Looking down Vine Street near Sunset in Hollywood. NBC Radio City studio building on the right and The Broadway Hollywood department store on the left, 1940s
There's a word for what the president is doing... it's called Communism. This should concern us all. Read our Steady State Strategic Business Risk Assessment Brief below: open.substack.com/pub/steadyst... #steadystate #holdfast #communism #politics #democracy
We impeached but never convicted him Had four years and mountains of evidence but never held a federal trial Convicted him at the state level on 34 felony counts and then levied no punishment, not even probation Tell me what, in all of this, would lead me to believe he’ll be held to account
“I despise the corrupt GOP so badly and look forward to impeaching and eventually convicting them all. However, I possess no logic and can’t make good decisions, so I shall vote for third party candidates to send a message to Democrats to do better”. Quite a few people, actually. SMH. 😎
The cyclospora outbreak has reached 7,400 cases across 9 states. The FDA just recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,300 measles cases — breaking 2025’s record. “Make America Healthy Again.”
Happy birthday, Dusty Baker! Here's a Bookshop link to buy Crossroads, his new memoir! bookshop.org/p/books/cros...
Crossroads: A Memoir in Baseball and Life
A Memoir in Baseball and Life
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Nuclear powers spent $119 billion on weapons programs in 2025. "[ICAN], which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017, found the US spent more than every other nuclear-armed nation combined, shelling out $69.2 billion... for its sprawling arsenal of atomic weapons..." www.commondreams.org/news/us-nucl...
Led by US, Nuclear-Armed Nations Spent 'Unthinkable' $119 Billion on Their Arsenals Last Year | Common Dreams
"At a time when the cost of living is soaring and millions struggle to afford food and fuel, this is outrageous," said the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
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It always amazes me how the US can start an unprovoked war of aggression on the other side of the planet and then claim it is “launching self-defense strikes” there. Caitlin Johnstone
🔥Hakeem Jeffries torches GOP’s $70 BILLION blank check to Trump’s mass deportation machine: “Taxpayer dollars should make life more affordable—NOT fund brutality against American citizens, law-abiding families, kids & veterans.” No oversight. No guardrails. Pure cruelty. Please watch and share! 👀
Trump just all but admitted he wants his DNI (who wields the enormous powers of the national security state) to help him steal the midterms. Seems like that should be a big deal.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2mo agoTrump just said his new Director of National Intelligence "may find out some things about the rigged elections." What??? How did no one ask what Trump wants his DNI to "find out" about the elections, what he wants his DNI to do to them, and why he thinks that's the DNI's job?
Followed someone I thought I had already been following and then realized I had unfollowed them because all they do is share depressing things... And so I unfollowed them again. 😆 Protect your peace!
Grogu Meditating
ALT: Grogu Meditating
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Can't stop thinking about the Speaker of the House of Representatives saying, intentionally and on camera, that ending the Voting Rights Act is an affirmative win for equality in the United States.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoMike Johnson on the Supreme Court striking down the Voting Rights Act: "They reaffirmed a very important principle: Nobody, no American citizen should be discriminated against based on the color of their skin."
Protestors are entirely peaceful, but the rotunda is literally filled with troopers as Tennessee Republicans pass their racist 9-0 maps stripping majority Black Memphis of representation. @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn
Gorgeous car! Range of ~400 mi! Here? Trump is trying to kill EVs and deny climate change. No wonder we are slow to convert to EVs.
Eddie@whalepsychiatrist.bsky.social · 3mo agoLook at this tasty little number from BYD, the Denza Z, with 1000bhp and 0-60 in under TWO SECONDS, prices start at around $55k, this is why some countries wont sell Chinese cars, they're way cheaper and much better.
There is, objectively, nothing funnier than tattling on Twitter when you don't like something on Bluesky.
He doesn’t take the salary because salaries are for suckers. You have to pay taxes on them. He donates it so he can write it off and continue to pay $0 taxes
The photographer must have waited AGES until the clouds were all identically sized and positioned! (Or, alternatively, Trump had the original image photoshopped because he's a lying fraud.)
You’ve seen this all before, but Steve Schmidt wraps it all up nicely in a bow for us to ponder what the hell we have done to our once great nation. open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...
The corruption is the strategy
Drone deals, sovereign billions, and a presidency during which family profit and national policy collide in plain sight
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The Texas legislature rammed through a gerrymandering bill at the request of Trump. Virginia actually voted in favor of redistricting to counterbalance what Texas and other Republican-controlled states have done. Yet only one is considered a "power grab." Oligarch-owned media in a nutshell.
On this Earth Day, I don't want to compete with anyone. I hope we all make it. 👍 *except that ONE guy. I hope he's gone soon.
