David Budin

Emoluments Violation anyone?

We’re officially in PreCrime

@jfklibraryfdn.bsky.social Here’s your Profile in Courage candidate

Trump Determined to Attack Inside America

"Just Following Orders"

GREAT! Hooters are on the bill tonight! Can't wait

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Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Matthew Dowd got instantly fired for far less than calling for executions of homeless people

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Prove Me Wrong…a definitive explanation of this person

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

Donald Trump gets booed at the Yankees game.

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I suppose when you're a celebrity you can do anything?

VIOLENT CHINESE FISH. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER. 🤔

The President cannot commandeer any local law enforcement.
The President does not run the Smithsonian.
The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law.
Release the Epstein files.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Moment of Zen

Remembering Elliott Smith today on what would have been his 56th birthday. RIP

Here's a picture of me in 2019 at Kamala for President National Headquarters after a day of volunteering for her

If the Republicans are a "rubber stamp" could you try to be an actual opposition party fighting for the defense of our democracy instead of sitting on your hands as public broadcasting is bulldozed so easily?

Today's exhibit of our transformation into a banana republic. Shouldn't these people be doing real work?

That there’s a police state.

Can you hit repost? Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat.

My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?

Bread and Circuses.

YouTube video by BlueiversetheNFFAguy The Forever Purge (2021) - Martial Law Emergency Broadcast

youtu.be/6JZkibu0dyA This Purge message is actually relevant to people in LA as the military is poised to attack protestors

"Make absolutely no mistake about it, I believe historians will look back at the afternoon of July 3, 2025 and conclude that the passage of Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" was one of the greatest acts of thievery in the history of the United States, and one of the worst pieces of legislation passed in modern American history. Plain and simple, this bill is class warfare led by Donald Trump, the Republican Party and their campaign contributors. More for the rich. Less for working families. Let's look at what this legislation does. At a time when 85 million Americans are uninsured or underinsured, this bill slashes Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act kicking 17 million more people off their health care, including millions of kids. It means if your mom and dad are in a nursing home, they're going to be in trouble because 2/3 of people in nursing homes are supported by Medicaid. And here's an amazing irony. Many of the "red states" and districts where Republicans are providing the votes to pass this legislation have done reasonably well under the Affordable Care Act. These are states that have seen the number of uninsured people precipitously decline, and states that have relied heavily on Medicaid to counter the opioid epidemic and other health crises. Doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, disability advocates – all understand that thousands of Americans will unnecessarily die each year because this bill was passed. But that is not all."

"This legislation makes cuts to public education, nutrition assistance programs, regulations to protect us from polluters and corporate crooks and on and on it goes. And why do they want to cut all of these programs that are so important to the working families of our country? The answer is very simple: they want to give massive tax cuts to the richest people in America. In their program, they are going to give over $1 trillion to the top 1%, paid for by programs working people rely on to survive all while adding trillions of dollars to the debt. And mark my words, the next time any piece of legislation comes before Congress that would help the working class of this country, these very same Republicans will once again find religion on "deficit reduction." What a joke. But that is not all. This legislation also authorizes a tremendous increase in military spending to quote-unquote "secure our border." Listen to Donald Trump and most all Republicans and they will tell you that border crossings have dropped to almost nothing and Trump himself said not a single migrant crossed the border last month. So if the border is secure, what will that money be going to? What you are going to see is an expansion of the federal domestic police force the likes of which we have never seen before. You are going to see more and more masked ICE raids ripping people off the streets in communities across the country. Not just "criminals" they claim to prioritize, but people who have been here for decades, who pay taxes, who have no criminal records -- just to meet some quota set by Donald Trump and Steven Miller. That is the bad news. And make absolutely no mistake about it, it is terrible."

"But there is some good news. This legislation has nothing to do with what the American people want. Poll after poll shows that ordinary Americans are strongly opposed to this bill and are expressing their outrage on a daily basis. We saw it during our Fighting Oligarchy rallies across the country. We saw it in an unprecedented mobilization of working people volunteering and rallying to stop this bill. And most recently we saw it in Zohran Mamdani's winning campaign in New York City. Zohran's election against all odds proved that people are hungry for candidates with the courage to address the real economic and moral issues that face the majority of our people, take on the greed and power of the oligarchy and fight for an agenda that can improve life for working families. But that work and focus cannot stop with just one primary victory in New York City. Short-term, our immediate goal has to be to defeat Republicans and re-take control of the House and maybe the Senate in the next election by electing candidates who are willing fight back against corporate greed and create an economy that works for all of us, and not just billionaires and large corporations. We need to elect people up and down the ballot who have the guts not only to stand up to Trumpism, but to take on the monied interests and fight for a working class that has been ignored for far too long. Long term, we must continue our work to build a political movement which is taking on the billionaire class, the right-wing extremist Republican Party and a corporate dominated Democratic Party leadership which is wedded to maintaining the status quo. A great nation is not judged by the number of billionaires it has, or by the tax breaks that large corporations receive. It is judged by how we treat the most vulnerable amongst us: the children, the sick, the elderly, the disabled and the poor."

"If there has ever been a time in American history when our people must stand together in the fight for economic, social, racial and environmental justice — now is that time. In these very difficult times, despair is not an option. For the sake of our kids and grandchildren, the struggle must continue. Black, white, Latino, Asian-American, Native-American, male or female, gay or straight, let us proudly stand together and create the kind of country we know we can become. In solidarity, Bernie Sanders"

Powerful email from @sanders.senate.gov

This the best one I have read today.

ty @mattbh.com for pointing me to this.

This is how you do it.

a monopoly board with a man in a top hat holding a cane and the words `` show up tomorrow lol '' . ALT: a monopoly board with a man in a top hat holding a cane and the words `` show up tomorrow lol '' .

Deep thoughts 🤔

REQUIRED READING. Take it from the constutional historian who wrote it: our system has failed.