BetterTrouble

228 years ago today, our 1st president congratulated our 2nd and returned to private life. I’m not the first to lobby for March 4th to be a national holiday, but after this day of protest & now as 47 speaks, I hope you’ll join me in a movement to promote & establish #PeacefulTransferOfPowerDay. 1/5

holy smokes, conan strikes up a chat with a random lady on the subway and she immediately starts riffing on his level, no problem.

Sliwa getting a flu shot: This could be very embarrassing. I’m supposed to be a tough guy, right? Mamdani: I can hold your hand. Sliwa: What happens if I faint? Mamdani: I got you. Doctor: You’re in great hands, literally. New Yorkers can find free flu shots and locations at nyc.gov/healthmap

Gloria Steinem has passed away. Long ago, my parents used to force me to go to church each Sunday. One time the pastor made a comment about "people who were destroying America, like Carl Sagan and Gloria Steinem." I liked Carl Sagan. Gloria Steinem was new to me. I took it as a recommendation.

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— You do realise Stoicism and Romanticism are pulling in opposite directions? — Constantly. — And you believe in both? — Inconveniently, yes. — So what do you do with that? — Give each one a verse and let the chorus fail to decide. #writerscommunity #poetry #songwriter

Forty years. Ten presidential terms. One scoreboard. No opinions—just the numbers. Compare the record and decide for yourself.

The Discovery The human vision is not a photograph.

Why? Just, why?

I woke up optimistic, which was suspicious, so I made coffee and waited for further evidence.

A Japanese fan broke down crying after his country's elimination, but a group of Brazilians fans went to console him and Mexican fans made him soar. You gotta love the World Cup! ❤️🌎⚽️ Video: RÉCORD

250 yrs ago today, on this spot, Thomas Jefferson (and the other 4 members of the Committee of Five) were working on the final draft of the Declaration of Independence

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

TRUTH

📌Barack Obama was targeted 11 times in assassination attempts during this two terms. I bet you don't remember any of them because they were handled through proper channels, professionally, and he isn't a whiny bitch.

Everyone gets richer after the White House—time, access, opportunity. But one didn’t wait. Same office. Different timeline. Skip the politics. Look at the pattern.

This smart dog knows about politics, he literally gives a shit.😆😆

In case you missed it: first-person video footage of the U.S. Navy Divers Medical Team opening the hatch and entering inside the Orion Integrity capsule to meet the Artemis II heros U.S. Navy Courtesy Asset/ Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group One www.dvidshub.net/video/100269... #Artemis 🧪🔭

#BidenFundedNASA In 2025 Chump tried to defund NASA but he failed. He is trying again this year.

Found the link www.youtube.com/shorts/SU7n3...

To cap off his first 100 days in office, Mayor Zohran Mamdani walked the full 6 miles home from New York City Hall last night — greeting New Yorkers along the way. 🍎

Average wage growth for workers is now at the slowest pace in 5 years — and could soon be eaten up by inflation. Meanwhile, CEO pay continues to skyrocket through the stratosphere. Imagine what our economy would look like if worker pay grew like CEO pay.

This may be the most powerful 85 seconds I've ever seen on television.

Marc Murphy, Louisville Courier-Journal

Eric Trump and Donald Trump, Jr. are acquiring a drone company that is seeking to meet Pentagon demand after Trump banned the use of Chinese drones. We’re barely a week into Trump’s war and already his family has found a way to cash in. Everything is for sale.

War isn’t just ideology, it’s an industry. Every million dollars in arms sales carries a human cost. Eisenhower warned about the military-industrial complex in 1961, but the machine grew anyway: military power, defense contractors, political influence, and oil. The math behind war tells the story.

Like clockwork.

Radiohead is demanding that the Trump administration take down a pro-ICE promotional video featuring a version of its song “Let Down” without permission. Full statement from the band:

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

From @perrybaconjr.bsky.social : “New York is a unique place, but Democrats across the country need to do what Mamdani did: create a more liberal electorate.” newrepublic.com/article/2058...

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AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

Country Singer, songwriter Charley Crockett well said......

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

"For much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3

A follow up on this Jesse Watters clip from 3 weeks ago. The victim of ICE testified today before Congress that she was on her way to a 39th scheduled treatment at a traumatic brain injury center.

Remember her name: Aliya Rahman Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself. It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did. ICE MUST GO‼️

Klobuchar: "Somehow 50,000 peaceful protesters in 10 below weather were able to march without any problems, and then the next day half a dozen ICE and CBP agents couldn't handle a guy with a cell phone taking video of them and shot him. I think it's pretty obvious what's going on here."

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

Damn, "the voters" are quite angry with the Democrats for being in the minority. Do they not know how that happened?

We need to campaign just as hard for increased voter access as we do for candidates we like.