Ricardo Ismach

Opinion | The Death of the Fourth American Republic

A clear take on the #Racist #GOP campaign, a core part of #Project2025, to return America to a #JimCrow era of #WhiteSupremacy. Better #Resist…. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...

They steal your tax dollars. They get you into middle east wars.
They rape your children in America. They commit Genocide and shoot babies in the head and starve millions. They call you Anti-Semite if you protest. Yet Americans worship and support them.

WTF? Humble roots, eh? Not very Jimmy Carter like…

Crap! Better #Vote, and #Resist.

PBS accounts for nearly half of first graders’ most frequently watched educational TV and video programs PBS KIDS produces popular age-appropriate programs. It also has a website and multiple apps with games and activities.

Where first graders watch educational media, before the impact of eliminating federal funds:
* PBS - 45%
* Nickelodeon - 14%
* YouTube - 9%
(from a 2025 study by child development researchers)

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Harry Weatherill, a tailor who draws portraits on cloth using tailors chalk (1955)

I’m Not Panicking. I’m Outraged. Read more here.

Taken literally, the nation’s top intelligence official announced — on a right-wing podcast — that my decision to stop posting on Twitter is evidence that I am not “innocent” and am therefore being reviewed by the DOJ, with the aim of holding me “accountable.” www.democracydocket.com/opinion/im-n...

We had to fight for the right to vote - for Black people, for women, for poors. So, now…

Light him up!

Finally, a united nation.

Opinion | Republicans are trying to turn their attacks on Obamacare into self-fulfilling prophecies For those who buy insurance plans through the Affordable Care Act, premiums are about to get much more expensive.

My MSNBC debut, on the rising ACA premiums. The Trump Admin is letting the Biden Admin's enhanced subsidies expire, making marketplace ins prohibitively expensive (so younger/healthier people will drop out, leaving the rest costlier to insure), & tariffs aren't helping. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act. The beginning of true democracy in America. A offering to this country paid for by the work, dedication and lives of ordinary Black people.

We’ve always had to fight. Are you prepared to fight to protect our rights?

John Ratcliffe and Kash Patel - and Durham Himself - Committed the Crime John Durham Was Hunting - emptywheel The unsealed Durham annex provides evidence that John Brennan and the CIA weren't discussing a Hillary Clinton plan to frame Trump. They were instead discussing an SVR to frame Hillary. And he spent f...

John Ratcliffe and Kash Patel -- and Durham Himself -- Committed the Crime John Durham Was Hunting

www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/03/j...

PBS didn’t “become woke.” You grew up to be a bad person.

Silence free speech, this is how dictators are made!

#Pinks
#ProudBlue

The Week Ahead Sunday August 3, 2025

This week marks the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, but there’s not a lot to celebrate. There is, however, a positive action that you can take, right now, to help.

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Utterly sad…

American Gestapo.

Yes!

Though it seems Netanyahu has totally and effectively blocked the first three steps. :-(

"An antidote to despair!" Your reviews of The Last Class film about Robert Reich

Friends — I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for continuing to power the improbable theatrical run of @imcivicaction.bsky.social’s film, The Last Class, about my final semester of teaching.

One viewer called it “An antidote to despair!”

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still thinking about the Montana knife maker who said you don't have to worry about tariffs if you buy american. and then three months later, he realized he imports swedish steel and german equipment. and even MiUSA equipment costs $100k more now because of tariffs

Trump says the -818k 2024 benchmark payroll revisions show BLS commissioner McEntarfer was political and incompetent. Let’s look at the facts.
1. The revisions were released in Aug 2024, not Nov 15 as the president said. So the BLS release showing far less job growth came 3 mos. BEFORE the election

1/Even with the Epstein drama still unfolding, MAGA Republicans are making plans to consolidate their hold on the American psyche. They have to reframe the January 6 insurrection, Trump’s role in it, and their role in it, to ensure Trump’s place in history. And they’re ready to do it.

Jackie Kennedy was responsible for the design of the former WH Rose Garden

She paid an extremely high price for that privilege

That fact can never be disputed

The beautiful green space she made is now a soulless parking lot

Ice!

Great gerrymandering infographic and explanation from WaPo:

www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp...

If fighting fair won't work (which it doesn't when everyone can see how awful you are), they'll just redraw the map. 🙄

Funny, Hunters and Fishermen realized quite some time ago…

Nope, you need mushrooms.

Yes. And a few others…

Could this be our "tea party moment," when average people get fed up?