Trump wants the media to be his megaphone, praising his policies, bolstering his power+wealth. He controls the FCC, deciding which billionaire will control a monopolised news media. As in Russia, state news kills democracy, silences voices, clinches elite power. Tell Congress: Implement anti-trust!

David Jolly, candidate for Gov of Florida, says things are far worse than they seem. We face massive senior homelessness as costs soar, esp health care. He proposes the direct delivery of gov't funded health care throughout FL as the crisis expands. We need this kind of creative, urgent action!

Michelle Obama tells Jonathan Capehart that when someone wants to take something away from a woman, the first thing they attack is her femininity. This is exactly what happened when right-wing influencer Candace Owens accused French First Lady Brigitte Macron of being a man. So cruel+distracting!

In a world where Trump tries to criminalise the innocent+pardon the criminals, we need the clarity that could come from the testimony of Jack Smith. Instead, he testified behind closed doors to the Judiciary Comm. Crockett tells Hayes it sounded like Repubs wanted to see how much dirt he had on them

I so appreciate that Lawrence O'Donnell has yet again reminded the world of the tragedy of the dismantling of USAID by Musk+the 700,000 resulting deaths. It is hard not to see Musk, this greedy, attention-grabbing, self-indulgent, power-hungry, frivolous man as anything other than a mass murderer.

Try not to cry.

On Rachel Maddow's "We the People" Timothy Snyder tells her there are limits to grifting, when the system grifted breaks down. It reminds me that parasites can kill the body upon which they prey. That the billionaires can only siphon off so much before the economy stops or the people say "stop!"

I respect+appreciate the Indiana Congressional Republicans who stood up to Trump's+the Heritage Foundation's threats and bullying to try to force through an extreme redistricting map. The map would have disenfranchised all Dem voters, deciding election before voting began. Democracy won in Indiana!

When Biden was President, he maintained stable, low oil prices by using/threatening to use our Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Trump's solution is to create international havoc and war danger by seizing Venezuelan tankers. The contrast couldn't be starker. I miss Biden's intelligence!

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte warns that Europe is Russia's next target, saying that many countries are far too complacent while the threat is at the door. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Rachel Maddow tells Jen Psaki that the reason T keeps insulting immigrant groups is to set them up as a scapegoat to blame for the failures of his bad policies, to justify the admin's adoption of sweeping emergency powers, thus grabbing more power. She also asks: who is really running the gov't?

Mind-boggling. The T admin turns against our ancient allies, for many of us, our roots. We shared a love of freedom+democracy, respect for the law. But now the US wants to smash the EU. When you have a half hour, sit back with your coffee ☕ and listen to this brilliant guy: youtu.be/xXHtQoB1dWU?...

Mind-boggling. The T admin turns against our ancient allies, for many of us, our roots. We shared a love of freedom+democracy, respect for the law. But now the US wants to smash the EU. When you have a half hour, sit back with your coffee ☕ and listen to this brilliant guy: youtu.be/xXHtQoB1dWU?...

One of the oft-ignored health effects of global warming is the potential release of thousands of pathogens as the permafrost thaws, possibly causing new pandemics. With the massive defunding of health research, our ability to respond effectively will be greatly diminishes to our peril.

How low must we direct our eyes to see the depths of cruelty of Hegseth's moves? Serious defence replaced by video-game mentality. Preposterous to think these tiny boats are aiming to land in US without needed fuel nor the hypothetical drugs. Massive military mobilization for murder spree! Fire Heg!

Yes, when Trump leaned briefly in Zelenskyy's direction, it was when he thought that Ukraine could win the war. Then Putin spoke with him, and he realigned with Putin. Trump prefers winners. It is important that European leaders and pro-Ukraine Republicans to keep up this alternative narrative.

A living wage is not charity. Why should billionaires be praised for charity while maintaining control over money? Musk put billions into his foundation only used to fund employee training. Employees deserve the empowerment of decent wages, not a wage many hundreds of times lower than the CEO.

If Hegseth is not drunk with alcohol, he is at least drunk with power, the power of the lethal force at his command at the head of the most powerful military force in the world. He lacks the sense of responsibility+righteousness that great power requires+stoops to the enjoyment of lethal bullying.

In setting forth a RICO case against Trump and his co-conspirators, GA prosecutor Fani Willis was presenting the most comprehensive case, where one part informed+infused meaning into the other parts. Her relationship was not illegal, charge trumped up. Sad: the public will now be denied insights.

Punchbowl reports other Repubs will follow MTG and quit the House early, possibly handing the House to the Dems even before the midterms. They are sick of being treated badly by the Trump Admin, stripped of the legitimate power of the Branch, their role in checks and balances, their right to speak!

This is an important study. Brexit has been a disaster for the UK. Europe and the UK should find a way to patch up their differences and the UK should rejoin. We are stronger together, especially in the fraught international environment of the present. Let bygones be bygones and stand together!

Foreclosures+bankruptcies are up, incoming cargo is down, foreigners are backing off from buying our Treasuries (debt)+making trade deals without us.Health Care will skyrocket while general inflation rises+economic growth falters.Yet Bessent says a recession isn't coming! Right! Rather a depression!

All the treachery is based on Trump's overall alignment with Putin. Gutting our intelligence services, diverting them to stupid ICE tasks, dissolving protections, dismissing competent military leaders+betraying our allies. We are vulnerable as never before. Putin is making our policies.

The Rogue Supreme Court means every final decision, should it arrive there, ends up with a group that brazenly violated the Constitution+declared nearly unchallengable Presidential power with its Immunity decision. Those who voted for immunity should be impeached. Will they kill voting rights too?

This so-called peace plan offers nothing to Ukraine and meets Russia's short-term goals. It would give Russia a break and more territory as it prepared its next offensive against Ukraine, all the while reducing Ukrainian forces. I can't find the "peace" in this plan.

Steven Miller and the right-wing media world has been putting out the FALSE message that the 6 Congresspeople told members to the military to not follow orders. But the 6 former intel and military members only reminded people of the law: that they should not follow ILLEGAL orders. NOT seditious!

Lawrence O'Donnell rose to new heights of brilliance last night. He used the metaphor of the Berlin Wall falling, suddenly, unexpectedly, revealing the weakness of dictators. The survivors and Congress tore down the Trump wall: youtu.be/Op4ErWy53u4?...

ZERO surprise! Trump has signed the Epstein Transparency Act as is politically necessary. But Bondi to the rescue! As predicted, suddenly the DOJ is opening another investigation, thus blocking release of the files. The cat+mouse game should end. Now, release+let the court of public opinion decide.

It was a relief to find that the House could vote yes but one, and the Senate go with Schumer's proposed unanimous consent. We needed this courage earlier: We needed them to block choices of incompetent+deliberately destructive agency heads. We needed Congress to keep control of spending.+stop ICE.

This is what we want: The files. The whole files. And nothing but the files. Except for the names of the survivors.

Some say that if all our personal data from various gov't agencies has been exfiltrated (stolen) by DOGE and sent to the Techbros, that we all will need to be issued new Social Security Numbers. Not sufficient! They can backtrace from other info (address, birthdate) to reconstruct dataset+new SS#s.

Russia's "transition to capitalism" was undermined by the takeover of massive public assets by KBG operatives,future oligarchs. At the public-private boundary much corruption occurs: eg when a company passes its losses to the state for taxpayers to pay. Here, does Trump keep company shares?

No coincidence that HeritageFoundation's Russell Vought, Trump's head of the Office of Management and Budget, whose desire to repurpose gov't funds for his nefarious ends, has teamed up with Trump's desire for absolute power. We need to investigate their free-wheeling, unchecked diversion of funds!

Lawrence O'Donnell says the quiet part out loud, that the release of the Epstein Files may be the end of the Trump Presidency and, like Nixon, force him to resign. I hope this is another example of Lawrence's prescience! Adelita Grivalja signed+R women didn't cave. Soon vote in House, then Senate.

Repubs in Congress want to get in on the Trumpian grift of suing the gov't over past investigations-up to $500,000. Jack Smith's look at their phone logs around Jan6 is inspiring their false outrage and false claims their phones were tapped-after 8week paid vacation! Screwing the taxpayer yet again

Stephanie Ruhle correctly calibrates the tariff revenue as $195 billion, while Trump claims it's $3 trillion. But hey, what do a few zeros matter? He needs the Sillion, a silly, indefinite number with whatever amount of zeros needed to obfuscate political issues+hide tariff debacle in fog of numbers

Trump's bullying and blackmail have gone international. The BBC is now on the learning curve, and will have to grapple with this, as American institutions have had to. The main insight to glean is that if you give into Trump, he comes back for more. Fight back. Bullies only understand strength.

It is worrisome that Farage still has a prominent role in UK politics, even as the country grows more+more positive about the idea of re-entering the EU. UK far-right politics needs to be soundly rejected by the people there before the EU considers idea of accepting the UK back. We don't need this!

Stephanie Ruhle astutely posits the idea of a shared "moral compass" uniting a seemingly diverse Dem Party. She calls out the cruelty of the right-wing media mocking SNAP recipients often with fake AI-generated videos. Della Volpe adds the American people are kinder, "far better than our politics."

Lawrence O'Donnell's gave an excellent analysis of the Supreme Court on tariffs yesterday. I would add that the Justices were more upset by the idea of what a future Dem President might do with this usurped power than of Trump's current destruction of our economy. youtu.be/gIMKOZVLTrk?...

Newsom has been tone-perfect. I have enjoyed his humor, but last night he was "mindful and sober," proud of the victory of Prop 50, but ready to place it in the context of the larger fight for democracy. Warning of Trump's escalating attacks on democ, he urged other states to follow Cal's example.

A sigh of relief rose up across the land as Democrats won widely, reaffirming that American voters are awake+seeing clearly. It means our lives do not have to be determined by the Fox-befuddled ill-informed. That Americans still cherish democracy. One person-one vote wins over monetary inequality.

All people entering Russia give up their rights and enter a maze from which there is often no return. Families may never find out the truth of what became of their sons. There are consequences of dictatorships where human rights have no value. Don't deal with the devil!

The admin says it may be months before SNAP is fully funded. The country is awash with "food waste," often perfectly good food, that grocery stores, wholesale food distribution centers, and farmers could all donate to charities that distribute food. A spot on an apple? Communities: unite to donate!

Biden's Infrastructure Projects: Tunnels, bridges, clean energy, rural digital connections, disaster prevention works, roads, etc. Trump's Infrastructure Projects: Marble bathrooms, gold faucets, a ballroom, an outdoor patio, all at the White House. One guy cared about all the people.

Biden's Infrastructure Projects: Tunnels, bridges, clean energy, rural digital connections, disaster prevention works, roads, etc. Trump's Infrastructure Projects: Marble bathrooms, gold faucets, a ballroom, an outdoor patio, all at the White House. One guy cared about all the people.

One of life's simple pleasures is to express one's thoughts and feelings freely, to exchange with others knowing it is safe to do so. It is central to democracy, central to the American way of life. It can get you killed in a dictatorship. Spyware threatens this safety: youtu.be/mSFUg8bGCXc?...

Jen Psaki brings in an excellent expert to help us understand Trump's new obsession with nuclear testing inspired by Netflix movie. Hertling: Not only is it costly and environmentlly dangerous, it is a gift to our adversaries who would gain insight into our nuclear arsenal. youtu.be/T0mT-Ty4bbA?...

In each policy decision, Trump chooses to help the rich and hurt the poor. His admin goes to court to block $5.5 billion in emergency SNAP funds, preferring to inflict pain+suffering on 40 million people.The choice: accept hunger or lose health care. Heads billionaires win, tails working folks lose.

Looks as though Russell Vought has repurposed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to do the opposite of what Elizabeth Warren and her colleagues intended. Now it strips consumer protections. And Trump swallows it hook, line, and sinker. Perfect storm as health care under attack!