Lizrosej

I heard this once as "In a just world, only a few people are guilty, but everyone is *responsible*" and that has really stuck with me.

Kennedy Center ticket sales have plummeted since Trump takeover Nearly nine months into Trump’s oversight, sales for the three largest performance venues are the worst they’ve been since the pandemic, according to a Washington Post analysis.

EXCLUSIVE: After Trump took over the Kennedy Center in Feb, he vowed to make it "hot" again. So, how's it doing? @jeremybmerrill.com and I used data from the center's ticketing website to find out. Ticket sales are lowest they've been since the pandemic.

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Too Cruel Too Soon How Republicans messed up on Project 2025

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Trump administration uses misleading videos to portray chaos, push deportations Official videos purporting to show the triumph of recent immigration operations used footage that was months old or recorded thousands of miles away, a Washington Post analysis found.

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Trump Has Likened Himself to a King. South Korea Gave Him a Crown. President Trump received a replica of a golden crown excavated from an ancient royal tomb in Gyeongju. He called it “very special.”

President Trump has sometimes likened himself to a king. Now he has been given a crown.

Trump received a replica of an ancient golden crown on Wednesday from President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea. He called it “very special.”

Trump Says He Is Prepared to Send ‘More Than the National Guard’ Into U.S. Cities

Trump Says He Is Prepared to Send ‘More Than the National Guard’ Into U.S. Cities www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

This is going to sound nuts but is Trump’s plan to cut food and other benefits so crime goes up so he has an excuse to send troops in?

Child care tends to get high marks in polls — but it rarely tops voters’ lists of priorities. Even among younger voters, it tends to sits well below health care, housing, and inflation

I wrote about what it might take to change that

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When did making kids go hungry become a Christian value?

A Confederate statue toppled in Washington, D.C., in 2020 has been reinstalled A statue of Confederate general Albert Pike, which had been pulled down during the Black Lives Matter movement, has been put back up in Washington, D.C.'s Judiciary Square.

Neo-Confederacy making moves
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Neo-Confederacy doing comms at DOL.
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Big win for the neo-Confederacy. Redeemers 2.0 roll forward.

'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

“The pandemic made child care more salient — the glaring absence of it became everyone’s problem — but the urgency faded as offices reopened with blunt return-to-work mandates that assumed child care access had simply sorted itself out.”

Callers to Social Security wait for hours to get help. Hear their ordeals. Millions of seniors and disabled people call Social Security’s 1-800 number every month. What they experience is often maddening.

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A president so stupid that one of the great intellectual achievements of his life is “passing” a dementia screening. A president so narcissistic that he can’t stop bragging about passing that dementia screening as evidence of his immense genius.

[looks around for jake tapper] hey man, do you, uh, want to write about this?

Unhinged, untethered, impulsive - the worst show on Earth just keeps careening along.

Um...

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

One food bank in Virginia saw a 65% increase in visitors since last year, more than at the height of the pandemic.

“We thought it would come back down and it hasn’t,” the food bank’s chief philanthropy officer said. “It keeps growing.”

(Published Oct. 3)

I take no pleasure to report that the reciprocal tariffs costume is sold out

How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught

How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/u...

The $ math isn’t mathing, and the square footage isn’t squaring up.

I know I’m not the only one thinking Trump’s not building a ballroom but an alternate White House, lined in plenty of tacky gold to match his ego. He’s not planning on leaving.

You can literally watch Reagan’s words side-by-side with Canada’s ad.

They didn’t misrepresent anything.

Trump is lying. Again. As usual.

'King-like powers': Chris Murphy says Trump prefers the government to remain closed The government is heading into its fourth week of a shutdown.

“...He likes the fact that the government is closed because he thinks he can exercise king like-powers...
He can open up the parts of the government that he wants. He can pay the employees who are loyal to him..
This is part of what happens in totalitarian states.”

Chris Murphy is spot on!

#Pinks

Opinion | My Bosses Were Afraid of Crossing Trump. So, I Quit. A veteran journalist opens up on the censorship that he says led to his resignation.

Courage ! www.politico.com/news/magazin...

In addition to his corrupt initiation of mid-decade gerrymandering in multiple states, Trump continues to gear up to use DOJ, the US military, and local Republican authorities to rig the midterms.

BLS Boomerang Trump thinks no economic data will help him. Not if Dems are smart.

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This took place in the East Wing. We already had a ballroom!

Arizona Sues U.S. House Over Speaker Johnson's Refusal to Swear In Rep. Elect Grijalva Read more here.

Arizona sued House Speaker Mike Johnson (R) for refusing to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva (D), arguing that the delay has deprived hundreds of thousands of Arizonans of representation for purely partisan gain.