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It’s a slush fund—Blanche. Trump Administration Live Updates: Blanche Defends New Fund That Could Pay Trump Allies www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

Today is the 251st anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?

Meanwhile, the typical American will pay a federal income tax rate of 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like. [Via @itep.org]

Yes. This is transparently the plan. It is a destructive and unconstitutional plan. And it can be stopped. It can even be turned into an electoral issue that hurts Trump. But only if we face this now.

DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August. He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA. The grift continues.

This war isn’t going to cost you much.

Republicans in Congress could steer voter registration drives into a ditch with bills that would all but prevent civic organizations like churches and grassroots community groups from collecting and submitting registration forms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Pentagon Standoff Is a Decisive Moment for How A.I. Will Be Used in War www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/t... The current New Yorker has a greatly informative story on Anthropic’s quest for a large language model with ethics. Other AIs have tended to escalate diplomacy into global thermonuclear war.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

ICE is trying to build a mass-detention facility in my district. So I called them out. This was their (outrageous!) response ↓ The reason there’s “unprecedented opposition” is because they’re murdering people in the streets. We will not relent. We’re only gonna get louder.

If you were a journalist or creative that was laid off by the Washington Post and you want to work for an independent, pro democracy news outlet, Democracy Docket is hiring. bit.ly/45Qaw4K

Takes an insurrectionist to know one?

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Miller Suggests Federal Agents May Have Diverted From ‘Protocol’ Before Pretti Shooting www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u... Hey, DHS guys. Google “Night of the Long Knives.”

Pam Bondi telling Minneapolis that ICE will be recalled *only* when that blue city turns over its voter rolls is a clear reveal that this isn't about immigration. It's about interfering with upcoming elections that may not favor Donald Trump. It's extortion. www.cbsnews.com/news/bondi-m...

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

Trump Praises Hassett, but Casts Doubt on Making Him Fed Chair www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/b... Of course. Trump will appoint himself Fed Chair and the GOP dominated senate will approve. May I be wrong!

If any MN politicians want to see what’s really happening, they’re welcome to come ride along on my ICE patrol. They can watch 20 armed goons jump out of a racing convoy and abduct a random pedestrian, tear-gassing a half-dozen onlookers in the process, and then tell me how we need this agency

Yes, they are Gestapo.

Amateur Hour Is Over open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

Orwell lives.

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What the fuck

"Post-truth is pre-fascism, and Trump has been our post-truth president. When we give up on truth, we concede power to those with the wealth and charisma to create spectacle in its place." I published this piece on January 9th, 2021. It remains all too relevant. www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/m...

U.S. Orders Chevron to Stop Producing Oil in Venezuela www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/b...

The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Inauguration Speech www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/n...

It's no longer left versus right or even Democrat versus Republican. It’s now democracy versus oligarchy. Freedom versus dictatorship. Right versus wrong. Millions are awakening to this new reality — and they're speaking up. The sleeping giant of America is roaring.

CBS buried its CECOT story for at least another week, apparently at Trump’s behest. Now see this: NPR’s C.E.O. Was a Right-Wing Target. Then the Real Trouble Started. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/b...

Making Malaria Great Again How Cameroon Fought to Save Its Malaria Program After the U.S. Cut Critical Funding www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/h...

Praying for the absolution of U.S. service folk ordered to commit mass murder on the birthday of the Prince of Peace. Trump’s Claims About Nigeria Strike Belie a Complex Situation on the Ground www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/w...

Christmas Eve deportation for a fictional “sanction.” Cruelty compounded.

www.thereset.news/p/breaking-h... For those who haven’t yet seen it.

Fuck Trump Fuck Stephen Miller.

Turning Point’s Annual Gathering Turns Into a Gripefest www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/u...

Venezuelan Navy Escorts Vessels in Defiance of Trump’s Blockade Threat www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u... An alcoholic and an alcoholic personality in charge of our armada. What could go wrong?

Those tree hugging hippies in Hungary now lead the world in the share of electricity generated from solar with almost 25% of their electricity coming from solar in 2024. A remarkable leap from just 7% five years ago.

This farmer agrees. To be sure, ag subsidies have been biased to the biggest farmers, which we are not.

Note the goal: “to prevent court cases that would require evidence.”

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Just seconds ago, I was in the kitchen, and Alexa announced, "Sure, I can play that video!" I had not asked it to play anything. Surprise! It was a video of Pete Davidson telling me to pay for Alexa Plus. Second time this has happened—such underhanded marketing. #Alex is currently in the trash.

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon & adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸

The Republican healthcare plan: Die slowly, bankrupt and in pain.

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there. Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon & adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸

What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.