To put a point on this. A business that wishes to hire (let's say 100) H1-B visa holders can negotiate a discount off the $10 million fee by stroking Donald's ego.

Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe. And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.

Trump reportedly owns more than $600,000 in shares of Nvidia and Apple. Both companies have financially benefited from special concessions Trump made to them while in office. The president is profiting off the policies he sets. This is corruption in its rawest form.

She was a criminal and now they are giving her the honors of an American hero at the same time that the Republicans in the House refuse to hang a plaque honoring the hundreds of Capitol Police that defended them. Just disgusting. thehill.com/policy/defen...

Once upon a time, Barack Obama's $400,000 speaking fee and Hillary Clinton's $8 million book deal raised eyebrows. Now, President Trump has already made $3.4 billion *during* his presidencies. That's a stratospherically different level of profiting.

such a marvelous piece: Unions are the only major civil society institution in this country that give ordinary working Americans reliable access to collective political power. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

New: Former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn gave the keynote address at Thursday's Iowa Democratic Wing Ding. By speaking candidly about his own struggles and doubts, he offered a path forward for demoralized Democrats everywhere. @libradunn1.bsky.social www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/08/17/b...

I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.

Before you have the reflexive American reaction of “haha, the president has no power over this, it’s A Distraction”, consider that the goal here is not to change anything, but rather to prepare the terrain to declare any election loss as having been rigged.

Someone must leak this information, for America's safety. If Trump is disclosing secrets or making corrupt deals with Putin, we need to know.

Our constitutions are not the same. We have been very proud of always holding elections, no matter what else was going on. I am so tired of Trump shitting on the United States of America.

Trump will get us into a conflict so we don’t have an election. That’s the news here.

More than two weeks ago I called for Democratic governors to redistrict 30 Republicans out of their seats. I stand by that.

Well said, @voteannjohnson.bsky.social Love what the Texas Dems are doing to fight for our democracy.

Dems should fight on every front. If Texas steals 5 seats, Dem states should redistrict 30 GOP members out of their districts. We should insist DOJ release the entire Epstein File. Not only shouldn't we bring knives to a gun fight, if they bring pistols, we should bring machine guns.

So let’s see…the Trump admin is sending innocent people to be tortured in foreign gulags, bringing back in homocidal maniacs, and transferring convicted sex traffickers into minimum security prisons. Do I have that right? nypost.com/2025/08/01/u...

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

WOW. This should circulate more widely in America. FIFA should take action. But Gianni Infantino appears to be a 🍄sucker and I don't understand WHY. 🤬🤬

"Unlike January 2021 — when the Big Lie scheme failed — by 2029 Trump and his cohorts will have new tools to carry out a coup, including a massive federal police force with a proven willingness to engage in systemic illegality at Trump's behest."

One day. That’s the slap in the face the DOJ is calling “accountability” in Breonna Taylor’s case. Now they want to act like civil rights charges were too much? Please be for real. If you’re wondering how little they value Black lives—look no further.

The thing about the Epstein disgustingness that strikes me hardest is that hundreds of rich old men raped underage girls and the only person currently in jail for that vile behavior is a woman.

Have seen zero news about how the BBB lets ACA premium subsidies expire at the end of 2025. The high deductible bronze plan for me and my son would be $1350 a month without those subsidies (it’s $176 month now). An increase of $14,089 per year. I think people will forgo health insurance.

Badass Congresswoman AOC breaks down the fascist MAGA tax scam and calls it out for the evil greedy money laundering scheme that it is. We need more of this.

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This is not normal

This is NOT normal. This is NOT OK.

The Bove allegations should be treated as something akin to Watergate, or Iran Contra. The administration was attempting to do something they *knew* was illegal (anticipating the courts saying as much), and then trying to COVER IT UP. Only here instead of it being run out of the WH or NSC, it’s DOJ

Republicans ARE cutting Medicaid. The president has lied and Mike Johnson has lied. They’ve all lied. They’re destroying the program.

This is not normal…

Narcissists do not grow. They do not change. They do not learn from their mistakes because in their mind they are not capable of mistakes. They just blame everyone else for the messes they make. This has always been who Trump is. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-explod...

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they? Hello?

"Donald Trump’s real estate organization rented New York office space from 1998 to 2003 to an Iranian bank that U.S. authorities have linked to terrorist groups and Iran’s nuclear program." — w/ Sasha Chavkin and @michaelwhudson.bsky.social in 2016 www.icij.org/inside-icij/...

My relatives in East L.A. — born in the U.S.A. — are afraid to go outside because masked men with guns are randomly snatching people off the street. This is a government terrorism campaign against its own people.

Reminder…

It should not be lost on anyone that Minnesota Rep Melissa Hortman, who was shot to death in her home last night by an assassin, was a gun safety advocate who worked tirelessly to protect her constituents from gun violence.

You can draw a straight line between reckless rhetoric like the comments from the Speaker of the House earlier this week and the horrific political violence that just occurred in Minnesota.

AOC: When they say illegal vs legal immigration—they are trying to end legal status in the US making people undocumented and then they have the audacity to call them illegal when they were here documented.

Trump’s Big Ugly LA Lie... in 2020 it was stolen election. now it is "rebellion" or "invasion." See the reality of LA vs. Trump fantasy open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Be advised - the Proud Boys have been instructed to infiltrate our “No Kings “ protests this Saturday to destroy property and cause violence. This is his excuse to send the military to blue states. He doesn’t need to invoke the Insurrection Act if the military is ready to attack Americans.

The hypocrisy… “Also, from now on, MASKS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED to be worn at protests. What do these people have to hide, and why???“ -Trump

DNC leaders are acting like they’re in some sort of Shakespearean tragedy: www.politico.com/news/2025/06... Meanwhile, oh, there’s actual work to be done:

Buried in the Republicans’ “Big, Beautiful Bill” is a provision that shields Trump and his Admin from being held in contempt of court. So it doesn’t just cut taxes for billionaires — it also undermines the courts and emboldens an already lawless presidency. We must stop it.

THREAD 🧵 Internal State Department records show that months of warnings have become a reality: The Trump administration’s sudden withdrawal of foreign humanitarian aid has brought about death, violence and unrest. 1/

Donald Trump pardoned the “Camp Auschwitz” guy, dined with Holocaust deniers, and said, “any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion.” He doesn’t care about fighting antisemitism. He’s using it as an opportunity to dismantle higher education and further his authoritarian agenda.

This is not normal.

Musk's Starlink was having a hard time getting permits abroad. Then Trump slapped tariffs on basically everything we buy from overseas—and suddenly countries negotiating trade deals started giving Starlink sweet deals! Looks like textbook corruption—and we're all paying for it.

We know. They gave you immunity.

Don’t forget, Chauvin’s state crimes can’t be pardoned - and that’s the longer of the two sentences. Also don’t forget the people who support that murderer.