Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

To your point... steady.substack.com/p/the-dumbin...

The lure of something that takes skill and dedication to be done 'instantly' with AI is an absolute tarbaby

♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”

NEW on CNN: In several old videos we found, Pete Hegseth blasted Trump in 2016 warning he could issue unlawful orders that troops should refuse, calling him an “armchair tough guy” with five draft deferments. Now he’s attacking Democrats for saying same. LINK: www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/p...

For reasons completely unrelated to any opinions about regulatory policy, a Day 1 executive order here in the US should be ending every government agency account on X. Just delete them all, plain as that. For the same reason the US government need not have accounts on Stormfront or 4chan.

March 29, 2023.

"Extreme wealth is never earned; it is only enabled."

Presidential pardons should be reformed. We need a new process with third-party approval.

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Koh: I think what we are seeing is what the founding fathers feared the most, which is the collapse of our checks and balances. The Supreme court is supposed to be a co-equal branch of government. It's basically a mouthpiece for Donald Trump at this point.

More grift. Trump's AI "Czar" — the guy in charge of this Administration's AI policy — is reported to have hundreds of investments in AI-related ventures. This is just the latest example of the Trump Administration using its power to benefit themselves and their inner-sanctum of billionaires.

This is the most corrupt administration we have seen in United States History. Our government is meant to serve the people, not billionaire campaign donors.

At a time like now, when the US government is repeatedly lying about the data, the use of the Freedom of Information Act to get the truth is more important than ever. deportationdata.org/index.html

In California, you can now report illegal federal actions: oag.ca.gov/reportmiscon... We’re also holding federal officials accountable for their lawlessness. I passed a law to ban them from wearing ski masks. I’m now advancing legislation to let people sue them for violating people’s rights.

A Soviet administration.

Drumpf holds unswayable power over the people that want to siphon off some of that power - people expecting to need a pardon for their current criminal behavior

The Trump administration just pardoned and released a convicted Honduran drug lord from prison—a guy who is responsible for bringing literal tons of cocaine into the U.S. I cannot say this enough: this is the most corrupt administration in American history.

While PRETENDING to 'fight drug crime' by murdering random fishermen, for show.

"Eck and two of his officers were sentenced to death. The chief engineer, who had initially protested that the order was unlawful but then opened fire, was sentenced to life in prison." theiceman.substack.com/p/the-peleus...

Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this. Do not.

He should, in the most literal sense, be relieved of his duties. Impeachment, 24A, whatever it takes.

Her parents owe their lives to the United States accepting them as asylum seekers fleeing religious persecution in Iraq in the 1980s. She wouldn't be here if we had not offered her family safe haven. The hypocrisy is stunning.

“.. At the center of President Trump’s contentious plan to end the Russia-Ukraine war isn’t peace: it’s profit.” @thedailybeast.bsky.social www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-2-tri...

Probably fine

Looks like it’s time to re-up this thread on the fascist genealogy of the seemingly pablum term “Americanism.”

They don't actually CARE about the drugs. They just wanted to bomb boats from the sky to show that they can, and would.

There are plenty of very good sites that cover politics in a partisan lens much better than we ever would. That’s not our style. We’re the last of a dying breed of facts first old-school journalists. Our pitch on why you should support our news organization. www.courtwatch.news/p/help-us-tu...

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Hate to be posting this on a holiday, but there's been renewed interest in the CIA-backed Zero Units in Afghanistan. Here's a good summary of @propublica.org's 2022 reporting on the units and just some of the civilian casualties they were responsible for:

Friends don’t let friends buy from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky

Elon Musk’s latest feature on X has had some shocking and unintended consequences. trib.al/2wXAvoo X users were able to use a new “about this account” feature to see what country accounts were based in. And for many “America First” posters, this revealed an inconvenient truth...

Good day to listen to this. Also a good day for every Dem candidate to reach out to Capitol Records about permission to use it at campaign events.

It was not a plan but a capitulation document. It did not come together. It was a Russian document presented by some Americans as American. Be clear in your headlines. Help people see the simple awfulness of things.

"We can take it for granted that Trump and his advisors would greet a terrorist attack as an obvious chance to blame their chosen enemies, advance their project of authoritarian regime change, and distract from their own perilous follies. (1/2)

Who knew that it was so exhausting to... *not* do your job? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

It took more than fame for Donald Trump and his sons to build a crypto empire. They got a lot of help from industry insiders, many of whom happened to need a hand from the president.

Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered Jair Bolsonaro, former president, to begin serving his 27 year sentence at the Federal Police headquarters— I find myself simultaneously envious & hopeful the #Trump regime will find a similar moment of accountability

Former nursing home executive and convicted fraudster Joseph Schwartz was pardoned by Trump earlier this month. Schwartz secured the pardon after paying two other convicted fraudsters nearly $1M to lobby Trump on his behalf. Everything is for sale. youtube.com/watch?v=NflcWXdV-B0&feature=youtu.be

Wage growth among all workers is declining significantly, with low-wage workers hit especially hard. www.ft.com/content/cfa6...

The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.

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WORKERS make these corporation huge profits, yet the management of the corps REFUSE to pay workers fairly, or protect them on the job. WORKERS - you know what to do -- S T R I K E !!!

We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way to get rid of Citizens United. Let me explain. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united

Twitter now displays where accounts are from and it has confirmed that too many of the political accounts are out of country bots. Why are folks still there? To argue with bots? A waste of precious time while enriching the richest man on Earth. Delete your account.