, shovel and shut up.'” —TX state Sen. Charles Perry (👂🏽Listening, Latinos for Trump?) 🧾 is.gd/1fqiWg
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
Melodrama ICE Barbie Action Figure has to go big on lies. Seriously — LA wouldn't be standing?! 🤣 LA has survived massive wildfires & earthquakes; I'm sure photos before her authoritarian dog & pony military occupation & after, it's the same. JFC. Trump's act is still un-American. 📺 is.gd/E9stxL
This is just sad spinning. RFK Jr's "science" is nowhere to be found in any of what is occurring now. Lankford makes sure not to challenge Welker's factual statement about autism and vaccines. But he still wants to create wiggle room for RFK that simply doesn't exist. 📺 bsky.app/profile/atru...
Did Rep. Carter (R-🤡) ever answer her Q about who was President in 2020 (the guy that brags for credit for "creating" the covid vaccine because of Operation Warp Speed)? 🤔 📺 bsky.app/profile/atru...
🚨 Bipartisan group plans to hold presser on 9/3 w/Epstein survivors to push Congress to release files: is.gd/00UM6O 📺 Ep: "The President & the Paedophile" - "Why is Donald Trump Refusing To Release the Epstein Files?" (2025) youtu.be/qMIP4RIoCHc?... #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #LetSurvivorsTestify
📣 WATCH! #60MinutesAustralia interviewed (in 2023!) convicted child rapist & sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell in FL (long before Trump moved her to a cushy TX facility). Virginia Giuffre, interviewed in 2019, speaks here. Monster Maxwell's been lying like a rug for YEARS. 📺 is.gd/DT7QaL MORE ⬇️
Scott Turner of HUD on the latest move in the Trump / Stephen Miller ethnic cleansing program — he says that undocumented in Sec 8 "need to pack their bags." If they have American citizen minor children, 🤷🏽. It's why birthright citizenship is on the regime's menu. Cruelty is the point.
Tax dollars by the hour spent supporting bigotry of snowflakes that get the vapors at the sight of rainbow-painted pavement. Same snowflakes have no problem wasting even more money in Sunshine State on (the ordered dismantled) Alligator Alcatraz. Why should tourists spend any money in Florida?
This is the character of frauds & violent thugs that call themselves Patriots. Matches the character of the thug in the White House that freed them with pardons.
@jaubrey.bsky.social's YouTube deep dives are always well-done (his doco on Matt Gaetz is a classic!), so it's good to see an updated take on the #EpsteinCoverUp. #LetSurvivorsTestify #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #UnredactTrumpInEpsteinFiles #GOPPedoProtectors #Maxwell 📺 youtu.be/8R_9SZUNmhA?...
For Black Memphis residents already burdened by pollution, the gas turbines that powered Musk’s supercomputer raised concerns. The Chamber of Commerce downplayed fears by claiming 9 government agencies oversee the facility. That’s not exactly true. By @wendicthomas.bsky.social, w/ @mlk50.com
The right wing has been working on supporting bloggers, now known as influencers, that have morphed into podcasters for years. The left hasn't done that. From the mid-2000s until now it's been a deficit on the left. That and thinking the press would ever be fair...& ignoring Fox News's impact.
California peeps we must get out in force!
How about calling for the resignation of RFK Jr.?! Forget the oversight piddly sh*t; this guy is a menace to public health.
It depends if the presser gets media attention. I assume Trump is going to drop some kind of authoritarian event to pull media eyes away from it. It's the one topic he can't control the narrative on — the survivors prove it's not a hoax — so he has to prevent legacy media from giving it coverage.
Yes, I've listened to both of them on pods; excellent analysis. This particular take by MacWilliams I hadn't heard before and it makes a lot of sense because of how it crosses all demos. His take on successive gens' views/attraction to authoritarianism is dark. But important if we are to resist.
🚨 SHARE! Honor the survivors who went public & testified against sex predators Jeffrey Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell for the evil perpetrated against them as *children* & vulnerable young women. A scared Trump knows. More come forward 9/3: is.gd/00UM6O #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #LetSurvivorsTestify
Cooperation = capitulation. They want to break us. Leaders must #Resist, regardless of the consequences. Harsh truth: Resistance may lead to violence against we, the oppressed, because the authoritarians in charge *will not willingly give up power.* #Resist #DoNotComply #NoAuthoritarians
average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
No one really thought he was dead. But he is getting pumped something on a regular basis, and he attempts to cover it up on his hands w/makeup. At least today it looks like they found a better shade. Or we could start up rumors that it's a body double. 😂 Press, do your job. Ask Qs. 🧾 is.gd/HfbE54
IDK. Everyone should watch this because he's very accessible. He just dove into the research out of interest in authoritarianism as a phenomenon. MacWilliams's research & Trump's rise happened to coincide, and provide enormous insight on how Trump won over this personality type.
This is sad. And enraging. And so now we have to see after 30 days (when Congress has to step in to affirm/deny the order), will Trump send them home or not?
That's why I also found this guest very effective at breaking the data down to personality type. It's not race or class, though those can be a commonality. But there are plenty of blue collar Ds, so circling back to personalities that are attracted to authoritarians actually nails the core issue.
Capitulation never works w/an authoritarian regime. @schumer.senate.gov & @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social listen to D consultants that actually advise *not talking* about occupation of cities or dictator moves we see w/our own eyes! 🧐 We need electeds ready *to sacrifice*, not protect their perches.
"It is rare for such a large group of governors to collaborate on a joint statement, but Mr. Trump’s extraordinary push to override their authority and militarize cities in Democratic-run states has prompted an unusually united response." Message: DO NOT COMPLY. 🧾 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
Why does the WH Press Corps not PRESS Karoline Leavitt on *obvious lies* re: Trump's hands (handshaking, aspirin? GTFOH)? Many of us have elders or w/his med symptoms & cognitive decline; we see it! There are legit Qs to ask. 🦋 My earlier thread on Decomposing Dictator: bsky.app/profile/pams...
One obvious problem we have on the democracy-preserving side, MacWilliams notes, are the institutions and D leadership that capitulate (for 💰 / power / perceived survival). The tough med is that opposition must be willing to put itself in jeopardy to fight back, & NOT WORK WITH AUTHORITARIANS.
From the 2016 Politico article by Matthew MacWilliams: "The One Weird Trait That Predicts Whether You’re a Trump Supporter" - And it’s not gender, age, income, race or religion. Authoritarian leaners have always been there; Trump + social media + Fox activated enough of them. 🧾 is.gd/hmYpK4 MORE⬇️
Fascinating (& disturbing) discussion about our current path to authoritarianism, how we got here & its appeal — & how it might be reversed. One answer, folks: DO NOT COMPLY. Guest: Matthew MacWilliams, who foreshadowed things in a 2016 piece on Trump (is.gd/hmYpK4). 📺 youtu.be/dp19ZKI2m2w?...
Awesome indictment of MAGA supermajority states failures. @mizzwelch.bsky.social lives in Oklahoma, so she can speak to the lived experience under MAGA rule. (her @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social is great). 📺 bsky.app/profile/acyn...
And this... 🧾 www.thedailybeast.com/conservative...
How about more speculation... 🧾 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-det...
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This sick madness is happening in OUR country. ICE is a govt domestic terrorist org...funded, unchecked, by Congress. All those "Mass Deportation NOW" folks at the RNC weren't enough of a hint to some voters (or folks that stayed on the couch). Is this the 🇺🇸 we want?! 📺 bsky.app/profile/cweb...
Of course, his narcissism makes it difficult for him to appear weak. It would also mean handing the reins to JD early. Charisma-free, perpetually vacationing Couch Blaster is already dropping public hints on how he's prepared to step in; it has to grind on the decomposing dictator. Your ideas?
Taking this little thought experiment further, would Trump milk his decline to try to get out of responsibility for what he's wrought? As in media sympathy, MAGA sympathy to get out of... - Epstein exposure - economic disaster tied to him - legal woes - inability to guarantee pre/post rig '26/'28? ⬇️
*You think Orange FELON's physical failure is escalating?* Cankles may get on the IV hookup this weekend, pumping meds. (Actually, it would be unfair if Trump went tits up before this vile, insecure, narcissistic sociopath receives punishment for what he's inflicted on the 🇺🇲 & the world.) MORE⬇️
What part of the state are you in? Seems like they're hitting blue and red areas.
“Should bad actors gain access to this cloud environment, Americans may be susceptible to widespread identity theft, may lose vital health care & food benefits, & the government may be responsible for reissuing every American a new Social Security number at great cost.” 🧾 is.gd/1HKJ6T
Here we go. Remember when they talked about death panels? Under our decomposing dictator, Medicare moves to adopt the same awful gatekeeping prior approval practices you see under Medicare Advantage plans, and private health insurance jackals. 🧾 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
👀 The Republicans are dead serious about propping up this dictator and creating a permanent R majority on the Hill. No surprise Missouri is bending the knee. My earlier post on the well-funded R propaganda being mailed out in CA re: redistricting: bsky.app/profile/pams... 🧾 NPR: n.pr/41xiH3H