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Watching in dismay from afar while my country is overtaken by oligarchs. Personal finance educator and coach. American abroad.
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regarding the bombings now happening in Tel Aviv and Tehran as I’ve said before about other places (especially Gaza) civilian populations shouldn’t be bombed, it’s horrible nobody should do this to anyone, and I hope someday humanity evolves beyond this cruelty

Happy No Kings Day!

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started theonion.com/netanyahu-ca...

It is actually nuts that even when the NYC political establishment was presented with a broad field of talented candidates w/ many ideas, in a time of generational change & anti-corruption, they STILL chose to line up behind scandal-ridden Andrew Cuomo. It’s cowardice.

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

LATEST ON ABREGO GARCIA: The DOJ asked the case in Maryland be stayed; A G lawyers in a blistering response: "Until the Government is held accountable for its blatant, willful, and persistent violations of court orders at excruciating cost to Abrego Garcia and his family, this case is not over."

Pity the nation whose people are sheep And whose shepherds mislead them Pity the nation whose leaders are liars Whose sages are silenced And whose bigots haunt the airwaves

The only way to teach self regulation is to model it.

What's your biggest frustration when it comes to your personal finances?

The way we were treated at Delaney Hall is almost unbelievable. ICE shoved me, manhandled @repbonnie.bsky.social, and arrested Mayor Baraka. They disrespected us and tried to stop us from conducting the oversight we’re elected to do. But we’ll never back down in our fight for what is right.

“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

This is such good news!

I saw some guy online comment today that "we need a male AOC" and I had to shut my laptop and go for a nice, long walk in order to avoid screaming.

I said it this morning on the broadcast: I do not think other judges, and particularly judges on the Supreme Court, are going to look favorably on Trump arresting other judges for refusing to let ICE kidnap people without a judicial warrant.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

“It is not uncommon for guards to withhold food unless we take our shirts off," writes prison journalist Kwaneta Harris in Texas.

Politics is more clear when you remember that the "waste" in "government waste" is the profit that some rich asshole isn't making off labor in the public sector whose only purpose is the common good.

They’re not “deporting” people, they’re kidnapping them and sending them to foreign prisons. Concentration camps. They’re paying these countries to imprison humans. It’s human trafficking.

This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

Think you’re safe travelling to the US? Think again. The EU is (correctly) telling staff to take burner phones. I’d advise people not to go at all unless they’re prepared to end up detained. The data rapists are in cahoots with the dictator, they already know everything. It’s NOT a safe country.

I suppose if you're a billionaire your experience might differ. I imagine that the 1920s were roaring for fewer people than we think

🧵I get a lot of questions about what will happen to Social Security payments. The way I see it, there are 3 factors that will impact payments, all of which will feed off each other to exponentially increase the likelihood that SSA will miss payments: backlogs, error, and system failure.

Trump is defying a 9-0 Supreme Court ruling against him. The Constitutional Crisis is no longer some abstract idea, it's right here staring us in the face.

So by paying our taxes, we pay for a Central American dictator who runs the 116th-richest nation in the world to build five more supermax concentration camps slated to be filled with our countrymen and wholly innocent legal permanent residents of the United States? Is that right?

Trump is flaunting the supreme court’s ruling on Kilmar Abrego Garcia. ICE laid a trap for green card holder Mohsen Mahdawi and abducted him at a “citizenship” meeting where he learned they had revoked his green card. We’ve already been reckoning with Mahmoud Khalil’s detention since March 8th.

We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.

We're living in an authoritarian regime. The MAGA coup was successful. People still aren't waking up and seeing what's directly in front of them.

Paying taxes with tears in my eyes knowing what they're paying for - disappearing innocent people to a concentration camp in El Salvador. What have we become?

Kidnap is a more accurate term.

He wants to deport US citizens...

I can't think of a time in history where a majority of white Americans showed basic human decency towards non white people. This is what we've always been. We've just violated people's human rights within the law (nominally)b in the past. Now we're doing it with a dictator in defiance of the law.

The executive targets his opponents w/bogus investigations. His government disappears people w/out due process and vanishes them beyond reach. He usurps legislative power, controls public funds at will, & consolidates power. Loyalty is expected — or else. Authoritarianism isn’t coming. It’s here.