“My own morality. My own mind. It's the only thing that can stop me.” @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Would love to know your ‘Strongmen’ thoughts.

2025 is now, officially, the worst year for job creation outside of recession since 2003. @byheatherlong.bsky.social

America has 925 billionaires as of this year. Collectively they have a record $6.9 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth. When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Johnson: If we lose the House majority, the radical left will impeach President Trump.

The face of the 2025 Republican Party.

By now the broad story of USAID’s ruin has been widely told: The decree handed down by President Donald Trump; Elon Musk and Russell Vought to scuttle the agency and undo decades of humanitarian work in the name of austerity. 1/x

“By the third week in February, they were on track to wipe out 90% of USAID’s work. In just a month’s time, the small band of appointees had set in motion its destruction…it was time to party. They traded congratulatory speeches and cut into a sheet cake.” Then people died of Cholera.

i have thoughts...thoughts drawn from the history of fascism...Mussolini had this level or micro managing including which fonts could be used in newspapers

It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted

“If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed….....and we will deserve it.” Lindsey Graham May 3, 2016

Median age of first-time homebuyer has climbed to 40 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Hope people are realizing that rigging the 2026 and 2028 elections have always been the plan.

Retired intelligence analysts confirm what the political scientists are telling us — and what the world outside is telling us — the goal of these people is the end of law, the end of democracy, and the end of a recognizable republic. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Bannon says Tr*ump is acting as a vehicle of divine providence. This is an old authoritarian propaganda theme.

Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

Republicans can’t win on their policies, so they are trying to dodge accountability by rewriting the rules. These lawmakers are going out of their way to silence the will of the people and deliberately undermine our democracy.

Um...

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...

How it started: late stage capitalism How it’s going: early stage authoritarianism

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

The alleged Charlie Kirk shooter proudly wearing his Trump costume for Halloween in 2017

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

SSRIs are used in countries worldwide and benefit millions of people. The United States is the ONLY country where guns are THE leading cause of death among kids.

Reuters/Ipsos poll: – 38% support Trump deploying the Nat'l Guard to DC. 46%opposed – Among independents, it's just 28% in favor, 51% opposed – Trump's approval remains at 40%. www.reuters.com/world/us/jus...

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

When it takes a good engineer two days to recreate an accessible version "design studio" that DOGE people are extolling, you know the "design studio" sucks. May I present to you americabydesign.fail

Meanwhile JD Vance is giving an interview today saying that World War II ended with "negotiations." I assume he means this:

Re the Smithsonian

How evil is American slavery, segregation, and racist subjugation? So evil that Hitler’s Nazi legal scholars in the 1930s studied U.S. racial laws—Jim Crow segregation, immigration quotas, and bans on interracial marriage—when drafting Germany’s Nuremberg Laws, (continued…)

There would be an immediate cease fire if Russia immediately ceases firing.

You have more money than God. But you want incentives to do good, moral things?

If we survive this administration, the US will need Nuremberg-like trials and convictions, a truth and reconciliation commission going back to the Reconstruction era, a Constitutional 2.0 Commission, and an FDR-like rebuild for the 21st century and beyond. And that’s just to ‘reset’ the system.

"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations" cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

We told you they were going to do project 2025 and it’s 2025 and they’re doing project 2025

What a graph

Firing the prosecutor of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell doesn’t make the problem go away. It intensifies awareness of a coverup.

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings: -Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove) -Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%) news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...

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Hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. The Navy has decided to stop sharing the data.

Nation Sets Off Fireworks To Commemorate Surviving Another Day

We’ve gone from military invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan to an invasion of America. How far we’ve fallen as a nation and society. Tragic.

poll after poll shows that Trump's big bill is very unpopular