[image: image.png] *opening thoughts* *Ready, Don’t Aim, Fire Fire Fire!!! by Lyn Ekedahl* They were ready when they came to power With Project Twenty-Five. They planned to take the country down, While they themselves would thrive.
They’re succeeding. Now they live their dream, Doing all that they had planned. Our norms and laws were built, it seems, On many grains of sand.
Their weapon? Rapid firing That keeps us all confused. They’re cutting so much wiring It’s hard to track the news.
We’re losing our democracy. It’s slipping through our hands, As civic leaders bend their knees To Donald’s crass demands!
Resistance is the only course! Don’t bow to autocrats! Our numbers and our shows of force Must shake the dirty rats!
Bullies tend to fold like pests From push back that is strong. So let’s push back in protest…. And hope that we’re not wrong
Part one: *Ready, Don’t Aim, Fire Fire Fire!!!* They were ready when they came to power With Project Twenty-Five. They planned to take the country down, While they themselves would thrive.
They’re succeeding. Now they live their dream, Doing all that they had planned. Our norms and laws were built, it seems, On many grains of sand.
Their weapon? Rapid firing That keeps us all confused. They’re cutting so much wiring It’s hard to track the news.
We’re losing our democracy. It’s slipping through our hands, As civic leaders bend their knees To Donald’s crass demands!
Resistance is the only course! Don’t bow to autocrats! Our numbers and our shows of force Must shake the dirty rats!
Bullies tend to fold like pests From push back that is strong. So let’s push back in protest…. And hope that we’re not wrong
Part One: our Texas segment with Attorney Joe Jaworski Joe Jaworski is a third-generation Texas trial attorney and former Mayor of Galveston, Texas. He has served as a law clerk to the United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, and he has spent over 30 years in private practice as a trial attorney, mediator, and legal commentator. and can be heard on KPFT in Houston TX Tuesday mornings at 9:30am The Midterms topics: Short-Staffed After DOGE Purges, National Weather Service in Houston Braces for Hurricane SeasonThe service, which fills a critical role in the event of severe weather, is missing more than a third of its staff in the wake of Trump’s hiring freeze and Musk’s downsizing. TEXAS SCHOOL DISTRICTS SLAM THE SENATE’S SCHOOL FINANCE PLAN “It’s like your house being on fire, and the fire department showing up with a 12 ounce cup of water.” This Texas bill would ban offshore wind farms in state waters from connecting to ERCOT’s grid Don’t let Congress cut funding for nursing homes. Texas seniors have nowhere else to go. How Trump’s SNAP cuts would take food off 700,000 Texans’ tables to fund tax breaks for the rich Texas Legislature moves to build Texas Life Memorial on Capitol grounds Approval of the monument comes as the lower chamber prepares to debate the “Life of the Mother Act” bill later this week. www.texastribune.org/2025/05/20/texas-life-monument-capitol/
*comments by Congressman Maxwell Frost on the passing of the Big Beautiful Bull in the House:* *Tonight the people stealing are not folks with tattoos and hoodies but people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins sitting in the capitol now, not in some alley wrapped in darkness but the United States congress wrapped in the flag. It is disgusting and we will never forget this.* part two: *Robert Hockett * is an American lawyer, law professor <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_education>, and policy advocate he teaches legal, financial and some philosophical subjects at Cornell University in New York *Bill Curry *was a Connecticut state senator, comptroller and two time Democratic nominee for governor who served as Counselor to the President in the Clinton White House.. topics: Trump Is Slowly but Surely Killing U.S. Economy, Experts Warn Deutsche Bank analysts are ringing warning bells for the U.S.
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Here Are the Worst Things in Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill The GOP is struggling to pass a budget bill that would threaten millions of poor Americans’ livelihoods and health care—to the benefit of the wealthy. Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen,Lyn Ekedahl, Joe Jaworski, Texas, Bill Curry, Robert Hockett, the economy, crypto, Israeli embassy employees, Big Beautiful Bill
They’re succeeding. Now they live their dream, Doing all that they had planned. Our norms and laws were built, it seems, On many grains of sand.
Their weapon? Rapid firing That keeps us all confused. They’re cutting so much wiring It’s hard to track the news.
We’re losing our democracy. It’s slipping through our hands, As civic leaders bend their knees To Donald’s crass demands!
Resistance is the only course! Don’t bow to autocrats! Our numbers and our shows of force Must shake the dirty rats!
Bullies tend to fold like pests From push back that is strong. So let’s push back in protest…. And hope that we’re not wrong
Part one: *Ready, Don’t Aim, Fire Fire Fire!!!* They were ready when they came to power With Project Twenty-Five. They planned to take the country down, While they themselves would thrive.
They’re succeeding. Now they live their dream, Doing all that they had planned. Our norms and laws were built, it seems, On many grains of sand.
Their weapon? Rapid firing That keeps us all confused. They’re cutting so much wiring It’s hard to track the news.
We’re losing our democracy. It’s slipping through our hands, As civic leaders bend their knees To Donald’s crass demands!
Resistance is the only course! Don’t bow to autocrats! Our numbers and our shows of force Must shake the dirty rats!
Bullies tend to fold like pests From push back that is strong. So let’s push back in protest…. And hope that we’re not wrong
Part One: our Texas segment with Attorney Joe Jaworski Joe Jaworski is a third-generation Texas trial attorney and former Mayor of Galveston, Texas. He has served as a law clerk to the United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, and he has spent over 30 years in private practice as a trial attorney, mediator, and legal commentator. and can be heard on KPFT in Houston TX Tuesday mornings at 9:30am The Midterms topics: Short-Staffed After DOGE Purges, National Weather Service in Houston Braces for Hurricane SeasonThe service, which fills a critical role in the event of severe weather, is missing more than a third of its staff in the wake of Trump’s hiring freeze and Musk’s downsizing. TEXAS SCHOOL DISTRICTS SLAM THE SENATE’S SCHOOL FINANCE PLAN “It’s like your house being on fire, and the fire department showing up with a 12 ounce cup of water.” This Texas bill would ban offshore wind farms in state waters from connecting to ERCOT’s grid Don’t let Congress cut funding for nursing homes. Texas seniors have nowhere else to go. How Trump’s SNAP cuts would take food off 700,000 Texans’ tables to fund tax breaks for the rich Texas Legislature moves to build Texas Life Memorial on Capitol grounds Approval of the monument comes as the lower chamber prepares to debate the “Life of the Mother Act” bill later this week. www.texastribune.org/2025/05/20/texas-life-monument-capitol/
*comments by Congressman Maxwell Frost on the passing of the Big Beautiful Bull in the House:* *Tonight the people stealing are not folks with tattoos and hoodies but people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins sitting in the capitol now, not in some alley wrapped in darkness but the United States congress wrapped in the flag. It is disgusting and we will never forget this.* part two: *Robert Hockett * is an American lawyer, law professor <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_education>, and policy advocate he teaches legal, financial and some philosophical subjects at Cornell University in New York *Bill Curry *was a Connecticut state senator, comptroller and two time Democratic nominee for governor who served as Counselor to the President in the Clinton White House.. topics: Trump Is Slowly but Surely Killing U.S. Economy, Experts Warn Deutsche Bank analysts are ringing warning bells for the U.S.
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16 Senate Dems Join GOP to Advance Crypto Bill—A Gift to Trump’s ‘Reeking Corruption'”No Democrats should be supporting Trump’s self-enrichment,” said one grassroots progressive group.
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Israeli embassy staffers were likely “targeted” by alleged shooter who yelled “free Palestine” Two Israeli embassy employees were shot dead Wednesday night outside a Jewish museum in Washington, DC
Here Are the Worst Things in Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill The GOP is struggling to pass a budget bill that would threaten millions of poor Americans’ livelihoods and health care—to the benefit of the wealthy. Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen,Lyn Ekedahl, Joe Jaworski, Texas, Bill Curry, Robert Hockett, the economy, crypto, Israeli embassy employees, Big Beautiful Bill
