Just a reminder that organizations and people here in the US fund these settlements. Also a reminder that many settlers are American citizens. People refuse to call the mass murder in Gaza a US funded genocide. The truth is, our institutions are also funding a violent apartheid.

This has to be a very brilliant marketing campaign FOR the one time billionaire tax bill. Obviously they know that many of these billionaires are billionaires because impoverished children in the DRC work in mines as slaves to power the silicon valley economy.

If he were in the Epstein files, he wouldn't be in prison now.

“It’s not a zero-sum world,” they say, as they evict you from your home. “It’s not a zero-sum world,” they say, as they hand themselves billion dollar government contracts and credits. “It’s not a zero-sum world,” they say, as they bomb your people into oblivion or kidnap your children. Hmmm. 🤔

The former CEO and Chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest software company, was perhaps beholden to a blackmailer who sold his services to governments? Maybe… “Listen, bill, my friends want you to hire these two engineers for the software updates team. Make sure ppl don’t pester them too much.”

Fuck.

If not dumb why dumb shaped

Wait, wasn’t that the whole reason the government of the United States demanded its sale? I thought they were tired of ppl in Gaza reporting on the genocide and making Israel look bad. Otherwise, I‘m gonna be real upset if the US government was targeting the fleetwood mac cranberry juice guy.

Don’t fall for the tech baron yimby crap, folks. The billionaire wealth tax is a ONE TIME 5% tax on wealth over $1 billion. These f—kers have taken from california for too long. Newsom and weiner are shilling by opposing it. Serget brin owes cali billions. Let’s take it.

Bill Kristol gets it. They're gonna offer Bovino and maybe even Noem to give Schumer an excuse to vote yes on funding. Firing these two is not enough. Dems need to hold out for real oversight. Also, ICE must eventually be abolished, along with every single other post-9/11 security apparatus.

Dumb framing. It’s not like this is the first “oopsie daisies” for these johnny-come-lately f—ks. They f—ked us on Iraq and Afghanistan. They f—ked us on the patriot act, dhs, ice… … subprime loans… quant easing… Crypto… 2016… genocide in Gaza… So yeah, welcome to the party, you stupid mfers.

The party who lost in 2024 to an adjudicated rapist and felon is playing chess while the rest of us are playing checkers? The party who ignored their own base in order to appease aipac and 55 “moderate“ republicans? Those guys? They’re the geniuses? We’re all idiots?

“Alex Pretti and Renee Good are Hamas.” The cruelty and violence we export always finds its way back home. It all come back home.

I have dozens of policies I'd like to see pushed in 2028, but I realize now that only 1 thing matters: The dismantling of the post-9/11 security apparatus and restraining the (perceived) authorities of the executive. Everything else can wait. The executive branch needs to be fully declawed.

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

This reminds me of the time elon musk did that WW2 military salute.

Also scoop: The 7 dems that voted today to hand ICE $10b, also voted in favour of sending free bombs to Israel so that they could murder children. Not every pro-genocide dem is a shill for fascism, but every dem shill for fascism is also a supporter of Israel’s apartheid and genocide.

I can’t emphasize this enough, but the only checks on trump and his miserable band of goons are the markets. The Dow dropped less than 3% and he backtracked on Greenland. Want to save America? The S&P needs to drop 40%. The markets must die for America to live. Pensions, 401ks, everything.

Threat of a Newsom veto killed a California law that would have forced Facebook and Google to pay their fair share to the state's journalists, whose work they profit from. The (bad) compromise was Google would help fund journalism in CA for 5 years. Newsom has apparently killed that, too.

Tired of press release dems who do nothing but pose for meidas touch videos? Tired of corporate dems who stand only for the rich and powerful. Well this here is the dude you need. Brad Lander is running against a nepo baby heir to the levi’s fortune, Dan Goldman. Lander is a principled, good dude.

If the NYT is the dry cleaner of bad ideas, ezra klein is the nasty discount laundromat of horrible ideas.

“Here’s an example of a dummy who is inconsistent in their zeal for human rights. Therefore, the ppl opposing Israel‘s genocide are fools!” Yes, there are plenty of useful idiots in the world. It doesn’t mean that Palestinians deserve to be treated as disposable livestock.

People are shocked when their Senators—folks who refused to defund Israel’s ethnic cleansing, forced starvation, and genocide in Gaza—also refuse to defund ICE in Minneapolis. Us Americans are some of the dumbest ppl in the world.

The House voted 341 to 79 to fund Trump's war-mongering foreign policy agenda. Only 57 Democrats voted NO. clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/rol...

The heat energy we added to the ocean LAST YEAR is the equivalent of: - Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute - operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history - Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used

Running Man, Paul Glaser 1987

Scott weiner and gavin newsom: “Leave the billionaires alone, people! The real problem is CEQA, the California Environmental Quality Act!”

“The bridge is yours, number 1.”

Fed Chair: “The renovations cost a bit more but i explained that to congress already. The trump admin is weaponizing the DOJ to take control of the Fed.” Me: “True. They want you to turn on the printers. Btw, why did the renovations cost more?” Fed Chair: “It’s all this damned infla-“ Me: “Aha”

MAGA’s crackdown on dissent started with pro-Palestinian activists. It didn’t end there.

Some ppl, when they bomb Iran tomorrow: “See, I told you! The Greenland thing was a distraction! Also, they don’t want Iran’s oil.” Same ppl, when they move troops to Greenland in 3 weeks: “Ok, but this is a distraction from ICE raids.” They’re not a series of distractions. They’re a laundry list.

I found this useful.

The money isn’t in the oil itself. The money is in the subsidies and government contracts to get the oil. The money is in controlling the oil markets.

Israel: “C’mon, you promised to bomb Iran for us.” Trump: “Yeah, this Venezuela thing did not go as planned. Gimme a few more days.” I: “No problem, we’ll bomb Gaza.” T: “Cool. I’ll instruct ICE to shoot some more people.” Bloodlust is a disease.

Pope Leo: “It is painful to see how, especially in the West, the space for genuine freedom of expression is rapidly shrinking.  At the same time, a new Orwellian-style language is developing which, ends up excluding those who do not conform to the ideologies that are fueling it.”

Gaza, ICE, the crackdown on trans people’s rights to exist - they all have a common thread: normalized cruelty. Where a person stands on these issues can tell you a lot about their morality or lack thereof.

It’d be really nice if Iranians actually overthrew their repressive and horrid government and this didn’t end up being an intelligence operation by certain state actors to create temporary chaos so they could bomb Iran some more. Here’s hoping.

“Cease fire.” For people who don’t understand why the fate of Gaza is important: The authoritarians see everyone who won‘t bend the knee as Palestinians and will happily turn your cities, states, and nations into rubble. The warlords are trying to replace the post WW2 order with “might is right.”

the reason they don’t bother to manufacture the consent beforehand is that everyone just sort of does it for them post-facto now

This is what happens when you recklessly extend BRICS right up to America’s borders and ignore America’s legitimate security concerns.

Low info ppl: “Fine, it’s illegal, but regime change is done and now Venezuela will be rich with oil.” Folks, chevron and flour daniel employees had to flee Venezuela every 9 months back when the gov supported them. How do you think they’ll fare now that we‘ve thrown Venezuela into a civil war.

Trump must be so pissed that Maduro didn’t make it into his safe house. Trump probably had Van Halen’s Panama cued up on a Sony Discman ready to be plugged into a 5000 watt system. On a side note, we’re living in very dangerous times.

I was a little worried when Mamdani uttered the corporate dems favorite word, “abundance,” but then i realized he meant that he has an abundance of ass from which the rich and powerful may eat.

Mamdani: “Blackstone, blackrock, black pebble, boulder, whatever, you can all eat my ass. Corporate landlords, slumlords, luxury condo developers, the entire cast of Million Dollar Listing New York, you can eat my ass too. AIPAC, the $20 six pac, GB Packers… that’s right: EAT. MY. ASS!” Love him.

There are two types of politicians: those who govern on behalf of the people, and those who govern on behalf of the rich and powerful. Gavin Newsom is my governor, he represents the latter. Newsom does not care about the people. He works for lobbyists, billionaires, and corporations.

They put Bari Weiss in charge of CBS in order to kill stories about Gaza. I hate to break it to everyone but I don’t think they intended to limit her oversight to the Israeli genocide. If you’re willing to kill stories about genocide, I’m pretty sure you’re willing to kill stories about gulags.

Happy Giacomo Puccini's birthday!

Rick Steves 😍