blanklet.bsky.social

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dennisgoris.bsky.social )

Trump: The Smog President

Gosh, if only there were a constitutional mechanism for removing a president who is mentally ill and unfit to hold office.

*From “Who Goes Nazi?” by Dorothy Thompson, Harper’s, 1941 (read it, it will blow your mind) harpers.org/archive/1941...

Good morning members of the GOP in Congress. Today would be a good day for you to wake up.

💯

@foxnews Fire Brian Kilmeade.

Can’t do it. There’s just no substitute. We could get some useful info for sure, but BLS and rest of government stat infrastructure irreplaceable. For one, they make such info a public good. Who wants to pay for the unemployment rate? (I mean, I would, but u know what I mean.)

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.

I criticize when necessary but I give credit where it's due. This was strong by Newsom and more Democrats need to meet this moment with rhetoric AND ACTION. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Wait... is this the best meme ever made?

This is the best team crossover video I've ever seen.

Since I administered the WH emoluments rules, let me explain why this is forbidden Trump expressed interest in it before it was offered He is going to use & benefit from it a while in office And he's going to keep using it after he leaves! Functionally, it's a gift to him & so it's illegal

I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.

They want to kill us.

There is a much too rarely mentioned but essential difference between Donald Trump and Abrego Garcia: Abrego Garcia is not a convicted felon.

3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.

Not normal.

Social Security is not paying large sums of money to people who are over 150 years old. That finding, trumpeted by Elon Musk, turned out to be a glitch in the recordkeeping, not evidence of massive fraud. By @sengelberg.bsky.social

This what happens when you fire all the experts and hire 22-year old coders in their place…

There are no tariffs being put on Russia. Hmmm

WTAF. The government doesn’t own this building.

“The 5 things Pete Hegseth did last week” - Shared classified attack plans on an unsecured commercial chat application. - Denied doing it. - Denied the plans were classified. - Denied the plans were plans. - Attacked the journalist who proved he was lying.

They want to kill us.

Who’s going to draw up the Vance impeachment doc? And when do Rubio, Hegspeth, Waltz, Gabbard, Miller and everyone else on the Signal chat get perp walked to prison for violating the Espionage Act?

…

Ruth Marcus, unsilenced. www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...

Pure malice.

Words done well.

WTF is it with Trump doing everything he can to protect criminals? He’s supposed to protect the rest of us.

Heroism. Speak truth to power.

Yup. But, hey, long live the king…

Dark Pence is back.

Now will the GOP see the blatant conflict of interest?!

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

The U.S. population has grown by 57% in the last 50 years, but the federal workforce has only increased by 6%. That means fewer workers handling more services, while billionaires scream for cuts. This isn’t about efficiency. It’s about sabotage. Fight back: go.savepublicservices.com

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

WTF?

Kamala Harris was not planning an ethnic cleansing to pave the way for golf course courses… Both sides were never the same.

What the actual fu@&! Why is Trump actively, aggressively harming people and how the hell do we stop it?

This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance. Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.

Gofundme should not be our national safety net