Brian Hayes

@cawriter.bsky.social

Retired English teacher, Cubs and Bears fan, animal lover.

Trump told reporters today that the $13 billion he took from Venezuela is being used to "run the country." He should be challenged to show exactly what money went where. Otherwise, we reserve the right to consider the possibility that the money went into his bank account.

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Fifteen minutes or so into Trump's speech at the WHCD this evening, he'd already mentioned Trump Derangement Syndrome several times, the Epstein Ballroom, and a host of other irrelevancies. Every journalist should walk out. While he's still speaking. Show him what free speech really is.

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We're way past the point at which Trump should've done something about ICE and its terrorist activities. He should be charged as an accessory to murder. He is no less responsible than the men who pulled the triggers.

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Every time you or a candidate you've endorsed loses an election, you can't say that the election was rigged. The more you refuse to accept the results and point your finger at democrats, the less likely people are to believe you. At some point, they'll just tune you out. Where will you be then?

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🚨 Trump is dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative!!!!! The $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ocean research.…it tracks greenhouse gases, ocean temperatures, marine heat waves, and coastal flooding.

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Minnesota House Speaker and Republican gubernatorial candidate Lisa Demuth refuses to rule out a pardon for Derek Chauvin: "There's a lot that goes into any type of pardon decision"

The balance of Nature is sacrosanct; protecting it is in our own best interest. We can either tend to our own needs, forgetting those of all other species, or we can be the caretakers of all of us at once.

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In response to our juvenile wannabe dictator posting an AI image of his pathetic self throwing Stephen Colbert into a dumpster, it's time to heave hefty bags of garbage over the fence in front of the White House.

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The DOJ made a deal with the IRS to settle Trump’s lawsuit for $1.8 billion, a special fund to pay his January 6 insurrection army for future security service in the upcoming November elections and beyond. American citizens are now totally justified in refusing to pay their income taxes.

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There needs to be a website that lists as many of Trump’s public events as possible. Every day. Then, there need to be protesters showing up at every one of those events. And we all need to apply for a chunk of that $1.8 billion slush fund. Legal, active resistance. Every day.

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Today American citizens marched across the Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, 61 years after the first march contributed to the passage of the Voting Rights Act. That the Supreme Court made their protest necessary is a travesty. May there be good trouble until this shameful injustice is rectified.

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After TN Gov. Bill Lee signed its new gerrymandered district map into law, House Speaker Cameron Sexton removed protesting Democratic members from committee assignments, leaving their electorates unrepresented. In less than a week, TN republicans have taken their state back 126 years.

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