CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES NOW--VOTE "NO" on the trump "big beautiful" pro-billionaire fascist, anti-American tax bill!!!!!

The nightmare trump-republican-fascist-billionaire "big beautiful bill," which would severely limit access to medical care for all Americans by decimating Medicaid, has passed the Senate thanks to madame vice president* jessica donaldina vance's tie-breaking vote (Alaskans, never forget: lisa murkowski threw you under the bus with the rest of us). 

But we're not dead yet: the Senate added amendments that may not sit well with republicans in the House.

So CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES NOW! Tell them to VOTE NO on this horrific bill that will disrupt the lives of every single one of us--including the billionaires it's intended to benefit.

Use your zip code to find your representative: https://www.house.gov/representatives

CALL NOW!

"THE HOUSE Just CRASHED Trump’s “Beautiful” Senate Bill PARTY"

Call your elected people in Congress NOW to STOP the trump-republican "big beautiful" tax bill--the life you save may be your own!

Medicaid by any other name in your state is STILL MEDICAID--and republicans are dying to cut it to give YOUR paid benefits to billionaires. If you're in Oklahoma and on SoonerCare or in Tennessee and on TennCare, congratulations--YOU'RE ON MEDICAID. Medicaid subsidizes medical costs for ALL Americans and keeps everyone's hospitals OPEN. CALL YOUR ELECTED CONGRESSPEOPLE AND SENATORS AND TELL THEM TO VOTE NO on the "big beautiful bill"--aka trump-republicans' murderous budget. (Again, pardon the short.)

"How We're Trying to Stop the Big Ugly Bill"

musk is LYING to you yet again: Democrats are doing everything possible to STOP the "big beautiful bill." They've forced it to be read out loud so that republicans can't deny they know what's in it. They're forcing a vote-a-rama on amendments to mitigate the harms to the American people--and republicans are voting against every amendment and FOR every harm. So don't you DARE say that both parties are the same! republicans are trying to kill you; Democrats are trying to save you!

"Do people realize what happens if Trump tax bill passes?"

There's a lot more ugly in the "big beautiful bill" than even "just" killing Medicaid and, along with it, millions of Americans. Too many Americans are sleeping on this and stand to suffer, die, and force the rest of us to suffer and die if they don't wake TF up!!!!!

"We Need to Talk About Tulsi Gabbard"

tulsi isn't just a russian asset--she's also bashar al assad's asset. She has no Intelligence Community experience or qualifications, and she also blithely participated in Signalgate without once trying to rein in her colleagues: gee, do ya think maybe we shouldn't be sharing classified information on a commercial app on unsecured personal devices? Nah, because where would the fun be in that? Being anti-American is clearly a non-negotiable requirement for being a republican in 2025.

"Dying to Finance Jeff Bezos' Wedding"

The rich, who inherit or steal their wealth, think that being poor is a crime punishable by death. The poor shouldn't expect more than a meal or three a week, amirite? And little girls, impoverished or not, should be thrilled to carry and bear their rape baby miracles from god and raise them alone, even though they're not even out of grade school yet. Too bad the poor didn't just work harder and buy themselves a few congressmen so they could have a little government representation, too.

"Let's talk about Tillis and North Carolina being in play now...."

Frankly, I doubt that tillis has grown a conscience--he is a republican ergo fascist after all by his own admission. I think Belle's right that he may be intending to run for governor based on pretending to be a hero for disadvantaged North Carolinians. Either way, we probably haven't heard the last of tillis--surely he's got more grift in his sights. republicans are after all the party not of nurturing the golden goose so that it can continue to lay golden eggs--they're the party of killing it now and feasting on its remains.

"Trump PISSED after Music Festival Makes Fun of MAGA and Billionaires"

The world is laughing at trump (hell, we in America are laughing at trump). Alas, the world is laughing at us not only for electing trump once but--after all the crime, fraud, grift, and unnecessary suffering and death--we did it AGAIN. Oh, I LOVE the roster of people to send to Mars! Yes, please, and thank you--send musk, trump, bezos, bibi, and rowling! I felt sympathy for her being divorced and left nearly penniless, but now I understand why that intelligent, reasonable man dumped her hateful, completely self-unaware ass. A 90+ year old war veteran crushed a tesla with license plate "Fascism" and brought it to the Glastonbury music festival, saying, "We've crushed fascism before, and we'll crush it again." 

From Senator Adam Schiff:

It's midnight in Washington, and in case you're catching up...

Tonight, Republicans have blocked amendments that would:

- Protect food assistance for veterans and families with children

- Stop tax cuts for multi-billionaires

- Save 20 million people from losing healthcare

- Prevent crypto corruption by the President

- Stop the defunding of Planned Parenthood

- Ensure veterans aren't fired en masse from the federal government

- Preserve Medicaid for those getting substance use disorder treatment

- Protect small businesses from Trump's trade war

- Protect families from corporate predators

- Ensure labor and delivery units stay open

- Protect nursing homes from closing

- Cut red tape

- Reduce healthcare costs

- Expand the Child Tax Credit 

And the night is still young… 

Ramifications from putin divorcing trump that you won't hear elsewhere from Cliff Schecter with Blue Amp (watch this space for more of our usual content later)

THE BLUE LETTER

Let me walk you through something that no one in the mainstream press seems to be talking about—but it's right there, smacking us painfully in the face like Trump trying to pronounce “anonymous.”

Putin’s pissed.

No, I mean like really pissed. Like “you were supposed to deliver Ukraine on a silver platter and instead you gave me a drone strike humiliating the Russian military 2,800 miles from Kyiv” kind of pissed.

And it’s not just frustration. It’s disappointment—which, as every authoritarian toddler like Trump knows, is so much worse. Because when Vlad’s disappointed? He starts shopping for a new American President. Even if he doesn’t have the ability to do it with polonium tea.

Let’s rewind, shall we? Trump rose to power with the full backing of Russia. That’s not conjecture. That’s not a “Russia hoax.” That’s fact as established in The Mueller Report, the Senate Intelligence Committee run by a GOP Senator and something like 15-16 foreign intelligence agencies. The only thing Trump changed in the 2016 GOP platform? The part where we’d defend Ukraine.

Gee, I just can’t think who might have wanted that in there?!? Could it possibly rhyme with Badamir Lootin? Everything else—the usual open season for right-wing theocrats, supply-side snake handlers, those concerned about ant-white racism and hedge fund vampires—remained the same.

Fast forward. Putin invades Ukraine expecting Trump, his loyal little poodle, to take care of it. I mean, they installed him for a reason, right? He had one job!

The bromance is more like Trump on his knees in Helsinki

Only problem? Trump flamed out in 2020 because he ignored COVID, screwed up the economy and is basically a schmuck. So Biden came in, and Ukrainian President Zelensky—who Trump laughably tried to bully into submission—turned out to be Churchillian.

He not only outmaneuvering Trump tot the point where Trump got impeached (one of two!). But also totally wrecked the oft-topless-while-on-horseback Russian dictator with $47,000 worth of drones and trucks—a serious Mission-Impossible kinda plan with some serious Mission-Impossible-kinda courage.

Putin was left looking like a Bond villain with a receding hairline and no plan B. Elon Musk, basically.

So when Trump recently approved U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear sites—after being told by Putin and Medvedev, in very clear language, not to, but just couldn’t help himself—well, now Trump was 0-2. (Not the mention the sanctions he hasn’t gotten removed).

And that was the moment. Putin and his Lauren-Sanchez-Botox-regime mini-me, Medvedevm came out publicly, accused the U.S. of launching an “unprovoked war,” and made it crystal clear: Trump disobeyed orders. Some more from Medvedev:

“Trump started a new war, and expects us to pretend it didn’t happen?”

Ruh roh. You see, being smarter than Trump after chugging a bottle of Stolichnaya, then still smarter after cracking it over his own head, Putin knows Trump ran on “no new wars.” So he had Medy refute Trump’s exact phrasing to fire up some piss and vinegar in a MAGA world already beset by division over the bombing. With stalwart MAGAs such as MTG, Steve Bannon, Rand Paul, Tom Massie and Candace Owens furious.

And if anyone knows what it looks like when someone hands you divorce papers, that would be the serially married-yet-perpetually-porn-starred Donald Trump. This time, however, the papers are coming from guy who likes to break up with his boy-toys from 5th floor hotel windows.

Now, I’m not saying Putin’s about to send Trump on a magic carpet ride sans rug—he doesn’t want a nuclear war, after all. Though if you saw Trump’s angry response, that “Putin better be careful,” well, let’s just say that won’t go over well in Moscow.

And Vlad has other weapons. Many, many cultural, economic, and world-chaos-causing weapons. He’s also got options. And soon, he may just hold some auditions. Or Kremlin Casting Calls.

You’ve got JD Vance, who’d probably crawl over MAGA hats with emptied Trump diapers to polish Putin’s boots with a Made-in-China “Don’t Tread on Me” flag. Tulsi Gabbard, who might as well be broadcasting direct from the Kremlin basement. And for all we know, she might be.

There’s Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Putin fangirl with a penchant for crazy conspiracies, who when not dodging Rothschild spacer laser beams that would make Flash Gordon jealous, get into her CrossFit fascism. And don’t forget Elon Musk, who’s somewhere between Lex Luthor and your emotionally stunted cousin who drinks diesel fuel thinks he’s a genius because he read Atlas Shrugged once in college.

This is the kind of palace intrigue that doesn’t show up on cable news chyrons, because corporate news doesn’t like to share…news. But it's real. And very much not difficult to put together if you have any ability to connect dots, understand the language behind the language of false diplomacy and can understand things like context and tonal change.

Putin gave Trump his big chance. Sure, they knew he was nuts, but the kinda nuts that Putin, and old KGB hand, knew could redound to their favor by ripping this country apart emotionally. And Putin was right. But, he also counted on Trump to execute. Big miscalculation there, Pootie.

So now the Kremlin just may be circling the field like a recruiter at a fascist football game.

And look—this isn’t some lefty fantasy. I think this split likely helps America a lot, but when it’s silly men with sillier egos and weapons of mass destruction, there’s always danger. And Trump, often after a period of blowing his shpadoinkle, comes back and apologizes, so this rupture may be repaired.

Putin doesn’t tend to be very big on forgiving disobedience. Sadly, in a thoroughly corrupt GOP and propagandized Far Left, there are always more marionettes to be had.

But, next time you hear Trump screaming that everyone’s out to get him—Iran, Israel, every platypus, his ex-lawyers, the deep state, Tiffany, the Hague—remember this: He’s not just unhinged. Well, he is unhinged, actually, but not about this particular thing.

On this, he’s cornered. And when a pathological narcissist like Trump—with something like 20 other emotional challenges the DSM-5 specifically lays out—is cornered, he lashes out at all those around him, and all those not around him.

That’s how wars can start. And that’s how democracies can fall.

If Putin is truly done with Trump, and looking to install someone even more obedient, we had better brace for what comes next—because there’s no shortage of right-wing bootlickers in line to audition in front of Putin, enter Stage Far Right.