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Film composer, songwriter, essayist. I love to make stuff up. https://open.substack.com/pub/ernesttroost
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Trump is selling the White House at a rate of roughly $1 billion a month (!) - the biggest scandal in US history, 10X worse than Watergate This needs a name: Cryptogate This needs a complete guide, which I've written This needs us to demand action My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." -FDR, 1937

submitted 5 hours ago • 90 comments

This. This is the point. Protesting against authoritarianism shouldn't be partisan. It's American. It's pro-democracy. It's pro-We The People. Democracy requires effort. Now is the time.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Yep.

submitted 5 days ago • 43 comments

“What Vladimir Putin did to Ukraine, that’s an invasion,” Ilya Somin, a law professor at George Mason University, explained. “On the other hand, illegal migration, or drug smuggling, or ordinary crime — that’s not an invasion.”

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Trump Republicanism in action. www.reuters.com/world/us-aid...

submitted 10 days ago • 349 comments

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submitted 10 days ago • 148 comments

Understand this about Trump’s trip to the Gulf: He sold out our national interest for his family's business interest — giving away key U.S. tech innovations to Gulf countries while they cut deals with his advance man, Eric Trump. This isn't America First. It’s Trump Profits First.

submitted 10 days ago • 37 comments

Seems counterintuitive (AI ISN’T democratizing??) but spot on.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

In today’s “Wait A Damn Minute” we expose the truth about Trump’s so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”: Trump is pulling a reverse Robin Hood - he’s taking from the poor to give to the ultra-rich. I’m your Shadow Press Secretary and here are the facts. @thepersistnetwork.bsky.social #WADM

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Wow. Imagine the White House covering up evidence of an old man losing his shit. I wonder if there are any journalists interested in such a topic? 🤪

submitted 14 days ago • 37 comments

Dereliction of duty.

submitted 15 days ago • 1156 comments

"Unprecedented" in U.S. History: Trump & Family Rake In Money from Gulf States, Crypto & Real Estate

submitted 16 days ago • 10 comments

Please watch. Please.

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

"The President is selling access and influence to the highest bidder. Qatar isn't giving a $400 million jet out of the goodness of their hearts – they expect something in return. That's how transactional relationships work, and nobody understands transactional relationships better than Trump."

submitted 17 days ago • 399 comments

“Palestinians are being starved in Gaza by the Israelis, and according to one study, not a single Sunday show in this country has mentioned it,” says @mehdirhasan.bsky.social.

submitted 21 days ago • 19 comments

Newsletter, newest:

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submitted 29 days ago • 19 comments

National Law Day of Action -- May 1st Lawyers, law firms, bar associations, the general public lawdayofaction.org

submitted 29 days ago • 225 comments

This has, in fact, been the point I have been arguing — and over which I got in fights On Here with many of you over these past 100 days. Here was April 17:

submitted 30 days ago • 14 comments

Kash and Kremlin money? youtu.be/K5-CE6zjx9Q?...

submitted 30 days ago • 8 comments

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union says it "unequivocally condemns" the Trump tariffs. "Tariffs are taxes. These and other reckless, shortsighted policies have begun to devastate American workers." "These tariffs are nothing more than a direct attack on the working class."

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If you're in the DC area, make your way out to the Capitol steps! History in the making!

submitted 32 days ago • 186 comments