“No political truth is of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty: The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands … may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” James Madison, Fed 47

I need to correct an error. In my post about the McCarthy era, I mistakenly replied with Eugene instead of Joseph McCarthy. My apologies. Typing too fast and without double checking info from long ago. Critical mistake a historian should never make. Lynn

This will be my last post. The price to be paid to stop what is happening to our country right now will be very high and will require courage. The price to correct things later, will be astronomical and take many years to recover from, if at all. Disengagement will not make it all go away. Lynn

Yup! His mom was 1000% right!

Don Jr. The only calling you hear is the same one your father did when he screwed his, and your, relatives out of their inheritance. Do not run for President. You will be humiliated. I'll love watching it. The country is waking up. Dark clouds brewing. Not that many days till the mid-terms.

Trump promised to protect Medicare — he lied. The Republican budget bill would explode the deficit by so much that it triggers over $500 billion dollars in cuts to Medicare. Watch @congressmanboyle.bsky.social lay out the new CBO analysis released only hours ago:

The House Rules Debate post must be sent everywhere! This plan makes the cuts to Medicare mandatory and not Trumps fault. It will be "The Governments" fault and why they are there to clean things up even though they brought on the trigger on purpose.

Boyle: "This is really the breaking news ... because of the size of the deficits, because of the paygo act, that would trigger sequestration of Medicare, and it would total over $500 billion. The official figure that CBO confirms is $535 billion in cuts to Medicare."

J.D. Vance , you national embarrassment of an American, take the log out of your own eye before you cast aspersions on others. Climb down off your deluded self-righteous Christian pedestal and try just closing that horror hole you call your mouth. I feel sorry for you. You are truly pathetic.

The orange idiots response to Bruce Springsteen has the tone of Steven Cheung. The orange idiot is not capable of stringing that many clearly thought out, focused, complete sentences together. Steven, when you look in the mirror at night, do you feel better? Or does the hate still consume you?

Finally, the start of our music industry icons finding their voice and using their art and platform to inform and galvanize a nation looking for the spark needed to rally around. Two thumbs up to Bruce Springsteen! He ain't called "The Boss" for nothing. The orange morons reaction says everything.

Trump, Bondi and the El Chapo family deal. Who suggested what? What did we get? What did they get? When we are negotiating with drug lords, I think we are entitled to the details.

The orange moron gets a new plane. U.S. taxpayers pay 375 million dollars to bring it up to required security standards. When he leaves office???, he gets ownership. Great way to upgrade your personal property on the taxpayer's dime. Just another grift with Qatari strings attached.

Just a follow up. Roberts comments about schools as the problem with today just pushed my button. I was typing fast trying to get everything out and should have slowed down and fixed the few dropped words as I was typing. My apologies.

Post #5 Admitting a mistake. Owning it and correcting it is a sign of wisdom and maturity. Passing a serious Code of Ethics with teeth, would also go a long way to rebuilding any sense of trust we have in your judgement in the future. All this is entirely self-inflicted.

Post #4 Republicans and the MAGA Fascists. Your Presidential immunity ruling supercharged the threat to all of us. Look in the mirror budy. BTW, Past decisions have been reversed. It's not too late for you all to reverse Citizens United and your foolish Presidential Immunity rulings.

Post #3 If any harm comes to any sitting Judge as a result of them trying to uphold the rule of law, some of you on the Supreme Court will need to take a long hard look in the mirror. My 33 years Democracy and the Republic to secondary students in public education was only made harder by

Post #2 the belief by almost all that no man is above the law makes your complaints about the public perception of the current state of Supreme Courts support of the Judiciary hypocritical. They find themselves in the position they are as a direct result of your partisan and grifting behavior.

Post #1 To Justice John Roberts. Your accusation about "Schools" not teaching about our system of government works is quite precious. While Republicans efforts to cut back on Social Studies classes in the 1990s' through the 2000's has made that more difficult. Your own recent effort to diminish

To Supreme Court Justice John Roberts; You can "Revisit" your decision to grant the President immunity while in office. One of the signs of intelligence and maturity is the ability to recognize a mistake, own it and then correct it. You can restore faith in the Constitution with this act.

be followed. Jefferson saw these as attempts to silence Republican voices but also to see just how far the citizenship would allow the "Government" to go in not following the Constitution. I've been reading about Jeffersons days before the Revolution and what he faced after. DEJA-VU moment.

available for action "In A Time Of War". The 1st act only available for 2 years before it became null and void. The 2nd act required a declaration of war. Only Congress has that power. These measures were installed to thwart and intimidate Republican, todays Democrats, efforts that the Constitution

Just a short historical point. In reading of the political climate in the very late 1700's. The Federalists, MAGA of that time, passed the Alien Act of June 1798. One key component of that act is that the accused can dispute the accusation in court. The 2nd Alien Act of July 1798 was only

The fascists control the Justice Department, FBI, 6 seats on the Supreme Court, The Presidency, V.P and the Speaker of the House. This represents the 2 next in line if Trump is gone. They also control the House of Representatives and the Senate. Due process is ignored. Citizens disappeared.

The focus needs to shift to the Oligarch's and The Heritage Foundation. Trump is their stooge. They will eventually turn on each other. The collateral damage will be all of us. This is a two-front assault that will need to be met with a massive significant nationwide grassroots two-front reply.

The future first "Freedom City" was quietly incorporated on the coast of Texas. Jared Issacman, close friend of Musk, in line to control NASA. Judges arrested and intimidated. Supreme Court orders ignored. Single national data base almost compiled on all of us. We are way over the line.

This is for Jeff Bezos if he tunes in. Jeff, you used to seem like a pretty smart guy. You're a billionaire. Smarter than Donald although almost everyone is. You built a strong company that people appreciate. Don't pull an Elon. $TICK WITH YOUR PLAN TO SHOW THE TARIFF COST PER ITEM! It will be ok.

AND..........Bezos gets back down on his knees before his master! Sometimes there is a price to be paid for doing the right thing like not bowing before a bully. Hitler would still be running the show with the backbone the repubs and business elite are showing. Every day that price gets higher.

One of the goals of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights was to make it hard to make laws and equally hard to change laws. That slow deliberative process brought stability, predictability and prosperity for 248 years. DJT..."I run the country, and the world", "I want to break democratic norms"

I ended my Amazon account right after Jeffy caved in to the orange tiny dicktator. He thought he could protect himself and his company from any ill effects of the MAGA Fascist party's master. I can't say I feel any sympathy for him being under attack. The powerful, often wrong, never in doubt.

U.S Constitution being dismantled..and MAGA cheers. U.S. Bill of Rights being nullified..and MAGA cheers. Trump quote; "I want to break Democratic norms". AND MAGA CHEERS!

Warrantless arrest of a sitting Judge..and MAGA cheers. Warrantless arrests and deportations..and MAGA cheers. U.S. legal profession intimidated..and MAGA cheers. Republicans turned into sheep..and MAGA cheers. Department of Defense gutted..and MAGA cheers. Fed Dept. of Ed destroyed..MAGA cheers

To the MAGA following us here on BlueSky, you are goose-stepping us into a nightmare www.msn.com/en-us/news/w....

As a follow up. I do keep an eye on known hard right news feeds to keep track of what is being peddled. My trusted feeds just got smaller by one. Trusted "Just the facts please" feeds and local unbiased print or digital news getting harder to come by as the billionaire class seeks more control.

Spent the eve looking into ownership of the news feeds I've been following as I started to see a subtle change in one of them. Turns out that feed was quietly bought by hard right leaning group. No change right away but now changing. I suggest the same for all of us in our respective markets.

Trumps attempt to blame Fed Chairman Powell for what is happening to the economy is a false flag to keep the blame off him. Always point the finger and blame someone else. MAGA-------Another Trump Lie! Wake up!

TO THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE MAGA and are following what is being posted on Bluesky, How many times would you let someone lie to your face before you decided this relationship was over? It is time to wake up. When you look in the mirror, do you see a fool? If not, you will at some point.

To North Carolina from Washington State, THANK YOU for standing tall for the democratic process and the U.S. Constitution today. Every step in the right direction helps stop the Dear Leaders (DJT) plans. WELL DONE!

To JD Vance, According to your Lord and Master DJT, we are paying Bukele to take and keep our deportees. Essentially, he is our employee. Don't we get to tell our employees what we want done or they do not get paid? Basic business 101 JD! You can't be that stupid. Oh wait......

As of today, at the moment Trumps team stated in the Oval Office that they had no intention of returning the Supreme Court ordered return of Abrego Garcia, we ceased to be a Constitutional Republic governed by the rule of law. If the Supreme Court does not SLAP THIS DOWN, we are a DICTATORSHIP.

Been thinking of this for a while. I've been protesting at the local Tesla dealer every week for over a month now. I think we should leave the Tesla owners alone. Most bought for good reasons before all this started. Many of them are giving me a thumbs up as they leave the dealer after a service.

When people driving by looked at me, the look on their faces was different. Little smiling and waving. Even the MAGA FASCISTS didn't react the same as in the past. I saw fear, or confusion. Fear is a Dictators most powerful weapon. It seems to be taking hold. I know my paying attention was up.

Another half day protesting in front of the Tesla dealership. More changes noticed. 1. 3 dealerships, Mercedes, Tesla, Buick/GMC) in close proximity. I saw NO people looking at cars for sale. No test drives. Sales people walking down the street to a local store. 2. This next one is hard to explain

Priceless! Open then scroll down and watch the short video. act.represent.us/sign/problem...

I'm now convinced that the intentional tanking of the economy serves Trump two ways. 1. Billionaire class now able to buy everything at bargain prices after they sold right before the collapse. 2. Force the Fed to lower interest rates to fund the rebound. Shred all of us to serve the most important.

Since we no longer follow the Constitution, how about we go back to the form of government we had right after the Revolution. That government model was call, "The Articles of Confederation". Look up what power the Federal Government operated with at that time. It will make you smile.

For every state that has had already approved Federal funds denied or frozen, maybe confiscate a like portion of the Federal Income taxes that are collected from your citizens paychecks to be sent to Donald and use them to continue your programs. Time to kick little Donnie in the $.

To follow up on my previous post. If a company's CEO (Trump) decisions begin destroying the company, the Board (Congress) generally votes (Impeaches) and removes that person. In a business, the stockholders (US Citizens) would rightly demand that action. Repubs, get off your knees and stand up!

It's time. Trump, Musk and Vance have to go. Going from an economy that was, and I quote, "The Envy of the World", to one with a 60 percent chance of recession in less than 100 days. The MAGA Fascist Party must be ended. Even they cannot be this stupid.

I hope that after the first 74 days of the Trump Dictatorship we can finally put to rest the long-standing Republican belief that we should run the government like it is a business. Businesses are run into the ground all the time. The solution to this train wreck is going to be painful.