Way to go DOGE and Trump… US NATIONAL DEBT HITS RECORD $38 TRILLION U.S. NATIONAL DEBT: A $37 Trillion Breakdown by Presidential Administration

Trump gets high on doing outrageous things, just to see what he can get away with. Unfortunately, he is succeeding. We’ve got to find a way to effectively push back.

I'll save you some time this morning - I just checked the news and it’s all bad.

Yes...and that’s what makes this moment so damn dangerous. When strongmen start testing boundaries and democracies look the other way...lines that once felt unthinkable start to blur fast. Trump’s ego has always been for sale to flattery...and Putin knows it.

These public health researchers did not choose to be political activists; they were forced to be by a president and administration that despises expertise. ICYMI @citizencohn.bsky.social on public health researchers in exile: www.thebulwark.com/p/cdc-diaspo...

@bagleycartoons.bsky.social Pat Bagley is one of my favorite political cartoonists. He has amazing skill and insight.

No one is above the law. Epstein’s victims and survivors — and the American people — deserve transparency, justice, and accountability Speaker Johnson needs to swear in Rep-elect Grijalva. Then we can vote to release the files.

A federal judge ORDERS senior Border Patrol officer Greg Bovino—the face of Chicago's Operation Midway Blitz — to attend in person at a hearing she just set on Tuesday. He's accused of violating her order by lobbing tear gas into a crowd. More on Bovino www.allrisenews.com/p/general-sc...

Angus: Canada is reconsidering that relationship with China. Why? Because we can no longer trust the US. And we know that we have 150, maybe more, Canadians in custody at ICE detention centers. We had two Canadians under Chinese custody and it caused a huge outcry. We now have over 150 in the US.

It wasn't fake. It was edited. But Reagan really did spend a five-minute speech – an April 25, 1987, national radio address that the Reagan Library has published on YouTube – to rail against tariffs. It was a full-throated expression of support for free and fair trade. https://cnn.it/4o5pBGv

I have one slight disagreement with this post. There is at least one story bigger than that of a president instigating a plot to end U.S. democracy. And that is the story that a president is instigating his *second* plot to end U.S. democracy.

Inflation is inching higher partly due to the Trump's tariffs, according to economists. US businesses are eating some of the costs, which blunted the impact of import duties on consumers Decrease in job openings and a cooling of the labor market also put downward pressure on inflation

Alaska: $25 million Argentina: $40 billion

On Canada “cheating” - NO On Reagan loving tariffs - NO On tariffs being tied to national security - in this case - NO, it serves to bypass congress Tariffs are essentially an import tax on US buyers. Wall St doesn’t love tariffs, they love empty trade deal announcements. They make money on it

She will be fired and replaced with some unqualified Trump flunky hack who will do what they’re told.

Q: Some smugglers have survived these strikes and been sent back to their home countries. If they're terrorists, why not arrest and detain them? TRUMP: *immediately punts question to Hegseth*

Find somebody that loves you as much as Trump loves white-collar criminals

Zelenskyy on Wednesday signed a memorandum with Sweden that would pave the way for Ukraine acquiring between 100-150 Gripen fighter jets over the next few years. www.reuters.com/business/aer...

JUST FILED: Two top House Democrats ask for records on Trump's request for $230 million from DOJ www.cbsnews.com/news/house-d...

Jeffries on a death threat made against him by a pardoned J6 criminal: "Not a single Republican has reached out to me since that incident occurred, and that's no surprise because they cannot defend the fact that Donald Trump pardoned hundreds of violent felons who brutally beat police officers."

Here's the kind of sanctions avoidance Changpeng Zhao facilitated, from his sentencing memo. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Quid Pro Zhao

“Our monthly premium is $443. It’s going up to $2224. We’re kind of in shock. Both of us have worked our whole lives.” These are the people Burchett & @MarshaBlackburn refuse to help, even as Marge says Republicans should work with Dems to fix this. #TrumpGOPShutdown

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

Oh look, Trump's $40 billion bailout just got a lot more expensive to finance. Argentina's peso has fallen to an all-time low against the US dollar. It has now collapsed 99.8% since 2009. Only someone with 6 bankruptcies would look at that and say, “I’ll take 40 billion dollars worth!”

The DOJ (and taxpayers) don’t owe a Trump a damn thing.

The protector of pedophiles says what? I urge you to watch “Surviving Ohio State” on HBO. You’ll see what kind of man Jordan is.

The names are coming out. I’ve been covering this relentlessly with a survivor-centered lens. Some were expected. Others will shock you. We need to make sure people are still paying attention, while the government runs distractions at a rapid-fire pace. #EpsteinFiles

Everyone got called out at No Kings

Rand Paul: "When you kill someone, if you're not in a declared war, you really need to know someone's name at least. You have to accuse them of something. You have to present evidence. So all of these people have been blown up without any evidence of a crime."

The president has one core job under the Constitution: to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” Not thwarted, diverted, blunted, revised or ignored. Faithfully executed.

This is disgusting, goes against every principle this Republic has stood for since Washington by pushing political partisanship to active duty military on a weekly basis, & is what authoritarians do. It is why so many turned out today. Republicans in Congress are complicit. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Powerful sign at No Kings in Cleveland

🚫 NO KINGS… 🚫

A friend in Corvallis, Oregon sent me this one 🤣 #NoKings

#NoKings rallies in solidarity with the US. 1.) Stockholm 2.) Amsterdam 3.) Paris.

Trump bailing out Milei to the tune of $40B while Argentina screws US farmers by taking over the US market and selling soybeans to China www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Administration officials are calling peaceful protesters "antifa" and "paid." This is a classic authoritarian tactic: delegitimize dissent. The truth: we are millions of everyday Americans—your neighbors—standing up for democracy. Don't fall for the lies. #NoKings

A key message from Trump, Vought, and the entire Admin is they’re laying off federal workers because of the shutdown. But yesterday, in a court filing, a Department of Interior official said their layoffs were in the works before the shutdown and “had nothing to do with” the shutdown.

“They're lying about the protests. They're trying to deter people from showing up, but it's had the opposite effect.” #NoKings

@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "Everybody has got to find their spine...At this #NoKings event on Saturday, average people are going to show up to register how upset they are with what Donald Trump is doing to the country. But America's elites have more or less rolled over."

Meidastouch has confirmed that the Regime attacks on BLUESKY was to get information & try to stop people from attending the NO KING PROTESTS. This shows how weak & scared these little crybabies pro Putin assholes are. Don't let them get to you, get out Today & attend a protest PEACEFULLY!!

On our way to #NoKings

No Kings, but at least King Charles knows what to do with a pedophile… even if it should have been done sooner

We must continue demanding complete transparency for survivors. Release the files, subpoena them all, hold public hearings. Enough.

It’s not a cult. Lots men talk about other men like this 🤨