I will not be buying any World Cup tickets or merchandise due to FIFA’s collaboration with the Trump regime.
Gianni Infantino has a dictator fetish. It’s grotesque.
In normal times, it would be a major scandal for the President to direct his AG to criminally investigate his political opponents to deflect from his own involvement in a major scandal — and for the AG to immediately announce she is doing it. The Epstein scandal and cover up just got even bigger.
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 84th day out of the last 96.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
An embarrassingly obvious point, but...
This. Is. Illegal.
If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed.
In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists.
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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 81st day out of the last 93.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”
It's not the most important part of the issue but Kavanaugh saying "well they should just sue if they're the victims of excessive force from ICE" when he himself has previously voted to bar lawsuits against federal officers for violations of the 4th Amendment in immigration cases takes chutzpah.
Netanyahu's "children of the light" are people who like to light refugee tents on fire.
I'm perfectly happy to be a "child of the dark"; thank you very much.
#FreePalestine#GazaHolocaust
The 7 stages of “TACO”
1 We condemn this
2 We condemn this strongly
3 We strongly condemn this with concern
4 We are very concerned & condemn this
5 There will be consequences
6 “For as long as it takes”
7 It is important not to escalate the situation
Repeat
Borrowed from @DarthPutin
National Guardner?
National Park Service workers laid off, and now the National Guard is doing landscaping in DC. Felon Trump really turned soldiers into gardeners.
Middle age used to be peak unhappiness. Middle age crises was a thing. No longer. The humped shape curve of unhappiness is now a ski slope with the young being the most unhappy. It also goes along with their rejection of capitalism.
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In 2013 SCOTUS removed Southern States from the requirements of the Voting Rights Act passed in the 1960’s. It reasoned it was obsolete.
In 12 short years, Texas has managed to get back to invalidating minorities votes and sending masked paramilitary after minorities.
The only thing more disgraceful than having groveling cabinet members so willing to debase themselves in this shameless way is having such a damaged, insecure, and needy president that they know desperately needs to hear this BS.
The 7 stages of “TACO”
1 We condemn this
2 We condemn this strongly
3 We strongly condemn this with concern
4 We are very concerned & condemn this
5 There will be consequences
6 “For as long as it takes”
7 It is important not to escalate the situation
Repeat
Borrowed from @DarthPutin
“So it was strange for you to be pulled out for this mandatory training?”
“Absolutely.”
An 🇺🇸 nurse says the WHO suspiciously made international volunteers leave Nasser hospital before 🇮🇱 bombed it, killing journalists, then again, killing rescue workers🤔
FUTURE HISTORY TEACHERS:
“It was 2025 and the nation looked ready to become a dictatorship. But thankfully at the last minute, the insane president had a sudden dissecting aortic aneurysm and died. He was replaced with a guy who was quickly defeated because everyone kept calling him ‘couch-fucker.’”
So if the 1% are paid mostly on stock how do they grow the value of their companies shares? Some of them innovate but innovation isn't really reliable and consistent. Instead they off-shore jobs to low-cost geographies and buy back stock.
JD Vance: "This is how wars ultimately get settled. If you go back to World War 2, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation."
Okay I will say it. The Supreme Court allows the Trump org to stop research that would help LGBTQ. They threw out a long history of apolitical work.
The Catholic dominated majority is more interested in supporting Catholic Dogma than our Constitution and norms.
Feinstein had a point.
Most of us pay a 13% effective tax rate. Largely because we take an income. Billionaires pay a 4-8% effective tax rate. It is pointless to state we should tax them more without understanding how they do it. Raising the income tax or capital gains tax on them will do nothing.
Learn the Game!
Every American needs to remember that Russia is only able to invade and terrorize Ukraine because, in 1994, the US and UK convinced them to give up their nuclear weapons.
They voiced specific concerns about a Russian invasion.
We promised to protect them.
Trump wants to break our promise.
On the left: Ukrainian soldiers sent by Zelensky to stand up to and fight war criminal Putin
On the right: American soldiers, on their hands and knees, sent by Trump to roll out the red carpet for war criminal Putin
#TraitorTrump
This article came out in 2023. The top 1% wealth increased thier share of American wealth from 23.2% to 30.6% (Q1 1991 – Q4 2024)
Has your opinion changed?
This was not only embarrassing for Trump, it was shameful. When in the presence of Russia's murderous dictator, Trump acted as if he had his spine removed. As humiliating as Helsinki was for Trump, his meeting with Putin in Anchorage, Alaska was even worse.
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Shocking only Donald Trump, Trump’s grand summit with Putin accomplished nothing but to help Putin, while embarrassing the US on our own soil on the world stage and harming our allies.
This appointment is why buying TIPS is dumb. Trump controls the metric by which the TIPS pay-out is adjusted. If he is messing with unemployment numbers what do you think he is going to do with inflation???
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Restoring American Prosperity and Trust..
When politicians pick the winners and losers the 1% win and the people lose.
It’s time for a new way!
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Senator Joni Ernst should be so proud how previous generations paved the way for Lt Col Ernst while Senator Ernst utterly failed the women who came behind her.
I hope she struggles to look in the mirror.
Wow. Just wow.
Trump seems insistent on making it virtually impossible to resist the conclusion that he’s shitting large orange bricks about what’s in the Epstein files.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
The Producer Price Index (PPI) excludes import prices & hence does not directly reflect the impact of tariffs.
PPI measures domestic producer prices only per the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Would be nice if someone can explain how simultaneously:
1) tariffs can be Generating records amount of revenue
2) the PPI is flat.
The magic fairy coming in and paying those tariffs? Or is someone stripping the costs of tariffs from the data?
Padilla: "If it was only going after dangerous criminals, there would be no debate. I agree with that. But the fact is the vast majority of those being detained are the same people who were deemed essential workers at the end of the first Trump administration during covid. That's a cruel irony"
Every action Trump takes is about rewarding loyalty or accepting Bribes. I wouldn’t be at all shocked if they raided pot farms because the Mexican Cartels made a secret donation to Trump’s Presidential Library. We are officially a Banana Republic.
Trump effectively confirmed over the holiday weekend that he reached a secret side deal with Skydance's owners to gift him $16 million of pro-Trump on-air ads once the Paramount merger is complete.
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“Our Daddy who art in the White House, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, in Congress as it should be everywhere. And lead us not into reflection, and deliver us from conscience and from decency. For MAGA is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and ever.”