John Coate

Are you loyal to the US Constitution or to Trump? At this point you can't be both.

Mike Johnson. Always the little button-down liar.

This is a link to a ten-minute story I wrote and recorded about the few months I spent in 1978 at the Farm Plenty Bronx Center. It tells two stories about that experience. One involving a squatted building and one about the home birth of my daughter. Enjoy!

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Does anyone seriously believe that the role of the DOJ with the Epstein files was to look just revealing enough while making sure to protect Trump and the other perps? They are not the victims. Those formerly young women are. No protection of justice for them. Just cover for the orange monster.

I do not believe a word of that.

The World Files for Economic Divorce from America What you do when your (trading) partner is abusive

To wit:
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The formula for wrecking the USA is pretty simple, turns out...just elect Donald Trump and all who come with him.

Since things aren't working out so well in Minneapolis, Trump just moves on ahead threatening war with Iran while setting up rigging the next federal elections, which is what illegally taking the voting records from Fulton County is really about. Move on to the next headline grabbing disaster.

Will trump give Tom Homan a $50K signing bonus for his MN tour of duty? And if he does, will it come in a paper bag?

Impeaching Noem won't change anything. She was wrong to obey those orders, but the people who gave them remain. Trump, Vance, Miller, Bondi, Hegseth, Kennedy, etc etc..

That whole cabinet , VP, and the demonic dictator who appointed them are the problem. It won't change until they are all gone.

Anyone here dumb or ignorant enough to believe that Trump's so-called "pivot" means anything other than business as usual?

Mr President this blood is on your hands.

The GOP grilling of Jack Smith is an effort to discredit him personally without going into the validity of his work. They simply want to depict him as only having a partisan agenda. Nothing about the real substance of the issue at hand.

A special level of hell would be having to listen nonstop to Jim Jordan.

Since the Civil War, has there ever been a bigger betrayal of the US Constitution that what this Congress and Supreme Court are doing? They're either in fear of Trump, or they agree with him or they are ok with selling out the nation to keep their job. More likely, all of the above.

Immigrants come to America because they believe in its promise. Many send money back to their families. This is a planetary web of humanity that wants there to be a USA. They have a stake in it. If we wreck this while also trashing NATO over Greenland, we will have no friends in the world.

He'll be throwing these little bits of candy at us until election day so all the low-information voters think he actually cares about any of us.

Truth

Isn’t that how these things always go? Altruistic founder makes humanistic pronouncements, and then soon enough, the board of the shareholders or whoever the money people are saying no we’re not doing that.

They stood back and stood by and now they are the American Gestapo.

Instead of GOP (Grand Old Party) the Republican acronym should be FUBAR (Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition).

Worth every second

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Resistance moms will save us Renee Good's courage shows our best hope lays with ordinary people

I try to maintain some emotional distance while writing, which is an analytical exercise for me.

But I wept through much of this, because the videos of Trump’s fascist assault are hard viewing.

But they also convinced me we will win. Here’s why.

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So now the EPA under Fecal Midas now will only consider how much it costs polluters to clean up their pollution and now consider the actual damage, including death, to public health.

Fecal Midas strikes again.

When will America choose to reverse the self-inflicted lobotomy that created and sustains the Trump administration?

I saw video of the shooter walking casually down the street right after he shot her. He was not hurt.

We're in full Big Brother territory now.

Good song, but in fact the Woodstock values were never held by a majority of boomers. My generation (born 1951) was instrumental in electing Nixon, Reagan, bush and now Trump. That said, may Boomers, once it was clear they wouldn't be sent to Vietnam, ditched love and peace for money and stability