David Rothschild

Trump Family has stolen over $10 billion in just 8 short months.

Turns out Republicans are pro-right-wing-extremist speech, not pro-free speech.

Also, shout out to all of the Media & Political Elite who told US for the last few decades that the Republicans were the party of Free Speech, because they demanded we all listen to right-wing extremists as a pretext for squashing any speech that counters right-wing extremism.

Trump "We took the freedom of speech away"
(1) Illegal & unconstitutional
(2) Dystopian & dangerous

If Trump has control over raising & lowering taxes, spending, war & peace, laws & enforcement: he could just end the shutdown whenever he wants because he would be an authoritarian.

This is what active collaboration looks like.

Imagine being 10 years into this, and a full grown adult whose job it is to write about politics, and write down for the entire world to see that you think Trump is serious this time about having a healthcare plan.

What if the next time Republicans close the federal government, we don't care, because we already have redundant services provided for by the collective of Democratic states?

We should be having open discussions about what happens if Trump & Republicans keep federal government closed for prolong period of time, can we provide our own healthcare, air traffic controllers, etc. Democratic states should pool resources and get going on keeping our people safe & provided for.

Corporate Media is mainly consumed by mainstream Democrats yet completely focused on appealing to right-wing Republicans who will never trust or consume their product no matter how much right-wing disinformation they spread & how much they attack mainstream Democrats. It is an insane business model.

I love NPR's non-news programming, but their news division false-equivalency-driven amplification of Republican disinformation is *dangerous to US*

Crazy how NYT can fly reporters all over Midwest to interview every upper-middleclass white dude in a diner, but cannot figure out how to get one reporter to Chicago to report that it is *completely peaceful*

Any Corporate Media not pointing out that Trump is *lying* about situation in Portland & Chicago (which is all of them) is collaborating with Trump in spreading lies.

Situation in Portland & Chicago is so bad that every image of them from Republicans & Corporate Media, used to prove need for Confederate occupation, is either faked or from different place/time (e.g. CNN's images from 1992 riots in LA).

It is so peaceful in Portland that Corporate Media (CNN) posting pictures of 1992 LA riots while pushing their pro-Trump disinformation about need for Confederate soldiers in Democratic cities.

My new op-ed with @lkfazio.bsky.social:

Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain.
Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Make State's Rights Great Again.

Statue of William Tecumseh Sherman in Central Park.

Fun fact about the gold statue of General William Tecumseh Sherman in Central Park: it is vigilantly looking South.

We need organizations that formally bind Democratic states to help coordinate our collective welfare from threats & neglect by federal government: healthcare, disasters, infrastructure, public safety.

I refuse to learn the name of the Speaker of the House, because he is such a generic absurdity of a sycophantic middling Republican white dude.

Taking step back: so weird that I am simultaneously keeping eye on Phillies game (hoping for a comeback), while frantically preparing talk for tomorrow, while regularly checking BlueSky to make sure government has not started invasion of Chicago/Portland. Mix of normality & terror is mind-bending.

*Trump-Epstein Files

Trump: Chicago & Portland have been burnt to the ground, all residents are dead

Mayors/Governors of CHI/IL & PTL/OR: Nope, actually very peaceful here

Corporate Media: there is no way to know the truth, so we are just going to amplify what Trump told US

The People: send a reporter for G-d's sake

Dozens of heavily armed officers need military to protect them from unarmed dude in a frog costume.

Trump: "Confederate military will be greeted as liberators in Union cities."

Looking forward to segregationist leader John Roberts explaining to US why state's rights was paramount for Republican-states to voter suppress & deny healthcare of their own people but not an issue when Republican-states want to commit crimes & instigate violence against people in Democratic-states

State's Rights was a lie that Elites of all stripes told US for 160 years to make them feel better about fact Confederates left US so they could hold Black PEOPLE as slaves and that they continue to desire to oppress minorities.

Confederate military will most definitely not be greeted as liberators in Union cities.

Weird how Elites have settled on anti-Democratic (functionally equivalent to pro-Republican, just more implicitly than explicit) as non-partisan position.

Anyway, one of these invaders will be stupid enough to try to raise the Confederate battle flag over US.