Here are some ways to process the scale of $100 billion in ICE funding: 343 times what Elon Musk spent to swing the 2024 elections 140 times the cost to make New York City buses free 1,451 times private prison company CoreCivic’s net 2024 income 568 times the cost to pay all US students’ public school lunch debt 1,923 times the amount saved by the bill’s defunding of Planned Parenthood 62.5 times what the US paid in reparations to over 82,000 interned Japanese Americans 2,000 Jeff Bezos-Lauren Sánchez weddings 388 of the HIV vaccine program the Trump administration eliminated, effectively ending chances for a shot to prevent infections

8 times what the US spent to develop and purchase Covid vaccines in 2020 185 years of operating the Guantánamo Bay prison 2.1 times what it would cost to hire enough teachers and nurses to end both national shortages 7.6 Rupert Murdochs 385 Rick Scotts, the richest US senator 170 times the amount Trump’s bill cuts from the national parks 2.63 times what the US Agency for International Development spent in 2023 12 times the 2023 Federal Bureau of Prisons budget 2 times Harvard University’s endowment, the largest of any university in the world 7 times the 2021 federal child care funding 4.4 times what the US has spent on Israel’s military since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks

Truly staggering numbers, per www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Cowardice: I’m scared of Trump and his voters and need to go-along to get along with my GOP colleagues;

Moral rot: I know the difference between right and wrong, and actively chose wrong.

I’ve been thinking a lot about Murkowski’s vote. It contains, in one action, so much that defines our pathetic political moment:

Selfishness: I’m taking care of me and mine, the rest of you can pound sand;

Lack of accountability: I know the bill is bad, hopefully someone else will fix it;

KFile: Too toxic for Trump’s first term, some officials are back in the fold | CNN Politics At least four people from Donald Trump’s first term who were deemed too extreme or politically toxic to win Senate confirmation – or even keep their jobs – are now back in the fold and in some cases w...

NEW: The guy in charge of federal policy at HUD once ran a self-described think tank that attacked women’s right to vote, said the U.S. suffered from it, and praised organizations trying to repeal the 19th Amendment.

www.cnn.com/2025/05/20/p...

House Dems travel to El Salvador to secure Maryland man's return More Democrats are making the trip abroad to raise awareness for what they call a “constitutional crisis” surrounding Kilmar Abrego Garcia's deportation.

We have arrived in El Salvador.

Trump is illegally arresting, jailing, & deporting people with no due process. We must hold the Administration accountable for these illegal acts and demand Kilmar’s release. Today it’s him, tomorrow it could be anyone else.

www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

There are three key facts in the Holocaust Encyclopedia produced by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. This is the second key fact: What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process.

This, from the Holocaust Memorial Museum.

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

We the people are taking action to stop a hostile government takeover. On April 5, 5.2 million people across the country stood up to say HANDS OFF our democracy!

Save the date for our next national day of action on April 19th.

#50501movement #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #April5 #HandsOff

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue
Atlanta…today💙

You can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere. People poured out to protest not only what Trump has done—and what they fear he will do next.

The message is: crowd large.

Many politicians, administrators, and business leaders, in bowing to Trump, have drawn confidence and comfort from the perceived vibe shift.

Events like this puncture that delusion.

BREAKING: Trump's billionaire Commerce Secretary says that seniors won't care if they don't get their Social Security checks — and that anyone who does complain is a fraudster.

Donald Trump is lying to you.

The Democrats Should Boycott Trump’s Speech to Congress This Week Refusing to attend the speech would be the first indication that Democrats are not just playing politics—and playing them badly—but resisting.

If you missed the full argument yesterday

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Government is a miracle Why DOGE's attack on "waste" is really an attack on an entire century of progress

open.substack.com/pub/anandwri...

I have decided to cancel my show at The Kennedy Center on May 11, 2025 and move it to The Anthem.

A picture showing how every country voted. The resolution was supported by 93 states. The United States, Russia, Belarus, Israel, and several other countries voted against it.

BREAKING: US supports Russia and votes against UN resolution initiated by Ukraine and Europe.

Seismic statement that the US administration now sides with Putin.

Idaho strikes again.

And here’s the copy. Please disseminate these images widely. Who needs to place ads in a newspaper that few people actually read anymore?

Hey friends, I decided to leave MSNBC. You can read why in my new piece on Substack. ⬇️
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Join me on Substack frankfigliuzzi709507.substack.com and on my website frankfigliuzzi.com to sign up for free regular updates on the national security issues that matter most; you know - like Democracy.

Mama bear wrestling with her cub. She's got him by the rear paw, nibbling on his toes I guess. They're in spring grass with a tree on the left.

Musk's censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by about 95% since he bought it.

So we moved over to blue sky.

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You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

Here’s what we did today

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Bullies, Criminals and the Fight for America With tariffs set to take effect today, remember that Donald Trump’s aggressive and foolish attack on our allies and Elon Musk's hostile takeover depend on Americans remaining silent

We are witnessing “a coup by a billionaire oligarch who wants to subvert the functioning of government and grab as much private power and control as his ally in the White House will permit. So far, that amount appears to be as much as he wants.” www.americaamerica.news/p/bullies-cr...

An EEOC admin. judge sent a fiery all-department email this AM alleging:
1. Trump's exec orders & instructions to target private citizens with them are illegal.
2. the judge had sent an earlier email with a similar tone yesterday that later vanished from their sent folder & colleagues' inboxes.