May 31, 2025
May 30, 2025
May 27, 2025
Sleaze - Apt Description of trumpty
It’s Not ‘Grift’; It’s Out-and-Out Sleaze
“The scale and the scope of the presidential mercantilism has been breathtaking,” reports Peter Baker.
“The Trump family and its business partners have collected $320 million in fees from a new cryptocurrency, brokered overseas real estate deals worth billions of dollars and are opening an exclusive club in Washington called the Executive Branch charging $500,000 apiece to join, all in the past few months alone.”
As for the plane (that Trump will take with him when he leaves office): “Experts have valued the plane, formally donated to the Air Force, at $200 million, more than all of the foreign gifts bestowed on all previous American presidents combined.”
Trump is conducting all of this deal-making at a time when he is also suppressing or entirely shutting down the prosecution of foreign corruption, fraudulent crypto schemes, and all manner of white collar crime.
May 26, 2025
humpty trumpty Starving Children
66,000 tons of food are rotting away in USAID warehouses thanks to Trump and DOGE.
That's enough food to feed more than a million people in the world's poorest countries for three months — including over 480,000 kids.
In what world is starving children "efficient"?
May 23, 2025
trump Regime FLUNKS Moral Test of Government
“It was once said that the moral test of government
is how that government treats those
who are in the dawn of life, the children;
those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly;
and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy, and the handicapped.”
Hubert H. Humphrey, United States politician (1911-1978)
trump Regime - F-
Remember trump's First Evil Action...Since Inauguration?
Yes, the destruction of USAID. Ever wonder what happened with that?
Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts
132,276 Deaths
OR
103 Per Hour
'Unitary executive' theory may reach Supreme Court as Trump wields sweeping power
The Wannabe King
WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Donald Trump's broad assertions of power appear to be advancing an aggressive version of a legal doctrine called the "unitary executive" theory that envisions vast executive authority for a president, setting up potential U.S. Supreme Court showdowns.
Systems are crumbling - but daily life continues. The dissonance is real
A Must Read
for anyone who feels...
For many in the US, Trump 2.0 is having a devastating effect on daily life. For others, the routines of life continue, albeit threaded with mind-altering horrors...
Hypernormalization captures this juxtaposition of the dysfunctional and mundane.
Understanding hypernormalization “made me feel less isolated”, she says. “It’s difficult to act when you’re uncertain if you’re perceiving reality clearly, but once you know the truth, you can channel that clarity into meaningful action and, ideally, drive positive change.”
Confronting systemic collapse can be so disorienting, overwhelming and even humiliating, that many tune it out or find themselves in a state of freeze.
Experts say action can break the spell. “Being active politically, in whatever way, I think helps reduce apocalyptic gloom,” says Betsy Hartmann, an activist, scholar and author of The America Syndrome, which explores the importance of resisting apocalyptic thinking.
Read it - it helps give perspective to what is happening.
Then, join in community to make positive change for our country and our loved ones.
May 22, 2025
The House Budget Passed in the Wee Hours
Promises
If any of this infuriates you,
join us June 14 on
No Kings Day
May 21, 2025
Big, Ugly, Destructive, Deadly Bill
$535 BILLION in Medicare Cuts
$880 BILLION in Medicaid Cuts
$660 BILLION in Tax Breaks for Rich
All while INCREASING the federal deficit by $3.8 TRILLION
May 20, 2025
The Morally Repugnant, Fiscally Insane, Anti-Growth Budget Bill
The Budget
The New York Times reported that the highly respected Penn Wharton Budget Model “found that many Americans who make less than $51,000 a year would see their after-tax income fall as a result of the Republican proposal beginning in 2026.”
People making between about $51,000 and $17,000 could lose about $700 on average in after-tax income beginning in 2026, according to the analysis, when factoring in both wages and federal aid.
That reduction would worsen over the next eight years.
People reporting less than $17,000 in income would see a reduction closer to $1,000, on average, also increasing over time, a shortfall that underscores their reliance on federal benefits.
By contrast, the top 0.1 percent, including those with incomes over $4.3 million, would gain on average more than $389,000 in after-tax income in 2026, the data show.
Refusing to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies--which make health insurance plans more affordable for middle class families. If Congress fails to act to renew the Affordable Care Act enhanced premium tax credits this year, the Congressional Budget Office says over 5 million Americans could lose their health care.
Impact of Medicaid cuts
USA Today reports:
- Families of four making as little as $35,365 would see new costs for going to the doctor,
- some unemployed people would become ineligible for Medicaid,
- some seniors would lose access to long-term care coverage, and
- states would lose a portion of federal dollars that help them cover those just above the poverty line.
- The bill would also bar Medicaid from funding services at clinics that also perform abortions, such as Planned Parenthood.
Overall Damage Impact
The Wall Street Journal sums up the damage:
The current proposal would increase projected budget deficits by nearly $3 trillion through 2034, locking in tax cuts and spending increases that outweigh reductions in spending on Medicaid and nutrition assistance.
While Republicans, who have vowed to reduce red ink, say higher economic growth will fill the gap, budget analysts across the political spectrum have panned the Republican plan, warning that it worsens the U.S. fiscal picture.
We Can Do Better
I awoke this morning hearing these words,
They highlight a thought that has been forming in my mind.
We need to continue resisting ALL that we DON'T want.
'We Can Do Better'.
They highlight a thought that has been forming in my mind.
We need to continue resisting ALL that we DON'T want.
AND
We need to start visualizing...
What we do want for this country and its people.
What is the future we dream of?
What is life like for our children and grandchildren?
Who are we as individuals?
Who are we as a community?
May 19, 2025
Fascism is HERE - Stand Against It
They are DOING THIS!!!Watch, KNOW This is Reality
We’re Experts in Fascism. We’re Leaving the U.S. | NYT Opinion
-----------------------Now, STAND WITH US TO STOP THEM!!!No KINGS Day, June 14----------------Let's repeat May18, only BIGGER
May 18: Anti Trump Protests Across All 50 States | National Day Of Action | 50501 Movement | US News-----------------We can stop this - watch and learn
How to Fight Fascism in America —
with Timothy Snyder | Prof G Conversations
The Big, Bad Billionaire Bill
So with the current Big, Beautiful Bill, we are looking at a massive transfer of wealth from ordinary Americans to those at the top of American society. The Democratic Women’s Caucus has dubbed the measure the “Big Bad Billionaire Bill.”
And Did You Know...
Lest there be any confusion about who will benefit from this Big, Beautiful Bill, one of the many pieces tucked into it is a prohibition on any state laws to regulate artificial intelligence for the next ten years.
Despite its gargantuan energy demands, harm to the environment, and threats to privacy, the administration is pushing AI hard
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How to Take Medicaid from Millions of Americans, in Less Than 72 Hours
When they released an actual bill last Sunday evening, they announced at the same time that the Energy and Commerce Committee would take it up on Tuesday—not even two days later, and so quickly that the Congressional Budget Office wouldn’t have time to produce a full, detailed cost estimate. Then came the hearings themselves: an uninterrupted, 26-hour run through deliberations (the “markup” of the legislation) that ended with a party-line vote to approve the bill and send it to the Budget Committee, where it now sits.
In all, lawmakers had less than 72 hours to digest, debate, and vote on deep Medicaid cuts that—according to CBO’s preliminary, partial estimate—will cause more than 7 million Americans to lose health insurance and millions more to face higher medical costs.1
If saving money is the goal, Republicans could switch their focus over to the Medicare Advantage program, in which even conservatives see hundreds of billions of dollars of what is essentially corporate welfare just waiting to be trimmed.
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Analyzing the 'Big Beautiful Bill' that would impact Medicaid, taxes
The Long Con - & We are the Suckers
We have to pay the Superwealthy for Our National Debt
But increasingly — since the Reagan, George W. Bush, and Trump 1 tax cuts — tax rates on the super-rich have plummeted.
So instead of financing the government with their taxes, the super-rich have been financing the U.S. government by lending it money. (You may have heard that America’s debt is held mainly by foreigners.
Wrong.
Over 70 percent of it is held by Americans — and most of them are wealthy.) So, an ever-increasing portion of the taxes from the rest of us are dedicated to paying ever-increasing interest payments on the debt — going largely to the super-rich.
So, an ever-increasing portion of the taxes from the rest of us are dedicated to paying ever-increasing interest payments on the debt — going largely to the super-rich.
This means that when the debt of the United States is downgraded because Trump Republicans are planning another big tax cut mainly benefiting the rich and big corporations, most Americans could end up paying in three different ways:
(1) They’ll pay even more interest on the growing debt — to the super-rich.
(2) They’ll pay higher interest rates on all other long-term debt (as higher rates on Treasury bonds waft through the economy, they raise borrowing costs on everything from mortgages to auto loans).
(3) The debt crisis will give Republicans even more excuse to do what they’re always wanting to do: slash safety nets. So many Americans could lose benefits they rely on, such as Medicaid and food stamps.
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The world's national debt is great news for the wealthy
May 18, 2025
The Truth About trumpty's Big, Horrible Budget
Two Ways a 2025 Federal Tax Bill Could Worsen Income and Racial Inequality
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Trump Lies That His Bill Cuts Taxes For Everyone, When It Raises Them on the Poor
According to an analysis by Congress’ Joint Committee on Taxation, Trump’s reconciliation bill will raise taxes on Americans earning under $15,000 in 2027.
By 2029 and going forward, the legislation will continue to increase taxes on those individuals, as well Americans earning between $15,000 and $30,000.
Millionaires, meanwhile, will see tax cuts in each year included in the analysis. In two of four years, according to the JCT analysis, millionaires will see a larger average decrease in their tax rate than Americans will overall
From 2027 to 2033, Americans earning under $30,000 are expected to pay collectively nearly $18 billion more in taxes.
At the same time, individuals who earn more than $1 million will collectively receive tax cuts totaling $242 billion.
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Murphy On Meet The Press: GOP Tax Plan Is Greatest Transfer Of Wealth In The History Of The Country
Killing People
Trump’s Plan to Kick Millions of Americans Off Medicaid, Explained
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10 Terrible Policies in Trump and the GOP’s Bill to Cut Taxes for the Rich.
The public holds an overwhelmingly positive view of Medicaid,
with a whopping 76 percent opposing significant cuts to the program.
The Congressional Budget Office projects that 10.3 million Americans will ultimately lose their health care as a result of the cuts.
We Do Have a Social Welfare System...for the RICH
You want to know who benefited from trump's mideast trip?
NOT YOU
Yes, the Oligarchy
trumpy's Anarchy & Disorder
- The just-released House Republicans plans for Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” will endanger billions from manufacturing by cutting clean energy investment and production, which are critical sectors for future economic competitiveness. Most of these investments—77%—are in Republican congressional districts, threatening economic development.
- The manufacturing ecosystem situation also looks bleak upstream. To be a leader in cutting-edge technologies, we need to invest in innovation. The president has limited research funds to America’s universities, starving research laboratories of the resources they need to discover cures for diseases and advance science.
- Congress cannot make “the largest cuts to both Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in history” without it affecting local economies—and not in a good way.
- The cuts Trump and Musk made without congressional approval could be compounded by congressionally approved cuts that will take food from the poor and reduce access to health care.
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- Without warning, the Justice Department recently terminated 373 grants totaling $820 million for programs that help victims and prevent crime.
- Further cuts expose the administration’s incoherence. It claims to care about antisemitism but gutted hate crimes prevention funding. It vows to fight the opioid crisis but ended overdose prevention grants. It accuses Tesla vandals of domestic terrorism, but dismantled the State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training program. It supposedly “backs the blue” but zeroed out the $14 million Rural Violent Crime Reduction Initiative and the $20 million VALOR initiative supporting officer wellbeing.
- Trump has repeatedly betrayed police and victims while claiming to be their champion. He pardoned the January 6 rioters, including those who injured over 140 officers. He moved to fire thousands of FBI agents. He pulled agents off child abuse, drug trafficking, and money laundering cases so they could arrest undocumented immigrants with no criminal record. He shut down a database that tracks domestic terrorism and school shootings. He’s trying to slash federal funding for Narcan, the miracle drug that saves thousands from overdose deaths each year, as well as money for health care, housing, and education, precisely the investments that drive crime down over time.
The Circus Crier
trump, you know, is the circus crier
in this sideshow.
His job is to be as outrageous as possible
to attract our attention
while his cronies and minions
destroy our country.
destroy our country.
Never take your eyes of his minions.
Stay focused.
Letters from an American
May 17, 2025
This Summer is Big
Something is going to happen this summer that is going to change everything. The regime will fall.
trump Budget
$660 BILLION in Tax Breaks for Rich
13.7 Million People Will Lose Their Healthcare
Paperwork Requirements Will Force People Off & Disallow People from Getting on Medicaid
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Hakeem Jeffries Absolutely Lights Into GOP Over 'Reckless' Reconciliation Budget
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AOC Completely DESTROYS Entire Republican Scheme Over Late-Night Medicaid Attack
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‘Death sentence’: Sen. Sanders on GOP Medicaid cuts
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Rep. Raskin: GOP bill will ‘kick 10 million people off their insurance’
Regime WILL Experience Karma
THERE WILL BE AN ACCOUNTING
THE THUGS WILL PAY FOR THEIR CRIMES
AND THEN
WE WILL REBUILD OUR DEMOCRACY
May 16, 2025
trump's Brain is Gone
Donald Trump’s recent interviews with Time and The Atlantic revealed a president who is completely unhinged and incoherent.
Sadly, that’s not news. But what stood out is that Trump is consistently confused and disconnected from reality even on issues that are supposedly in his wheelhouse.
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White House Publishes Few Transcripts of trump's Public Remarks
May 15, 2025
May 14, 2025
The Convicted Criminal is also a Hypocrite
This Thursday, the Supreme Court is hearing cases where Donald Trump is pushing to end birthright citizenship — a right guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. He claims children born to non-citizen parents shouldn’t be citizens.
But here’s the truth: four of his own children — Donald Jr., Ivanka, Eric, and Barron — were born to mothers who weren’t U.S. citizens at the time.
By his own standard,
his kids wouldn’t qualify to stay in the country.
May 13, 2025
And While humpty trumpty Adds New Meaning to Corruption...
Destroy the Poor to Pay the Rich
GOP leaders will still need to unite virtually every Republican lawmaker around their plan’s most politically toxic cuts.
We expect those to include:
- Kicking 14 million Americans off their healthcare through historic cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act
- Taking food off the table of roughly 9 million families per month -- including millions of children and senior citizens -- by cutting SNAP benefits
- Forcing billions of dollars of new healthcare and food assistance costs onto state and local governments -- likely driving huge cuts in infrastructure and other services that will cost thousands of jobs
- Job losses, service reductions, and even outright closures at hospitals nationwide, particularly in rural communities
May 12, 2025
GOP Sentences Millions of Our Most Vulnerable Citizens
GOP quietly unveils major Medicaid plan 'under cover of night'
House Republicans late Sunday unveiled legislation that analysts said would
rip Medicaid coverage from millions of low-income Americans — including children and people with disabilities —
to help fund tax breaks that would disproportionately benefit the wealthy.
The legislation includes major changes to Medicaid that, if enacted, would
- kick millions from the program,
- including work requirements for some enrollees and
- new payment mandates for adults living above 100% of the federal poverty level — which, for a single individual, is $15,650 in annual income for 2025.
A snap analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that the healthcare section of the new Republican bill would cut spending by at least $715 billion over the next decade and leave at least 8.6 million more people without insurance.
"Taking healthcare away from children and moms, seniors in nursing homes, and people with disabilities to give tax breaks to people who don't need them is shameful."
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