The local press really matters! The press steps up as Trump targets Chicago open.substack.com/pub/stopthep...

Fishermen do. It's a huge industry.

October 5, 2025

He’ll buy the farmers off again like he did in Trump 1.0. The American taxpayer foot’s the bill. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

26. They know their policies are so unpopular they would never become reality if Vought and Miller couldn’t whisper in the ear of a doddering old man who can't tell the difference b/w reality and TV. For indie voters who may be looking for an off ramp, it’s not Project 2025. It’s Puppet 2025.

Good convo about Women’s Democratic Caucus. @hcrichardson.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/jpcEORG...

October 5, 2025

NO KINGS Westborough, Massachusetts Saturday, October 18

I know I’m naive but the idea that my government not only lies to me and America but purposely creates video to lie to me…well, I was never taught this in U.S. civics class.

When you’re losing Ryan Zinke…

Maybe if Trump had gone to Vietnam as a soldier, we would've won. Bone spurs, my a**.

At our town hall on Friday, hundreds turned out asking the same questions we're all asking: Will we get paid? Will we keep our healthcare? Will our democracy survive this chaos?  I hear you. I see you. And that is why we are fighting to protect our democracy and our communities.

Folks: I am not on TikTok. Any account there is not me. And I will NEVER ask for money!

If you allow a government to break the law because of an “emergency”, it will create an emergency to break the law.

The biggest Medicare fraudster wants to fix Obamacare? Then I've got some swampland in Florida to sell you!

PEGGY NOONAN: “.. You know why people say something’s wrong with this guy? Because it appears something is wrong with this guy.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

This feels like evidence Trump's aides are deliberately gaslighting him, which is unfortunately very easy to do with dementia sufferers (Trump did it to his father) and which aides are using to seize control of the US military for their own purposes.

Good. The only ones who can afford to go to the SuperBowl are rich white men. Maybe ICE will arrest some of them. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/a...

“.. An FBI spokesperson could not be reached Saturday due to the federal government shutdown.” abcnews.go.com/US/kash-pate...

Epstein files institutionalized?

I would hope that the Blue Öyster Cult would make it clear that this was not done with their authorization, and would sue.

I hope Blue Oyster Cult sues the shit out of them.

October 2, 2025

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

Terrifying and illegal. Big Brother is not only watching, he's dictating what your emails can say and then getting into your account and changing them if you don't follow orders. Broken by @marisakabas.bsky.social 1/2 www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-omb-...

@hcrichardson.bsky.social Good morning Dorchester! TGIF!

This:

Link: buff.ly/6XZzLQS

Hitler said he was for peace, too. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/w...

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down. All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown. So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

“Scottie, I need more power.” “I’m givin’ ya all she’s GOT, Captain.” ⚡️ @dkthomp.bsky.social

If you live in these states, your ACA premiums are about to jump: SD - Up 235%
LA - Up 150%
WV - Up 387%
WY - Up 382%
TN - Up 320%
MS - Up 314%
AK - Up 346% Republicans are fighting to make sure this happens to their own constituents.

Let’s be clear: Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans forced a government shutdown tonight. Rather than address the health care crisis that they created just earlier this year, they refuse to come to the table and do their jobs. What happened to the art of the deal?

My thoughts when hearing Hegseth live was that there are so many POC and women that serve. Including high ranking Generals and Admirals. How humiliating to sit through that and hear that you aren’t worthy or that you skipped the line because of your skin color. 1/3

From his mad ravings to the generals meeting yesterday (transcribed in @hcrichardson.bsky.social's newsletter this morning). This kind of shit is what they're trying to hide:

It was obvious from the start that turning over a public institution of higher education to dimwit ideologues would end in tears. These people are a bunch of incompetents who can't do anything but tweet. www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

This is a VERY well crafted lawsuit. 1) Plaintiff is natural born. 2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants. 3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property. 4) He showed Real ID both times.

(Reuters) - More than 150,000 federal employees will leave the U.S. government payroll this week after accepting buyouts - the largest single-year exodus of civil servants in nearly 80 years .. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

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Pfizer "secured a three-year grace period from President Donald Trump’s promised tariffs on pharmaceuticals" and in return will "sell some drugs at a 50% average discount on a direct-to-consumer website called TrumpRx" looks like state capitalism to me www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Americans can't afford a pound of ground beef, but Pete Hegseth blew millions of your taxpayer dollars flying in every General and Admiral around the world so he could yell at them about the Top 100 things he hates about facial hair.

Please clap.

September 29, 2025

Hegseth has had a lot of bad ideas, but this one is disruptive and even somewhat dangerous. All of these men and women have real jobs they should be doing. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

"FEMA officials arrived to go door-to-door to help residents apply for federal funds. But then they stopped as the administration canceled the door-to-door program. FEMA closed disaster-recovery facilities where residents could apply for financial assistance last week." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

OMG. He is a global laughingstock. This is beyond parody.

Hey America. Help our farmers out. Eat more tofu!

can never forget that Fred Trump spent his later years totally gaga but surrounded by a gaggle of senility-denial-enablers who drove him to a make believe office where a make believe secretary had him sign make believe papers—which sounds cute til you see the sequel & the secretary is Stephen Miller

Every major Democrat has millions in their campaign account. The threat to democracy is big enough that we need to be funding mobilization and messaging right now - not just banking money for the next election. If we don't build right now, there might not be another election.