From @simonwdc.bsky.social’s most recent post. Trump is weak, not strong.

Firing top prosecutors and FBI agents. Deporting farmworkers who feed us. Letting billionaire oligarchs vandalize government agencies & access private data.

There is a pattern to this corrupt behavior.

Give Trump more power. Give the billionaires more money. Give you nothing.

Trump Tax report if tariffs go into effect:

If you’re buying a new car, estimates say you’ll spend up to $3k more for it – after the Trump Tax is applied.

And if you need an oil change, reports say the Trump Tax will push prices over $100.

Promises made. Promises broken.

CBS NEWS: “.. the water released from dams at Lake Kaweah and Lake Success is rushing into a dry lakebed in the Central Valley, where experts say it can't flow to Southern California and will likely go to waste.”

www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-c...

Section 12 of Trump's/Musk's "deferred resignation" agreement (his admin's so-called "buyout" offer to federal employees that is a scam): by signing this you can never sue us for doing this, forever.

Norm Eisen, frmr White House ethics lawyer under Obama repping alliance & unions in suit told me: “We filed a lawsuit to say: hands off. You can’t have my data. You can’t have my spouse’s data. You can’t have my kid’s data. That information is too precious," calling DOGE's access "wrong and illegal"

Before Trump’s tariffs, three governors advised us what a trade war would do to their states.

Utah’s Cox was particularly interesting: he said “nearshoring” in Mexico is a clever alternative to buying from China.

The U.S. says it’s raising tariffs on Mexico too.

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“The demonstration was largely peaceful, with some enterprising street vendors taking advantage of the moment to sell bacon-wrapped hot dogs, ice cream, churros, beer and even shots of Patron tequila.”

Peak LA.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

If there is any doubt that tariffs are passed through to consumers, the cost of propane to heat my house just went up by the amount of the tariff

Before the election, the president generally said Americans would pay no price for tariffs and would only reap benefits from his negotiations.

After imposing tariffs on allies, a statement that “yes, maybe” there will be “some pain.” From the WaPo:
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The anti-vax movement does not reveal a conspiracy. It IS a conspiracy.

“Some of the world’s most vulnerable populations are already feeling President Trump’s sudden cutoff of billions of dollars in American aid that helps fend off starvation, treats diseases and provides shelter for the displaced.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/w...

You know how the Trump admin blocked publication of the CDC's weekly morbidity and mortality report, which until now had been released every single week since 1952?
Turns out last week's report would have included 2 important new studies on bird flu transmission.
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At a time when Californians desperately need help, any delay on federal assistance – especially an intentional one by the Administration – adds injury to injury.

Kash Patel can say he doesn’t support violence against law enforcement.

He can say that “we” doesn’t mean “we”. He can say any false thing that he wants to deflect responsibility.

But it’s what he did that matters. And what he did was disgraceful.

Donald Trump's pardons of insurrectionists were a promise:

The last person you want as FBI Director is Kash Patel.

It’s a position of immense, at times unreviewable, power.

And in addition to being dishonest, untrustworthy, and utterly lacking in character – he will do anything in the service of Donald Trump. Anything.