“Trump’s systematic exploitation of Executive Branch power to loot billions of dollars from American taxpayers is the ongoing scandal of this ruthlessly corrupt Administration,” Rep. Jamie Raskin said.
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The organization needs to once again show that it is serious about its founding mission of solving conflicts.
A great accomplishment resulting from people who actually care about confronting the epidemic of gun violence and the people like Alex Jones who lie about it to make money. Well done, @bencollins.bsky.social.
For the record, for anyone who’s forgotten, it’s sheer madness for a president to contradict himself nearly every day. It’s profoundly wrong that we can’t trust the veracity of a single thing that he says.
No previous American president, in any era, of any party, would have tolerated a drunken, erratic, absent FBI chief
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Why wealth taxes don't work.
This morning, just after 8 a.m., Trump had a long ramble on Truth Social that concluded, “if they don’t, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!” That’s our start to the week ahead.
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Lots of good sense here. Notable that as so often Sen. Chris Murphy is an elected official willing to speak hard truths.
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I like this pope more and more
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BREAKING: 300+ New Yorkers have taken over the offices of Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer demanding no more weapons for Israel.
Tell Congress: Fund people, not bombs.
This is very true! And as the research on the issue shows and as the Hungarian example confirms, and the Polish one before that, the key to large turnout is long-term, grass-roots organizational labor that helps people understand how their single vote is a dignified part of a larger transformation.
Placing the blame where it truly belongs.
No other president I can remember ever needed to announce a mass pardon for his cabinet & staff.
Because they didn't need it.
Manhattan's West Village is the poster child for how historically preserving the buildings in high-demand neighborhoods eventually displaces all but the richest people.
Case in point: a mansion created from two adjacent Bank Street townhomes will sell for more than SEVENTY MILLION DOLLARS.
"I'm just contemplating the fact that one moron, one psychotic moron, one capricious idiot, has completely bollocksed up the global economy not only to the detriment of his own people, but the detriment of the planet. ... It's like how much more of this can the planet take?"
🚨🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Opposition leader Péter Magyar WINS the election for prime minister of Hungary, defeating Putin and Trump’s ally Viktor Orbán. 🇭🇺
It looks like we may finally be done with Europe’s biggest traitor.
Orbán is likely the European with the most Ukrainian blood on his hands
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
Octavia E. Butler, 1998:
I know it’s crazy, but as an alternative, White House staffers could simply choose not to commit any crimes.
The public DOES have a right to know.
A tweet alleging House Republican leadership closed the House of Representatives to avoid voting on an Iran War Powers resolution, with an image of a man speaking at the House podium in front of a U.S. flag backdrop.
They don't want to be on the record as voting to support the war. So they avoid the vote taking altogether.
I'll be performing my new SOLO ELECTRIC show at City Winery Boston on April 30th. Here I am, a month or so ago in the attic, figuring out No Blue Skies for it. Details, ticket links, etc, as always at lloydcole.com/live/
"When you have a president who's running the country like a mob boss instead of a government, who's running the government for himself, of himself, and by himself, & for his cronies, instead of the people, by the people, and for the people, there's only one solution, & that's impeachment & removal."
Doesn't seem like he has any clue what is going on, does it?
"Operation Epstein Distraction has begun! All Epstein news has been obliterated!"
Epstein Files is no longer trending on BlueSky! Let's bump it up!
Cartoon by Dave Whamond @davewhamond.bsky.social
Two weeks ago, the Hungarian opposition was bracing for a false flag operation, an "emergency" that would allow Viktor Orban to turn the tide or even cancel an election he is losing. Now it appears to have arrived
Meanwhile Prof Tim Snyder is also issuing warnings about the same.
This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.
The truth of it.
