Mike Ludwig

OIC you are trolling me and putting words in my mouth, please don't do that

Democrats Are Struggling to Block Trump’s Texas Power Grab “When you can’t win fairly, you cheat, and that is exactly what this is,” a civil rights advocate said of Trump’s ploy.

Trump is publicly pressuring lawmakers in Texas and beyond to preemptively meddle in the midterm elections to preserve the GOP majority in the House of Representatives.

I was quoting (back in 2022) my Ukrainian source's views on NATO, not mine, he's a pacifist with very different politics than the anarchists taking up arms -- I later learned that anon source was actually a Russian expat/anti-fascist who died fighting in Bakmut.

What didn't age well? The war?

This Palestinian’s Story Undercuts Claim That IDF Doesn’t Target Civilians “What we are going through cannot be justified — it is literally a genocide,” says Reem Zidiah.

Frustrating to hear liberals use "misinformation" as an excuse for being so late to realizing that the genocide is a genocide, or at the very least a terrifying attempt at ethnic cleansing (ahem, The Atlantic).

Palestinians have said this for years now. You didn't listen. This is from 2023:

Oklahoma officials examined Ryan Walters' office TV. Here's what they found A memo from the state Office of Management and Enterprise Services provides insight into the early stages of an investigation into Ryan Walters.

Ongoing investigation of **porn** seen on a TV in the office of Oklahoma schools superintendent Ryan Walters, an ultra-MAGA Christian Nationalist who mandates Bibles in classrooms and has supported the anti-queer book banners at Moms for Liberty. Walters denies any wrongdoing.

Wow watching Trump & Co. get eaten alive by the same propaganda machine beast they've been feeding red meat to for years is awesome

"Look over here, it's Brazil! Hey what about some Coca-Cola with real sugar (but not Mexican) golly what do you worthless idiots want from me??"

hahahaha 🤣

Update on George Retes from UFW:

Disabled veteran who is a US citizen was taken during Camarillo immigration raid, family says Concerned family members are desperate for answers after they say a disabled U.S. veteran and citizen was taken during a federal immigration raid at a cannabis farm in Camarillo.

George Retes, a US citizen and disabled veteran, was disappeared by ICE during the violent raid on legal cannabis greenhouses in southern California yesterday. He's still missing, his family is desperate, his daughter's bday in tomorrow. Spread the word!

haha

A New Supreme Court Case Could Give the Wealthy Even More Political Power A GOP court challenge could lead to the biggest erosion in campaign spending limitations since “Citizens United.”…

A New Supreme Court Case Could Give the Wealthy Even More Political Power

While the Republicans rammed through a "billionaires budget" last week, SCOTUS took up a GOP challenge to the last remaining limits on campaign contributions from billionaires like Elon Musk, who spent millions to elect Trump

I listen to @igd.bsky.social (IGD) and @thebulwark.com for perspective from both sides of the resistance. @timmiller.bsky.social and @samsteindc.bsky.social had a banging July 3 podcast with piss play and strippers!

New Orleans taught me sex workers are organized and critical. Welcome Tim and fam!

"If Republicans wanted to add $4 trillion to the national debt, they could write a check for $12,000 to every single adult and child in the United States. Yet, the bottom 40% of households in the U.S. won’t get any benefit at all from this bill, instead their incomes will outright fall." -- @epi.org

The Political Blowback to GOP’s Medicaid Cuts Has Already Begun Senate Republicans passed a budget package with the deepest cuts to health care in decades on Tuesday.

Senate Republicans are so used to deny, deflect and double down that they passed a bill they don't even like and will lose them elections (Trump took the "delay" option off the table)

I mean, just look at their faces. Murkowski is far from the only GOPer feeling the heat right now.

Imagine if a fraction of the journalists who helped manufacture claims of "anti-Semitism" against anti-war protesters began to cover the fact that white nationalists are helping to direct attacks on non-white people in the US.

There's nostalgia for a pre-Trump era when politics "worked" — Dems governed and GOP limited excess. But is Trump really so special? The authoritarian police state is not new, and it's not the first time Republicans fell for a brash entertainer who cozied up with the rich and abused human rights.

Seeing some posts referring to Kilmar Abrego Garcia as being "kept safe" in jail. No one is safe in jail, fam. Incarceration strips years off people's lives and manufactures premature death. It's very important to understand this, especially now.

I like to think about all the stuff we could do with billions of dollars oligarchs spend on elections/annoying political ads, but at this point, local TV stations would shutter without the revenue. Capitalism killed newspapers, and local outlets are critical for corruption and disasters, what a mess

Gillibrand Goes on Islamophobic Rant About Mamdani as Republicans Try to Denaturalize Him The Democrat’s rant has sparked calls for her to resign over her bigoted language.

Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand went on an Islamophobic rant against Zohran Mamdani, falsely suggesting Mamdani made an explicit call for violence when he did not — ignoring the many times that Mamdani has denounced antisemitic violence.

only kind of kidding when I say thank you for the bisexual erasure Andrew Sullivan, outstanding to be excluded from this narrative

Doctors Warn Medicaid Cuts in Senate Budget Bill Will Kill Their Patients Protests against Medicaid cuts continued on June 25, which led to the arrests of 60 activists at the Senate.

“If Medicaid is cut, my patients will die. I realize I am being dramatic. It is a dramatic situation. [T]hey are humans who are doing their best. Please don’t allow them to suffer more.”

- Dr. Helen Pope, Louisiana

RFK Jr. Defunds Global Vaccine Group That Has Prevented Nearly 19 Million Deaths Kennedy also recently fired a CDC vaccine advisory panel and stacked it with unqualified anti-vax appointees.

RFK Jr. has withdrawn U.S. funding for the world’s preeminent international vaccine organization. The group has helped vaccinate more than 1.1 billion children in 78 lower-income countries, preventing nearly 19 million future deaths.

Iran is giving Americans a crash course in the US military's massive footprint in the Middle East right now:

Trump’s ICE Agents Are Arresting US Citizens. GOP Budget Would Hire 10,000 More. Billions of dollars for ICE and border patrol in Trump’s budget bill would supercharge the chaotic crackdown.

Every day brings more videos of masked, armed men making violent arrests.

The GOP budget bill would provide ICE with an extra $75 billion and hire 10,000 more agents for enforcement in the US interior -- but so far, Democrats are only talking about Medicaid cuts.

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YouTube video by Breaking Points Israel CENSORS Damage Reports As Interceptors Run Low

Israel is censoring what the media can report on damage inflicted by Iran.

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The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered.

Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again.

Their inaction is deadly.

Tariffs Are Driving 2026 Health Insurance Premiums Up President Trump has vowed to impose tariffs on a wide variety of goods from multiple countries. While consumers may expect the price of some imported goods to go up, what may be surprising is that the...

As Republicans in Congress move to slash health care for millions, Trump's tariffs are raising costs of insurance premiums via @kffhealthnews.org

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“I’m Afraid a Bomb Will Kill Me in My Sleep”: Iranians React to Israel’s Attacks Israel has killed at least 250 Iranians as it strikes residential buildings, civilian infrastructure and military bases.

On June 13, Israel launched a surprise attack on Iran. Airstrikes hit buildings across the capital, Tehran, striking residential neighborhoods as well as military sites. In just one night, close to 100 people were killed. Among the dead were dozens killed while asleep in their beds.

Mona and Her Children's Survival Fund I am Mona Hijazi, a Palestinian mother of three children. From the depths of Gaza, from the depths of darkness, despair, hunger, fear and weakness, I tell you my story.

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We are not living anymore ,
we are just counting days until Israel finishes us off.

No one cares.
Not the world. Not the systems.
We beg for bread like!
We don’t ask for luxury.
Just bread.
can help us buy bread

Time to re-up this little ditty about how to make your Venmo more private. Remember that digital security is not just about protecting yourself, it makes your entire community safer