2, 2, 2 hours to goooo. I wanna be sedated. youtu.be/bm51ihfi1p4?...

NPR: “The Trump administration ignored warnings from policy experts when they changed a major policy at the Department of Veterans Affairs — and the result is a wave of foreclosures against veterans.”https://www.rawstory.com/trump-veterans-2676654225/

Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.

Still wondering if inequality is out of control?

Wow.

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

MAGA Senator Took Donation From Epstein Friend Before Key Vote newrepublic.com/post/206564/... via @newrepublic.com

This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

David Rothkopf, plain speaking and a plan:

In case you were wondering what Alex Acosta of Epstein infamy is up to now, he’s landed gigs at the State Leadership Initiative (alongside Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts) and at Newsmax. 1/

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

US ARMY COMBAT MEDIC (who is now planning to leave the country): “ICE ‘can’t find’ my husband” uk.style.yahoo.com/veteran-leav...

This hit so fucking hard today.

Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment. Excellent article!

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”

AOC: This is quite a bit of market concentration. Agreed? CVS HEALTH CHAIR DAVID JOYNER: No. I'd suggest it's a model that works well for the consumer AOC: It works well for CVS. Health insurance gets a cut, pharmacy benefit manager gets one, drug manufacturer gets one, & the patient gets screwed

Per @bygeorgiafort.bsky.social this Hmong man Trump’s goons humiliated & dragged out in the cold (after trashing his apartment and putting a gun to his daughter-in-law’s head) was a naturalized 🇺🇸 CITIZEN with no criminal record. He was eventually released. More: www.instagram.com/p/DTrblZ2jmT...

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Trump’s ICE is ramming down doors without warrants in violation of the 4th Amendment. Do Republicans really want to green light this behavior & allow ICE to do the same to their own constituents? Tomorrow, I’ll be in Minneapolis-Saint Paul demanding oversight and accountability.

It's a villainaire free-for-all, plain and simple. newrepublic.com/article/2051...

Watching with fascination as the man across the street snow blows his driveway at 1:00 am. None of the other neighbors have any lights on.

Billionaires wanting to take their toys and leave everyone else behind is pretty much the Network State cult in a nutshell. Problem is: all of their visions require our destruction. That’s why “so what“ doesn't work. This is an existential struggle: a handful of billionaires vs everyone else.

Sarah Cooper is back on Trump and she absolutely nailed it 🔥

The grasshopper gets it — divide and conquer. Today’s robber barons use the same playbook. But together, we have all the power. Watch.

What do Greenland, Honduras, Venezuela, and Nigeria have in common? The “network state” cabal—which includes Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, & Joe Lonsdale—has been circling them like vultures. 1/

(this inspired me to look up the story I remembered about this, btw, only to realize it was a full fucking decade ago)

Trump has revoked legal status for at least 1.6 million immigrants over the past year by cancelling programs like TPS and student visas. Remember: these are people who entered the country legally. Trump never cared about “legal immigration" — just inflicting cruelty.

ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl. Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist. They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed. Another horrific story. More details below.

A bunch of us did a piece on RFK Jr.'s attacks on vaccines. Please circulate. Scientists and clinicians are sounding the alarm. It's time to act. youtube.com/shorts/4wnNy...

Ossoff: "She's gonna have to give up her insurance in the middle of chemotherapy while she's fighting breast cancer. What are people supposed to do when they lose health insurance in the middle of a cancer battle? ... this is life or death"

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Who voted for this?

A message from Carl Sagan from 1995—some of his last prophetic words.

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

happy bday environmentalist/suffragist Rosalie Edge, b.1877, NYC. "Thousands of people who had within them a yearning toward nature, a deep-seated need to preserve its beauty, had been in very truth asleep. I know, for I was one of them."

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

It's also funny how in Australia, a Big Mac costs $4.35 USD but our employees get universal healthcare and the minimum wage is over $16 USD with 4 weeks annual leave for permanents and almost $18 USD for casuals. I don't know how people survive in the US.

FACTS about SNAP: -35% to white people (largest share) -90% to people born in 🇺🇸 -86% to households with kids -70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)

Worth remembering…

Trump Org’s income in the first half of 2024 was $51 million. In the first half of 2025 it rose to $864 million. A massive percentage came from foreigners. It should be the biggest scandal in the history of American politics. But few even care. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

ICE RAPIDLY EXPANDS SURVEILLANCE OF YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA

WATCH — @drjessicaknurick.bsky.social : “Here’s a partial list of things Trump is choosing to no longer study — food insecurity, gun violence, toxic exposures etc… Just because you don't measure it doesn't mean the problem went away. Censoring science & data collection is scary in a democracy.”