It's too easy to be distracted by the economic story of the day. The more important story is of our system fraying: The rule of law is decaying, Bribery spreading, crony capitalism normalized. It won’t show up in next quarter’s data, but when our kids try to build their lives.

The Intercept: TRUMP’S MILITARY OCCUPATIONS OF U.S. CITIES COST $473 MILLION AND RISING

A monstrous, illegal waste of taxpayer dollars.

Donald Trump must confirm if this estimate is true and disclose the full total he's burned through with his unlawful military deployment into our cities.

The American people deserve to know.

Trump’s Ocean Drilling Order Puts Coastal Communities at Risk. Again. 15 years after one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history, we're suing the Trump administration for attempting to reopen protected areas of the Gulf coastline for oil and gas drilling.

​The Trump administration plans a major expansion of offshore oil and gas sales. Trump is targeting public waters that have never been touched or untouched for decades, including in California and all over Alaska. This threatens communities and marine ecosystems that depend on undisturbed oceans.

Trump Is Said to Propose Opening California Coast to Oil Drilling

The Trump administration plans to allow new oil and gas drilling off California’s coast for the first time in decades. Almost no new fossil fuel development has occurred since the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill, a disaster that killed thousands of birds and damaged fisheries.

"Literally every single word the President said was wrong... We have enormous anxiety among voters. The cost of living is rising, and people are understandably upset. I just want to be crystal clear there's not a word coming out of the man's mouth that is correct."

Not all Trump supporters are rapists, but all of them decided that rape isn't a deal-breaker. End of story.

World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating

With current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels.

10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C

20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C

So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.

Trump plan would open California to offshore oil drilling A draft five-year plan for offshore oil development proposes selling leases on the West Coast, Gulf of Mexico and Alaska.

According to new reporting, the Trump administration is planning to force new offshore drilling on California for the first time in decades. Trump would hold six offshore oil sales in California over the next five years.

The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.

Pardoning your co-conspirators to own the libs!

Most of their charges are state charges, so this doesn’t actually help them. It’s gross, but it doesn’t really move the needle.

Medicare for All.
No PAC money.
Childcare $10 a day.
Double housing.
Anti-corruption agenda.
1,000 trade schools.
Modern factory & care jobs.
No bombs to Israel.

I call it new economic patriotism.

Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani, others involved in efforts to overturn 2020 election, pardon attorney says | CNN Politics President Donald Trump has pardoned a long list of his political allies for their support or involvement in alleged plans to overturn the 2020 presidential election, according to the Department of Jus...

He rushed through tax cuts and pardons for his friends.

You got higher healthcare bills.

He’s not fighting for you.

Trump and Republican leaders created this crisis, and they’ve only used it to make things worse for working families by withholding food assistance for millions for their own political gain.

This fight isn’t over, and I’m going to continue to stand with so many who are being hurt. 2/2

Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?

190. SNAP WTF? A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next

If you’re trying to catch up on what went down with #SNAP late last night at #SCOTUS, here’s my attempt to read the breadcrumbs on the “administrative stay” issued by Justice Jackson—and why a justice so critical of the Court’s grants of emergency relief to Trump still granted temporary relief here:

"it's a symptom of a deep and abiding dysfunction that Republicans, despite holding the presidency, the Senate and the House, can't fund the government and can't even get themselves to get together in a room to strike a deal."

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

Furious Minds “[An] excellent new book.”—Michelle Goldberg, New York TimesThe story of the radical conservative intellectual movement shaping Donald Trump’s agenda—and how it threatens American freedoms, values, an...

Friends, “Furious Minds” is out!

@lkatfield.bsky.social wrote an important book - one that truly is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand the rightwing intellectual scene, the defining ideas on today’s extremist Right, and the ideological traditions they draw on.

Please read:

SNAP has existed for 60 years. Benefits have gone out every single month over those six decades, including during government shutdowns. Until now.

Make no mistake: The money is available to fund SNAP during this shutdown. Trump is making a choice to withhold it.

Don’t forget this.

The SNAP contingency fund holds around $6 billion.

Trump refuses to spend it on the American people.

The same guy who just fast-tracked $40 billion to Argentina.

Trump thinks Argentina deserves our money while he lets Americans starve.

Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.

Tonight should be a good reminder to Senate Democrats they better not cave.

There's a lotta silliness and falsehoods in this statement, but I'm going to focus on the bigger issue: It is immoral to make low-income folks and their hungry children political pawns. Need is need.

According to new NBC and ABC/Ipsos polls, Trump's approval ratings — especially on the economy and cost of living — are now in the negative double digits.

Remember: Trump is a failing president.

He is not all powerful.

I’m just going to say it…

It’s pretty damn validating to hear Barack Obama say the same things we’ve been shouting for months, and longer.

Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success

“putting out another fire he started does not a hero make”. Truth!!

Trump’s Department of Agriculture is choosing to use food as a political tool, weaponizing it against the people who need it most.

They are choosing to keep Americans hungry.

It’s just plain cruel.

Trump’s Test Threat Could Fuel Nuclear Tensions With China

He only has a few moves. One of which, per Roy Cohn, is when someone punches you, punch back harder. That's why he is threatening to resume nuclear testing in response to Putin's previous announcement. Scholars called this escalation dominance. But it ain't diplomacy. It's just dangerous.

Republicans have left the building.
Trump has left the country.

It's clear they're OK if you can't afford healthcare.
It's clear they're OK if federal workers don't get paid.
And, it's clear they're OK if millions of kids go hungry.

It's clear they don't care about you.