Roberta Baskin

How to Identify Fugitive Democrats By Texas Governor Greg Abbott

With chronic gratitude for the much needed belly laughs provided by @borowitzreport.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

FRIEDMAN: “If the behavior this administration has exhibited in just its first six months continues and is amplified for its full four years, the America you know will be gone. And I don’t know how we will get it back.”

‘1984’ is upon us.
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Opinion | You Are Contaminated

Read it and weep. More evidence of the oil industry’s disregard for humanity, along with its devil’s partnership with #Trump. #climate www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...

More of this, please.

USA's gross misbehavior: At the international Convention on Wetlands to save Earth’s fastest-disappearing ecosystem, our U.S. "delegation" had only one representative who came to demand that conference documents include NO mention of #climate change, DEI, gender, the U.N.’s SDGs, or “zero growth.”

FOREWARNED by a shocked consumer: "Just ordered some kitchenware from England: cost $267. A week after delivery, FedEx sends a bill for the tariff due: $131. Turns out, the items originated in China. Tariffs are here, and collections have begun." #Trump #Tariffs are a tax on consumers. #TaxTheRich

Making up #s and gaslighting gullible Americans is #Trump’s legacy. In an authoritarian regime you fire the messenger for daring to report something you don’t like. And here we are.

We’d rather have the corporation for public broadcasting and Sesame Street than a garish gold plated ballroom at the White House.

Hypocrisy & gaslighting. #Trump & #EPA are providing our children's future with a hellscape. #climate

CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. 

Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

This week's Joseph Welch Award Friends,

Standing up to #Trump to deliver fact-based American history and culture takes Integrity. Lonnie Griffith Bunch III, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, has what it takes. @robertreich.substack.com.web.brid.gy open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

The President sees a bad jobs report, and responds by getting rid of the person in charge of the statistics. This is how America becomes a third-rate country.

“Both of them.”

Whatever’s in the Epstein files must make “grab ‘em by the…” look like a Hallmark card.

NEW YORK MINUTE (@newyorklovesbts)

Here are a few facts about our authoritarian leader as he races to make America a banana republic #trump substack.com/@newyorklove...

Release Epstein files: “Trump literally had Lawrence Taylor, a registered sex offender who raped a 16-year-old, featured at the White House as he announced his 'President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition' initiative for kids," -Brian Krassenstein #Trump @briankrassenstein.bsky.social

Let the public starve while you dance on their graves.

The federal government is paying more than 154,000 people not to work Early resignation offers and other programs have reduced the workforce, but critics say the moves are also wasting money.

Extra insanity with our tax dollars. We're paying 154,000 people not to work in the name of government efficiency and cost effectiveness. Somebody explain how that makes sense. #Trump #TaxTheRich
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Trump's tax law by the numbers: $1 trillion less for Medicaid, $75 billion more for ICE The new 'big, beautiful' law extends tax breaks for the wealthy, slashes Medicaid and food aid and expands immigration enforcement — threatening health care, nutrition and safety nets for millions.

Trump's tax law by the numbers: $1 trillion less for Medicaid, $75 billion more for ICE 19thnews.org/2025/07/trum... via @19thnews.org

This regime terrorizes. Human rights are out the window, as masked ICE agents smash windows to terrorize their prey. Cruelty is ICE public policy. And #Trump is ripping off tax dollars, $1 trillion less for Medicaid, $75 billion+ for ICE. Exploding the deficit. $3.4+ more to our deficit. Shameful.

The federal government is paying more than 154,000 people not to work Early resignation offers and other programs have reduced the workforce, but critics say the moves are also wasting money.

The federal government is paying more than 154,000 people not to work, in the name of cost-cutting www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Democratic Wins Media (@demwinsmedia) BREAKING: You have to hear why this Republican is now abandoning Trump and supporting Democrats. Stories like this are popping up all across the country. This is amazing.

Factchecking: How she deprogrammed herself from the Republican Trump cult
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Jeffrey Epstein and a thousand victims is what happens when moral depravity meets extreme income inequality.

New name: “Sleepy Don from Epstein Island”

Make it go viral.

My God.

This hit so hard.

Because you know what they're going to choose.

And it makes you feel like, as a species, we may be irredeemable. So many of us find just doing the basic decent thing an utter impossibility.