I DO NOT think people fully understand how much 1 billion is. If your salary was $100k with no tax, it would take you 10 years to become a millionaire, but 10,000 years to reach a billion. It is unethical for one person to be hoarding this much wealth while others cannot eat.
You have much more power than the people in charge of Washington want you to believe.
100 days from today comes the best chance we’ve had in a long time to use it. Let’s get to work.
Trump’s speech on Thursday is part of his playbook going after free and fair elections, casting doubt on democracy.
The only thing Trump believe in: competitive authoritarianism
It’s sick. And simply unAmerican.
🚨This is exactly how ICE agents create the very situations they later use to justify murdering citizens.
In the video, they box in the vehicle of a U.S. citizen. They approach with guns already drawn, and try to open her car door… while repeatedly ordering her to unlock it, and ignoring anything she says.
And notice how they don’t identify themselves. They don’t explain why she’s being detained. They don’t tell her what crime they suspect her of committing.
To the person inside the car, it’s just a group of masked, armed men surrounding her vehicle and trying to force their way in.
That’s how panic starts.
And when people panic, move their car, or try to get away from what they reasonably perceive as a violent threat, ICE agents open fire, and later claim the vehicle was “used as a weapon.”
Law enforcement cannot detain people without legal justification. The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures, and officers are expected to clearly communicate their authority, and the basis for their actions.
They are supposed to de-escalate situations.
Instead, they use tactics to create fear and confusion… making it more likely someone will panic, and easier for agents to claim deadly force was necessary, while they violate the person’s constitutional rights.
When these tactics become standard practice, accountability becomes nonexistent.
Hunter Biden on Trump: “I would tell him to go fuck his fucking self. And please leave. This man has tried to torture me for fucking ten years. The shit that he says about my dad. His obsession with tormenting my dad. Hanging a picture of an autopen on the colonnade. Demeaning him and all the things he said about him. What the fuck kind of man would I be if I didn’t tell him to go fuck himself?”
At a time when millions struggle to pay the bills, virtually every Senate Republican voted for a staggering $1.15 trillion Pentagon bill, which includes funding for the illegal and immoral war in Iran and a special provision to provide even more weapons to Israel with almost zero oversight.
It's time to invest in the American people, not endless war.
Joan Sebastian Guerrero should still be alive.
This is the second time in a week that ICE agents have killed someone who — by their own admission — was not the subject of their operation.
Now Sebastian is dead, his killing witnessed by his three-year-old daughter wearing her Bluey pajamas.
This cannot be acceptable in America.
There must be an immediate, independent, and transparent investigation. Anyone responsible for wrongdoing must be held accountable.
Trump promised to cap credit card interest rates at 10%.
He lied.
Last quarter, while working people struggle to pay their bills, big banks made a $49 billion profit charging 25-30% credit card interest rates.
We must take on the outrageous greed and usury of Wall Street.
While you were figuring out how to pay rent, your president made $2.2 billion.
While your groceries got more expensive, he was collecting $636M off a memecoin his own supporters lost money on.
Who exactly is he working for? Not us.
Todd Blanche has been the lead obstructionist in the Epstein cover-up.
He isn't here to serve the people — he's here to serve Trump.
The American people and the survivors deserve better.
A lot of us know people - good people - who may have believed the promises they were told about "draining the swamp" or "no new wars."
Now is the time to reach out to them. Not to say, "I told you so," but to say, "He doesn't deserve you."
And to ask them to team up and help change America for the better. Together.
Update from the reflecting pool! The pool has been drained, and there are no signs of the giant gash that Donald Trump has been lying about. No indications of major vandalism. Just a bad paint job. The only thing that’s been exposed is that Trump has been lying about this.
The world just got its first trillionaire.
At the same time, millions of people are struggling to get by and a generation is falling behind their parents.
If that’s not a five-alarm fire, I don’t know what is.
Here’s your periodic reminder: The worst is yet to come from Trump’s Big Ugly Bill.
And that’s by design. Republicans wanted some of the worst impacts to take effect AFTER the midterms. We won’t be fooled.