The biggest problem with all the Starbucks closing is the reduction in the number of clean restrooms for the public to access. Look at this nice clean public restroom in London. Why can’t American cities have nice public restrooms? I would even pay a dollar to use one or tip an attendant.

In the 60’s the ratio of CEO pay to employee was 20 to 1. Now it is almost 500 to 1. One way to fix income inequality is a 20 to 1 maximum law. If the CEO gets a raise, then you get one too. Move from rigged-markets to fair-markets for both labor and capital. End the “trickle-down” scam.

Undocumented immigrants don’t get Medicaid, the ACA or Medicare, but I would rather my tax dollars pay for their health care than to bail out soybean farmers who voted to inflict Trump, fascism, and Project 2025 onto us. I voted for universal health care. They can have what they voted for instead.

“I can’t believe that Trump backed Project 2025 all along and lied to us!” —- Really? You can’t believe that a lifelong con artist who has been found liable of fraud and defamation in courts of law and is a convicted felon, who stole top national security secrets and attempted a coup lied to you?

There are a lot of great podcasts out there. I just found another one. Stacey Abrams is such a great communicator. Listen to “Assembly Required” https://youtu.be/U4KLoPehdQc?si=rWgJP0DgknX7YEbH

This is Donald Trump’s MAGA America. The is the America that Republicans have sought since the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 so they could get giant unnecessary tax cuts for the superwealthy — an unholy alliance between the racist and the greedy and the theocrats.

Republicans have a trifecta and can pass their spending bill at any time. They don’t need Democratic votes. The Senate filibuster is an arbitrary Senate rule. Republicans want the government to stay shut down to prevent release of the Epstein files likely showing that Trump raped underage girls.

“Bou-quet”… “The Lady of the House speaking…” https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c511ym2r2xpo

Republicans have a trifecta and could pass their healthcare-cutting spending bill if they really wanted. Both parties use the U.S. Senate filibuster to hide behind. It is not in the U.S. Constitution. It is an arbitrary Senate rule. Scrap the filibuster.

Yet another horrific accident at Fountain and Crescent Heights. There will probably be another one tomorrow. The sooner they redo Fountain and slow it down for good the better. #WeHo

This Republican trifecta will have largely passed Project 2025 by the midterms. Therefore, we need to look to the future and ask ourselves what we want to build on the ashes of what Project 2025 destroys. It will take one blue wave to stop the S.S. Trumptanic and a second blue wave to turn the […]

A podcast conversation between two of my favorites: Politics Girl and Healther Cox Richardson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAgukwt5Ox4

Quick… while the government is shut down…. someone start a new one with universal health care.

Keep asking. Where are the missing 1200 people from Aligator Alcatraz? Were they trafficked? Sold into slavery? In a mass grave? Maybe people were right to call it “Alligator Auschwitz” after all. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/25/alligator_alcatraz

Blue State Governors, We know Trump is a fascist. We know he is criminally insane. We know Project 2025 is happening. Congress is impotent. This is your moment. Other than running for President in 2028, what coordinated response can you do today? Declare fiscal autonomy? Form compacts?

Any coordinated blue state response or moves toward autonomy yet?

Just had the yearly COVID booster and flu shot. If you need me I will be chilling out on the sofa.

Bonus points to the California Gubernatorial Candidate who starts using words like “independence” and “autonomy” rather than plotting a future run to be President of a country that may be disintegrating.

It is always so depressing to wait in a long line a bank or a post office with nine teller windows but only two teller windows open. (Not everything can be done online.)

It is great that Democrats are going to the mat for subsidies to buy for-profit health insurance. Think of how even better it would be if Democrats were fighting this hard for Medicare-for-All.

When you are taking the subway in Bedrock. Metro Los Angeles Vermont/Beverly Station #transit #losangeles

“I’m not on Medicaid or “Obamacare” or the ACA. This healthcare fight doesn’t affect me.” — Actually, it does. Everyone else’s premiums and emergency room wait times are going to dramatically increase to offset the tens of millions newly uninsured.

Suggested Response to Trump cutting off the funding to 16 Blue States: These 16 states should form their own independent joint infrastructure bank to fund their own projects that Trump and MAGA cannot touch.

There are 15 blue state trifectas. Since Trump is specifically targeting us for retaliation, it would be great if the donor state Governors formed a joint response. There is power in numbers.

AOC is going to make an amazing President in the future. https://youtu.be/9KPifVxK92w?si=Xq6_a2b3OxC_7GpD

If a President can dictatorally cancel spending that Congress has already appropriated, then we no longer live in a democracy but a dictatorship, and the USA that we have known in already over. We need a lot bolder action than mere lectures about “norms” and illegality at this point.

This “union” is a farce and California gets a raw deal. We pay far more than we get back, we only get 2 Senators for 40 million people, the same as Wyoming with 570 thousands, and red states can vote fascism onto us. It is time for California, “Pacifica, the blue states in general to secede […]

Trump administration just canceled green climate projects in CA, CO, CT, DE, HI, IL, MD, MA, MN, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OR, VT, WA Why are blue states staying in a union where we pay the bills, get nothing back, and have fascism foisted upon us?

Since federal health care subsidies have been gutted anyway, this would be a good time for blue states to switch to single-payer health care instead of subsidizing greedy for-profit health insurance corporations.

New video by Mrs. Betty Bowers: “Protecting Pedophiles for Tax Cuts.” Exploring Republicans’ eagerness to shield adults who rape children in order to ensure the GOP can continue to give billionaires tax cuts, take away healthcare from ordinary Americans, and kidnap refugees. Glory! […]

House Speaker Mike Johnson's refusal to swear in Adelita Grijalva, leaving Arizona's 7th District without a Congresswoman, shows that even if Democrats win the midterms and/in 2028, Republicans will simply refuse to swear in the winners who aren't them. Then what?

Madonna rejects Elon Musk’s half a billion endorsement deal offer. “My soul is not for sale”.. I just love this woman. https://tenderpath.net/posts/breaking-madonna-shocks-world-rejects-elon-million-deal-tung123-uwlp #madomna

Young gays will never know what is like to spend an hour in the spillover chat room trying to get into the main chat room where the action is. #gay

Well, Blue States, with the federal government shutting down. This is your moment to shine.

Spain has universal health care, high speed rail, better food, and a credit upgrade while we have Mango Mussolini, Project 2025, high tariffs, and massive cuts to our health non-care, non systems. ¡Felicidades, España! […]

For Madonna fans, a great interview with Jay Shetty about her spirituality and navigating the ups and downs of life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUvRv5JrItk #madonna

"If you guys keep talking about California/Pacifica independence, Trump is going to send the troops into our cities!" He's doing that anyway.

40 years ago this week Kate Bush hit the top of the UK Album Chart with my favorite album of the 80's "House of Love" #katebush

Tired: RESISTANCE Wired: REVOLUTION The world spins forward. What are we building on the ruins that is better than was before.

Republicans had no problems or qualms about using the Senate filibuster to get in the way of Presidents Clinton's and Obama's ambitious agenda when they briefly had trifectas. Make Republicans end the filibuster if they don't want to negotiate. Then when Democrats take over they can pass […]

There are over 40 million Spanish speakers in the USA. Speaking Spanish is as American as apple pie. - Hay más de 40 millones de hispanohablantes en Estados Unidos. Hablar español es tan estadounidense como el pastel de manzana. #spanish

I just took a restorative nap and feel like a new person. Did everyone know about naps?

If Trump, Vance, and Republicans’ Project 2025 are going to gut and destroy the ACA, Medicaid, and Veterans Affairs health care system, then we are going to build a better Medicare-for-All on the ruins of their destruction.

Elect someone who attempted a coup before and you will get another coup attempt, but with experience.

Portland, Oregon Transit Map from urbanrail.net #portland #transit

In 1934, to stop the New Deal, far-right financiers tried to organize a military coup against FDR.and recruit Gen.Smedly Butler to lead it. Butler blew the whistle on them, remembering his oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution. May the Generals remember their oath […]

To any white straight cis gay men out there in America who are still deluded that they can ignore politics for now… Being white and cis and male won’t save you after the “Christian” nationalists declare martial law.

One excellent way for Californians to show solidarity with Portland, Oregon, our fellow West Coast city, is to vote YES on Prop 50 as soon as our ballots arrive next week. Bank those YES votes as early as possible before Trump does something fascistic. Vote YES on Prop 50.

Portland is one of the best cities in America. Let’s show solidarity by building a few high-quality trams in SoCal. https://youtu.be/pk6-pNIUBb4?si=PRi4_OEVKyfFAewm

A fundamental problem Democrats are having at this moment is that they don’t have a shared vision of what they are for, more than being anti-Trump. The NYC Mayor’s race shows that when THAT conversation starts, the activist base and the donor base want different things […]