Scott G Mannes

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. Let me explain what’s going on.

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If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.

The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”

It’s about control.

Fewer foreign students, fewer dollars: U.S. colleges feel the pinch DePaul University has told faculty it will immediately reduce spending following a 30% decline in international enrollment this fall. The move is the latest by U.S. colleges to cope with the disruptive education and immigration policies of President Donald Trump.

Fewer foreign students, fewer dollars: U.S. colleges feel the pinch reut.rs/4mJlHle

NO KINGS Monterey · No Kings **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Monterey” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

I wrote about this before but the link I put up was deleted. Until this slime mold in a badly fitted suit is rotting in prison or tossed feet first into a running wood chipper there is no justice in America.

Here's the New Pledge of Allegiance I Think We All Should Take What if we all took a new pledge?

Here's the New Pledge of Allegiance I Think We All Should Take
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Apparently when you are Brown even a Real ID is not enough to convince ICE that you are a citizen

We still don’t know what Kash Patel did as a consultant for Qatar Or how much money the FBI director was paid by Doha.

NEW: Up until last November, Kash Patel was a paid consultant for Qatar. But he and the FBI still refuse to say what he did for this Arab monarchy or how much he was paid.

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Cartoon by @adamzyglis.bsky.social.

Our democracy is only as strong as a piece of paper…

Tesla Cybertruck inventory goes through the roof Tesla Cybertruck is experiencing a significant increase in unsold inventory in the US and facing huge challenges in meeting initial sales expectations.

Cybertrucks are piling up -- apparently no one wants to buy them -- but they can't stop making them, b/c shutting the factory down is too expensive. Great work all around.

A Day in the Live-Streamed Life of Donald Trump America’s TV-obsessed President has made his rambling Oval Office press gaggles the signature of his second term—chaotic, self-aggrandizing, random, and frequently nasty.

In his first term, an aide compared Trump to Mike Teevee, the TV-obsessed kid from Willy Wonka. In his second, Trump spends so much of his day on camera it's as if he were live-streaming his presidency, not merely watching it play out on TV. @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

I’m not normally a bird watcher, but I was thrilled to catch a blue suited twit sleeping away the day.

Canada to Trump: “Go fuck yourself!” 🇨🇦

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.

We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

My painting LOST COAST

Pink and orange parrot tulips

Parrot tulip seasonnnnnnnn

Raskin: We even have the right to call the president deranged for crashing our economy, destroying $6 trillion of wealth and turning our 401(k) Into a 201 (K). And the press has the right to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of Mexico.

Bates: He inherited an economy that was the best-performing in the world. But in just two months, he’s crashing that economy with the biggest tax increase on middle-class families in 50 years—raising the prices he promised he would lower, and breaking his number one promise to them.

I hope everyone realizes that scrubbing historical references from web sites is no different than burning books.

Trump is urging GOP lawmakers to defund PBS "immediately".

He's not the first right-wing crook to wage war on public broadcasting.

Here's what national treasure Fred Rogers told Congress in 1969 when Richard Nixon tried to gut PBS.

The top 7 donors in the 2024 election — all GOP — gave a combined $1B to buy Trump a second term.

It's a gigantic amount of money in total — but it's just pocket change to them.

We must get Big Money out of politics.

No one from either party should be able to buy an election.

We will not be distracted.
We will not be discouraged.
We’ve got our eyes on the prize.

And we will build the prosperous, free nation for all that we deserve.

The time to organize is now.

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