@mayorsteve.bsky.social
Mayor of Benicia CA;
Running out of time to do something
choosedemocracy.us?fbclid=IwY2x...
Sen Hirano w/chilling questioning of our next FBI Director
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNCj...
It is about time a Dem candidate of the future started speaking out
31.01.2025 07:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Federal Aviation Administrationβs preliminary report on the D.C. plane crash goes against everything the president has said thus far.
31.01.2025 01:51 β π 1561 π 607 π¬ 85 π 52Sen. Warnock: 'We gotta have a handful of Republicans who understand that they work for the people of America and not for someone who wants to be a king. That's the moral decision for my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. I pray to God that they find the backbone to make the right decision.'
31.01.2025 03:05 β π 7455 π 1218 π¬ 295 π 90The biggest mistake salespeople make is they keep on talking after they have closed the deal.  
It doesn't take long for buyers remorse to set in.
OPINION VIDEO How Tyranny Begins Video by Kiana Cole and Adam Westbrook Video by Kiana Cole and Adam Westbrook Ms. Cole is a producer with Opinion Video. Mr. Westbrook is an editor and producer with Opinion Video. Jan. 22, 2025 Exile. Imprisonment. The end of elections. We know what tyranny looks like once it's undonrrorT
A very fun detail that some future narrative historian will love was how the US media considered βdemocracyβ one of several competing issues in the 2024 election, far less important than inflation and on a par with abortion and βthe border.β
31.01.2025 05:47 β π 371 π 78 π¬ 7 π 1GREAT work by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse at the Kash Patel confirmation. Arguably, the worst cabinet nominee ever. Will servile Republicans give him a boost as well?  
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoiW...
only the most qualified...
28.01.2025 20:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Republicans: Affirmative action is bad! DEI is bad! We need a meritocracy!
Also Republicans: Welcome to Tucker Carlsonβs son, Buckley, the newest member of JD Vanceβs staff.
Shock doctrine is working. People and media throwing up hands saying "what can we do??"
28.01.2025 19:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0WATCH: Trump is outpacing Hitler to end our democracy!  It is time to fight!
open.substack.com/pub/malcolmn...
sure, why not? Or just cancel the election...
24.01.2025 06:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0And so it begins:
Bakersfield, CA sees massive drop off in field workers as ICE agents rounded up suspected immigrants, resulting in acres of oranges left unpicked in the California sun during the most active period of the season.
βEconomic devastationβ
newrepublic.com/post/190555/...
Under Trump, it will be legal to bribe politicians again, the revolving door of Washington will continue to swing, and calls to βdrain the swampβ will fade into nothing more than a dull murmur. 
Please download the ACLUβs Mobile Justice app. If you see a problematic government interaction, the app lets you film it and send it to your local ACLU chapter in real time. It also has βknow your rightsβ guides for the most common situations weβre all likely to face in the coming months.
22.01.2025 04:56 β π 161 π 71 π¬ 4 π 2an audacious power grab that no Republican is willing to stop. And which the media is burying...The coup is picking up speed at an amazing rate.
24.01.2025 06:47 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Form meets function
20.01.2025 17:31 β π 3544 π 380 π¬ 266 π 90Back on the grind tomorrow
20.01.2025 23:26 β π 33318 π 5870 π¬ 253 π 133Jon Stewart on Trumpβs Inauguration and Elon Musk's Nazi Salute
youtu.be/GMG-ZEG_VU4
Trump's right hand man (literally) just casually giving the Nazi salute... twice.
20.01.2025 21:05 β π 8493 π 2582 π¬ 961 π 618Trump just reportedly pardoned Jacob Chansley, the βQAnon Shamanβ who participated in the January 6 insurrection and stormed the Senate chamber.
Chansley responded to being pardoned by saying βNOW I AM GONNA BUY SOME MOTHA FU*KIN GUNS!!!β
"Our task to recapture democracy begins in earnest today."
Jen Rubin reflects on today's critical turning point, marking the formal embrace of oligarchy, with billionaires like Musk, Bezos & Zuckerberg taking center stage in the place of ordinary Americans. contrarian.substack.com/p/of-for-and...
only toadies need apply
www.axios.com/2025/01/16/m...
share the facts about fires in CA 
gavinnewsom.com/california-f...
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District, on whose board I sit, is hiring at some pretty handsome salaries. Including paid college internships in engineering and other fields.
www.governmentjobs.com/careers/baaqmd