open.substack.com/pub/houseofm... “Your world is run by sick men who use rape as a way to seal their bonds of power. That is what is going on. How has that not been obvious to you by now?”

What an easy governing philosophy Republicans have. Just blame every problem on Biden, Democrats, and migrants. Then you never have to solve anything and can blame all your failures on other people. This is especially useful when you are grossly unqualified for your position.

If releasing the Epstein files would end your presidency, then your presidency must end. It’s that simple.

freemusicarchive.org/music/john-l... Jeffrey Epstein Skibidi Release the Epstein Files!

Trump won’t survive this. No, that doesn’t mean it’s going to happen immediately…or…even soon, but…Trump isn’t going to be able to put this one back in the bottle. He is not. He has become…a bigger liability…than he is an asset. The people who need to know that…do. No one survives that…politically.

John Stewart distilled the essence of Republicans.

A $64,000 Thailand beach vacation package being auctioned off at Mar-a-Lago as Americans continue to struggle with high grocery prices

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

👇🎯 Unfortunately, this is true & probably the only way. Voters need to realize that hating government, & illegally defunding & dismantling it, & pretending that we can run a modern society/economy on Ronald Reagan's shabby talking point & worn copies of Atlas Shrugged & Mein Kampf is untenable.

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One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power. The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever. But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.

With Trump’s massive tax cuts for the wealthy currently exploding the deficit, and now this, Trump and his oligarch cronies want to make us debt slaves from birth to death while truly owning nothing, while they buy bigger yachts and more mansions.

ICE violently tackles man with special needs—for being "noncompliant." Agents claim he refused to answer questions—neighbors say he is nonverbal autistic. "Why they beating up this special boy?" said employee. "They should call a city doctor." Family Dollar store in Little Village, Chicago.

Thinking this level of inequality is unsustainable isn’t radical, thinking it isn’t is

This guy is a legend Expressing the collective thoughts of the world.

The DNC didn't win last night; the fired-up Democratic voters did.

Escalate: Democrats should announce that, going forward, for each week we are forced to endure this GOP shutdown they will reveal one more demand. Each demand should be universally popular, and fiscally neutral or positive. They should start with increased tax on billionaires to fund the ACA.

When they say they’d never support Fuentes, ask them about what they used to say about Trump. This is from a now deleted piece on The Blaze from Matt Walsh

He says they lost because he wasn’t on the ballot. So he announced to all that they sold their soul for absolutely nothing once he keels over.

Yes. Remember when Reagan died, and EVERYONE made him sound like he was the country's savior? My head was exploding because all I could remember about his years in office was that everyone hated him. Trickle this.

I continue to wonder when Americans will decide enough is enough. As Frederick Douglass reminds us: “The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

He wants to kill Obamacare, but has no other plan. He is not satisfied with his deportation operation because his ICE agents are not abusive enough. He plans to continue murdering people in the Caribbean Sea because the law and these humans are of no concern to him. All this thanks to John Roberts.

The person who is currently running our country has lost his mind and it’s time we start talking about it.

Trump filed lawsuits over jokes, tweets, and news articles, but not once over any of the countless allegations of child rape. I feel like more people should mention that.

Reminder that Republicans are forcing tens of millions of Americans to lose access to food & healthcare on purpose so they can protect Epstein’s accomplices in child rape from public accountability and protect billionaires & corporations from paying taxes. And they’ve added more than $2T to our debt

Trump, the idiot, cannot appreciate the intelligence of other leaders. He simply has no capacity to understand real intelligence because he has none.

Anyone who would so nonchalantly tear down a huge chunk of the White House would sell ANY and all top secret information to any foreign power.

It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 84th day out of the last 96. 12 days of work in over 3 months. 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.

Ahem

Congress basically doesn’t exist at this point

i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.

One resident told me his parents were in his backyard and got gassed as the wind blew it their direction. I saw terrified small children out, asking why ICE was there and why Donald Trump is doing this. Angry neighbors wondered aloud how the “Nazis, the literal Gestapo” were outside their homes.

My father -- volunteered for the army and experienced the Bulge in Europe. My father-in-law -- volunteered as a Marine. Experienced the Pacific war at Okinawa. Both would have vomitted at donald trump. I pity trump's children not having a real man as father to follow into a meaningful adulthood.

Because even liberal politicians & press are so used to treating Trump as the Great White Exception, they’re missing the scale of the crisis here. If Congress doesn’t impeach and remove Trump for straight-up plundering the Treasury, it will break the tax system. Millions will not file, will not pay.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... When leaders of Young Republican groups exchange texts professing “love for Hitler”is more than anti-Semitic—it’s antihuman. It’s a proud refusal to be bound by the most basic standard of goodness, a deliberate expression of contempt for everything decent.

Also the media. In what world does a president posting videos of him wearing a crown and shitting all over Americans from a jet not make every news show and page?

Authoritarianism doesn't happen in a vacuum. It requires enablers. When a leader posts fantasies of monarchical rule, and his entire party looks the other way, they become complicit. The issue isn't just Trump's posts; it's the institutional decay of a party that refuses to be a check on his power.

"There are no fixed definitions in a mafia state. Law is a plaything, evidence is an illusion, and as an Uzbek dissident explained to me twenty years ago in a way I now understand far better, 'Suspicious is the same as guilty.'" @sarahkendzior.bsky.social sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-...

The Republicans have in effect shut down the legislative branch of the U.S. government and handed those powers to the dictator in the White House. No one cleared this with the American people.

Trump can simply give $40 billion in US tax money to his pals in Argentina, openly admit it is for the intended purpose of keeping the MAGA allied right wing government in power, and pocket billions for himself. The US has no laws anymore and that's your money they are stealing.

We are living in the age of monsters, @joshtpm.bsky.social writes: "They are so much more powerful than ordinary people, mostly but not in every case because of wealth, that they distort the whole fabric of society and politics." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-a...