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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2026

Why is Abbott trying to hide his communications with Musk?! news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/ab…

Article headline and photo. “Abbott’s Elon Musk Records Cab Be Seen by Election Opponent”.

Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2026

Democrats have started the efforts to expose and remediate the GOP corruption starting with detailing the Trump involvement in the Epstein sex crimes. acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US…

front page of the Democrats staff report on Trump’s involvement in the Epstein crimes.

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

This could be a beginning of some restoration of democratic principles by the regulation of private equity […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Headline of Senate Committee webpage on Reining In Private Equity

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Trump's Tyranny, Part I: ICE's Reign of Terror by @garrettgraff […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Law enforcement in a democracy can't look like this. (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Wealth transfer economy seems misplaced. Thanks to Trump’s 2917 and 2026 tax bills approved by the House GOP majorities.

Screenshot of Steve Rattner’s FB page showing the corporate profits and corporate taxes paid.

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

The Lincoln Center, under Trump’s control, is selling off the Steinway pianos and important art works, flaunting the judicial order regarding a halt on the destruction of the center. atlantablackstar.com/2026/10/02/my-…

Crews dismantling the “Blue” outdoor art structure at the Lincoln Center grounds.

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Americans a tired of living in the business and conservatives’ world where fair play no longer exists. Make crimes criminal again […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I received a notice from everylibrary that this documentary won an Emmett last night. “The Librarians is a powerful documentary directed by Kim A. Snyder that follows school and public librarians across the country who find themselves on the front lines of […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

@cjewel @ELS Beauty can be found wherever one is willing to look and appreciate.

Evening Sky as the sun set in So California.

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

From The Lever’s Midterm Madness newsletter, I found this ironic paragraph. Sums up the GOP and even some moderate Dem perspective on socialism. They don’t recognize it even when benefiting from it every day. www.levernews.com/r/0e23e4af?m=89f8…

Quote on GOP vote against socialism while getting 100% of their electricity from a socialist utility (public owned) and receiving the lowest rates in America as a result.

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Another excellent article by Garrett Graff, this one in the National Geographic, providing an oral history of the minutes that changed America 25 years ago […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Photo heading for the National Geographic article on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 coming up next week.

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Check it out Kinda follows the typical Trump business. He takes all the profit, leaves all the risk to others, and finishes with bankruptcy.

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Probably best bet is to avoid Trump related cons, unless you’re just looking for an unregulated donation method. “ ▪ Investors across five Trump-linked crypto products are at least $4.7 billion underwater, largely reflecting unrealized losses, according to […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Headline: “Investors at least $4.7 billion underwater across Trump crypto ventures, Public Citizen says”

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

Rape threats are not jokes. Fox News host Jesse Watters laughed and said women need to "watch out" because U.S. soldiers would become "wild animals" while discussing military testosterone testing. Watters is not edgy—he's pathetic. I signed the petition to […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Fox News header showing Jesse Watters and his quote: “Woen on base, you better be careful. Port calls, you better be careful because those guys are going to be wild animals and you better watch out.”

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

From today’s Stocktwits newsletter (thedailyrip.stocktwits.com/p/when-t…) I’m swapping out of NASDAQ 100 to S&P 500 […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Analysis of SpaceX, falling 6.8% as QQQ is forced to buy $SPCX starting today.

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

The Cartright Act (calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bil…), dubbed the COMPLETE Act, an Anti-Monopoly bill is coming up for California Assembly vote next month. This is a critical update, hated by the monopolistic […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

California State Capital building representing the legislature for this upcoming bill.

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2026

Not what we want to see, though unsurpring for sure. Thanks to #DrSilbergleit for the post including the chart. stocktwits.com/DrSilbergleit/messag…

Chart of oil inventories over the years with 2026 falling off the cliff at midyear.

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

Why are the senators grifting Trump and the billionaires with even more taxpayer money? “GOP Senators Unveil Plan to Pay for $400 Million White House Ballroom With Taxpayer Funds” […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

GOP Senators Unveil Plan to Pay for $400 Million White House Ballroom With Taxpayer Funds

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

Ed Eldon nails the issue of American culture of corruption by pulling together the evidence from the Trump administration’s cuts to all areas of law enforcement. We are forced to contrive our own theories of Trump’s distraction from his extensive corruption […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Header of Ed Elson’s Simply Put Substack with the title of this entry, “Refund the Police”.

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026

“Trump is abusing emergency authorities and wasting taxpayer resources through unprecedented abuse of the Defense Production Act to promote his politically favored fossil fuel projects.” […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, and President Donald Trump appear at an event in Washington, DC on March 4, 2026. (Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026

I’ve always wondered how the cookie opt-out option actuallt works and wondered how companies overcome their predilection to ignore the user's usual request to opt out. Now it is confirmed that they are weasling their way out of compliance, not respecting my […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

Headline from Common Dreams: “2.5 Million Poor Americans Have Lost Food Aid Since Trump Signed GOP’s Big Ugly Bill Into Law” www.commondreams.org/news/gop-snap-…

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/04/2026

“New polling illuminates how the Supreme Court got Citizens United wrong and shows bipartisan momentum for money-in-politics reforms, including proposed Montana ballot measure” issueone.org/press/new-polling-citi…

Web page screenshot showing the headline and graphic of money over gov’t building

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/04/2026

“Members of Elon Musk’s private security team were deputized as federal agents last year even though some of the billionaire’s guards lacked the required training and law enforcement experience, according to newly released government emails.” […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Screenshot of NBC News web page showing Musk in the DOGE days of 2025

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026

This is the way to go. No $1.5T budget increase, adding to the deficit on taxpayers’ backs with the added slap that no benefit goes to the taxpayers. Let Trump’s petro corporations, beneficiaries of the stupid war, pick up the tab. www.commondreams.org/news/iran-war-…

Photo of an oil rig with healing: “Windfall Tax on Big Oil Demanded as Trump’s Iran War Pads Profits of Fossil Fuel Giants”

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026

Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act delivers to the wealthy, while screwing the poor. www.levernews.com/the-rich-won-trum…

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 23/03/2026

Between incompetent adversarial meatheads at the lines and the lack of NSA and FBI personnel our airports and airplanes are significant targets for terrorism […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

A Transportation Security Administration agent looks on passengers queue to go through security at New York's LaGuardia airport on Sunday. Charly Triballeau/AFP/Getty Images

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2026

Ad from Garrett Graff: “What I most worry about, though, is how the type of person that Robert Mueller was — a dedicated apolitical, nonpartisan public servant, a man more concerned with the good of the country than his own personal profit — represents a […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2026

What a study in contrasts! Mueller as a bastion of discipline and integrity. Trump as the extreme opposite: selfish and disgusting. open.substack.com/pub/fallows/p/one…

Robert Mueller, 1944-2026, as a young Marine Corps officer preparing to be a platoon leader during the bloodiest year of combat in Vietnam, 1968. He was wounded in action, received a Purple Heart, and was awarded a Bronze Star with ‘V’ for valor among other decorations. It was the beginning of a long career in public service. (National Archives/Getty Images.)

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/03/2026

Garrett Graff always nails the issues so well. Contrast the clown show that is the Trump admin with any other executive admin, exemplified by Eisenhower as shown in this screenshot […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Photo of Eisenhower with a quote comparing the military industrial complex and national humanitarian needs.

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2026

“Indeed, for much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/subscribe?r…

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2026

- Donated $4.7M, they received 11,000% return. - Medical neglect including deaths at ICE detention facilities. www.levernews.com/ice-detention-con…

A detainee is seen through a window as she talks with a health care provider in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026

From The Lever newsletter. Trumpism is decimating the nation’s employment. Another evidence of workers’ anxiety. Low pay relative to performance and worsening job security.

Chart of employment over the last 2 years from https://www.epi.org/indicators/unemployment/

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026

Here’s some excellent background on the “broligarchs” and Trumpian interest is Greenland and other countries. www.levernews.com/the-greenland-fev…

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2025

It had been eradicated 50 years ago! “The Trump administration is seeking to roll back swine slaughter inspection standards, new regulatory filings) reveal. . . Meanwhile, Trump-backed deregulation and privatization are pushing federal inspectors out of meat […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Screenshot of ABC News report on screwworm detection is the U.S.

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2025

Inflation is growing more real every day thanks to the Trump tariffs. www.commondreams.org/news/tariffs-p…

Grocery Chains Are Passing Trump Tariff Costs on to US Consumers With Higher Prices: Report

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2025

Trump fascism is demonstrated in full view here. White House to Vet Smithsonian Exhibits to Ensure They 'Align With Trump's Interpretation' of US History' www.commondreams.org/news/trump-smi…

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2025

'Corporate Crime Pays' Under Trump as His Agencies Drop Enforcement Against 165 Companies www.commondreams.org/news/corporate…

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk attend the inauguration ceremony of President Donald Trump on January 20, 2025. (Photo: Shawn Thew/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2025

Immigrants Make Baseball Great Bring these posters with you to stadiums across our great country. Downloadable Posters front.moveon.org/immigrants-make-ba…

Sample poster says: “Immigrants are welcome here” with a baseball on the top of the poster.

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2025

Nice to see the LAPD Chief setting the example for the chiefs of police around the country making ICE be transparent and accountable.

LAPD Chief sets requirements for officers to identify federal immigration agents to ensure transparency and accountability.

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2025

Trump budget chief Vought ramps up criticism of Powell, vows investigation into Fed renovations www.cnbc.com/2025/07/11/trump-budge… Interesting that the lawfully […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

CNBC Headline that Vought ramps up criticism of Powell, vowing investigation into Fed renovations.

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2025

The Trump reconciliation bill funds a network of Republican concentration camps to provide slave labor thedemlabs.org/2025/07/06/republica…

From the Hartmann Report: “The GOP’s Grand Immigration Con Job. Republicans have figured out how to have it both ways. They get cheap labor for their big business buddies, while stoking the hate and fear of their white racist base.”

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2025

bsky.app/profile/langwa.bsky.social… “KNOW YOUR ENEMY Trump isn’t the brain trust behind #Project2025, and It’s bigger than Heritage Foundation. The Council for National Policy is a pro-corporate, anti-democracy, Christian extremist […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Graphic from Deprogram America proving the background on “The Council for National Policy”

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Bill Jorth @wdjorth.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2025

Trump, Noem, and Hegseth are lying to you in order to justify removal of your freedoms in order to instill the authoritarian and fascist control over your lives. Do not believe their lies!

Map of Los Angeles showing the tiny spot of curfew compared to the rest of the community.

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