Here's an idea: Blue state farmers ONLY sell their goods to Blue state buyers. Hopefully there's enough labor left to pick those crops and get them to market. Fuck the Red states.
So hardcore Trump voters in blue states have access to all this produce but voters in red states who support Democratic candidates and policies lose out? I'm in MA. I risk nothing by wearing a button or posting a sign or putting a bumper sticker on my car. Liberals and progressives in red states, especially those outside of big cities and university towns, risk more than I do.
I am a 76-year-old American woman who has been fighting cancer for 8 years. I am willing to put my arms around anyone who is being taken by Trump’s ICE team of thugs, and refuse to let go. They can put me in jail. That will make good optics for truth. Who will take the pledge with me: I am an American and I pledge to put my arms around anyone who is being taken by Ice, and hold on tight.” Let’s do it!
For some time now. I've been in California's carceral system (former wife, still advocate) for 15 years and saw it back then. It's been creeping along in this nation since the lock-em-up prison building boom in the late 80s/90s. Sanctioned through propaganda.
And here we are.
This is the prison/military industrial complex now on steroids.
Core civil & GEO annual reports used to refer to their wards as “units” … Shane Bauer wrote a seminal work American Prison about private prisons. He went underground. Brilliant & painful work.
I am so sick and tired of listening to all of the destruction that this Trump administration has caused. There has not been one legal thing that this idiotic moron has done that’s legal, and I am sick and tired of people enabling this imbecile administration. It has gone far enough. Just how far will they allow this idiot to go? Do we have to wait until he starts deporting Democrats because he fu***** hates us, or because a Democrat said FU Donald Trump? Well, you know what, as far as I know, I still live in America, and I can say whatever I want, and if I want to say FU to Donald Trump, I will! What do you think you’re gonna do, Donald? You're gonna arrest everybody that tells you to F OFF? Well, go ahead and try it. I’d like to see it. Go ahead and take one damn step into my house and see what you hear, you’re gonna hear a click click. 🤬🤬🤬😡😡
No. You have to wait until they get to the MAGAs, who don't care who gets hurt unless it's them. They think they're immune and can trust their fraudulent idol.
I don’t think this Admin really cares all that much about trans people — they just discovered it’s an easy trigger they can use manipulate and activate their base.
This administration--especially the a**h**e in the Oval Office--only cares about themselves. Aside from the Dingbat in the Oval Office desperately wanting to be a dictator, he also wants to do all that wheeling and dealing with communist/right-wing countries to fill his pocketbook with scads of wealth which is so huge it already it fills up the universe. It's too bad that the republiCRAPS don't want to face the facts--or are too stupid and ignorant to do it. Most likely it's a combination of both.
The White House and its occupant do not know what law and order means. This is a child who throws a tantrum to get what he wants. Letting a child predator out for work release is endangering any girl or young woman to the abuse she was convicted for. It seems like that's what the republicans want.
Let's call the Trump immigrant facilities what they are: "Concentration Camps." As to "does the regime care?" No, they are having fun with their cruelty. They are establishing a concentration camp in Nebraska and calling it in playful tones: "The Cornhusker Clink." Yes, really. As in "toss them in the Cornhusker Clink! [Giggle giggle]"
Jes Staley, the head of JPMorgan’s Private Bank at the time, “exchanged approximately 1,200 emails with Epstein from his JP Morgan email account.” Several of the emails contained photos of young women in seductive poses and others further “suggest that Staley may have been involved in Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation.”
Staley directly reported to Dimon and worked in an office located a few hundred feet from Dimon.
Equally problematic for JPMorgan, the former Director of Enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Stephen Cutler, was the General Counsel at JPMorgan Chase in 2007 – the same year that Jeffrey Epstein signed a secret non-prosecution agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice and one year before he got the sweetheart deal in Palm Beach County.
Cutler’s office was located next door to Dimon’s office. Cutler worked at the bank as General Counsel from 2007 to 2015 and Vice Chairman at the bank from 2015 to 2018. In that final position, Cutler functioned as a senior advisor to Dimon and the bank’s Board of Directors.
Internal emails clearly show that Cutler was aware that Epstein was a client. In an email, Cutler called Epstein “not an honorable person” and Cutler wanted him fired as a client. Given those emails, it is highly unlikely that Cutler would not have brought the matter to the attention of Dimon or the Board of Directors.
But according to the transcript of Dimon’s deposition conducted on May 26, 2023, Dimon’s position is this:
I don’t recall knowing anything about Jeffrey Epstein until the stories broke sometime in 2019. And I was surprised that I didn’t even — had never even heard of the guy, pretty much, and how involved he was with so many people.
There is a smoking gun email that may put that matter to rest if Congressional committees do their job and put witnesses like Dimon under oath. During Dimon’s deposition, David Boies introduced an email directly referring to a planned Epstein meeting with Dimon. The exchange went as follows:
Boies: “On February 26, 2010, Lesley Groff [an Epstein staffer] writes Mr. Epstein on the subject of, Jes [Staley] and Jamie. ‘Shall I have Lynn prepare heavy snacks for your evening appointments with [redacted], Jes Staley and Jamie Dimon? Or is this to be a nice, sit-down dinner at 9 p.m.?’ And Mr. Epstein replies, ‘Snacks.’ ”
Dimon responds in the deposition: “I have never had an appointment with Jeff Epstein. I’ve never met Jeff Epstein. I never knew Jeff Epstein. I never went to Jeff Epstein’s house. I never had a meal with Jeff Epstein. I have no idea what they’re referring to here.”
We stand at a precipice. The very foundation of our democracy, the principles that define us as a nation – freedom, justice, and the power of the people – are under siege. A regime has taken root that seeks to dismantle these ideals, to centralize power, and to silence the voices of ordinary Americans.
This is not a drill. This is not a partisan debate. This is a battle for the soul of our nation, and we, the American people, are the last line of defense.
To reclaim our democracy, we must face an uncomfortable truth: we must halt the engine that fuels this regime. We must, together, choose to disrupt the very systems it relies upon. This means a collective act of non-cooperation. It means temporarily stopping the flow of productivity that empowers those who seek to undermine us. It means, for a time, accepting financial pain.
I understand the gravity of these words. I know the fear and uncertainty that such a prospect evokes. Families will struggle. Businesses will face hardship. But I ask you: what is the cost of losing our democracy? What is the price of living under a system where our rights are eroded, our voices are silenced, and our future is dictated by a few? That cost, my friends, is far greater and far more enduring than any temporary economic pain we might endure.
Think of those who came before us – who risked everything, who shed blood and treasure, to establish and preserve this nation. They endured famine, war, and unimaginable sacrifice for the promise of a free society. Are we, in this generation, less capable of defending that legacy?
This is not about surrender. This is about strategic withdrawal of our energy and resources from a system that has become weaponized against us. By stopping our collective productivity, we starve the regime of its power. We deny it the resources it needs to perpetuate its control. We create an undeniable crisis that forces a reckoning.
This will be painful. There is no sugarcoating it. But we are a resilient people. We are ingenious. We will organize. We will support each other through community, through shared resources, and through the unbreakable bonds of our common purpose. We must prepare for this pain, knowing that it is the necessary path to a greater good.
The choice before us is stark: a brief, intense period of shared hardship for the promise of a free future, or a slow, agonizing slide into authoritarianism with consequences that will echo for generations.
Let us rise to this challenge. Let us stand together, united in our resolve. Let us choose freedom, no matter the cost. Our democracy, our future, depends on it.
I am so sick and tired of listening to all of the destruction that this Trump administration has caused. There has not been one legal thing that this idiotic moron has done that’s legal, and I am sick and tired of people enabling this imbecile administration. It has gone far enough. Just how far will they allow this idiot to go? Do we have to wait until he starts deporting Democrats because he fu***** hates us, or because a Democrat said FU Donald Trump? Well, you know what, as far as I know, I still live in America, and I can say whatever I want, and if I want to say FU to Donald Trump, I will! What do you think you’re gonna do, Donald? You're gonna arrest everybody that tells you to F OFF? Well, go ahead and try it. I’d like to see it. Go ahead and take one damn step into my house and see what you hear, you’re gonna hear a click click. 🤬🤬🤬😡😡
RE: HIPA act. It is a violation for anyone outside of the patient and their providers to access their personal information regarding any health care they have received. 1996 Privacy Act.
There have been providers that were fired accessing a patient’s history without their permission.
The Trump administration’s request will open an avalanche of lawsuits against anyone seeking information on their health or their family members.
Here's an idea: Blue state farmers ONLY sell their goods to Blue state buyers. Hopefully there's enough labor left to pick those crops and get them to market. Fuck the Red states.
So hardcore Trump voters in blue states have access to all this produce but voters in red states who support Democratic candidates and policies lose out? I'm in MA. I risk nothing by wearing a button or posting a sign or putting a bumper sticker on my car. Liberals and progressives in red states, especially those outside of big cities and university towns, risk more than I do.
I am a 76-year-old American woman who has been fighting cancer for 8 years. I am willing to put my arms around anyone who is being taken by Trump’s ICE team of thugs, and refuse to let go. They can put me in jail. That will make good optics for truth. Who will take the pledge with me: I am an American and I pledge to put my arms around anyone who is being taken by Ice, and hold on tight.” Let’s do it!
Yes, we all need to do it.
We are living under a police state.
I believe that Winston Churchill commented that a nation's penal system is reflective of its values.
For some time now. I've been in California's carceral system (former wife, still advocate) for 15 years and saw it back then. It's been creeping along in this nation since the lock-em-up prison building boom in the late 80s/90s. Sanctioned through propaganda.
And here we are.
This is the prison/military industrial complex now on steroids.
Facilitated by private, for-profit prisons who have an unjust incentive to fill the jails so they can make more money. Jim Crow 3.0
Core civil & GEO annual reports used to refer to their wards as “units” … Shane Bauer wrote a seminal work American Prison about private prisons. He went underground. Brilliant & painful work.
I am so sick and tired of listening to all of the destruction that this Trump administration has caused. There has not been one legal thing that this idiotic moron has done that’s legal, and I am sick and tired of people enabling this imbecile administration. It has gone far enough. Just how far will they allow this idiot to go? Do we have to wait until he starts deporting Democrats because he fu***** hates us, or because a Democrat said FU Donald Trump? Well, you know what, as far as I know, I still live in America, and I can say whatever I want, and if I want to say FU to Donald Trump, I will! What do you think you’re gonna do, Donald? You're gonna arrest everybody that tells you to F OFF? Well, go ahead and try it. I’d like to see it. Go ahead and take one damn step into my house and see what you hear, you’re gonna hear a click click. 🤬🤬🤬😡😡
No. You have to wait until they get to the MAGAs, who don't care who gets hurt unless it's them. They think they're immune and can trust their fraudulent idol.
I don’t think this Admin really cares all that much about trans people — they just discovered it’s an easy trigger they can use manipulate and activate their base.
This administration--especially the a**h**e in the Oval Office--only cares about themselves. Aside from the Dingbat in the Oval Office desperately wanting to be a dictator, he also wants to do all that wheeling and dealing with communist/right-wing countries to fill his pocketbook with scads of wealth which is so huge it already it fills up the universe. It's too bad that the republiCRAPS don't want to face the facts--or are too stupid and ignorant to do it. Most likely it's a combination of both.
The White House and its occupant do not know what law and order means. This is a child who throws a tantrum to get what he wants. Letting a child predator out for work release is endangering any girl or young woman to the abuse she was convicted for. It seems like that's what the republicans want.
I hate this administration! They’re up on their throne looking down on the people seeing what harm they can cause. Just sickening
Let's call the Trump immigrant facilities what they are: "Concentration Camps." As to "does the regime care?" No, they are having fun with their cruelty. They are establishing a concentration camp in Nebraska and calling it in playful tones: "The Cornhusker Clink." Yes, really. As in "toss them in the Cornhusker Clink! [Giggle giggle]"
Jes Staley, the head of JPMorgan’s Private Bank at the time, “exchanged approximately 1,200 emails with Epstein from his JP Morgan email account.” Several of the emails contained photos of young women in seductive poses and others further “suggest that Staley may have been involved in Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/11/the-billionaires-in-the-epstein-files-and-their-ties-to-israel/
This backs up the 1200 email claim “Beauty and the Beast”
https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/rnmgHpzVvwnc/v0
Staley directly reported to Dimon and worked in an office located a few hundred feet from Dimon.
Equally problematic for JPMorgan, the former Director of Enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Stephen Cutler, was the General Counsel at JPMorgan Chase in 2007 – the same year that Jeffrey Epstein signed a secret non-prosecution agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice and one year before he got the sweetheart deal in Palm Beach County.
Cutler’s office was located next door to Dimon’s office. Cutler worked at the bank as General Counsel from 2007 to 2015 and Vice Chairman at the bank from 2015 to 2018. In that final position, Cutler functioned as a senior advisor to Dimon and the bank’s Board of Directors.
Internal emails clearly show that Cutler was aware that Epstein was a client. In an email, Cutler called Epstein “not an honorable person” and Cutler wanted him fired as a client. Given those emails, it is highly unlikely that Cutler would not have brought the matter to the attention of Dimon or the Board of Directors.
But according to the transcript of Dimon’s deposition conducted on May 26, 2023, Dimon’s position is this:
I don’t recall knowing anything about Jeffrey Epstein until the stories broke sometime in 2019. And I was surprised that I didn’t even — had never even heard of the guy, pretty much, and how involved he was with so many people.
There is a smoking gun email that may put that matter to rest if Congressional committees do their job and put witnesses like Dimon under oath. During Dimon’s deposition, David Boies introduced an email directly referring to a planned Epstein meeting with Dimon. The exchange went as follows:
Boies: “On February 26, 2010, Lesley Groff [an Epstein staffer] writes Mr. Epstein on the subject of, Jes [Staley] and Jamie. ‘Shall I have Lynn prepare heavy snacks for your evening appointments with [redacted], Jes Staley and Jamie Dimon? Or is this to be a nice, sit-down dinner at 9 p.m.?’ And Mr. Epstein replies, ‘Snacks.’ ”
Dimon responds in the deposition: “I have never had an appointment with Jeff Epstein. I’ve never met Jeff Epstein. I never knew Jeff Epstein. I never went to Jeff Epstein’s house. I never had a meal with Jeff Epstein. I have no idea what they’re referring to here.”
* The Price of Freedom: A Nation's Stand
My fellow Americans,
We stand at a precipice. The very foundation of our democracy, the principles that define us as a nation – freedom, justice, and the power of the people – are under siege. A regime has taken root that seeks to dismantle these ideals, to centralize power, and to silence the voices of ordinary Americans.
This is not a drill. This is not a partisan debate. This is a battle for the soul of our nation, and we, the American people, are the last line of defense.
To reclaim our democracy, we must face an uncomfortable truth: we must halt the engine that fuels this regime. We must, together, choose to disrupt the very systems it relies upon. This means a collective act of non-cooperation. It means temporarily stopping the flow of productivity that empowers those who seek to undermine us. It means, for a time, accepting financial pain.
I understand the gravity of these words. I know the fear and uncertainty that such a prospect evokes. Families will struggle. Businesses will face hardship. But I ask you: what is the cost of losing our democracy? What is the price of living under a system where our rights are eroded, our voices are silenced, and our future is dictated by a few? That cost, my friends, is far greater and far more enduring than any temporary economic pain we might endure.
Think of those who came before us – who risked everything, who shed blood and treasure, to establish and preserve this nation. They endured famine, war, and unimaginable sacrifice for the promise of a free society. Are we, in this generation, less capable of defending that legacy?
This is not about surrender. This is about strategic withdrawal of our energy and resources from a system that has become weaponized against us. By stopping our collective productivity, we starve the regime of its power. We deny it the resources it needs to perpetuate its control. We create an undeniable crisis that forces a reckoning.
This will be painful. There is no sugarcoating it. But we are a resilient people. We are ingenious. We will organize. We will support each other through community, through shared resources, and through the unbreakable bonds of our common purpose. We must prepare for this pain, knowing that it is the necessary path to a greater good.
The choice before us is stark: a brief, intense period of shared hardship for the promise of a free future, or a slow, agonizing slide into authoritarianism with consequences that will echo for generations.
Let us rise to this challenge. Let us stand together, united in our resolve. Let us choose freedom, no matter the cost. Our democracy, our future, depends on it.
God bless America!
Maybe the hate monger, Stephen Miller, can get hired in construction, agriculture, food service, cleaning, etc.
That maggat idiot wouldn’t make it past the recruiter!
The entire regime is filled with losers who couldn't get hired for anything; that's why they're all crooks and frauds.
I am so sick and tired of listening to all of the destruction that this Trump administration has caused. There has not been one legal thing that this idiotic moron has done that’s legal, and I am sick and tired of people enabling this imbecile administration. It has gone far enough. Just how far will they allow this idiot to go? Do we have to wait until he starts deporting Democrats because he fu***** hates us, or because a Democrat said FU Donald Trump? Well, you know what, as far as I know, I still live in America, and I can say whatever I want, and if I want to say FU to Donald Trump, I will! What do you think you’re gonna do, Donald? You're gonna arrest everybody that tells you to F OFF? Well, go ahead and try it. I’d like to see it. Go ahead and take one damn step into my house and see what you hear, you’re gonna hear a click click. 🤬🤬🤬😡😡
Gerrymandering has made blue areas in red districts bleed.
Nothing says lack of effective leadership more than planning to cheat to win.
You all should snap some clips of Dina Doll when she’s truth telling - they would go viral
RE: HIPA act. It is a violation for anyone outside of the patient and their providers to access their personal information regarding any health care they have received. 1996 Privacy Act.
There have been providers that were fired accessing a patient’s history without their permission.
The Trump administration’s request will open an avalanche of lawsuits against anyone seeking information on their health or their family members.
What is to prevent other snooping?!
( Taco Man ) will always abuse no matter how many ways he plays in this arena. President Putin pulls the strings, clear across, America 🇺🇸.