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Last week's post election celebration is a faded memory.  Among the MOMocrats topics today were the end of the shutdown, the future of ACA subsidies, those Epstein files released this morning… and that awful Ross Douthat piece in the NYT and Vanity Fair response. And we learned a new word for those new maps in Texas: Dummymandering.  Follow us on BlueSky @socalmom.bsky.social @karoli.bsky.soc...

It was a dire week (which is something the MOMocrats have been saying a lot). Donna, Karoli, and Aliza talked about the fallout from the murder of Charlie Kirk (and Jimmy Kimmel is just the latest high profile victim of the new McCarthyism).  They also touched upon the regime’s attack on the University of California and crazy $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times, the raucous welcome the...

The MOMocrats prepared a long list of political news to talk about today, which did not include any mention of Charlie Kirk. But once again, everything changed in an instant, thanks to a person with a firearm - and the discussion on gun violence in the US continues. Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills also touched upon the Epstein birthday book and the New York Times expose on his...

If we were living through normal times, the month of August would have been relatively quiet. Instead, we got ICE raids and economic jolts, amid National Guard deployments to American cities and mid-cycle gerrymandering. Not to mention the Epstein saga. And now that Congress is back in session, the chaos is about to go into high gear. Right now, everyone's eyes are on the saga of the Epstein...

The MOMocrats ask: Has there ever been a summer that's gone by so quickly? (And now that it's ending, does that mean that the pace of crazy is just going to accelerate FASTER?) Among the topics covered by Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills this week are: the latest mass school shooting in Minnesota (which literally occurred while the victims were attending mass), the current chaos at the CD...

The regime has sent the military into the nation's capital, proving that this summer's occupation of Los Angeles was only a dress rehearsal for the regime's plans to invade other American cities (in Blue states). But even more disheartening has been the acceleration of Project 2025's efforts to erase our history and change our culture: a new head of the Bureau of Labor Statisti...

This week, Trump ordered a new census based on 2024 numbers - and excluding non-citizens. “Why is it that newspapers cannot say it’s unconstitutional?,: grouses MOMocrat Karoli. And when she pointed out on social media that this latest EO was unconstitutional, someone came back at her with “Who’s going to stop him?” Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills talk about why this kind of fa...

Will Trump pardon convicted child abuser and known perjurer Ghislaine Maxwell in return for her “exonerating” him? Where’s the missing footage from that “raw” recording Bondi released? And will the Wall Street Journal continue to release bombshells from the Epstein files, which Trump claims would be devastating to Democrats? ( but if that was true, he would have released them without hesitation)....

TThe regime is flailing in its attempts to keep Donald Trump's real history with Jeffrey Epstein - and MOMocrats are all in.  Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills also talked about that Hunter Biden interview, that brutal South Park episode (on the heels of the Skydance-Paramount merger), and how the Supreme Court continues to allow Trump to usurp the powers of the other two branches. But the talk...

We're not gonna lie: The last six months have been grim, and the regime’s rapid theft and consolidation of power from the other branches of government continues apace. We did not like waking up to the news that the Senate passed the rescission package (giving Trump legal authority to defund $8 billion in previously appropriated funds for foreign aid - and public broadcasting). So yes: MOMocra...

One week after the floods that killed over 100 people in Texas, the tragedy in ongoing. People are wondering how much DOGE’s cuts to the National Weather Service and NOAA factored into it. Journalist Marisa Kabas has reported that as of Monday, only 86 FEMA employees were on the ground in Texas (they usually deploy hundreds of people to disaster zones like this).  In the meantime, $450 million fro...

Saturday night was interrupted by the Trump regime announcing that the United States had answered Israel's pleas by sending American pilots to drop 14 "bunker buster" bombs on Iranian targets. If you're getting flashbacks of Iraq in 2003, you're not alone. After all, this is yet another unconstitutional, undeclared war based on - as independent journalist Judd Legum puts i...

Amid the military occupation of the nation's second largest city (and threats to take over others), the jubilation of the largest US protests since the civil rights era, a flop of a parade in DC, ICE goons wreaking havoc throughout the country, bogus arrests of Democratic lawmakers, the political assassination of a respected lawmaker in Minnesota, and the threat of causing World War III... .....

In violation of Federal law and without justification, Trump has ordered Federal troops into Los Angeles... to quell a conflict that was started by HIS OWN Department of Homeland Security. And it gets worse by the minute. At Kristi Noem's press conference today, her goons forcibly removed and handcuffed a sitting US Senator who merely wanted to ask her a couple of questions. And the Republica...

Every week since the start of Trump 2.0 has been dreadful - but MOMocrats Aliza Worthington and Donna Schwartz Mills found this one to be truly bonkers. In fact, there were SO many issues that begged discussion that this week's podcast could easily go three times its usual hour period. So Donna and Aliza decided to try and have a little fun with it: They assigned numbers to the top 10 and bro...

"Trump has a new nickname," laughed Karoli during this week's podcast. "And it’s disgraceful to tacos, but it’s TACO, which is “Trump Always Chickens Out.” So it’s TACO - all caps - do not do lower case. Because that’s good stuff. Good tacos." The ruling from the U.S. Court of International Trade on the illegality of the tariffs came down while the MOMocrats were recording...

Spike Dolomite is an artist, an advocate, and a fierce and funny writer. We’ve known her since the Obama years, when she was a contributor to the MOMocrats 1.0 group blog. And when she told us she had written a book, we knew we wanted to interview her. We intended to drop this interview into the second half-hour of last week's podcast. But the pace at which the new regime is authoritarianizin...

Karoli nailed it this week when she proclaimed the coming season as the Summer of Stupid . The antics coming out of the White House on Wednesday proved it, with the president holding one of his embarrassing head of state ambushes on South African President Cyril Ramaphosa... and the US government officially accepting that ridiculous Qatari plane. There was a lot more stupid to discuss, and Aliza W...

This week, MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills wanted to vent over that $400-million flying palace which the Qatari royal family is offering as a personal "gift" to Dear Leader.  And vent they did. The blatant corruption of Trump 2.0 would be comical if this was fiction. And this deal with Qatar smells so bad that it has crossed a line some MAGA supporters - and...

The good news is that the Ed Martin nomination for DC US Attorney appears to be dead. The bad news is that Donny Two Dolls is only a tad over 100 days into his four-year term and has already done irreparable damage to the nation's economy and world standing... and continues to attack our very democracy.  MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills talk about how wearisome it...

Everyone and his brother has been opining on Trump’s first 100 days and the general consensus is… they have not been good. (DUH!) And yes, MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills also weighed in on this week’s podcast. A little bit. Because they felt it was more important to remind folks (including themselves!) of how OUR calls, and letters, and town halls, and protests have...

"We should never stop talking about Signalgate," says Karoli of the MOMocrats. And we likely never will, because the insecure chat between Trump administration national security (!) officials that inadvertently included a journalist was not a one-off. And the Fox News Defense Secretary is so incompetent and his "management" is so chaotic that the Pentagon is leaking like the Ti...

There is no issue more important than the regime's "administrative error" resulting in an innocent man's forced rendition to a foreign gulag - except the mass expulsion of all 250 immigrants without due process. And Trump's wish to do the same for "homegrowns" - US citizens who displease our "dictator from Day 1."  "Kilmar Abrego Garcia is all of u...

Donald Trump declared April 2 his “liberation day,” when he chose to announce how extensive across-the-board tariffs would be to the world. But it’s Democrats and other anti-MAGA people who are felt liberated on Wednesday, thanks to this week’s events: 1. Cory Booker’s history-making speech on the Senate floor, which demonstrated some of the leadership and fight that people have been clamoring for...

Political news moves at the speed of light these days - so the fact that Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg’s account of that Signal chat is still dominating the discussion is an indication of exactly how damaging it is.  And the fact that - as of this writing - none of those involved have resigned is yet another reminder of this Administration’s willful incompetence and disregard for the safety of...