James Shea

Shit went from bad to really dark fast.

US officials uncover alleged Russian ‘bot farm’ - BBC News The justice department says nearly 1,000 social media accounts distributed pro-Russia stories.

The scale of Russian and Chinese bot farms is unimaginable. They have 1,000s of cell phones in warehouses generating AI content to sow chaos.

The federalists didn't have section 230. It's created some of the most powerful media companies in the world and the tech oligarch ruling class.

Mehdi is right. Media has always been owned by rich, powerful people. Anyone remember the NYT and the Iraq War?

Only the most extreme voices are rewarded right now. It's all about attention.

This week has shown me that the MSM and social media are broken. Bluesky is as bad as Twitter. Most Trump voters are just people. My relatives are Trump voters. My nephew's girlfriend was at the Kirk event. The poor kid is scarred for life. We gotta put down our gloves and talk to each other.

Thanks @heathermassey.com. That made me laugh. It was needed after such a strange, dark week for our country.

I learned today that my nephew's girlfriend was at the Kirk event. She is such a sweet girl. I met her over the summer. Violence is just the world our kids live in these days. I can't imagine the trauma.

The Epstein birthday book is disgusting. It shows how elite America knew and went along with Epstein's crimes. Why hasn't Rob Wittman taken a position on releasing the Epstein file?

Agreed. The show me your papers ruling goes against everything America and the 4th amendment stand for.

This is what fascism looks like in America - masked men who pointed guns at people because they are brown.

Wittman's propaganda machine is in full-on blitz mode. He stresses the need for energy security but only talks about oil and gas. Wind and solar are huge energy components in #VA1 and across Virginia. But he sticks to the company line.

Gen X here. I was in college when Bill came to campus twice during the 92 election. It was my rude awakening to politics. Cigar, stained dress. Ugh. I could give two shits about Clinton.

I loved Erik Larson's book Isaac's Storm about the hurricane.

I see this on my LinkedIn feed. It's tough out there.

A group of people holding political signs at King William Democrats picnic.

A great group of people at the King William Democrats picnic on Saturday.

The Democratic Party used to be the party of working class people. It's become a party of corporate interests and over educated elites. After Carter, Mondale and Dukakis got blitzed, we became timid to flex our working class roots. We can't win VA01 with a candidate who takes corporate money.

Speaking today at King William Dems. It was great to see so many people come out on a Saturday. Everyone wants to see Wittman go home to Montrose. (Sorry about the moving camera, my daughter was the camera operator!)

This is not normal. Trump declares war on an American city.

James Shea speaking to the King William County Democrats at their picnic.

So much fun meeting and talking to people at the King William Democrats. Everybody wants Wittman out! I brought my daughter, who took advantage of the pool. (She was more popular than me 🤪)

Yes. A pig farm in Kansas and then the Army brought it to Europe.

Americans have amnesia. We forget that half of children died young 100 years ago. We forget that the Black Plague destroyed half of Europe. We forget that the Spanish Flu wiped out communities. We forget that COVID killed 1 million Americans. We are about to FAFO with communicable diseases.

Pentagon officials fume over Trump's Department of War rebrand Employees could find themselves changing Defense Department seals on more than 700,000 facilities around the world.

Gotta love political theater "This is purely for domestic political audiences,” said a former defense official. “Not only will this cost millions of dollars, it will have absolutely zero impact on Chinese or Russian calculations."

We can't forget about the victims.

Mitch McConnell warns: ‘this is the most dangerous period since before World War Two’ ‘What we need to do is avoid the headline at the end of the war, ‘Russia wins, America loses.’ It has huge worldwide implications,’ McConnell said of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Pretty ironic from the guy who had no spine for impeachment and stole the supreme court. He holds a lot of the blame.

The jobs report reflects what I've been hearing from small business owners. They are seeing a slow down in orders and are being cautious with new hires. Unpredictability is the kryptonite of any business and this administration has piled on layers of that.

It’s Not Yet Too Late to Save Our Democracy The window is closing fast—but a handful of senators and Supreme Court justices could check Trump’s autocratic ambitions.

Democracy, it turns out, doesn’t die in darkness. It dies in broad daylight when otherwise good but cowardly people fail to act until it’s too late.

White House ‘continues to stonewall the full release’ of the Epstein files: Rep. Garcia As Congress returns this week, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, joins Erielle Reshef to discuss lawmakers’ upcoming meeting with victims of Jeffrey Epstein, ...

Hmmm. Wonder why?

Bernie brings the heat. Kennedy has to go.

Investors are dumping bonds globally while gold is soaring. Here's why A global bond rout is underway, but gold prices, which typically suffer when yields rise, have surged to new highs.

Gold at a record high. 30-year treasury near 5. Worried investors. The Trump/Wittman economy is doing great. Or not.