"Democracy Dies When Billionaire Weasels Own Newspapers."
- Borowitz
@jamesegarcia
Journalist, playwright, comms consultant, husband, father, flaming liberal independent. Host of Vanguardia America and Vanguardia AZ, editor and publisher of the (soon to come) newsletter Vanguardia America on Substack. Founder of New Carpa Theater Co
"Democracy Dies When Billionaire Weasels Own Newspapers."
- Borowitz
Elon Musk has lost about $1 Billion a day since Trump took office, per Ari Melber on MSNBC
Se chingo.
Is "60 Minutes" on life support?
Powerful piece by Marvin Kalb.
Apr 17: Jerome βPowellβs termination cannot come fast enough!β
Apr 22: Trump says he never intended to fire Powell.
βThe press runs away with things,β he said.
Francis taught his followers βto open our hearts to the cry of the poor.β - Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes, the Archbishop of Mexico
#BeHuman
Pope Francis
Rest in Peace
Today, President Trump told the U.S. Supreme Court to fuck off.
Now itβs up to us.
The future is in our hands.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
Trump today, when asked if US citizens can be sent to prisons in El Salvador:
βI donβt know what the law isβ¦β but heβs willing to do it.
The self-described βworldβs coolest dictator,β Nayib Bukele, met today with President Trump, the worldβs most incompetent dictator.
abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...
"I'm very flexible. I don't change my mind, but I'm very flexible." - President Trump when asked about possible exemptions to his wide-ranging tariffs policy.
In Oct. experts said there would be no post-pandemic recession. The odds now? 60%, says Trump ally Jaime Dimon of JP Morgan and former Obama adviser Larry Summers.
The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services has repeatedly claimed: βIf youβre healthy, itβs almost impossible to die from an infectious disease in modern times.β
That is dangerously false.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
I donβt have a tip. I just want to say thank you. Free speech matters. Without it nothing else does.
Trumpβs pre-legacy legacy.
NEW π§΅
The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trumpβs policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border.
Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...
Enormous crowd of 1000s seen at the rally
An overhead shot showing the crowd in the main square
Crazy crowd of 35,000 at the AOC & Bernie Sanders rally in LA.
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#FightOligarchy
βI told you soβ¦β - Kamala Harris.
Yes, you did.
βI told you soβ¦β - Kamala Harris.
Yes, you did.
βLiberation Dayβ apparently liberated us from what the Economist Magazine in October called the βEnvy of The World.β
Trumpβs 145 percent tariffs on China could put droves of US soybean farmers out of business. The head of the American Soybean Association says he doesnβt regret voting for Trump but βsure hopesβ the president knows what heβs doing. - BBC News, April 11, 2025
Now comes the moment of truth. Will Trump obey the law?
To Trump, up is down, wrong is right, and black is white, or should be.
Oh, I get it now. When you lose you win. A loss is a profit. A tariff is not a tax. A lie is not a lie. Got it!
Translation: Trump is likely getting calls from corporate agribusiness leaders who understand the inevitable consequences of the president's cruel and inane mass deportation policy.
This international student is incredibly brave for going on the record about his visa suddenly being revoked, including how he has one semester left and his mom has terminal cancer: www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...
Small victories in the face of Trump's deluge of destruction.
RFK Jr. is killing our children.