Send thank yous to those standing with survivors, tell others who aren’t that we’re paying attention, and tell them all Bondi needs to go.
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Use/share this spreadsheet (bit.ly/Goodtrouble) to contact members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Call. Write. Email. Protest. Unrelentingly.
Reach out (beyond your own) to as many in the Senate and House as you can. All of this is bigger than “I only represent my constituents” issues.
What we are witnessing is not energy policy. It is sabotage dressed up as nostalgia.
When Donald J. Trump moves to dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency’s endangerment finding, he is not tweaking regulations. He is attempting to erase the federal government’s formal recognition that greenhouse gases threaten human life. That finding is the legal spine of modern climate protections. Remove it, and you remove the obligation to protect Americans from poisoned air, rising seas, and intensifying fire and flood.
This is not about coal miners. It is not about jobs. It is not about economic freedom. Coal is already in structural decline because cleaner and cheaper energy sources have surpassed it. Propping it up with federal intervention while simultaneously stripping away environmental safeguards is not market loyalty. It is ideological theater combined with corporate favoritism.
The cruelty is intellectual as well as ecological. To revoke the scientific basis for regulating carbon pollution is to tell every climate scientist, every doctor treating asthma, every family rebuilding after a hurricane, that their reality is politically inconvenient. It is governance by denial.
The deeper offense is constitutional. The endangerment finding exists because the Supreme Court affirmed that the Environmental Protection Agency must regulate pollutants that endanger public health. Undoing it is not bold leadership. It is an attempt to hollow out statutory responsibility through executive maneuvering.
Future generations will not experience this as a culture war skirmish. They will experience it as heat waves that kill, crop failures that destabilize regions, and insurance systems that collapse under climate strain. The costs will be social, economic, and moral.
There is something profoundly reckless about celebrating fossil fuels in a century defined by climate disruption. It signals a willingness to trade planetary stability for short-term political applause. That is not conservatism. It is abdication.
History will record this not as strength, but as a deliberate failure of stewardship.
Excellent post, Michael. And let me add, that the harm caused by all this will fall disproportionately on the most vulnerable. It is already well documented that occurrences of cancer are much higher in communities adjacent to oil refineries and other polluting heavy industries. These communities are always lower-income and usually communities of color. This is not an accident. It is by design. The racism and punching down classism of this regime are on full display when it comes to eliminating any consideration of greenhouse gas effects as well. Those, too, fall on the most vulnerable. And this is why on the very first day of the regime’s ongoing reign of terror, all references to environmental justice were deleted from EPA’s and every other Federal website. This administration is anti-equality, anti-equal justice, and anti-opportunity for anyone not in the preferred group and nothing illustrates that fact better than this. They are rabid racists and classists and a disgrace to humanity.
You are right that environmental harm rarely lands evenly. Decades of research show higher asthma rates, cancer clusters, and shorter life expectancy in fence line communities near refineries, highways, and heavy industry, and those neighborhoods are often lower income and disproportionately communities of color. That pattern did not happen by chance.
Naming it matters. So does staying evidence-based and focused on outcomes. Environmental justice is about equal protection under the law, clean air, clean water, and fair enforcement. Those are not partisan ideals. They are public health basics.
The path forward is sustained pressure, transparent data, local organizing, and voting at every level. Equity in environmental policy is not radical. It is responsible governance.
Wise environmental policy is entirely radical in the original sense of the Latin "radix" or root. The same "root" as the word "radish". Granted it now implies extreme. Yet we are in every sense a product of our environment and have a capacity for conscience and the power to know better. We in aggregate are acting like self-centered brats, and posterity will curse us for it.
In bitter truth, the United States government has always been a criminal organization. Just ask the First Nations people. Or the striking coal miners it attacked with field artillery and bombing planes. Or the ghosts of the Triangle Shirtwaist dead, who still haunt the corner of Greene Street and Washington Place, where they died after leaping from windows to escape the fire and falling eight or 10 storeys to splatter on the pavement.
We "Americans" have to forget the idea that we somehow are a leader of the free world. We aren't even sitting at the table. But worse, we "WE" meaning 'the United States' can not be relied upon. Why? Quite simple. "WE" is America First! Have you bought your Trump Credit Card yet? Ya got 5 Mill on ya? We're gonna need more than low gas prices and high tariffs to keep this bus running. China is using wind energy, oil, and coal..,. and solar! China is the closest thing we have to a "leader" in this world today. Thanks to the Republican Party and one nation under god.
The history of the damage done to WV by the coal & gas industry is a good example. From years ago, when people were not allowed to own the mineral rights to their property or decide how the digging & drilling equipment was placed on their land to now when recovery of years- old harm still hasn't happened, it is a very clear example of what the undoing of all these regulations will, once again, prey on the poor & weak.
"I owe my soul to the company store" was a real, historical thing. Private Equity is busy trying to put us all in that position. Software, housing, even vehicles, and it's on a tear. Pay billionaire trolls to crass a bridge, or so much of anything. It's happening because (among many other protections) we carelessly let go of anti-trust (a confusing name for anti-oligarchy, anti-monopoly, and there are Democratic Party fingerprints on that one, as well as (of course) Republican. Teddy Roosevelt was upset enough about the plutocratic turn of his own party that he tried to start a new one.
(Blair Mountain is where the U.S. Government broke the strike with field artillery and bombing planes.)
Three decades later -- a privileged 10-year-old, protected by my father's "under no circumstances" reaction to Knox County public schools and thus enrolled in a Roman Catholic parochial school an hour's bus-ride away -- I'd walk home from the bus stop with public-school children so impoverished the lumps of coal they daily scavenged from the L&N tracks were the only fuel with which their families cooked their meager meals and tried to heat the rural hovels they called homes. And, yes, I helped them collect that vital, random charity of passing coal trains. I did do so every school year until I was 14, when we moved to the the house my father built at the other end of Knox County. Why did I help? At the time I did it seemingly by instinct. Years later I realized I had already been taught by my Marxian father that our ultimate obligation as humans is to serve those less fortunate than ourselves however we can. I realized as I wrote this -- at age 85 -- helping with that coal-gathering was (actually) my first activism. "From each according to ability; to each according to need."
"And let me add, that the harm caused by all this will fall disproportionately on the most vulnerable."
That cannot be said enough, and it's generally case when We the People make careless or selfish political choices. That's a big part of why voting is as much a responsibility for outcomes as it is an expression of personal choice. That's reality, and while I ache for more appealing and thoughtful candidates, that takes a different kind for action than waiting for voting day. Protest votes and no-show votes hand the advantage to entropy.
Exceedingly well said!!! This entire admin is "profoundly reckless" not only about the environment, but also about all the things that place the medical, economic, and judicial interests of the people in jeopardy. We cannot allow this. We must continue to resist ALL tRump's and his oligarchs' efforts to continually ignore the Rule of Law, Constitution and Declaration of Independance. RESIST!
There isn't a single area of daily life for the average person that this regime hasn't trashed. We are a nation in decline. With sufficient support from other horrible nations around the world to seal our fate. I give it another 5 years.
Barb, it is amazing how quickly the regime has trashed everything that can be counted as good. I agree that the time will be shorter than most people think. I also smile when people talk about 10 years down the road as if we will go along with nothing changing.
Oh dear, hopefully not 5 years!!! With more and more pushback due to outrage about and repercussions from tRump policies, let's get to mid-terms and see…
Michael, as a long time gardener in Oregon's Willamette Valley, I have watched the changes. This year there is very little snow in the mountains thus far on which summer watering depends. I see water restrictions in our near future. I also noted that just when we need people in charge, who appreciate the problems, we get death star and his minions. And it's not only political applause, but short time gains for the billionaire class which seems to think that their money will save them.
I've been in aviation for a long time. I was even an aviation weather observer for a few years. I've seen the changes. So have many other aviation professionals. To our eyes, they are obvious and ominous.
Michele, we, the American people, put Donald Trump back in the White House inspite of his previous chaotic administration, and his effort to stage a coup to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. Project 2025 detailed exactly what a second Trump regime would do. So, here we are! We need to take responsibility for this and then we need to do everything we can to stop this regime in its tracks. The Republican Party fails to recognize total failure of Trump and his clown show. It falls on Democrats, independents and the few honest Republicans to vote in a Congress that will act!
Well said! I grew up three blocks as the crow flies from an open pit copper mine in Butte, Montana. My parents bought their house, a few blocks south of the neighborhood my mother grew up in, in 1952. Her mother and maternal grandfather still lived in their homes. A few years later, The Anaconda Company announced plans to start the pit. People living on the area they planned to dig, would sell their property to the company. The company would decide the value and therefore the compensation for the property.
My great grandfather's property was part of the land the company wanted. My grandmother lived about a block south of his. Her house wasn't part of the initial buyout.
Grandpa's son, Joseph Jr. lived with him. Uncle Joe wouldn't approve the sale. He said the offer was too low. There was a property dispute involved too. The company claimed that some of Grandpa's building were on their proprty!
In 1956 or 57, the company began digging the pit, on the edge of my great grandfather's property! He and another old man, refused to sell their property, he lived across the street from Grandpa.
Uncle Joe died in 1959. Grandpa sold the house and moved in with Grandma. After Grandpa's house was torn down, the company put up a viewing stand, for the public to watch the mining operations. Grandpa lived until February 1960.
Eventually, the company swapped properties with my grandmother. She moved to a much safer, cleaner and quieter neighborhood.
I the meanwhile our family was living downwind from the mining and related activities of the pit. Our home was across the street from the railroad tracks. The company was never going to use our property for mining. In 1965, my parents went to the company to ask them to buy their house. The dirt, and noise were too much to live with anymore. We were all suffering from the pollution. I had a constant cough and sinus infection during the summer.
All of this happened years before the EPA was instituted. Now the morbidly rich, techbros, corporations and oligarchs are using people like cat toys. Our lives don't matter. They are using our lives for their own amusement and profit.
Anacondas can and have squeezed humans to death, though the reptilian sort don't go looking for trouble with humans. The corporate kind are far more dangerous, and yeah, malignant narcissists with power treat people as objects; a resource to be mined or thrown away, if not of interest. It was never, as Reagan averred, "government" that was "the problem", especially not the Lincolnian kind; it is, was, and always will be concentrated, unaccountable power.
Rickey. The idiot treats the taxpayers dollars as his own bank account reading yesterday about the detention centers that he wants to build and each one that they have bought for millions and millions of dollars it’s all coming out of the income tax that we pay and yet there are people starving and having a hard time paying mortgages rent food for their family, etc. and he just spends spin spins like it’s his own personal bank account.
He absolutely has no regard for human life, human dignity, or accountability. He needs to die along with his whole cabinet.
They will all die eventually. The timing is what I think about. What further damage will they do if not enough of us stand up to them?
I am writing my Senators and other reps to ask that they report on the conditions on each of the detention centers currently operating in my state. And the plans to build more.
One example is San Diego Otay Mesa, run by Core Civic, with average daily population 1,487 and minimum (?) capacity 750. Sorry, I don’t remember which website provided this information, but each immigrant detention center in the country is described.
Trump is seeking to use every law and every institution that has been created to keep our country and our citizens less healthy and less safe!!!! His recent choices regarding ignoring pollutants re: opening coal mines...will poison not only those working directly within the mines, but these pollutants will travel through the atmosphere, affecting our children, our animals, our waters!!!
The "saved funds" will be used to line the pockets of his supporters. How did such an incompetent human being become elected to be our so called "leader" and "protector"????
WHAT WAS THE ATTRACTION????....OH YEAH....BECAUSE he is incompetent and can be easily manipulated by his "handlers".
Christians, you have been brainwashed!!! Wearing a cross does not demonstrate a surrendered life to Jesus Christ!!!! There are criminals, stealing our freedoms everyday "all dressed up, wearing a cross" to make fools of us!!! They are using you to "buy" your vote to this increasing "HELL" our country is becoming for you and especially for the future of your children and for this country!!!!
We, the people are allowing our own destruction! My husband and I will continue to participate in PEACEFUL marches in display of our lack of support of the daily destruction of our country and the freedoms being stolen from us to line the pockets of the corrupt!!!!
At every opportunity, thankfully, the news reports of new ways Trump has chosen to line his pockets!!! Forget the caring of our country, its people, is natural resources which need constant supervision, seeking to destroy any improvements to our infrastructure that he may deem against his ability to gain financially...too many of our citizens are "sitting on their hands", I am assuming in fear of retribution if they disapprove Trump's actions!!!! REALLY????? This is the response to this renegade president and his greedy minions?????
Thanks to the few and the brave who are risking their lives, their futures, the safety of their families for this country. "Thanks" I recognize, is a small comment compared to their enormous actions of bravery! to save this country!!!!
We need to stand up, to peacefully and wisely demonstrate our disapproval for these UNAMERICAN actions from too many of our so called "leadership!!!!
I believe even our enemies are stunned at what the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS BECOMING!!!!
I hear your frustration. Environmental rollbacks, especially around coal and pollution standards, have real public health consequences. Those impacts deserve scrutiny and public debate. At the same time, change happens most effectively when we stay organized, informed, and grounded in facts. Peaceful civic engagement, voting, local advocacy, and sustained pressure on institutions still matter. Democracies weaken when people disengage, but they strengthen when citizens participate strategically and consistently.
In the first instance the president's aim is to enrich his donors. But I also think this sick sadistic creature enjoys making people suffer. And there is a dose of power arrogance at work: "I can do this. I have the power and no one can stop me. I can do anything I want." Greed, sadism, arrogance: what a cocktail of pathologies. I don't know what's worse: being the ones suffering the consequences of his pathology or living in his skin.
Don't forget Stephen Miller and Russell Vought. They love watching people suffer and I think they are the puppet masters behind much of the suffering they tell Trump to enable.
Too many Christians are just listening to opinions of their church "leaders?" or want to be part of the cool group and are not reading/ receiving God's Word for themselves through prayer and in study.
It is a sad day when Christians only accept what others say "blind guides".
God "speaks His Truth to our hearts and minds" but we have to be brave enough and humble enough to receive it. He does not bend to our prejudices or our "opinions".
"Jesus is a gentleman, He never forces His way into our lives." He is patient and kind and He knows each of us.
Often we miss His presence with us, even in man-made objects, in which some, like you, find Him...in a trefoil wind turbine.
I'm sorry to say Emily that the devil's crews are just grinning & rubbing their hands in anticipation of greeting those 'Christians' who let man tell them what to believe.
I thing I agree with you—but only in general terms. For me, as an adult, the cross is a tripartite symbol—which can be understood in the "eyes of the beholder". It isn't so different from the yin-yang or triskell or ancient swastika.... It's that in the wind turbine I can imagine continuity, hope and eternity... Logic is illogical because it is binary...and we can't predict /quantify the "unknown"...
Michael, like you I try to put my pretty-well thought out thoughts down in print so that others might get something from them. Reading yours, my mind goes to the situation we seem to be in where we need crazy amounts of electricity to "min" bitcoin, or develop "AI". Crazy amounts of volts. So, coal is still plentiful, nuclear waste is still a problem, and we use oil like air. We are humans with a mere useful lifespan of 60 (or so) years which is just too short, in the scheme of things. Two steps forward followed by two steps backward - repeat. The 'human race', a pathetic period.
I understand the fatigue. Crypto and AI do demand serious energy, and fossil fuels are still part of the mix. But renewables are growing fast because they are increasingly cheaper and cleaner. The arc is uneven, yet not hopeless. Every generation faces a pivot point. Ours is energy and climate. The question is not whether humans fail, but whether we course correct in time.
T is just a common school- yard bully who, unfortunately, has collected himself a bunch of unethical rich thugs that adore T's money- making changes to the EPA & such. As a retired psych nurse, I wonder how those people (and their families) sleep at night. I'm sure there will be lots of fractured family units.
Your comment is powerful and true. There should be a huge response from us. Calls, letters, demos. Climate is number one. What is the best response right now?
It is entirely inimical to conservatism in any non-Orwellian sense of the word. Conservative is cautious. The scientific method is conservative in assigning confidence to anything, and that is ultimately open minded. Political "Conservatives" conserve nothing except their own privileged preferences. Trump is doing what Reagan, Watt and Anne Gorsuch could not, by destroying the EPA. It's madness. It is madness that, as in the crisis of COVID, afflicts do many, fooling a lot of the people all of the time.
They can revoke the government's regulation of coal and carbon dioxide, but they can't revoke the science. The good thing about science is that it's still true whether you believe it or not.
In your writings to Congress today please consider this latest outrage against refugees including those who already have gotten green cards during the Biden administration.
The Trump regime is directing more deceit and cruelty at immigrants who are or have been seeking refugee status and lawful permanent resident (LPR) status and were admitted since the beginning of the Biden administration. They are reviewing and re-interviewing everyone in that category, including those who have already been granted LPR status (green card holders).
Apparently, immigrating during the Biden years is a potential disqualifier for refugee status and a green card. Biden derangement syndrome paranoia rears its ugly head.
The deceit lies in citing an order as justification for the program, even though it specifically states it will NOT apply to refugees. The alternate explanation is gross incompetence.
The cruelty comes from upending people’s lives by threatening loss of refugee status, or worse, revocation of LPR status so that people may no longer work legally. You can still apply for other visas, like family-based or work-based, but you need to start the immigration process all over again, according to the US Consulate rules.
A denial of a new visa or status does not automatically mean you will be deported immediately, but if you are in the U.S. without any valid status, you can be placed in removal proceedings and eventually ordered detained and removed if no relief applies.
The next question is: will people whose LPR status is revoked be considered “applicants for admission” and, under their new rules, therefore ineligible for bond hearings before an immigration judge? That policy is currently being litigated.
I am mad as hell and I’m now going to act. I bought the domain name: “DonaldTrumpJohnKennedyCenter.org” and I will now, after some hesitation, publish: “The New Donald Trump Orchestra’s Symphony ‘Rape of the Sabine Girls’ Will be performed every weekend and guests may dine at the new Donald Trump Restaurant featuring Kuntucky Fried Chicken. And tickets to watch the runaway best seller documentary, ‘Melania’ while munching fried chicken will be offered to season ticket holders.
And autographed limited copies of “Donald’s Vanity Tantrums “ by Bill Katz will also be available for purchase. Hurry, get a copy before they are sold out. The book explains why President Trump is the greatest President mankind has ever experienced.
He does but it's ugly. Cartoon villain glee about his his own cruel abuses of power. It's not for nothing that the iconic cartoon villain wears a top hat.
Trump's turn to coal will be reflected in Americans' deteriorating health and longevity, more violent storms and more extensive wild fires. But it will drive the stock market up to please the wealthy. All those in Congress who are not calling for his impeachment are part of this outrageous scam.
He is pleasing the fossil fuel industry as Republicans have since at least Reagan, even Ike's CIA. How was Trumps pitch to oil-ligarachs not constitutionally impeachable bribery? Now high-tech has become an additionally monopolizable high value commodity that can be dominated by a very few, so of course Trump gets millions from that. Fewer Steve Wosniaks wiring up the first Apple One in their living room, or college kids writing Microsoft BASIC. No Tim Patterson writing Q-DOS (Quick and Dirty Disk Operating System) that was purchased by Bill Gates and IBM and dressed up as MS DOS and PC DOS.
Like a publicly funded bridge, alternative energy is a threat to oil-ligarchy and Nice Clean Coal because it ownership is far more decentralized. It is erosive of monopoly, of centralized power.
Can you attach a few video gems to your deliciously new site, Bill?
I'd like to see one of Kristi Noem dancing, over and over again on repeat loop.
And of Donald, he also doing one of his splendid "YMCA" fat ass waddling on some stage or another, and another of his hand-jerking-off two guys at the same time.
Also, one of Squeaker of the House Mike "Howdy Doody" Johnson, with dozens, scores, hundreds of his answers to reporters that he hadn't seen that yet (translation: gotten his Donald marching orders).
Why not, too, videos of Melania in any of her thousands of hats & coats?
I’m not a techno wizard. There is another person who grabbed the domain name TrumpKennedyCenter.org. Check it out. Someone named Toby Morton. Mine will be more simple.
But not according to the conservative majority on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals who decided to overrule 30 years of legal precedent and some 350 court decisions that have ruled against the administration to date and approve the administration's mandatory detention policy.
The full implications of this terrible decision were set out in the dissenting judgement of Circuit Judge Dana Douglas, a Joe Biden appointee, who wrote:
“Straining at a gnat, the majority swallows a camel....The government’s proposed reading of the statute would mean that, for purposes of immigration detention, the border is now everywhere. That is not the law Congress passed, and if it had, it would have spoken much more clearly.”
Russell John Netto, thanks for your post. It nicely shines a light on the mistaken decision by those two Fifth Circuit Court judges and I appreciated the mildly sarcastic way you did it. You also gave me a chance to look up what the learned Judge Douglas's biblical reference means. I wonder if Jesus also meant to be a little sarcastic by using that unusual image in His rebuke to the Pharisees and Scribes 😉. It might’ve seemed unusual to me only because we don’t have camels here in northern Minnesota, don’t often think of them, and never, ever think of swallowing them. As far as I know.
I regularly wonder about the mind set of the Fifth. How can they not know what people think of their decisions? And, what kind of person spends no time in self-reflection? There is a special place in hell (if it exists) for them.
Those warehouses being converted into for-profit concentration camps throughout the country need some deeper scrutiny. What is the end goal for Stephen Miller’s evil plan?
Lanette, I'd like to know if closed-circuit "showers" are included in the conversion plans. I wasn't alive in the 1930s, but today's news reports seem to be reruns of newsreels of that period.
The end goal for Stephen Miller’s evil plan is 95% population reduction. They believe that 5% of the current world population is the limit for life the way they want to live. They think it's easy to carry the plan out. The majority of us disagree.
But one thing Stephen Miller seems to be unaware of is that he is not the only one with "evil plans"....I am not speaking of the regular US citizens he wants to control and dominate.
There are others, hiding in the shadows, who are watching Stephen Miller and observing what he can get away with, with us...American citizens....then that person will move in and take over.....Stephen Miller will not come out well in that case.
Of course, we...if we don't fight...will only experience a worse "end".
About evil plans. The cheapest and most efficient way to kill off a population is to create a deadly disease that kills quickly as well as a protective vaccine that will be available to only the chosen few. I don't think the current regime has control of the resources needed to do that. But such resources certainly exist.
We turn our faces away from the horrors taking place until they come for US...for our families....for our grandchildren....
Do you honestly believe they will add toilets, food without worms or bugs, showers, soap, towels....REALLY????
BUT IT IS OKAY FOR "MIGRANTS".....we can choose to "dehumanize" them!!!.....and now children????
These criminals within the highest positions of our government, are carefully watching our reactions! They are NOT freeing those they have imprisoned!!!
THEY ARE BUILDING MORE PRISONS...WE BETTER HAVE OUR BAGS PACKED....ONE DAY THEY WILL COME TO OUR DOOR!!!!
remember Project 2025? The stated goal hidden in there was 100 million deportations. 1/3 of the population and guess who their primary targets will be? Certainly not white men!
All this administration needs is one example to which they can point in order to say: "see here? We don't only go after non-whites; here is our proof - see?" It's the old play where Southern white folks used to get one black person in their hire to use as their proof that they're not prejudice.
Georgia. I wish there were some decent people still working in immigration who could fast-track citizenship for a bunch of people, making it predating Biden so those people could be sworn in fast. I think that if Musk and his clowns could wreck our government departments with DOGE and probably use algorithms to steal the 2024 election, some smart computer folks could do some good for people whose lives are threatened
The precedent was set by Ronnie Raygun. He filled the Orange Bowl Stadium with newly arrived Cubans and made them citizens just in time for the primaries for his second term. No requirements to understand our Constitution, no requirement for English proficiency, no background checks, nothing but the assurance that the new
“citizens “would vote Republican for the rest of their lives.
The stories are all horrible and the conditions the detainees are held under are disgusting. This new program, revoking green cards that were issued under Biden has got to be a Stephen Miller/Trump vindictive exercise in sadism. The point is to let immigrants know that it doesn’t matter if you did everything perfectly to get to your green card, the Trump regime can come back after you and yank it away, and you have to start over, and likely will have to go through a period where you can’t work legally. They want to force self deportations to jack up their quotas.
This is just another example demonstrating that the US will not keep it’s word on matters big and small. We are already being shunned by the Europeans and cut out of massive free trade deals. It is going to take a decade or more to undo the economic damage that just 13 months of Trump has done.
I am not surprised but China is still highly authoritarian and has its own minorities that it discriminates against and its own corruption in the housing industry. Over the last year it has been heavily funding Russia in the Ukraine War and providing dual use tech for the Russian drones and missiles, so it clearly is antidemocratic.
Based on power, yes. Based on would you want to live there, less so, but probably still ahead of the US. I would say Europe comes out on top for would you want to live there.
Agreed! Let those who have come to this country to find jobs....our citizens will NOT take...GO FREE!!! enabling them to WORK to make a living for their themselves and /or for their families, as they would prefer to do.
Instead of spending money on more holding stations, how about building more schools inwhich migrants can attend to be placed in good jobs to aid our economy?
These mass imprisonments are inhumane and cruel! It is a waste of the lives of human beings who WANT TO WORK....who want to provide for their families!!!
Trump is really trying to impress Putin by being "BBBBad"!!!
This is NOT the America I want to be a part of!!!! We are dishonoring those sacrificial patriots who gave themselves for to promote freedom and opportunities for all!!!
We should recognize the sexual victimization of terrorized children by the Trumpstein Cult is the immediate predecessor, perhaps even a test run, of the terror the MAGAstapo is now unleashing on anyone who refuses to kowtow to the ChristoNazi theocracy. Thus the vital, know-our-enemy relevance of the full text of the Jane Doe lawsuit against Trump and Epstein -- later withdrawn by the plaintiff in response to credible death threats: https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Lawsuit.pdf Please let us ensure this text is linked early (and therefore prominently) on as many Resistance sites as possible every day until the traitorous regime of ecogenocidal ChristoNazi pedophiles is no more.
I'm hoping that there will be an epiphany with enough Republicans....
"Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming [to the right of MAGA] said Monday that she suddenly understands “what the big deal is,” saying she had “not been one of the members who has glommed on to this as an issue.”
“I’ve sort of intentionally deferred to others to find out about it. But 9-year-old victims …” Lummis told journalist Pablo Manríquez. “Well, initially, my reaction to all this was, ‘I don’t care. I don’t know what the big deal is.’ But now I see what the big deal is, and it was worth investigating."
SHAZZAM?
6 House Republicans buck party, vote against Trump's Canadian tariffs
Hey Ali, wait till they find out about the corruption of some of your people in your state. Let’s see how much you want to expose that, especially when you don’t have any facts and evidence to prove it.
Small little detail, that most of the people here just happen to leave out
Wait! This Lummis person was unaware of the Epstein issue?? And she is in Congress?? Does she ever read a newspaper or read a magazine? Does she even watch TV ? Even Fauxnooz has done SOME coverage….enough that it should have piqued a little curiosity to find out what her “president’s” bff was up to. And this woman is in Congress?? Geesus!!! Republican ,
Cynthia, it taking courage to speak of this change in understanding: I'm curious about what finally reached you/her? This is important information and welcome evolution..
Loren, i have read this document some time ago and have just reread it. I wish WTP (We the people) protected these young ladies against these horrible white men who deserved to be locked up for their crimes. Where were the lawyers who helped bring the case? I am disgusted by the tactics of this regime and how brazen and embolden they have become. Thanks for posting the link.
Hey Lauren, I heard that you were on Lolita Island for six months they took a lot of photos and you refused to leave because you were in fear of getting caught when you got back into the states. Is that not true? Well, that’s the rumor going around. And I hope your family doesn’t get wind of it. Because that’s what happens when you send out bullshit without facts without evidence, you get your own ass in trouble. I hope you can prove otherwise.
It’s unbelievable. I’ve never seen so many hateful human beings in my entire life and for what because Joe Biden didn’t do his job that’s really the reason you’re here and hateful because none of what’s happening today would’ve happened if Joe Biden had done what he should’ve done open the files and put this thing to REST instead of using them as a booster seat so he could reach the table We are now going to vote on a president for something he did 20 years ago that we can’t prove that we only accuse and that should suffice. I can’t wait till some smart Republicans start hiring an attorneys to sue any Liberall/DEMOCRAT candidate that decides. To run for Office EVEN BEFORE THEY RUN in the upcoming election. That’s gonna be a hoot.
Remember they want you to feel despair, to throw your hands up in surrender, to give in to the constant barrage of shit flooding the zone every day.
Deny them this sadistic pleasure. Refuse to grant them what they demand. Remember the words of the old civil rights movement: keep your hand on the plow, your eyes on the prize and HOLD ON.
“It feels like every day the depravity deepens, the chaos accelerates and deep down, maybe you fear whether our republic — now in our 250th year — can survive it all. But Atlanta, I’m here to tell you, we will overcome this together.”
—Senator Jon Osoff, speaking at a rally in Atlanta the other day.
The key word said by Osoff is "together." We the People of the United States must Unite as we have done is every battle for 250 years. As our traditional motto recognizes who we the people really are, “E pluribus unum” (“Out of many, One”). Being One People now is especially important since one of the attack strategies of the fascist party, dba as the "GOP," is to divide and conquer us.
I don't want to trigger anyone, so if child abuse is too painful, please stop reading.
Megan,
You are a mother, as many readers are parents, and as many here who are not parents but are kind and loving people.
There are SO MANY reasons to be outraged, we have SO MANY issues we are being firehosed with, so I am SO GRATEFUL for the time Megan put into constructing, maintaining and posting her spreadsheet.
I have been upset by so much Trump has done, but the cruelty of this group--I am really struggling with this.
I read and then posted a link to Greg Olear's substack in the last few weeks. I was appalled to read about the sadism at the Epstein island. Why in the world did I not think of that? I pondered what could be SO BAD in it that if frightened Trump enough to squash it? I considered young teens, I considered Trump underneath a teen boy, I even considered snuff videos in the file. I did not consider children of single digit ages, and I did not consider torture. Biting female genitals, and "insertion of sharp objects." I guess the "kinkiest" thing I could consider was the long-alluded story of "pee tapes". What kind of human does this to another one? I'm to the point if there were references that alluded cannibalism, I wouldn't be surprised. I can hardly believe I just typed that sentence.
All around the world, in other countries, heads are rolling. I was quite surprised when King Charles "demoted" Andrew, and I thought, wow--he found out about something really, really bad that he's trying to get ahead of.
When you call/email Congress, it's been suggested you limit your concerns to three items, as they tally them.
Can you PLEASE make justice for the victims one of those three?
Fascism, authoritarian, imperial are words too nuanced to describe what's happening in freedom loving America. What's happening is that millions of everyday Americans have said we've had enough. We have ZERO interest in living in the GOP's ICE/Trump/MAGA fantasy police state. Two heroes gave up their life in Minneapolis.The whole city, in below zero temperatures said "This is our America." We've had the gift of freedom for 250 years. We love it!!! Screw you Donny, you horrible, wannabe king. You small sniveling weasel. We're finished with you and all your corrupt, repulsive cronies. 🖕
Oh, and one last thing, this is the hardest part for you to swallow because you only like swallowing Heather’s fables but here’s the truth and I think I’ll put it in Cap so you read it
IF NOT FOR JOE BIDEN’S RECKLESS DECISION TO OPEN THE BORDERS WITHOUT GOING TO CONGRESS IN A BEYOND FASCIST LIKE MOVE.. TRUMP IS HAVING TO DO WHAT HE SHOULDN’T BE NEEDING TO DO. CLEANING UP THE STREETS, CLEANING UP THE ILLEGALS THAT BIDEN WALKED IN, AND IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE TRUTH, THE MAIN PURPOSE OF OPENING THE BORDER WAS TO GET ALL THESE VOTERS TO VOTE DEMOCRAT AT SOME POINT IN TIME AND GUESS WHAT MERRILL THEY ALREADY TRIED AND FAILED. A SUPREME COURT STOPPED IT OOOOPS
BETTER TO NOT BE ONE OF THE HOPE OF THE HOPELESS THAN TO BE ONE THAT ACTUALLY SUPPORTS WHAT HIS PRESIDENT HAS DONE AND IS DOING AND EVERY SINGLE POLICY THAT’S BENEFITING AMERICAN CITIZENS.
Fascism you wanna talk about fascism seriously. Let me illustrate fascism for you and I’m gonna do it in capital letters so it makes it less easier for you to ignore them as you normally. FASCISM WORKS LIKE THIS YOU DECIDE ON YOUR OWN TO RAISE GROCERY PRICES BY 20%. YOU DON’T GO TO CONGRESS. YOU DON’T ASK ANYBODY YOU JUST DECIDE TO DO IT THEN YOU DECIDE TO DOUBLE GAS PRICES WITHOUT GOING TO CONGRESS YOU JUST DECIDE TO DO IT ON YOUR OWN THEN YOU DECIDE TO TRIPLE MORTGAGE RATES RAISE INFLATION TO 9% AND HERE’S THE REAL KICKER
THEN YOU DECIDE TO OPEN THE BORDERS AND NOT GO TO CONGRESS, EVEN TO ASK PERMISSION AND THEN LIE ABOUT IT AND TELL PEOPLE THAT THE BORDER IS SECURE WHEN ALL YOU REALLY WANTED TO DO IS BRING IN VOTERS THAT VOTE DEMOCRAT AND YOU GOT CAUGHT IN NEW YORK DIDN’T YOU AND THE FOOLS THAT ARE HERE THAT ARE ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT TRUMP ARE NOTHING BUT HATERS THAT’S ALL THEY ARE BECAUSE WHEN LIBERALS ARE NOT IN CONTROL, THAT’S ALL THEY CAN DO IS HATE AND EVERY SINGLE SURVEY THAT HAS BEEN TAKEN ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REPUBLICANS LOVING AMERICA AND DEMOCRATS LOVING AMERICA DEMONSTRATES EXACTLY THAT AND IF YOU WANT TO KNOW THE RESULTS OF A CNN POLL JUST ASK
Here's the bad news for your team. Trump is down 14 points in his average approval rating since inauguration. In real terms, this means about 11-12 million voters out of his 77 million in 2024 have lost confidence in Trump's leadership.
Actually, that’s good news Merrill according to many networks before the election, he was down 19 points. And that’s why he was suing one of the newspapers I believe in Iowa for lying… and that poor newspaper still has it pending in federal court. Not sure a little newspaper from Iowa was gonna be able to afford the ongoing litigation, but they did Distort the truth a bit or more but the jury or the judges will determine that
On the other hand, he has three more beautiful years, but he might do you a favor Merrill what he might do is pass it over to Vance without an election at the end of his third year, the beginning of his fourth year, and as he passes the mantle to Vance if Vance is in good shape and does a good job subsequent to that guess what Merrill
And by the way, I don’t have a team I have eyes and ears and see what the Trump administration is doing and winning at every single turn. It’s a beautiful thing to watch between democracy, breaking out all over the world like in Israel and Iran and Venezuela and Cuba potentially and having assisted in five Global Peace deals.
Inflation down to 2.4% in January the market at 50,000 and ascreaming success. Gas prices down two dollars and the only single thing the Democrats have to hang their strand of hat on is epstein which is actually pathetic when you think about it, not about his policies not about a successes not About the upcoming year, that’s gonna be even better than the first one because of the big beautiful Bill But you go ahead and believe the polls because it makes you feel better and me I could care less. Best president since Bill Clinton…. and you can deny that all you want because the stats the actual facts on the ground support that and you should too, instead of hating For no reason whatsoever, other than that, you’re not in control and when liberals aren’t in control, they go apeshit
What year? You obviously are not aware that in five times were a president became president and his first term and both houses of Congress were of the same party only five times in recent history that has happened. In each In each of those five occurrences the president in office at that time lost at least one if not both of the houses of Congress so there is nothing but history waiting to happen in November I’m not sure if you knew that or not but that’s a fact so there’s an aspiration that Trump could actually win and guess what it would be the first time it’s ever happened in history so hold onto your gonads pal Because if that happens, Trump will only be the first president of that has that happened, but only the second president to win a second term in alternate term years. And if this year turns out to be what’s projected based on the savings and taxes for people, it could be the closest chance of winning in history
I may not do that, Megan, but I am considering e-mails to every Republican, save a few, letting him or her know that what (s)he desperately hanging onto is just a job, and, that, as one who has been fired before, l can assure her or him that (s)he will get over it. I wish the G.O.P. incumbents fleeing the scene of the slime would turn coat rather than turn tail.
Hi Megan, I really appreciate this. During the holidays, I ordered a bunch of thank-you postcards to send to members of Congress who are brave enough and vocal enough to stand up to these creeps. Do you happen to have a list of all those folks standing with the survivors? I'm going to check out your spreadsheet right now. I have long suspected that many Republicans in Congress have been bought by the oligarchs.
Bondi needs to go here Megan she needs to go after shift clapper call me and Brennan. If you have any decency in your entire body, these guys were complicit and inventing the Russia hoax, which was a total falsehood, trying to win an election and demean somebody where they had no evidence and invented pretty much every single word out of their mouth. Sickening and you lemming sat there and swallowed it hole without questioning it at all. Oooops once again, your bias overtook your sense of justice and fairness no surprise.
I’ve put some effort into contacting my states’ representation via the Goodtrouble spreadsheet. Therefore I have given them plenty of identifying data that they will sell to high bidders for SPAMMERS to harvest and added my name to their list of ‘trouble-makers’ for future retribution activity. Back when protesting mail was at least weighed by volume so the intended recipients had a vague sense of ‘unrest’ in their constituency, my letters might have mattered. Now my vitriol has no weight. I’m going to get ‘everybody’ crap in my inbox and the vague insinuation that I have been ‘duly noted’.
The Earth, over geologic time, will rebalance itself. With actions like Trump’s it's looking more and more like it will be with few or any Homo Sapiens.
It's remarkable how George Carlin's comedy is so relevant even though he's been gone many years. There's never been anyone like him. Thanks for reminding us of his remarkable insight.
When we homo sapiens go extinct, we will have so richly deserved it. As Professor Hawking said...paraphrasing...greed and stupidity will render us extinct.
The oligarchs have their bunkers and they think they'll be safe. They won't. They're outnumbered. And climate change doesn't think they're as special as *they* think they are.
Aside: It's very, very difficult to avoid "othering" the oligarchs when everything they do—enabling climate change, killing democracy, stealing our taxpayer dollars—amounts to a callous act of war against the rest of us.
Wait a minute did you just say climate change as if it A truly existss and B it’s affecting your life and C there’s anything we can do about it.
We are the most beautiful NORMAL WINTER and not only that we didn’t even get struck by a tropical storm this year did we not one which hasn’t happened in decades which proves nothing but you better listen to AOC because she told us we only have about four or five years left to live so go out and enjoy yourself bunch of idiot
I know dozens of people that never got a shot and never had Covid. I myself got the first shot because I was forced to to get on a plane then I’ve had Covid five times since and here I am in great health any other questions ?
Gosh, I replied to you and the post goes down three or four different paragraphs down the road. What a shame you wanna know the sub species is of the Democrats really sore losers uh-oh bull’s-eye
Are we distraught? Are we upset? Are we jealous? Are we being negatively affected? Nope. We’re just full of hate because we’re not in power. And you, my friend are one of the most close minded human beings I’ve ever seen on planet earth. You’ve got to be so easy to live with OMG.
I was late to learning about John Prine, and am making up for lost time. I must say that I heard it first when Jimmy Buffett sang in. Begins at about 50 seconds in:
A very nice cover! I, too, was late to John Prine. He died during Covid when I spent most of my time catching up on music I had ignored for a long time. In a sense John found us. A great song writer and human being.
We should never forget that Trump, his efforts to legitimize white-supremacist genocide, the resultant ChristoNazi conquest and its MAGAstapo terrorism is the triumph of a multi-generation, bi-partisan scheme more than a century in the making, To learn of the carefully hidden roots of the crisis, the documentation of which include a PBS film about the enormous support for Hitler here in the '30s and additional, meticulously footnoted documentation of the plutocracy's support for Nazism, go here: https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/january-25-2026?utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=205274486
The Guardian currently posted an article "‘Deeply illogical’: this man’s life work could end homelessness – and Trump is doing all he can to stop it" about the Regime trying to sink efforts to reduce homelessness.
“Finally, the failed era of Housing First is over,” crowed a November column for the Hill by Devon Kurtz of the Cicero Institute, a rightwing thinktank founded by the Palantir founder Joe Lonsdale. Kurtz dismissively and inaccurately described the approach as “giv[ing homeless people] keys to a subsidized apartment and expect[ing] nothing else of them other than to stay inside”. The editorial applauded such measures as Utah’s plans to build a 1,300-bed facility with dedicated space for involuntary treatment.
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Note the reference to Palantir. Many of those who own the world's largest fortunes spend much of their time devising ways to make those least fortunate suffer even more; frequently invoking the putative authority of Jesus.
Thanks for the link re: eliminating homelessness in the US. Great work! But of course the current regime, guided by the immoral Project 2025, is trying to destroy these efforts that actually work. They love to punish the poor and vulnerable.
“One reason Cicero may have the ears of so many state politicians is that its leader has also been a big campaign contributor in recent years.
Cicero’s chairman is Joe Lonsdale, a tech investor best known for co-founding the software company Palantir whose net worth has been estimated by Forbes at $425 million. And campaign-finance records show that one of Lonsdale’s companies — Lonsdale Enterprises — has given roughly $200,000 to Florida Republicans over the past three years.”
Interesting how closet-Nazi Google -- no matter what I do -- (always) Naziwrenches my access to (any) Guardian reports by burying them within the garbage in the "Promotions" Dumpster. It does likewise to (all) BBC reports, and completely blocks some Substackers, for example, Carrie Kaufman, with whom I have a paid subscription.
Truth. Thanks to the Roberts Five Citizens United opinion of mega money into politics we are facing a present risk of significant, dangerous, and rapid warming with severe ecological consequences of most life on Earth ending. That would mean the use of oil totally ending. Maybe millions of years from now our dead bodies will eventually even replace the oil from microscopic remains of marine life we use today.
There's quite a lot of debate actually amongst climatologists about equilibrium climate sensitivity but my feeling is that you're probably right. Even Elon Musk has now abandoned his plans to colonise Mars.
Jocelyn, I know it feels that way, but I think it's not actually a matter of their trying to kill us.
I live in a deeply wooded area on the shore of a lake, so I suppose I'm more conscious of wildlife than city dwellers. I intentionally refused to install any street light on my property, so as not to interfere with wildlife habits. When I take my dog outside for her nightly walk before bedtime, I take an LED flashlight so I can keep track of my dog and not stumble. Unlike old-fashioned incandescent light, LEDs emit a light that is highly reflective in the eyes of wildlife. On our night walks, the ground glitters with millions tiny moving "lights," the eyes of small spiders on the prowl. I often see larger pairs of eyes glowing at a distance; a raccoon, a fox, an opossum? Or an owl or hawk up in the trees?
My point is that as the lone human in my woods, I pay almost no attention to all the creatures going about their lives around me. If I were inconsiderate, I could wreck their lives by pursuing my own interests.
In that manner, the 1% is SO self-absorbed, SO detached from reality and SO protected from the consequences of their actions, they have only the vaguest awareness of "the little people" and do not care in the slightest about how their actions might affect the rest of us. They simply want what they want, and can afford to have it, no matter what.
I don't think they want to kill us ALL. Who would clean their houses, tend their lawns, watch their children, toil in their sweatshops, die in their wars if we were all gone? I think they know that they need a few of us to sustain their lifestyle, but they want to make sure that we have no chance of being anything but useful (subservient, docile, grateful) tools.
“Most people think sequoias survive because they're massive.
But that's not even close to the real reason.
If you’ve ever had the privilege standing beside one of these giants, you’ll find it hard NOT to think of resilience.
These trees can live through droughts, fires, storms, and climate shifts that would kill almost anything else.
But as an engineer this is what I’m fixated on:
The tallest tree in the world has roots that only go 6-12 feet deep.
That should be impossible. A 300-foot tree with shallow roots makes no sense from an engineering perspective.
But… Sequoias don't survive alone.
Their root systems spread 50-80 feet wide and interweave with every other sequoia around them.
They share nutrients, water, and structural support. When storms come in, they support each other.
The forest is the system: Not the individual trees.
I couldn't stop thinking about this.
Most people try to build resilience by making themselves bigger, stronger, more independent. They stockpile resources, they build higher walls, they go it alone.
But the most resilient systems in nature are interconnected.
Maybe the question isn't "how do I become more self-sufficient?" but "how do I become more meaningfully connected to the right systems?"” ~Rob Avis
Wonderful. We live, not by ourselves alone, but by the threads of community, compassion, stewardship, interconnectedness — the awe-filled awareness that the whole remains greater than the sum of its parts.
My husband and I leave our Colorado mtn home every Fall to visit the sequoias, redwoods, cypress and other majestic trees of northern California. For the last 10 years it’s been the best way we’ve found to recharge.
There’s something very very wrong with a potus like the felon who has never ever learned to appreciate and protect the incredible gifts within our borders.
Donald grew up in Queens, not exactly a natural wonderland. Most ultra-wealthy people own at least one home in a natural setting, on a lake or the ocean. Not Donald. His idea of "nature" is the artificial landscape of a golf course.
So true. And add the the decription of those entangled roots of resilience, that every wind gust, sensed in the collective canopy, tugs on the roots and makes the system stronger (similar to weight-bearing exercise helping humans to have stronger bones). Avis' question, "how do I become more meaningfully connected to the right systems?" amplifies the difficulty I have with how I actually live; I get the picture, I feel it when I garden and compost, but it falls apart in how I'm housed, in my employment, and social structures. Big changes rumbling underfoot with big pushback . . .
When they presented him with the trophy did they do it with a straight face? There's so much lately that makes me think of high school pranksters. Bret Kavanaugh types who hang out, drink beer and come up with new brilliant ideas for ways to make him say and do things that make him look like a fool. But the thing is, he doesn't need pranksters. He is a fool. And he might even understand that he is, or not. Should have saved this one till tomorrow.
High school? The demented voidoid spewing “President Donald J. Trump has been 100% exonerated from their ridiculous Russia Russia Russia type charges” conjures up a 4-year-old pretending he didn’t steal from the cookie jar.
Can anybody even imagine a greedier, dumber, less serious administration more filled with tiny, whiny tots constantly peeing in the sandbox than this?
In answer to your serious question in the last paragraph, no, no one can imagine that, in the proverbial race to the bottom this administration has established a new low probably for the entire history of the world. That is how bad it is and how bad he is!
Hope I’m not jumping the gun here, but the last couple of days feel like this thing is beginning to unravel for real. Lots of stuff lining up that if continued, spell doom for the regime. The wild card in all of this for me has always been the dictator’s health, or lack of. How close is he either croaking or going irretrievably insane? With him out of the picture, the collapse of this shitshow will make the Hindenburg look tame.
The boatman whose job it is to schlep that hamberder-bloated orange carcass across the River Styx to Hades is late indeed. But he's coming! And yes, when he does, look for JD Wanker and Speaker Bobblehead to mumble something that sounds a lot like “I vhas just following orders…”
Well, I was thinking possibly a grub worm in the sand box. They're not very good looking and seem kind of dumb. But I think you're right. grub worms are probably smarter and may be as good looking.
When Pam Bondi said in the hearing before Congress that the Mueller report found no Russian influence, she lied in a way that should get her disbarred. I wonder if the Florida Bar committee worries about death threats, or are they a subsidiary of de Santis and the Republican Party?
Exactly, these vipers have taken over the toy shop while we have had myopia. I have been aware that politics as usual was dumped with W/Dickie, but I had no idea of what was oozing under the radar.
Sarah, for about a year before her passing, my mom was a nursing home resident in the memory care unit. The residents were constantly given meaningless awards and trophies because it brightened their days and made them feel important.
President Pudding Cup needs the same kind of meaningless affirmation for his broken ego.
“ a private world in which deals are done secretly without any democratic accountability, mixing national interest with individual financial interest.” = Mob.
Bondi should do a google search of John Mitchell so she can see her future. The best comment on Bondi came from Jimmy Kimmel's show: if you lived next door to Bondi, you would move and never come back to that block. Of course her performance was for her boss.
93 year old George Mitchell resigned from his foundation as a result of being named in the Epstein files. He really wasn't doing much anyway, but it's a gesture.
He needs to apologize to the victims as well.
From the Bangor Daily News--
George Mitchell has resigned from a Maine charity bearing his name.
The former U.S. Senate majority leader and federal judge resigned this week as honorary chair of the Mitchell Institute, the charity’s executive board announced Thursday.
“We have accepted that resignation. We also agree that this is an appropriate time to initiate a thoughtful, responsible process to consider a potential name change,” the board wrote in a statement.
George Mitchell helped negotiate the Good Friday Agreement (Belfast Agreement) in 1998 that largely ended the Troubles in Northern Ireland. A hero in that time and place.
Never a fan, I was so repelled by her contemptuous behavior, I turned off the hearing. I have talked to others who said the very same thing. I think her effort to suck up to Trump has had a boomerang effect and those who despise her has grown. I was shocked to see she was 60 and acting like a teenager who wasn’t given her way.
I knew there would be lowlights aired over and over so I waited.
I knew very little about her until she became the Florida AG when I was living there. It quickly became obvious that she was a MAGA hatchet girl.
And yet, the Republican Senators voted her in as US AG. From the NY Post. She has always been a MAGA hack and extremely outspoken. So it is on EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN SENATOR THAT VOTED FOR HER AS AG.
Bondi’s nomination was approved by senators in a 54-46 vote, with all but one Democrat — John Fetterman of Pennsylvania — voting against her confirmation.
Ahead of the vote, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) praised Bondi as an “experienced” and “tenacious” prosecutor with a “deep commitment to the victims of crime and their families.”
There is another set of files, being withheld by Scott Bessent, that could finally and fully explode this coverup and bring the proverbial walls tumbling down.
This is where the fight must go. These files can take us to the very core of this ongoing criminal enterprise. When we are able to see how much money was involved, where it came from, how it was moved, who received it and how it was used, the deeper layers of the onion can be peeled back. And accountability and justice can truly be pursued.
I read the whole thing, Loren, and I encourage all our fellow LFAA readers to do the same. Lengthy, but best description of how we (not only USA but the world) got to where we are today.
Thank you Loren. Quite the eye-opener. I agree with you Margaret, we all need to read and share. Every person needs to be aware of how we got here. Then we need to make sure it never happens again. As Professor states over and over again, we should look for the silver lining; don't go back to what we had but build a stronger and better United States of America.
The article mentioned above by Loren Bliss appears in the World Socialist Website (wsws.org). Many important points are discussed but in my reading it boils down to this (my own assemblage of quotes here does not alter the tone or the message): (Referring to AI) “Humanity possesses, for the first time in its history, the scientific knowledge and technological capacity to solve the most fundamental problems of material existence—hunger, disease, environmental degradation, the drudgery of exploitative labor. And yet these capabilities are imprisoned within a social system that subordinates them to the accumulation of private profit, that channels scientific genius into financial engineering and weapons development, that allows children to starve while algorithms optimize advertising revenue. This is the indictment not of technology but of the social system within which technology is deployed. The liberation of science and technology from the stranglehold of private capitalist ownership is a critical task of the socialist revolution…. The challenge before us is the building of… a new revolutionary leadership in the working class (and) is the most urgent practical necessity of our time. The future of humanity depends upon it.” A close reading of the article’s long view reveals a chilling prediction: WAR IS COMING. First, per the author, the working class needs to be educated and organized. Then “The liberation of science and technology from the stranglehold of private capitalist ownership” can commence. So, in this telling, the reality transcends Trump, our elections and even the US as a whole. It’s about the age-old question of who gets to control the world’s means of production and the wealth created thereby. The author explains why we need to think big - beyond Trump - if we want to see where the past is pushing us. This view comports with one of my own beliefs about the supremacy of class, greed and control by subjugation as the source of our strife. Race is to Class as Rain is to Weather.
Well said, Mr. Thomason; damn well said. Enlarging upon your (very apt) weather analogy, race is also the methodically cloud-seeded storm that ensures the Moronic Majority remains to oblivious to Class and therefore never recognizes -- never mind escapes -- its perpetual enslavement.
A great quote from the article: “Trump is not the disease. He is the most advanced symptom. And it would be the most dangerous of illusions to believe that the crisis can be resolved by removing him from office through elections.”
Thanks should go out to Josh Marshall for identifying "Authoritarian International".
This “host of authoritarian governments around the world, the princelings of the Gulf monarchies, the sprinkling of European right-revanchist governments, the rightward portion of Silicon Valley (which accounts for a larger and larger percentage of the top owners if not the larger community), the Israeli private intel sector, various post-Soviet oligarchs and, increasingly, the world’s billionaire class” is a succinct description of who and what is arrayed against all of Democratic society.
There's our enemy. They're another self-elected group who believes that THEY are the natural rulers of everyone else; a new Aristocracy that views people not as individuals but as a statistical phenomenon to be managed for their benefit. Like livestock, if you will.
Bondi had more than flash cards. Per ABC News, Bondi made a detailed Privacy attack on Congressional Reps.
Context: Reps were permittied to to go to an allegedly secure room & to view the un-redacted Epstein files. CA Rep Raskin had already made a record of malevolent Bondi's "Burn Book".
A photographer in the hearing room took a telephoto snap shot of Bondi's spying notes & published Bondi's's Privacy Attack on Democratic Representative PRAMILA JAYAPAL recording the specific documents JAYAPAL had examined in the allegedly secure room.
Bond's Privacy attack, Exhibit A:
"PAMILA JAYAPAL SEARCH HISTORY"
.... Just one (1) example:
"EFTA 1660 622 child exploitation & human trafficking task force power point on Epstein trafficking".
Bondi was tracking Jayapal's searches.
Bondi Busted!
All Reps have civil claims against Bondi. But, California Reps have the CCPA, California Consumer. Privacy Act claims. What is cool about the CCPA law that was effective 1/1/2020 is the the state of California handless the prosecution not the consumer.
That telephoto lens in the hands of a photographer who knew what to capture is an example of people's power as witnesses! So much is happening in plain sight.
Spot On. And, SARAH FITZPATRICK, staff writer at The Atlantic is investigating & reporting. FYI, everybody, Professor Fitzpatrick is an adjunct Professor at the Columbia University School of Journalism as well as an Associate Producer on 60 Minutes.
I signed up today to get a copy of anything written to produced by Professor Fitzpatrick.
Bondi made it a requirement the any member of Congress has to give the DOJ 24 hours notice to view the unredacted Epstein files. Anything that they've viewed has been tracked by Bondi & DOJ. And they can only take notes, no electronic devices allowed but anyone viewing the files is still being surveilled and searches tracked.
And the senators, including my two worthless ones, screamed at Jack Smith getting their phone records, which included much less detailed information than Bondi’s spy piece.
More fight ahead. It’s becoming a free for all fight on every which way. My own contribution is above after securing the domain: “DonaldTrumpJohnKennedyCenter.org” I will now develop a web site and blast away.
I hoping to get Professor Fitzpatrick's next piece from The Atlantic to get an experienced analysis.
As to CA Reps I have detailed the CCPA, California Consumer Protection Act remedies. Again as to CA Reps I would file a "Verified Complaint" with Attorney General of California, ROB BONTA.
A "Verified" complaint requires a pleading signed under oath. So get your issue in front of an AG that can do something about. As a California litigator, I am experienced with filing a "Verified" complaint because it requires the Defendant to answer each & every allegation in every paragraph of the complaint rather than file a BS "General Denial".
Another "thank you" to Dr. Richardson for her steadfast effort to provide a chronicle of our exhausting times. I especially appreciate her effort to link individual events together in ways that I hadn't previously seen. I follow the news pretty closely, now that I am retired, but there's always something that slips below my radar. In this case it was the reason for the idiotic attempt to prevent the opening of an already-built bridge between the US and Canada. I should have known that there was a grift involving a Trump supporter.
It appears that almost the entire remaining US coal industry was able to be present at the White House for that ridiculous award ceremony. And they didn't even need the Billionaire's Ballroom.
One of the key concepts Heather mentioned at her informal interview at Washington’s National Cathedral the other night was watching a steady pile of cement being poured out of a mixer. It’s gray, slushy, monotonous, fairly uniform — some might say uninteresting in the extreme.
Until you spot a rubber ducky or a child’s toy suddenly pour out of that mixer. Then it gets interesting, Heather said. How did THAT get there. You suddenly sit up, take notice. Something just happened out of the ordinary, the humdrum. That’s what I look for, she added, the sudden blip of the unexpected, something portending that things are not what they appear.
I picture Heather as Jody Foster portraying the SETI astronomer Ellie Araway in the movie adaptation of Carl Sagan’s wonderful novel “Contact.” Listening to washing machines all day long, the ‘priestess of the desert’ straining to hear something uneven, something not of the ordinary, something out there — intelligent life in the cosmos, a sudden, unexplained rubber-ducky pouring out of the cement-mixer….
Thank God she’s listening and watching for us all.
Me too. One of my favorites. Jody Foster captured the courage, the science — and the spirituality — contained in the novel so deftly. Would that we still had Carl Sagan with us now…
James, I agree. I thought Trump’s tantrum about an existing bridge between Canada and Michigan was bizarre, but since he’s a nutjob on the daily, it was just a figment of his grievances. But now we know another whining billionaire started the rant. (I wonder why these people who have more money than 99% of us are ALWAYS so unhappy.)
And the coal miners get black lung disease. The coal companies literally blow the tops of mountains off to get at the coal. The Appalachians' people and environmental groups are working to reclaim what the coal industry has torn asunder in an achingly beautiful landscape and deeply traditional ancient culture. I am from Kentucky. We love our Appalachian Mountains.
Because coal mining has been such a blight to the miners, I wonder that they wish for the mining to start up again. Also, the mountaintop mining used today - besides devastating West Virginia and Kentucky - requires fewer miners, which means Trump's promises of rejuvenating the mining industry for miners is, like everything else he says, false.
Hello Barbara... I sense that DJT knows that his Time is Coming... Being Interested in Only Himself. What Does DJT Care About The Future, or Others?....
Hello Barbara... Seems that DJT is Retreating as Fast as DJT can into the Comfort of his Delusions of Grandeur... I suspect that DJT pressured Galllup to stop polling of POTUS approval ratings, just like DJT fired the director of Labor Statistics.... The USG Is Slowly Collapsing...
The trump USG certainly is. They are/were all too inept to pull it off. And. Most importantly of all. They wildly underestimated the will of the American people. Turns out there are enough of us that really like a Democracy.
I am originally from mined out Pennsyltucky. Heard Black Lung cases for 20 years, nationally. Many of the companies went bankrupt, and now are controlled by Chinese owners.
The main competion for coal is natural gas. Once upon a time we had degassification programs, but the entire industry was killed under Reagan.
My sources tell me that many of the wells are capped, waiting for high prices.....
The cost of coal production increases, while the cost to produce solar and other alternatives is decreasing.
This retrofitting talk is all junk. And the price given for doing so? A joke. Those mines and the processing plants are old. There is no way even Mr. Peabody would take on the cost and risk of reopening them.
Bondi was incredibly arrogant and it was clear she is losing whatever soul she may have had before becoming a heil Hitler type to our orange monster. But that’s the essence of— she’s got to show complete loyalty to keep her big job…time will tell though — I believe that unless they succeed in taking over our election process— they will be voted out on the arrogant asses in November—💪
We got to see the real Klaus Bondi the other day — thanks to Jamie Raskin’s meticulously pre-planned, skillful defense he and every other Democrat presented.
Within minutes, they’d taken this dumb, prevaricating woman’s goat, locked it in the basement and thrown away the key. There was nothing Jockstrap Jordan could do about it. As the cameras rolled, that foundation-deep, cast-iron sneer of contempt gave way, revealing the true screaming, screeching, raging, psychotic harpy and lunatic lying beneath. Out-of-control and out-of-breath didn’t begin to cut it.
Again, all this had all been carefully planned. It was the whole point. And he TOLD her ahead of time, point-blank it was all coming her way. “Do not waste one second of our precious time.” She was warned. Yet she persisted.
Most telling observation I've seen about Pam the Prevaricator is on Democratic Underground, with 248 recommends: "OMG....I think she's part of the whole sex crime ring!
I got chills and came to that conclusion when I saw this meme yesterday (which I don't know how to post pictures), but this is the text:
Reminder: Guess who Florida's Attorney General was from 2011 to 2019 while Epstein was running his sex ring? Pam Bondi
In light of her testimony yesterday, the utter disregard she showed the victims when asked to face them, and her continued coverup, it makes one wonder if she's part of the whole operation."
Pam Bondi, as a lobbyist for Ballard Partners, registered as a foreign agent for the Embassy of Qatar in 2019 and 2020. She provided strategic advice to enhance U.S.-Qatar relations, trade, and investment. Her work included advocacy regarding anti-human trafficking matters and involved lobbying Congress,, with her firm receiving $115,000 per month.
Key details regarding Pam Bondi's work for Qatar:
Role: Registered as a "Key Personnel" for the Embassy of the State of Qatar,, personally engaged in lobbying services.
Duration: Registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) during 2019 and 2020.
Scope: Focused on strengthening U.S.-Qatar bilateral relations, developing trade/investment, and addressing anti-human trafficking, according to FARA filings.
Compensation: The contract for her firm, Ballard Partners, was for $115,000 per month.
Controversy: Her lobbying for Qatar has drawn scrutiny regarding potential conflicts of interest due to her involvement in matters related to Qatari, government gifts to the Trump administration.
Bondi's lobbying career also included representing other clients such as The GEO Group, in the prison business.
Now AI sayz that Epstein actively attempted to intervene in the 2017 Gulf diplomatic crisis, acting as a back-channel negotiator to help Qatar ease the blockade imposed by Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Based on emails dated July 2017 and later, here are the key details regarding Jeffrey Epstein and Qatar:
Mediation Efforts: Epstein inserted himself into the diplomatic rift, offering to help Qatar, which was under a land, air, and sea blockade. He corresponded with Qatari businessman Jabor Yousef Jassim Al Thani (referred to as "Jabor Y"), a member of the royal family.
Proposed Strategies for Qatar: Epstein advised Qatar to normalize relations with Israel or establish a billion-dollar "victim fund" for terrorism survivors to gain favor with then-US President Donald Trump.
"Sing and Dance" Advice: Epstein controversially told Qatari representatives that they needed to "sing and dance" for Israel to end the blockade, citing Indian Prime Minister Modi's 2017 visit to Israel as a successful model for gaining U.S. favor.
Brokering Meetings: Epstein successfully brokered a meeting between former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Qatari officials in December 2018 in London.
Internal Views: Despite seeking to help them, Epstein privately described Qatar's leadership as "dangerous" and accused the country of "terrorism financing" in his correspondence.
Connection to Other Gulf States: Epstein was also deeply connected to the other side of the blockade, holding close personal and business ties with Emirati tycoon Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem and, according to reports, receiving a Bedouin tent from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
These revelations are part of a larger, ongoing release of documents, with some reports suggesting Epstein was attempting to cultivate influence across the Middle East while operating as a broker for intelligence and business interests.
Wow, Greg Olear is right. We’ll never know the extent of the oozing and infiltrating that has, and is, going on. My words, but he has tried to put questions in the public domain so people will ask. Boggles my mind, and I thought that it was about boggled to the max.
On Thom Hartmann this afternoon. -- Why does this keep coming up? Dem lawmaker flags explosive Trump allegation in Epstein files. Here’s the interesting line - “Witness calls FBI’s [National Threat Operations Center] and reports girl, later found dead, told him Trump and Epstein raped her.
“Climate change is the hole in the bucket of every other issue, we want to fix: hunger, poverty, health and more. If we don’t patch the hole, we can’t fix anything.”~ Katharine Hayhoe, Climate Scientist
Coal is dirty to mine, dirty to burn and leaves a mountain of ash to get rid of after it has been burned. It can’t possibly be clean compared to other fuels. Politicians like to use the term “ clean coal” usually when they are looking for votes. It is one of the few examples of bipartisanship left. Usually clean coal is a term heard in the state of West Virginia.
Funny to think of the camp who tend to believe that Donald's heart is breaking for the beautiful birds he imagines are losing their lives to the horrible windmills and that he believes it's none but Himself and coal that will prevent those lovely winged creatures from their sufferings and too early demises...
This article is about the scariest account Heather has given us of what we're up against. We're flailing in a tsunami of corruption. Corruption is more imbedded, more pervasive, more integral to every life system on the planet, than we can fathom. We've been snookered by the ownership class and by the economists who justify their drive for growth and wealth.
Send thank yous to those standing with survivors, tell others who aren’t that we’re paying attention, and tell them all Bondi needs to go.
Be LOUD 💔🤍💙
Use/share this spreadsheet (bit.ly/Goodtrouble) to contact members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Call. Write. Email. Protest. Unrelentingly.
Reach out (beyond your own) to as many in the Senate and House as you can. All of this is bigger than “I only represent my constituents” issues.
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What we are witnessing is not energy policy. It is sabotage dressed up as nostalgia.
When Donald J. Trump moves to dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency’s endangerment finding, he is not tweaking regulations. He is attempting to erase the federal government’s formal recognition that greenhouse gases threaten human life. That finding is the legal spine of modern climate protections. Remove it, and you remove the obligation to protect Americans from poisoned air, rising seas, and intensifying fire and flood.
This is not about coal miners. It is not about jobs. It is not about economic freedom. Coal is already in structural decline because cleaner and cheaper energy sources have surpassed it. Propping it up with federal intervention while simultaneously stripping away environmental safeguards is not market loyalty. It is ideological theater combined with corporate favoritism.
The cruelty is intellectual as well as ecological. To revoke the scientific basis for regulating carbon pollution is to tell every climate scientist, every doctor treating asthma, every family rebuilding after a hurricane, that their reality is politically inconvenient. It is governance by denial.
The deeper offense is constitutional. The endangerment finding exists because the Supreme Court affirmed that the Environmental Protection Agency must regulate pollutants that endanger public health. Undoing it is not bold leadership. It is an attempt to hollow out statutory responsibility through executive maneuvering.
Future generations will not experience this as a culture war skirmish. They will experience it as heat waves that kill, crop failures that destabilize regions, and insurance systems that collapse under climate strain. The costs will be social, economic, and moral.
There is something profoundly reckless about celebrating fossil fuels in a century defined by climate disruption. It signals a willingness to trade planetary stability for short-term political applause. That is not conservatism. It is abdication.
History will record this not as strength, but as a deliberate failure of stewardship.
Excellent post, Michael. And let me add, that the harm caused by all this will fall disproportionately on the most vulnerable. It is already well documented that occurrences of cancer are much higher in communities adjacent to oil refineries and other polluting heavy industries. These communities are always lower-income and usually communities of color. This is not an accident. It is by design. The racism and punching down classism of this regime are on full display when it comes to eliminating any consideration of greenhouse gas effects as well. Those, too, fall on the most vulnerable. And this is why on the very first day of the regime’s ongoing reign of terror, all references to environmental justice were deleted from EPA’s and every other Federal website. This administration is anti-equality, anti-equal justice, and anti-opportunity for anyone not in the preferred group and nothing illustrates that fact better than this. They are rabid racists and classists and a disgrace to humanity.
You are right that environmental harm rarely lands evenly. Decades of research show higher asthma rates, cancer clusters, and shorter life expectancy in fence line communities near refineries, highways, and heavy industry, and those neighborhoods are often lower income and disproportionately communities of color. That pattern did not happen by chance.
Naming it matters. So does staying evidence-based and focused on outcomes. Environmental justice is about equal protection under the law, clean air, clean water, and fair enforcement. Those are not partisan ideals. They are public health basics.
The path forward is sustained pressure, transparent data, local organizing, and voting at every level. Equity in environmental policy is not radical. It is responsible governance.
Wise environmental policy is entirely radical in the original sense of the Latin "radix" or root. The same "root" as the word "radish". Granted it now implies extreme. Yet we are in every sense a product of our environment and have a capacity for conscience and the power to know better. We in aggregate are acting like self-centered brats, and posterity will curse us for it.
In bitter truth, the United States government has always been a criminal organization. Just ask the First Nations people. Or the striking coal miners it attacked with field artillery and bombing planes. Or the ghosts of the Triangle Shirtwaist dead, who still haunt the corner of Greene Street and Washington Place, where they died after leaping from windows to escape the fire and falling eight or 10 storeys to splatter on the pavement.
We "Americans" have to forget the idea that we somehow are a leader of the free world. We aren't even sitting at the table. But worse, we "WE" meaning 'the United States' can not be relied upon. Why? Quite simple. "WE" is America First! Have you bought your Trump Credit Card yet? Ya got 5 Mill on ya? We're gonna need more than low gas prices and high tariffs to keep this bus running. China is using wind energy, oil, and coal..,. and solar! China is the closest thing we have to a "leader" in this world today. Thanks to the Republican Party and one nation under god.
The history of the damage done to WV by the coal & gas industry is a good example. From years ago, when people were not allowed to own the mineral rights to their property or decide how the digging & drilling equipment was placed on their land to now when recovery of years- old harm still hasn't happened, it is a very clear example of what the undoing of all these regulations will, once again, prey on the poor & weak.
"I owe my soul to the company store" was a real, historical thing. Private Equity is busy trying to put us all in that position. Software, housing, even vehicles, and it's on a tear. Pay billionaire trolls to crass a bridge, or so much of anything. It's happening because (among many other protections) we carelessly let go of anti-trust (a confusing name for anti-oligarchy, anti-monopoly, and there are Democratic Party fingerprints on that one, as well as (of course) Republican. Teddy Roosevelt was upset enough about the plutocratic turn of his own party that he tried to start a new one.
Posted for those too young -- or too sheltered (as I most assuredly was [not]) -- to understand the "company store" reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRh0QiXyZSk
With two more links for historical reference:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iAIM02kv0g&list=RD5iAIM02kv0g&start_radio=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM4pXRFVpt0&list=RDyM4pXRFVpt0&start_radio=1
(Blair Mountain is where the U.S. Government broke the strike with field artillery and bombing planes.)
Three decades later -- a privileged 10-year-old, protected by my father's "under no circumstances" reaction to Knox County public schools and thus enrolled in a Roman Catholic parochial school an hour's bus-ride away -- I'd walk home from the bus stop with public-school children so impoverished the lumps of coal they daily scavenged from the L&N tracks were the only fuel with which their families cooked their meager meals and tried to heat the rural hovels they called homes. And, yes, I helped them collect that vital, random charity of passing coal trains. I did do so every school year until I was 14, when we moved to the the house my father built at the other end of Knox County. Why did I help? At the time I did it seemingly by instinct. Years later I realized I had already been taught by my Marxian father that our ultimate obligation as humans is to serve those less fortunate than ourselves however we can. I realized as I wrote this -- at age 85 -- helping with that coal-gathering was (actually) my first activism. "From each according to ability; to each according to need."
You made a difference.
"And let me add, that the harm caused by all this will fall disproportionately on the most vulnerable."
That cannot be said enough, and it's generally case when We the People make careless or selfish political choices. That's a big part of why voting is as much a responsibility for outcomes as it is an expression of personal choice. That's reality, and while I ache for more appealing and thoughtful candidates, that takes a different kind for action than waiting for voting day. Protest votes and no-show votes hand the advantage to entropy.
History may record these oligarchs as committing the second Holocaust.
"holocaust (n.): sacrifice by fire, burnt offering."
Give Fallout a watch. Art imitating life....
Fallout the miniseries?
that one. so reflective of life and wealthy attitudes toward those not in their club.
Jeff, so so sad and true.
Exceedingly well said!!! This entire admin is "profoundly reckless" not only about the environment, but also about all the things that place the medical, economic, and judicial interests of the people in jeopardy. We cannot allow this. We must continue to resist ALL tRump's and his oligarchs' efforts to continually ignore the Rule of Law, Constitution and Declaration of Independance. RESIST!
There isn't a single area of daily life for the average person that this regime hasn't trashed. We are a nation in decline. With sufficient support from other horrible nations around the world to seal our fate. I give it another 5 years.
Barb, it is amazing how quickly the regime has trashed everything that can be counted as good. I agree that the time will be shorter than most people think. I also smile when people talk about 10 years down the road as if we will go along with nothing changing.
Right on Barb! This regime, I believe, will be this country's undoing UNLESS we the people rise up & force changes. VOTE!
Oh dear, hopefully not 5 years!!! With more and more pushback due to outrage about and repercussions from tRump policies, let's get to mid-terms and see…
More to the point, this is "profoundly SICK".
The human species seems to be reenacting the Dodo Solution.
Michael, as a long time gardener in Oregon's Willamette Valley, I have watched the changes. This year there is very little snow in the mountains thus far on which summer watering depends. I see water restrictions in our near future. I also noted that just when we need people in charge, who appreciate the problems, we get death star and his minions. And it's not only political applause, but short time gains for the billionaire class which seems to think that their money will save them.
Yeah Michele, I just have to remind myself that they can't take it with them nor will it save them from physical decline!
I've been in aviation for a long time. I was even an aviation weather observer for a few years. I've seen the changes. So have many other aviation professionals. To our eyes, they are obvious and ominous.
I am sure you have a unique view.
Michele, we, the American people, put Donald Trump back in the White House inspite of his previous chaotic administration, and his effort to stage a coup to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. Project 2025 detailed exactly what a second Trump regime would do. So, here we are! We need to take responsibility for this and then we need to do everything we can to stop this regime in its tracks. The Republican Party fails to recognize total failure of Trump and his clown show. It falls on Democrats, independents and the few honest Republicans to vote in a Congress that will act!
Well said! I grew up three blocks as the crow flies from an open pit copper mine in Butte, Montana. My parents bought their house, a few blocks south of the neighborhood my mother grew up in, in 1952. Her mother and maternal grandfather still lived in their homes. A few years later, The Anaconda Company announced plans to start the pit. People living on the area they planned to dig, would sell their property to the company. The company would decide the value and therefore the compensation for the property.
My great grandfather's property was part of the land the company wanted. My grandmother lived about a block south of his. Her house wasn't part of the initial buyout.
Grandpa's son, Joseph Jr. lived with him. Uncle Joe wouldn't approve the sale. He said the offer was too low. There was a property dispute involved too. The company claimed that some of Grandpa's building were on their proprty!
In 1956 or 57, the company began digging the pit, on the edge of my great grandfather's property! He and another old man, refused to sell their property, he lived across the street from Grandpa.
Uncle Joe died in 1959. Grandpa sold the house and moved in with Grandma. After Grandpa's house was torn down, the company put up a viewing stand, for the public to watch the mining operations. Grandpa lived until February 1960.
Eventually, the company swapped properties with my grandmother. She moved to a much safer, cleaner and quieter neighborhood.
I the meanwhile our family was living downwind from the mining and related activities of the pit. Our home was across the street from the railroad tracks. The company was never going to use our property for mining. In 1965, my parents went to the company to ask them to buy their house. The dirt, and noise were too much to live with anymore. We were all suffering from the pollution. I had a constant cough and sinus infection during the summer.
All of this happened years before the EPA was instituted. Now the morbidly rich, techbros, corporations and oligarchs are using people like cat toys. Our lives don't matter. They are using our lives for their own amusement and profit.
Anacondas can and have squeezed humans to death, though the reptilian sort don't go looking for trouble with humans. The corporate kind are far more dangerous, and yeah, malignant narcissists with power treat people as objects; a resource to be mined or thrown away, if not of interest. It was never, as Reagan averred, "government" that was "the problem", especially not the Lincolnian kind; it is, was, and always will be concentrated, unaccountable power.
Their goal is to eliminate as many of what they call weak as possible.
Rickey. The idiot treats the taxpayers dollars as his own bank account reading yesterday about the detention centers that he wants to build and each one that they have bought for millions and millions of dollars it’s all coming out of the income tax that we pay and yet there are people starving and having a hard time paying mortgages rent food for their family, etc. and he just spends spin spins like it’s his own personal bank account.
He absolutely has no regard for human life, human dignity, or accountability. He needs to die along with his whole cabinet.
They will all die eventually. The timing is what I think about. What further damage will they do if not enough of us stand up to them?
I am writing my Senators and other reps to ask that they report on the conditions on each of the detention centers currently operating in my state. And the plans to build more.
One example is San Diego Otay Mesa, run by Core Civic, with average daily population 1,487 and minimum (?) capacity 750. Sorry, I don’t remember which website provided this information, but each immigrant detention center in the country is described.
Michael Corthell,
Trump is seeking to use every law and every institution that has been created to keep our country and our citizens less healthy and less safe!!!! His recent choices regarding ignoring pollutants re: opening coal mines...will poison not only those working directly within the mines, but these pollutants will travel through the atmosphere, affecting our children, our animals, our waters!!!
The "saved funds" will be used to line the pockets of his supporters. How did such an incompetent human being become elected to be our so called "leader" and "protector"????
WHAT WAS THE ATTRACTION????....OH YEAH....BECAUSE he is incompetent and can be easily manipulated by his "handlers".
Christians, you have been brainwashed!!! Wearing a cross does not demonstrate a surrendered life to Jesus Christ!!!! There are criminals, stealing our freedoms everyday "all dressed up, wearing a cross" to make fools of us!!! They are using you to "buy" your vote to this increasing "HELL" our country is becoming for you and especially for the future of your children and for this country!!!!
We, the people are allowing our own destruction! My husband and I will continue to participate in PEACEFUL marches in display of our lack of support of the daily destruction of our country and the freedoms being stolen from us to line the pockets of the corrupt!!!!
At every opportunity, thankfully, the news reports of new ways Trump has chosen to line his pockets!!! Forget the caring of our country, its people, is natural resources which need constant supervision, seeking to destroy any improvements to our infrastructure that he may deem against his ability to gain financially...too many of our citizens are "sitting on their hands", I am assuming in fear of retribution if they disapprove Trump's actions!!!! REALLY????? This is the response to this renegade president and his greedy minions?????
Thanks to the few and the brave who are risking their lives, their futures, the safety of their families for this country. "Thanks" I recognize, is a small comment compared to their enormous actions of bravery! to save this country!!!!
We need to stand up, to peacefully and wisely demonstrate our disapproval for these UNAMERICAN actions from too many of our so called "leadership!!!!
I believe even our enemies are stunned at what the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS BECOMING!!!!
I hear your frustration. Environmental rollbacks, especially around coal and pollution standards, have real public health consequences. Those impacts deserve scrutiny and public debate. At the same time, change happens most effectively when we stay organized, informed, and grounded in facts. Peaceful civic engagement, voting, local advocacy, and sustained pressure on institutions still matter. Democracies weaken when people disengage, but they strengthen when citizens participate strategically and consistently.
In the first instance the president's aim is to enrich his donors. But I also think this sick sadistic creature enjoys making people suffer. And there is a dose of power arrogance at work: "I can do this. I have the power and no one can stop me. I can do anything I want." Greed, sadism, arrogance: what a cocktail of pathologies. I don't know what's worse: being the ones suffering the consequences of his pathology or living in his skin.
T has surrounded himself with sadistic creatures. "A cocktail of pathologies" is a great phrase Donna!
Don't forget Stephen Miller and Russell Vought. They love watching people suffer and I think they are the puppet masters behind much of the suffering they tell Trump to enable.
I had so hoped that Christians would understand and embrace the trefoil wind turbine as a modern T -shaped cross—but with arms uplifted—like a Y
Ann Heymann,
Too many Christians are just listening to opinions of their church "leaders?" or want to be part of the cool group and are not reading/ receiving God's Word for themselves through prayer and in study.
It is a sad day when Christians only accept what others say "blind guides".
God "speaks His Truth to our hearts and minds" but we have to be brave enough and humble enough to receive it. He does not bend to our prejudices or our "opinions".
"Jesus is a gentleman, He never forces His way into our lives." He is patient and kind and He knows each of us.
Often we miss His presence with us, even in man-made objects, in which some, like you, find Him...in a trefoil wind turbine.
I'm sorry to say Emily that the devil's crews are just grinning & rubbing their hands in anticipation of greeting those 'Christians' who let man tell them what to believe.
I thing I agree with you—but only in general terms. For me, as an adult, the cross is a tripartite symbol—which can be understood in the "eyes of the beholder". It isn't so different from the yin-yang or triskell or ancient swastika.... It's that in the wind turbine I can imagine continuity, hope and eternity... Logic is illogical because it is binary...and we can't predict /quantify the "unknown"...
This pack ot rabid humans are aiming to kill everything on this planet . . .
Michael, like you I try to put my pretty-well thought out thoughts down in print so that others might get something from them. Reading yours, my mind goes to the situation we seem to be in where we need crazy amounts of electricity to "min" bitcoin, or develop "AI". Crazy amounts of volts. So, coal is still plentiful, nuclear waste is still a problem, and we use oil like air. We are humans with a mere useful lifespan of 60 (or so) years which is just too short, in the scheme of things. Two steps forward followed by two steps backward - repeat. The 'human race', a pathetic period.
I understand the fatigue. Crypto and AI do demand serious energy, and fossil fuels are still part of the mix. But renewables are growing fast because they are increasingly cheaper and cleaner. The arc is uneven, yet not hopeless. Every generation faces a pivot point. Ours is energy and climate. The question is not whether humans fail, but whether we course correct in time.
Make America Gross Again
They've already accomplished that. The trick will be to undo so much of it and to make Presidents accountable again.
We don't need presidents. We need prime ministers and votes of confidence.
T is just a common school- yard bully who, unfortunately, has collected himself a bunch of unethical rich thugs that adore T's money- making changes to the EPA & such. As a retired psych nurse, I wonder how those people (and their families) sleep at night. I'm sure there will be lots of fractured family units.
Your comment is powerful and true. There should be a huge response from us. Calls, letters, demos. Climate is number one. What is the best response right now?
Call or email elected representatives. Speak out on social media. Email letters to editors. Join community action groups. Don’t say quiet!
Resistance starts at HOME!
It is entirely inimical to conservatism in any non-Orwellian sense of the word. Conservative is cautious. The scientific method is conservative in assigning confidence to anything, and that is ultimately open minded. Political "Conservatives" conserve nothing except their own privileged preferences. Trump is doing what Reagan, Watt and Anne Gorsuch could not, by destroying the EPA. It's madness. It is madness that, as in the crisis of COVID, afflicts do many, fooling a lot of the people all of the time.
They can revoke the government's regulation of coal and carbon dioxide, but they can't revoke the science. The good thing about science is that it's still true whether you believe it or not.
In your writings to Congress today please consider this latest outrage against refugees including those who already have gotten green cards during the Biden administration.
The Trump regime is directing more deceit and cruelty at immigrants who are or have been seeking refugee status and lawful permanent resident (LPR) status and were admitted since the beginning of the Biden administration. They are reviewing and re-interviewing everyone in that category, including those who have already been granted LPR status (green card holders).
Apparently, immigrating during the Biden years is a potential disqualifier for refugee status and a green card. Biden derangement syndrome paranoia rears its ugly head.
The deceit lies in citing an order as justification for the program, even though it specifically states it will NOT apply to refugees. The alternate explanation is gross incompetence.
The cruelty comes from upending people’s lives by threatening loss of refugee status, or worse, revocation of LPR status so that people may no longer work legally. You can still apply for other visas, like family-based or work-based, but you need to start the immigration process all over again, according to the US Consulate rules.
A denial of a new visa or status does not automatically mean you will be deported immediately, but if you are in the U.S. without any valid status, you can be placed in removal proceedings and eventually ordered detained and removed if no relief applies.
The next question is: will people whose LPR status is revoked be considered “applicants for admission” and, under their new rules, therefore ineligible for bond hearings before an immigration judge? That policy is currently being litigated.
https://www.lawdork.com/p/uscis-refugee-detention-rescission-memo
The current policy is lawless.
I am mad as hell and I’m now going to act. I bought the domain name: “DonaldTrumpJohnKennedyCenter.org” and I will now, after some hesitation, publish: “The New Donald Trump Orchestra’s Symphony ‘Rape of the Sabine Girls’ Will be performed every weekend and guests may dine at the new Donald Trump Restaurant featuring Kuntucky Fried Chicken. And tickets to watch the runaway best seller documentary, ‘Melania’ while munching fried chicken will be offered to season ticket holders.
And autographed limited copies of “Donald’s Vanity Tantrums “ by Bill Katz will also be available for purchase. Hurry, get a copy before they are sold out. The book explains why President Trump is the greatest President mankind has ever experienced.
Keep it up Bill. As I said before, humor is a sign of intelligence. Notice that DJT has no sense of humor.
He does but it's ugly. Cartoon villain glee about his his own cruel abuses of power. It's not for nothing that the iconic cartoon villain wears a top hat.
Trump's turn to coal will be reflected in Americans' deteriorating health and longevity, more violent storms and more extensive wild fires. But it will drive the stock market up to please the wealthy. All those in Congress who are not calling for his impeachment are part of this outrageous scam.
He is pleasing the fossil fuel industry as Republicans have since at least Reagan, even Ike's CIA. How was Trumps pitch to oil-ligarachs not constitutionally impeachable bribery? Now high-tech has become an additionally monopolizable high value commodity that can be dominated by a very few, so of course Trump gets millions from that. Fewer Steve Wosniaks wiring up the first Apple One in their living room, or college kids writing Microsoft BASIC. No Tim Patterson writing Q-DOS (Quick and Dirty Disk Operating System) that was purchased by Bill Gates and IBM and dressed up as MS DOS and PC DOS.
Like a publicly funded bridge, alternative energy is a threat to oil-ligarchy and Nice Clean Coal because it ownership is far more decentralized. It is erosive of monopoly, of centralized power.
Even "Tricky Dick" Nixon appreciated that one.
Can you attach a few video gems to your deliciously new site, Bill?
I'd like to see one of Kristi Noem dancing, over and over again on repeat loop.
And of Donald, he also doing one of his splendid "YMCA" fat ass waddling on some stage or another, and another of his hand-jerking-off two guys at the same time.
Also, one of Squeaker of the House Mike "Howdy Doody" Johnson, with dozens, scores, hundreds of his answers to reporters that he hadn't seen that yet (translation: gotten his Donald marching orders).
Why not, too, videos of Melania in any of her thousands of hats & coats?
I’m not a techno wizard. There is another person who grabbed the domain name TrumpKennedyCenter.org. Check it out. Someone named Toby Morton. Mine will be more simple.
Just ask your 5 year old grandchild! ☺️
How about just the "hat(s)".., let the rest be 'diss'-coarse. Consider this a pun, of course.
Bill, HILARIOUS!! I needed that this morning!
A theatrical version of “The White House Stepford Wives”?
But not according to the conservative majority on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals who decided to overrule 30 years of legal precedent and some 350 court decisions that have ruled against the administration to date and approve the administration's mandatory detention policy.
https://www.courthousenews.com/fifth-circuit-upholds-trump-administrations-mandatory-detention-policy/
The full implications of this terrible decision were set out in the dissenting judgement of Circuit Judge Dana Douglas, a Joe Biden appointee, who wrote:
“Straining at a gnat, the majority swallows a camel....The government’s proposed reading of the statute would mean that, for purposes of immigration detention, the border is now everywhere. That is not the law Congress passed, and if it had, it would have spoken much more clearly.”
Russell John Netto, thanks for your post. It nicely shines a light on the mistaken decision by those two Fifth Circuit Court judges and I appreciated the mildly sarcastic way you did it. You also gave me a chance to look up what the learned Judge Douglas's biblical reference means. I wonder if Jesus also meant to be a little sarcastic by using that unusual image in His rebuke to the Pharisees and Scribes 😉. It might’ve seemed unusual to me only because we don’t have camels here in northern Minnesota, don’t often think of them, and never, ever think of swallowing them. As far as I know.
I regularly wonder about the mind set of the Fifth. How can they not know what people think of their decisions? And, what kind of person spends no time in self-reflection? There is a special place in hell (if it exists) for them.
One could say the same of the Roberts' court. "Let them hate us so long as they fear us".
Those warehouses being converted into for-profit concentration camps throughout the country need some deeper scrutiny. What is the end goal for Stephen Miller’s evil plan?
Lanette, I'd like to know if closed-circuit "showers" are included in the conversion plans. I wasn't alive in the 1930s, but today's news reports seem to be reruns of newsreels of that period.
Extermination.
The end goal for Stephen Miller’s evil plan is 95% population reduction. They believe that 5% of the current world population is the limit for life the way they want to live. They think it's easy to carry the plan out. The majority of us disagree.
Ed Weldon,
Great comment regarding Stephen Miller's plan.
But one thing Stephen Miller seems to be unaware of is that he is not the only one with "evil plans"....I am not speaking of the regular US citizens he wants to control and dominate.
There are others, hiding in the shadows, who are watching Stephen Miller and observing what he can get away with, with us...American citizens....then that person will move in and take over.....Stephen Miller will not come out well in that case.
Of course, we...if we don't fight...will only experience a worse "end".
Just an opinion!
About evil plans. The cheapest and most efficient way to kill off a population is to create a deadly disease that kills quickly as well as a protective vaccine that will be available to only the chosen few. I don't think the current regime has control of the resources needed to do that. But such resources certainly exist.
A warehouse usually has a few people and thousands of boxes, not thousands of people. I think the toilet is going to overflow.
Albert R. Killackey, Esq.,
We turn our faces away from the horrors taking place until they come for US...for our families....for our grandchildren....
Do you honestly believe they will add toilets, food without worms or bugs, showers, soap, towels....REALLY????
BUT IT IS OKAY FOR "MIGRANTS".....we can choose to "dehumanize" them!!!.....and now children????
These criminals within the highest positions of our government, are carefully watching our reactions! They are NOT freeing those they have imprisoned!!!
THEY ARE BUILDING MORE PRISONS...WE BETTER HAVE OUR BAGS PACKED....ONE DAY THEY WILL COME TO OUR DOOR!!!!
Lanette,
Stephen Miller is in one of his "happy places"...concentration camps for cruelty and control.
and cruelty
The steering mechanism and drivers are out of control and taking the passengers off a cliff, get off or out asap.
Worse.
remember Project 2025? The stated goal hidden in there was 100 million deportations. 1/3 of the population and guess who their primary targets will be? Certainly not white men!
Russell John Netto posted this: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/11/seamus-culleton-wife-ice-detention
All this administration needs is one example to which they can point in order to say: "see here? We don't only go after non-whites; here is our proof - see?" It's the old play where Southern white folks used to get one black person in their hire to use as their proof that they're not prejudice.
and he was low hanging fruit. Easy to find and is really an anomaly.
What’s with all these detention centers ICE/DHS is setting up? If they build them, they will fill them and it won’t all be immigrants there!
Georgia. I wish there were some decent people still working in immigration who could fast-track citizenship for a bunch of people, making it predating Biden so those people could be sworn in fast. I think that if Musk and his clowns could wreck our government departments with DOGE and probably use algorithms to steal the 2024 election, some smart computer folks could do some good for people whose lives are threatened
The precedent was set by Ronnie Raygun. He filled the Orange Bowl Stadium with newly arrived Cubans and made them citizens just in time for the primaries for his second term. No requirements to understand our Constitution, no requirement for English proficiency, no background checks, nothing but the assurance that the new
“citizens “would vote Republican for the rest of their lives.
Republicans ALWAYS cheat.
You're right and if anyone doubts the insane scope of this mass deportation exercise they should ask Seamus Culleton.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/11/seamus-culleton-wife-ice-detention
The stories are all horrible and the conditions the detainees are held under are disgusting. This new program, revoking green cards that were issued under Biden has got to be a Stephen Miller/Trump vindictive exercise in sadism. The point is to let immigrants know that it doesn’t matter if you did everything perfectly to get to your green card, the Trump regime can come back after you and yank it away, and you have to start over, and likely will have to go through a period where you can’t work legally. They want to force self deportations to jack up their quotas.
This is just another example demonstrating that the US will not keep it’s word on matters big and small. We are already being shunned by the Europeans and cut out of massive free trade deals. It is going to take a decade or more to undo the economic damage that just 13 months of Trump has done.
Georgia,
No one can trust us these days! Order...proper functioning of our government is being dismantled daily!!! Thugs are taking over!!!
I do NOT agree with the mistreatment of fellow human beings.
None of our allies can nor SHOULD trust us with anything as long as this demented governing body is in Washington DC.
I read that a survey of people in 25 developed countries showed they put China ahead of the U.S. as world power.
I am not surprised but China is still highly authoritarian and has its own minorities that it discriminates against and its own corruption in the housing industry. Over the last year it has been heavily funding Russia in the Ukraine War and providing dual use tech for the Russian drones and missiles, so it clearly is antidemocratic.
Based on power, yes. Based on would you want to live there, less so, but probably still ahead of the US. I would say Europe comes out on top for would you want to live there.
I agree. Apparently, having elected a narcissistic, doddering old fool for our president, twice, tarnishes our image as a powerful country.
China wins admirers with its Belt and Road projects, and we take a chainsaw to USAID programs to prevent disease and feed the hungry.
Your posted article below, says it all, Russell.
Many thanks to you for this one image that also says it all.
https://www.courthousenews.com/fifth-circuit-upholds-trump-administrations-mandatory-detention-policy/
shocking -- and I suspect this is the cadillac PublicRelations poster
The 5th Circuit are Nazis
Horrendous.
Georgia Fisanick,
Agreed! Let those who have come to this country to find jobs....our citizens will NOT take...GO FREE!!! enabling them to WORK to make a living for their themselves and /or for their families, as they would prefer to do.
Instead of spending money on more holding stations, how about building more schools inwhich migrants can attend to be placed in good jobs to aid our economy?
These mass imprisonments are inhumane and cruel! It is a waste of the lives of human beings who WANT TO WORK....who want to provide for their families!!!
Trump is really trying to impress Putin by being "BBBBad"!!!
This is NOT the America I want to be a part of!!!! We are dishonoring those sacrificial patriots who gave themselves for to promote freedom and opportunities for all!!!
We should recognize the sexual victimization of terrorized children by the Trumpstein Cult is the immediate predecessor, perhaps even a test run, of the terror the MAGAstapo is now unleashing on anyone who refuses to kowtow to the ChristoNazi theocracy. Thus the vital, know-our-enemy relevance of the full text of the Jane Doe lawsuit against Trump and Epstein -- later withdrawn by the plaintiff in response to credible death threats: https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Lawsuit.pdf Please let us ensure this text is linked early (and therefore prominently) on as many Resistance sites as possible every day until the traitorous regime of ecogenocidal ChristoNazi pedophiles is no more.
I'm hoping that there will be an epiphany with enough Republicans....
"Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming [to the right of MAGA] said Monday that she suddenly understands “what the big deal is,” saying she had “not been one of the members who has glommed on to this as an issue.”
“I’ve sort of intentionally deferred to others to find out about it. But 9-year-old victims …” Lummis told journalist Pablo Manríquez. “Well, initially, my reaction to all this was, ‘I don’t care. I don’t know what the big deal is.’ But now I see what the big deal is, and it was worth investigating."
SHAZZAM?
6 House Republicans buck party, vote against Trump's Canadian tariffs
February 12, 2026
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/12/nx-s1-5711475/6-house-republicans-buck-party-vote-against-trumps-canadian-tariffs
Earth to Senator Lummis: maybe time to act like an adult and pay attention ?!?!
People of Wyoming: send this imposter home.
Incredible incompetence.
And every single politician in California along with them. how’s that?
Good grief. Part of your JOB as a US SENATOR is to not "...deferred to others to find out..."
Dereliction of duty. Abdication of responsibility.
Abdication of humanity
Joe, Biden front and center
Hey Ali, wait till they find out about the corruption of some of your people in your state. Let’s see how much you want to expose that, especially when you don’t have any facts and evidence to prove it.
Small little detail, that most of the people here just happen to leave out
Wait! This Lummis person was unaware of the Epstein issue?? And she is in Congress?? Does she ever read a newspaper or read a magazine? Does she even watch TV ? Even Fauxnooz has done SOME coverage….enough that it should have piqued a little curiosity to find out what her “president’s” bff was up to. And this woman is in Congress?? Geesus!!! Republican ,
Maganut of course. Intentionally stupid.
Mirror Daniel mirror mirror fast in fact, maybe you could repeat that saying mirror mirror on the wall who is the most full of shit of them all
Cynthia, it taking courage to speak of this change in understanding: I'm curious about what finally reached you/her? This is important information and welcome evolution..
Loren, i have read this document some time ago and have just reread it. I wish WTP (We the people) protected these young ladies against these horrible white men who deserved to be locked up for their crimes. Where were the lawyers who helped bring the case? I am disgusted by the tactics of this regime and how brazen and embolden they have become. Thanks for posting the link.
Agreed..
It doesn't seem to be limited just to white men. Clarence Thomas is mentioned, among others.
I guess you like losing huh Lauren. Have you ever won an argument? I’m just curious.
Hey Lauren, I heard that you were on Lolita Island for six months they took a lot of photos and you refused to leave because you were in fear of getting caught when you got back into the states. Is that not true? Well, that’s the rumor going around. And I hope your family doesn’t get wind of it. Because that’s what happens when you send out bullshit without facts without evidence, you get your own ass in trouble. I hope you can prove otherwise.
It’s unbelievable. I’ve never seen so many hateful human beings in my entire life and for what because Joe Biden didn’t do his job that’s really the reason you’re here and hateful because none of what’s happening today would’ve happened if Joe Biden had done what he should’ve done open the files and put this thing to REST instead of using them as a booster seat so he could reach the table We are now going to vote on a president for something he did 20 years ago that we can’t prove that we only accuse and that should suffice. I can’t wait till some smart Republicans start hiring an attorneys to sue any Liberall/DEMOCRAT candidate that decides. To run for Office EVEN BEFORE THEY RUN in the upcoming election. That’s gonna be a hoot.
If each of us shares this with one person who we believe is a vulnerable MAGA, the counter force to him will continue this growing resistance.
NOBODY can read this and believe this president puts America First…he puts oligarchs first and everyone else is exploitable and expendable.
Remember they want you to feel despair, to throw your hands up in surrender, to give in to the constant barrage of shit flooding the zone every day.
Deny them this sadistic pleasure. Refuse to grant them what they demand. Remember the words of the old civil rights movement: keep your hand on the plow, your eyes on the prize and HOLD ON.
“It feels like every day the depravity deepens, the chaos accelerates and deep down, maybe you fear whether our republic — now in our 250th year — can survive it all. But Atlanta, I’m here to tell you, we will overcome this together.”
—Senator Jon Osoff, speaking at a rally in Atlanta the other day.
The key word said by Osoff is "together." We the People of the United States must Unite as we have done is every battle for 250 years. As our traditional motto recognizes who we the people really are, “E pluribus unum” (“Out of many, One”). Being One People now is especially important since one of the attack strategies of the fascist party, dba as the "GOP," is to divide and conquer us.
Yes.. It really is a matter of -- Yes, WE CAN
I don't know any "vulnerable" MAGA. They are quadrupling down on the insanity.
Same here. Every time I think now THIS is a bridge too far, I’m left flabbergasted, angry and sad. Because of course there is no bridge too far.
he's covering himself through these actions -- as he would want to be covered/hidden..
WARNING: GRAPHIC POST
I don't want to trigger anyone, so if child abuse is too painful, please stop reading.
Megan,
You are a mother, as many readers are parents, and as many here who are not parents but are kind and loving people.
There are SO MANY reasons to be outraged, we have SO MANY issues we are being firehosed with, so I am SO GRATEFUL for the time Megan put into constructing, maintaining and posting her spreadsheet.
I have been upset by so much Trump has done, but the cruelty of this group--I am really struggling with this.
I read and then posted a link to Greg Olear's substack in the last few weeks. I was appalled to read about the sadism at the Epstein island. Why in the world did I not think of that? I pondered what could be SO BAD in it that if frightened Trump enough to squash it? I considered young teens, I considered Trump underneath a teen boy, I even considered snuff videos in the file. I did not consider children of single digit ages, and I did not consider torture. Biting female genitals, and "insertion of sharp objects." I guess the "kinkiest" thing I could consider was the long-alluded story of "pee tapes". What kind of human does this to another one? I'm to the point if there were references that alluded cannibalism, I wouldn't be surprised. I can hardly believe I just typed that sentence.
All around the world, in other countries, heads are rolling. I was quite surprised when King Charles "demoted" Andrew, and I thought, wow--he found out about something really, really bad that he's trying to get ahead of.
When you call/email Congress, it's been suggested you limit your concerns to three items, as they tally them.
Can you PLEASE make justice for the victims one of those three?
Thank you for this.
👋🏼Somewhere, welcome to the forum here. Thanks for joining us all.
Fascism, authoritarian, imperial are words too nuanced to describe what's happening in freedom loving America. What's happening is that millions of everyday Americans have said we've had enough. We have ZERO interest in living in the GOP's ICE/Trump/MAGA fantasy police state. Two heroes gave up their life in Minneapolis.The whole city, in below zero temperatures said "This is our America." We've had the gift of freedom for 250 years. We love it!!! Screw you Donny, you horrible, wannabe king. You small sniveling weasel. We're finished with you and all your corrupt, repulsive cronies. 🖕
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Oh, and one last thing, this is the hardest part for you to swallow because you only like swallowing Heather’s fables but here’s the truth and I think I’ll put it in Cap so you read it
IF NOT FOR JOE BIDEN’S RECKLESS DECISION TO OPEN THE BORDERS WITHOUT GOING TO CONGRESS IN A BEYOND FASCIST LIKE MOVE.. TRUMP IS HAVING TO DO WHAT HE SHOULDN’T BE NEEDING TO DO. CLEANING UP THE STREETS, CLEANING UP THE ILLEGALS THAT BIDEN WALKED IN, AND IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE TRUTH, THE MAIN PURPOSE OF OPENING THE BORDER WAS TO GET ALL THESE VOTERS TO VOTE DEMOCRAT AT SOME POINT IN TIME AND GUESS WHAT MERRILL THEY ALREADY TRIED AND FAILED. A SUPREME COURT STOPPED IT OOOOPS
BETTER TO NOT BE ONE OF THE HOPE OF THE HOPELESS THAN TO BE ONE THAT ACTUALLY SUPPORTS WHAT HIS PRESIDENT HAS DONE AND IS DOING AND EVERY SINGLE POLICY THAT’S BENEFITING AMERICAN CITIZENS.
Fascism you wanna talk about fascism seriously. Let me illustrate fascism for you and I’m gonna do it in capital letters so it makes it less easier for you to ignore them as you normally. FASCISM WORKS LIKE THIS YOU DECIDE ON YOUR OWN TO RAISE GROCERY PRICES BY 20%. YOU DON’T GO TO CONGRESS. YOU DON’T ASK ANYBODY YOU JUST DECIDE TO DO IT THEN YOU DECIDE TO DOUBLE GAS PRICES WITHOUT GOING TO CONGRESS YOU JUST DECIDE TO DO IT ON YOUR OWN THEN YOU DECIDE TO TRIPLE MORTGAGE RATES RAISE INFLATION TO 9% AND HERE’S THE REAL KICKER
THEN YOU DECIDE TO OPEN THE BORDERS AND NOT GO TO CONGRESS, EVEN TO ASK PERMISSION AND THEN LIE ABOUT IT AND TELL PEOPLE THAT THE BORDER IS SECURE WHEN ALL YOU REALLY WANTED TO DO IS BRING IN VOTERS THAT VOTE DEMOCRAT AND YOU GOT CAUGHT IN NEW YORK DIDN’T YOU AND THE FOOLS THAT ARE HERE THAT ARE ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT TRUMP ARE NOTHING BUT HATERS THAT’S ALL THEY ARE BECAUSE WHEN LIBERALS ARE NOT IN CONTROL, THAT’S ALL THEY CAN DO IS HATE AND EVERY SINGLE SURVEY THAT HAS BEEN TAKEN ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REPUBLICANS LOVING AMERICA AND DEMOCRATS LOVING AMERICA DEMONSTRATES EXACTLY THAT AND IF YOU WANT TO KNOW THE RESULTS OF A CNN POLL JUST ASK
Hey Rick
Here's the bad news for your team. Trump is down 14 points in his average approval rating since inauguration. In real terms, this means about 11-12 million voters out of his 77 million in 2024 have lost confidence in Trump's leadership.
Actually, that’s good news Merrill according to many networks before the election, he was down 19 points. And that’s why he was suing one of the newspapers I believe in Iowa for lying… and that poor newspaper still has it pending in federal court. Not sure a little newspaper from Iowa was gonna be able to afford the ongoing litigation, but they did Distort the truth a bit or more but the jury or the judges will determine that
On the other hand, he has three more beautiful years, but he might do you a favor Merrill what he might do is pass it over to Vance without an election at the end of his third year, the beginning of his fourth year, and as he passes the mantle to Vance if Vance is in good shape and does a good job subsequent to that guess what Merrill
And by the way, I don’t have a team I have eyes and ears and see what the Trump administration is doing and winning at every single turn. It’s a beautiful thing to watch between democracy, breaking out all over the world like in Israel and Iran and Venezuela and Cuba potentially and having assisted in five Global Peace deals.
Inflation down to 2.4% in January the market at 50,000 and ascreaming success. Gas prices down two dollars and the only single thing the Democrats have to hang their strand of hat on is epstein which is actually pathetic when you think about it, not about his policies not about a successes not About the upcoming year, that’s gonna be even better than the first one because of the big beautiful Bill But you go ahead and believe the polls because it makes you feel better and me I could care less. Best president since Bill Clinton…. and you can deny that all you want because the stats the actual facts on the ground support that and you should too, instead of hating For no reason whatsoever, other than that, you’re not in control and when liberals aren’t in control, they go apeshit
See you again on November. Glad you skipped the caps this time.
What year? You obviously are not aware that in five times were a president became president and his first term and both houses of Congress were of the same party only five times in recent history that has happened. In each In each of those five occurrences the president in office at that time lost at least one if not both of the houses of Congress so there is nothing but history waiting to happen in November I’m not sure if you knew that or not but that’s a fact so there’s an aspiration that Trump could actually win and guess what it would be the first time it’s ever happened in history so hold onto your gonads pal Because if that happens, Trump will only be the first president of that has that happened, but only the second president to win a second term in alternate term years. And if this year turns out to be what’s projected based on the savings and taxes for people, it could be the closest chance of winning in history
Although it’s never happened before
Thank You, Megan.
Great ideas Megan. Thank you!
Ideas? Lol
I may not do that, Megan, but I am considering e-mails to every Republican, save a few, letting him or her know that what (s)he desperately hanging onto is just a job, and, that, as one who has been fired before, l can assure her or him that (s)he will get over it. I wish the G.O.P. incumbents fleeing the scene of the slime would turn coat rather than turn tail.
And now, Heather‘s website is even burying the responses that she doesn’t want the lemmings to hear or see or so it seems
Hi Megan, I really appreciate this. During the holidays, I ordered a bunch of thank-you postcards to send to members of Congress who are brave enough and vocal enough to stand up to these creeps. Do you happen to have a list of all those folks standing with the survivors? I'm going to check out your spreadsheet right now. I have long suspected that many Republicans in Congress have been bought by the oligarchs.
Bondi needs to go here Megan she needs to go after shift clapper call me and Brennan. If you have any decency in your entire body, these guys were complicit and inventing the Russia hoax, which was a total falsehood, trying to win an election and demean somebody where they had no evidence and invented pretty much every single word out of their mouth. Sickening and you lemming sat there and swallowed it hole without questioning it at all. Oooops once again, your bias overtook your sense of justice and fairness no surprise.
Thank you, very useful!
I’ve put some effort into contacting my states’ representation via the Goodtrouble spreadsheet. Therefore I have given them plenty of identifying data that they will sell to high bidders for SPAMMERS to harvest and added my name to their list of ‘trouble-makers’ for future retribution activity. Back when protesting mail was at least weighed by volume so the intended recipients had a vague sense of ‘unrest’ in their constituency, my letters might have mattered. Now my vitriol has no weight. I’m going to get ‘everybody’ crap in my inbox and the vague insinuation that I have been ‘duly noted’.
The Earth, over geologic time, will rebalance itself. With actions like Trump’s it's looking more and more like it will be with few or any Homo Sapiens.
I believe it was George Carlin who posited that planet Earth would finally shake off the human race like a dog shakes off fleas.
It's remarkable how George Carlin's comedy is so relevant even though he's been gone many years. There's never been anyone like him. Thanks for reminding us of his remarkable insight.
When we homo sapiens go extinct, we will have so richly deserved it. As Professor Hawking said...paraphrasing...greed and stupidity will render us extinct.
The only consolation being that Republican Homo Sapiens (is there such a sub-species?) is first on the list to go.
The oligarchs have their bunkers and they think they'll be safe. They won't. They're outnumbered. And climate change doesn't think they're as special as *they* think they are.
Aside: It's very, very difficult to avoid "othering" the oligarchs when everything they do—enabling climate change, killing democracy, stealing our taxpayer dollars—amounts to a callous act of war against the rest of us.
Wait a minute did you just say climate change as if it A truly existss and B it’s affecting your life and C there’s anything we can do about it.
We are the most beautiful NORMAL WINTER and not only that we didn’t even get struck by a tropical storm this year did we not one which hasn’t happened in decades which proves nothing but you better listen to AOC because she told us we only have about four or five years left to live so go out and enjoy yourself bunch of idiot
But that was my hope with COVID.
The virus that is the mind set of people that “believe “ instead of thinking seems not to have an effective inoculation.
Well, it appears they’re all going to get a second chance…
I know dozens of people that never got a shot and never had Covid. I myself got the first shot because I was forced to to get on a plane then I’ve had Covid five times since and here I am in great health any other questions ?
Agree. And Profesor Richardson is most in need of the vaccine.
Since sapiens means "wise" it is simply a contradiction in terms.
Gosh, I replied to you and the post goes down three or four different paragraphs down the road. What a shame you wanna know the sub species is of the Democrats really sore losers uh-oh bull’s-eye
How about this for really concerning not only do we not have intelligence but we’re in power at the same time how the hell did that happen? Lmfao
Are we distraught? Are we upset? Are we jealous? Are we being negatively affected? Nope. We’re just full of hate because we’re not in power. And you, my friend are one of the most close minded human beings I’ve ever seen on planet earth. You’ve got to be so easy to live with OMG.
Certainly with fewer.
The cockroaches will rule once again. Oh wait, they're already running the WH.
actually and insult to cockroaches.
Hey..... that's my line 😂😂.
Good one!
Mars and Venus give us clues
Yes, but in the meantime...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO-bHtakpmw
When I was a child my family would travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn
"And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river where paradise lay?"
"Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away"
Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill
"And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river where paradise lay?"
"Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away"
Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man
"And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river where paradise lay?"
"Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away"
When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am
"And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river where paradise lay?"
"Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away"
-- John Prine
Thank you for sharing John Prine with us. If there is such a thing as afterlife in Paradise, he is surely there.
John Prine - seeing his name gives me a huge smile and warm heart
I miss him and John Hartford. Great story tellers.
Here's a better recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ediaZ5DhYjw&list=RDediaZ5DhYjw&start_radio=1
I was late to learning about John Prine, and am making up for lost time. I must say that I heard it first when Jimmy Buffett sang in. Begins at about 50 seconds in:
https://youtu.be/cKYNJs4hjjA
A very nice cover! I, too, was late to John Prine. He died during Covid when I spent most of my time catching up on music I had ignored for a long time. In a sense John found us. A great song writer and human being.
We should never forget that Trump, his efforts to legitimize white-supremacist genocide, the resultant ChristoNazi conquest and its MAGAstapo terrorism is the triumph of a multi-generation, bi-partisan scheme more than a century in the making, To learn of the carefully hidden roots of the crisis, the documentation of which include a PBS film about the enormous support for Hitler here in the '30s and additional, meticulously footnoted documentation of the plutocracy's support for Nazism, go here: https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/january-25-2026?utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=205274486
The Guardian currently posted an article "‘Deeply illogical’: this man’s life work could end homelessness – and Trump is doing all he can to stop it" about the Regime trying to sink efforts to reduce homelessness.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2026/feb/12/sam-tsemberis-homelessness
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“Finally, the failed era of Housing First is over,” crowed a November column for the Hill by Devon Kurtz of the Cicero Institute, a rightwing thinktank founded by the Palantir founder Joe Lonsdale. Kurtz dismissively and inaccurately described the approach as “giv[ing homeless people] keys to a subsidized apartment and expect[ing] nothing else of them other than to stay inside”. The editorial applauded such measures as Utah’s plans to build a 1,300-bed facility with dedicated space for involuntary treatment.
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Note the reference to Palantir. Many of those who own the world's largest fortunes spend much of their time devising ways to make those least fortunate suffer even more; frequently invoking the putative authority of Jesus.
Thanks for the link re: eliminating homelessness in the US. Great work! But of course the current regime, guided by the immoral Project 2025, is trying to destroy these efforts that actually work. They love to punish the poor and vulnerable.
Not "punish"; exterminate. This is the resumption of Hitler's Holocaust -- with a vastly expanded death list.
“One reason Cicero may have the ears of so many state politicians is that its leader has also been a big campaign contributor in recent years.
Cicero’s chairman is Joe Lonsdale, a tech investor best known for co-founding the software company Palantir whose net worth has been estimated by Forbes at $425 million. And campaign-finance records show that one of Lonsdale’s companies — Lonsdale Enterprises — has given roughly $200,000 to Florida Republicans over the past three years.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/jasongarcia/p/sixty-days-in-jail-and-forced-psychiatric?
Interesting how closet-Nazi Google -- no matter what I do -- (always) Naziwrenches my access to (any) Guardian reports by burying them within the garbage in the "Promotions" Dumpster. It does likewise to (all) BBC reports, and completely blocks some Substackers, for example, Carrie Kaufman, with whom I have a paid subscription.
Truth. Thanks to the Roberts Five Citizens United opinion of mega money into politics we are facing a present risk of significant, dangerous, and rapid warming with severe ecological consequences of most life on Earth ending. That would mean the use of oil totally ending. Maybe millions of years from now our dead bodies will eventually even replace the oil from microscopic remains of marine life we use today.
There's quite a lot of debate actually amongst climatologists about equilibrium climate sensitivity but my feeling is that you're probably right. Even Elon Musk has now abandoned his plans to colonise Mars.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/08/science/elon-musk-spacex-priorities-moon-intl-hnk
I keep saying that the 1% is trying to kill the rest of us, by hook or by CROOK. It's not very forward thinking of them.
Jocelyn, I know it feels that way, but I think it's not actually a matter of their trying to kill us.
I live in a deeply wooded area on the shore of a lake, so I suppose I'm more conscious of wildlife than city dwellers. I intentionally refused to install any street light on my property, so as not to interfere with wildlife habits. When I take my dog outside for her nightly walk before bedtime, I take an LED flashlight so I can keep track of my dog and not stumble. Unlike old-fashioned incandescent light, LEDs emit a light that is highly reflective in the eyes of wildlife. On our night walks, the ground glitters with millions tiny moving "lights," the eyes of small spiders on the prowl. I often see larger pairs of eyes glowing at a distance; a raccoon, a fox, an opossum? Or an owl or hawk up in the trees?
My point is that as the lone human in my woods, I pay almost no attention to all the creatures going about their lives around me. If I were inconsiderate, I could wreck their lives by pursuing my own interests.
In that manner, the 1% is SO self-absorbed, SO detached from reality and SO protected from the consequences of their actions, they have only the vaguest awareness of "the little people" and do not care in the slightest about how their actions might affect the rest of us. They simply want what they want, and can afford to have it, no matter what.
I don't think they want to kill us ALL. Who would clean their houses, tend their lawns, watch their children, toil in their sweatshops, die in their wars if we were all gone? I think they know that they need a few of us to sustain their lifestyle, but they want to make sure that we have no chance of being anything but useful (subservient, docile, grateful) tools.
“Most people think sequoias survive because they're massive.
But that's not even close to the real reason.
If you’ve ever had the privilege standing beside one of these giants, you’ll find it hard NOT to think of resilience.
These trees can live through droughts, fires, storms, and climate shifts that would kill almost anything else.
But as an engineer this is what I’m fixated on:
The tallest tree in the world has roots that only go 6-12 feet deep.
That should be impossible. A 300-foot tree with shallow roots makes no sense from an engineering perspective.
But… Sequoias don't survive alone.
Their root systems spread 50-80 feet wide and interweave with every other sequoia around them.
They share nutrients, water, and structural support. When storms come in, they support each other.
The forest is the system: Not the individual trees.
I couldn't stop thinking about this.
Most people try to build resilience by making themselves bigger, stronger, more independent. They stockpile resources, they build higher walls, they go it alone.
But the most resilient systems in nature are interconnected.
Maybe the question isn't "how do I become more self-sufficient?" but "how do I become more meaningfully connected to the right systems?"” ~Rob Avis
https://substack.com/@tracychrest989204/note/c-160235733?r=kxzps&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
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TRACY CHEREST | SEP 26 2025
Wonderful. We live, not by ourselves alone, but by the threads of community, compassion, stewardship, interconnectedness — the awe-filled awareness that the whole remains greater than the sum of its parts.
My husband and I leave our Colorado mtn home every Fall to visit the sequoias, redwoods, cypress and other majestic trees of northern California. For the last 10 years it’s been the best way we’ve found to recharge.
There’s something very very wrong with a potus like the felon who has never ever learned to appreciate and protect the incredible gifts within our borders.
Donald grew up in Queens, not exactly a natural wonderland. Most ultra-wealthy people own at least one home in a natural setting, on a lake or the ocean. Not Donald. His idea of "nature" is the artificial landscape of a golf course.
Indeed -
His loss, and ours now that his position and lack of respect allow him to hollow out that which cannot be replaced.
Magnificent description! Thank you.
Wonderful - thank you. And I believe fungi do the same.
So true. And add the the decription of those entangled roots of resilience, that every wind gust, sensed in the collective canopy, tugs on the roots and makes the system stronger (similar to weight-bearing exercise helping humans to have stronger bones). Avis' question, "how do I become more meaningfully connected to the right systems?" amplifies the difficulty I have with how I actually live; I get the picture, I feel it when I garden and compost, but it falls apart in how I'm housed, in my employment, and social structures. Big changes rumbling underfoot with big pushback . . .
Beautiful!
When they presented him with the trophy did they do it with a straight face? There's so much lately that makes me think of high school pranksters. Bret Kavanaugh types who hang out, drink beer and come up with new brilliant ideas for ways to make him say and do things that make him look like a fool. But the thing is, he doesn't need pranksters. He is a fool. And he might even understand that he is, or not. Should have saved this one till tomorrow.
High school? The demented voidoid spewing “President Donald J. Trump has been 100% exonerated from their ridiculous Russia Russia Russia type charges” conjures up a 4-year-old pretending he didn’t steal from the cookie jar.
Can anybody even imagine a greedier, dumber, less serious administration more filled with tiny, whiny tots constantly peeing in the sandbox than this?
In answer to your serious question in the last paragraph, no, no one can imagine that, in the proverbial race to the bottom this administration has established a new low probably for the entire history of the world. That is how bad it is and how bad he is!
That’s an affront to whiny tots.
Hope I’m not jumping the gun here, but the last couple of days feel like this thing is beginning to unravel for real. Lots of stuff lining up that if continued, spell doom for the regime. The wild card in all of this for me has always been the dictator’s health, or lack of. How close is he either croaking or going irretrievably insane? With him out of the picture, the collapse of this shitshow will make the Hindenburg look tame.
The boatman whose job it is to schlep that hamberder-bloated orange carcass across the River Styx to Hades is late indeed. But he's coming! And yes, when he does, look for JD Wanker and Speaker Bobblehead to mumble something that sounds a lot like “I vhas just following orders…”
Well, I was thinking possibly a grub worm in the sand box. They're not very good looking and seem kind of dumb. But I think you're right. grub worms are probably smarter and may be as good looking.
When Pam Bondi said in the hearing before Congress that the Mueller report found no Russian influence, she lied in a way that should get her disbarred. I wonder if the Florida Bar committee worries about death threats, or are they a subsidiary of de Santis and the Republican Party?
I think of fifth grade bullies, but these vipers make them look like choir boys
The bigger the boys the more lethal their toys.
Exactly, these vipers have taken over the toy shop while we have had myopia. I have been aware that politics as usual was dumped with W/Dickie, but I had no idea of what was oozing under the radar.
No Sarah Perry, that's a good one.
Sarah, for about a year before her passing, my mom was a nursing home resident in the memory care unit. The residents were constantly given meaningless awards and trophies because it brightened their days and made them feel important.
President Pudding Cup needs the same kind of meaningless affirmation for his broken ego.
“ a private world in which deals are done secretly without any democratic accountability, mixing national interest with individual financial interest.” = Mob.
Bondi should do a google search of John Mitchell so she can see her future. The best comment on Bondi came from Jimmy Kimmel's show: if you lived next door to Bondi, you would move and never come back to that block. Of course her performance was for her boss.
We need a few more Martha Mitchell’s
93 year old George Mitchell resigned from his foundation as a result of being named in the Epstein files. He really wasn't doing much anyway, but it's a gesture.
He needs to apologize to the victims as well.
From the Bangor Daily News--
George Mitchell has resigned from a Maine charity bearing his name.
The former U.S. Senate majority leader and federal judge resigned this week as honorary chair of the Mitchell Institute, the charity’s executive board announced Thursday.
“We have accepted that resignation. We also agree that this is an appropriate time to initiate a thoughtful, responsible process to consider a potential name change,” the board wrote in a statement.
What does he know and how long has he known it?
We'll probably never know.
George Mitchell?? I am stunned!
George Mitchell helped negotiate the Good Friday Agreement (Belfast Agreement) in 1998 that largely ended the Troubles in Northern Ireland. A hero in that time and place.
In a disgusting irony, there is an elementary school named after him.
Never a fan, I was so repelled by her contemptuous behavior, I turned off the hearing. I have talked to others who said the very same thing. I think her effort to suck up to Trump has had a boomerang effect and those who despise her has grown. I was shocked to see she was 60 and acting like a teenager who wasn’t given her way.
I don't understand why the chair is not held to account for not forcing her to answer questions.
Also, as a point of privilege, members can ask other members questions like, do you condone rape?
I knew there would be lowlights aired over and over so I waited.
I knew very little about her until she became the Florida AG when I was living there. It quickly became obvious that she was a MAGA hatchet girl.
And yet, the Republican Senators voted her in as US AG. From the NY Post. She has always been a MAGA hack and extremely outspoken. So it is on EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN SENATOR THAT VOTED FOR HER AS AG.
Bondi’s nomination was approved by senators in a 54-46 vote, with all but one Democrat — John Fetterman of Pennsylvania — voting against her confirmation.
Ahead of the vote, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) praised Bondi as an “experienced” and “tenacious” prosecutor with a “deep commitment to the victims of crime and their families.”
Boy was Thune off the mark on that!
I cannot stomach watching her histrionics.
If it were someone else’s country, the performance would be entertaining.
Like watching a public hanging?
As riveting, but more like watching the end of the wicked witch.
There is another set of files, being withheld by Scott Bessent, that could finally and fully explode this coverup and bring the proverbial walls tumbling down.
This is where the fight must go. These files can take us to the very core of this ongoing criminal enterprise. When we are able to see how much money was involved, where it came from, how it was moved, who received it and how it was used, the deeper layers of the onion can be peeled back. And accountability and justice can truly be pursued.
https://resistancemediainfo.substack.com/p/the-real-epstein-bombshell-isnt-at
Yes. Sen. Ron Wyden talked about Bessent in a recent interview with Heather. What an interesting interview.
Best, extensively footnoted analysis of our situation I have yet seen, lengthy but very well-written and clearly worth contemplating: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/02/11/xobm-f11.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=dn-statement-newsletters-01-24-26
I read the whole thing, Loren, and I encourage all our fellow LFAA readers to do the same. Lengthy, but best description of how we (not only USA but the world) got to where we are today.
Thank you Loren. Quite the eye-opener. I agree with you Margaret, we all need to read and share. Every person needs to be aware of how we got here. Then we need to make sure it never happens again. As Professor states over and over again, we should look for the silver lining; don't go back to what we had but build a stronger and better United States of America.
Thank you; I serve as best as I am able.
The article mentioned above by Loren Bliss appears in the World Socialist Website (wsws.org). Many important points are discussed but in my reading it boils down to this (my own assemblage of quotes here does not alter the tone or the message): (Referring to AI) “Humanity possesses, for the first time in its history, the scientific knowledge and technological capacity to solve the most fundamental problems of material existence—hunger, disease, environmental degradation, the drudgery of exploitative labor. And yet these capabilities are imprisoned within a social system that subordinates them to the accumulation of private profit, that channels scientific genius into financial engineering and weapons development, that allows children to starve while algorithms optimize advertising revenue. This is the indictment not of technology but of the social system within which technology is deployed. The liberation of science and technology from the stranglehold of private capitalist ownership is a critical task of the socialist revolution…. The challenge before us is the building of… a new revolutionary leadership in the working class (and) is the most urgent practical necessity of our time. The future of humanity depends upon it.” A close reading of the article’s long view reveals a chilling prediction: WAR IS COMING. First, per the author, the working class needs to be educated and organized. Then “The liberation of science and technology from the stranglehold of private capitalist ownership” can commence. So, in this telling, the reality transcends Trump, our elections and even the US as a whole. It’s about the age-old question of who gets to control the world’s means of production and the wealth created thereby. The author explains why we need to think big - beyond Trump - if we want to see where the past is pushing us. This view comports with one of my own beliefs about the supremacy of class, greed and control by subjugation as the source of our strife. Race is to Class as Rain is to Weather.
Well said, Mr. Thomason; damn well said. Enlarging upon your (very apt) weather analogy, race is also the methodically cloud-seeded storm that ensures the Moronic Majority remains to oblivious to Class and therefore never recognizes -- never mind escapes -- its perpetual enslavement.
Thanks for referring us to this read.
A great quote from the article: “Trump is not the disease. He is the most advanced symptom. And it would be the most dangerous of illusions to believe that the crisis can be resolved by removing him from office through elections.”
Thank you; I serve as best as I am able.
Yes, Resistance Media. Follow the money. Always follow the money.
Thanks should go out to Josh Marshall for identifying "Authoritarian International".
This “host of authoritarian governments around the world, the princelings of the Gulf monarchies, the sprinkling of European right-revanchist governments, the rightward portion of Silicon Valley (which accounts for a larger and larger percentage of the top owners if not the larger community), the Israeli private intel sector, various post-Soviet oligarchs and, increasingly, the world’s billionaire class” is a succinct description of who and what is arrayed against all of Democratic society.
There's our enemy. They're another self-elected group who believes that THEY are the natural rulers of everyone else; a new Aristocracy that views people not as individuals but as a statistical phenomenon to be managed for their benefit. Like livestock, if you will.
Yes the Authoritarian International cabal is contriving it to be some kind of bizarre neofeudalism in which the masses are destined for serfdom.
Like a page or chapters torn from that out of print, banned book 'The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism'...
Bondi had more than flash cards. Per ABC News, Bondi made a detailed Privacy attack on Congressional Reps.
Context: Reps were permittied to to go to an allegedly secure room & to view the un-redacted Epstein files. CA Rep Raskin had already made a record of malevolent Bondi's "Burn Book".
A photographer in the hearing room took a telephoto snap shot of Bondi's spying notes & published Bondi's's Privacy Attack on Democratic Representative PRAMILA JAYAPAL recording the specific documents JAYAPAL had examined in the allegedly secure room.
Bond's Privacy attack, Exhibit A:
"PAMILA JAYAPAL SEARCH HISTORY"
.... Just one (1) example:
"EFTA 1660 622 child exploitation & human trafficking task force power point on Epstein trafficking".
Bondi was tracking Jayapal's searches.
Bondi Busted!
All Reps have civil claims against Bondi. But, California Reps have the CCPA, California Consumer. Privacy Act claims. What is cool about the CCPA law that was effective 1/1/2020 is the the state of California handless the prosecution not the consumer.
That telephoto lens in the hands of a photographer who knew what to capture is an example of people's power as witnesses! So much is happening in plain sight.
Spot On. And, SARAH FITZPATRICK, staff writer at The Atlantic is investigating & reporting. FYI, everybody, Professor Fitzpatrick is an adjunct Professor at the Columbia University School of Journalism as well as an Associate Producer on 60 Minutes.
I signed up today to get a copy of anything written to produced by Professor Fitzpatrick.
Bondi made it a requirement the any member of Congress has to give the DOJ 24 hours notice to view the unredacted Epstein files. Anything that they've viewed has been tracked by Bondi & DOJ. And they can only take notes, no electronic devices allowed but anyone viewing the files is still being surveilled and searches tracked.
And the senators, including my two worthless ones, screamed at Jack Smith getting their phone records, which included much less detailed information than Bondi’s spy piece.
They will stop at nothing
And neither will I.
Lots agree
More fight ahead. It’s becoming a free for all fight on every which way. My own contribution is above after securing the domain: “DonaldTrumpJohnKennedyCenter.org” I will now develop a web site and blast away.
Thanks for this, Counselor. What is the recourse for the congress members?
I hoping to get Professor Fitzpatrick's next piece from The Atlantic to get an experienced analysis.
As to CA Reps I have detailed the CCPA, California Consumer Protection Act remedies. Again as to CA Reps I would file a "Verified Complaint" with Attorney General of California, ROB BONTA.
A "Verified" complaint requires a pleading signed under oath. So get your issue in front of an AG that can do something about. As a California litigator, I am experienced with filing a "Verified" complaint because it requires the Defendant to answer each & every allegation in every paragraph of the complaint rather than file a BS "General Denial".
Go for it.
I love it! Hope she files suit.
Another "thank you" to Dr. Richardson for her steadfast effort to provide a chronicle of our exhausting times. I especially appreciate her effort to link individual events together in ways that I hadn't previously seen. I follow the news pretty closely, now that I am retired, but there's always something that slips below my radar. In this case it was the reason for the idiotic attempt to prevent the opening of an already-built bridge between the US and Canada. I should have known that there was a grift involving a Trump supporter.
It appears that almost the entire remaining US coal industry was able to be present at the White House for that ridiculous award ceremony. And they didn't even need the Billionaire's Ballroom.
One of the key concepts Heather mentioned at her informal interview at Washington’s National Cathedral the other night was watching a steady pile of cement being poured out of a mixer. It’s gray, slushy, monotonous, fairly uniform — some might say uninteresting in the extreme.
Until you spot a rubber ducky or a child’s toy suddenly pour out of that mixer. Then it gets interesting, Heather said. How did THAT get there. You suddenly sit up, take notice. Something just happened out of the ordinary, the humdrum. That’s what I look for, she added, the sudden blip of the unexpected, something portending that things are not what they appear.
I picture Heather as Jody Foster portraying the SETI astronomer Ellie Araway in the movie adaptation of Carl Sagan’s wonderful novel “Contact.” Listening to washing machines all day long, the ‘priestess of the desert’ straining to hear something uneven, something not of the ordinary, something out there — intelligent life in the cosmos, a sudden, unexplained rubber-ducky pouring out of the cement-mixer….
Thank God she’s listening and watching for us all.
Thanks for sharing this. It's a really perceptive approach, and but for your post I would not have heard of the interview. And I loved that movie.
Me too. One of my favorites. Jody Foster captured the courage, the science — and the spirituality — contained in the novel so deftly. Would that we still had Carl Sagan with us now…
Need to find that and listen. I like the allusion Heather uses—very apt.
James, I agree. I thought Trump’s tantrum about an existing bridge between Canada and Michigan was bizarre, but since he’s a nutjob on the daily, it was just a figment of his grievances. But now we know another whining billionaire started the rant. (I wonder why these people who have more money than 99% of us are ALWAYS so unhappy.)
You just described my own reaction precisely.
You know what naughty children get in their Christmas stockings: a lump of coal.
And the coal miners get black lung disease. The coal companies literally blow the tops of mountains off to get at the coal. The Appalachians' people and environmental groups are working to reclaim what the coal industry has torn asunder in an achingly beautiful landscape and deeply traditional ancient culture. I am from Kentucky. We love our Appalachian Mountains.
Because coal mining has been such a blight to the miners, I wonder that they wish for the mining to start up again. Also, the mountaintop mining used today - besides devastating West Virginia and Kentucky - requires fewer miners, which means Trump's promises of rejuvenating the mining industry for miners is, like everything else he says, false.
Hello Barbara... I sense that DJT knows that his Time is Coming... Being Interested in Only Himself. What Does DJT Care About The Future, or Others?....
Probably. The whole pace seems more frenetic and desperate doesn't it?
Hello Barbara... Seems that DJT is Retreating as Fast as DJT can into the Comfort of his Delusions of Grandeur... I suspect that DJT pressured Galllup to stop polling of POTUS approval ratings, just like DJT fired the director of Labor Statistics.... The USG Is Slowly Collapsing...
The trump USG certainly is. They are/were all too inept to pull it off. And. Most importantly of all. They wildly underestimated the will of the American people. Turns out there are enough of us that really like a Democracy.
He's raping and pillaging as fast as he can
So heartbreaking to go back and visit West Virginia, where I worked for the NHSC back in the early 80's, to see (or not see) those mountain tops gone.
I am originally from mined out Pennsyltucky. Heard Black Lung cases for 20 years, nationally. Many of the companies went bankrupt, and now are controlled by Chinese owners.
The main competion for coal is natural gas. Once upon a time we had degassification programs, but the entire industry was killed under Reagan.
My sources tell me that many of the wells are capped, waiting for high prices.....
The cost of coal production increases, while the cost to produce solar and other alternatives is decreasing.
This retrofitting talk is all junk. And the price given for doing so? A joke. Those mines and the processing plants are old. There is no way even Mr. Peabody would take on the cost and risk of reopening them.
Love the reference! "Daddy, won't you take me back to Meulenberg County?"
"Mr. Peabody's coal mine done hauled it away."
1. Mr. Peabody's coaltrain has hauled them away.
2. The beneficiaries are "pick and shovel" operatives, not coal companies per se.
I just wonder if it is even possible at this point to revive the coal industry. As usual this regime is harkening back to the 1950's.
Bondi was incredibly arrogant and it was clear she is losing whatever soul she may have had before becoming a heil Hitler type to our orange monster. But that’s the essence of— she’s got to show complete loyalty to keep her big job…time will tell though — I believe that unless they succeed in taking over our election process— they will be voted out on the arrogant asses in November—💪
We got to see the real Klaus Bondi the other day — thanks to Jamie Raskin’s meticulously pre-planned, skillful defense he and every other Democrat presented.
Within minutes, they’d taken this dumb, prevaricating woman’s goat, locked it in the basement and thrown away the key. There was nothing Jockstrap Jordan could do about it. As the cameras rolled, that foundation-deep, cast-iron sneer of contempt gave way, revealing the true screaming, screeching, raging, psychotic harpy and lunatic lying beneath. Out-of-control and out-of-breath didn’t begin to cut it.
Again, all this had all been carefully planned. It was the whole point. And he TOLD her ahead of time, point-blank it was all coming her way. “Do not waste one second of our precious time.” She was warned. Yet she persisted.
Well played, Congressman Raskin, well played.
“screaming, screeching, raging, psychotic harpy”. Thanks for that most accurate description!
As they say, "a picture is worth a thousand words." I think Ann Telnaes captured Bondi in a handful of pictures.
https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/bondis-contempt-for-the-rule-of-law
I so admire Raskin — his interrogation was brilliant
They don’t plan to lose, Dems need a plan, man
I know they’re working on it
Unfortunately the only "it" the Democrats are working on is preserving neoliberal capitalism: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/02/11/xobm-f11.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=dn-statement-newsletters-01-24-26
Most telling observation I've seen about Pam the Prevaricator is on Democratic Underground, with 248 recommends: "OMG....I think she's part of the whole sex crime ring!
I got chills and came to that conclusion when I saw this meme yesterday (which I don't know how to post pictures), but this is the text:
Reminder: Guess who Florida's Attorney General was from 2011 to 2019 while Epstein was running his sex ring? Pam Bondi
In light of her testimony yesterday, the utter disregard she showed the victims when asked to face them, and her continued coverup, it makes one wonder if she's part of the whole operation."
https://the.democraticunderground.org/100221016479
Pam Bondi, as a lobbyist for Ballard Partners, registered as a foreign agent for the Embassy of Qatar in 2019 and 2020. She provided strategic advice to enhance U.S.-Qatar relations, trade, and investment. Her work included advocacy regarding anti-human trafficking matters and involved lobbying Congress,, with her firm receiving $115,000 per month.
Key details regarding Pam Bondi's work for Qatar:
Role: Registered as a "Key Personnel" for the Embassy of the State of Qatar,, personally engaged in lobbying services.
Duration: Registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) during 2019 and 2020.
Scope: Focused on strengthening U.S.-Qatar bilateral relations, developing trade/investment, and addressing anti-human trafficking, according to FARA filings.
Compensation: The contract for her firm, Ballard Partners, was for $115,000 per month.
Controversy: Her lobbying for Qatar has drawn scrutiny regarding potential conflicts of interest due to her involvement in matters related to Qatari, government gifts to the Trump administration.
Bondi's lobbying career also included representing other clients such as The GEO Group, in the prison business.
Now AI sayz that Epstein actively attempted to intervene in the 2017 Gulf diplomatic crisis, acting as a back-channel negotiator to help Qatar ease the blockade imposed by Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Based on emails dated July 2017 and later, here are the key details regarding Jeffrey Epstein and Qatar:
Mediation Efforts: Epstein inserted himself into the diplomatic rift, offering to help Qatar, which was under a land, air, and sea blockade. He corresponded with Qatari businessman Jabor Yousef Jassim Al Thani (referred to as "Jabor Y"), a member of the royal family.
Proposed Strategies for Qatar: Epstein advised Qatar to normalize relations with Israel or establish a billion-dollar "victim fund" for terrorism survivors to gain favor with then-US President Donald Trump.
"Sing and Dance" Advice: Epstein controversially told Qatari representatives that they needed to "sing and dance" for Israel to end the blockade, citing Indian Prime Minister Modi's 2017 visit to Israel as a successful model for gaining U.S. favor.
Brokering Meetings: Epstein successfully brokered a meeting between former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Qatari officials in December 2018 in London.
Internal Views: Despite seeking to help them, Epstein privately described Qatar's leadership as "dangerous" and accused the country of "terrorism financing" in his correspondence.
Connection to Other Gulf States: Epstein was also deeply connected to the other side of the blockade, holding close personal and business ties with Emirati tycoon Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem and, according to reports, receiving a Bedouin tent from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
These revelations are part of a larger, ongoing release of documents, with some reports suggesting Epstein was attempting to cultivate influence across the Middle East while operating as a broker for intelligence and business interests.
Wow.
Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, the C.E.O. of the Dubai-based ports giant DP World, is stepping down after his exchanges with Epstein became public.
DP World boss emailed Epstein about sexual experiences. https://www.ft.com/content/d8f95644-b2d2-48d4-8027-7b1e2ac0e59d?campaign_id=4&emc=edit_dk_20260213&instance_id=171043&nl=dealbook®i_id=135335200&segment_id=215230&user_id=7803b42c4685a0dcc6f97ccaa82b3aae
Wow, Greg Olear is right. We’ll never know the extent of the oozing and infiltrating that has, and is, going on. My words, but he has tried to put questions in the public domain so people will ask. Boggles my mind, and I thought that it was about boggled to the max.
On Thom Hartmann this afternoon. -- Why does this keep coming up? Dem lawmaker flags explosive Trump allegation in Epstein files. Here’s the interesting line - “Witness calls FBI’s [National Threat Operations Center] and reports girl, later found dead, told him Trump and Epstein raped her.
So many don’t want to know. And they rule the roost…
Who can doubt the Trumpstein-associated corpses would overflow the Manhattan morgue?
Damn. Right in the thick of it.
“Climate change is the hole in the bucket of every other issue, we want to fix: hunger, poverty, health and more. If we don’t patch the hole, we can’t fix anything.”~ Katharine Hayhoe, Climate Scientist
Coal is dirty to mine, dirty to burn and leaves a mountain of ash to get rid of after it has been burned. It can’t possibly be clean compared to other fuels. Politicians like to use the term “ clean coal” usually when they are looking for votes. It is one of the few examples of bipartisanship left. Usually clean coal is a term heard in the state of West Virginia.
Funny to think of the camp who tend to believe that Donald's heart is breaking for the beautiful birds he imagines are losing their lives to the horrible windmills and that he believes it's none but Himself and coal that will prevent those lovely winged creatures from their sufferings and too early demises...
I sort of picture him ripping the wings from birds and other creatures of beauty...
He doesn't know *&#^ about birds, and certainly does not appreciate the beauty of nature.
“We cannot ignore this earth that surrounds us, feeds us, surrounds us, replenishes our bodies and our souls, and stretches our imagination
where animals, plants, air, water all care for us.
We are all interconnected. People, animals, our environment. When nature suffers we suffer, and when nature flourishes, we all flourish.
I do believe in the possibility of a world we can live in harmony with nature, but only if everyone of us does our part to make that world a reality,
so that when you look back on your journey, your life, you can truly say I did make a difference.” ~ Jane Goodall
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This article is about the scariest account Heather has given us of what we're up against. We're flailing in a tsunami of corruption. Corruption is more imbedded, more pervasive, more integral to every life system on the planet, than we can fathom. We've been snookered by the ownership class and by the economists who justify their drive for growth and wealth.
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I like your graphic comment!