Mary Trotter

A tweet from Ron Filipkowski reads: “Trump Org’s income in the first half of 2024 was $51 million. In the first half of 2025 it rose to $864 million. A massive percentage came from foreigners. It should be the biggest scandal in the history of American politics. But few even care.” Below the tweet is a Reuters image showing members of the Trump family and associates in suits cheering and raising their fists outside a building with a sign that reads Nasdaq. The caption reads: “Inside the Trump family’s global crypto cash machine.”

I care. I think you do, too. The swamp is now a damn tar pit.

Even an introvert like me knows better.

Qatar gave Trump a $400M jet. Trump gave them a military facility on US soil.

The UAE bought $2B of Trump's stablecoin. Trump gave them access to rare AI chips.

Saudi Arabia invested $2B in Kushner's firm. Trump sold them $142B in arms.

If this isn't corruption, what is?

PERRY COUNTY, TN — a man arrested and faces felony “threatening mass violence in a school” for posting an image of Trump with his own words in a facebook group after Charlie Kirk’s murder.

His son calls it “an egregious violation of his 1A rights”
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Minnesota shooting suspect had a list of dozens of potential Democratic targets, prosecutors say All of the politicians named in his writing were Democrats, including more than 45 state and federal officials in Minnesota, U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson said.

I call on media to REFUSE the framing pushed by right wing chaos agents like Cernovitch & Rufo on this act of what appears to be political violence. The Democratic former Speaker of the Minnesota House was assasinated along with/her husband. The killers was hunting Dems. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

“Nobody’s talking about Rockbridge, and that’s exactly how they want it.”

Ashley on the Private Club for Billionaires where Vance, Thiel, etc. map out the right-wing takeover 🇺🇸

“This is the point I’m trying to convey: All of Trump’s power depends on his continued reinforcement of the disinformation that Russia used to get him elected the first time. Without Russia’s continued indulgence, the foundational myths to Trump’s power would crumble.”

Thou Shalt Not Hire a Jan. 6 Nazi Fan to Cook the Books Only the worst people.

In case you missed it, Trump’s new jobs stats guy is a Nazi “history buff” who was at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Sweet Baby Jesus and the Grown One Too!

Both the overflowing public scholarly goodness in my longest #ScholarSunday thread yet & this especially fraught moment in our collective history require me to share this week's thread once more. Please help get all this great work & all these awesome folks out there, & thanks! 🗃️

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, YOU GODDESS OF ALL THAT IS BEAUTIFUL AND TRUE AND VITAL AND WISE!!!

When history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.

Bill Moyers Saw What Was Coming I cannot say for sure when Bill Moyers first developed such a...

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a great article: worth noting that it came out in 2023.

Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.

If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

The Growing Threat of Homegrown Religious Extremism The alleged Minnesota assassin was known as a ‘deeply religious’ Christian man. That should be an alarm bell for all of us.

"In these situations, one expects to hear that the shooter was in the midst of a psychotic episode." Instead, he was a seemingly functional, deeply religious family man. That is terrifying.

(D) Sen. Tim Kaine's resolution on war powers is an important reminder of the constitutional role Congress plays in the declaration of war.

This shouldn't be up for discussion, per the Constitution only Congress has the power to declare war.

No war!

YouTube video by WeRateDogs Top 10 Protest Dogs

Here are my top 10 protest dogs!

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A Karonline Leavitt tweet I've corrected. Xes mark my deleting with a red line. *marks my additions, in red text. In ONE week, President Trump: X🇬🇧 Reached Trade Deal with UKX *Gave Bentleys an advantage over Ford* X🇨🇳Negotiated Trade Deal with ChinaX *Confessed emergency was fake* X☑️Secured Ceasefire with HouthisX *Conceded, but got a used plane* ✅Secured Ceasefire between India & Pakistan *(that lasted hours)* 🇺🇸Freed American Hostage Edan Alexander from Gaza 💊Signed XHistoricX EO to XSlash Drug PricesX *to try to replicate drug deals Joe Biden already won* A historic President delivering historic results. There is much more work to do — and the best is YET to come! 💪

I corrected the propaganda.

How cool that you get to watch the rehearsal shows! I love watching how a
show is made!

Yeah, Tim Walz!!!

The 30 best nonfiction books of the last 30 years To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best nonfiction books since the festival was inaugurated.

The L.A. Times names THICK one of the best non-fiction books of the last 30 years.

I will be honest with you, even I cannot always believe that this is my life.

Thank you. Very much.

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Meanwhile in the US, right wing pols are attacking Van Hollen for going to El Salvador "on the taxpayer's dime," while Vance travels with his wife and kids on Air Force Two to spend Easter in Rome, although he and Trump met with the Italian Prime Minister in the US a few days before.

I support U.S. farmers. Trump's tariffs are devastating to US agriculture.

JUST IN: Three days after a judge awarded $6.6 million to whistleblowers fired for reporting him to the FBI for allegedly using his office to protect a prominent real estate developer in exchange for helping him cheat on his state senator wife, Ken Paxton announces he is running for US Senate.

Rep. Raskin sums it up!

Welcome to the public domain, THE CANARY MURDER CASE (1929), a mystery that shifted from silent to sound during production. Early roles for William Powell & Jean Arthur. 🎞️🔍

Learn more. ➡️https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025

#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain

A perfect meme to celebrate Susan Crawford's landslide victory in Wisconsin today