Daniela in PA

All night he talked about himself and about her. She, by contrast, talked about you. Because that’s who she works for.

Since the Supreme Court's Chevron decision has taken independent regulation powers away from government agencies, let's take this opportunity to review what happens now if Trump wins and the GOP gets to launch Project 2025. Hint: The 2 are connected. 🧵

The Supreme Court has just lifted 40 years of government regulation removing oversight in most public life: aviation, food, drugs, etc……. Think about that as you board your next Boeing flight.

U.S. politics in a nutshell.

An interesting story for you. Was catching up w/ a friend at coffeeshop. The mother of her friend walked by & joined us briefly. She’s from Chicago. She told us a story about talking to a Chicago police officer. Thanking him for his service. What he told her will surprise you.

Someone asked why Americans tolerate police brutality. There are many reasons, but here is a start: Because the United States is a Potemkin democracy, where in practice, the citizenry have very little say in how they are governed. How is it a Potemkin democracy? 1. We do not have direct national elections for federal officer holders. We are governed by gerrymander, the electoral college, an undemocratic senate, and a Supreme Court where a majority of the justices were nominated by presidents who lost the popular in the first runs for the office. 2. Our courts allows officeholders to choose their own voters, which is frankly embarrassing and bizarre. Dystopian too. 3. We have legal bribery which is called “dark money”, campaign contributions, and lobbying. 4. If we were to be honest, the U.S. is a limited democracy, because of constitutional design and the power of money. 5. Our first amendment treats bad-faith misinformation and disinformation as deserving of the same protections as all political speech, despite the fact that misinformation and disinformation contributed to the death of 1.1M Americans in the recent past. 6. The nation was founded on the premise of liberty and equality, yet the founders owned slaves, and violated them. 7. As a society, we abhor intellectuals, and deride those seeking positive change as “Marxists” or “UnAmerican”, even though the people who are seeking to reform America are often pragmatic idealists who are brave enough to call a spade a spade. 8. The United States has never atoned for slavery and the apartheid of African-Americans. Any mentioning of horrific treatment of African-Americans is called “woke” as a means of demeaning their suffering. African-Americas were enslaved for 10 generations from 1619-1865. They suffered legal apartheid from 1865-1964. They couldn’t legally vote until 1968, which was not that long ago, but many of their fellow countrymen tell them to “get over it”, which is frankly impossible, especially when you’re still be treated as second-class citizens, and you’re still suffering systemic, de facto racism at a societal level. 9. The United States has never atoned for for the genocide of Native Americans, indigenous peoples who lived in the Western Hemisphere, from the Bering Strait to the tip of South American for thousand upon thousands of years. Colonists and settlers exterminated Native Americans with disease, war, and intentional deprivation in the name of God, country, and profit. To this day, Native Americans suffer disproportionately suffer compared to the rest of the U.S. population. Again, this is just a partial list, but it explains how we got to where we are today.

The five signs of fascism: 1) Rejecting democracy in favor of a strongman 2) Stoking rage against cultural elites 3) Nationalism based on “superior” race 4) Extolling brute strength & heroic warriors 5) Disdain of women and LGBTQ+ people Sound familiar?

If you are concerned about the targeting of public school boards in Southern California by Christian nationalists, and want to see open source info about it, I highly recommend following: @Katerqburns @Doro_Slay_Gale @daisykpgardner @TheChartyB @SkySpider_ @AwakenExposed 1/

NEW: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson says his finances make him "relatable." I reviewed 15 years of his finances and found it's hard for any American to understand—let alone relate to it. Here's a financial profile on the new Speaker, as much as we know thedailybeast.com/mike-johnsons-…

From focus on the 'soft voice' of extremist Mike Johnson to soft-selling Trump's dictatorial plans to calling killing civilians 'a crater,' something's very wrong with the media today It's called cowardice Watching democracy die in passive voice. Column⬇️inquirer.com/opinion/commen…

Let me be absolutely clear. Third-party groups such as No Labels are in effect front groups for Trump in 2024, and should be treated as such.

The republicans’ latest speaker nominee was the ringleader of a scheme to overturn the 2020 election in the courts

Most civilians in Gaza are children. He’s casually talking about murdering children, acting as if it’s the natural order of things, instead of a deliberate act of slaughter the US government is abetting.

Keep track of every House Republican who votes for Mike Johnson for Speaker. Each is endorsing an end to all abortions, an end to gay marriage, attacks on LGBTQ and trans people, overturning a legitimate election, supporting Putin. This is a radical, dangerous man.

This week, Scorsese releases his film Killers of the Flower Moon: the true story of the mass murder of the Osage and the theft of their oil wealth. But the story doesn’t end when the credits roll. For 27 years, I've been investigating what happened next... 🧵

You can read this thread in full at: gregpalast.com/americas-osage… #Osage #Oil #KillersOfTheFlowerMoon #LeonardoDiCaprio #MartinScorsese #LongKnife #Documentary

Israel's propaganda will not win. They're a brutal, violent, racist, genocidal apartheid state that's been terrorizing the Palestinians for decades. Everyone will know the truth.

If they gave a quarter of that annually to every person who they will incarcerate here they’d probably eliminate most of the crime. But that’s not really the point, is it.

@HillaryClinton @StateDept @SecBlinken Beautiful and congratulations!

Today, I was honored to return to the @StateDept and join @SecBlinken in unveiling my official portrait as 67th Secretary of State. We're delighted to share it with the American public right here, in case you don't make it in person to headquarters in Foggy Bottom anytime soon.

‘School lunch debt’ is a term so absurd that it shouldn’t even exist. That’s why I’m proud to introduce a bill to CANCEL the nation’s student meal debt and stop humiliating kids and penalizing hunger. fox43.com/article/life/f…