Patrick Russell

Bad time to be maga. Hope you all enjoyed it. “The ride is coming to an end. please keep your hands inside the vehicle” www.the-sun.com/money/171908...

"Trump has accused Democrats of threatening the country’s economy with socialism. Yet his administration has managed to wreck the country’s finances worse than any government in US history, without the excuse of an economic crisis or a successful major war." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

An Egg McMuffin with OJ is now over 10 bucks. If you’re working a minimum wage job, that’s more than half an hour’s work in Arizona, and even more in many other states. Everything is more expensive in Trump’s economy.

Trump Admin siccing debt collectors on as many as 10 million Americans: "The Treasury Department is moving forward with plans to hire private debt collectors, possibly as soon as November... the plans are unlikely to be announced before the midterm elections" www.washingtonsun.com/economy/trum...

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"With this merger, the entire media space is concentrated in the hands of a few oligarchs, all of whom you’ve seen whispering sweet nothings into Trump’s ear. Ellison has CBS and CNN, Musk has X, Zuckerberg has his Meta empire, and Bezos let democracy die in broad daylight when he gutted WaPo."

No matter how many Dems win the senate or house, it won’t be enough given how much damage Trump has done to our nation

Nothing to see here...just the President of the United States inviting the country he illegally declared war on to "take out" 2 major American cities. If that's not treason, what is? 🤬 Law enforcement won't hold him accountable, but we WILL! The beginning of the end is on November 3rd. #VOTE-BLUE 🌊

This is such a sick, evil thing to say. Especially because he’s not saying this as a joke. Just as sick that his supporters are laughing at it

I feel ya🤔...

America is free only when the media is competitive, independent, and accountable to the people. apnews.com/article/warn...

Former member of the FTC on Paramount-Warners merger:

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Bari Weiss has plunged CBS News into ratings calamity. —"Evening News" has posted worst ratings of 21st century —"CBS Mornings" has posted worst ratings of 21st century —And now "60 Minutes" has posted worst ratings of 21st century More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/60-minutes...

50 days until Election Day. Every seat, every ballot, every vote matters this year. Fixing what Trump has broken won’t happen by itself. If you’ve been waiting for the time to get involved, it’s now.

Sure could use one right now

Ted Cruz is aggressively booed in Austin, Texas: “Ted, you suck!”

Too many people online seem to conflate left politics with being obnoxious and scathing and Mamdani is such a model for combining a principled ideological vision with civility and grace. You shake hands, you act like a grown up even whether others aren’t. You show up.

Trump spends his days padding his pockets, obsessing over plans to build monuments to himself, sleeping in meetings, and occasionally sending out fake announcements about illegal rebates. No wonder gas is heading to $5 a gallon.

Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...

I think the political left should be the loudest voice calling for an AI model development pause, frontier pacing, and mandatory third party audits right now. Put aside the doomer stuff (though I think it’s plausible), we just found out that OpenAI’s agents committed a pretty major felony!

this one is amazing

Love this

Not everything is terrible in 2026

Wrote about the proposed Paramount-WBD merger and why it is bad across the board.

Katie Pavlich: Fauci actually did a lot to damage the future of the country. BTC: But not Trump? Not the guy who was saying 'inject disinfectant'? KP: Donald Trump tried to fire him but people like you on the left had a panic attack. BTC: So I stopped Trump from firing Fauci? KP: Yes.

Tesla sells a few hundred Cybertrucks a month. That's apparently enough to make it the biggest flop in US automotive history, worse than the Ford Edsel.

"You can't eat a salad in this country without worrying about getting explosive diarrhea". Jim Acosta, MS NOW Because of Donald Trump and RFK Jr's gutting the HHS.

mass layoffs at Pixar despite Toy Story 5 about to cross $1 billion at the box office. there is simply no amount of money that will make corporations happy enough to not upend people’s lives.

seems like a real hallmark of our era is the total inability to be normal about anything. it is just a movie! watch it or not but this shit is weird.

Epstein survivors released this video today urging senators to block the confirmation of Todd Blanche for Attorney General. They’re trying to get to 20,000 signatures on their petition to send a message to the Senate. ujoin.co/campaigns/45...

The Paramount-Warner merger is illegal. The 2nd and 5th biggest studios combining. 200M subscribers. Prices will go through the roof. But free speech will die too. Because the owners have cut a deal with Trump to silence his critics. State AGs need to step in and block it. Now.

What’s sad to me… is that Lindsay Graham probably thought he could outlast Trump and then reconcile his morality after that. There is no after that now. It’s a good reminder… always do what you know to be right, right NOW. And when you recognize you crossed a line, that’s ok, but come back.

Nature is healing itself

Baby got back

Don't want to speak ill of the dead, so getting this Mitch McConnell take out now. He saw Trump with complete clarity, as a danger to America, but protected him anyway. Perhaps more than anyone, he had the power to end Trumpism, but chose party over country. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...

Every day, we stray further and further from God’s light.

Today, I introduced legislation to require that the minimum wage be a living wage. $25 an hour is what’s required for a full time worker to pay their bills, and we shouldn’t accept that full time work leaves people living in poverty.

I will be on the Senate floor giving a comprehensive speech outlining the last 500 days of Trump's dizzying, unprecedented campaign of corruption. We cannot normalize what he is doing. He is stealing from us.

The Reflecting Pool survived for generations. Trump “fixed” it in a few weeks — and now it’s green, peeling, and blamed on everyone else. Somehow that tells you everything you need to know about his presidency. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...