YOZORA

How we beat back the corporate takeover of America:

1. Break up corporate monopolies

2. Continue building union power

3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics

Let’s keep working to unrig the system.

The White House makes an offer Ukraine had no choice but to refuse How one-sided is Donald Trump's plan for peace in Ukraine? A Democratic senator called the Republican "the Neville Chamberlain of our time.”

"One NATO official, when asked for a reaction to the plan, replied, 'Did Putin write this for him?'...”

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

About time this guy disgraced and humiliated!

Close up of a remarkably attractive tortoiseshell cat. The right side of her face is black, the left ginger, and she has long white whiskers and delightful green-gold eyes with a sardonic expression.

The Squoof says it is morally, ethically, politically and psychologically expedient to gaze upon a picture of a beautiful cat from time to time. And therefore she nobly offers herself for your improvement.

Does It Matter If He's a Criminal? The Justice Department, with Attorney General Pam Bondi most unseemingly leading the charge, is on a campaign to paint Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man they have acknowledged was illegally sent to a pris...

Abrego Garcia, criminal or saint, was denied his due process rights by the gov’t. In this country, people are entitled to those rights, whether criminals or not, whether citizens or not. joycevance.substack.com/p/does-it-ma...

What ACTION looks like

Tea Pain and She Pain just spent a lovely week in Switzerland, enjoying peace, diversity and a functional democracy. Walking the streets in complete safety and enjoying all the different languages and cultures existing harmoniously. This happiness is something America should strive for.

We are losing this war!

"she has never visited the United States..."

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/17/m...

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The President of the United States is utterly out of control and possibly out of his mind, and only the Supreme Court of the United States can deliver the absolutely vicious permanent slapdown this moment requires.

If that does not happen, the options for Americans appear to dwindle precipitously.

Pesto ❤️

A black and white cat with bright yellow eyes staring off into the distance, looking slightly sad or thoughtful.

The vet said 〝He's not overweight at all, but he has a round and big head.‘’

NEW: China is switching from American to Canadian oil.

Chinese purchases of American oil are down **90%** year on year.

Purchases of oil from Canada are up +700%.

That equates to a $20 BILLION annual loss for the United States, at current oil prices.

Tired of winning yet?

🚨BREAKING: Judge finds flying migrants to El Salvador after orders not to "demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt."

Visit www.democracydocket.com for full details and analysis.

UMass faculty calls on land grant universities to join in fight against Trump administration; McGovern, AG also weigh in AMHERST — Faculty at the University of Massachusetts are calling on Chancellor Javier Reyes and President Martin Meehan to form a compact with the 250 land grant and public universities across the cou...

This is how you do it.

The "Mutual Academic Defense Compact".

The moral imperative may be to fight...

but the strategic imperative is to not fight alone:

www.gazettenet.com/UMass-Amhers...

To be honest, given our current economic situation, I have no problem with self-indulgent rich women paying millions, while ordinary Americans struggle to feed their families, pretending to go into "space." I do question, however, the value of their return.

Opinion | Trump’s Exceptional Tariff Weekend His Customs office announced tariff-rate exceptions on electronics on Friday that he renounced on Sunday.

WSJ editorial board:

"A confusing weekend that offers more lessons in the arbitrary nature of Trump trade policy...

"What happened and what’s the real policy? Who knows?"

www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...

How much you wanna bet that soon we’ll find out it’ll cost $100 billion or some such amount to fix everything he broke?

Every single “investment expert “ is emphasizing diversification to include investment in other stock markets. And that will extend to private markets and start ups.

It’s possible to export your smartest people, hire overseas , and fund their business at a fraction of costs you face here. Insane

100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion in the 2024 election.

70% of these donations went to Republicans.

Now, Republicans in Congress are gearing up to slash essential programs to pay for another round of tax cuts for the rich.

This is what oligarchy looks like.

Yes, Donald Trump is Planning to Send U.S. Residents En Masse to Death Camps in El Salvador Run By Dictator Nayib Bukele The White House meeting on Monday between Trump and Bukele isn’t quite a Hitler-Stalin summit, but in the context of this century’s politics and America’s descent into fascism, it approaches it.

You will find the scope of this new PROOF report—the third in a series on the Trump-El Salvador Scandal—staggering.

You will want to know this information before the Trump-Bukele Summit Monday. It is worse than anyone feared.

How Trump’s Tariffs Fit the Autocrat’s Playbook The President thrives on confrontation and demands supplication. Politicizing the economy creates opportunities for both.

“Collective resistance is a collective-action problem. If people don’t join together in resisting, he wins, he dominates. This is what his base loves to see.”

And this is what We, the Resistance must avoid.

Only in solidarity can we ever hope to overcome.

www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

wsj editorial board from wednesday evening, before thursday's market cliffdive

www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

"Trump lieutenants have walked out of meetings and earnestly asked one another if they thought Musk was high..."

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

he did this just *after* going to the funeral of an 8 year old girl.

he walks away from where the hearse is idling and immediately starts hyping this stuff again.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

A pastel colored graphic comparing real rabbits to stuffed bunnies. Real rabbits: “Soft and cute Live 8-12 years Generally hate being picked up Need lots of space and attention Poop a lot Have fur that sheds and has to be groomed Require regular vet care from a specialist and a varied diet with fresh produce” Stuffed bunnies “Soft and cute Live forever Can be picked up and held any time Require no space at all Don’t poop Don’t eat Don’t shed Never need to go to the vet”

If you know anyone planning to get their child live rabbits for Easter, please talk them out of it. Tell them to get a stuffed toy and sponsor a rescue bunny instead! 🐇 www.merrymacfarmsanctuary.org/meet-the-bun...

"The implication...is that not only noncitizens but also U.S. citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal. History is no stranger to such lawless regimes..."

Unless it's measles. Or COVID. Or syphilis.

Sorry, explain to me again why anyone on Wall Street thought this sociopath would back down from a mistake he made that is destroying our country? Were none of these investors alive over the last decade?