Ty Howe

Obama: "Somehow deficits only matter when a Democratic president is in office"

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“How much more evidence is necessary to assess that Trump has undermined US national security and is working for Russia? And how much longer will Republicans in Congress continue to protect him?” Bracing read today from @hcrichardson.bsky.social heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-10...

Really cool tool from @popular.info to crowdsource who is paying for what campaign ads. paidforby.info

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VOTE. EARLY. (Maine and California 10/5.... Georgia 10/13... New Jersey and New York 10/24....)

This morning's message from Indivisible

Seconded and posted. Everyone else get aboard and let it fly.

Here's the trailer to help out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

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Vote the GOP out of office before they kill you.

Scoop: The EPA is expected to formally rescind carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants as soon as Monday, according to people familiar with the matter. Tag team with @bloomberg.com’s Ari Natter and Jen Dlouhy. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

You’re not alarmed enough 🚨

They were spot on. This was The New York Times Sunday Opinion section on October 27, 2024.

This whole “is the claim ripe? nope!” Position of John Roberts makes me think of an asteroid headed our way. We would not be able to defend ourselves, in his reasoning, because no harm had come to us. “But it will annihilate our planet!” “Nope, you can’t act to defend from it- no harm yet.” Ugh.

Generally I avoid speculating on my posts. However the administration’s actions are obviously benefiting Russia, China and N Korea. Abandoning drone research, repelling foreign students, backing away from military exercises…I ask, could these clowns be that compromised?

Congress has the power to appoint ambassadors for a reason. Like, literally, who is this man?

What this article describes is a predictably bumbling and potentially drastic failure to prepare for new strains of deadly viruses. Who put such a pro-Trump headline on top of it? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/17/trump-aims-rebuild-defenses-against-bioweapons-ai-fears-rise/

Francesca Hong, like Haley Stevens last week, showing how it’s done

Dear Media, please stop quoting climate deniers. The mountain of science contradicts their unsupported claims. Out world is on fire. Report the cause - a warming planet.

Anybody out there get a tariff personal refund check yet?

Heard that Congress is worried about Soc Sec running out of money in 6 years. Oddly, the solution is easy! Stop taking on more and more debt. Stop increasing the military budget and shrink it instead.

Memo to Cornyn, Cassidy and Tillis: just disappear like Mitch. Leave town and be absent for votes. You won’t be “crossing” Trump, you will be out “sick.” Your staff will report you are recovering slowly. No Blanche and no trillion dollar defense budget.

With COVID we had to be patient. Life took a long time to return to a new normal. With Trump, we have to be patient and there will be a new normal. The third challenge to each of us is that patience will not get us through a period of global warming. Vote for those who acknowledge need for action.

#ICYMI Jay has been posting for three months now. Join in?

Please tell me why we have no mature mussels or barnacles on the Rhode Island seacoast. Acidification?

Under Trump, U.S. federal debt has surpassed 100% of GDP for the first time since WWII. And it's on track to beat that all-time record by 2030.

It's a terrible rule tho retroactively the rule would have been nice, it would've gotten Elon Musk expelled from the country before he could do much damage. (And in any event he should be denaturalized and deported; he lied about his immigration status history to obtain citizenship.)

A day later and I still cannot believe how badly Teuchel’s changes worked out. After Argentina scored the first goal, change tactics, man!

The Slaughter decision will go down as one of the worst in SCOTUS history.

New NSF policy essential bans all collaboration with Chinese scientists. This is another disaster for science. www.science.org/content/arti...

Jay Clayton is Trump’s nominee to serve as Director of National Intelligence. As the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, he just issued a subpoena to the New York Times over its Air Force One reporting - a brazen act intended to intimidate a free press. We can imagine how he’d abuse his power as DNI.

Dear mainstream media: could you publish a scorecard of politicians accused of sexual assault, fraud, and adultery across the country? Columns for republicans and democrats. Yes, Platner was a good story for you but my guess is that the republican side will far outnumber the democrats.

Dear Republican electeds, are you aware that Trump is a crook? It is hard to tell if you see what the rest of the world sees.

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This is FALSE. ICE data showed DHS averaging 1,259 deportations/day through April 4. There is ZERO sign deportations rose by 154% since. Mullin also mixes up DHS's (also FALSE) claim that 70% arrested have any criminal record at all, and claims that 70% are felons. Wildly wrong.

As with some other things, i suspect if we have another dem president we will discover that the court did not so much transfer power to the executive as to themselves, ie they will find novel bullshit reasons to block a dem president the same way the find novel bullshit reasons to enable trump

Props to CNN’s chyron writer:

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Your daily reminder this should be the biggest scandal in American politics right now but nobody seems to care. Ken Paxton freed a man who raped a boy for 3 years. He also doesnt have to register as a sex offender. www.texastribune.org/2026/05/19/k...

Striking graphic in this latest Reuters piece, which finds that while President Trump and his family have profited by at least $2.3 billion since he retook the presidency, their more than a million investors have suffered $2.3 billion in net losses. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

I will forever be proud of my role in advising @ejeancarroll.bsky.social that she could sue Donald Trump, and in setting her up with the brilliant litigator, @robbiekaplan.bsky.social, who won $88.3 million in jury verdicts on her behalf. a.co/d/07ndLAaJ

Especially in this moment, a "private reprimand" "was not a remotely sufficient punishment for the subject judge’s misconduct—not because of the affair, but because of the subject judge’s dishonesty and their transparent attempt to throw one of their own law clerks under the bus." Me @ "One First":

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Probably a top 5 entry in the Kevin Hassett hall of fame