FrustratEd

FrustratEd

@bookerman62.bsky.social

Ed here. Sane midwesterner, early 60s, liberal Democrat, atheist, honest, happy, dog lover. Scotch, bourbon and red wine. OU football #BoomerSooner. Chicago and SW Michigan are my homes. Retired after a terrifically fortunate career. 🌈 🏳️‍🌈

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We need to be consistent in our responses when Republicans or non-voters start complaining about actions taken by the Trump administration. This is what you voted for. You made this happen. This is on you! Every single time! Because you know they’re going to try to blame Democrats for anything bad.

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Huge corporations like Amazon, Walmart, and Uber are among the top employers of SNAP and Medicaid recipients. Meanwhile, their CEOs are raking in multi-million dollar pay packages. How is this not a bigger scandal?

This is the best advice

Patrick Frost@patrickfrost1.bsky.social

As a lifelong progressive who has been fortunate enough to roam the halls of Congress, sit in on committees and witness voting from the gallery I am frightened by what many of you think you know. This circular firing squad brigade is not helpful my friends. Focus on the bad guys.

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On the right is someone NFL doctors say is 6’3, 230 lbs with 5% body fat On the left is someone White House doctors say is 6’3, 224 lbs with 4.8% body fat If the White House is THAT dishonest about something so clear, why should we believe anything they say about anything?

He’s still doing good in the world.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com

I love this so much. Barack Obama sat down with Mayor Zohran Mamdani in a Bronx child care center, reading “Alone and Together,” a book about connection, community, and belonging to preschoolers. Sidebar: Not sure these little-ones knew who Obama was 😂

What Mr. Beschloss is too professional to say...Trump is fucking nuts!!

Steven Beschloss@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

One of the coolest and most handsome guys ever. The combination of him and Elizabeth Taylor in Cat on a Hit Tin Roof is breathtaking.

Michael Warburton@michaelwarburton.bsky.social

Paul Newman in a 'get really stoned' tee with four beers in 1981. Dude.

Now they'll be hired as ICE agents

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Two of them were convicted drug traffickers. But hey, they were former NFL players so they shouldn’t have to endure those kinds of things on their records. As usual, follow the money.

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Big Oil "purchased solar and EV patents to ensure others couldn’t use them, solicited control of renewable markets and then abandoned them, and funded powerful institutions to promote false solutions, all while using trade groups to downplay the harms of fossil fuels, according to the complaint." 😠

levernews.comA Secret Oil Cartel Might Have Killed Our Clean-Energy FutureIn a landmark antitrust case, Michigan alleges oil companies colluded to “capture and kill” clean-energy and electric-vehicle efforts.

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This new whistleblower report is on par with the Zelensky call - not just because it’s violative of law - but because they also tried to keep people from seeing it. I’ve been doing this for a long time and this is absolutely explosive news. Impeachable and criminal. Swift accountability must follow.

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Whistleblowers just shared a memo showing DHS instructing ICE to force their way into peoples' houses without a proper warrant. Why is this not on all the networks right now? This is a criminal conspiracy to violate rights under color of law.

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A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

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It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.