@allenlaird
Mountain Adventurer. Retired Staff Software Engineer. Mensch. I am working to make uncomfortable changes in my failing local community. It has a long history of public corruption and nepotism. We can do better. #Blue
Kristi Noem is the worst DHS Secretary in U.S. history. The American people and House Democrats kept the pressure on to kick her out of office.
Now she's GONE. Good riddance.
Our nation is again at war, not because we had to but because the president recklessly chose to.
Now we must recognize who pays the price: not the president and his wealthy allies, but service members and ordinary Americans.
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WE COULD NOT WRITE IT BETTER OURSELVES.
beyond parody
Trump:
Cut taxes for billionaires
Cut behavioral health funding
Cut health care funding
Cut food stamps
All to fund a war no one wants and was never approved by Congress — increasing the costs on everyone.
Nobel Peace Prize, my ass
1. According to multiple reports both Saudi Arabia and the UAE lobbied Trump to attack Iran.
Both countries have increased their influence with Trump by investing billions in projects that personally enrich Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
The President has launched our nation and our great military into a war of choice, risking American lives and resources, ignoring American law, and endangering our allies and partners. It does nothing to help with the urgent problems here at home that Americans face every day.
This nation learned the hard way that an unnecessary war, with no plan for what comes next, can lead to years of chaos and put America in still greater danger.
WHITE NATIONALISM?
It will be complete bullsh*t!
Reuters: FEDEX SUES UNITED STATES TO GET FULL REFUND OF EMERGENCY TARIFFS AFTER SUPREME COURT FOUND PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HAD NO AUTHORITY TO IMPOSE THEM, LAWSUIT SAYS
Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion.
It’s also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make.
(Published May 2025)
(below an image of Pedro Pascal) “I can't think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” - Pedro Pascal
Trump deported a VETERAN.
You heard that right. ICE & CBP are out of control–exiling the very men who fought for our freedom and risked their lives for our country.
We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.
“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote.
(Published Dec. 2024)
The heads of Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Tesla all joined Trump at his inauguration.
Since then, largely thanks to Trump's Big Ugly Bill, their companies have reaped $51B in federal tax breaks — paid for by huge cuts to our social safety net.
This is what oligarchy looks like.
Ask yourself: why would this administration want to delete references to Medgar Evers’ racist assassin being a racist? Why might that be?
I challenge anyone in this administration or Congress to defend this.
Right now, we have a tax code that forces firefighters and teachers to pay a higher share of their income than many billionaires and major corporations.
We need to change that - because our economy requires it, and because it is simply the right thing to do.
CNN headline that says Trump delivers a deadly blow to EPA’s ability to regulate climate pollution
The president is overruling science to eliminate measures that protect us from pollution and environmental damage, mainly to benefit multinational corporations that have thrown money at his campaign, ballroom, and family.
It's simple corruption, and it will cost American lives and livelihoods.
Headline card with text on the top that reads: "Republican bill guts laws protecting US consumers from toxic chemicals". Photo diptych below shows a plane dropping red fire retardant over a forest and a sign warning of pesticides on a farm.
A new Republican House bill proposes sweeping changes to US toxic chemical laws that would gut protections for consumers, workers and the environment, public health advocates mobilizing against the legislation warn.
Amid these dark moments, something important is beginning to shift.
It's clearly the result of healthy political pressure - which we must sustain, and build.
Amazon Web Services hosts massive surveillance systems for both ICE and DHS.
Citizens Bank provides nearly $1 trillion in credit & bonds to private prison companies.
AT&T has a $147 million contract to provide communications services to DHS.
Know who is profiting from ICE’s cruelty.
B-Bye
If your representative is voting to cut health care while giving tax breaks to billionaires, they should at least be willing to stand in front of you and explain why.
"Lindsey Halligan, tapped by President Trump to prosecute his enemies, has left the U.S. attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Virginia, Attorney General Pam Bondi said late Tuesday after a judge called Ms. Halligan’s bid to remain in office a “charade.”"
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...
I won a prize from the Harvard Shorenstein Center for my newsletter, Popular Information.
“Legum has built a model of journalism that combines meticulous investigative reporting with clear, accessible explanations of how power operates—and who benefits."
Amazon's CEO says Trump's tariffs are driving prices up.
www.axios.com/2026/01/20/a...
