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Republicans love jacking up taxes on poor, hard working families.

Just a matter of time before some university gives Trump $10 million, gets to rename themselves Trump University, and in exchange they get >$100 million in research funding from US, can get visas for foreign students, and can do all of the administrative corruption.

Going to get confusing when every ship in our Navy is called the USS Donald J. Trump.

This morning, like every morning, US President will wake up: paint his face orange, clip on his comical wig, put on a big floppy tie & oversized suit & weird platform shoes, and will go out in the world to steal as much money has he can while undermining US national security & economy & democracy.

“The president’s solutions-focused approach to legal roadblocks necessitated thinking outside the constitutional box.”

Luke Weaver cannot come back fast enough for the @yankees.com. Even when he is on, Williams is so stressful to watch.

When anti-DEI officially becomes pro-Racism.

Musk (1) plausibility increased US spending due to need to fix many of his cuts (2) we lost way more revenue than he is even claiming to save (3) 300k+ dead due to his cuts (4) he stole our data: critical missing context regarding Elite rallying around his opposition to Trump’s Beautiful Murder Bill

seriously, I know this is a crazy radical idea in these extremely normal times but what if democrats stopped voting for trump nominees

Ono disavowed diversity & inclusion & free-speech & protecting funding for universities, and then Florida was like, dude is not pro-Trump enough to lead our university system.

Weird, Corporate Media promised US that they only hated transgenders, not all LGBTQ.

My “no people will not ‘literally die’ with the One Big Beautiful Bill” shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

At his current trajectory, Trump is going steal upwards of $100 billion over 4 years. His corruption has real consequences for US, everyone in the world knows that our national security, our economic prosperity & opportunity, our democracy is for sale.

NYT proudly broke story of extent of Musk's drug use, and a columnist noted he killed 100,000s while stealing data from US, but then went on to post more stories about how he is the visionary businessman we need to save US.

Intentionally misuse of polling by corporate media has had serious negative consequences for US. They told Trump & Democrats that Trump's immigration policies were popular. So Democrats backed-down on immigrant rights & Trump escalated his literal war on immigrants: but it was all based on a lie.

This passage from @michelleyoung.bsky.social’s amazing book THE ART SPY, about foreign Jews being summoned by Nazi-collaborating French police for “status review”—only to be arrested and sent off to internment camps—should sound *horrendously fucking familiar* to all of us living in Trump’s America.

Top article WaPo is just lie after lie after lie about impact of Republican bill: minimizing how many people will lose healthcare, why they will lose healthcare, impact of them losing healthcare. WaPo sprinkles truth late in the article but always caveat truth by calling truth-tellers “left-leaning”

Not sure how typical Republican voters would understand Trump would prioritize deporting undocumented immigrants w/ deep (10+ years) roots in their communities, because even "liberal" corporate media refused to acknowledge this possibility, repeating lie about targeting illegals w/ criminal records.

Again, I have done the thing. New toon: the presser and the coverage. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

New York state reminding us that it is not safe to bring children to Republican states until they are old enough to be vaccinated, because Republicans are eliminating herd immunity for previously eliminated deadly childhood illness.

Stopped by Twitter for a second, and this was one of the top posts in my feed, @yankees.com with innocuous Pride Month logo followed by page after page of unabashed hate. That is all Musk's X is now, and despite knowing this would be the case, it is actually a bit startling.

People keep on asking me about what was I was doing between 1933 and 1945, but I only want to talk my time as an artist between 1908 and 1913.

Either Jake Tapper is wrong that Biden was too old, because Trump is right that Biden is actually a very young cyborg Or Jake Tapper is SaneWashing Trump by ignoring fact he believes that Biden is a very young cyborg

Magical thinking does not persuade bond markets

NYT had 4 major articles on Musk as he left his day-to-day leadership of US. Two are really meaningful & objective coverage (1) dude was on drugs (2) he killed tons of people, slashed services, stole data, while raising our spending. But, two are PR fluff about him being a great man of history.

Begs the question: is Trump functionally illiterate?

Jake Tapper plot line is getting really confusing!

On January 19-20, 2025 this reporter (along with several at NYT) wrote "balanced" articles about Trump launching $Trump days before taking office: noting what a tremendous success the coin was in an industry that new president was cultivating but that it was raising "ethical questions" ...

They cover their faces because they know they are bad guys doing bad things to good people.

Aaron Judge is very good at baseball.

So Jake Tapper was telling US that Democrats covering up Biden’s age (fact: Democrats kicked him off ballot) & Corporate Media not hitting Democrats hard enough (fact: it was biggest story of 2024) was biggest scandal WHILE Republicans & Corporate Media were covering up Musk running US on drugs?!?

Spare me the fake outrage. None of these people showing up for court are criminals of any kind. As a prosecutor, I worked with many ICE officers who arrested violent criminals. None of them wore masks. Many of your agents are clearly ashamed to carry out your orders.