Never forget: what is really going on, and has always gone on when totalitarian regimes collapse toward genocide, is super-rich but corrupt people hiring or bribing psychopathic politicians to whip up hatred. Once half the population hates the other half, the genocide can start and money flows.

One thing we should realize: criminals force or lure recruits for their gangs into committing crimes, as a commitment. The same happens with Trumpites: they lure people into being and acting more and more racist, to get them to commit to fascism. Don't be fooled, but above all HELP OTHERS avoid.

If you never read the book or saw the movie, you missed one of the greatest Pulitzer Prize winning sagas ever written. To dishonor Alex Haley like this is disgraceful.

Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft are all planning huge layoffs. Amazon got $17.5B in federal tax breaks last year. Jeff Bezos is worth $270B. Meta saved $13.7B in taxes. Mark Zuckerberg is worth $210B. Microsoft saved $12.5B last year. Its CEO is worth $1.3B. This is what a rigged economy looks like.

The Democrats keep forgetting that people in Trump's current situation frequently seize power and start massive genocide. The time to stop it is now--fall will be too late.

Shpiner, Robert B. 2026. “The Chainsaw Brought Down World Health.” Los Angeles Times, May 12, A13. Musks’ famous chainsaw. Trashing USAID and related programs has already killed a million, “may kill 14 million people by 2030, 4.5 million of them under 5.” Figures from The Lancet.

truth matters!!

Praise gawd these folks are rocket scientists, gynecologists, interior decorators, contractors, Eugenically created PHD genes…. Do they do windows?

Democrats MUST unite behind the US Constitution. The current levels of dissention in the Democratic Party are suicidal. We are facing in California a likely win by a Republican for governor because the Dems are so divided that the two Republican serious candidates may be the two main vote-getters.

This is exactly why language matters: “women were given the vote” frames equality as a gift from men, instead of hard won political power extracted through organized resistance. Nobody gave women anything. Women fought, marched, strategized, endured violence, went to prison and died for it.

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people, but the silence over that by the good people." -Martin Luther King Jr. #SpeakUp #Act #RiseUp #StrongerTogether #LFG credit: IG @susanitalareportera Tucson AZ #MayDay

Odd how just after the shooting attempt, the POTUS made a pitch for his 400+M ballroom, saying it is secure, yet has done nothing for every other American that is at risk from gun violence. If you ever needed a signal that it is truly them...and the rest of us. THIS IS IT!

The Democrats should be a very great deal more scared than they appear to be, and do a great deal more about it. The Trump admin has already spoken of canceling the fall elections. This would end democracy and open the door to political murders.

The richest Americans saw their net worth soar 120% from 2017 to 2025. The top 1% now control $55.8 trillion in assets — more than the G.D.P. of the United States and China combined. Meanwhile, millions of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Still wondering if inequality is out of control?

I didn't mean to turn this into a short thread, but once I started ranting ... So here it is, on one page: skywriter.blue/@georgemonbi...

One consolation: at least Trump has not attracted the intelligent and creative. Fascism in the 1920s attracted an astonishing number of Europe's finest minds. Most very quickly saw through it and dropped it but some like Leni Riefenstahl and Martin Heidegger stayed fascist.

For the FIRST TIME EVER, renewables provided more electricity than natural gas in the U.S. for the entire month of March 👏🏼 👏🏼 In spite of relentless attacks and setbacks, clean energy is showing up and doing its thing. Imagine if we scaled it instead of derailing it.

You’re probably going to hear a lot about what the rich really pay in taxes today. This chart tells the real story.

Meanwhile, the typical American will pay a federal income tax rate of 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like. [Via @itep.org]

More and more attacks on science and on the environment. People, get serious. This is the most dangerous of all Trump's behaviors.

Repost. My response is the same. They're going to have to put limits on numbers of executive orders and pardons too.

The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed... "How will you pay for it?" The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts... "How much do you need?" It doesn't have to be this way.

Facts spoken by an ex-trumper...

Trump's new budget ends a whole range of social programs. He is rapidly eliminating ALL programs that help people, to feed his military adventuring and the huge subsidies and giveaways to giant corporations.

Now Trump has issued an order to, in effect, destroy the US Forest Service, leaving our forests without protection from diseases, pests, fires, abuses, and overexploitation. This absolutely must be stopped. Call your senators and congresspeople.

Never forget the millions of people that voted for a pedophilic con man to turn us into a shithole country.

FFS. Read it and weep. Then call your reps “And they’re destroying it. Not because it’s expensive …Not because it’s inefficient — decentralized, place-based research is the only kind of forest science that works. They’re destroying it because science is an obstacle.”

Fourteen people have died in ICE custody so far this year. By mid-February, the agency was detaining more than 68,000 immigrants one of the highest totals on record, according to federal data.

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

It is the end of democracy if we don’t tax Elon Musk and his fellow billionaires at a punishing rate and limit the amount of money anyone can spend to influence politics.

No Kings rally in Riverside, CA, about 1000 people.

Hiltzik, Michael. 2026. “What U.S. Could Have Funded Instead of War.” Los Angeles Times, March 26. “‘$11.3 billion would have fully funded the training of 100,000 new nurses…’ Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.).” Ro Khanna: the $200 bn the Pentagon wants “’would pay for free college for every American.’”

“What you won’t get out of this is anything approaching “accountability.” You’ll get overly lawyered-up systems that prevent you from doing useful things online, and eventually the end of the open internet…” Excellent analysis by @masnick.com

This has been the GOP's "starve-the-beast" scheme for nearly 50 years. Meanwhile, millions suffer and struggle to get ahead as the rich get richer. See the problem here?

The death toll from canceling USAID is now over 800,000. The death toll from shutting down other medical programs and all action on climate change is probably close. Yet the media ignore this. Trump and gang are murdering hundreds of thousands of people--working up toward Hitler's record.

My father served in OSS during WWII, and then was detailed to Germany to help reconstruct the educational system. A word of the day was "de-Nazification." We now require that in the US. If we ever escape from neo-Nazi tyranny, we will have to do it.

The Wall Street Journal — hardly an outpost of left-wing propaganda — reported yesterday on the results of an investigation conducted into Trump's weaponization of ICE. Here's what you should know (plus some additional thoughts)... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-report-you-need-to-read

Since the orange felon wants attention today: NEVER STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES. NEVER STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES. NEVER STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES. NO MATTER WHAT.

Time for a new organization: SAVE AMERICAN SCIENCE. The US led the world in science throughout most of the 20th century and into the 21st. Trump has virtually destroyed science at the federal level and is attacking it in universities and schools. We can't survive this way. FIGHT!

The national debt just hit a record $39 trillion. Rich Americans used to finance the government by paying taxes. Now, they finance the government by lending it money and collecting interest payments — profiting as the rest of us pay them back. It's a big switcheroo you need to understand.

Remember: It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

When 3.5% of a population actively participates in sustained, peaceful protest, it can topple authoritarian regimes — like the one currently in the Oval Office. We need 12 million people to show up on March 28 to get to 3.5%. Will you be one of them? Find out how at nokings.org

Alright then. 1st: it grows more apparent, by the day, that these ppl fear women. Forcing women to stay home, & have babies, in this economy? After disassembling social welfare? A 1 income family? HA! Men are already selling sperms to get cash for food & fuel. www.ms.now/ali-velshi/p...