Soo

Soo

@soog.bsky.social

Loves Jesus, democracy, rule of law, truthtelling, extending to one another peace & hope. Ordained pastor, retired.

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“If Abdul and the Democrats win, they will open the floodgates and invite hordes of jihadis to our shores, creating a nightmare of violence and terror until you cannot even have a Christmas,” Mr. Trump told more than 4,000 supporters ...

"...Mr. Trump called Dr. El-Sayed, whose family immigrated from Egypt, a 'jihadist Muslim Brotherhood member,' a baseless claim." Trump is, as ever, unworthy of our presidency. Ugly racist lies.

The thing is, even when he's being cruel and boasting of "strength," Vance appears inauthentic. I have a strong sense he wouldn't recognize his "real" self.

People who think someone named Abdul is obviously a terrorist are seriously ignorant. I mean, we've been taking about this for 30 years. Go meet people,for crying out loud.

"Earlier this week, Trump also said France was being 'conquered, looted and burned to the ground by migrants, jihadists and communists who hate Christianity' and 'the Western civilization itself.'...

"...French President Emmanuel Macron later criticized 'stupid comments' from foreign leaders, saying 'all those speaking ill of our country right now are people who don’t love our country. And those people irritate me.'...

Agreed, President Macron. He doesnt love America, either, and it really irritates me. Best wishes in your current struggles.

"As the midterm elections near, Trump has accused the Democrats of threatening the country’s economy with socialism and communism. Yet his administration has managed to wreck the country’s finances worse than any government in U.S. history, without ...

"...the excuse of an economic crisis or a successful major war. October 1 marked the start of America’s fiscal new year. A new Congress will face a new fiscal reality." David Frum

"DOGE reduced the IRS auditing staff by nearly one-third. The Yale Budget Lab estimates that the ensuing collapse in federal enforcement efforts will cost the Treasury more than $860 billion in revenue over the next decade."

Hey NC voters check to see if your ballot was rejected here,bcs there is still time to fix it:"If notified, voters can fix errors and resubmit their ballots. North Carolina voters can track their ballots with the state's BallotTrax site."

Talarico, who has led or tied Paxton in every public poll this month, has said he opposes gender-reassignment surgery for minors and would support a national ban. But the Rs in TX are spending millions telling Texans Talarico will make them alter their kids.

Im not sure who JDVance thinks he's appealing to in his latest pronouncements, b7t ISTM it's a short cut to find the very worst people. If you defend Ramaswamy's ad and mock those offended...who ARE you??

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215 House Republicans voted for a bill that would’ve blocked state and local AI regulations for 10 years. Now some of those same politicians are campaigning on letting communities decide about data centers. Do they think nobody remembers the vote? 🙄 #RepublicansLoveDataCenters

"The regressive redistribution of income [since the beginning of 2025] is more striking when analyzed in terms of actual dollar changes. Adults in the bottom half of the income distribution experienced a modest loss of $31....

"...Those in the middle gained $570 on average. It’s a very different story for those in the top rungs. For the top 10 percent, a gain of $17,000; the top 1 percent, $110,000; top 0.1 percent, $520,000; top 0.01 percent, $2.8 million; top 0.001, $20 million each." Thomas B Edsall, NYT

"Our real-time inequality data show that since the beginning of 2025, when Trump returned to the White House, incomes of the bottom 90 percent of Americans have ...

"...stagnated after taking into account price inflation. Incomes of the top 10 percent have grown 6 percent with even higher growth for upper-income groups such as the top 1 percent."--Emmanuel Saez

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Retired U.S. Army General Barry McCaffrey explains Trump's foreign policy fallout. He says the administration has caused lasting damage to the United States' global standing.

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Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social

Elon Musk boosted the lie that James Talarico stayed at a mental hospital. Meta suspended No Kings’ Instagram account during nationwide actions. Staff at the Ellison-owned CBS News were reportedly told to tie Abdul El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood and 9/11. Democracy dies in billionaire hands.

"In Mr. Trump’s second term, a pardon industry has sprouted up, with wealthy criminals paying well-connected lawyers, fixers and lobbyists to appeal to the administration and its allies in an effort to secure pardons. Many pardon seekers ...

"...have come to the conclusion that supporting Mr. Trump and his political agenda is the fastest way to secure clemency. Some people looking for pardons ...

"...have reported paying hundreds of thousands of dollars or even $1 million to hire people promising access to the president or influence over the pardon process."--NYT How horrible that these are the times we are living through.

"The budget deficit for the fiscal year that ended on September 30 is about $2 trillion, or about $160 billion more than in Joe Biden’s last complete year as president. Next year’s deficit is likely to be even bigger. ...

"...When Trump spoke of eliminating the national debt, total debt stood at nearly $35 trillion. On the current trajectory, total debt could reach $45 trillion by 2028." Trump is incompetent, and a liar. Worse, his strategies, such as they are, are never about any of us. Always abt him. Vote blue.

"This shows two things, Anton told me: how far Putin is prepared to mortgage his own country to keep fighting this war in pursuit of his core demands — annexing territory, disarming Ukraine and ruling out any NATO involvement there. And how far Trump is prepared to go to give him what he wants." NYT

WHAT??! "Thomas Frank at Politico received a recording of a speech FEMA Administrator Cameron Hamilton gave today at a private conference in Little Rock, Arkansas, in which he said the Trump administration plans to shift responsibility for disaster management to the states."--HCR

@pbsnews.org I appreciated your coverage of DJT's lies abt Kansas & coverage of Roger Marshall, but I did feel your coverage incidentally let Trump define Adam Hamilton (D). What T said were loathsome lies. ISTM you missed the boat in your coverage, big time.

Thinking we are going to need a Democratic president with the morality of Jommy Carter, the institutional memory of Joe Biden and the cool incisiveness of Barack Obama. Phew.

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The guy demanding a peace prize is happy to let the evil dictator slaughter Ukrainians so that he can be a hero to our enemy, and he and his buddies can make more money.

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Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

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Donald Trump and his #HouseGOP #SenateGOP magat enablers did this, not Obama, not Biden. Fuel 25-40% higher than when he took office. And don’t forget, Trump now is #PutinFirst not #AmericaFirst. Are we great again? #DV1 #ProudBlue

"Trump’s Agriculture Department (USDA) planned to rip the Forest Service’s headquarters out of Washington and ship it to Salt Lake City, close all nine regional offices..?

"...and shut 23 research facilities. More than 6,000 workers got letters warning of forced relocation. On Tuesday, US District Judge Vince Chhabria stopped all of it."