Richard Thripp

Trump didn’t like the numbers, so he fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner. For any normal president, that would be a big scandal. For him, it distracts from the Trump–Epstein scandal, which has only worsened since Trump revealed he was angry at Epstein for poaching girls from his spa. 😳

Now you must resign in disgrace or be impeached and convicted in a manner more ignominious than the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson. Perhaps President Vance will be kind enough to pardon you of your many federal crimes!

My message to the president: Pam Bondi informed you months ago that you are in the Epstein files, and you wrote a birthday card to Epstein that is consistent with your many other poorly drawn sketches and appears to have confirmed that you were in on the "secret" of rape and child trafficking.

This guts judicial review, a cornerstone of U.S. democracy. Courts are the only check on executive overreach. This section erases that check for some of the most destructive decisions the government can make. @altnps.bsky.social #scotus #gopbudget #savedemocracy

Hamilton / Aaron Burr meme by Richard Thripp

“I wanna be in the Signal chat where it happens”

Trump’s national security adviser added a journalist to text chat on highly sensitive Yemen strike plans | CNN Politics Former national security officials reacted with shock and horror to revelations in The Atlantic that top members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet sent detailed operational plans and other likely hi...

Wow, Michael Waltz is not good at all at handling national security. This is outrageously incompetent.

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Monday night’s Volusia County Democratic Party (@volusiadems.bsky.social) meeting had a great update from the Josh Weil for Congress special election campaign!

It was past Jonah’s bedtime but he did great.

Please support @joshweil.bsky.social and team. The election is on 4/1/2025 & matters a lot.

Definitely!

CD6 has Daytona State College (I graduated there in 2011) and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, too.

Please keep the pressure up and also volunteer/donate/vote for @joshweil.bsky.social and the other 2 Democratic U.S. House special elections candidates.

… duly legislated entities such as USAID and the CFPB. There ought to be enough Republican members of Congress joining with the Democrats on this, because executive overreach is antithetical to many espoused Republican principles. We can’t wait for the midterms in 2026! …

The framers of the Constitution thought Congress was the most important branch of government, which is why it’s Article I and is much longer than the articles for the other 2 branches. Members of Congress should not tolerate the violation of laws, impoundment of funds, and dissolution of …

Trump has unleashed the biggest federal brain drain this century with Musk and “DOGE.” It’s a national humiliation and is already leading to disasters.

@joshweil.bsky.social says they have many volunteers at Stetson University in DeLand, too. The county party had more younger members for a while in 2021 but many of then left…

Darn it. Yes.

From our meeting of @volusiadems.bsky.social Volusia Democratic Party tonight. Our secretary, Charleen, has been doing extraordinary work with our online presence and many other important items. We were joined by @joshweil.bsky.social Josh Weil for Congress and his team. Vote Apr. 1, 2024 or sooner!

We here highly resolve that government of the billionaires, by the billionaires, for the billionaires, shall not perish from the earth.

This is good news. The prior Daytona Beach city commission district boundaries were gerrymandered by the commission to protect the incumbent members.

From our Vice Chair and President of the Southeast Volusia Democrats Karen Francis:
An awesome day celebrating the life and legacy of Dr King, 50 members joining in the celebration Wonderful to see so many Club members! #volusiadems

(7/7) your country will need another measure of devotion. There will be people who cannot give much more, but there will also be those who are re-entering the arena and those who are entering for the first time, and we will all be pulling together.

- Richard Thripp

(6/7) I believe there is still hope to take the Democratic party back to its truest roots and convince enough Americans to come together on this. It is so hard to ask more of those of you who have already sacrificed so much toward these ends, but after a period of mourning and rest, …

(5/7) We can do all this while confronting American violence and the climate crisis to make a better future for our children. With a strong political and broader social movement, and with candidates who are genuinely unbought and unbossed (like the late Shirley Chisholm), …

(4/7) a new New Deal, and I believe 2016/2020 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was on the right track with universal healthcare and education, childcare, ending the war machine, and making the American oligarchs pay back the enormous sums they have looted from the American people.

(3/7) to convince enough voters, and now we all will pay the price. When we come back from this, it is my opinion that we need to return to firm, populist principles that restore justice for all Americans, including immigrants, who make our country strong. In many ways, we should advocate for…

(2/7) Today, many of you have already done so much, and you are exasperated, exhausted, and beaten down. There will come a day where this too shall pass. Democracy is fragile, particularly in presidential governments. People are easily misled. The Democratic party and 2024 candidate didn’t manage…

Thoughts for January 20, 2025

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” But, it doesn’t bend toward justice on its own. We have to use the right levers, persuade the people, and keep bending the arc toward justice on our own. (1/7)