John Stodder Jr.

If you follow the Becerra for Governor page on Threads, the site is unfollowing you and won’t let you follow. Also true if you’re following @xavierbecerra.bsky.social supporter and fan sites.

But @jaketapper.bsky.social won’t embarrass himself by mentioning it on @CNN.

These tea leaves aren't hard to read. :( Krugman on Trump's communications over the last 48 hrs or so: "from the Strait of Hormuz not being our problem to we will commit massive war crimes, presumably...And then finished it up with glory be to God. GOD in caps." It's 25th Amendment time.

MAJOR NEWS: Federal judges, including a Trump appointee, just BLOCKED Texas Republicans from using their new gerrymandered congressional map in 2026, ruling it was likely an illegal racial gerrymander. TX must revert to its 2021 map as Trump’s redistricting power grab collapses.

One can hope SiriusXM does the right thing. No excuses for defending pedophiles.

#ResistanceUnited Pictured below are two of the people who caused ACA premiums to soar. "At least 75% of the premium increases ... is because they're losing the advanced premium tax credit. ... It's because of who was elected to Congress and the presidency.” www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

This is 100% correct. NO ONE can sit at home and collect Medicaid checks.

“The homegrowns are next.” - Donald Trump, 04/14/25 We’ve been warned. #MAGAKidnappers

My son lives in Downtown LA. He says there are no serious protests or evidence of violence. The scariest thing for he and his roommates is the massive ICE and LAPD presence that looks like “occupation.”

Hard not to notice that ICE isn't breaking up drug rings or gangs (because we would ABSOLUTELY hear about it if they were), but instead are dressing up like bank robbers and doing the laziest shit possible, like hanging out at immigration court or grabbing people for busted taillights. Worthless

Donald Trump is spewing outrageous lies about a “white genocide” in South Africa — alleged mass killings of white Afrikaner farmers. Trump is equating post-apartheid land redistribution with race war. Elon Musk, a native of South Africa and fellow white supremacist, feeds Trump the lies; Trump…

based on some reading i'm doing at the moment, there is a book to be written — if it already hasn't been — on defense of apartheid south africa as the great international cause of the american right

Duckworth on if she's open to voting to confirm Mike Waltz: "I think everybody on that Signal chain needs to be fired ... he's failing up ... I'm not open to voting for him, no, because he's already demonstrated he's incapable of doing the most basic thing, which is handling classified information."

Trump's interview with Terry Moran yesterday where the fascist man baby told one outrageous lie after another and then had a total shit fit when Moran called him out on his whopper about Kilmar Abrego Garcia's non-existent MS-13 tattoo should be all over the news today. Haven't heard anything.

But China is not calling Trump. The phone is not ringing. They will wait him out, and force him to do what his spox swears he won't do. In public. They will twist the knife. No "off-ramps," sorry. Trump's "never admit you were wrong" rule will be broken in the worst way.

Wait. What the actual fuck?!? Are we dead yet?

Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration. So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives. So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory

Bessent is among the worst at hiding his dismay about Trump's moronic policies. Marco Rubio looks like a corpse when he talks now, but the Treasury Secretary looks like he's 2 seconds from shrieking, "You're right, it's total shit, but what can I do? He's threatening me, Larry!"

Et tu, WSJ?

I know what proper security protocols look like—this isn’t it. NSA Mike Waltz using Signal for war planning & now we learn he uses his personal Gmail for official biz? That’s not just reckless-it’s lazy. These aren’t rookie mistakes-they’re dangerous, deliberate choices. That ego is out of control.

Billionaires raked in record profits under Biden, but pushed hard for Trump—now they’ve lost billions. Here’s why they wanted Trump: 📌Tax cuts & deregulation 📌Worker exploitation 📌Keep the poor desperate 📌Racism as a weapon 📌Favor authoritarian control They wanted domination, not just profit.

Thom Tillis casting the deciding vote to confirm Hegseth, and his shameful silence yesterday, should be a major issue in the 2026 NC Senate race.

The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

Please let Kawhi Leonard stay healthy through the playoffs. The West side of the bracket could be historically fun if he does.

TAX THE RICH. They will STILL be rich.

I always knew the “5 AM morning routine tricks billionaires use” type of pieces were bullshit propaganda but the ketamine-fueled juvenile refusing to get up before noon behaviors of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg (per the new tell-all book) are somehow worse than I expected. These men are children

Trumponomics

#econsky. Add it to your feed

Looking for one Democratic Senator or House member who is ready to run with this issue.

I am happy today to join my many intelligent and thoughtful friends who are now on Bluesky.

Can Democrats PLEASE take Cuban's advice, ignore the meaningless polls (March 2025 FFS?), ignore the left's silly theatrics about "takeover" (they already have the Green Party), and focus like a laser on what Trump is doing to the economy. Any words you use attacking a Dem are words that HELP TRUMP.

The cuts to the VA are unacceptable and put our veterans at risk. These individuals have sacrificed so much for our country, and it is our duty to ensure they receive the care and support they deserve.

📌Easily the greatest political lie ever told and parroted relentlessly by the media: "Republicans are best on the economy."

They called him Sleepy Joe because we could sleep at night.

One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ? They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses. That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue. The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff

Vance lied about his child. How low can he go?

JD Vance claimed on X that “Slava Ukraini” protesters followed him & shouted at his daughter. Guess he didn’t realize it was caught on camera. No one yelled at his kid, and they didn’t follow them. Vance & Musk need to quit using children as shields. The public isn’t backing down—we want answers.

@aoc.bsky.social: "They're saying cut $880 billion from the Energy & Commerce Committee. I sit on that committee. Almost the entire budget that Energy & Commerce explores is Medicaid and Medicare. There is no way they can make their math square without enormous and devastating cuts to Medicaid."

Very true. Trump didn't campaign on running the government like a business because that would've been alarming to Red State rural residents. Instead he campaigned on racism, which they loved. They'll miss their cheap postage, but *racism* is what nourishes the Republican soul.

The typical Republican outcome. The far right loves to brag about how awesome Republicans are for the economy, but they're always horrible and Democrats always have to bail out the economy from what the right did to it. Will voters EVER learn?

You know what I didn't hear tonight from the President, solutions. How is he going to lower cost of living for struggling families? We are headed for a recession and all I heard tonight was grievances & excuses. We need solutions not culture war nonsense. www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

So DOD Secretary Hegseth is also compromised by Putin. The guy is such a moral cretin, it must not have been hard.

Trump and Musk admire Hitler. They see his ideas as workable here and now. 1930s Germany was in the depths of a global depression and with a decimated military and industrial capacity. The US has the strongest military and economy in world history. Information & surveillance are extremized as well.