NaturalStateofExhaustion

Jeff Bezos paid $50 million for a wedding. He just got a $16 billion tax break. He just laid off 60,000 people.

And you're furious about a kid getting a free school lunch?

Judge sentences two former officers videotaped in infamous Mulberry beating - Arkansas Times A federal judge sentenced former Crawford County sheriff's deputies Levi White and Zackary King this week for their roles in the brutal arrest of a man in Mulberry about two years ago.

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Judge sentences two former officers videotaped in infamous Mulberry beating - Arkansas Times A federal judge sentenced former Crawford County sheriff's deputies Levi White and Zackary King this week for their roles in the brutal arrest of a man in Mulberry about two years ago.

This was in Arkansas in 2022. Two of the officers were sentenced in 2024. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

Apologies: You Have Reached the End of Your Free-Trial Period of America! Want rule of law? That’s premium.

this piece from last month continues to sum up my feelings about a lot of things www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations.

If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.

If you're under 28, the number is 100%.

Happy Labor Day.

Keep the two distinct in your head.

Really American

Democracy in Danger: In a shocking moment, Stacey Abrams lays out in terrifying detail the methodical ten step process by which our democracy is being dismantled, and we might be at step nine already.😲🤬

Everyone needs to see this.

Only a white man in America can... - be videotaped with underaged girls while hanging with a child sex trafficker - cheat on his wife with a porn actresses and pay her to keep quiet - publicly fantasize about having sex with his own daughter - openly boast about sexually assaulting random women - be convicted of 34 felonies - have 91 criminal charges, - 26 sexual assault allegations, - 5 bankruptcies, and 2 impeachments - be sued by the Department of Justice for racial discrimination - have a $25 million fraud settlement, a $400 million fraud judgment, and a $96 million sexual assault judgments ...and be considered a good Christian by white evangelicals and elected president of the United States. ~ BISHOP TALBERT SWAN

It’s unbelievable that this man is in the White House and not in the big house where he belongs.

#Pinks #FakeChristians
#TrumpBelongsInPrison

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🤬

Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.

Mexicans who saved lives during the Texas flood are now being arrested.

FOR FUCK’S SAKE!!!!!

Sunrise over a field with a fence and trees in the distance. Superimposed text reads, “I may not be smart but at least I'm not stupid enough to believe immigrants are the cause of my problems”

Good morning say it with me

Been saying this for awhile, but will repeat it for emphasis: If you love freedom but don’t care if it applies to everyone, what you actually love is privilege.

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

-FDR, 1937

THIS:

Trump is who he is. He’d sell our most sensitive intelligence to our enemies if he could personally profit from it. Of course Trump will accept a $400 million luxury jet from Qatar. Trump is a traitor. But here’s what’s worse. No Republican will say a thing. Not one of them will.👇

When I get a call from an unknown number I answer by whispering: "It's done, but there's blood everywhere!"

"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."
- Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica

There’s no Trump without an entire Republican Party on their knees and silent to the ongoing cruelty, hate, abuse, lies and lawlessness. They have abandoned the Constitution and basic human decency—for power. We will never forget these traitors who support despotism.

We have NOT made a deal with the WH as of yet. We have made a concept of a sub deal to a deal. A covfefe if you will.

This is what a rigged economy looks like:

In the 1970s, CEOs made 27 times more than the average worker.

In the 1980s, CEOs made 48 times more than the average worker.

This decade, CEOs are making 354 times more than the average worker.

That has got to change.

As you watch MAGA defend arresting a judge, deporting green card holders for speaking out against the Trump regime's policies and deporting people to a prison in El Salvador with no due process, please understand MAGA would defend Trump imprisoning you and your family.

When student loan borrowers are in default, how does the Trump regime respond?

By garnishing their wages.

When billionaires see their wealth hit record highs, how does the Trump regime respond?

By extending their tax cuts.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

An individual lacks the power to effect structural change alone.

But a committee can reach a well-documented consensus that structural change is, regrettably, unfeasible at this time.