Real Bear

As a first post, will mention that I've a very long list of books I have read, own, and recommend to all Democrats. It will be multi-part. Let's begin with this ...

The Briefing with Michael Waldman brennancenter.substack.com?r=u1hz5&utm_...

The success of the U.S. vaccination system depends on two fundamental pillars: parents trusting in vaccines and children having access to them. Under RFK Jr., both are in peril. (Published March)

Please stop giving Donald Trump a free pass for his full responsibility for the Covid virus. open.substack.com/pub/wildwynd...

What a disgrace. Read more: www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...

For two years, Mike Johnson refused to hang the plaque on the wall honoring police officers who defended the Capitol on J6 against a mob of violent rioters, even though a law was passed to mandate it. But he supports paying over a billion dollars to the criminal rioters.

If you are waiting for huge corporations to pass along the tariff refunds they are about to get from the government to consumers who bought tariffed products, you haven’t been paying much attention to the way things work in this country.

Marge Greene says she is concerned that Trump is going to cancel the 2028 election to remain in power and will use an ongoing war as his justification.

We found that Jeff Bezos paid zero taxes in 2007 and 2011. In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children. Revisit our 2021 story:

This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

Before the 2024 election, federal prosecutors were “full steam ahead” looking into how a prison gang in Puerto Rico gave drugs to inmates if they voted for a GOP gubernatorial candidate. After Trump’s election, the investigation evaporated.

ICYMI www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/hawaii-jus...

www.wired.com/story/a-libr...

Real Christians know exactly who and what Donald Trump is, and to their credit a few have even begun saying so

I seem to be the only one asking this question ... open.substack.com/pub/wildwynd...

The Supreme Court’s recent Voting Rights Act decision actually glorifies partisan gerrymandering. Here’s what to do about it: bit.ly/48IeZYC

Who works for the federal government and how does their work impact you? Michael Lewis set out to answer those questions. "Who Is Government?" brings together an all-start team of writers who profile exemplary career civil servants whose work kept us safe, strong, healthy and prosperous.

As the watchdog group that spent 4 years litigating Trump's first term emoluments violations, we can say from experience: Congress needs to ensure the Emoluments Clause is actually enforceable. This is just the latest violation—Trump needs to be held accountable for them all.

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NEWS: The Epstein files are now bound into 3,437 physical volumes in a new exhibition space in Tribeca. Millions of pages. Two stories tall. And yet only two people have ever faced accountability. Katie Phang discusses the rage she felt walking through the space.

Republicans investigated Benghazi for years and years and years. What Trump has done—and let happen—to America over the last year in Iran may *literally* be 100 times worse. If past were precedent, Democrats would investigate the Iran War for *decades*.

Most media refers to these morons as Christian, as in "Christian Nationalism" but without the quotes. Maybe we have just as large a dumb-a** media problem as a fascism problem.

This year is shaping up to be the most expensive midterm election ever, and many billionaires have already given tens of millions of dollars each.

How liberals & conservatives were inculcated to now believe the press must serve their political parties, venerate their politicians & confirm their priors - rather than scrutinize power. Why accountability journalism is becoming a niche artisanal product in an ocean of audience-captured clickslop👇

They shut down the entire National Mall so Trump could take a joyride in the pool

Wannabe dictator Trump angrily told U.S. media today that "you'll know when there's no ceasefire because I'll tell you when" (and added that we'll see flames across Iran) Meanwhile, back in reality, most of us know there NEVER WAS a ceasefire because the parties never {checks notes} "ceased firing"

CNN montage of Trump saying he and private donors are going to pay for the ballroom, followed by clips of him lying about the cost: "$250 million... about $300 million... approximately 400 million." Now taxpayers are going to get a bill for $1 billion.

Attorney Kurt Olsen once worked to try to overturn Trump’s 2020 loss in court and was later sanctioned by judges for making baseless allegations about Arizona elections. He is now Trump’s director of election security and integrity.

Anti-China sentiment helped in President Trump’s reelection, Oren Cass writes, and “the assumption on the part of many Americans was that Mr. Trump would do everything in his power to sever economic ties between the two countries. Instead, he may be on the verge of tying the United States to China.”

NEW: The Trump administration has granted more than 180 polluting facilities nationwide a two-year pause on compliance with Clean Air Act rules. All they had to do was send an email.

To cast doubt on election results, the Trump administration and its supporters are misconstruing declassified intelligence reports about vulnerabilities in state voter registration databases. But there’s no evidence that the systems were corrupted. bit.ly/4tjHbIM

In his opinion gutting the Voting Rights Act, Justice Alito cited misleading data to claim the racial turnout gap has closed. In fact, it has “exploded” over the last 15 years — thanks to the Supreme Court, says @kevintmorris.bsky.social.

Absolutely outrageous Virginia Supreme Court invalidated redistricting referendum approved by the voters when voters haven’t been able to weigh in on a single gerrymander passed in red states

"The Supreme Court did not say ‘throw away those ballots.’" Rep. Cleo Fields is calling out the blatant, illegal election cancellation happening right now in Louisiana. Read the full story here: 👉 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/the-regime...

Social Security is on the way out to make way for Trump indebting us decades into the future on Iran and other boondoggles, for the purpose of diverting attention from his prominence in the Epstein files.

The Pentagon’s $25 billion estimate for the cost of the war in Iran “gets a lot of attention, but it’s more of a headline than a real number,” the economist Justin Wolfers writes. “My math suggests the Iran war will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, and very possibly trillions.”

When the actual science doesn't fit their narrative, the Regime just tries to hide it. Read the exclusive breakdown of their massive cover-up here: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/the-regime...

It’s time to reform the Supreme Court. But how? Listen to this week’s episode of The Briefing with Michael Waldman to hear legal experts discuss the reforms needed to restore checks and balances: apple.co/48KGVev

It’s reasonable to seek transparency in how our elections are run — but not to launch a criminal investigation based on false claims that have already been thoroughly debunked. bit.ly/4wciFMe

@lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social: Donald Trump cares more about prosecuting James Comey than his own war in Iran www.youtube.com/watch?v=86Rh...

I seem to be the only one asking this question ... open.substack.com/pub/wildwynd...

Suddenly Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumber just can’t stop making big bucks off shrewd investments in companies making a fortune off connections to the government. They are experts in every industry now.

In remarks to a private audience in 2023, Russell Vought, who is Trump’s budget chief and the intellectual force behind Trump’s unprecedented power grab, said he championed the term “invasion” because it “unlocked” extraordinary presidential powers. (Published May 2025)

NEW: From dismantling guardrails that upheld the integrity of past elections to gutting federal agencies and installing allies who supported Trump’s claim that the 2020 vote was stolen, here are the key takeaways from our recent investigation.

Trump is the most corrupt president in American history and it's not even close.

NEW: Environmental scientists said a new EPA directive could lead to weakened chemical protections, such as revised limits on how much arsenic is allowed in drinking water or the amount of lead considered acceptable in paint or soil. By @fastlerner.bsky.social

The FDA allowed into the United States at least 150 drugs or their ingredients made at banned factories that were found to have mold, foul water, dirty labs or fraudulent testing protocols. (Published June 2025)

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Exclusive Investigation: Here’s What The Trump Regime Isn’t Telling You About Saturday’s Security Breach open.substack.com/pub/dworkin/...

NEW: The Trump administration is trying to create national databases of Americans’ private data, violating the law and the Constitution—all to consolidate power under President Trump and pursue his political agenda. Here's how we're pushing back:

In 1995, Clinton repealed the rule requiring drugs developed at taxpayer expense to be offered at "reasonable" prices. In 2000, the Senate blocked Wellstone's bill to reinstate the rule. Americans pay the world's highest prices for drugs we already paid for. Dems should reintroduce Paul's bill.