To say Trump is the most corrupt President does not in any way capture the epic nature of his corruption. Trump’s corruption absolutely dwarfs all the corrupt actions of all the other Presidents combined. There’s truly not a meaningful measure of comparison.

About 20 years ago, author, journalist, and Presbyterian minister Chris Hedges published an analysis in the NY Times concluding that, of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 years. At peace 8 percent of those years, at war 92 percent Ghastly that war is our natural state

Nearly 150 autocrats or dictators have been deposed in the world since 1900. Someone can correct me, but I believe not a single one was deposed by election. Resignation, revolution, war, assassination, coup d'état, impeachment, invasion, fleeing — these all deposed one or another. But not election.

Eisenhower

We are completely adrift.

They always have trillions of dollars for illegal wars in the Mideast, but SCOFF in your face and clutch their pearls when you ask for universal healthcare. You are all being played.

So we need to punch them where it hurts and give all of them a Minnesota type of protest. Everywhere they go, and to everyone they love, till they leave Congress or side with the Dems. Don’t care which time is running out. Put the pressure on and keep it there.

you know things are bad when the Canadian-American family group chat is absolutely silent for 24 hours straight and then somebody goes like "so how're we all doin"

They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).

“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.” —Lyndon B. Johnson

Its time for state Governors to get off the fucking bench, mobilize their reserves, march to DC and remove this lawless administration.

Gonna keep hammering on this: Without enforcement, law has no power. Lower courts, SC, Congress can give whatever warnings or directives they like, but who enforces them? Not generally — WHO, SPECIFICALLY? Bondi's DoJ? Patel's FBI? Hegseth's DoD? Team Trump has all the levers of enforcement.

I'm also sick of people who take any realistic post concerning the trouble we are actually in as an attempt not to get people to vote. I am a fucking REALIST. I will comment on the REALITY of our current situation. So deal with it, or fuck right off.

The media's attraction to anecdotal 'human interest' stories makes people think a case like Kilmar Ábrego García's, while awful, is somehow isolated. We hear about 10 folks; we think it's ten folks among millions. Right now, there are at least 73,000 people in ICE detention, maybe thousands more.

They are literally trying to convince you that starting a war is ending a war.

If Trump really wants to destroy Iran he should go be its president for a few months.

Equality hurts no one.

'Protect & Serve' I think of a 14yo Laotian boy who police found in the company of Jeffrey Dahmer after neighbors raised the alarm He was bleeding from his anus and had a hole drilled in his head. Even so, police left him with Dahmer His name was Konerak Sinthasomphone So, Protect & Serve whom?

The Epstein files should bring Trump down. Same for all the rich monsters Lest we forget tho: the earliest accusation against Epstein dates back 30 years. Credible evidence that this was a ring dates back at least 20 years. The FBI, DoJ, and Palm Beach police knew about these horrors the whole time

Let me be clear: we don’t even have the entirety of the Epstein files yet and they already lay bare the longest and most heinous betrayal of Americans in the history of our country.

He always tells us what he’s going to do.

I remember when trying to forgive student loans was massive overreach of Presidential power.

Today's Republican voters have an overwhelming fear that somehow, somewhere, someone they view as inferior is being treated as an equal. This defines everything they actively support, and everything they're willing to put up with. As long as Republicans punch down, they'll never lose their base.

mood "The Epic" by Russell Edson from his book The Clam Theater (Wesleyan Poetry Program, v64, 1973)

> @covie93.bsky.social

The United States bombed a school for girls.

It has always seems so bizarre that we (in theory) believe in democracy but think the way to preserve it is through a massive military and using force to maintain it. Now all pretense of diplomacy has fallen away.

I wonder if FIFA are regretting that Peace Prize today

My near-daily reminder that even though elected Democrats are 'not in power' they could still organize and lead marches and sit-ins hold rallies across their states call for strikes and for boycotts of critical industries get arrested at ICE detention centers They simply aren't doing these things.

TDIF 🦮

THIS.

Welp

"No one voted for this!" said the people who voted for this.

The world this morning. A haunting acoustic cover by @sarahkingsings.bsky.social

Some 349M people, a 250yo system of govt, world history's most storied armed force, and thousands of officials elected or appointed to serve the people, apparently can think of no way to stop one lone demented old man. It seems long past time to draw the conclusion that we don't really want to.

Donald Trump just killed 40 Iranian girls at a school to make us stop talking about all the girls he r@ped in the 80s and 90s with Jeffrey Epstein. “Feb 28, 8:39 AM Iran says death toll in strike on elementary school rises to 57

Hillary Clinton: "It then got quite unusual because I started being asked about UFOs and Pizzagate"

They are Mahmoud Khalil, Yunseo Chung, Mohsen Mahdawi, and Leqaa Kordia — all detained after they joined pro-Palestine protests. Leqaa Kordia is the only one who remains detained — nearly one year after her arrest — at an ICE jail in Texas.