I think this will be overstatement until it’s not. I think we’ll see more situations like the ICE detentions of Senator Padilla and Newark Mayor Baraka; I think the plan is to look for a scenario they can turn into a full-scale prosecution as a step toward fuller intimidation of Congress.

Well, you can see it from Sarah Palin's house, so...

I keep trying to tell people there are NO distractions with Trump. EVERYTHING is a disaster and needs to be taken seriously.

Every school kid in America now knows the word “pedophile” because of our President.

'Left to rot': Farmer reeling over decaying crops as workforce flees ICE raids Immigration raids are already having a devastating effect on agriculture

'Left to rot': Farmer reeling over decaying crops as workforce flees ICE raids
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I used to make fresh mozzarella at a restaurant, from mozzarella curd in salted water hotter than your hands can stand it. Roll it into balls and chill it in ice water. Divine.

Sir William Petty, wrote “Political Arithmetic” during the 1670s, published in 1690. New? His insistence that empirical data must be the foundation for policy-making. Trump’s firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics goes against three and a half centuries of this practice #Skystorians

Well, I mean, we did get it for $7 million. Even adjusted for inflation, that's a steal. So maybe Trump is just rectifying a historic wrong... Reparations for Russia!

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.

Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

Canada’s Girl Guides Suspend U.S. Trips Amid Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

The US is no longer safe for Girl Scouts.

"The country’s equivalent of the Girl Scouts [said] the decision was rooted in its 'commitment to inclusivity and the safety of all our members.'” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/w...

You don’t win democracy like you win a campaign. You sustain it like you build a forest. The Long-Term Game: Democracy as a Generational Investment

Everywhere I go right now, I hear the same thing: “I’m exhausted.”

People who care about democracy feel like they’re in a permanent crisis loop.

But here’s the truth:

Democracy building isn’t regime change.
It’s a long-term investment in a better world.

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He's going to take your health care, raise your taxes, smash the education of our children and spend $200 million on something no one needs. The White House isn't our house. It's his.

NYT Bashing is a competitive sport among some of our fellow progressives. I don't think even they know why they do it.

Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just admitted that the Big Ugly Bill's "Trump Accounts" are a "backdoor for privatizing Social Security."

This follows Trump and DOGE slashing SSA staffing levels to record lows.

Make no mistake: the Trump regime is waging war on Social Security.

RFK Jr. warned about giving the government your data. Now he wants it. The Health and Human Services secretary's pivot on wearables is a case study in how conspiracy extremists rebrand themselves once in positions of power.

RFK Jr. used to warn about a government takeover of our data. He said wearables and their tech were part of a plot to surveil us, enabled tyranny, caused cancer, and turned users into “permanent consumers” to Big Tech.

Now, he'd like your data, please.
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"America deserves better than this clown show." But does it really? I'm starting to wonder.

US placed on rights watchlist over health of its civil society under Trump International non-profit Civicus says ‘sustained attacks on civic freedoms’ put US on par with El Salvador and Kenya

Who says Trump has no accomplishments?

“The United States appears to be sliding deeper into authoritarianism [alongside] Turkey, Serbia, El Salvador, Indonesia and Kenya."

And it only took six months... Hooray! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A racist president is extorting America institutions to renounce fairness and truth. And many are going along with it. Shameful.

The most disheartening thing about America’s descent into fascism has been the abject cowardice of virtually all the people and institutions that could have stood up and refused to comply.

ACLU Condemns Trump Executive Order Targeting Disabled and Unhoused People | American Civil Liberties Union WASHINGTON – President Trump signed an executive order today directing states to criminalize unhoused people and institutionalize people with mental...

This is how full-on Nazism starts. Arresting nonviolent citizens whose circumstances displease the fascist aesthetic of the Dear Leader and permanently caging them—no cause or process—so the streets are clear for the Leader’s motorcade as he’s driven past.

Who's writing our reality, Kafka or Beckett?

CNN details that Trump's approval rating among independents is "the worst on record at this point" and has cratered since January

SCOTUS's immunity ruling looks even worse now The administration's wild threats against Obama show it did nothing but embolden Trump.

OK, let me get this. Trump who has presidential immunity is threatening Obama who has presidential immunity with treason.

Thanks, hacks at the Supreme Court!

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Donald Trump is systematically putting in positions atop our military men who are fully aware that they will lose their positions if ever Trump is not president because they were previously stripped of their positions or blocked from promotion when he was not president. Now why do you think that is?

Cane sugar? Whatever. Trump wants to impress me, he'd get them to go back to making Coca-Cola with real cocaine.

Now, if we can just get RFK Jr. onboard...

So basically Republicans shut down the House of Representatives for the rest of the summer solely because Trump is all over the Epstein files.

I can think of 2 times when leading U.S. officials fled Washington in a panic:
August 1814:
British forces briefly capture the capital and set fire to government buildings.
July 2025:
Republicans fear they'll have to vote on the Epstein files, so they adjourn early and run for the hills.

You know that scene in an action movie when the bad guy runs through the kitchen of a restaurant and pulls down all the pots and pans behind him to slow down his pursuers? We're in that part of the Trump presidency.