Wow. You called it. Even I could, and can, see the truth behind their cries of “terrible crime” in the cities. Not about crime. It’s about fear of skin color.
Wow. You called it. Even I could, and can, see the truth behind their cries of “terrible crime” in the cities. Not about crime. It’s about fear of skin color.
Clean, to him, means shoving stuff in the “closet” and pretending it doesn’t exist. if there are people living on the streets and you don’t provide housing and healthcare, they will go underground, or to neighboring towns, or hospitals. Your city isn’t “clean”. It’s just fake and cowardly.
I think something can only be a problem if you care about the outcome. He likely cares about his own health. Any evidence he cares about the public health?
What’s right with him?
My father was diagnosed with Parkinson’s for 25 years before he died—in the interim he married, ran a business, traveled, and handled his own affairs. Cognitively sharp (though his speech and walking deteriorated) until he died at 86. Just to say—-Parkinsons by itself doesn’t mean one isn’t able.
@50501movement.bsky.social #WorkersOverBillionaires #LaborDay #AFSCMEStrong #Resist Thousands march across the Burnside and Morrison bridges in Portland.
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...
Maybe rather than just revenge against individuals, Trump and his enablers want revenge against the entire country. I think there’s a word for that.
My grandpa would have formed a shadow gov and he holding daily pressers about trumps crimes by now—at the least. This is not about age. It’s about incompetence and complacency.
Thoughts and prayers. Thank you for your attention to this.
Trump is the distraction and the tackle dummy for the media while they employ their anti-constitutional, undemocratic and unpopular methods and policies.
Doesn’t a cascade effect in a simple complex system also require that nothing interfere with it once it’s in motion? I guess I’m saying—interfere. In many ways. In bigger ways. Unexpected ways.
Hate has no principles. Right wing media and their politicians have stoked the fires of hate for all things liberal/progressive for decades. I don’t even think“conservatives” know why they hate progressives and democrats any more. It’s just their thing to do.
Real heroes of this country would have jumped in to help those firefighters battle that fire. Instead—pretend immigration emergency for Trump.
Trump’s ICE goons now literally arresting firefighters. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Real patriots would have thrown aside their ICE business and gotten in there to help those firefighters with the fire.
In his upside down reality, green is woke, windmills are more dangerous to us than clearcutting and drilling, water faucets can be turned on to get water to SoCal, and concrete is more attractive than roses.
It’s best if this Trump gov stays out of it all together:
Boy, this strikes a chord.
I would call it fascism. Powered by his lies. Fueled daily by each new lie.
It’s the lie every fascist government tells….
And it’s a lie.
It’s not “hogwash”. It’s a lie.
I’m guessing many never see it because either they aren’t tuned in at all, or they are tuned in to the media and podcast sources that ignore it or sanitize it. Others think he’s making a joke.
Yes. And call a lie a lie. Not an equivocation, prevarication or distortion. Not dissembling, falsifying or misinforming. Not a falsehood, an untruth or a misstatement. A lie is a lie. A person telling a lie is lying. And if a person tells repeated lies, they’re a liar.
But there’s a difference between parades and portraits (appearance), and torturing immigrants (brutal action). As there is in fomenting and watching for hours (and not calling in the Nat’l Guard) as his violent mob attacks our Capitol on Jan. 6. I’d say he wants the real thing.
Please initiate a policy to have wildland firefighters wear masks (smoke) and protect their future lives. They may resist, but we owe them this change. Apparently Europe’s firefighters have learned how to use them and it helps. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Suggestions for how we can help get a change in leadership in the House and Senate right now? There is no more time.
Yes, me too. I’ve certainly learned a lot about the.commitment of current GOP politicians to themselves alone, the fragility of our constitution and the requirement for people—of honor and integrity—to choose to uphold it. And human nature in general. I’m assuming nothing now.
The old toastmasters-style delivery doesn’t help either.
Nina Simone on time www.themarginalian.org/2017/02/21/n...
Yes. The extreme threats, and actions, from Trump are the barrier to anything positive.
😆 🔥 some beautiful, creative resistance
Fantastic resistance. And they’re good, too!
This is horrible. Attacks on the humanities are another way to destroy our future. Now is when we need the humanities the most.
I think many/most of his voters aren’t watching him. Or they are watching/listening to news and podcasts that are covering for him.
Complicity and examples of how it takes various forms (political actors, journalism, corporations etc) also. And how to spot lies and bulls—t too. Maybe we should all be required to take this course. Remedial Democracy 101. If you pass you get a tax deduction. Dreaming now.
Can’t debate or defy old school republicans anymore. Can’t even debate within the Democratic Party. The new rule is all in for justice, the democratic order and the laws of the land, or just keep quiet. I know why it is. And why it must be. For now. But….grrrr.
I really like your approach. Because it is true that Trump and his followers keep claiming these things. What you are then showing is how to find out that the claims themselves are not true.
He probably understands. He spreads confusion and obfuscation for a purpose we can only assume.
“A crack in the Matrix”. Perfect description. If Zamdani turns out to be an authentically good guy who wins and then serves in earnest…well. Seismic shift.
Pretty sure he thinks hippies are thugs.
Yes. Why he singled out “white” hippies to go home and take a nap. The black and brown hippies can stay. It works better for Millers racist optics that way.
The new age of Prohibition has arrived. But instead of drinking, he’s banning thinking.
🧵 Trump's 79-Year History of RACISM #Racism
when we talk about how the mainstream media is failing us, this is what we mean 👇
“Democrats cannot and should not hide behind neutrality and fairness as MAGA incinerates the remaining tatters of our republic.”
I may be wrong, but aren’t “the end times” what Mike Johnson and his religion also about?
Any strategic thinking he may have ever had is probably muddied by his worry over the Epstein Files. Trump + Epstein. It’s not over.
I love Election Rigging Response Act”. Quickly, directly lets even those not paying attention know why this bill is necessary.
Right? It’s kind of tone deaf.
Too bad. Not a sport person, but I would have watched that.
Where are the “Don’t Tread On Me” gun rights Libertarian types now? I don’t see them lining up against a takeover of our Capitol city.
Yes. Also please urge Gov Ferguson and our state to join a coalition with Newsom/CA against extreme gerrymandering threats from Texas. Shout NO to Bondi/Trump admin and join Gov Ferguson to counter threats against our state’s sanctuary status. And..Epstein Files. EPSTEIN
BREAKING: Massive protest in Washington DC against Donald Trump right now.
The summit was a traitorous failure (Epstein) to what most R’s, D’s and I’s want for Ukraine (Epstein) and democracy abroad. It’s traitorous to the order of a democratically (Epstein) elected congress. A supplicant on every level. (Epstein) And yet Fox (Epstein) bows and bellows lies. (Epstein)
Embarrassing. Humiliating. Shameful. The GOP, if they want to save any of their faces in any way, should begin cutting the ties and disowning their leader and this mess. Ignore Trump and send whatever Ukraine needs now. Turn this embarrassment for our country into something we can bear.
I see your point on “giving him enough rope”. I think he even declared his, and his fellows, profit before people ideology. (I’m paraphrasing) But he hid behind that “just business” argument throughout.
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
Interesting, because no. I listened to the podcast while driving.
Moral vacuity. Lack of apology or even minimal recognition of the imbalance between what is being taken away, lost or abused, and what is being delivered. Someone asked if Tim Miller pushed back. I’d say only minimally. He seemed very much a babe in the woods on this one.
Being a huckster and a cheat, on TV, in business, or in the Oval Office, while noticeable, is not excellent, is not art, and is the exact opposite of “honorable” in any medium.
Slightly diminish a band: Electric Light Garage Band
Hmmm. Methinks the pot on the left burner is being stirred.
Unless of course, the Clorox puts too much “energy” into their blood, as RFKjr worries about the MRNA vaccines..
The decision about grandpa is difficult because you love him. The decision about Trump is difficult because Vance/Miller/Project 2025 are there to take his place, and the Democrats have no unified resistance plan nor a plan forward.
I half expected he was about to put his fingers in his ears and yell “nah nah nah I can”t hear you”
Yes. And many people can and do pay attention, and even act, on more than one thing at a time.
What does “timber heritage” mean? Could it mean different things to different people in SW WA?
Ok, let's get started. #freedc
It’s about the things we all share. Climate. Infrastructure. Water. Goodwill among nations. No billionaire is free of the need for these things. Nor is the person making minimum (non or barely living) wage. But the billionaire’s footprint is massive. And so (should) be their responsibility.
Just a voter here. But I know Fetterman uses fighting words, but then supports money for hum. rights viol’s. (Israel/Gaza). I loved Booker’s 26 hrs of fighting words, but then saw he was the only D to vote for a convicted tax evader as U.S. Ambsdor. It’s not just about “vibes”. Actions matter.
This can’t be good.
I never understood churches not realizing that “separation of church and state” protects (or did) THEIR beliefs by allowing them independence from regulation and influence by state actors.
Very interesting article re:the history. There’s some hyperbole in the sentences, but the thread running through the GOP from the ‘50’s to Maga is clear.
Still to come: the DJ booth. Original mix of “Do The Hustle” playing on on a loop.
He should feel humiliated. But humiliation requires self reflection, wisdom and “humility”.
Yes. I think a normal, non-psychologist layperson can’t predict or understand from his point of view. To get inside his head even a little is to enter the disorder of his pathology. Most people have more of a self-preservation instinct. But someone needs to in order to get in front of this regime.
I’d direct Lewis and Kessler to Decoding Fox News (Juliet Jeske). The uselessness of their mission might be made clear.
Oh, I wish they had included one more poll as to how many Americans say they care whether Trump is dishonest or corrupt.
Who is Sydney Sweeney?
The theater IS on fire. Democrats have little or no power under this GOP trifecta and the encroaching fascism. Headlines need to daily hold the party in power, Trump/GOP, to account and call out the attack on democracy, the constitution, the rule of law and individuals. That’s the job, right?
How can one be such a coward as to apologize for the living history that is the Trump presidencies…. ….but at the same time be brave enough to engage with one of the most verbally dextrous interviewers in journalism as Mehdi Hasan…. …and facing off with George Conway as well? What did he gain?
If Springsteen were a sculptor, he’d have been Rodin—-a romantic rising from the mud of the earth. Or being pulled down into it.
Makes you wonder if the Dems sincerely cared about the Trump/Maga/Project 2025 threat to democracy. Why else would Biden have been allowed to run again? Why do letters and grandstanding give way to votes for unqualified cabinet picks and other “bipartisan” fails? Taking care of donors, perhaps?
And every headline should accurately reflect the content of the article, not mislead.
There really is no other side, unless menacing or addled are antonyms of volatile.
Yes. Also, require some kind of a truth in labeling law. If an entity, no matter what kind, wants to call itself “news”, then it has to meet certain criteria of journalistic service to the public.
Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen... How low can we go? Show some guts and integrity damn it!
I'm really offended by the Smithsonian removing all mention of Trump's impeachments. If anyone else is, here is their mailing address and email: PO Box 37012. SI Building, Room 153, MRC 010. Washington, DC 20013-7012. info@si.edu Be nice if they realized how bad this looks for them.
There are so many windows now, the effort not to see is causing the GOP to bump into their former selves.
Any politician not talking about reversing the Citizens United decision and getting money out of politics is speaking to deaf ears here. IMO the brick wall we keep struggling against with democrats (I.e. why do they do ____) is due to is their obeisance to large donors. No real change until that.
I hope this haunts them years from now. But then, there are so many things.
Reinforced when he pardoned the Jan 6 insurrectionists.
Just say no.
His next lie will be that Comey, Obama and Biden made up the Constitution, which was secretly written by Hillary Clinton. So why bother with it or the courts.
"If states have legal duties to prevent climate harm, then victims of that harm have a right to redress,"
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Fake Plastic Trees
Doge and the Vought/2025 playbook must have taken The Castle as a model.