The cover photo on this post by @prospect.org perfectly captures the authoritarianism of the moment, both from the background image of who is behind it and the foreground images of who is enforcing it.

Oof. In new Quinnipiac poll, Trump's approval is down to 43-54 in *Pennsylvania.* Among independents in Pennsylvania Trump is down to an abysmal 29-64. Josh Shapiro's approval just hit 60 percent. By the way, there are contested House races in Pennsylvania.

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

This week's news: * many male elites approve of & participate in raping girls * POTUS is a pedophile serial rapist voters chose TWICE over more qualified women * he wants to decriminalize domestic violence bc it's so common it's driving up crime stats Male pundits: "Misogyny is a side issue."

After reading this article from The Atlantic and becoming nearly despondent, reading Love’s Braided Dance by @nwirzba.bsky.social was just the antidote I needed. His focus on us as created beings and all that flows from it is foundational to who we are as humans. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act. The beginning of true democracy in America. A offering to this country paid for by the work, dedication and lives of ordinary Black people. We’ve always had to fight. Are you prepared to fight to protect our rights?

Very sad news. He was only 65 years old. I watched him play in Wrigley from 1984 until he retired after the 1997 season. What a phenomenal player and, from what I hear, a tremendous human being.

It can’t be said often enough that we all need to stand up for what is right and just, and not cower from taking a stronger stand because we are concerned about how doing so will affect our bank accounts or subject us to criticism. Integrity and truth are the point, not merely saving your own skin.

Trump said again today some countries “are just gonna have to pay tariffs.” The news is reporting that Japan, and possibly Scotland, may have to pay a “baseline 15% tariff.” COUNTRIES DON’T PAY TARIFFS. AMERICANS BUYING THE GOODS FROM THOSE COUNTRIES PAY THE TARIFF. Anyone STILL not get that?

In 2016 this guy went to a law office with the goal of killing his wife’s lawyer. He hacked a woman to death with a machete and bludgeoned two other people to death (including a man he falsely thought was that lawyer), then set fire to the building to cover his tracks. Anyway, Trump just freed him.

The America First geniuses managed to send hairdressers and soccer players into a gulag and *import* a triple murderer into the US. Nice work. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

It’s a pretty low bar but even so this is the best thing to happen in 2025 so far. I’m a huge fan of Spinal Tarp (pun intended for those who know) although I am disappointed that the trailer doesn’t include an appearance by Bobbi Flekman. Tap into America!

Spot on. It was shameful then and remains shameful now. The way that Democrats rallied around Bill Clinton for political purposes to shield him from his abuse of his position was just as bankrupt as whether are seeing now with Republicans’ attempts to shield Trump.

UPDATE: Paramount gets its merger with Skydance, and the Trump regime says it has been given assurances CBS News coverage will be acceptable to Dear Leader Translation: South Park was on target. We are over the cliff here y’all. www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

Not collecting the data doesn’t mean they don’t exist; it just means that we will be flying blind. The first thing you will know about inflation will be when it hits you with no warning, and with no way for the government to control it. Strap in, these idiots are going to take us for a wild ride.

15+ years old, but still VERY relevent — and if we had acted 15 years ago, the “better world” we’d be creating would be a LOT better & easier to reach. There are real consequences we’re just starting to see to not heeding this cartoon a lot sooner. Even worse if we don’t heed it now. #ClimateCrisis

“Left-leaning professors” is one of the boogeymen essential to right-wing talking points. They are educators who care about their students, research, and higher learning more than about making money. If that attracts people who lean left rather than right politically, that tells you something.

We are witnessing, in real time, an entire political party shielding the most notorious sex trafficking ring of the modern era. This isn’t silence — it’s complicity.

And how about CBS? 😬

To be clear, this now a massive cover up involving the President, the Attorney General, the FBI Director, and the GOP Congress.

Oh wow hey @tulsigabbard did u see this?

Russia was never a hoax. The 2020 election wasn’t stolen. Tariffs are a tax on you. Haitians didn’t eat pets. The Epstein files exist. Reality isn’t partisan — it’s just inconvenient.

Absolutely surreal to watch White House reporters ask Leavitt questions about tariffs moments after she and Gabbard used this briefing to baselessly accuse Obama of crimes punishable by death. We’re a sick joke of a country.

Done with CBS, Paramount, Skydance, and all other appeasers of an Administration that is doing everything in its power to move us further and further down the authoritarian path.

Paramount, CBS, and Skydance just went on my personal "no fly" list. Deleting the Paramount+ and CBS news apps and will not pay to watch any Skydance productions. Media companies that enable dictatorship by engaging in this type of pay-to-play deserve to be called out, ostracized, and marginalized.

It is breathtaking (in a tragic way) how the US has plunged on the democracy scale. The chief culprit is Mitch McConnell, who not only engineered that capture of SCOTUS to cement the Roberts agenda but had the chance to convict Trump and bar him from office in January 2020 and wouldn’t do it.

Just bought Lawless by @leahlitman.bsky.social and The Shadow Docket by @stevevladeck.bsky.social from @bookshop.org. Two individuals who I turn to for all things SCOTUS while supporting local bookstores. Looking forward to these important reads.

Spread this far and wide. Shout it from the rooftops. Powell was Trump’s own appointment.

Today I switched on the solar panels on my house's roof. We generated a surplus of energy (after charging electric bikes and a PHEV) that we sold back into the grid. If we want energy independence in the US, then let's subsidize putting solar panels on every rooftop where it makes sense to put them.

Nailed it.

The best early-warning system for natural disasters is Ted Cruz leaving the country for vacation.

ICE looking more and more like the American Gestpo.

Remember the wonderful Biden economy. Last January, the expected US economic growth was 2.5-3%. But now we have the Trump economy. Yesterday, the US Fed cut its US growth forecast from 1.7% to 1.4%, but it is likely to fall further. Trump & his supporters are to blame.

ICE is not going after violent criminals. They terrorizing immigrants in Blue states. How else to describe their abduction of a respected winery manager who had been in Oregon for decades, and doing so outside a church? apple.news/AwzLSsDKBSQ-...

I’ve seen a lot of hand wringing about the dangers of going to No Kings protests and gently, I want to tell people to chill a little. These are permitted marches and the point is to be out there and seen en masse. Please don’t scare off people who are maybe going to their very first protest

Well this is a great recruiting image for the Marines, no? Any doubts about the white supremacy that is at the very cold, beating heart of the Trump Administration should be laid to rest.

I get the sense that a lot of people see protesting as cringe because they don't understand what it accomplishes, and I get that... to them, I say: just go. Experience what it feels like to be part of a Very Large Crowd of your fellow citizens. That feeling has radical political implications.

DC federal judge REFUSES to give into the gov & stay her order that it was illegal for Trump admin to fire federal labor relations board head Her decision stands--another success for the rule of law Another @democracydefendersaction.org litigation win!

Elon Musk "regrets" his posts about President Trump. But does he regret his lawless actions with DOGE that are still harming Americans every day? We'll see him in court either way.

"Contrary to conventional wisdom, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed those in 2017, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful.... [I]mmigration—and aggressive law enforcement responses to immigration-related protests—were key mobilizing issues in April and May."

ICE TRIED TO ROLL OUT IN Manhattan-New Yorkers said "NAH" AND SENT THEM BACK INSIDE!!

So as it turns out, the US was involved in this operation: the Trump Administration feigned interest in negotiating with Iran to provide cover for Israel’s surprise attack, which it had been planning with Trump’s acquiescence for months. Why would any nation on earth trust the US now?

This is authentic discipleship in action.

BREAKING AND BIG:

Agreed! I have a poster from a long time ago hanging in my house that says "Everything I Know I Learned From Star Wars." So, remember when Darth Vader had Senator Leia Organa detained and thrown in the brig on the Death Star? We've seen this before on the silver screen: the warning is self-evident.

An important lawsuit to prevent the tactics used in this spring’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election to pay people for voting from being used in future elections.

Read the full complaint and learn more here: www.lawforward.org/musk-illegal...

“Our complaint alleges that Elon Musk and his affiliated groups orchestrated a brazen scheme to bribe voters with the prospect of million-dollar awards in an effort to tilt the outcome of the race to their liking,” said Attorney Jeff Mandell of Law Forward.