Just remembering those heady days in 24 when our economy was the envy of the world, before tariffs, and the strait was still open that many of us thought were unbearable.

Never forget.

The GOP.

What he says…

two decades confirmed something that belongs on the front page of every newspaper in this country. The Epstein estate paid a financial settlement to a woman who has accused Donald Trump of sexually abusing her when she was a minor.

Country music icon warned of Donald Trump inflicting ‘cruelty and suffering’ before death - PennLive.com

Loyalty to an Authoritarian is no virtue and being biased in favor of the Constitution is no vice.

Only political cowards “struggle” to respond.

🎯 🎯

So building on my previous post one might ask about the membership of the Republican Party as to their state of mind. Are they all traitors? Well unfortunately it’s complicated. It’s not dissimilar to what was asked about inhabitants of the Confederacy after the Civil War concluded.

Donald Trump is the fruit of the Republican Party. Blaming him for changing the Party is wishful thinking, naive, and dangerous in that it propagates the notion that the Rep Party is run by patriots. It is not.

his talent, which is evident in his inability to create anything of lasting value. He destroys things and profits off the anxiety & chaos that produces. It’s a strategy the Rep’s have long utilized which is why DJT fit so nicely within their framework, why they are lost in offering any resistance.

against the government over the last 7decades is what’s to blame. The roots of which spread back to the anti-New Deal propaganda spread by the oligarchs of the day. Trump is an opportunist, he responds to and acts upon conditions as he finds them. He doesn’t create them, that’s not

The modern Republican Party has never been a good-faith governing party and Donald Trump is the fruit of that bad faith rather than the other way around. Ideas matter & the blatant denigration that the Republican Party has consistently leveled

Whoa‼️ This article from 2014: US Border Agents Intentionally Stepped in Front of Moving Vehicles to Justify Shooting at Them. And remember, Jonathan Ross was a firearms trainer, a veteran, and spent over a decade working for DHS.

Unmask ICE immediately.

"America is an oil company with an army." —George Carlin

At the moment Trump reminds me of Potter, from it’s a wonderful life

Rob Reiner made some great movies but he was also unafraid to speak the truth, and was one of the public voices who knew you don’t squander your platform, and only got louder about opposing evil fucks as he got older. Legend.

As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.” Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.

Apparently CNN is now Harry Enten land. What gives?

A Senate deal that abandons health subsidies… The US Congress is too generously insulated from the financial pressures that the rest of us have to endure so acting upon abstractions is too easily rationalized. I will be changing my party affiliation from Democrat to Independent this morning.

The only thing Bari Weiss exposed in leaving the NYT is that she doesn’t have what it takes to be a contender. That’s what Larry Ellison found appealing about her, she’ll buckle under the right kind of pressure, so she’s not really any kind of threat to the oligarchy.

Maybe the most ironic thing about Trump’s disregard for our institutional norms is that it was respect for those very norms that shielded him and kept him out of prison.

THE DAY AHEAD: Judge demands answers about disappearance of sentencing memo (After which a reference to Jan 6 and a reference to Trump were erased) youtube.com/shorts/Kn_xE...

Okay I cannot stop laughing at this one

Breathtaking, unsettling, healing: how US artist Kara Walker transformed a Confederate monument - The Guardian

This is bad, why is no one talking about it www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The so called moderate republicans must think they can save the Republican Party from itself. They are mistaken. Maybe they know this. Maybe that’s why they’re holding on so tightly. They refuse to accept that this administration’s assault on our democracy is an assault upon them as well.

A Chicago citizen confronts the hypocrisy of a fellow Hispanic man working for ICE, shaming him and making a powerful point by asking how his family ended up in the United States.

Does anyone else find this offensive?

No frickin way #allythepiper #piperally #freebird

Holy shit. This legit gave me chills. Texas State Rep. Ann Johnson clapped back at GOP members amid Wednesday's redistricting vote. WHITE WOMEN, this is the model. We have more power than others. We are the last to be silenced. We have a responsibility to SPEAK so others are HEARD.

Private army for the president. What could go wrong? Pretorian Guards. Highly vetted loyalist extremists who will die for Trump. These 600 will kill American Citizens & smile/laugh while doing it. And the media is complicit as always by not calling it out for what it is.

How John Roberts Created the Anti-constitutional Monster Devouring Washington - Vanity Fair

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This party needs to wake up. These guys aren't screwing around... They're assassins when it comes to the way they weaponize grievance and the way they play politics. Enough! What more goddamn evidence do we need? They have rolled back the last half century in real time!"

Reminder: we don't need Ghislaine Maxwell to get to the truth. It's sitting in files inside the DOJ that they could release TODAY. She is a liar, a child rapist, and a sex trafficker. Blanche is meeting with her to buy her silence, nothing more.

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.