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A wealth tax on the top .15% of the richest families would generate $6.2 trillion in revenue. That could pay for: Universal childcare Millions of new homes Slashing child poverty Medicare for people aged 55+ Universal paid family leave Tuition-free community college And more.

it is now obvious to every sane and sensible person that those who warned how dangerous it would be to put Trump in the White House were right. open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/tr…

For those just ‘coming to Jesus’ about Trump, you might be shocked to find out he’s stealing everything not nailed down. Also that Russia and Epstein aren’t hoaxes and 2020 wasn’t stolen.

In the past week, Donald Trump has threatened nuclear war against Iran, called for the genocide of 93 million Iranians, publicly attacked the Pope, and compared himself to Jesus Christ. Recall July of 2024 when every pundit and reporter in American media were urging President Biden to step down due to concerns over his cognitive health. Where are those voices now? Where are the demands for Trump to be removed? Where is the flood of op-eds and cable news panels and social media posts calling for the 25th Amendment to be triggered? Why are you all so silent on this?

BREAKING: Senator Elizabeth Warren warns that President Trump has terminated 50% of employees at the Department of Education. What's your response ?

Today, I received a notification of another death in ICE custody. That’s 47 deaths during Trump’s second term. We must stand up and demand real accountability — ICE has a duty to provide care to those in their custody.

From Bloomberg Green Daily: Staff at Microsoft have told some developers of carbon removal credits that the company is pausing what is currently the world’s biggest programfor financing the extraction of CO2 from the atmosphere. @microsoft comment???

This week, I went back to 26 Federal Plaza to conduct my weekly oversight of ICE detention facilities. ICE is once again trying to prevent me from conducting oversight, this time by imposing new paperwork requirements and a 48-hour delay before I can speak to detainees. It is outrageous and yet another attempt by this administration to dodge accountability.

To my Republican colleagues: Trump just announced today indefinite military action and a US blockade to all traffic in the Strait. The costs to the American people have and will continue to be painful. We have a job to do that the Constitution and the American people demand. Let’s get to work. END

Second, we need Foreign Relations hearings with Rubio on the failure of the diplomatic summit in Pakistan, the dangerous threats to withdraw from NATO, the reckless disregard for the safety of American citizens and Embassy staff at the beginning of the war, and the absence of an actual diplomatic plan to end this war. (3/7)

First we need Armed Services hearings with Hegseth, Chairman Caine, and CENTCOM Commander. The American people deserve to know exactly how much this war has cost us to the dollar and how much more we are on the hook for. We deserve answers on the failure to protect our servicemembers in Kuwait, the targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure, including in Minab, and the detrimental impact on our military readiness around the world, including support to Ukraine against Russia. (2/7)

@1813Doncarlo @Roadette33 Absolute madness. wtf? We can’t stop this maniac? It’s a cabal but loaded with fools. I don’t understand.

It's nothing less than a catastrophic failure of our legal, judicial & constitutional safeguards that in a nation of 330 million people, one deranged, dangerously unhinged madman drunk on power could be allowed to destroy a democracy & cause global chaos. It's utter insanity.

@RepDanGoldman @JamesFLoveIV Sickening. What can we do to support you in this effort?

Donald Trump is purging immigration judges who aren’t rubber stamps for his cruel, inhumane mass deportation agenda. In just over a year in office, he has fired more than 100 judges and threatened others who refused to comply with his wishes. This violated every basic element of due process. I introduced the Real Courts, Rule of Law Act to stop him. This bill would transition the immigration court system into an independent judiciary, protect it from the sitting administration, and stop Trump’s weaponization of our immigration system.

Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.

@alfonslopeztena 💯what are we doing? Leaders, step forward with a plan and make it good. This is madness. The ppl want it to stop. And they need to be prosecuted.

US is destroying itself. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled: an administration sabotaging the functioning of the federal government theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@HAL___9OOO @HungaryBased Bot on bot debate in this thread

@HungaryBased Well, at least I got in two trips to Budapest and Pecs before they are overrun by Muslims and 3rd World scum.

With a Supermajority Tisza will be capable of Constitutional Change. Meaning there will never again appear a Hungarian Sovereignist Party. This loss is great, people will remember these elections for decades. But unlike other times in history, we elected ourselves into a client state status. The EU will make brutal changes in Hungary so another sovereignist and nationalist will not rise again. Repression will be made on levels not seen since Trianon or post 1848-1849 War of Independence.

By all accounts, the Presidio in San Francisco is a model park, well run, making money which goes back into improvements, a jewel among the national parks. Now Trump has fired the entire board. More corruption.

Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us. Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage. You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail. Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates. Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you. And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again. And you're calling Greenland poorly run? Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no. "NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years. And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess. So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”