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Bill Stella Spotify:BEaREALMAN billrealman.bsky retweeted
Judge Luttig has again performed a great service to the United States Constitution and to our republic by unsparingly and with great care and learning spelling out the steps that the Trump Party — I will not dignify it by calling it the Republican Party — plans to take in making January 3, 2027 the next January 6, another Day That Will Live in Infamy; and by meticulously and realistically outlining what all elected representatives of the American People must do — starting now — if they wish to redeem themselves in the eyes of history and avoid becoming the grim executioners of our once-great experiment in government of the people, by the people, and for the people. — Laurence Tribe
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Bill Stella Spotify:BEaREALMAN billrealman.bsky retweeted
New live show starts 1 p.m. Monday!
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Bill Stella Spotify:BEaREALMAN billrealman.bsky retweeted
As a former State Dept officer I wish I could say this map mistake is the worst it gets, but sadly this is nothing compared to the colossal mistake of the Iran war and other disasters of Trump’s foreign policy.
Bill Stella Spotify:BEaREALMAN billrealman.bsky retweeted
The Voice of America has been telling the story of U.S. freedom since the Second World War. Under Donald Trump’s Administration, the agency was slashed, as an executive order put it, “to the minimum presence and function required by law.”
newyorker.com/news/annals-of…
Bill Stella Spotify:BEaREALMAN billrealman.bsky retweeted
Difficult to describe in ordinary words or language just how corrupt Trump is and how unprecedented Trump's corruption is.
“Another way of saying it is simply that we’re replacing the free market with the market for Trump’s affections.”
Must read scoop from the WSJ: wsj.com/politics/policy/trum…
Bill Stella Spotify:BEaREALMAN billrealman.bsky retweeted
Why aren’t Democrats all over this? A Trump supporter just got sentenced for murdering a Democratic politician and her husband.
Bill Stella Spotify:BEaREALMAN billrealman.bsky retweeted
Deeply disturbing story. Survivors of US boat strikes allege they were kidnapped and tortured for days by the US military. The prosecutor investigating the claims was just assassinated.
Bill Stella Spotify:BEaREALMAN billrealman.bsky retweeted
This mass partisan retribution is appalling, outrageous, dangerous, lawless, unconstitutional, unpatriotic and a massive offense against the Republic. Trump knew how important these Biden-era grants were to the American people, which is why he did not cut them off to the red states, but did cut them off to the blue states. This is rank partisan discrimination in violation of the First Amendment and Equal Protection, conflicting with the president’s duty to “take Care that the laws be faithfully executed.” Every elected official must denounce this imbecilic deep betrayal of America. And the illegally impounded funds must be restored and released immediately to the blue states. nytimes.com/2026/07/24/busin…
Bill Stella Spotify:BEaREALMAN billrealman.bsky retweeted
Last week OMB Director Vought lied to my face when he said they don’t use politics in funding decisions. Now we have proof. In court, the Trump admin admits they based decisions on who the states voted for President. That’s a disgusting abuse of power.
Breaking News: Federal officials acknowledged in court documents that they canceled grants to states that didn’t vote for President Trump in 2024. nyti.ms/4pIbybQ
ALT Electrical transmission towers stand with hazy mountains in the background. A headline reads: "Trump Administration Admits Canceling Energy Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him." Photo by Alex Welsh for The New York Times.
Bill Stella Spotify:BEaREALMAN billrealman.bsky retweeted
Trump has squandered at least $35B and 18 servicemembers' lives on his disastrous Iran War.
Now, 100 days before the midterms, the fallout is only getting worse.
Bill Stella Spotify:BEaREALMAN billrealman.bsky retweeted
As America marks its 250th with misgivings and malaise, how about if we seek inspiration from the Nordic model going forward? I traveled to Scandinavia to understand how these countries achieve prosperity and a high degree of equality -- while also becoming the happiest places on Earth.
As Norway's finance minister, @jensstoltenberg, told me: “We actually live the American dream....The American dream, it’s more reality in the Nordic countries than in America.”
They do have real challenges, and it's not entirely clear that the Nordic model is fully sustainable, let alone replicable. And we're not going to adopt it wholesale. But the US was actually on a similar track in the 1950s and 1960s, so it's not exactly alien. And I argue that in the Nordic model there is much to admire and learn from -- and adopt. Here's a gift link, and I welcome your thoughts: nytimes.com/2026/07/04/opini…
Bill Stella Spotify:BEaREALMAN billrealman.bsky retweeted
I doubt many people are going to read the 55-page report "From Vanity to Insanity: How the White House Cheated the American People Out of Their 250th Birthday" put together by Democratic staff of the House Natural Resources Committee so here's how it ends
ALT The deepest harm is not the sum of what has already been taken, but what the country is being asked to accept. Left unanswered, the methods catalogued in these pages do not expire with this anniversary; they become a manual, usable against any institution, any commemoration, any store of public trust a future administration finds inconvenient or lucrative. So, the question this record calls to answer is larger than the conduct of any one official. It is whether a self-governing people, shown in detail how the corruption of its own founding milestone was carried out, will shrug and conclude that this is simply how things are done now. The semiquincentennial was meant to remind Americans of what they hold in common. Let the record of how it was abused remind them of what they must never consent to lose.
Bill Stella Spotify:BEaREALMAN billrealman.bsky retweeted
After decades of white men somehow finding work in theatre, we have finally arrived at the crisis point: Kevin Lynch has encountered a room that was not immediately built around Kevin Lynch.
Please turn on the ghost light. History may never recover. onstageblog.com/editorials/2…
Bill Stella Spotify:BEaREALMAN billrealman.bsky retweeted
Sincere question: do Trump supporters who genuinely want to reduce political violence actually think that lobbing transparently hypocritical accusations about the left's rhetoric is in any way effective?
Are we really gonna go through another cycle where MAGA folks point out incendiary rhetoric on the left without ever acknowledging that some of the most violent and incendiary rhetoric in America comes from the President and his supporters? Do you not think the rest of the country has eyes and ears?
It's truly awful that President Trump has been the target of political violence. It's also truly awful how he's frequently talked about his political opponents: accusing them of treason, amplifying calls for their execution, publicly celebrating their death, calling them scum, garbage, vermin, animals. It was like 3 weeks ago that he threatened the annihilation of an entire civilization! It was just a few months ago that he and his White House knowingly smeared two Americans who'd been killed by federal agents as domestic terrorists!
I hate political violence. I hate what happened last night. Probably 99% of Americans agree. But let's not insult everyone's intelligence by pretending that the most powerful person in the world isn't a huge part of the problem here.
Bill Stella Spotify:BEaREALMAN billrealman.bsky retweeted
The two-party system is failing us. While Trump escalates nuclear threats against Iran, Democratic leadership refuses to take real action. We’ve seen this cycle before—funding conflict instead of demanding peace.
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Bill Stella Spotify:BEaREALMAN billrealman.bsky retweeted
NEWS: Bette Midler just released a remake of Woody Guthrie’s classic protest song “All You Fascists Bound to Lose,” updated to fit the current moment and urge action ahead of the midterms.
You have to listen to this.
Bill Stella Spotify:BEaREALMAN billrealman.bsky retweeted
Renee Good was trying to drive away.
The ICE agent shot her twice through her side window.
The ICE agent walked away uninjured.
We all saw this on video. They all know we saw this on video.
They're lying about it for the same reason they lie about everything: they think they can get away with anything, even murder.
They are despicable, garbage human beings.
Bill Stella Spotify:BEaREALMAN billrealman.bsky retweeted
"The Trump tariffs are the largest US tax increase as a percent of GDP (0.47 percent for 2025) since 1993." taxfoundation.org/research/a… via @TaxFoundation
Bill Stella Spotify:BEaREALMAN billrealman.bsky retweeted
Trump’s HUD Accuses Boston of Engaging in “Redlining” Against White People – Mother Jones motherjones.com/politics/202…
Bill Stella Spotify:BEaREALMAN billrealman.bsky retweeted
His aides always tell us “he’s kidding!”
Remember when Donald Trump “joked” that the FCC should look into comedians making fun of him?
Remember when Donald Trump “joked” about not accepting the election results?
Remember when Donald Trump “joked” about locking up his political opponents?
Remember when Donald Trump “joked” about a second-term of “retribution”?
Remember when Donald Trump “joked” that the Democrats were terrorists?
Remember when Donald Trump “joked” that maybe the FBI was behind January 6?
Remember when Donald Trump “joked” about being a dictator — but only on Day One?
Remember when Donald Trump “joked” that journalists should be imprisoned or executed?
Remember when Donald Trump “joked” that the military leadership should be court-martialed — or shot?
Remember when Donald Trump “joked” about sending troops into U.S. cities?
Remember when Donald Trump “joked” that parts of the Constitution should be “terminated”?
Remember when Donald Trump “joked” that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it?
Remember when Donald Trump “joked” about staying in office forever?
The joke is on us, folks.