NEW: The Trump admin took steps on Wednesday to maximize the pain of the government shutdown, halting billions of dollars in green energy and infrastructure funds for Democratic-led states while readying a plan to lay off federal workers, perhaps in next day or two www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/u...

UPDATE: Tyler Robinson is a WHITE male; not a trans individual, woman, or POC. Charlie Kirk incessantly dehumanized every group that wasn’t a White, Christian male, and yet his fate was decided by someone he would’ve revered. Think about that.

The guy who they believe killed Charlie Kirk is a 22 year old white Christian guy from Utah named Tyler Robinson. Reports say he's Mormon. Will MAGA demand we round up all young white men? Will we have to make Mormonism illegal? Will the Christians be sent to camps?

Hey Folks, Future King of Healthcare here! The radical left recently leaked REAL footage of a date I went on! Frankly, I think I look fantastic, and I agree with everything said! Take a look! #RFKJR #MAHA #MakeAmericaHealthyAgain #MAGA #Trump #MakeAmericaGreatAgain

The Trump administration can't circumvent constitutional protections by sending people away to ICE detention centers in remote places like the Florida Everglades wetlands. We'll see the administration in court.

"Instead of being worried about the fingers he was missing, 16 years old, he kept pointing to his mouth & telling me to feed him. He had no fingers left on his hands, that had been blown away." A US doctor talked to me from Gaza City about starvation. Shocking testimony. zeteo.com/p/bombs-go-o...

Thank you to Evelyn Ch'ien at @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social for these insightful questions.

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i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

Instead of ripping away health care from millions of people, Republicans should crack down on waste in Medicare Advantage. Tactics like "upcoding"—when for-profit insurance companies exaggerate medical problems to pad their profits—cost taxpayers billions. That’s real waste.

Elena Kagan once refused to accept a gift basket of bagels and lox from Russ & Daughters.

Trump is so addicted to tacky opulence—and so in thrall to his ego—that he is willing to debase the presidency and the country by accepting this wildly inappropriately opulent bribe from Qatar’s royal family. You're the servant of the people, man. Not their king.

The brilliant @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...

If anyone out there was undecided on whether Trump is operationalizing a precise, coordinated plan to destroy our democracy so he can rule until he dies, the move to shut down Act Blue, the primary way Democrats’ campaigns are funded, should be the final proof point.

Trump has set up a new club where CEOs, tech bros, and foreign oligarchs can pay $500,000 to join in order to get access to the Trump Cabinet who will all be there regularly. Just because the grift is all public doesn’t mean this isn’t the most corrupt White House in history.

(Bloomberg) - Insiders including Meta Platforms Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg, Oracle Corp.’s Safra Catz and JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Jamie Dimon cashed out shares worth billions of dollars before President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements roiled markets. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Social Security system is crashing, locking senior citizens out for long stretches nearly every day. And Trump's solution is to lay off 1000 more workers and slash the IT budget by 50%. Start asking if the purpose is to crash our economy and society. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

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Trump isn’t cutting waste and abuse. He’s cutting programs that help regular people - like Medicaid - to fund tax cuts for billionaires and corporations. He only closes agencies that were stopping his rich friends bilk consumers.

Trade deficit is up. Stock market is crashing. Gas prices are rising. Consumer confidence is down. Grocery costs are soaring. Trump is terrible at managing the economy. Why? Because all he cares about is the billionaires. Not us.

I wrote a short explainer for my Substack of the biggest (but strangely under the radar) corruption of the Trump White House: the Trump crypto coin. A conduit for secret, shameless bribery of the President. www.chrismurphyct.com/p/trumps-big...

broke: the Gulf of Mexico woke: the Gulf of America bespoke: the Gulf of Exploding Starships

Lesotho ‘shocked and embarrassed’ by mockery in Trump’s Congress speech, says foreign minister

Horrific: One of the USAID programs Trump just terminated was set to deliver lifesaving treatment to hundreds of thousands of starving kids abroad. Much of it is now sitting in a Georgia warehouse. Rubio's promise to preserve urgent assistance was a lie. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1921...

The corporations and billionaires who run them are taking over our government. Five major financial institutions were all under federal investigation for fraud. All five cases were just dropped by Trump and Musk. It's now legal to cheat consumers. www.npr.org/2025/02/27/n...

We make our argument everywhere. Everyday. In every forum. My column for Fox News explaining how Trump is betraying the working class voters who supported him by turning our government over to the billionaires and corporations. www.foxnews.com/opinion/dona...

The quickening pace of corruption - the brazen use of the White House to enrich himself and his friends - is stunning. Soon, before we know it, government will no longer serve us at all. It will just be a mechanism to enrich billionaires loyal to Trump.

Richard Diebenkorn Coffee (1959)

American institutions—from the media to Congress—continue to underreact to the unraveling of our democracy. Overseas our media would not hesitate to call what we’re living through a full-blown autocratic coup. Here's my attempt at the story they should write: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

Pope Francis' remarkable rebuke of JD Vance and Trumpism lays bare an essential truth: Trump is overseeing a massive and systematic abandonment of obligation to the global poor, and Vance's theological obfuscation can't make that disappear. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1914...

Brilliant essay by Greisa Martinez Rosas www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...

Elon Musk isn’t cutting costs—he’s turning America into X. No morals. No accountability. Seizing our private data + dismantling government to fuel a power grab. We'll break down the risks of DOGE & the consequences of complicity on this week’s Assembly Required. Stay tuned on Thursday.

Well done, Mr. Musk. #draintheswamp www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

Brilliance from @newyorker.com by #CoraFrazier. "Developmental Milestones of Your Elon Musk" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202....

Here is a nice mushroom

From Bradley Hope. In an email sent at 7:30PM yesterday, AG Pam Bondi announced the immediate closure of both the Kleptocracy Initiative and Task Force KleptoCapture. The units recovered billions in stolen assets since 2010. whalehunting.projectbrazen.com/breaking-chr...

Trump is keeping just 290 of the 10k employees of USAid.

The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

"Without treatment, virus levels in people with H.I.V. will quickly spike, hobbling the immune systems of the infected people and increasing the odds that they will spread the virus to others." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...

2 February 1927 | A Czech Jewish girl, Inge Fischerová, was born in Prague. She was deported to #Auschwitz from the Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯

This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.