No one gives someone a $400 million dollar jet for free without expecting anything in return. Be serious.
🔥OMG!
Trump admin turns to far right outlet to distribute news through Voice of America.
Kari Lake who oversees VOA’s parent company, the U.S. Agency for Global Media, announced the partnership with ⚡️OANN⚡️ as an “enormous benefit to the American taxpayer.”
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www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
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Looks familiar
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Bombshell after bombshell in this story about Trump's World Liberty crypto firm which has "erased centuries-old presidential norms, eviscerating the boundary between private enterprise and government policy in a manner without precedent in modern American history."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/u...
Secret Deals, Foreign Investments, Presidential Policy Changes: The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm
World Liberty Financial has eviscerated the boundary between private enterprise and government policy in ways without precedent in modern American history.
WIth everything else you kind of forget that the president of the united states is a crypto scammer
Mitch McConnell is retiring after 40 years of working hard to make Kentucky one of the poorest, most under-educated, and unhealthy states in the US.
Oh fuck oh shit all the things experts predicted would happen when the dumb orange guy’s policies were enacted are happening!
Wow!
www.cnbc.com/2025/05/01/w...
Weekly jobless claims surge to 241,000, more than expected, in latest sign of economic trouble
Initial unemployment claims posted an unexpected increase last week in a potential trouble sign for the wobbling U.S. economy.
Yes. Why is this allowed to continue? This criminal administration is alienating our allies, destroying our international standing, and isolating us in this world.
Where are our lawmakers? They have the authority and the ability to stop it NOW.
Why are they impotent?
#USDemocracy #Voices4VictoryWily Economy Coyote
People are NOT understanding what empty cargo ships from China means.
It means no work for dock workers. No work for truck drivers, no work for retailers, fewer dollars circulating. The cascade effect is just mind boggling.
This year, the Met Gala opened with the singing of ghe Ukrainian National Anthem
www.instagram.com/reel/DHu5hbp...People are NOT understanding what empty cargo ships from China means.
It means no work for dock workers. No work for truck drivers, no work for retailers, fewer dollars circulating. The cascade effect is just mind boggling.
Oligarchy (noun):
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
Zelenskyy asking Trump, "Why can't you wear a black suit? Do you own a black suit?"
Fox News repeats lies until they stick—so let’s do the same with the truth. Share real numbers, like Trump’s low approval ratings and rising costs, from trusted sources
The more we repeat facts, the harder it is for gaslighting to work
Truth, repeated, can break the cycle
#MomSkyReuters poll: Trump approval
37% approve
57% disapprove
U.S. adults
"Law students organize to give Trump-caving firms a recruitment problem"
Georgetown Law students made a spreadsheet. National coverage followed. Now, the world's richest firms face PR & recruitment headaches.
An organizer on how it unfolded
@www.AllRiseNews.com www.allrisenews.com/p/skadden-st...👇🏻👇🏻
The cover of this week’s Economist.
Time for today’s edition of Least Surprising News of the Day.
The EU is hosting over 4.3 million Ukrainian refugees, with Germany having the largest share. Poland, Norway and other countries are adjusting their asylum policies. Here's how they compare.
#EuropeInMotion
Ukrainian refugees: How are benefits changing across Europe?
The EU is hosting over 4.3 million Ukrainian refugees, with Germany having the largest share. Poland, Norway and other countries are adjusting their asylum policies. Here's how they compare.
Memories
Breaking News: Three federal prosecutors who worked on the criminal corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams said that they would resign rather than admit wrongdoing in refusing to abandon the case, according to an email obtained by The New York Times.
3 More Prosecutors Resign Over Adams Case, Refusing to Admit Wrongdoing
They had been placed on administrative leave after refusing to abandon the corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams. “We will not confess wrongdoing when there was none,” they wrote.
‘Like a horror movie’: ICE is detaining German tourist indefinitely
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... 26 yo German Jessica Brösche—a tourist who had a visa waiver & a return ticket to 🇩🇪 in her passport—has been in a detention center for a month+ after being denied entry from 🇲🇽
Adios 🇺🇸 tourism!
‘Like a horror movie’: Ice detaining German tourist in California indefinitely
Jessica Brösche has spent more than a month in detention center after being denied entry at San Diego from Mexico
NEW: Read the resignation letter of three federal prosecutors who'd worked on the Eric Adams case: "Now, the Department has decided that obedience supersedes all else, requiring us to abdicate our legal and ethical obligations in favor of directions from Washington."
static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...I've not known a single mentor in US medicine who would've encouraged me to go against editors' intentions by making public this leaked letter from Trump's fascist DOJ threatening journals. Normalize refusing compliance, going public about fascist tactics, and trying to organize against them.
The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.
Musk says his work getting the DOGE team in place is "mostly done." Starting in May, he says his time allocation to DOGE will "drop significantly."
Russia will be capable of attacking NATO territory in 2029, –Inspector General of the German Bundeswehr Breuer
"We see that Russia is now significantly increasing its armament,including about 1,500 battle tanks per yr.These are either tanks that are taken from warehouses&repaired,or new production
This could be among the very most evil things the Trump Administration has done. And Bobby Jr is aiding and abetting it.
The world was so close to wiping out polio. But in 2025, there are signs that the virus is spreading in a couple of countries. And the cuts in USAID contracts that support polio vaccination raise concern that other countries will see a resurgence as well.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Could polio be poised for a comeback?
Cases have been rising in Afghanistan and Pakistan — and global health specialists are worried that this year's U.S. foreign aid cuts could usher in a wider resurgence.
Far right activist Gavin Wax is set to take a top job at the FCC. And, as
@smencimer.bsky.social reports. he is trying strike a different tone than he did in 2023 when he said that if Trump returned to power: "It will be a time for retribution."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...Wax will join a number of Trump administration aides and allies who have previously worked for/been paid by convicted fraudster and alleged CCP agent Miles Guo. Others includes Peter Navarro, Karoline Leavitt and Steve Bannon.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
MAGA mogul Guo Wengui found guilty in massive fraud case
Prosecutors named Steve Bannon as an unindicted co-conspirator.
Trump’s attack on higher education “was a call to action which has been answered by Harvard and .. 100 other schools .. It has also taught an important lesson: giving in to Trump’s attacks is not a sustainable strategy for any organization.”
@jeffsonnenfeld.bsky.social
time.com/7278903/harv...Today marks the 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord, which began the American Revolution. Our nation was founded on resistance to arbitrary authority and monarchical power. We built a democracy in the face of impossible odds. We must continue to protect it.
The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.
Journalists quite often get emails written in exactly this style, often sent to scores of recipients on multiple publications, and the sadly reliable assumption is that the irate sender is miserable, paranoid and probably unwell.
Cartoonist: Bill Day
When you hear two opposing understandings of the same SCOTUS opinion the only option is to read the damned thing. Fortunately it's fewer than four pages long.
Linking and summarizing in direct quotes here, because it is essential to understand what is happening.
t.co/5ZodLDtnqthttps://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a949_lkhn.pdf
〝They pinpoint societal fractures […] and apply pressure where it will have the greatest destabilising effect. Once a weak point is identified, they introduce polarising narratives and fuel discord, ensuring that tensions escalate from internal dissatisfaction to systemic crisis.〞
“The Party told you to reject the
evidence of your eyes and ears.
It was their final, most essential
command.”
- George Orwell “1984”
#ProudBlue #MomSky
The immigration nightmares are getting worse by the day.
This is a story about an Australian man who had a valid Visa & has been living here in the US for 5 years.
He was returning from a memorial service for his sister & was arrested & deported.
Australian with working visa detained and deported on returning to US from sister’s memorial
Man who says he had previously left and re-entered the country multiple times alleges border officials called him ‘retarded’ and boasted ‘Trump is back in town’
“.. judging only from price action, we are suddenly witnessing a comprehensive turn away from US assets (stocks, USTs, corporate credit and the dollar). this is the single most important theme to monitor over coming weeks. .. for the moment capital is flowing out of the US.”
- GS Desk/Pasquariello
Would men need to provide a marriage certificate to vote? No? Just women? Got it.
In case you missed it. Six Pussy Riot members came to NYC with an important message for us
AOC: “36,000 people. Biggest rally Bernie or I have ever done. Thank you, LA!”
Sen. Susan Collins did not show up for her town hall but her constituents held her accountable anyways
I just want to tip my hat to the crack team of White House economists who were able to discover--in just a few short days--that the U.S. is dependent on China for smartphones, computers and semiconductors.
