What we could do to feed and shelter homeless with $70,000,000,000.

Note: This was the (a?) Norfolk GJ. It may be they heard the testimony from James' niece, which made it clear James was not making $$ on this house. It also may be that whatever lawyer presented it was less unethical than Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer in October.

The world has more billionaires than ever because of a system that’s broken for workers and rigged for the wealthy and CEOs who already make 285x what workers do. A union contract is how we start to level the playing field. https://on.wsj.com/3KzznSL

Most ICE arrestees have NO criminal record. Nationally, only 7% have a violent conviction. Seven. Percent. Just 2-6% in the summer/fall crackdowns. “Worst of the worst.” Right. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Founders of politically connected nuclear companies that have never built commercial reactors are becoming billionaires. (unlocked) wapo.st/4oDnI3A

New vehicle fuel economy was 22 mpg in 1987 (EPA). 2022? Only 26 mpg. The 2022 range is from 23.2 for pickups to 33.3 for cars. Our standards are lower than EU, China, and Japan: to match them, we’d need 60-66 mpg. Which means more EVs. And fewer trophy trucks css.umich.edu/publications...

Let me get this straight: Trump has a plan for a new ballroom, but barely has a concept of a plan to lower the cost of health care?

Where’s the CBS News town hall focused on the Democrats assassinated in Minnesota?

NEWS --> Tons of fresh detail on what video of the strike shows: Rep Adam Smith says two men are sitting on capsized boat, drugs aren't visible. Rationale officials gave for killing is they *may* have been able to keep trafficking. "It's bad," Smith says. Read here: newrepublic.com/article/2039...

Himes: It was exceedingly hard to watch. Even if you stipulate that it is a war, there is a very specific prohibition against killing individuals who have been removed from the fight. And there is no question that these individuals were removed from the fight.

Himes: "What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service ... any American who sees the video that I saw will see the US military attacking shipwrecked sailors."

Ah. The hypocrisy. #hegseth Via @davepell.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/managing...

RFJK Jr lied during confirmation hearings. SOP. “he has methodically laid the groundwork to overhaul American vaccine policy, following a blueprint he laid out in books, speeches and podcast appearances during his years as the leader of a movement attacking the system he now oversees.”

Every elected Republican was a united front opposing and criticizing everything Obama did for 8 straight years, even if it was a policy they fundamentally agreed with. Why. In the fuck. Is it asking too much for Democrats to do the same with a legitimate fascist?

The President of the United States is trying to throw Mark Kelly in prison and Mark Kelly's response is to confirm judges who have committed to putting him in prison

Remember: Trump or Russian propagandists might say otherwise, but Putin is not winning, and the Ukrainians are not losing.

Jacob Frey: "If they're just indiscriminately going after people, due process is violated, habeas corpus is violated, the entire Constitution in and of itself is being thrown in the garbage. So you want to use the term 'garbage,' that's exactly what Trump is doing right now to the Constitution."

U.S. reinstates all canceled library grants after court order www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...

President Trump has now pardoned 12 members of Congress convicted of crimes varying from tax evasion, campaign corruption, lying to the FBI, bribery, insider trading, obstruction, etc. If Jeff Epstein were alive today, he’d be a free man in Trump’s America.

This cannot be said often enough. It should in EVERY news story about these murders.

Oh FFS.

Thrilled to announce the publication of our @rooseveltinstitute.org report that uncovers the policy roots of the current crises facing our news, information & communication systems. We argue that media reform must become central to a US pro-democracy movement. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Once again, Trump 2.0 is like the COVID economy without the COVID (though we're due for some kind of black swan).

Why on earth is any Democrat voting for ANYTHING that Trump wants? EVEN IF there were a valid reason not to be moving on impeachment (and there isn't!) continuing with business as usual puts the sledgehammer being wielded against our democracy in their hands.

6. Meanwhile, free the major drug kingpins that share your far right ideology.

spoiler: mass media consolidated in the hands of ad-based corporations owned by a handful of right wing billionaires is easily exploited by a wide variety of bad actors and fatal to democracy and informed consensus

Hell no. She trafficked young girls, FFS. She should be back in the prison she was assigned to, not where she is.

Of course Ted Cruz and Marsha Blackburn were among the crowds of White (mostly male) faces that seemed to condone and/or find humor in Trump’s rant about Somalia.

That sea of White faces surrounding Trump during his racist rant about Somalia included Ford CEO Jim Farley. Henry Ford was antisemitic, so Farley seems on brand as condoning racism.

New Orleans launches portal to report human rights abuses by Trump paramilitary units www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

For the last decade, the pervasive spread of bullshit & manipulation of online platforms have been widely recognized societal concerns. Now non US citizens studying those subjects can be labeled “censors” & denied visas or deported from the US. Censorship, indeed. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is buying access to your location data from private companies – getting around the need for a warrant. A privacy researcher explains how your phone's everyday operations make this possible. buff.ly/6VH8DEg

Trump is NOT arresting criminals or “the worst of the worst.” ICE lies. If Trump’s lips are moving, he’s lying.

Just as it takes paragraphs to refute a one sentence lie … it will take years, decades perhaps, to right what Trump et al are dismantling. And people will die when it’s health systems that they break.

It WAS an extrajudicial act of murder.

It’s not “the US” that has a #warOnScience, @nytimes.com It’s TRUMP, who arbitrarily picks what and how much to fund while the GOP Congress sits on its hands. And it’s not just “fewer” — it’s a helluva lot less. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Every Democrat going on air should take the first question and then say something like “Before I answer that I need to express my outrage and disgust at the president’s bigoted and vulgar insults about the Somali people. There is something seriously wrong with him. He is a sick man.”

They see truth.

Remember the Admiral who suddenly resigned with no reasons given? Apparently U.S. Navy Admiral Alvin Holsey questioned the legality of the Caribbean strikes. Hegseth: When you get an order, you move out fast and don’t ask questions.” Mark Kelly was spot on. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Hegseth needs to go. So does the Admiral, in my book. If there is any documentation linking Trump to the decision, throw the book at him, too. Oh, right. He has a get of jail free card from SCOTUS.

O.M.G. I am definitely on the side of "this was written strategically" and, I hate to say, is working. bsky.app/profile/park...

More fearful obeying in advance from America's organizations.

Another non-denial denial from Trump.

NEW: Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold (D) is the latest state election leader to reject a request from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to share private, unredacted voter data with the federal government. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

UPDATE: Samantha Fulnecky has appeared on Fox News. "Students at OU are now planning a protest against the university's decision to place her instructor on administrative leave." Her mother is a piece of work and may sue the university. archive.is/EkGR0

Another "Kavanaugh stop". ICE/DHS should NOT be able to arbitrarily grab anyone out of their car and handcuff them. They especially should not do this to citizens. What recourse does she have??

Sleepy Don deserves the moniker.

Impeachment. Now.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday ordered federal immigration officers to stop making arrests there without a warrant unless they could show that a suspect was a flight risk.

Roger Stone, convicted and Trump-pardoned felon, wrote a thread on Twitter/X "suggest[ing] that Trump pardon Hernández as a way of trolling [president] Castro." It might also help Thiel and Andreessen, two tech bro cheerleaders invested in a "network state." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...