Doug Cheney

“Representative government and trial by jury are the heart and lungs of liberty. Without them we have no other fortification against being ridden like horses, fleeced like sheep, worked like cattle and fed and clothed like swine and hounds.” — John Adams

How much is Trump to blame for the current economy? Using Trumpian math, I’d say at least 1500%. youtu.be/C0tQ0crP8g8

What is this place?

It’s day 13 of Trump‘s war and American media wants you’d be mad at Timothée Chalamet. To filter out the noise, I made a YouTube playlist (updated daily). Now at 200 videos, mostly from reputable international outlets. Sort by date so the newest stories are first. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Also, now that the Dow is so far off of 50,000, I believe that according to the Pam Bondi Rule we are legally allowed to care about the Epstein Files again?

It’s hard to find news on the war, so I created a playlist on and I’m updating it daily. I’m focusing on reliable international reporting but please make recommendations for outlets you trust. Note: organize the playlist by date so the most current videos are first. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Is anyone out there?

It’s a terrible bill. It will literally kill people. The most vulnerable among us will suffer as the wealthiest benefit. It’s perverse. I wish there were something I could do. But alas, I am only a U.S. Senator from Alaska whose “no” vote would kill the bill. So I voted yes. You get it.

Just fucking getting newsed in the face every fucking day

Liar is not strong enough a word. Trump is a destroyer of truth. That’s his aim, and it’s why he’ll lie about a lie he made. It’s a war on truth.

Elon backtracked on DOGE savings goals from $1 trillion to $150 billion. But watchdogs report only $12.6 billion in verifiable savings. That represents just 0.173% of the U.S. federal budget for 2025. We're losing vital government services for basically nothing in return.

Still wrapping my head around a President with 34 felony convictions snatching people off the street if they have a speeding ticket on their record.

Spotted this on a road trip and I’m pretty sure it’s the best logo I’ve ever seen. Mark, Dan and Wayne are absolute legends.

My first apartment in 1994 was $350/month. Adjusting for inflation, that apartment should now rent for $744/month. It actually rents for $1500. Greed and inflation are hurting the kids, not their Starbucks lattes.

The modern US Republican Party may be the most openly, brazenly, and shamelessly hypocritical group of people to have ever existed in human history.

That Walz protest was pure astroturf, paid for by President Bone-Spurs. A disgusting, post-election, swift-boating stunt meant to demoralize his opposition. The kind of move only our vindictive draft-dodger-in-chief could dream up. There is no bottom to his shamelessness.

43% of El Salvador’s coffee production is bought by the U.S. Companies like Starbucks are key players. It’s time to put pressure on these companies and consumers to boycott Salvadoran coffee until Bukele releases Garcia and any others wrongfully detained.

The moment anyone can be taken off the street by anyone claiming to be police, America’s rule of law is already broken. What stops the next one from being a kidnapper with a fake badge? This is how freedom dies, not with a bang, but with a minivan door slammed shut on your rights.

15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment. Today, billionaire political spending is up 160-fold since that ruling. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

I’ve been getting them for years, but lately, getting emails that say stuff like “TELL DEMS IN CONGRESS TO…” is particularly disheartening, because if those people need me to tell them what to do, it’s already too late.

The top five egg producers own roughly half of all U.S. laying hens. The biggest of those corporations is Cal-Maine, which just announced quarterly profits of $509 million — more than 3x what it made a year ago. Corporate concentration + bird flu = a price-hiking free for all.

All we wanted was Medicare for All, and the best Dems could offer was Mediocre for All — so the GOP stepped in and is delivering… tax breaks for billionaires.

We used to beam Radio Free America into oppressed nations overseas. Now it feels like we need it here at home. Anyone want to reboot #RadioFreeAmerica ?

Who derives joy from Tesla’s downfall? I do, Elon. I’m the jerk. It’s me.

I realize Musk suffers from an incurable case of white savior complex, but what gave him the idea that after 250 yrs, what America really needed was a hostile takeover by the richest man on Earth? It’s a testament to how little he thinks of our country and of democracy in general.

The press corps is going to try very hard to get the regime to admit the info was classified, but you can't make liars tell the truth. They are liars. That's a fact. *Presume* lies moving forward.

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

Right now, there’s an important race happening that will shape the Wisconsin Supreme Court for the next 10 years. Judge Susan Crawford is ready to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of all Wisconsinites. Make a plan to vote early today — don’t wait until April 1st: wisdems.org/vote

🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

Uh, I believe the point is to be better than the criminals.

If causing economic damage to Tesla counts as terrorism, then Elon Musk is public enemy number one. No one has done more to light the brand—and the stock—on fire. And he was motivated by politics.

I keep asking myself this but it’s really hard to tell if there has been any movement here.

Warms my heart to see all the CEOs and billionaires standing up for USAID’s food programs and defending the most vulnerable from Trump and Musk’s cruelty.

Musk is gunning for our democracy in broad daylight. Will MAGA ever snap out of it?

Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed

Maybe the way to fix Section 230 is this: If a company wants its protections, it can’t algorithmically sort content—leave that control to users. But if a platform insists on curating feeds, they take on greater responsibility for what’s amplified. What do you think?

How do you explain to 77M people that conflicts of interest are an actual thing and that thing is bad?

The U.S. forced Putin to invade, they say, by provoking Russia. They also say, “no one was tougher” on Russia than Trump who gave Ukraine javelins unlike Obama who was afraid to provoke Russia. And while Trump turns his back on our allies and aligns with Russia against Ukraine, they say nothing.

If ‘data is the new oil’ how is it not obvious to everyone Musk is stealing vast quantities of our country’s wealth?

The level at which America is tuned out of this coup is mind-boggling. In 2025, most folks find politics too toxic to discuss even as their democracy collapses right in front of them.

I don’t need conservatives to think like me. I just need them to stop letting Trump do the thinking for them.

Anyone who thinks bureaucracy only exists in government has clearly never tried to delete their Facebook account.

For most of my life, Republicans have sold fear of government and a desire to weaken the state. But that rhetoric has either given way to (or was secretly always about) vesting monarchical power in the executive, usurping the Constitution and recreating exactly what America rejected at its birth.