Lizabeth Fogel

What does “Dow 50,000” actually tell you—anything about the economy, or just that a number got bigger? Dow 50,000 is a milestone, not a measurement. The level of the Dow is basically arbitrary: it’s… "Dow 50,000" Sound Nice. Until Justin Wolfers Shows You That U.S. Markets Are Coming 21st Out of 23.

The Dow was at 43,488 when Trump took office. It just hit 50,000.

So if you had invested $43,488 in the US, you would now have $50,000. But if you had invested the same amount in the rest of the world, you would now be worth $60,000.

Lemme do a expla-youtube-nation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYL5...

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Trump has turned American foreign policy into an extortion ring.

That’s not the way to make us safer.

Americans want strength and for us to have positive economic and security relationships—not bully our friends & allies.

I really hope this is radicalizing folks to get out and protest, because otherwise this is not gonna stop.

Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night After deciding carbon dioxide does no harm, it was the logical next move.

Best commentary I've seen on the repeal of the endangerment finding:

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

$190 billion was given to DHS for an attack on our citizenry!

We have armed Gestapo-like forces shoving their guns in women's faces.

This is not America. It's a dystopian nightmare.
So call your senators & reps & demand accountability.
202-224-3121

Withhold funding for ICE & CBP!

All of our Constitutional rights are being erased from Miranda rights & due process to freedom of speech, the press & assembly. But the scariest right they're attacking is the vote with their vile SAVE Act.

This is the link to the video above for you to download & share:
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89TYM51/

This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.

Seriously, this hyper concentration of wealth is one of the top problems facing the country -- the maldistribution is worse than it was before the Great Depression, and their political influence is even greater than it was then thanks to Citizens United etc.

Even without an on-campus voting site, NCAT students still marched to the polls. 💙💛 Students at North Carolina A&T showed that barriers won’t stop their voices. When access isn’t easy, they organize. ... TikTok video by HBCU Student Action Alliance

North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/

Golfers sue Trump administration over public course takeover in D.C. Some area golfers say the president’s ambitions for East Potomac Golf Links could put low-cost entry points to the game out of reach.

From immigration to public lands, Trump's pattern is the same: ignore statutory limits, consolidate control, move fast

At East Potomac, @democracydefendersfund.org & partners @democracyforward.org & Lowell & Associates went to court to ensure federal law—& public access—come first

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

UK confirms Russia poisoned Navalny in prison with rare toxin UK and partners are today exposing the tragic circumstances surrounding Alexei Navalny's death and have confirmed there was poison found in samples from his body.

"UK confirms Russia poisoned Navalny in prison with rare toxin"
www.gov.uk/government/n...

In its ongoing war against higher ed—and law firms—the battles MAGA has won are those where the other side surrendered in advance. (The Columbia/UT Austin/Paul Weiss "strategy," vs the Harvard/UCLA/Perkins Coie/etc strategy.)

Resistance is not just braver but also smarter and more effective.

How Trump's ICE Is Locking Up Longtime Texans with Paths to Legal Status The case of one Houston man, nearly deported to India after a quarter-century here, shows what happens when prosecutorial discretion is abandoned.

Our top story: After over 25 years in the U.S., and despite raising a family here and having a path to citizenship, Moizali Momin was nearly deported to India. He spent months in cramped, dirty detention centers at taxpayer expense.

One year ago NOAA gave me 2 hours to leave my marine scientist job. I was one of more than 10,000 PhD scientists who lost federal jobs last year. @science.org told my story and others
#MakeSCIENCEGreatAgain

www.science.org/content/arti...

So Tim Scott and Katie Britt are on the pedophile in chief's s**t list

Trump Has No (Legal) Power to Mess With the Election But that won’t stop him from finding ways to make chaos.

Here we go again

Repeat after me:
An executive order is not a royal edict; it is not law. It is a direction to the executive branch as to how to carry out the law.

Also:
Key parts of Trump's last EO on elections have been stopped by federal courts, ruling that the President has no role to play in federal elections

From Pill Mills to Prop Bets: Prediction Markets and Mobile Sports Betting Apps Are Fueling America’s Next Addiction Crisis Against the gamblification of the world.

I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis.

It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.

The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0

www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...

Not only did they murder hundreds of thousands of people. They also stole the money.

I’m a Minneapolis postal worker. This is what I saw. Come rain, shine, tear gas, or ICE shootings, postal worker Bianca Sonnenberg is delivering the mail.

"I feel grateful that I got this privilege of being a federal employee...But I wear my uniform home because I’m too scared not to. I could be targeted."

30 countries use mail voting

NIH, CDC, HHS, and all of US cancer research and public health needed and still needs protection from Russell Vought and the P2025 White House.

The defining feature of 2025 at NIH was not merely grant changes.
It was unprecedented levels of presidential interference with NIH decision-making.
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YouTube video by MS NOW Trump admin’s ‘cartel drone’ story bursts like a balloon. Or four.

WATCH: After hyping a dramatic “cartel drone” incursion, Trump officials shut down El Paso’s airspace and fired a borrowed Pentagon anti-drone laser—at what turned out to be four party balloons.

There has been no draw down today. ICE snatched someone off Central Ave out of his car because he looked Latino before then letting him go a couple hours later. They were stopping people in Blaine on highway 65, they were all around Fridley, and were in the parking lot of the St Anthony liquor store

Someone described it to me like having the nuclear arms race but with 4 private companies and zero government oversight.

BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.

The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel

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In other words, long enough that habeas petitions can be filed on their behalf in Minnesota before they're whisked off to an immigration detention facility somewhere in the Fifth Circuit (where, under that court's current law, they wouldn't be eligible for a bond hearing).