The Beta Brigade: Trump’s Faux-Alphas and the Crisis of American Manhood They pose as tough guys—but follow Trump like lost puppies. Our sons are watching, and it's time for better role models.

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The Beta Brigade: Trump’s Faux-Alphas and the Crisis of American Manhood open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Robert Reich post: If the minimum wage had kept pace with worker productivity gains since the 1960s, it would now be nearly $26 an hour.

May Day Reminder:

The Federal Minimum Wage - in the richest country EVER - is still only $7.25/hr.

UNACCEPTABLE.

The big flag for today is... planning starting for another day of action.

Immigrant and civil rights groups are gearing up for a major push on May 23rd in response to Trump's latest set of anti-immigrant executive orders. Planning call will be TODAY at 4:00PM.

A Double Win For Voters in Pennsylvania Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

May Day Strong: We are the Many · May Day Strong Across the country—from fruit fields in California to classrooms in Chicago, from kitchens in Queens to loading docks in Atlanta—working people are rising up. **We are demanding a country that puts ou...

I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “May Day Strong: We are the Many” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...

So much contained in these three paragraphs in the NYT:

I cannot say this strongly enough --

If you are a member of the DC Bar, VOTE NOW for Diane Seltzer for president.

Jesus’s parents were unwed and undocumented. So he got what he deserved.

by J. D. Vance

Sign reading "so tired of living in an Onion article"

An important message.

“‘Pretty soon, within the next couple of weeks, everything regarding IT and cyber at the department will start to operationally reach a point of no return,’ one source, who was part of a team that managed these systems at HHS for a decade before being part of the RIF, alleges to WIRED.”

#NoKings

Thanks to @meidastouch.bsky.social for sharing stories of the resistance on both sides of the border.
#elbowsup

We the people are PISSED!📍NYC / April 19

Join the People’s Movement at www.FiftyFifty.one.

#PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #50501Movement #April19 #NYC @polrev.bsky.social @meidastouch.com

HUNDREDS of protests and MILLIONS of protesters in big cities and small towns all across America today.
From Washington D.C. to St. Paul, Minnesota. New York City to Chicago.
Hartford, Connecticut to Phoenix, Arizona — and absolutely everywhere in between.

The “50501” movement is…

Chutzpah. Sheer chutzpah. And I’m glad the Court saw through it.

Honestly, me too.

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

50 people stand for democracy in Lewisburg PA, April 19 2025.

Lewisburg, PA is small but mighty! #HandsOff @50501movement.bsky.social

There are heroes among us. Thank you, Judge Berman Jackson.

It's a "small" thing. But she knows it will direct the ire of the powerful against her and she did it anyway. As Vindman said, "Here, right matters."

And there it is: Russell Vought is confirmed.

I wrote a long profile of him, his worldview, his political project: He’s one of the architects of Project 2025, an avowed Christian nationalist, and a radical ideologue of the “post-constitutional” Right.

He is at war with pluralistic democracy.

Trump mocks the science that predicted this catastrophe then, when it happens, he blames others for political gain while the fires rage.

GFY

The Washington Post calls January 6 and the events leading up to it "election-reversal efforts." It has gotten Orwellian over there.

I will say again, support independent, pro-democracy media.

Brazil ex-President Jair Bolsonaro indicted over alleged knowledge of coup plot | CNN Federal police accused Bolsonaro of “full knowledge” of a 2022 plot to kill his successor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and overturn the results of the presidential election.

“Brazilian authorities have indicted ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, accusing him of ‘full knowledge’ of a 2022 plot to kill his successor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and overturn the results of the presidential election.”

Well, look at this thing called “accountability”…

www.cnn.com/2024/11/21/a...

Soon, the zombies will come for Medicaid. Clearly, Rs will try to push many off the program with work requirements. Except anyone who has looked at the numbers knows that more than 1/2 of the money goes to the elderly and disabled ... 1/

The anti-vaxxer DHHS Secretary has a brainworm.

The Secretary of Defense has Christian Nationalist tattoos and is accused of Sexual Assault.

The DNI was called "a Russian spy" by former Rep. Kinzinger (R-IL).

The DHS Secretary kills her pets.

The AG is accused of pedophilia and Sex Trafficking.

Veterans Day & Project 2025 on the Military Because it’s Veterans Day, it feels appropriate to touch on what the new administration has intimated it has in store for our troops.

Not a lot to celebrate for vets in Trump's plans for the military open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

A friend of mine posted this on Veterans' Day.

trump will be the next reagan in the sense that in 30 years every time you notice some horrible defect in society you'll do some quick research and trace it back to trump

I guess some people really do like to learn things the hard way.