Joe Scalise

Fair conclusion.

TACO is NOT building a ballroom.

He is building a bunker.

Booze Allen is not an architecture firm.

It’s a defense contractor.

I was part of the internal Trump administration team trying to convince the president to end the shutdown in 2018 - 2019 — for 35 days — before people went hungry, workers lost pay, and government services collapsed.

Here’s what I learned: he doesn’t give a shit.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Retired couple (teacher & union carpenter) on ACA premiums skyrocketing — from $443/month to $2,224/month: “It's like buying another house and trying to pay for two houses at the same time… without the subsidy we honestly don’t know what we’re gonna do.” #TrumpShutdown

Trump is head of the DOJ and demanding we pay him $230 million because, though guilty, he forced DOJ to drop the case, and now he is AGAIN a pathetic, whiney VICTIM. L

Every Republican needs to speak up or be asked about this by media. The grifter is grifting.

Trump posted an AI video last night of him wearing a crown, flying a jet and bombing protesters with shit. Yes, shit. Many U.S. media have ignored this latest example of Trump’s mental instability. Others have downplayed it. The response says a lot about why we’re in this mess. 🧵 1/

Jimmy Kimmel on the No Kings protests: “So just to be clear, peacefully protesting a wannabe dictator means you hate America. Attacking the Capitol to overturn an election? Patriotic walking tour. There is nothing more American than a political protest”

YouTube video by WREG News Channel 3 Veterans protest Guard

veterans set up encampment in memphis to protest national guard deployment to their city

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRxQ...

No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.

Find an event near you at nokings.org/#map.

Argentina. Qatar. Trump is selling out America, piece by piece. Where did America First go?

Ukeleles being strummed en masse. Chickens openly addressing government officials. Line dancing in a public thoroughfare. Frogs, unicorns and dinosaurs getting their interspecies groove on.

Portland is lost. May God and Donald Trump save what's left of the United States of America.

Remember when calling people “deplorables” was outrageous and over-the-top?

Conservative Republican U.S. Senator & nominee for POTUS in 1964.

The president isn't supposed to order TV shows off the air.
The president isn't supposed to order the murders of people on the high seas with no legal process.
The president isn't supposed to order criminal charges against people he doesn't like.
That's what fascist dictators do.

That UN speech reminds us that Trump is the bizarre ranting guy on the subway train who forces all the other passengers to move to the other end of the train car or change cars at the next stop.

“In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s murder, Trump’s DOJ deleted a study from its site stating right-wing violence ‘continues to outpace all other types of terrorism & domestic violent extremism’ in 🇺🇸 — The study was available online until Friday.” newrepublic.com/post/200537/...

"This type of language spurs on depraved people, deranged people who who take that as a cue."

Right, Speaker Johnson?

The Epstein saga lays bare the playbook: right-wing media, GOP politicians & MAGA propagandists colluding to hide heinous acts, divert attention and protect the powerful. It’s what they do on EVERY issue. If your eyes are open, you can't miss it — unless you are willingly looking the other way.

Re-upping this thread with facts about sexual predators Trump, Epstein and Maxwell. Please consider sharing it so everyone understands the depravity of these people.

These are both great. Draw both.

Surprise, surprise, that "dictator only on day one" thing was bullshit.

ICE raids.
Military occupation.
Loyalists installed in gov't.
DOJ used for political retribution.
Redistricting to fix elections.
Pay-me capitalism.

US Democracy is dead.

The question is what YOU are going to do about it?

This too

White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions

You can't teach U.S. history without "divisive" narratives. Slavery wasn't "unifying." The Japanese incarceration wasn't "unifying." The anti-immigrant Operation Wetback (real name) wasn't "unifying."
It's history's job to tell the truth, not cover up past racism to pave the way for future racism.

"Let me be crystal clear: crime in DC is ending and ending today."

Tariffs set unilaterally by the president are taxation without representation. The Republican Party is much more like King George than like the Founding Fathers.