I went to USSR in high school with a performing arts organization in 1990. I keep seeing parallels with the Trump admin and the Soviet government. Crony capitalism looks a LOT like communism in many ways. The corruption is part of the system.
@kennethgray.bsky.social
To the extent that the media is treating this as a horse story: Max Miller is not a some random candidate from Ohio. This is a picture of President Trump speaking at the wedding of Max Miller and Emily Moreno.
it took this long for him to speak out in defense of his own battered DAUGHTER, in case you’re wondering about the gop’s ethos on women
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d agoGOP Sen. Bernie Moreno, who has said almost nothing about what occurred between Miller and the senator's daughter, Emily, finally now says, "If there are any basic standards of character required to hold elected office, Max Miller fails them. He should not serve."
“Tariffs were pitched as the fix for America’s trade deficit. Instead… Last 18 Months: –$1.80 trillion deficit in Goods. 18 Months Prior: –$1.74 trillion deficit in Goods. The deficit didn’t shrink. It increased 4%.” - Bilello
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
Here's AI output as I feed in Trump's vote rigging documents from tonight: "I'm looking at details about Chinese access to voter registration data from 18 states [...] Most of this data is publicly available or purchasable through standard voter files in most states."
Trump releases a bunch of stale, discredited documents to prop up old, debunked election lies but he’s still covering up the Epstein files.
Warner: "As an American, I'm embarrassed ... we gotta decide whether we can keep our republic. And if we simply blow this off as another Donald Trump rant, we do that at our own peril"
In all seriousness, Trump and Republicans are setting the stage right now to attack our democracy, steal our elections, and violently crush any dissent. Wake up, America.
For reference, later this evening, any mention of "Radical Leftist" means ANYONE who doesn't bow down to Trump. No. I'm not joking.
Just one important fact to have out there before the President's speech later tonight. The accusations of Chinese interference are that they interfered to get Trump elected. Just need to point that out before the truth twisting that's about to happen. (Of course, if Trump would like to resign ...)
China’s Advancing Efforts to Influence the U.S. Election Raise Alarms (Published 2024)
China has adopted some of the same misinformation tactics that Russia used ahead of the 2016 election, researchers and government officials say.
nytimes.com
These statements from Dem senators on Graham are nauseating. Everything that is wrong with the place
If Mitch McConnell is dead, how will we be able to tell?
Reason #1 why the establishment gerontocracy in the Democratic Party needs to be swept away before we can address the fascism threat from the other side. They failed.
Brooke Pierce@bpie7.bsky.social · 4w agoPeople are right to be mad about the predictable Platner fiasco, but it's worth remembering that last year a ton of establishment Democrats supported disgraced sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo against clean-as-a-whistle Zohran. Tolerating problem men is an issue across the ideological spectrum.
Trump said "eradicate" about half the country. On its birthday. Into a microphone. That word wasn't a slip...it was a sales pitch. And the product is YOU, scared. Fuck this punk. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
We could have had everything in America. We destroyed ourselves due to racism and greed. It's so painful and pitiful.
Thank you Ukraine. 💙 (You more than anyone are showing the world that real freedom is worth fighting for. Study up, America.)
Anton Gerashchenko@antongerashchenko.bsky.social · last mo.Kyiv tonight 🇺🇲🇺🇦
Watching a Capitol Fourth on PBS is like being in a parallel universe where Trump II and the MAGA disaster of Freedom 250 never happened.
A CAPITOL FOURTH 2026 LIVESTREAM
YouTube video by Capital Concerts
youtube.com
I don't think any American--regardless of party, despite fondness for aviation (which I share)--would enjoy being under the nonstop low-altitude, high-speed, incredible-volume of the Caligula overflights of our nation's capital right now. It feels and sounds like being under aerial attack.
James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · last mo.So, per @Froomkin, what we're getting now in DC is sequence of -F-35s -F-18s -More F-35s -F-22s about to arrive. Again, I love airplanes and airshows. But this is wasteful beyond belief. (Another F-35 pack zooms by just now.) Someone can calculate millions-per-flight-hr of each craft
They warned me that if I voted for Kamala Harris we’d get a new deal with the Iranian regime worse than the JCPOA. I voted for Kamala, and they were right.
The White House will lie to you because that's all it ever does, and corporate media will mislead or jump the gun or overstate the case or outright lie to you because it desperately needs content for you to click on and be fooled by. But you owe *no one* your credulity in 2026.
OTD in 1940, Nazi troops entered Paris. A reminder that we must always oppose and stop evil before it grows.
