DLM

Trump‘s brilliant plan of 50 year mortgages means that after your first 20 years making huge interest payments to a bank you will have paid down almost none of the principal and they will still own the house you are living in with 30 years to go. A scam from a career con man.

America First my ass!!!
Are we great yet?

A mother of 8 was deported within 24 hours of reporting sexual harassment by an ICE contracto

She was following the rules & going through the process to get her green card

Someone working on behalf of ICE abused her.

She spoke out and was kicked out of the country.

It’s retaliation & it’s wrong

It's big Trump protest day so that means we are mere hours away from my least favorite Bluesky: the Russian disinfo surge.

Here's how it works, and what you can do about it. 🧵

There is a well documented Russian capacity to flood social media with Angry Confusion (sources: internal leaks, external reporting, usgov threat reports).

My anecdotal observation of this lately is that this spikes on bluesky in the hours after anything driving broad solidarity in US politics.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Federal agents in Portland shoved a protester to the ground and then fired pepper balls at another as they tried to help.

Safe to describe this as unnecessary force as they cleared the driveway.

Massive escalation at the Portland ICE facility. Worst I’ve ever seen. More pepper balls than I can count. Teargas in the middle of crowd. Violent arrests. Some type of either noise or rubber bullet shotgun fired into the air then later aimed at protesters chests/heads at near point blank range.

I am heartbroken that this is what our country has become. I’m aware we are not what I grew up thinking we are, but we are now definitely an authoritarian monstrous regime!

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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

It’s a call to action. A big one. Thanksgiving week. We’re going to squeeze them where it hurts!
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Project 2025 was the plan all along

The fever dream of Stephen Miller

Fire as many government employees as possible

Roll back regulations so billionaires can exploit ALL of our resources-including US workers

End anything that promotes equity

Destroy the rule of law

Burn down American democracy

THE PURGE

Polls show that Project 2025 didn’t resonate. Voters thought it wasn’t real. Well, now we’re living it and it’s already 47% implemented after only 9 months.

Trump’s shutdown is a shortcut: gut the federal workforce, fire career experts, replace them with loyalists. Laid out in P2025.
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The abuse of ICE AGENTS

All over our Country
It is out of control
Please call your Congressional representatives 202 224-3121
I have sent this clip to mine email

This is really, really bad

The Epstein files: What is public, and what is still secret? The U.S. attorney general ordered that all the government files be turned over. But what exactly does the FBI have?

Here's rundown at what's still secret in the Jeffrey Epstein case, including documents and files held by other federal and state agencies. Here's rundown at what's still secret, including documents held by other federal agencies. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

WOW! Epstein survivor: Epstein surrounded himself with the most powerful leaders of the world. He bragged about his powerful friends, including our current president, Donald Trump.

Trump is weaponizing federal power—and Democrats can stop it. With another funding deadline coming up, they’ve got to reject any Republican budget that fuels his chaos. indivisible.org/camp...

The Russian sponsored Putin/Trump/GOP/Project 2025 Corporate Fascists intend to FULLY dismantle/deconstruct the USA, Democracy, NATO, global trade, the Western Economy, Education, Justice, Equality, our Constitutional Rights and our FREEDOM for their Putin/Kim/Assad/Hitler NAZI Prison Police State!!

I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is.

This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.

Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding

“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group.”

This is on Trump.

Gift link here:

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns “The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”

Unbelievably bad. “The CDC you knew is over. Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

#ProudBlue

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Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding

This is beyond infuriating www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

The C.D.C.’s Vaccine Chief on Why Quitting Was His Only Option Podcast Episode · The Daily · 08/29/2025 · 29m

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You cannot now trust the #CDC. It’s now Trump’s CDC where decisions on public health will not be influenced by science or data but by political ideology & data manipulation or no data at all. This is the message from the CDC’s vaccine chief who resigned this week.

This is a great summary of the facts leading up to enabling DOGE, et al. to upload every American's non-anonymized Social Security data to an insecure Amazon server. What could possibly go wrong. CJ Roberts is such a fool and a tool. I can't even...

This is insane.