Rick Bolling

With ICE's *enormous* new budget and its ability to hire *many* more agents, the United States is about to enter an era of brutal domestic terrorism that we've never seen before.

In the past 24 hours, Trump’s threatened Elon Musk, Thomas Massie, Japan, a judge in Israel, the CEO of AT&T, Jerome Powell, Canada, Thom Tillis, a Forbes reporter, Harvard, & migrants with being eaten by Burmese pythons in the Everglades, while releasing a new line of colognes.

Here's the truth about tax cuts for the rich.

They explode the federal debt, fuel giant profits at the biggest firms and financial institutions, and stoke a surge in billionaire wealth but do nothing for average working people.

Nothing trickles down — and the tax cuts don't "pay for themselves."

In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.

Another horrific story about the Trump administration killing a ton of people—including many children—for absolutely no reason.

The food that would save these people's lives is sitting in a warehouse in Rhode Island. The government wouldn't let it be shipped. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

If Trump can claim a "national emergency" to disappear legal residents without due process, what’s to stop him from doing the same to U.S. citizens who oppose him?

No one is safe — not even people legally in the country, possibly not even American citizens.

Fascism is here.

Surprise! New “MAHA” Report Is Full of Junk Science and Fake Studies The latest Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again”

RFK Jr. has bragged his “Make America Healthy Again” report, released last week, is based on “gold-standard” science:

In reality, its citations are error-ridden, with missing links, incorrect conclusions, and sometimes even made-up studies.
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May 5, 2025 On his social media feed yesterday evening, President Donald J.

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Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.

MSNBC just showed a montage of world leaders calling the USA idiotic, illogical, hostile, unhinged.... literally never seen anything like this. From the shining city on a hill to an object of global derision and contempt.

NH’s new ID requirements send some would-be voters home to grab passports, birth certificates The law requires all new voters to show proof of their U.S. citizenship. For some, that meant making multiple trips to and from the polls before finally casting a ballot on Tuesday.

As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law:

“It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate.

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“My only regret is they should have brought rifles,” Stewart Rhodes said four days after Jan. 6.

“We could have fixed it right then and there,” he said. “I'd hang fucking Pelosi from the lamppost.”

Republicans love and support the troops, which is why they’re rushing to put a totally inexperienced psychopath with a history of alcoholism and sexual abuse allegations in charge of their well being.

Attention, Republicans: Unlawful border crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border have dropped to a four-year low, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

GOP obsessions with immigrants have nothing to do with facts, and everything to do with the most transparent, hideous racism…

Opinion | The Trumpian Attitude at the Heart of the Gaetz Report Both men display the same contempt for the law.

"There is so much repellently sleazy behavior documented in the House Ethics Committee report about Matt Gaetz that a reader has to stop every few pages to look away and focus on what still seems astounding: This is the man that Donald Trump wanted to be the attorney general of the United States"

When they talk about privatizing Veterans’ care and Medicare, they mean allowing companies to provide healthcare for a profit.

But how do companies make those profits? By *denying* care to many who need it.

Don’t get fooled by the “privatization” label. It means “for profit” and YOU are the cost.

A key asymmetry of this era of American politics and how it’s covered is that Trump is expected to do bad and corrupt things, so when he does it barely qualifies as news. But Dems are expected to be beyond reproach, so anything that seems even slightly suspect is a huge scandal.

So a reminder:

It’s not ‘liberals’ saying Hegseth abuses women. It’s his mom.

It’s not ‘liberals’ comparing Trump to Hitler. It’s his vice-president.

It’s not ‘liberals’ calling Musk a liar and a racist. It’s his own child.

For the record.

This suggestion by Mark Cuban caught my eye; might work, certainly worth floating, but I think insufficiently cynical. Opposition to phasing out coal isn't about jobs; it isn't even, mostly, about profits. It's a front in the culture war. 1/

Trump Refuses to Disclose Who Is Funding His Transition Donald Trump is the first president-elect not to sign an ethics agreement that sets fundraising limits and transparency.

Donald Trump is refusing to disclose who is funding his transition. He is the first president-elect not to sign an ethics agreement that sets fundraising limits and transparency.

Tammy Duckworth on Tulsi Gabbard: "I think she's compromised ... Russian controlled media called her a Russian asset."

The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s

Striking shift in GOP donor base - top 400 donors now provide over 60% of GOP funds, nearly double 2020 levels.

Both parties are far too reliant on mega-donors. But the GOP is now on another level. (1/n)

“Republicans cannot both be loyal to Donald Trump and loyal to the Constitution.”— Liz Cheney

House Ethics Republicans are now complicit in burying the report into Matt Gaetz, voting against its release (despite the issue being serious enough to warrant an investigation in the first place). Trump says jump, Republicans say "how high" -- even if it means shielding sex trafficking of a minor.

Truth be told, it does seem kind of silly to have the FBI do background checks on presidential appointees when the president is a convicted criminal and an adjudicated digital rapist.

we’ve no doubt had sexual predators in office forever, but the fact that people are knowingly, willingly voting for predatory men at all levels of government is disturbing in a way that’s difficult to articulate.

The Dead Pool revisited: JD Vance wants to Concentrate those w/Pre-Existing Conditions into separate camps. I've spent the past couple of weeks up to my ears in 2025 annual healthcare policy rate filing analysis, so I haven't gotten around to addressing JD Vance's recent appearance on NBC in which he finall...

🧵 OK, I'm cross-posting this VERY long & wonky but important thread here:

THE DEAD POOL: Since JD Vance wants to Concentrate folks w/pre-existing conditions into separate Camps, let's talk about it. 1/

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1. Donald Trump nominated an alleged statutory rapist and sex trafficker to be attorney general. He picked a Russian asset to be director of national intelligence. He chose a religious fanatic and Kremlin stooge to be secretary of defense.