FACTS of the day:
The truth is being carried right now by independent voices like ours — people who are doing this work because they believe it matters, not because someone is paying them to say what’s comfortable. When November comes, the people who are still on the sidelines, the ones who haven’t decided yet whether to show up, they are going to need to hear the truth from someone they trust. And that someone might be you, sharing a post you read here. It might be an independent voice reaching them for the first time instead of the MAGA cult's propaganda and outright lies. It might be the conversation that changes their mind about whether their vote matters. Every one of those moments is built on the work we do now, in the months before it counts.
Use your voice, and use it loudly. Share what you know about Trump's incompetence and lies. Talk to the people around you who are tired and discouraged and wondering if any of it matters. Tell them about Hungary and what happened this past weekend when Péter Magyar took his oath of office as Hungary’s new prime minister, ending 16 years of Viktor Orbán’s autocratic rule. Tell them that a country that spent 16 years under an authoritarian stood up, voted, and won. Tell them that children sang in the parliament and the flag went back up on the building and thousands of people stood in a square and celebrated because the people of Hungary got their country back from the dictator. Tell them it took showing up when it felt hopeless. And tell them it can happen here in America when we take our country back from Trump, the unhinged fascist dictator.
Trump has been following Viktor Orbán’s playbook, and Orbán lost — not to a coup or a revolution, but to an election. Trump has praised Orbán for crushing press freedom and consolidating power, and Orbán lost. And today the people of Hungary celebrated. In November, when the Democrats take over the majorities in both the House and Senate, the people of America will also celebrate.
Trump is a danger to national security and has made America and its citizens less safe than any president in all of American history.
The national debt now exceeds 100% of the U.S. gross domestic product
Because of Trump, the U.S. national debt now exceeds 100 percent of America’s gross domestic product.
As of March 31, our publicly held debt was $31.27 trillion, while America’s GDP in 2025 was $31.22 trillion. This puts the ratio at 100.2 percent, and it's still climbing under Trump's inept regime.
The real problem is that an increasing portion of our nation’s budget — and our tax dollars — is dedicated to paying interest on this growing debt. That’s money we don’t spend on education, healthcare, roads and bridges, social safety nets, or (if we actually needed more spending on it) national defense.
The biggest chunk of these interest payments — nearly half — is held by mutual funds, pension funds, insurance companies, and banks. And who owns them? The Americans who invest in these funds — and who thereby, directly or indirectly, hold Treasury bills.
And who, exactly are these Americans — the Americans who are directly or indirectly collecting a large amount of the interest we’re paying on the national debt? It’s the people at the top.
The richest 1 percent of U.S. households hold about 35.6 percent of all financial assets — shares of stock, corporate bonds, and Treasury bills — so it’s safe to assume they hold at least a third of all Treasury bills. The point is that a big chunk of the growing interest payments American taxpayers make on the federal debt is going to the wealthiest of Americans.
The wealthiest Americans used to pay higher taxes to finance the government. But now, the government pays wealthy Americans interest on a swelling debt, caused largely by Trump's lower taxes on wealthy Americans. That means a growing portion of everyone else’s taxes are now paying wealthy Americans interest on those loans, instead of paying for government services everyone needs.
The orange con man in the Oval Office, along with his lapdogs, are mortgaging our futures and the futures of our children, grandchildren, and their grandchildren; and are using our own money to buy their votes. They are turning our democracy into a kleptocracy. "It's a big club, and you ain't in it," said George Carlin in 2005.
Note: Most of the information above was reported today by Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor, in his substack.
The #1 LIAR keeps claiming his illegal war will end soon!
Trump, the unhinged and demented man-toddler, keeps insisting that a "deal" to end his unauthorized and illegal war against Iran is nearly over. The LIAR has been making contradictory statements for months now — read them yourself by clicking here. He's the boy that cried wolf and nobody believes his worthless bullshit anymore. Trump has no credibility. He thinks everything is a "deal." There's no "deal" to be had here.
As far back as March 9th, nine days after his initial bombing of Iran, Trump was saying "We're ahead of our timeline by a lot." Trump is full of shit — he knows it, we know it, and the rest of the world knows it.
Trump’s ineffective talking points have stayed the same. The ideas he repeats include the key points that the U.S. is in charge; Iran’s military is devastated; and things are going to be over pretty soon. Every point a lie! Every time he opens his filthy mouth, it's a lie.
FACTS:
- Iran has all the leverage by shutting down the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20 million barrels, or 25% of the world's crude oil supply, flows every day.
- American intelligence assessments before Trump's war clearly did not suggest that Iran was on the cusp of obtaining a nuclear weapon. This was solely Trump's diversion from his involvement in the Epstein files.
MADA: Make America Democratic Again!
MAGA: Morons Are Governing America
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