Funny thing: in America, part time jobs don’t pay $174k a year and have health insurance. Maybe Republicans should get minimum wage and no benefits?

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What’s needed is a national strike to force Republicans into funding ACA to reopen the government. Johnson only answers to Trump. He needs to learn he answers to his caucus who will dump him to save their reelections.

Six years ago, Uganda announced a bill to legalize murdering gay people. The National Christian Organization paid a preacher to go to Uganda and help their lawmakers with the bill. Chick-fil-A funds The National Christian Org. If you eat at Chick-fil-A, this is what your money goes to. #Boycott

Did I understand this right? Jake Sullivan, Biden’s envoy for the Gaza War, says Trump’s 20 point plan is what Biden presented late last year to Israel and Hamas. All because President Can’t Do His Job wanted a Nobel Prize.

Since IpadOS 26 was released, BlueSky on the iPad kind of sucks. It won’t go full screen, it has an annoying habit of leaving an edge visible on the right side of the screen when minimized. The keyboard is entirely wonky, too. It keeps shifting into symbols instead of @etters and numbers

A crazy thought. What if Blue State governors requested other Blue State governors to lend them their national guard to defend their citizens against red state national guard and DHS?

“A young idealist, murdered by the red plague. A symbol for the struggle of the new Germany.” — Paraphrase of Goebbels’s diary entry, January 1930 - about Horst Wessel

After the death of minor SA member, Horst Wessel, the Nazi Propaganda Minister Goebbels led a national effort to rename hundreds schools, streets, and squares after him in a push to make him the Nazi martyr. The GOP effort on Charlie Kirk has the same Goebbels-inspired touch.

When I was a young intelligence analyst at NSA many decades ago, the most important lesson was we produced raw intelligence: just the facts supported by clear evidence. CIA produced “finished intelligence”: summaries with analysis. In the end, facts not “analysis” proved consistently reliable.

If you laid all the MAGA women at Mar-a-Lago end to end, I wouldn’t be the least surprised. (With apologies to Dorothy Parker)

As a veteran,I’m anti-fascist - like Roosevelt, Churchill, Eisenhower, Patton, and MacArthur. I’m Antifa. But, those who protect Epstein, Maxwell and everyone in their orbit is Pro Pedophile. They’re ProPedo.

My fantasy for the 2026 Superbowl halftime is Bad Bunny doing his show but at the finale he launches into “The Times They Are A’Changin” and is joined by Willie Nelson, Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, and Drake

You may ask why Defense spending is up? It’s corporate welfare for Boeing, Lockheed, and L3. The R&D they provide turns into patents they own at your expense, and Trump officials get cushy jobs as lobbyists. The Washington Revolving Door is true of every administration in recent decades.

What Johnson isn’t telling you is DoD spending increases by $100 Bn for 2026 in peacetime, exceeding Iraq/Afghanistan spending. For $35 Billion, we can restore ACA subsidies to all American citizens - just by reducing the massive growth in Defense. Seems pretty simple, to me.

Jackson: “You controlled the press and radio so that no voice could be raised against you, didn’t you?” Göring: “Certainly. It would have been absurd to give our enemies the means to attack us with their own words.” Prosecutor Robert Jackson questioning Herman Göering during his Nuremberg trial

I call on the 18 House members who have announced their retirement or to seek another elected office to introduce a privileged motion to vacate the chair. Demand Johnson swear in Grijalva. Demand he negotiate with Democrats in good faith over ACA subsidies. This is his job, he’s not doing it.

Project 2025 is the Mein Kampf of Christofascism.

Let’s focus on the wholesale abuse of the 4th Amendment. Not only were the private homes of Americans invaded without warrants, the Americans were zip tied and their belongings destroyed.

Sadly, Dems can’t market free chocolate. The ones who are intelligent and persuasive should blanket the talk shows with stories about Republican corruption, scandalous personal behavior, insider stock trades. Go full Real Housewives on them in a way average people understand: read them for filth

US Government practices socialism for R&D but capitalism for license free commercial use of patents. USG should offer R&D cost recovery with no patent licenses, contractor paid R&D for patent right, or USG takes equity equal to R&D. With licensing, we’d generate $200 B annually for Treasury.

A reason people mistrust government is the spending. For each $100 spent on R&D, corporations get to own the intellectual property and create commercial products for which all R&D was paid for you and me - about $30 per $100 spent. They don't pay taxes on that. You paid for their development.

Pete Hegseth was just a staff officer. He never held a command position; he was never in leadership. He’s the ultimate, living proof of the so appropriately named Peter Principle.

So, will there be another episode of Stinky and the Wetbrain tomortow?

18 House Republicans have indicated they will retire or resign their seats in advance of 2026 midterms. 9 are required to introduce a motion to vacate the chair.

All the House members who have supported releasing the Epstein Files should introduce a motion to vacate the chair, if Johnson continues to stall on swearing in Grijalva.

It is essential the people of Portland capture as much audio, video, and photographic information about what’s happening in Portland and documenting the crimes of the Trump administration. #NurembergTrials2

Following World War 2, more than 1500 Nazis were tried and executed for crimes against humanity. It wasn’t just leadership. Guards, Staff, and Collaborators were executed as well. The Nuremberg Solution sounds right to me.

I’m a grudging fan of Comey. I strongly disagreed with several of his decisions. But, I acknowledge his reasons were in furtherance of justice, but blind to consequence. Nobody should be prosecuted for political reasons, not democrats and not republicans. Trump has set the Constitution afire

I’m trying to track these qrazy qonspiracy theories. So, Tylenol is why we weren’t raptured yesterday?

Trump’s bizarre demand the Taliban cede Bagram Air Base to the US makes no sense. If he’s concerned about China, he should ask India and Pakistan for a covert site. Oh yeah. He pushed Pakistan closer to China and India back to Russia. All he has left is Bhutan, who isn’t answering the phone.

We aren’t without power regarding ABC. Use your favorite chatbot. Ask for a ranked list by media spend for each advertiser on ABC, the products advertised, and the point of contact at the company responsible for advertising on ABC. Then write an actual letter.

I really, really don’t care what a bunch of CKsuckers think. Nazis delightedly cavorted in front of concentration camps for photos. Southerners posed in front of lynched black people for photos. MAGA pose in front of ICE concentration camps for photos. They’re all the same, across time. The same.

In most models of authoritarianism, the process is generally slow. But today, Trump has rapidly escalated. Direct Censorship and Open Calls for arrest of opposition leaders, activists, or critics are both Stage 3m dictatorship actions. We're not "headed towards" authoritarianism. We're there.

We’ve entered the third stage of dictatorship.

When I was a boy, only US citizens could own radio or tv stations or newspapers. No media owner could reach more than 25% of US households. Owners were limited to 1 station per major market, and no foreign ownership. We have no way of knowing which country manufactures our news.

Brendan Carr is imposing censorship, contrary to the Constitution, all federal laws, and Supreme Court rulings back to 1946. I suggest a “Day Without Media”: a national media strike. All networks and media broadcast only “Fire Brendan Carr. Censorship is Unamerican”

It’s clear the so-called “Free Speech Absolutists” oppose any criticism of Charlie Kirk - including posting his own hate speech against Blacks, Women, LGBTQ, and Jews. Kirk was at war with Trump’s inner circle in his demands to release the Epstein files. Qui bono? Trump.

MAGA’s that to dox people do exercise their 1st Amendment rights over Charlie Kirk’s death aren’t just screwing up: they’re at risk of litigation for cyberstalking and blackmail. We need a civil rights law firm to push back, hard.

If you missed today’s JD Vance statements, the US has entered a Stage 3 dictatorship: arresting the opposition.

Why on earth is Utah Governor Spencer Cox spreading disinformation about the defendant? He’s risking tainting the jury pool, which prevents the state’s prosecution. Unless, that’s exactly what he wants as he doesn’t want the divisions between MAGA extremists on air, broadcast from the courtroom.

Charlie Kirk was killed by a Groyper, due to that group’s known hatred of his positions, and it’s as obvious as if his killer had “MS-13” tattooed on his knuckles, but the @nytimes.com and others refuse to cover it that way because they don’t respect their colleagues who know this.

Donald Trump seems absolutely determined to alienate Japan and South Korea. China may very well finally get its Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere thanks to him.

Imagine for absolute shit storm if the media demanded Trump fire Patel, who’s Indian and Hindu and his family only got to come to the US because those liberals in Congress ended restrictions on their immigration?

Right wing disinformation campaigns are closely modeled on Russian practices. They are inseparable - including the promotion of moral panics by a small number of paid individuals and groups. Since 2010,at least 12 major disinformation campaigns have been run by the GOP with Russian support.

I abhor violence, especially political violence which spans my entire life. Yet, the bootlicking media fawning over a disgusting, ignorant racist serves only Trump’s goals of making him a martyr. I’ve cancelled multiple subscriptions because of the apologia. Stop it. Tell the truth about Kirk.

Perhaps the challenge is to create home-bases pollution devices for citizen based cloud monitoring. Think “like a home weather station, but for airborne pollutants”

In the mid 1970s, the CIA paid a consultant $50k to create a relational database, called “Project Oracle” If USG had taken the value as stock in 1986 on the first day of trading, that stock would be worth $290 Million today. USG pays $200 Million per year for Oracle database licenses.