Richard D. Crane

Probably a very stern 3:00 a.m. Truth Social tweet.

I just went on Fox News to tell the truth about the redistricting power grab in Texas.

I asked a simple question: “If Republican policies are so popular, why do they need to redraw these maps; why not run on their policies?”

He refused to answer — and cut the interview early.

Trump’s BLS commissioner nominee EJ Antoni calls Social Security a “Ponzi scheme” Frequent right-wing media guest and Project 2025 contributor E.J. Antoni — President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics after he fired its previous commissioner following a bad...

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It’s interesting to read Byung-Chul Han talk about “lack of being” as a grave psycho-social affliction in modernity. If I remember correctly, Levinas posed the exact opposite diagnosis: our “emptiness” in fact comes from a “surplus of being” rather than a lack of it.

Trump Is Undermining Trust in Official Economic Statistics. China Shows Where That Path Can Lead China demonstrates how manipulating economic data can ultimately erode government credibility.

On Friday, President Trump fired one of the nation’s top economists after a disappointing jobs report. The saga has left some Americans questioning whether government statistics can be trusted—and if you want a glimpse of where that leads, just look at China.

Half of all Americans say the cost of groceries is a major source of stress.

A full-time worker in the U.S. needs to earn a wage of $33/hr to afford a two-bedroom apartment.

Millions of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.

What is Trump focusing on today?

Victims’ testimony: how Ghislaine Maxwell lured girls into Epstein’s orbit In a Manhattan courtroom, four of Maxwell’s accusers painted a powerful story of sexual abuse

😡 Sexual Abuse Victims Reveal How Convicted Sex Trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell Lured Girls into Epstein’s Web‼️ 🤮

🤔 If Republicans TRULY stand against PEDOPHILIA, then WHY would they support the idea of TraitorFelon45 possibly "pardoning" of Maxwell❓️

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...

Mike Johnson's operation distraction: let's subpoena everyone except the prosecutor who actually cut a sweetheart deal for Jeffrey Epstein, negotiating the whole thing, start to finish, with Alan (But I Was Wearing My Underwear) Dershowitz.

Gramps got out again

History will see that he manufactured chaos because he had nothing good to offer. No vision. No ideas. Just tearing down what others have built, and blamed others for his shortcomings.
Generations will be taught he was nothing but a pathetic conman, liar, thief, sexual predator, and a failure.

Ghislaine is a RAPIST, too.

Now, the neo-liberal, libertarian, and frankly capitalist, conception of freedom-the cultural and ideological waters of America today-extols a form of freedom that actually controls us. We are free to consume, but must follow the imperative of consumption. From Chapter 8 of Eucontamination: Disgust Theology and the Christian Life

Liberation must go all the way down.
@paulhoard.bsky.social

Republicans:
The Party Of Pedophiles

Before politics, tЯump was nothing more than a bad TV personality known for gaudy interior design, failed casinos, and sleazy business practices?
~RIP Robin Williams

oooookay look I know this isn't the point but did Adam Kinzinger use an AI-created faux-painting *of himself* for this article or did someone actually *create this for him?*

Because either way, I have questions.

Solidarity and love with my Jewish rabbi friends!

Sunday acknowledgement:

"I like your Christ, but not your Christians.
Your Christians are not like your Christ."
-Gandhi

What I cannot fathom is why any court is allowing Alligator Auscwirz to exist.

Inhumane detention facilities violate the 8th Amendment to the Constitution prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment.

Oh this gives the game away. And it’s sick. How truly, unrelenting terrible these people are.

This is insane. Or it was at one time in these United States.

FCC chair talks 'consequences' for 'The View' after Joy Behar's Donald Trump criticism - Entertainment Weekly

And I don't care if you are white, Black, Brown, gay, straight, trans, or the Green Spaghetti Monster. If you are so morally bankrupt that you are willing to take money from AIPAC, and to stay silent during a genocide for political gain, you will not receive a penny from me.

Yesterday, Donald Trump openly used the Justice Department to silence the one woman alive who could bury him forever. This is witness tampering and intimidation in broad daylight.
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The junior Senator from Oklahoma, Markwayne Mullin, says the quiet part out loud, as if there were any doubt.🙄

I've been reading "Christ in the Rubble: Faith, the Bible, and the Genocide in Gaza," Munther Isaac's newest book. I'll probably finish it this weekend. It's a very good book, as one would expect from his work, and also of course it comes with a lot of heaviness and grief in this moment.

Cash bail myths debunked by plummeting city crime data According to President Trump, large American cities are crime-infested hellholes.

1. According to President Trump, large American cities are crime-infested hellholes.

Last month, Trump claimed that cities run by Democrats have “heavy crime” and called Los Angeles a “trash heap...under the control of transnational gangs and criminal networks.”

The data tells a different story