A private equity fraudster was found guilty for his role in a scheme to defraud 10,000 investors, including small business owners, farmers, and Americans living paycheck to paycheck. Trump just let him out of prison.

I want the entire leadership to step down in both houses.

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]

So Argentina gets a $40 billion bailout from our tax dollars but devastated small towns here at home — nothing.

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement. Check out how tiny the crowds were: Philly: 200 DC: "several hundred" Boston: 500 Austin: 1,000 Houston: 2,000

My feelings, exactly.

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15) Kentucky Demonstrations at Lexington, Frankfort, Louisville, Hopkinsville, Prestonburg, Bardstown, Owensboro and more! (bencolclough90, mrangelof, liamniemeyer, acedion)

Imagining walking into a newsstand in the 90s, hearing “no single issues, we only sell subscriptions” & wondering how many magazines would still be in business. How is a refillable cash account something conquered by laundromats & toll booths, but not publishers?

I just heard "mansplaining" defined as "correctile dysfunction." I spat out my coffee.

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

Schumer and Jeffries are so bad at their jobs that they’re losing a popularity contest to a bunch of domestic terrorist pedophiles.

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More people should be talking about this.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Another way to put it is: they are obsessed with the idea that with enough repression and punishment, they can create their peaceable kingdom--on the corpses of their enemies and the corpse of the US Constitution. Behind that is the fantasy that a wholly homogenous USA can be created....

Rural free streaming TV CURRENT news networks available: OAN, Newsmax, FoxNews are right wing spin while MSNBC & CNN are locked behind paywalls for coverage of current news. This paywall dynamic has left poorer rural Americans consuming free fascist propaganda for YEARS=Low Information Voters

While you still can, if you’re asking “who’s Sinclair?” John Oliver has you covered:

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

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Judging by the shamefully opportunistic & politicizing rhetoric of some rightwingers on Twitter, & their cynical use of Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder for political point scoring, it’s almost as if Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t murdered by a Trump-voting MAGA maniac just 12 weeks ago.

When Minnesota Democratic State Representative Melissa Hortman was murdered in her home by a gun toting MAGA maniac less than 90 days ago they said nothing. Trump even skipped her funeral and chose to play golf instead. He had the chance to condemn political violent and did not.

This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.

Currently, my Existential Crisis Trigger is trapped in a tug of war between RFK Jr and the AI 2027 report. I mean…last year I endured—ultimately successful—cancer treatment, so I was looking forward to getting back to meaningless b.s. & taking my survival for granted. Oh well.

At least 19 Russian drones crossed into Polish air space last night. This was not an accidental breach or a mistake.

The only possible follow up to that AI 2027 essay is a rewatch of Person of Interest.

🚨⚖️📚 Trump’s 2026 budget proposal slashes NASA by 25%—its lowest funding since 1961. Cuts would kill Artemis beyond 2027, cancel 41 missions, and lay off a third of staff. SpaceX/Blue Origin rise as NASA fades, raising risks of profit-driven and militarized space. Congress votes Oct 1. T-23:27

And this is before all the Trump chaos sinks in. Housing is a human right. Survival is not a luxury.

“We’re living in a country where we have people who literally can’t afford to breathe.”

56 Years Ago Today:

🚨Boycott CBS CBS operates as a core division within the monopoly, Paramount Global which is: Showtime Comedy Central MTV VH1 BET Nickelodeon Paramount Network CMT TV Land Smithsonian Channel Pluto TV Paramount+ Spineless fucks! Boycott them all!

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

This is what integrity looks like.

Senator @warren.senate.gov shows us a timeline for when millions of Americans (except for billionaires) will start feeling the negative impact of Trump’s big ugly bullshit betrayal murder bill. Remember that the congressional Republicans are culpable! They represent Trump - not their constituents.

I would call myself a professional pessimist and "extremely depressed about the future" but god, please stop going into people's mentions to tell them that the law/courts no longer matter or post "AND YOU'RE SURPRISED???" at them, especially so if they are actively engaged in making the world better