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How We’re All Now Paying the Price for the Myth of Trump’s Competence newrepublic.com/article//myt... via @newrepublic.com
Pete Hegseth burned through $93 billion, including:
$15.1 million for ribeye steak
$6.9 million for lobster tail
$2 million for Alaskan king crab
$140,000 for donuts
$124,000 for ice cream machines
$99,000 for a grand piano
$26,000 for a violin
$21,750 for a flute
$12,000 for fruit basket stands
"It could have been me, but instead it was you
And it may be me, dear sisters and brothers, before we are through
But if you can die for freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom
If you can die for freedom, I can too"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwsJ...
No $ for healthcare, food or heating help, but the Trump treasury department's *unlegislated* tax cuts add hundreds of billions of dollars in new breaks for big businesses & investors — ON TOP of the $4T in tax cuts for the rich enacted in July.
This is illegal btw. But laws are meaningless now.
No Kings: Riverhead, NY. Hundreds turned out to each of two No Kings protests 10/18/2025. youtu.be/SGYV1gq9Nhc?...
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Fed judge mocks Trump pleadings v. NYT: “…in one of many, often repetitive, and laudatory…but superfluous allegations, the pleader states, ‘The Apprentice’ represented the cultural magnitude of President Trump’s singular brilliance, which captured the [Z]eitgeist of our time.”
Judge Steven Merryday
Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."
With all Trump's yammering about what should and should not be in museums, I can't help but wonder: Do you think he's actually ever been inside a museum — not for some ribbon-cutting or an "appearance" but just for the sake of viewing exhibits and learning? NVM. Dumb question.
Star Confectionery, the Riverhead luncheonette known to locals as Papa Nick's, served its last customers on Sunday after more than a century in business.
Crowds flocked today to the Polish Town Fair and Festival, an annual summer favorite in Riverhead since 1975. Photo gallery.
Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"
Social Security - "That's socialism!"
Debt free education - "That's socialism!"
Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"
$1 trillion+ in tax cuts for the wealthy...
"That's just how it is."
No. He’s a racist prick.
A couple years from now, once right-wing "rage" against antisemitism fades, and it's OK to be blatantly antisemitic again, expect Damsky to be appointed to a high-level post in the administration. #Trump'sAmerica
After receiving the award, this POS joined X and "began posting racist and antisemitic messages. After he wrote in late March that Jews must be 'abolished by any means necessary,' the university suspended him, barred him from campus and stepped up police patrols around the law school."
This same student also advocates that the courts should attack the 14th & 15th amendments and that nonwhites should be stripped of voting rights and given 10 years to leave the country. #Trump'sAmerica
Trump-appointed judge teaching a class on "originalism" at U. of Florida law school gave the top award in his class to a racist miscreant who argued in his "capstone" paper that the Constitution only applies to white people. The dean of the school defended the award. #Trump'sAmerica
Latino parishioners of St. John the Evangelist Church and community allies walked in support of immigrants Sunday evening after the 6 o'clock mass. Photos and video.
Nassau County, New York's ordinance on 15 foot so-called Zone of Protection from first responders endangers the public's right to know. By @deniseciviletti.bsky.social
www.newsday.com/opinion/comm...
Crowd of more than 200 turned out for #handsoff rally in deep red #Riverhead this morning. More photos and video here: riverheadlocal.com/2025/04/05/h...
@booker.senate.gov You’ve always had my respect and admiration but your passion and eloquence for 25 hours on the Senate floor blew me away. Thank you, Senator Booker.
Justice Thurgood Marshall,
July 4,1992
“We must dissent from a government that has left its young without jobs, education or hope. We must dissent from the poverty of vision & the absence of moral leadership. We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.”
“We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that has buried its head in the sand, waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, & its sick to disappear & just blow away…”
“Democracy just cannot flourish amid fear. Liberty cannot bloom amid hate. Justice cannot take root amid rage. America must get to work. In the chill climate in which we live, we must go against the prevailing wind…” 1/3
“…for democracy—in America and Europe—to stand a fighting chance, lawyers committed to the rule of law must take action now.” Article by UCLA law prof Scott Cummings, interviewed by @maddow.msnbc.com last night, worth reading in full. verfassungsblog.de/stopping-aut...
@jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social handled this ethically and honorably from the beginning — more than we can say of the clowns who breached security protocols and then lied to cover it up. I'm proud to be a subscriber of @theatlantic.com and appreciate your journalism every day. Thank you!
Now that Trump said this chat didn't contain classified information, @theatlantic.com published the full chat. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
"Climate change is something we need to take seriously," then-Congressman Lee Zeldin said in 2018. In his eastern Long Island district "nearly completely surrounded by water, rising sea levels and its impact on the coastal economy, fisheries and tourism is a pressing issue we must address," he said.
