“… Marco Rubio today on Russia-Ukraine: ‘It’s not our war. It’s a war on another continent.’” (Meidas+) Does that mean you recommend pulling back on goading Venezuela into a war - “on another continent.”

There will come a time when people of good faith are empowered to uphold the law. When that time comes, Illinois will have the testimony and records needed to pursue justice to its fullest extent. The truth of what Trump and his masked agents are doing in Chicago will be told.

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Jack Smith: “beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power.” Trump is an illegitimate president. He should not have been on the 2024 ballot. 🧵

“If three-quarters of American households are living below the line it actually takes to be secure, that is not a fringe problem. It is the country. It is us.” Read more 👇 open.substack.com/pub/madmothe...

Republicans won’t let Jack Smith testify in a public hearing because they know he will speak the truth.

Trump acts as though his subsidy for farmers is a gift. Remind MAGA that there would be no need for it, if he hadn’t assigned the nonsensical tariffs. Remember when he rolled out a chart that made no sense? It looked like something put together by a child the night before from Wikipedia info.

If only there was a mechanism to remove a mentally disabled president from office. Oh, wait… If only there was a VP and cabinet majority that understood their duty granted by the 25th amendment…

As I wrote in a recent Substack article: “A convenient dress rehearsal for a new kind of American empire, where billion-dollar weapons enforce the interests of fossil-fuel oligarchs.” Read it here 👇

We’re told poverty is a fringe problem at the bottom. But if you actually run the numbers, our “official” poverty line is a lie—and up to 75% of American households are living on the wrong side of it. open.substack.com/pub/madmothe...

There are so many school shootings that two students at Brown experienced their second one.

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The Line,the Cliff, and the Lie We’re told poverty is a fringe problem at the bottom. But if you actually run the numbers, our “official” poverty line is a lie—and up to 75% of American households are living on the wrong side of it. open.substack.com/pub/madmothe...

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.

The secret airport deportation program denies victims any semblance of due process.

There won’t be peace in this world unless Russia is defeated unconditionally and reeducated into changing its collective psychology.

The Line, the Cliff, and the Lie We’re told poverty is a fringe problem at the bottom. But if you actually run the numbers, our “official” poverty line is a lie—and up to 75% of American households are living on the wrong side of it. open.substack.com/pub/madmothe...

The release of the Epstein files is required by law to happen on December 19th. On December 18th, we will "officially" be at war with Venezuela. Bank on it.

Hundreds of kids in S Carolina are being quarantined right now because of a measles outbreak. I don’t have patience for niceties when it comes to this crap, so if you’re an anti-vaxxer, keep your damn kids at home and don’t travel for the holidays. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

Mandan has a plan for universal childcare in NYC! Can he pull it off in a country that is more intent on creating billionaires than on basic Iiving necessities for the rest of us?

Hard to believe this is real but it is — do better, Time 😕

ICE is asking for people to quit calling its hotline to report an undocumented girl named 'Anne Frank' hiding in the attics of Republican lawmakers. Please don't call 1-866-DHS-2-ICE (1-866-347-2423) for this reason, or to report pregnant foreigner… See more

Exactly! Demicrats, please don’t pander to corruption like Trump and his Plutocrat Republicans www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/o...

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

Now we have seized an oil tanker to advance Trump’s regime change for oil that I wrote about last week open.substack.com/pub/madmothe...

How about the disgusting behavior of the Trump audience in PA last night? Guffawing and cheering at his racist and cruel rhetoric? These are not Americans I want to claim. All of the immigrants I have ever known embody the qualities we should expect in Americans.

Remind me: Did Brett Kavanaugh include having your wedding band cut in pieces among the minor inconveniences of being arrested by ICE as a US citizen?

The first paragraph of Judge Breyer‘s opinion granting an injunction in the California National Guard case is a banger.

I’m with Olivia! 🎯🎯🎯

Trump has given up on his biggest campaign promise. Now he mocks the cost of living crisis and calls affordability a "con job." Meanwhile, corporations that have the power to jack up prices, suppress wages, and bust unions are laughing all the way to the bank (and funding Trump's ballroom).

Be a MacKenzie: MacKenzie Scott Announces $7 Billion of Charitable Giving This Year www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...

Congrats, Miami, on the win! Eileen Higgins has won the 2025 mayoral election becoming the city’s first Democratic mayor in 30 years. And a huge thank-you to all the poll workers and volunteers who made it possible! 💙🌊

“Donnie Two Dolls” is back! Out of touch with any but his ultra-wealthy friends. Who were those in his PA audience - booing the press & cheering his tariffs? He treats them like they are idiots, and they respond in kind. He’s encouraging media monopolies so he can continue this gaslighting.

#Felon47 divided the country, extorted Zelenskyy, tried to steal an election, incited an insurrection, stole confidential documents and banged a porn star. That’s his legacy. He knows he’s incapable of achieving anything good. He’s hoping his ballroom will remind people of him. #RemoveTrump #Resist

This is especially horrifying since Trump via Vought have gutted and/or redirected our various national security forces.

We are dealing with such corruption in every aspect of our government, I don't know how we undo the damage.

It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.

@Madmotherwrites.com is a huge fan of the MeidasTouch Network. They report the news that I most trust and turn to every day. It inspires me to keep fighting against the fascist regime. Thank you Ben, Brett, and Jordy! @meidastouch.com

Disgusting. It will take a long time to regain trust with countries who were once allies. #USDemocracy www.bbc.com/news/article...

people.com/immigrants-a... America Try to walk in their shoes Unbelievable CRUELTY They completed the long process of becoming a U.S. citizen. They were taken out of line at their Naturalization Ceremony and told their oath-taking would canceled All due to their country of origin Outrage

The next Democratic administration should expand the court. There’s no other way to redeem SCOTUS at this point.

Rand Paul: "It has not been the history of the US to kill people who are out of combat. Even if there is a war, which most of us dispute -- that a bunch of people who are unarmed allegedly running drugs is a war -- we still don't kill people when they're incapacitated ... it's illegal and immoral."

Of course criminal slumlord Jared Kushner is behind Paramount’s hostile $108B bid to acquire Warner Bros. Faking a Middle East peace mission and illegally accepting $2B from Saudi Arabia in exchange for US intel wasn’t enough for this crook. They should’ve jailed him long ago.

It's been almost three weeks now and they still haven't released the Epstein files because withholding exculpatory evidence is clearly what you do when you're "innocent."

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 What can we do about this? Here's one good idea. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/want-to-know-the-real-problem-with

I have more respect for the Iraqi journalist who threw a shoe at George W Bush than any of the cowards in the current White House press pool.

Breaking News: Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois signed a bill that restricts immigration enforcement near state courthouses and makes it easier to sue ICE agents.

And even if you're right, the punishment for drug smuggling isn't death.