Ed Artz

Two things can be true at the same time.

Please take a few minutes today or tomorrow to leave a comment on trump and vought’s disastrous plan to subjugate legitimate scientific research funding to political litmus tests. Here’s the link: www.regulations.gov/commenton/OMB-2026-0034-0001

The Rolling Stones Live in Charlotte 1972: A Photo Retrospective Behind the scenes of the 1972 Charlotte Coliseum show, The Rolling Stones were a volatile mix of creative genius and pure, unfiltered chaos. See the intensity in 22 rare photos.

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hahaha holy shit! The same day it's reported that Kash Patel sicced the FBI on the Atlantic reporter behind the story about him being drunk on the job, she drops another banger about him handing out personalized FBI-branded bourbon bottles to staff and friends. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Meanwhile as we spend money to eliminate renewable energy infrastructure, there’s this: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

by my tally we are now spending ~$2B to companies to NOT build more energy infrastructure. in the middle of an energy crisis

The Rolling Stones Rock Frankfurt in 1976: 34 Images On April 28 1976 The Rolling Stones electrified the Festhalle in Frankfurt during their European tour. With a mix of classics and newer tracks, the band delivered a raw, energetic performance, solidifying the event as one of the tour's…

The fish rots from the head: > Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment. By the way, and if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. > But the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know." -- Trump www.bbc.com/news/electio...

Did you know the Trump 2026 budget proposal includes a 70% reduction in funding for K-12 education programs that includes school safety grants? Asking for those who care about the safety of schoolchildren but don't give a shit about ballrooms for those already protected by armies of security agents

This is a good time to re-read the decision in Carroll v. Trump.

Trump: I'm going to destroy an entire civilization. We're going to keep killing people in boats. Senator Kelly should be executed. ICE protesters are domestic terrorists. Immigrants are vermin. Raskin: Donald Trump is bad for this country. Bash: Do you regret your heated rhetoric, Rep. Raskin?

Here they are: our two top Iran negotiators. No diplomatic experience. In way over their head. Both with massive financial conflicts of interest, their fortunes tied to the Middle East dictators that make them rich. What a disaster.

"This is, above all, a deeply dishonest indictment—politically motivated, intellectually bankrupt, and designed to leave a lasting false impression in the minds of people who will never look past the headline: My gosh, the good guys are the bad guys." https://bit.ly/4eF1A7i

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To make matters worse, the Republicans who put forward this toxic mining operation included NO PROVISION TO REQUIRE TWIN METALS TO NOT SELL THE PROCESSED ORE TO CHINA!! Antagofastsa mining currently sells all extracted ore to China. They have no US smelters. #AmericaLast #GOPBetrayedAmerica

Never, ever, ever, ever vote for a Republican for any office.

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Someone please release the rest of the Epstein files

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

this is good. underrated problem with popularism: it is--openly and explicitly--a pathetic, wimpy school of thought www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

NEW: WSJ now confirming my reporting that the DOJ is withholding at least three FBI interviews with a woman who told the FBI that Trump sexually assaulted her when she was a child www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

New Jersey has proposed the F.U.C.K.I.C.E Act. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...

Sanders: The American people do not want this country to be an authoritarian society or an oligarchy. We have our differences, that’s what democracy is about—we argue it out. We don’t throw people who disagree in jail. We don’t intimidate the media. We don’t send ICE agents to shoot people.

Never forget the people responsible for this disastrous policy. Donald Trump, of course. Russell Vought. Jeffrey Clark. Mandy Gunasekara. Jonathan Brightbill. Myron Ebell. Scott Pruitt. And more Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...

U.S. consumers and businesses footed 95 percent of the cost of Trump’s tariffs between January and August of last year.

DHS was established under a bad law, The Patriot Act. Whatever utility the agency may have once had has long since expired. DHS funding should be allowed to expire, and the agency should be abolished, ICE along with it. And Gnome can go back to puppy killing, instead of waging war on Americans

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“The decision was made to exclude me from the filmed production of Swan Lake because I was told my brown skin would disrupt the aesthetic.” ~ Misty Copeland When folks gripe about DEI, remind them who benefited from shutting out dancers like Copeland. That pattern runs through our whole history.

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

The “enemy within” is MAGA

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

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I’m becoming more and more convinced that the US will not survive four years of trump and his gang of incompetents. Another 18 months seems like a stretch. And even if there’s an election and maga loses big, what happens during the lame duck session? Extraordinary measures are needed, and soon.

Kiwi’s new song “Who Told You To Fire” is available NOW wherever you get your music! Thanks for listening—more to come!

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Is there anyone in the Ole Yam Tits regime who could be considered to possess the skills and experience required for their position? Certainly not OYT himself, nor Shady Vance, Kegbreath, Little Marco Puta, RFKJr, Gnome, Homan, Miller, Duffy, Zeldin, McMahon, Gabbard, Ratcliffe, Wiles. Anyone??

Kristi Noem should resign immediately or be fired, and the FBI agent and whoever else perpetrated the disgraceful treatment of Senator Alex Padilla should be fired. Senator Padilla is the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship and Border Safety!

Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”