How the Trump Administration Is Deepening Food Monopolies: A Q&A with Antitrust Expert Austin Frerick - sentientmedia.org/trump-admini...

The psychology that twists coverage in Trump’s favor is transparent, once you accept that psychology plays a role. They want to be perceived as neutral by their peers, and they know their peers suspect them of anti-Trump bias. So they demonstrate independence by scrutinizing Dems and praising Trump.

Your local library is full of media that the president hates but can't use his regulatory power to get rid of.

@austinfrerick.bsky.social new paprback edition chapter features Milk & Honey restaurant in Harlan, Iowa.

Wow what an ad.

Today is my annual reminder that you know someone who has had a birth outcome Republicans across the country are attempting or have succeeded in criminalizing. Six years ago today, I lost a pregnancy late in the second trimester. You might not know that you know me or a person like me, but you do!

The wildest thing about this era is watching so many institutions say out loud yeah, we’re done committing ourselves to excellence, we’re going to specialize in the coddling of mediocre white men

I recruit local candidates, phone bank for all districts, set recurring donations,etc. BUT If you scapegoat ANY human rights, I will never fight for you. I may apologize for you after your success (OBAMA GAY MARRIAGE). Prepare your volunteers for the consequences of your words and lack of action.

These are my standards: 1) You have enough friends that you have at least 5 people you can call at any time if you've had a flat tire (not a romantic partner), and they'll show up. 2) You have done enough community work that you can arrange a performance of "Hey Big Spender" within 7 days' notice.

"Grave offenses are going to happen. They are already underway, but each person who is released, each person who is returned, each person who is never arrested or detained in the first place is its own worthwhile outcome."

ACA insurers propose biggest premium hikes since 2018 as Trump policies take hold - Tami Luhby / CNN “Insurers are asking for a typical rate increase of 15% with more than a quarter proposing hikes of 20% or more.” www.cnn.com/2025/07/18/p...

64% of Medicaid recipients under age 65 work, per KFF. As for the rest, see below. There are not 34m potential agricultural workers on Medicaid just raring to go pick vegetables.

I was admonished. My reputation, besmirched. My good name, dragged through the mud. They said I fell for fake news. Well look upon the truth and weep, cowards!

Because Black people know that there is no such thing as “identification” or “identifying yourself”. They aren’t saying Padilla didn’t identify himself as a U.S. Senator. They are saying that there is only one acceptable identity — credential — being white and, in these times, being pro-Trump.

This part! There are a lot of people claiming to fight "fascism" that are trying to reinvent the wheel They're new to this and don't realize many of us have been doing it for decades If you don't know WHY they like to call everything "Communism" then it's time to be quiet & learn

abolish ice is the moderate position

On this episode of At Liberty, ACLU experts join host W. Kamau Bell to discuss how protecting our data can help protect our freedom of speech and expression.

Love to see these initiatives. Profs whose courses have been canceled by universities bowing to the Feds, starting their own courses. People of a certain age may recall the 70s, under Reagan, Thatcher, Mulroney and Pinochet, when free universities became a resistance thing. History is never linear.

just a reminder that alito predates all this maga shit he is on scotus because of george w bush, one of the worst people to have ever lived and i am sick about liberals and democrats making goo-goo eyes at bush

The sheer fucking arrogance here is just something else...

I was just reminded that this administration had no problem facilitating Andrew Tate's release from custody in Romania.

"But there would always be a question mark in the client’s head: Is my lawyer saying this because he believes it—or is the lawyer saying this because he’s trying to preserve his law firm’s settlement with the government?" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.

Over the last nine Presidential elections, men vote red by about 10 points, and women are the opposite. So, MAGAs Are Banning Women From Voting Because Women Vote Blue If your path to ‘win’ is voter suppression, it isn’t democracy you support, it’s dictatorship. www.qasimrashid.com/p/magas-are-...

Stephen Miller, a white nationalist and racist, is the mastermind behind all this anti-immigrant cruelty and he's found the perfect vessel in Donald Trump, another racist, who seems mostly checked out during his second Administration. But, he's golfing on your tax payer dollar.

Some reading material on a general strike. 1) Jeremy Brecher's recent piece on what a general/social strike in response to Trump might look like

This is a now or never moment. The way we respond over the next few days, as individuals and institutions, is crucial. And currently we're missing the mark. If we don't act now we will lose everything.

lord willing we will one day prosecute miller for crimes against humanity

On top of the blatant privacy law violations, this is another indication that the deficit—the supposed reason for all the draconian cuts—is going to explode because the agency charged with tax enforcement is in shambles and led by incompetents on partisan missions.

If Trump is willing to hurt the economy, he must be getting something he wants even more in return. That thing is power. With tariffs, Trump can exercise a kind of corruption that the country hasn’t experienced in some 150 years. Read @pemalevy.bsky.social.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Life comes at you ... at exactly the rate it promised to come at you during its 4-year re-election campaign where it told you exactly what it planned to do literally thousands of times.

Despite admitting to having illegally sent a guy to El Salvador by mistake, and even though the U.S. is paying El Salvador to indefinitely imprison him, the DOJ is arguing that, well, nothing to do, it's not in our hands anymore. The general tone of their response is "welp, sucks to be him."

He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.

Iowa could lose nearly 10,000 jobs and about $958 million in economic output under potential Medicaid and food aid cuts. www.axios.com/2025/03/26/m...

If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford

Less than two months in, Trump’s USDA is bulldozing efforts that help small farms and food producers sell healthy food directly to schools, food banks, and their local communities. civileats.com/2025/03/19/th...

Our birthday tribute to Mickey Dolenz, who just turned 80.

DOGE is trying to layer on administrative burden to prevent disabled people and older adults from accessing Social Security benefits to which they’re entitled. People in rural communities will be hit especially hard. Field offices are already overwhelmed.

If I were a smart Democrat, I might run on this instead of following the current strategy of “do nothing except publicly shit the bed”

When I wrote my camps book, people sometimes had difficulty understanding how concentration-camp regimes were proud of what they were doing and wanted attention for it, even as they also hoped to keep many aspects secret and terrorize vulnerable classes. Anyway, this is what that looks like.

At 12:35 am ET, the president decreed that he was nullifying President Biden’s preemptive pardons of members of the January 6 committee, an assertion of a power the Constitution does not bestow.

The driving philosophy of the Trump administration is white male supremacy. It’s not just that they don’t believe in bigotry or prejudice or racism, but if you’re anything but a straight white man, your contributions are false, awarded to you because of your identity, and must be deleted.

Trump has spent $16M setting Gitmo up for detainees and then deciding it was too expensive. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...

DOGE cut off payments for the electricity, cell phone, and internet service of U.S. government employees who work in a high-risk area in Central America. Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.

love to see the nickname

The Senate has voted to strip the CFPB of its authority to monitor digital payment offerings. This development comes as Elon Musk hopes to make Twitter a hub of digital payments. The resolution still requires House approval and Trump's signature. www.theverge.com/news/624904/...

L - Eric Trump tells people to “buy the dips” on crypto. R - A couple days later, Trump makes his crypto announcement. How much time did the media spend on Hunter Biden? I read more articles about Biden’s shoes than this blatant and obvious corruption.

The Social Security Administration is cutting 7,000 jobs and closing half of its regional offices. It's no coincidence that Elon Musk called Social Security a "ponzi scheme." They're gutting the program YOU'VE PAID INTO to make room for more billionaire tax cuts. Now is the time to speak up.