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Early morning thoughts: as I age, I've become more committed to the radical idea that we are rich enough to ensure that no one goes hungry, everyone gets decent health care with or without a job, and there is housing for everybody. Billionaires are proof this is possible and attainable. Just do it.

Sean Dunn should never have to buy his own lunch in this city again.

Who in their right minds would trust the GOP to come back later and do anything? Their promises ain't worth a hill of beans. If Schumer or Jeffries fold on this, they may as well pack up and leave.

www.foxnews.com/politics/mik...

“He’s having a seizure and they’re trying to rip the baby out of her hands”

When official sources of information dry up or become unreliable, rumors and conspiracy theories take their place. That does not always bode well for whoever is in power.

A lot more than it is today.
This is really almost an obsessive belief that democracy is dead in a country were democracy is very clearly alive.

The SNAP contingency fund holds around $6 billion.

Trump refuses to spend it on the American people.

The same guy who just fast-tracked $40 billion to Argentina.

Trump thinks Argentina deserves our money while he lets Americans starve.

Just think of all the money my government is wasting on SNAP, FEMA, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, veteran's care and children's cancer research! --Donald Trumptoinette

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Late afternoon thoughts: given what is coming out in court about ICE and Border Patrol, this country needs some serious systemic reform of law enforcement and LEO training. Saying "not all cops" doesn't change the fact that law enforcement institutions have failed the citizenry of this country.

It's a VERY NORMAL Dork Tower Wednesday (Thursday Edition)! No pretending - new strip up now, over at the Mothership:

www.dorktower.com/2025/11/05/1...

Repost/Reblog/Repeat (please and thank you!)

I swear, if the day should ever come that I encounter this person, I would let everybody know that they were NOT YOU. (Sheesh.)

In all this time, I apparently missed (or forgot being told about) a FAKE "Diane Duane" - that has to be weird and just offensive on so many levels.

They have the time to tweet at me but no time for Trump to pick up a phone and negotiate huh?

Early-afternoon thoughts: the election victories last night were the result of organizing. But since billionaires are going to spend a LOT of money to fight these wins, we have to keep organizing and keep turning out. Fifty years of GOP overreach doesn't get solved overnight. Keep fighting.

Noontime thoughts: if the GOP wasn't bought-and-paid-for by the Trump Organization, they might have enough brains and willpower to treat Trump as a lame duck, and ferociously tack back towards the "center" (which is where they dragged the Overton Window over the past four decades). But I doubt it.

So what can you do? 🤔

1. Continue pressuring your lawmakers, let them know how unpopular and dangerous censorship and surveillance bills are.

2. Spread the word! Many people have no idea the internet they know and love is under threat.

🗣️ 👉https://www.badinternetbills.com/#online-id-checks

We need to take steps to: curb gerrymandering; end voter suppression; fight racism disguised as "fair play"; ensure that government shutdowns do not jeopardize social programs and federal worker pay; restore fair taxation of the billionaire class; and a LOT of other measures. This fight is NOT over.

Late-morning thoughts: the Trump regime is bent on destroying our formal and informal political norms and practices, along with billionaire capture of the regulatory process. This goes back at LEAST as far as Dick Cheney's term as VP. That destruction must be stopped and never tolerated again.

Starving people to bend them to your will is pure villain.
So villain this is a war crime in international conflict:
www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

Chris Buskirk founded the Thiel-backed Rockbridge Network w/ JD Vance in 2019. In 2021, he published this essay titled: “Rewarding Enemies, Punishing Friends *** The post-Trump nationalist-populist movement must learn who its real friends are.” It begins by quoting former Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt 1/

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.