Saw this coming

Speaking of officers…

In case you need a summary of what’s happening, Republicans are unnecessarily making 40 million people go hungry to blackmail Democrats into making your grandma’s health insurance premiums double.

Trump’s America: FBI Director is taking govt jets to watch his girlfriend sing, president is in Palm Beach holding Great Gatsby balls after golf, we are murdering people in boats while refusing to show proof of guilty, govt is shut down, airports are a disaster, prices are up.

Not a pretty picture – but a great tool! Democracy Docket just launched a new live tracker - a real-time guide to redistricting. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/liv...

The legal case is “laws aren’t real”, btw

Excuse me? So the company the President currently owns is teaming up with a cryptocurrency company to create a prediction market, which will take bets... on things the President himself has quite a lot of control over? Gosh, I'm sure nothing bad will happen. www.ft.com/content/4855...

There is so much research out there related to this, but what is clear is that anti-immigrant political sentiments and legislation manufactured an issue, made it worse, and now politicians claim to want to "fix" an issue without actually examining the context, history, or actual needs. /5

I love how these folks just assume that all of these people are just sitting around doing nothing Two-thirds of people with SNAP benefits have jobs! The other third are children and people too infirm to work!

Pregnant Women, DON’T TAKE PARENTING ADVICE FROM A CONVICTED FELON WHO OWNED A TEENAGE BEAUTY PAGEANT AND HAS SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT TO HIDE THE FACT THAT HE WAS BEST FRIENDS WITH THE MOST NOTORIOUS CHILD RAPIST IN MODERN HISTORY.

Farmer: The beef industry buys about 6 billion bushels of corn from us every year. That's worth $25 billion of economic activity that goes back to grain farmers like me. Farmers are not asking for a bailout. Donald Trump did this to us. We are hurting right now. We are the collateral damage

He was elected president, and as president, his highest duty is to ensure that the laws of the land be executed faithfully. His job is to uphold the constitutional order, not tear it down and remake it in his image.

Even if we stipulated that everyone who voted for Trump wanted exactly what is happening now, that still would not mean that the Trumpist assault on democratic self-government and the constitutional order is in any way legitimate or deserves deference.

I still don’t know why Trump is so mad about that Ontario tariff ad. It’s not as if Ontario ran an ad depicting the province dumping a load of faeces on an American crowd. Now, that would’ve been truly disgusting.

2 That hate-filled sign still faces Spencer Elementary. Terrorism dressed up as “patriotism.” Intimidation, not pride. Cruelty, not courage. Hate never made America, or anyone for that matter, great. Share this. Report intimidation. Stand with immigrant families.

He orders extrajudicial killings. He sent troops into our cities. He terrorizes citizens with ICE raids. He raised taxes without congressional approval. He has ruined American farmers and ranchers. He plans to starve the vulnerable. He demolished our house. Remove him from office.

“household incomes had been decelerating to anemic growth rates this year as job growth has stalled and wage growth softened.” open.substack.com/pub/bobeunli...

“yesterday the U.S. debt passed $38 trillion. This was the fastest accumulation of a trillion dollars of debt outside of the Covid-19 pandemic” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

This, from Ed Luce, is such clarity on what our current crisis has in common with the War on Terror and the Great Recession: the elites suck at assessing the real risks to their comfort. And they'd rather go down with Trump than be caught opposing him. archive.ph/zDjRG

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

Here's the full radio address from Reagan in 1987. He talks a little about how he needs to impose tariffs on semiconductors from Japan but it's clear he's singling them out as something that should be rarely used. The Reagan Foundation suggesting they might sue over the ad is hilarious.

The Trump Economy

I read the whole article, and you have to get deep into it, past many “Mr. Trump says” and “Mr. Hegseth says”and unattributed “believed to be,” before a perfunctory “has not offered evidence” and “outside experts…have said the campaign is illegal.” Uncritical repetition of proven liars’ propaganda.

ROSENBERG: “.. the AI spending boom has taken over everything, and when we strip out all the direct and indirect spending related to this theme, there has been absolutely no growth in the economy so far this year.”

“AI psychosis is not when a large language model actually triggers symptoms but rather when it reinforces a delusion or disorganized thoughts that a person was already experiencing in some form” www.wired.com/story/ftc-co...

The town of Polebridge, Montana: ➠ houses about 100 year-round residents, ➠ featured 60 protesters during this month's No Kings Day. #USDemocracy #NoKings #Montana #MT #protest ❌👑

#NoKings #Phoenix

Scottsdale, AZ

Phoenix shows up!!

#NoKings #NoKingsDayOct18th Phoenix Capitol

The Sassy Bee and the Portland Frog have hit Phoenix. I repeat the Sassy Bee and the Portland Frog have hit Phoenix!

Phoenix #NoKings was awesome! Great to see so many people out and making their voices heard!

Phoenix No Kings Protest today.

Huge crowds at the No Kings protest in Phoenix AZ.

#NoKings Phoenix

Thousands of people lining the street in #Mesa #Arizona for #NoKings #FuckIce day of antifascism.

No Kings in Scottsdale, Arizona. At least double the crowd size from June protests

#NoKings Phoenix

No Kings Phoenix.

❌👑 From Phoenix, Arizona - Millions of people have joined me across the country today to show the world: America has no kings! The power belongs to the people. #NoKings #shamussolini #phoenixnokings #arizonanokings #jimmykimmel social.moveon.org/s/gNbzGp85

No Kings, Phoenix

No Kings Phoenix!

#NoKings in #Phoenix

“No Kings” Phoenix

Way to go Phoenix No Kings!

Stop calling us Nazis or we’ll murder you over things you say

As with countless other words and phrases, white people stole “woke” from Black English (AAVE) and ruined it.

“goods prices for US consumers are rising, a notable shift from the gradual post-covid declines seen up until the new administration took office. While some try to torture the data to make a political case, just looking at the damn data the shift is pretty striking. open.substack.com/pub/bobeunli...