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#ResistanceHomework - Calculate your real tax rate. Compare your federal taxes to billionaires. Share it with friends. The math will radicalize you. #AFA

Shitty fruit from a rotten tree.

At age 75, I feel very fortunate to have been born AFTER the Age of World Wars, when antibiotics still worked, when hundreds of miraculous discoveries occurred, before oligarchs took over America, & before AI will destroy good jobs for people of my ability level & more. I pity the young.

Not a problem! They'll just build a few more "Trump Class" battleships, hyper-expensive, instantly obsolete & useless, but a great boondoggle for the firm that'll make them. And, one day, China will sink them all with cheapie drone swarms & AI-enabled torpedoes.

open.substack.com/pub/robertre... Not so fast. Back to my original question: If worker pay had climbed as much as CEO pay since the late 1960s, what would the typical worker earn today? Ready for this? $432. Per hour.

The Hill says "Trump was the first president in history to attempt to use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose tariffs & warned that an adverse ruling to his efforts would wreak havoc on the U.S. economy." Trump is an idiot. Where on earth did he get the idea he was a genius?

Well I'll be dipped in dogshit... Republicans GLAD that SCOTUS tied an anvil to Trump'sTariffs® ? Of course, ToddlerTrump® immediately vowed to find a way to get around the ruling. Because Scofflaw-in-Chief feels entitled to rule the world, of course. thehill.com/homenews/hou...

Jonathan Ross is set to receive $800K+ from GoFundMe as a reward for killing Renee Good. I've posted this before, yet few seem to give a crap. Nearly no Likes, close-to-zero Reposts. Meanwhile, somebody posted "I ate a taco" and got hundreds of Likes & Reposts. www.gofundme.com/f/support-ic...

How'd you like to be the one product on the entire planet that everybody chose to use your name to describe "Something nobody wants"? I wonder if House Speaker Mike Johnson feels that way?

WHAT??? All Musk is getting is a REPRIMAND??? In Russia he'd be stuck in front of a firing squad.

Okay checks in the mail. Many Christians have not much of a idea about their own religion. Most Trumpers only know the Don circa Apprentice. Never read his book, have no idea who Trump Mentor Roy Cohn is. ANd how Roy lied and died. When the world is only 5 or 10k years old what you expect to happen

Isn't it marvelously ironic to see a multi-billionaire who's just used the presidency to double his net worth in a single year say he couldn't care less how much your peanut butter and jelly sandwich costs you?

"Ice-T ignited widespread online discussion after posting a strongly worded political remark that quickly gained traction across social media" But it's okay to call Trump a messiah and compare him to Jesus? I'm amazed Christians aren't kicking MAGA/Christian Nationalist butts.

Why don't we have some measure of Bullshit, the same way we have of jobs and GDP? "This quarter Bullshit grew at an impressive 6.7%. Speaker Mike Johnson took a victory lap in the House."

What? Me no have tariffs to smash countries with? Then Trump smash them with a big rock !!!

Now--here's the next question: Will the prices that went up after tariffs were imposed now come down? Ha! This is capitalism. Don't bet on it. The natural law of "What goes up must come down" doesn't always apply. In capitalism, prices are usually like a ratchet. Once up, they stay up.

SCOTUS says to Donald J. Trump. "Mr. Trump -- tear down these tariffs!"

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" Billions for ICE, refurbishing Trump's Qatar jet, and tax cuts for the rich... "That's just how it is."

Capitalism. Ya gotta love it. Frito-Lay takes a bag of corn chips that would normally sell for, oh, $2.50 (house brand). It adds 10 cents worth of spices & retails it for $7.00. Crazier still... people buy that absurdly overpriced bag. I'm a retired psychologist. Yet some stuff just mystifies me.

Remember back in the day when Congress used to be in charge of appropriations?

Let's face it--Trump is losing it. He can barely utter a coherent sentence, and it's only the daily sanewashing by his toadies that there's even the faintest appearance of presidentiality. One day he'll smash the red button inside the nuclear football, thinking he's ordering a Diet Coke.

I may be giving up on Washington Post, but New York Times is still #1. Here's a screenshot of how they're dealing w Epstein files:

In the best British tradition, I say "Off with Trump's head !"

There's a no-brainer--the idea that the wealthy avoid justice. Most are conservative. Why? Wilhoit's Law: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

(GIFTED, SHAREABLE) Black folks who voted MAGA are finally waking up and realizing they were conned. Now, it's up to us Dems to admit we slacked up, and start doing a better job of representation for people of color. We can't just let ourselves be seen as the "lesser of two evils." wapo.st/4kMqweg

OMG -- a Trump-appointed SCOTUS Justice dares to point out the danger of presidential "emergency powers" allowing POTUS to declare virtually ANYTHING an "emergency," and then impose his will on that situation. Visualize 47 declaring the midterm results an "emergency"... thehill.com/newsletters/...

Dems "grandstanding?" Methinks not. This is about a rogue, emotionally crippled president's use of Federal force to murder people and get away with it. Republican Congress won't do a damn thing about it & are actively trying to stop states from finding justice. thehill.com/homenews/sen...

www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb... Sounds like someone is afraid of being charged. #USDemocracy

Our president -- always on the cutting edge ! Or not...

The lesser-known half of the Dunning-Kruger effect states that high-ability people often mistakenly assume others can see things as clearly as they do. This applies to us. We do something praiseworthy, & then expect everyone to see & appreciate it. But, they don't. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning...

Perhaps the Committee could add a prize suitable for 47?

(SHAREABLE) Reps resort to gerrymandering in order to maintain control over the gvt. We have no recourse but to follow suit. Otherwise we're bringing a knife to a gunfight. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

1/2 Anybody out there have an Australian cattle dog? We got a rescue a couple of months ago & the little guy's a handful. He'll disappear sometimes for hours when we let him out (we're way out in the country with 127 acres, so unattended outsides are normal and safe).

I believe this summarizes much of how MAGAs think and emote. Trump understands this, and takes advantage of their inability to process complex or hidden meaning, and events that require understanding of history, politics, psychology, and sociology.

Why do Republicans always act as if an economy has to be COMPLETELY socialistic or COMPLETELY capitalistic? A freakin' DOG can be part Great Dane & part German Shepherd. Social Security is socialism, and just ask any MAGA if it's OK to take that away, and see how they answer.

(GIFTED) Congress silently puts the brakes on many of Trump's plans to gut our gvt. This is real, actual resistance. Meanwhile, don't forget that he's seeking TEN BILLION from the IRS because a contractor leaked his tax docs to NYTimes. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

Hogsbreath purges the spokesperson for one of his political rivals. Typical Fox News viewer sees this & goes "But Hegseth is GOOD-LOOKING!!!" thehill.com/policy/defen...

More on bots. They appear to be getting more sophisticated. OK, so I get this new "Follower" who claims to be a physician. I Google the name & find 2 docs w that name. One claims 30 yr experience, the other, 55 years. Does this picture look like someone w at least 30 yr experience at being a doc?

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

We realize why Pam Bondi released a ginormous list of people mentioned in the Epstein files. It's smoke, meant to try to say "Look--hundreds are mentioned, not just 47." But we're not fooled. There's a hell of a difference between someone who just visited his island & someone who boinked children.

I saw McKellen do Henry V. It was the only time I've ever heard Shakespeare performed that I could actually understand what the hell was being said. It was his phrasing and intonation. They were perfect. Perfectly spoken to allow my brain time to process before moving on to the next line.

Recently I noticed that Bluesky logs me out whenever my browser sends out an update. I wonder if this is an attempt to shut down bots. Previously, I'd complained to them that a good 50% of my "Followers" fit the bot profile Pinned to my account. Opinions?

I'm really excited about this new generation of Americans. I'm 75, yet half my Followers are gorgeous, well-endowed young women ! They're obviously new to Bluesky, because they all have only a few Followers, and nearly no Posts. Maybe I should buy a private island & invite them all to party there!

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

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