Wendy Westerbeke

Rep. Madeleine Dean: The president is unhinged. He is unwell. Mike Johnson:
A lot of folks on your side are too. I don't control him. Dean: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals. Johnson: I didn't see it.
Dean: Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing.

The cuts in the Big Ugly Bill are what's behind this increase. The Dems are trying to save this from happening. I hope they hold out until they get it or millions of people are going to be in a world of hurt....

She’s trying!!

Donate!!

This shutdown is of Republicans' own making.

Democrats are at the negotiating table. We don't have a long list of demands. We're not saying we need to find more money.

We just want Republicans to restore the health care coverage they took away from millions of Americans.

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91 Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour

She was an extraordinary woman. Her chimps will miss her very much. She encouraged people to reconnect with nature so to honor her spend time outside and walk among the trees.

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Rest in Peace. Your voice and passion will continue.

This is the most inept administration to let the government shut down. Is it because then there will not be a vote to release the Epstein files? This regime is holding us hostage and Mike Johnson is enabling it to the detriment of Americans! We deserve better than this! #ThisIsTrumpsShutdown

Mike Johnson, you got until Wednesday 🤪

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

Kimmel will be a wake-up call for a subset of people who previously didn’t really think it was that serious. But I think we’re going to have these moments indefinitely until the fascists are no longer in power.

Antifa is short for “anti fascist”

America once fought a war against fascism

Now Trump says this anti fascist spirit-the idea that we must oppose tyranny-is a terrorist notion

I’ve marched with people identifying as Antifa

They were always peaceful

Nobody attacked the Capitol

Unlike MAGA

Washington Post fires their last remaining Black opinion writer @karenattiah.bsky.social over the most benign comments in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's murder...

Meanwhile Fox still has Brian Kilmeade who casually said all homeless people should be killed.

Its all unfair & unbalanced. Wake up.

Books save lives!!

My husband can write:
substack.com/@tedward/not...

Americans have short memories—keep reminding them. PLEASE SHARE!

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Numerous journalists and writers purged today for posting factually about a slain regime ally, a bomb threat at the DNC HQ, 6 HBCUs closed due to bomb threats, shots fired at the Naval Academy, and that's just today.

Urgent Evening News Update Bomb threats strike our nation, a potential shooting at a university in Boston, State Department goes after immigrants who made light of Charlie Kirk's death, Bolsonaro convicted, and more

BREAKING: Bomb threats strike our nation, a potential shooting at a university in Boston, State Department goes after immigrants who made light of Charlie Kirk's death, Bolsonaro convicted, and more.

A tough day for America. I have the latest: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

What?! Crazy scenario, but…

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Mr. "No Wars of My Watch" Trump just committed an act of war on Venezuela, helped gather Hamas leaders in Qatar allowing Israel to blow them up, and allowed Putin to fly Russian warplanes into Polish/NATO airspace.

Not a good look.

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The U.S. government has become a neofascist regime run by a sociopath.

Keeping it funded now is to participate in the most atrocious abuse of power in U.S. history.

So I for one have decided that the best route is to shut the whole thing down.

Why your groceries cost 8% more 🛒📈 It’s not just tariffs. Trump’s war on workers gutted our economy:
• 155k farm workers gone
• Fresh veggies up 8%
• Restaurants up 5.3%
• 1.2M workers vanished
• Housing permits crashing
Your receipts don’t lie, even if he does. #Trumpflation

"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued. "If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:

link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

The GOP says there’s no inherent racism in US law

But the Supreme Court just ruled ICE can use racial profiling to detain Latinos

Sotomayor’s dissent

“We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish,and appears to work a low wage job”

'Horrifying': Supreme Court's 'insane' new ruling sparks immediate outrage Legal experts were aghast Monday at a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allows immigration agents to continue using racial profiling to stop and detain suspected undocumented migrants.The court's conserv...

SURPRISE!

The Supreme Court’s White Supremacists are OK with racial profiling…

I dunno, maybe the Supreme Court majority could have the decency to bestir themselves to write an actual, you know, opinion, with their names on it, explaining their endorsement of using race and ethnicity as part of a national policy of harassing and intimidating non-white Americans.

Mexico held its first-ever election for judges, including Supreme Court justices following a September 2024 constitutional reform that replaced an appointment-based system with a popular vote to combat corruption and increase judicial accountability.
U.S. Needs to do the same!