Finished this a little while ago, but finally got a picture of it. Polychromos colored pencil on Bristol vellum, 8”x10”.

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Until we have replicators, we will need wealth redistribution.

It's scary how so many are fighting so hard against their own best interests with those who dont give a damn about them, theirs, or anyone's intere$t$ other than their OWN! Please educate yourself and others; share.

Texans who get insurance from healthcare.gov can now see how much their plan will cost in 2026. Prices are higher for MILLIONS because Republicans are getting rid of critical tax credits. I asked Texans to share what this would mean for their family. ⬇️

Jeffrey Epstein claims he gave Russians insight into Trump

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

BlackRock will buy AES, one of the largest publicly traded utility companies in the U.S. AES is a major power provider for Big Tech companies building out data centers. Yes: while these data centers drive up your electricity costs, wealthy financiers are going to make a killing.

In the first quarter of 2025, farm bankruptcies increased by 95% Remember: the policies leading to bankruptcy are purposeful. Our food supply is in danger…there is no better way to bring a country to its knees than having control of its food supply.

Respectfully: it’s worse than that. They are reveling in the fact that Americans will die because of Russ Vought’s Project 2025 agenda. The Grim Reaper doesn’t come just to do mass layoffs or cut social welfare programs.

This is absolutely Brownshirt business.

Here’s what inaction on ACA tax credits means: A 60-year-old Western PA couple making $80,000/year seeing health insurance premiums go up $12,000 per year. It could be a crushing blow. That's what's coming, unless the Republicans work with Democrats to fix the healthcare crisis they've created.

The cruelty is the point.

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is escalating its effort to pressure states to hand over sensitive voter data, including by threatening legal action, according to letters from a top department official obtained by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

James Madison was elected in 1812 during the War of 1812. Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1864 during the Civil War. FDR was elected in 1944 during WWII. JBJ & Nixon were elected in 1964 & 1972 during the Vietnam War. George W. Bush was elected in 2004 during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous. Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.

Trump just vowed to ban mail-in ballots and voting machines, citing debunked lies about voter fraud. Anyone that wants to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I know rural America because I live here. I know rural inside and out and I speak on it often because almost no one else does. I have the market on rural politics cornered because not many think it’s worth cornering. But it is. jesspiper.substack.com/p/they-cant-...

"Newsom’s threat to retaliate in kind is not a divisive attack on good governance. It is, instead, the only hope for democracy. Bipartisanship right now is appeasement. Democrats cannot and should not hide behind neutrality and fairness as MAGA incinerates the remaining tatters of our republic."

Putin told him to do this. That’s a very important piece of the story. Im not kidding. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

TRUMP: President Stubb of Finland. He's uh, somebody that, where are we here? Huh? STUBB: I'm right here TRUMP: Oh.

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?

Notice they don’t deny it. Corruption and grift at every turn. 🇺🇸

Crime is down…he’s testing the waters. Wants to see how we will react to the militarization in DC.

This is no time to go high. If GOP states redraw maps, then Democratic states should redraw maps. Give the same energy. They will never play fair or by the rules. Ever.

What??? DOL is apparently providing ICE with access to private driver's license and vehicle information.

Bass: I just signed an executive directive that puts all city departments and leadership on notice to protect Angelenos—essentially from the federal government. We’re also filing a FOIA request because we want to know: Who are these masked men, and why are they masked in the first place?

When talking to someone who doesn’t think like you. Who shares fake news & misinformation Don’t start by telling them how wrong they are, start by asking questions to see if they know where they are coming from We will only heal the divide by listening, asking questions, & respectfully rebutting

Let me introduce you to Col Pam Stevenson, who is running for Mitch McConnell’s Senate in Kentucky. She is a firecracker and a fighter. She’s also a quilter with some absolutely gorgeous pieces under her belt — wouldn’t it be nice to have an artist on the hill? open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

A reminder: FEMA is no longer going door-to-door to assist disaster victims [From our Climate Desk partner @wired.com]

Since 1980, there have been over 400 weather disasters in the US, with total damages over $1 billion. These disasters have cost $2.9 trillion in total and killed nearly 17,000 people. Don't tell me we "can't afford" to address the climate crisis. The truth is we can’t afford not to.

The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 called for dismantling the NOAA, which provides warnings of natural disasters, such as the deadly floods in Texas. The irony is that Heritage wanted these cuts because it’s angry that NOAA helps prove the reality of climate change--the thing causing floods.

Period.

Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did? It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" $1 trillion+ in tax cuts for the wealthy... "That's just how it is."

The people who lost children and other loved ones in the Texas floods are owed honest answers from officials. They should be told why flash flood warnings issued hours earlier were not conveyed to people in the path of the water. They don’t need more prayers from politicians. They need answers.

The next eighteen months in Washington are going to be wild. Both SCOTUS and the razor thin GOP majorities in Congress will continue to turn themselves inside out to keep 47 happy, and then will try to sandbag the currently expected blue wave in the midterms all the way up to Dec 31, 2026

We don’t know who they are in many instances. That’s why we need to start using it everywhere. Make it inescapable.

Start using it as an insult. “Use your brain. What are you, an ICE agent?”

My new campaign is the “make ICE agents so demoralized they quit” campaign.

The GOP passed a budget that will eviscerate health care in rural areas. They delayed much of the impact for after the midterms, hoping the public will think any discussion of the impending collapse is hyperbolic. Local reporters have a chance to do service journalism that'll make a splash too.

When you look at the Trump regime and the Republicans in Congress it is clear that they are not afraid of the voters. They and their bill are hugely unpopular but unlike most politicians that back out when facing unpopularity, they don't. They are not afraid of the voters. Guess why.

With ICE's *enormous* new budget and its ability to hire *many* more agents, the United States is about to enter an era of brutal domestic terrorism that we've never seen before.

They're building concentration camps with money they stole from medicare.

NEW: SCOTUS shoots down a federal judge’s effort to protect eight men from being expelled—without due process—to South Sudan, where they face torture and death. Dissenting, Sotomayor says the court’s “indefensible” decision makes it complicit in “lawlessness.” www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

When your neighbor on the left is being dragged away by masked men and your neighbor on the right can't get an X-ray for their child, be sure to quickly explain that "both parties are the same" and whatnot.

They didn’t even know what was in it. They only care about trolling liberals. All they care about is their hatred for us. www.thegodpodcast.com/p/trump-vote...

Jeffries, still going strong 8 hours in: "Extraordinary to me, Mr. Speaker, that you got folks in this town talking about draining the swamp. Guess what. You are the swamp ... we've never seen anything like this -- the type of corruption that has been unleashed on the American people."

As we knew it was going to happen, like clockwork, they're now saying they're going to prioritize denaturalizing citizens. We knew that was what they were working towards and that they are not going to stop there. Being quiet, seeing how far they will go is not an option. thehill.com/policy/natio...