There are over 40 million Spanish speakers in the USA. Speaking Spanish is as American as apple pie. - Hay más de 40 millones de hispanohablantes en Estados Unidos. Hablar español es tan estadounidense como el pastel de manzana. #Spanish

I just took a restorative nap and feel like a new person. Did everyone know about naps?

If Trump, Vance, and Republicans' Project 2025 are going to gut and destroy the ACA, Medicaid, and Veterans Affairs health care system, then we are going to build a better Medicare-for-All on the ruins of their destruction.

Elect someone who attempted a coup before and you will get another coup attempt, but with experience.

Portland, Oregon Transit Map from urbanrail.net #portland #transit

In 1934, to stop the New Deal, far-right financiers tried to organize a military coup against FDR.and recruit Gen.Smedly Butler to lead it. Butler blew the whistle on them, remembering his oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution. May the Generals remember their oath. youtu.be/r4dk12jenyY?si=1gqvq....

To any white straight cis gay men out there who are still deluded that they can ignore politics for now… Being white and cis and male won’t save you after the “Christian” nationalists declare martial law.

One excellent way for Californians to show solidarity with Portland, Oregon, our fellow West Coast city, is to vote YES on Prop 50 as soon as our ballots arrive next week. Bank those YES votes as early as possible before Trump does something fascistic. Vote YES on Prop 50.

Portland is one of the best cities in America. Let's show solidarity by building a few high-quality trams in SoCal. youtu.be/pk6-pNIUBb4?si=PRi4_...

A fundamental problem Democrats are having at this moment is that they don’t have a shared vision of what they are for, more than being anti-Trump. The NYC Mayor’s race shows that when THAT conversation starts, the activist base and the donor base want different things.

Hegseth fires general officers and JAGs, cracks down on dissenting views in military, orders killing civilians at sea without legal rationale, calls generals to Quantico to demand loyalty. Trump deploys troops to U.S. cities. "What are Trump and Hegseth up to? It's a mystery!"

Arguing over how we got to fascism isn't the best use of our energy. Leave that to the historians. We are better off figuring out how to get out of it and what we want to build in its place after it. "Winning the midterms" and putting duck tape on the old institutions simply won't be enough.

President Biden was the escape route from fascism. He restored our economy, institutions, and public health. But voters threw that away out of racism, tantrum, counterproductive protest, and indifference. There is no way back. What comes next will be a different country, and maybe more than one.

Mango Mussolini is sending troops to Portland. Are we ready to leave yet? #Pacifica

Gay Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford reveals he married long-time partner last year - buff.ly/MkPTTGf

I don't think 80 Assemblymembers is enough for 40,000,000 Californians. That is half a million people represented by each member of the lower house of our state legislature. I am considering starting a campaign for a ballot proposition to raise that number to 160. #California

Gov. Gavin Newsom just dropped a new video for Yes on Prop 50 —

Thought Experiment: Was the unholy alliance Elon Musk made with Donald Trump about the Epstein files? Was keeping that under wraps worth hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign cash? www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

There are some amazing people working in local government and at the community level being of service. There are people working hard to help other people and animals in need, and improve their community. There is still good happening in the world.

House Oversight Democrats have released a third batch of records from the Epstein estate — including phone message logs, aircraft manifests, and copies of financial ledgers.   There are mentions of possible contact between Epstein and Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Steve Bannon. tinyurl.com/4n9h999m

No veteran should have their social security number leaked, let alone passed to a political opponent by the government.

Doubling the cost of our prescriptions. Thanks for nothing, Mango Mussolini.

Gray zone - on who’s buying tick tock -

If Jack is weaponizing illegally leaked documents as a candidate, just imagine what he would do as governor with New Jerseyans' personal data.

I will ask again. Where are the missing 1200 people from Alligator Alcatraz? Sent to a foreign gulag? Sold into slavery? Dead in a mass grave? Every one of these people were human beings with minds, hearts, souls, and families. Where are they? What happened to them? www.democracynow.org/2025/9/2

Voting YES on 50 feels existential at this point. I cannot wait for my ballot to arrive. #California

If Trump and Hegseth fire all the Generals who won't pledge personal loyalty to Trump over the U.S. Constitution, then we have e defacto military coup without firing a shot. Vote for a coup attempter, you get a coup. To borrow from T.S. Elliot, "The USA ended not with a bang, but with a whimper"

Well, so much for TikTok. Moving on.

Don't let a Republican "trickle-down" on your leg and tell you it's raining.

1200 people don't just vanish. What happened at Gator Gulag? Were they human-trafficked? Did they not pass "selection"? Are there open pits or gas chambers at this place? Yes, this post is meant to be shocking. 1200 people gone. Where are they? www.esquire.com/news-politic...

Boise looks nice. Who has been? Since it is growing, they should bring back Amtrak's Pioneer line. youtu.be/Buo9d5RJQ3Q?... #Boise

In a post-Project 2025 world, much will fall onto the states to handle. Thank goodness for CA. If your Governor and state legislators aren't up to the task, then 2025/6/7/8 are the time to change that. Turn red states purple and purple states blue. www.latimes.com/opinion/story...

93% of rural counties voted for Trump despite his pledging high tariffs and for Project 2025-supporting Republicans in Congress. I am very sorry to see so many rural hospitals close, for this will cause hardship for so many rural communities, but elections have consequences.

If you need some hope from history, @rbreich.bsky.social has it in his latest Substack column, "The Sleeping Giant is Awakening". Joe McCarthy's red scare came and went, and so will Trump. Something feels like it has shifted in the universe this week. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-sleepi...

I want to recommend @hcrichardson.bsky.social latest video. Her calm, reassuring tone with a sense of history is so needed today. 'The Tide Turned this Week" (on Trump) youtu.be/AQ2ZxeneQrk?...

Donald Trump is bailing out Argentina and its Trump-like President while cutting your health care and raising your premiums and prices at the grocery store. Bailout the American people instead by reversing his cuts to health care and repealing his sky high tariffs? www.wsj.com/world/americas/mi...

Adjusted for inflation, Madrid built 35 miles of metro between 1995–1999 for about the same cost as a SINGLE mile of New York’s Second Avenue Subway (Phase 1). Imagine if every transit dollar here bought us 35 times more transit?

Should we all dress up like bottles of Tylenol for Halloween to keep MAGAs away?

The U.S. Highway System was created in 1926 to connect small towns and cities and lift commerce and industry and tourism for everyone. The Insterstate System started in the 50’s sacrificed small towns for speed. We can have both. Recommission U.S. Highways like Route 66. youtu.be/ngSgEAbQWGs?...

The whole idea of the "liberal" media was always a myth and bludgeon used to force broadcast journalism to the right. Looking at how many Sinclair stations won't show Kimmel and how corporate news media aided and capitulated to Trump shows us all their real ideological leaning — their owners.

Here is my take on "The Rapture" and the Book of Revelation. Any rapture is internal. Armageddon or Golden Age? Heaven or Hell? We all individually and collectively choose moment by moment through tour thoughts, actions, energy, frequency, and vibration. I recommend choosing love over fear.

Here is the thing about the "rapture". The Book of Revelation is not supposed to be taken literally any more than the stories of creation in the Garden of Eden. The spiritual lessons in these stories exist on a deeper level than mere "news".

Much of American history has seen a tension between federal and state authority. What happens in a post-Trump, post-Project 2025 USA if both right and left start arguing for states’ rights because they no longer trust federal power generally because the other side might control it? #federalism

The USA after Trump and all his MAGAgelicals are raptured tomorrow.

Republican cuts to the ACA and Medicaid will create tens of millions of newly insured. This will cause hospitals and clinics to close and everyone else’s premiums and emergency room wait times to soar, including people on Medicare. Health care is the right fight to have on this spending bill.

“We wlll only vote for the spending bill if Republicans agree to reverse the cuts they made to the ACA, Medicaid, and Medicare.” See how simple this is. Why are Democratic leaders so horrible at messaging? Take a stand and fight for it.

Everything that is about to be shutdown in the Federal Government, Republicans were planning to dismantle as part of Project 2025 anyway. Keeping the focus on the Republican cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and the ACA they made as part of their “One Big Bill” is politically smart for Democrats.

DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now." ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."