The Week Ahead August 10, 2025

2/Hegseth reposted a CNN report featuring a religious leader, Doug Wilson sharing his backward views, which Hegseth clearly supports. “Women are the kind of people people come out of,” Wilson says, “it doesn’t take any talent.” More in my newsletter joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

Oh good, at least someone isn’t ignoring that this happened — as the Sunday shows and press corps say nothing.

Felt like we were losing our minds.

American corporations are on pace to spend $1.1 trillion on stock buybacks in 2025, an all-time high.

Buybacks don't create more jobs, increase wages, or grow the economy — but they do help juice CEO pay that's often tied to stock performance.

Nothing trickles down to workers.

Morning Hope

Doesn’t deploy federal troops to stop a Capitol invasion or save children from a Texas flood or clean up debris from a StL tornado.

Deployed federal troops to disperse people in sleeping bags.

Got it.

therealchazonator (IG) is serving a #CupOfJoe with a latte truth directed at MAGA America.
Drink it in. Share it with others.

YouTube video by L O L G O P What Rosie said about kids dying in the Texas floods that Trump doesn't want you to hear

Relatedly, Rosie O'Donnell continues to drive right wingers nuts (and get very little attention here).

Where?

TikTok.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7an...

Remember Black History Everyday!

📌 Mr. Howell needs to be made famous. Maybe he was not listening, but we are.
🚨 NO! Being forced to march in 110 degrees for 2 hours in Eloy, AZ, by prison guards is NOT okay.

Note to Kristi Noem:

It is far better to be mocked in a cartoon for how you look than to be shoved into the back of a U-Haul and kidnapped for how you look.

Trump’s new Executive Order directs states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes - National Homelessness Law Center National Homelessness Law Center condemns Trump’s misguided Executive Order on homelessness Order directs states to treat homelessness and mental illness as a crime, will make homelessness worse ...

We need homes and help, not handcuffs and locked wards. Housing is a human right, not a privilege for the few

trumps executive order targets homelessness by pushing cities to criminalize and forcibly remove people who need housing
homelesslaw.org/statement724...

Did you see Trump filed lawsuits against every major news outlet for publishing articles stating Trump is in the Epstein files?

No? I haven’t either. Trump hasn’t sued because he IS in the Epstein files.

Mike Johnson hit with new accusation showing ‘clear-cut violation’ of federal law House Speaker Mike Johnson has been accused of using campaign money to pay his rent in what the government watchdog group Campaign Legal Center described as a “clear-cut violation of federal campaign ...

Seems Mike Johnson has been using campaign funds to pay his rent in DC, which is a major legal no no.

www.rawstory.com/mike-johnson...

Astronaut Jim Lovell, famed Apollo 13 commander, dies at 97 Lovell was also the first astronaut to go to space four times and part of the Apollo 8 crew, the first to launch on the Saturn V rocket and first to orbit the moon.

He didn't get to the moon but he got his crew home, and that was the more remarkable task.

www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna223...

This is perfect.

South Park updated its profile picture to a distorted pic of Kristi Noem’s face! 🤭

LMAO ~ I bet this really pisses off the ICE Barbie puppy killer! 🤭😏😆

They’re really out here about to debunk the “immigrants steal our jobs” trope for us. Meanwhile, prices will skyrocket, businesses will close, and people will die.

Fact check:

mRNA vaccines for respiratory viruses are meant to prevent severe illness (bad Pneumonia).

This means beefing up our immunity in the *lower* respiratory tract, eg the lungs.

Kennedy talks about the *upper* respiratory tract and vaccine efficacy in nonsensical gibberish.

Dean Cain, Who Played Superman, Says He Is Joining ICE

Former Superman turns into an ICE supervillain

How they covered it at the NY Times vs how we covered it at @dailykos.com.

Please share and RT www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

South Park has ICE raiding a Dora the Explorer show, takes Dora to be sex trafficked at Mar-a-Lago (where Trump and JD Vance await her) and even has Kristi Noem shooting and killing a puppy

If you think this is bad, just consider what members of the Trump administration have done in real life

PRISON GERRYMANDERING:

the practice of counting imprisoned people as residents of the prison location—not their home—for political districting, boosting representation and voting power in those areas despite prisoners’ inability to vote.

JD Vance went kayaking for his birthday. Secret Service had the river level raised Vice President JD Vance’s security detail had an Ohio river’s water level raised last weekend to accommodate a kayaking trip he and his family took for his 41st birthday.

Richard Painter said: “It’s outrageous for the Army corps of engineers to spend taxpayer money to increase water flow in a river so @VP can go canoeing when budget cuts to the National Park Service have severely impacted family vacations for everyone else.” #Pinks

apnews.com/article/vp-v...

A little math about that prison camp in Florida. $450 million per year for 3,000 people is $150,000/person per year. The cost for one person receiving SNAP for one year is $2256, yet they're telling us that's too expensive. threads.com/@unapologeticallyzae

📌 Nobody is accusing this group of “people” as being professional, decent, humane, or honorable. They are the dregs.

YouTube video by Lone Star Left Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death

"Give me liberty or give me death and you all can take that to the bank . . . Do not force the American people into an armed revolution. Because I fear, if you continue on the same path, this is where we are headed."

Today's hero is a woman from Pflugerville, Texas. Courtesy of @lonestarleft.com.

For a cover-up to be successful, the idea is to drop breadcrumbs leading *away* from the meaningful evidence, facts or witnesses; to bury everything otherwise and in the meantime, flood the zone.

Its not working for the Trump administration on the Epstein scandal and it may never.

As usual @kendallyb.bsky.social syas it how it is. Maga wants to blame the Dems but it's thier worship for the orange idiot that is causing issues absolutely not the Dems. She says it clearly. Donald Trump does not care about u. He only cares of himself and his billionaire friends!

“If you’re in need of a gig that’ll help you feel big…”

That discourse about the plight of young, disaffected men who don’t know where they fit anymore?

ICE offers a “solution”—with a $50k signing bonus, college loan forgiveness, and a chance to feel part of something.

Gods help us all.