Gwendolyn Alley aka Art/Wine Predator

Project 2025 agenda is about halfway to completion in Trump’s first six months

Trump is nearly halfway through Project 2025 agenda in just the first six months of his presidency

I see why he bankrupted casinos.

Trump got 56% of the vote in Texas, less than Romney, GW Bush, Reagan & Nixon, but his mid-decade gerrymandering plan would give Republicans nearly 80% of Texas's seats

The National Park Service is in disarray The Trump administration is cutting thousands of staff at America’s favourite agency

Despite high public support for the National Park Service, further budget cuts and layoffs are planned. It could undermine conservation and scientific research efforts

This is complete fantasy. Just an absurd made up lie. The EU is not giving Trump “$600 billion to invest anyway I want.” They aren’t giving him 1 dollar to invest. It is just astonishing that a president can go on a financial network and lie like this & it barely registers. bsky.app/profile/atru...

We are already an authoritarian country. We’re not working to prevent it; we’re now working…to get out of it.

i have been thinking a lot about how the entire concept of “the deal” is antithetical to transparency, fair play and rule of law, as larry notes. the deal is necessarily nonstandard, ad hoc and dependent on the whims of the dealmaker

Texas is changing. POC are driving the state’s explosive growth—so Republicans are rigging the maps to lock in power and erase voices. It’s cheating.

Texas deserves maps that reflect the people, not protect the party. Redistricting should serve voters, not those clinging to power.
#MessWithTexas

ELIZABETH WARREN: What Zohran is saying is 'I want people to be able to afford to live in NYC'

FABER: But raising taxes in order to do it?

WARREN: Oh my goodness! Oh dear! Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?

The Media’s Urge to Be “Fair” to Trump Is Killing the Republic Seventy percent of Republicans understand that Trump’s tariffs will raise prices. Why is the press acting like they’re a huge success?

The Media’s Urge to Be “Fair” to Trump Is Killing the Republic.

Seventy percent of Republicans understand that Trump’s tariffs will raise prices. Why is the press acting like they’re a huge success?

newrepublic.com/article/1987...

Finally, a united nation.

Dear United States, I wish you would have handled and would handle the whole “Epstein Files” with more respect towards and for the victims. I am not some pawn in your political warfare. What you have done and continue to do is eating at me day after day as you help to perpetuate this story indefinitely. Why not be completely transparent? Show us all the files with only the necessary redactions! Be done with it and allow me/us to heal. You protect yourself and your powerful and wealthy “friends” (not enemies) over the victims, why? The victims know the truth, we know who are in the files and now so do you. Do you really think the public is that ignorant of the truth? Further redacting the names, like yours, will only cause the distraction you say you don’t want, and the conspiracies that you in fact are stirring. So I will continue to stay silent and continue to hide from all the pain and suffering, out of fear of you and your wealthy powerful “friends”. In the end we are the biggest voices of the truth and the truth always comes out in time.

Another victim accuses "the United States" of protecting " yourself and your powerful and wealthy “friends” (not enemies) over the victims, why?"

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

New York has entered the chat 💬

NEW: Minnesota just ranked the third best state to have a baby. That’s no coincidence.

We’re expanding paid leave and child care, delivering a nation-leading child tax credit, and investing in public schools. We’re putting families first and it’s making a difference.

Why didn't Todd Blanche talk to the victims to get the names of the perpetrators?

I’m glad that the woman at the center of this story was able to make the choice she felt was right for her and her family. But what’s happening here is horrifying: conservatives are valorizing these stories strategically—they want to make the skyrocketing maternal mortality rate *positive*

ICE is offering up to $50,000 in signing bonuses to recruit 10,000 new agents in 2025. The new campaign includes student loan forgiveness and enhanced retirement benefits. If successful, ICE would become the largest federal law enforcement agency in the nation. The effort is backed by the One Big Beautiful Bill and promoted by DHS and Secretary Kristi Noem. Recruitment is targeting cities, college campuses, and law enforcement communities nationwide.

Guess who is eligible for #StudentLoanForgiveness? First responders? Healthcare workers? Teachers?

No.

#ICE agents.

Your tax dollars at work.

tfppwire.com/ice-announce...

Jeans AND genes both rhyme with EPSTEIN.

A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.

More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban.

Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care.

“This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”

My baby boy's first wonky media mention.
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

From a report today on @npr.org: People held at Alligator Auschwitz have no legal path out. ICE says they're held on state charges, so Federal immigration judges can't hear cases for bond or anything else. The state hasn't charged them, so state judges can't hear the case because there's no case. 1/

New non-profit law firm in DC aims to challenge Trump’s executive power | CNN Politics A group of well-known Washington lawyers is opening a law firm focused on challenging President Donald Trump’s executive orders and agency actions as he strives to dramatically reshape the federal gov...

A group of well-known Washington lawyers is opening a law firm focused on challenging President Donald Trump’s executive orders and agency actions as he strives to dramatically reshape the federal government during his second term.

For those who do't understand how we're in the situation we're in: our elections have been manipulated so that districts are so severely gerrymandered that they fail to allow the voters to speak. Read @hcrichardson.bsky.social to understand how and why it happened— and what's being done.

Trump spent every day for 4 years saying that Biden was about to start World War 3 and if he got elected he would end the war in Ukraine and we would have peace with Russia because he has a great relationship with Putin. Here is today’s update on all that.

Is the White House not a listed historical building? Is that a stupid question?? I’m just baffled that no one has to approve plans to modify it, as is true with almost any other government or historical property

McGowan: He seems to be getting rid of statisticians and climate people and weather experts and scientists and anyone who doesn't agree with what he wants to tell or what he wants to say.

Sure seems like the President of the United States is going to pardon a convicted sex trafficker and serial abuser who ran a pedophilia ring with his best friend in the whole wide world.