If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

ICE officers will be used as security for February’s Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, despite opposition from Italian government officials.

Following the Kent State massacre in May 1970, a Gallup poll showed that 58% of Americans thought the shootings were justified. The night *before* the killings, Ohio's GOP governor described the student protesters this way: "They're the worst type of people that we harbor in America."

Before speaking with two armed men at the Pretti vigil last night, a man approached & asked if I was going to tell the truth. I said yes. He told me how frustrated he was at the media & the harm it’s causing to his community. I asked if he wanted to share words for the media on camera, & he did:

Every day that Jonathan Ross, Gregory Bovino, Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, JD Vance, and Donald Trump walk free is an intolerable breach of justice.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

BREAKING Trump withdraws invite for Canada's Carney to join 'Board of Peace'

The Tucson City Council voted unanimously today to draft an ordinance blocking ICE from using city-owned property for civil immigration enforcement https://azluminaria.org/2026/01/21/tucson-moves-to-block-ice-use-of-city-property/

If anyone has any information on the identity of the "advocacy group tyring to overturn election results in certain states” and who were secretly in contact with DOGE, my Signal is DavidGilbert.01 www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

May the four winds blow you safely home. What a gift of a life. Love to everyone in this crazy and beautiful universal family.

Just one day after Renee Good was gunned down by ICE in Minneapolis, federal agents under Trump have shot more people, this time in my neighborhood. I am furious.

A statement from Chair Robbins on yesterday's shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis & the legacy of political violence here in Pima County, 15 years after the horrific shooting on January 8th, 2011.

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

Happy Solstice Bluesky “...This is the solstice, the still point
of the sun, its cusp and midnight,
the year’s threshold
and unlocking, where the past
lets go of and becomes the future;
the place of caught breath, the door
of a vanished house left ajar...” ― Margaret Atwood

NEW: Rob Reiner was a mensch. In death, he showed us that Trump is a schmuck. (He was also a friend, and I'll miss our very long lunches.)

BREAKING: Supreme Court GRANTS Texas request to restore redistricting maps apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social

Choose where you want your money to go~ to millionaires and billionaires, or back to your community. Tucson - Consider buying a membership to Reid Park Zoo or the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum. What else?

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

Last night’s lavish White House dinner showed us the global oligarchy coming together in plain sight. By cozying up to MBS, Trump has signaled to the world that the United States is now on the side of authoritarianism, not democracy.

This 5,500-Year-Old Kish Tablet is the Oldest Written Document flip.it/BTb1bl

"That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files" -- Rep. Grijalva

I've been hearing all day about rumors that ICE wants to set up a new outpost on the Oregon coast. Newport officials say their airport is in the agency's sites. #orpol www.opb.org/article/2025...

Trump’s tearing down the East Wing to build himself a $350M ballroom while Americans struggle to afford health care. Senator Ruben Gallego went to the site of the Trump teardown.

Has anyone confirmed that the priceless items in the East Wing were moved out before he demolished it?

Lots of US companies have done lots of dreadful things to Americans. But the symbolism of paying to destroy the White House is hard to top.

White House "changes course"? No. Trump lied. This was always the plan, obviously. Now people can see it, is all. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Portland's No Kings protest saw more than 40,000 people marching in the streets. Read more: www.oregonlive.com/portland/202... Video by Vickie Connor/The Oregonian

Found this video while explaining the Portland Frogs to someone. Enjoy!

The president has one core job under the Constitution: to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” Not thwarted, diverted, blunted, revised or ignored. Faithfully executed.

Little Wolf of the Kumeyaay tribe giving the blessing. #NoKings #SanDiego

"This is about a handful of the wealthiest people on Earth who, in their insatiable greed, have hijacked our economy and our political system." Bernie Sanders speaking at the No Kings rally in DC. Watch here.

Outside of Portland's ICE facility last night, Kenny from South Park got married to a unicorn. The betrothed Portland couple said they decided to get hitched on site to bring some joy and fun to a dark time. "People can be fun loving people and still protest." www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

The San Xavier District of the Tohono O’odham Nation in Arizona has passed one of the most moving and powerful resolutions memorializing the role of the jaguar as a protector of the O’odham with deep cultural and spiritual ties. The resolution also calls on U.S. Fish and Wildlife to…”

AOC: And when Republicans use a legislative mechanism to gut the American health care system, we have to use a legislative mechanism in order to restore it and to fight for it.

She basically invented astrophysics. She proved the laws of chemistry, quantum mechanics, and statistical mechanics, not just gravity, applied universally. She determined the composition of the sun and primacy of hydrogen in the universe. She advised the PhDs of Frank Drake and Frank Kameny.

It’s Furry Friends Friday! 🐾♥️ Another tough week. But we are survivors. Find your joy this weekend.

Twenty years after the comedy went silent, Russia is a sadistic, warmongering fascist regime run by a mad centibillionaire. That’s a future that could be ours — whole argument of "Road to Unfreedom" — but also one we can stop — see "On Tyranny" and "On Freedom." www.nytimes.com/2000/06/18/w...

From Rep. Rosa DeLauro: The courts have decided: Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought broke the law. The American people deserve to know how their tax dollars are being spent, but time and again, Russ Vought hides the truth. prospect.org/power/2025-0...

“When you get older, you learn certain life lessons. You apply that wisdom, and suddenly you say: Hey, I’ve got a new lease on this thing. So let’s go.” A life of art, activism, and heart. R.I.P. Robert Redford. 🕊️💫

@joyannreid.bsky.social is asking the right question.This may be the most dangerous period.When the dog catches the car & realizes he can’t open the doors or satisfy its hunger. Now there’s rage, snarling and vicious humiliation at having exhausted itself pursuing something that has no real meaning.

Stephen Colbert's Emmy victory speech: "Sometimes you only truly know how much you love something when you get a sense that you might be losing it. I have never loved my country more desperately. Stay strong, be brave, and if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor!"

I'm increasingly convinced the only thing that will destroy MAGA is MAGA. After Trump departs, they will eat each other. It's already happening. The lies, hate, violence, ego, and vanity and inner fighting. Dem leadership won't step up. Corporate America is complicit. Institutions are corrupt.

EXCLUSIVE/BOMBSHELL: @bloomberg.com has obtained **18K** previously unreported emails from Jeffery Epstein's personal Yahoo account. The emails are disturbing & revelatory & reveal new details about Ghilaine Maxwell's role FREE to read www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

We warned he would attempt to become an authoritarian. We warned that Project 2025 was indeed their playbook. We warned that not voting for Harris could be a death sentence for our democracy. And, here we are.

Pritzker: When did we become a country where it's okay for the president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything, especially something we don't want? Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?

Like a deadly virus, created in the lab of bad public policy at the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 has been let loose on our nation with impacts we are all just beginning to comprehend. My latest on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

Our @ScienceMagazine paper just got published today at 11 am. today.ucsd.edu/story/tijuan...

Dr. Deb Houry (resigned from CDC yesterday) is giving live media interviews now outside the CDC. From what I can hear, she's speaking forcefully in favor of public health and against the nonsense the CDC is facing. Understand: She is a very cautious person. This means a lot! #USAnotRFK