@sarahkendzior.bsky.social is exactly correct in that “justice” has never been an intended part of this story. Instead it’s been to get us accustomed to the idea of “They’re rich and powerful so they can do what they want and we can’t do anything about it.” Read her work.

It's true that Garland did nothing about Trump and Epstein while being completely aware of the crimes. The crimes were public information! Garland was installed to protect the DOJ, which protects Trump and Epstein. It's explained in this free 2023 article. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/servants-o...

Within 48 hours we’ve had the Coast Guard reverse a planned policy saying “Swastikas are okay with us.” Then the WH confirming that “No, POTUS doesn’t want to execute Democrats.” So, remind me again how this is a normal, functioning government.

The DoJ is openly acting as Trump’s law firm. There’s no chance whatsoever that they’d release anything even remotely damaging. Still, since they’re also staffed with raging incompetents, there’s a chance they release damaging info anyway.

If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey. This isn’t controversial. A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.

Translation: Trump knew he was going to lose the House vote. He may still be confident that the Senate will hold the line. And don’t forget that a portion of the files may be held back because they’re part of an “active investigation” against Democrats.

So let me get this straight: The President’s plan to lower prices is to roll back some of his own tariffs?

Trump is under the mistaken impression that the Epstein scandal is about Democrats vs Republicans. Actually, it’s about pedophiles vs people who want pedophiles to spend the rest of their lives in prison

I could be mistaken. But every time Trump rails about Epstein, he doesn’t sound angry, or affronted. He sounds scared.

Leadership.

BREAKING: President Obama Makes Veterans Day Surprise open.substack.com/pub/demwinsm...

This Veterans Day, let's salute a true American hero, Capt. Dylan Blaha. He served our country in combat. Now he is serving us by standing up to Donald Trump, refusing to be deployed as a National Guard member against the American people.

The Dems won’t get another donation from me until they oust Chuck Schumer from leadership. In a moment that demanded courage, he chose cowardice. I’ll donate to individual candidates, but no longer to the general party fund.

It’s not that we didn’t want the shutdown to end, it’s the fact that millions of people suffered throughout this shutdown and it was for nothing. That’s the most upsetting part.

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

That the Democrats aren't still wailing about Elon Musk's murderous DOGE reign kind of illustrates how much fealty to immense wealth is the one truly bipartisan position in Washington.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Despite waving the occasional rainbow flag, raised fist, or posting a “Black Lives Matter” sticker the elite at Democratic senators are the same as their GOP colleagues. They’re insulated from the lives of most Americans, cozy in their status, and don’t really care.

Millions of Democratic voters on Tuesday: Fight these guys. Fight them. Senate Democrats: We heard you loud and clear and we will give in

Democrats have to stop bailing out Republicans from facing the consequences of their own policies. And yeah, that means they have to stop sparing voters from experiencing what GOP government truly means. Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.

if they were going to cave anyway they should’ve done it a week ago to spare SNAP recipients the agony.

The whole GOP shutdown strategy is hoping that sheer force of propaganda can convince the public that things getting worse does not reflect badly on the people in charge of the government, and that hurting America more will get Democrats to acquiesce to the Trump admin hurting America in other ways.

So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?

Pay attention folks, Trump and the goons at the Heritage Foundation are actively erasing and rewriting history. They want the same control over the past that they do the present.

JD's family has spent $35M on vacations. Kash Patel used a $60M FBI jet to go on a date. Trump spent $98M to golf for 24% of the days of this term. All our tax dollars. But you think single moms getting $6 a day for SNAP is the problem?

REMINDER: President Biden NEVER cut SNAP payments, never even had a government shutdown. In fact, he cut child poverty in half. He cut child hunger, too. I miss having a REAL President.

Jeez, is there anything that this guy won’t ruin?!? Notice that the stories didn’t say that Trump was in discussion to PAY for naming rights. Let this be a lesion to future generations: when someone tells you that they’re a corrupt, greedy, moronic, narcissist believe them.

Hey Mike Johnson, do we even have a House of Representatives any more? Reconvene. Swear in Adelita Grijalva. Now.

Trump’s economy suuuuucks.

What a relief. The hell with laying down and taking it. Know hope. www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-w...

Shout this from the hilltops. Legacy media should be consigned to the dustbin of history. Until they return to even a semblance of independence and speaking truth to power they’re a now useless relic from an earlier era.

Damn right!

Trump will deny it’s a referendum on him. But it’s a referendum on him and his disgraceful regime that couldn’t care less about the needs of people.

The cruelty (and laughing about it or throwing a party afterwards) has always been the point. Call me when the GOP creates policies or programs that help masses of people just because it’s the right thing to do. They don’t. And now they’re led by one of the greediest people of the last century.

As SNAP hangs in the balance for nearly 42 million people, misinformation is rampant. Myths of laziness and fraud persist when we should be talking about too low wages for workers, income inequality, and our threadbare social safety net. In this guest post, Adam Chandler sorts fact from fiction:

Dick Cheney was a cruel bureaucrat who made corrupt institutions more abusive. Officials in those institutions then surrendered what was left of their morals to accommodate his evil vision. In time, those institutions became even more corrupt. What politicians say today will be revealing of the rot.

Get their thieving asses

Trump believes New Yorkers have no choice in Cuomo becoming mayor because Cuomo is on the legal team representing Netanyahu against war crimes. They need him in the mayoral position, just like they needed Giuliani. Netanyahu is why Trump himself lacks choices in certain aspects of his life.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 91st day out of the last 103. 12 days of work in 103 days. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

This pretty much sums it up. The House is on vacation rather than take action to assist in holding pedophiles accountable. And why? Because one of the possible culprits lives at (sans an East wing) 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

It’s past time to ask (as Will does) if the shut down isn’t indicative of something more sinister. By not being in session Johnson can effectively say that the POTUS has to do things via executive order because the house isn’t in session. It’s a kind of quiet power grab abetted by the House.

New article! On the shutdown, a nation treated as prey, and the meaning of leverage: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-shutdown

We all need to fight Trump's plan for voter suppression and election subversion. We need to recognize that it has multiple dimensions. We need to educate ourselves and our communities and then take action.

It’s time for reporters to directly ask Mike Johnson if Trump has in effect suspended the House of Representatives.

This is emblematic of his entire presidency: hastily making or changing policies based on something he saw on television.

A 14-word replacement for most op-eds, substacks, etc about this moment. The GOP could stop ALL of this, right now—if a handful of Sens or Reps could step outside the cult. It would take four in the Senate, four (maybe five) in the House, to change history. Until then, they're all to blame.

" I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you! And the people -- and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!"