Another Half Trillion for the Pentagon? Really? Math Is Hard. - We’re spending more than we should, degrading our means of paying off that debt, and being lied to about federal income in the coming decade. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics
Trump Purges: Big Trouble Ahead? - There’s a 99.9% chance that much of what’s actually happening in the Middle East is being kept from the American public. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics #Bigotry
Trump Is Serious About Accepting a Humiliating Defeat - The war has reinforced Trump’s determination to discard our historic advantages (e.g., alliances, a free-trade system, U.S. credibility, and moral stature). open.substack.com/pub/contrari... #SickPolitics
Words & Phrases - Jennifer Rubin's new column on immigration enforcement nightmare. open.substack.com/pub/contrari... #SickPolitics
Nobody’s Winning the Latest Middle East War - Nothing we can hear, see, or read from both legacy and new media coming from the government about the war is true. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics
Jennifer Rubin: The Republican Crack-Up - The damage Trump and his flunkies have inflicted on our democracy will reverberate for years to come. dianeravitch.net/2026/03/26/j... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics
Stephen Miller Pushes States to Pass Laws Denying Public Education for Undocumented Students - A deliberate, legally-sanctioned creation of a generation of children purposely denied an education within America. janresseger.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/4... via @janresseger #SickPolitics
Paul Krugman: Treason in the Oil Markets - There’s a broader lesson here: You can’t trust a corrupt government to protect national security. dianeravitch.net/2026/03/25/p... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics
The World Will Be Watching #No Kings on March 28 - It’s no secret that Victor Orban and Donald Trump are fans of each other, share a disdain for democracy, and enable grift on a massive scale in their respective governments. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics
The Pentagon Buys a Flute - Why does everything in federal spending look like a grift these days? teacherinastrangeland.blog/2026/03/21/t... via @nancyflanagan #SickPolitics
The Trump Era's Furious Fascists, Putrid Propositions, and Revised Reports - They are coming for reproductive freedom. They are coming for voting rights. They are coming for LGBTQ+ equality. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics
ProPublica Documents Conflicts of Interest among Trump Cabinet Members - They are releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees. dianeravitch.net/2026/03/18/p... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics
Federal Judge Orders Reinstatement of 1,000 Employees of Voice of America dianeravitch.net/2026/03/18/f... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics
This Week in Fascism: Muzzling the Media and Gearing Up to Undermine the Midterms - The state now sees itself as an arbiter of truth willing to discipline those it deems to have committed a thought crime. open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics
FCC Chair Threatens to Revoke Licenses of Broadcasters that Express Negative War Coversge - California Gov. Gavin Newsom called the threat “flagrantly unconstitutional.” dianeravitch.net/2026/03/15/f... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics
Judge throws out subpoenas in Federal Reserve criminal probe - Judge says the Government targeted Powell 'out of malice or an intent to harass' and has launched a 'fishing expedition' to find something to pin on him. finance.yahoo.com/news/judge-t... via @@YahooFinance #SickPolitics
Friday the 13th: Bad Luck for the Pentagon- Things aren’t going swell with Operation Epstein Fury, despite administration claims. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics
Trump Administration Renders U.S. Dept. of Ed.’s Office for Civil Rights Utterly Dysfunctional - It has turned away from its responsibility to protect the rights of children in public schools. janresseger.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/t... via @janresseger #SickPolitics
Jan Resseger: Trump Administration Rolls Back Civil Rights Laws dianeravitch.net/2026/03/09/j... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics
Cabinet Cosplayer Kristi Noem Out - The Senate's Second Dumbest Man is In. @dougporter506
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Blegh! Congressional Mid-term Primaries Begin - While it’s easy to say this is about Trumpian excess, it’s really about the concentration of wealth at the top of our population. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics
Blegh! Congressional Mid-term Primaries Begin - While it’s easy to say this is about Trumpian excess, it’s really about the concentration of wealth at the top of our population. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics
The SAFE Act Is Dead. Trump Still Wants to Control Voting - A bunch of greedy bastard billionaires are trying to enshittify AI before it becomes really useful. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics
Part 2-Twenty-first Century USA Concentration Camps: The What and Where - Cruelty and terror, not deportation, is clearly the aim of the ICE/Trump enforcement facilities @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics
'What are they hiding?' San Diego County supervisors denied access to ICE detention center - Our lawless federal government needs immediate reform. inewsource.org/2026/02/20/o... via @inewsource #SickPolitics
A Comic Book Version of USA! USA! - I remember the days when upstanding members of Congress looked up from their cocktails long enough to denounce comic books as a harbinger of the collapse of civilization. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics
CURMUDGUCATION: The Ed Department's Anti-DEI Letter Is Dead. Don't Get Too Excited. - The letter is gone but anti-DEI is still a Trumpian intention. curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-... #SickPolitics
To Bomb Or Not to Bomb Iran? - Currently, the United States is putting the finishing touches on assembling a huge armada circling Iran. Full fledged war seems likely. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics
The Curse of the Epstein Class - It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics
