For decades, Republicans in Washington have told us that tax cuts would trickle down to workers. Instead, wealth and power have accumulated in the hands of the richest 1% at the expense of the rest of us. Trickle-down economics was never supposed to work. It was a hoax.
You can't even make this crap up.......
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: âYouâve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 ⊠and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.â
"RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy...it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism." Were he not a Kennedy...and wealthy...he'd likely be living his life out in a mental institution. Diagnosis: Dumb-Fuckery.
Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.
âILLEGALSâ MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. Heâs a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
The way that housing co-ops work in Switzerland may seem foreign to many. But the central idea is simple: What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains? Advocates say their model could reshape how the world thinks about affordable housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...
Jones: We have a presidential administration that has more outrage about the changing of the cracker barrel logo than they do about changing the policies that allow our children to be gunned down in schoolâŠ
The Social Security Administration official who exposed that the Department of Government Efficiency had left millions of Americansâ personal data vulnerable says he has been forced to resign due to retaliation. Charles Borges, who served as the SSAâs chief data officer, told
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This part. Everyone should be taking notes from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.socialâs @mizzwelch.bsky.social
the mystery of Schrödinger's Psychopath has been solved
Attacks on due process, rule of law, checks & balances grow louder every day. Democracy canât defend itselfâit needs us. We call on every citizen to stand with us: defend democracy. empower voters. Protect free and fair elections open to all. #DemocracyMatters @lwvus.bsky.social @lwvva.bsky.social
thinking about the fast, efficient driverless cars we shouldâve had decades ago
Sadly not funny...
Trump Administration Bars Palestinian Officials From U.N. Meeting in New York www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
Let that sink in.
The warfighters in DC got the trash picked up, now time to mulch.
ââŠI am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.â My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Excellent question.
Todayâs update from Weirdo HQ.
When a president decides to disregard the will of the American people, youâre right, thatâs the mark of authoritarian rule. The White House has notified Congress that it plans to cancel $4.9 billion in foreign aid funding that lawmakers had already approved, doing so without their consent.
On a lighter note can anyone relate?
BREAKING: Mexico has suspended shipments to the United States because of tariffs, Tulsi Gabbard accidentally exposes identity of CIA officer, U.S. Air Force grants military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt, and more. The news you missed. Subscribe to support. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
âKiss of Lifeâ âSade Goodnight everybody. Sweet dreams.
Welch: Everybody's missing the point here. The point is, he's doing this on purpose. He's priming the public to get accustomed to having the military in the streets
CDC scientists receive a heroes welcome after walking out today.
Baltimore was awarded $62M in the trial against a ghost gun dealer, for flooding the city with untraceable guns. The funds will support community violence intervention groups. @daniel-webster.bsky.social, the Centerâs Distinguished Scholar, provided expert witness testimony in the trial.
âA dangerous crank â what on Earth are you on about??!â @chrislhayes.bsky.social goes in on RFK Jr. for claiming he can diagnose kids just by looking at them.
RFK, Jr., Demanded Vaccine Study Be RetractedâJournal Said No Secretary of Health and Human Services Kennedy, called for a paper that found no link between aluminum in vaccines and disease to be retracted. The journal rejected the request. apple.news/AXMJankaHQBW...
Federal agencies revolt against the Trump regime as he purges competent leaders, Republicans continue to get booed, Newsom goes on offense, atrocities in Ukraine and Gaza, foreign leaders snub Trump and more. Watch the MeidasTouch Podcast LIVE NOW!
Welch: He claims that he's the law and order president. But we all know that's a lie because he's a convicted felon. He pardons convicted felons, he surrounds himself with obsequious people that kiss his all day, every day
My grandfather also wants to pass along the message that RFK Jr. is destroying one of the prime achievements of American medicine. This is something he knows well, given the decades of his life he dedicated to medicine, to the scientific pursuits, and to helping research new treatments for diseases.
#Pinks #ProudBlue If you live in GA., you better make sure youâre still registered to vote. Hundreds of thousands have been taken off the voter rolls, especially young black people. GOTV. âđ georgiarecorder.com/briefs/georg...
"Literally no one thinks prayer is a substitute for action." Then why is prayer, literally, *always* the substitute for action, you willfully obtuse asshole?
This hearing has replaced a previously scheduled Finance Comm. one, BECAUSE of the CDC shakeup www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
www.change.org/p/rfk-jr-mus...
Everyone at the CDC is getting fired or resigning. RFK Jr. wants to ban all vaccines. His idiocy will get millions of people killed.
New rule. A parent may only propose removing a book from the school library only after reading it in its entirety and delivering a book report to the librarian. Until then no discussion shall be entered into.
Children murdered because they went to school. Seniors shots because they went to mass. Public servants assassinated because they chose to serve. When will it be enough for us to decide that we deserve better? To acknowledge that we, quite literally, cannot live like this?
PBS News Hour is, hands down, one of the most worthwhile news programs. Support public media: www.pbs.org/passport/
In Atlanta, staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gathered to applaud colleagues who resigned following the firing of Director Susan Monarez. With four top officials stepping down, many now feel that the CDC is effectively finished.
Sen. Bill Cassidy traded the lives of America's children to keep his Senate seat.
A Permanent Block storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Pay attention. Your familyâs safety is on the line.
THOU SHALT STOP WORSHIPPING GUNS!!!
We can't allow ourselves to become numb to mass shootings. What happened today in Minneapolis is heartbreaking, and Michelle and I are praying for the parents who have lost a child or will be sitting at their hospital bedside after yet another act of unspeakable, unnecessary violence.
Refusing to act, then falsely accusing those who want to see something tangible done to protect kids of attacking prayer on top of it, is doubly shameless.
âDoes the US still want to pressure - or seize - Greenland from Denmark?â âAbsolutely.â Danish investigative journalist @nielsfastrup.bsky.social says the US is running a hostile campaign aimed at destabilising Denmark.
The president of the United States is a traitor.
DO NOT PUT CHILDREN ON TV TALKING ABOUT A SHOOTING THEY JUST LIVED THROUGH The media who do this are heartless bastards
Here he goes.
Dr. William Foege, 89, who helped end smallpox in the 1970s, recently wrote: RFK Jr.âs âwords can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.â And his actions are more lethal still. Heâs waging war on America. Thatâs an impeachable offense. He must be removed from office. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
Half of Christian evangelical television is definitely on the Epstein List.
Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve on the Minnesota shooting: "The sad thing is we can't sit here and tell them that help is on the way. Because we're not going to do a damn thing about it."
If someone tells you there's nothing we can do about gun violence beyond thoughts and prayers, remind them: âGun laws in other countries have prevented mass shootings âMore guns don't make us safer âA majority of Americans want gun reform We don't have to live like this.
GOV. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social : âFacts are stubborn things⊠Mississippi, Tennessee, ArkansasâŠ. Alabama is a top 3 murder state. Where is the President? â He isnât focused on crime & violence. Itâs about an expression of authoritarianism.â (H/T @acyn.bsky.social )
BREAKING: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey JUST CALLED FOR a statewide and federal ban on assault weapons. Whoâs with him?
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadnât happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.
AMERICA: âItâs a mental health issue.â REST OF THE WORLD: âWe have those. But donât have mass shootings.â AMERICA: âItâs video games.â WORLD: âWe have those too. But donât have mass shootings.â AMERICA B: âItâs cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.â WORLD: âGod, youâre stupid.â
We saw all your comments yesterday on our post about celebrity chef and D.C. icon JosĂ© AndrĂ©s, and we agree with you he truly deserves the Nobel Peace Prize! đ
We could prevent school shootings in the US and we choose not to. Itâs a choice.
The law is clear, Pennsylvania does not have to work with ICE. We urge @governor.pa.gov to end voluntary state collaboration in the commonwealth to protect our immigrant neighbors and their rights. Send a letter here:
It's time to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr from government before he kills us all
I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarezâs willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.âs personal mission to destroy public health in AmericaâIâm glad that I was wrong. If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.
Psaki: I felt a mixture of angerâa lot of angerâand emotional exhaustion about this today, as Iâm sure many of you have, because we have been here so many times. And yet again, like clockwork, half the politicians in our country have little more to offer than thoughts and prayers.
Frey: "We need an assault weapons ban nationwide. We need to have a high capacity magazine ban. And if the federal govt and states aren't gonna act, give us the ability to protect our constituents. Give mayors & council members the ability to protect in Mpls 435,000 residents that call Mpls home."
Those who have the power to stop mass shootings can go to hell with their "thoughts and prayers." Do something about it, you evil bastards.
Graham Platner: "Susan Collins has been in the Senate for almost 30 years... People know that she's a self-interested politician who has tried to play this charade for many years about how she tries to be a moderate... Everybody sees this for what it is."
An expansive network of labor juggernauts and Democratic-aligned groups is pledging to help the campaign to gerrymander Californiaâs congressional map with its ground game and field operation.
BREAKING: In a shocking upset minutes ago, Democrat Catelin Drey just FLIPPED an Iowa State Senate seat from red to blue and broke the Iowa GOP's supermajority in the state senate.
âSovereign Citizensâ are dangerous to democracy & physically dangerous to citizens in democratic nations Giving their conspiracies a platform to wrap their delusions in a false equivalence to free speech is disgraceful The Americanisation of Australia must end before more Aussies needlessly suffer
Congratulations to Travis Kelce on his latest championship ring.
Epstein survivor Liz Stein: we want details of Epsteinâs âsweetheart dealâ #BelieveTheGirls #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #TrumpEpsteinPedoCoverUp www.cnn.com/2025/08/25/u...
President Donald Trumpâs three appointees to the U.S. Supreme Court each made alarming statements in a single case about federal health research grants last week, particularly when viewed in light of the broader attack on the rule of law in America. Todayâs in-depth report, at Law Dork:
đšBREAKING: Third Circuit STRIKES DOWN Pennsylvania requirement that mail-in ballots that arrive in undated or misdated return envelopes be discarded. Court holds that Constitution requires they be counted. A big victory for our clients DSCC and DCCC and PA voters!
well well well www.the-downballot.com/p/iowa-democ...
"For those people out there who ... say, 'Well, I just don't like those people either' ... You could be next. ... This is not about any one individual, this is about our rights as Americans, and our right to have a justice system where choices about prosecuting are made without fear or favor."
Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
The memoir will be released just months after Giuffreâs death.
Democratic governors are bringing đ„ and it needs to spread.
Meiselas: Stop both-sidesing it, media. Stop trying to sow division within the Democratic Party when we literally have military invasions into American cities, aided and abetted by red state governors, who, again, are the takers who wouldn't exist without the blue states
Send the military to a grocery store to lower our costs. Not the Georgetown Lululemon.
Starting in September, Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP lawmakers will make it even harder in Texas to prevent school shootings, suicides, and murders by domestic abusers www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
BREAKING: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore just announced he refuses to authorize National Guard deployment in Maryland. đ§”
This is why I canât quit the internetđ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł
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In the NIH funding case, Justice Gorsuch (joined by Justice Kavanaugh) claimed that this was the third time in recent weeks that lower courts had "defied" a #SCOTUS ruling. As today's "One First" explains, that claim is not only nonsense; it's enabling a dangerous anti-court narrative on the right:
Kid Rock: I will no longer sell my music in California. Scott Baio: I will no longer act in California. Governor Newsom: My policies are working.
My law firm is currently litigating 52 voting and election cases in 23 states. This includes the Ohio case we filed on Friday night and the redistricting case challenging Texas' new congressional map. I am thankful for our clients willing to wage these fights. They, not the lawyers, are the heroes.
"This redecoration would require about $2 billion from Congress, according to the president. Meanwhile, House Republicans still havenât restored the $1 billion in city funding they blocked earlier this year." newrepublic.com/post/199480/...