There are no guardrails. The Supreme Court ruling corporations are people funneling unlimited funds to elected officials. Representatives taking these funds and do their bidding. Congress sits by doing nothing to stop drumf. Democrats can't even vote no across the board. Corruption is dismantling us
I live in NorCal and have been to Alcatraz numerous times. It's in a state of arrested decay; saying he'll rehab it is just laughable. It's a distraction, of course, a lie, as are all his circus acts.
After reading Donald's executive orders from April 28th, I can't get Donald's police state ambitions out of my head. And this Alcatraz announcement fit right in with removing 'criminals.' His EOs were overbroad. But his commands to his AG & SecDef & DHS were clear. I'm worried. https://youtu.be/GNUylogEEUE
While he distracts us with headlines from Gulf of America to Greenland to Canada to Pennies and Alcatraz, his family is amassing wealth in crypto and deals across the global as our country is destroyed and we struggle to pay our bills and taxes used to kidnap dying children, fathers and mothers. Sad
There are many people who are posing as Heather. In this case, simply look at the picture of the poster. It’s clearly not her. Some are working hard to clone her account, using her current profile picture too. If the content doesn’t match what you know about her, it’s not her.
...and the folks who have been duped by those imposter-sites get SO offended when we (fans) call them out. "Everyone in this group knows it's not her...leave it be!" for example..my eyes cross trying to tell them they've missed the point...
I used to live in SF in the early 80's. The only way I could see wasting taxpayer dollars on this is if the first inhabitant was Donald J. Trump on a lifetime sentence, no chance of parole.
@alsobrooks.senate.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @hoyer.house.gov He is getting more and more desperate and unhinged. His attack on federal parks is COSTING the government money. Not to mention everything else. Where does this end? When? How?
I remember when the idea was for grandparents to willingly sacrifice their lives/health to covid to keep the economy/ stockmarket humming for (supposedly) their grand kids.
Alcatraz "represents something that's both horrible and beautiful and strong and miserable, weak." That guy's a real visionary. He touches all the bases with that one.
Bulwark had a word....
Megalomania is a mental illness. People with megalomania have delusional fantasies that they are more relevant (important) or powerful than they truly are.
Add that to Narcissist...
Governmental agencies and programs worked the way they were supposed to: humming along, providing services with most people unaware of how they worked or how much they benefited from them.
Just like Joni Mitchell sang, "Don't it always seem to go? You don't know what you've got till it's gone."
Maybe, I would hope that they get past the idea that it's this thing called the government that's responsible for their problems. In reality it's the people in power making decisions based on their beliefs and prejudices that guide their thinking that affect how their government works.
Imagine if the Bidens had orchestrated a crypto scheme of this magnitude, sold $5 million dinners with the commander in chief, or cut a deal with a foreign government for a $5.5 billion Biden-branded Middle Eastern golf resort. Gotta love the shameless double standard of it all.
Anyone who can scream for years about Hunter Biden, and then tolerate this and not scream one thousand times louder, is not an ethical person. The republican party is not, today, an ethical party. Situational ethics is no ethics.
It is fair to see the big picture. Ethics and all that. In life you have to make choices. Those who only vote when they get exactly what they want, or refuse when they don't get promised their issue have helped lead us to this place. There is a lot of work to be done. Choosing better is better.
Agreed. I've grown annoyed at all the posts & comments saying "If Biden this" or "If Obama that." We know they're hypocrites. We know that remarks like that can't shame them, as they're incapable of being shamed. That stuff just feels like a waste of time at this point. Sigh...
The media isn't what I think the founders envisioned. Once you are owned by a corporation that has countless interests, you have countless you can't offend. Independent helps, but lacks resources.
CNN well illustrates the second issue. Money. Trump got eyeballs, which was their goal, not truth.
The corporate mefia conglomerate, owned by oligarchs=gop. They control the content for their own benefit. What is frightening is normal ppl who know this still get bamboozled. Some independent media is just as bad as corporate- they are trying to get paid as well. Critical thinking is crucial.
I've watched some hearings and dems are shouting and shouting loud at their rep colleagues.... however it does seem as though they have 'selective hearing'
Definitely no morals or ethics I agree.
This is exactly the tactic from Goebell's saying, viz. "accuse the enemy of that which you are doing." So of course Trump's accusations against the Biden's were gaslighting for what his own criminal family was getting up to, and now they have the power of the presidency WTF.
He says everything first so that if the left tries to actually claim that it looks like “I’m rubber in your glue” or “me too me too” He poisons the pool. Because he’s poison.
The Trump Crime Family includes all the people it seems you're expecting to call them on it. Those people will, apparently, never stand up against their illegality or for the rule of law. They will all need to be prosecuted and voted out of office.
If you're MAGA it's all fun and games to talk about the Biden Crime Family, but if you talk about the Trump Crime Family you wake up with a horse's head in your bed.
Trump understands that no one is going to call him out on what he's doing, so he's free to enrich himself without fear of prosecution. He's put a sign out on the white house lawn that says the presidency is for sale.
How is this an official duty to have immunity?
You can tell he sees people are on to him by his toddler tweets...
Yet, yes, his admin won't call him out... so who is it that does?
Ugh. 47 is mentally crumbling in front of the whole world. And his party is fine to sit back, do nothing, and let us all crumble with him. It's up to us to help each other, to look out for each other, to fight for our country alongside each other. We can & must bring this regime down.
When I saw the Alcatraz story, I assumed it was because someone mentioned Alcatraz in passing within earshot, much as I assumed the Columbus Day thing came because he was briefly in Italy. He has the mind of the squirrel-chasing dog from "Up". I appear to have been more right than I knew...
"Representative David Joyce (R-OH) acknowledged this morning on CNN that Christmas trade is already slowing down, but added: “I think American people will understand that because American people understand shared sacrifice.” I think Covid showed this is NOT true, esp for a certain segment...
It keeps making me really mad that the people saying Americans need to sacrifice are the last ones who intend to sacrifice anything themselves. Anyone who hears them say that needs to interrupt and ask them what they personally are sacrificing to the cause. And not let them wiggle out of answering.
Billionaires should rob each other and leave us alone. When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose,go live in your bunker in new Zealand and leave us be.
Love that. And they should be prepared, so they can say, "...but you are in the top 0.05% of Americans, worth over $3B, so what will you actually have to sacrifice, really? You might pay extra for something, maybe even a lot extra, but you can afford it, and it won't make any difference to you".
Interesting, isn't it, that America should refuse to "sacrifice" in order to help those in need, but are expected to "sacrifice" to Trump and his already ridiculously wealthy cronies...
Until there is proportional sacrificing across the board from the oligarchs on down, that nonsense won't even register with me.
#makeoligarchsgoextinct
Yes. Exactly this. I am capable of sacrificing for the greater good. But what is the great cause Americans are being asked to sacrifice for here? Tax cuts for the super rich?
They will never be sacrificing anything because when essentials like food become unaffordable for the average citizen they have the means to acquire what they need.
I think what they mean is they need Americans to use as ritual sacrifice, not that Americans need to sacrifice. We’ve all just been too normal to understand that they want to purge the poor, progressives, the elderly, and pretty much everyone outside the oligarchy.
It wasn't just the listening. Transcribing speech is hard enough when it is coherent. But often his words are so random I could only do it a few words at a time.
A good chunk of my public sector career was interviewing and attending meetings for projects. Listening carefully and accurate note taking was essential. I was pretty good at it. But I couldn’t have done in a million years what you did with capturing trump.
The professor records quotes by the Mango Mussolini... I pity future historians.
And we think reading official Victorian Era legal documents is confusing, with all the clauses; unfamiliar capitalization; and the circular referencing therein. 🤦🏼♂️
You make learning so interesting and relevant. I never cared much for history or government studies in school but if you had been my teacher I think would’ve felt differently.
How is it possibly a “shared sacrifice”when Trump and family become richer based on Trump’s failed policies and the working class continues to struggle?
A master of deflection Trump had us talking about Alcatraz instead of all the headlines reading Trump doesn't know that he has to uphold the Constitution. This statement is an admission that he doesn't intend to follow the Constitution and that he will defy court orders.
God that woman is so clueless about education. I spit my coffee when I heard her say: “Harvard is refusing to follow the law!” I think Pam Bondi then added something about not giving them grants. I wanted to scream, “seriously, please say that while looking in a mirror AND DO IT WITH A STRAIGHT FACE
Alcatraz would be the perfect place to send Trump and his cohorts just as it is now with no running water and facilities. Let them live out a grown ups version of Lord of the Flies.
Whoa! The 34x Felon, sexual abuser, tax cheat and fraudster says we need law and order in this country? Why, yes, we do. I suggest we start at the top. You first, "sir".
I admire the way Heather takes facts and explains them in the context of history and now. She connects different streams, showing where they converge. Additionally she shows us her sources so we can check her writings and expand our own research!
We should share her letters as widely as we can!
This was also in the 404 article... pretty f'd up...
An open AI video generation model that was released last month is now being used by thousands of people to generate nonconsensual sexual videos of real people.
I wasn't aware he released ethics agreement...thank you.
As worthless as it is... lol
Curious about where judge is at with the order to 'facilitate the return' of those in El Salvador. I thought is was done, ordered and judge said no more excuses...
And AEA was baseless...?
I read this one at 6:30 am and, as always, I’m grateful for HCR. The scale of corruption is staggering. Wondering if GOP congress’s pockets are being lined with $. Or are they all just Quislings?
Loved the comments of fellow HRC fans.
Trump is not genius at deflecting. Media just fall for it.
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. Krasnov is the Piece of Shit (POS) uncle no one wants to have over for dinner.
And the mainstream media is absolutely clueless of the term “Trade Imbalance” and why it exists.
Explain it to the American people in simple terms. We will get it.
As you wrote, the Constitution explicitly forbids the President from profiting off the office. The written exception is unless Congress allows it. The fact that Congress has done nothing to prevent Trump from abusing it is a strong indication they allow it.
One of those stories is that Trump’s popularity is falling in rural areas, which make up his base. That popularity is unlikely to rebound quickly, as rural areas are being hardest hit by the administration’s cuts.
I think that Donald Trump, in his delusions of grandeur, wishes to be seen as possessing the same attributes that he assigns to Alcatraz, ie: "horrible and beautiful and strong and miserable." (He'd never admit to "weak").
A 'megalomaniac' is a pathological egotist, that is, someone with a psychological disorder with symptoms like delusions of grandeur and an obsession with power. We also use the word megalomaniac more informally for people who behave as if they're convinced of their absolute power and greatness.
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Megalomania is a mental illness. People with megalomania have delusional fantasies that they are more relevant (important) or powerful than they truly are.
Add that to Narcissist...
Well, Donald is how you teach Americans how the government works and now how tariffs work.
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Just like Joni Mitchell sang, "Don't it always seem to go? You don't know what you've got till it's gone."
Now? Complete demented silence.
I guess they were just ahead of their times...
CNN well illustrates the second issue. Money. Trump got eyeballs, which was their goal, not truth.
Definitely no morals or ethics I agree.
Immigrants now equate to "terrorists" and he's working on saying Communists instead of Democrats.
Hey, wanna buy a watch?
'Deals' instead of crimes...
You can tell he sees people are on to him by his toddler tweets...
Yet, yes, his admin won't call him out... so who is it that does?
#makeoligarchsgoextinct
Their "sacrifice" is they have to be the ones who nobly tell everyone else to do without.
Surely this will give him a stroke sooner rather than later.
He is not helping himself, yet ,yes, keep talking bud!
And we think reading official Victorian Era legal documents is confusing, with all the clauses; unfamiliar capitalization; and the circular referencing therein. 🤦🏼♂️
This, to me, is not a part of his official duties.....
Geez...
And I can multitask.
He's to weak. And most likely knows he is incapable of running the country!
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/21/nx-s1-5371723/trump-administration-collections-on-defaulted-s
We should share her letters as widely as we can!
An open AI video generation model that was released last month is now being used by thousands of people to generate nonconsensual sexual videos of real people.
Not a fan of this statement.
As if we are his personal sacrifices...
As worthless as it is... lol
Curious about where judge is at with the order to 'facilitate the return' of those in El Salvador. I thought is was done, ordered and judge said no more excuses...
And AEA was baseless...?
Loved the comments of fellow HRC fans.
Trump is not genius at deflecting. Media just fall for it.
And the mainstream media is absolutely clueless of the term “Trade Imbalance” and why it exists.
Explain it to the American people in simple terms. We will get it.
Though at this point, I'd settle for a functioning news media.
Frightening!