Trump's FBI Pick Has History Of Prosecuting Dems For Being Dems
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Trump's FBI Pick Has History Of Prosecuting Dems For Being Dems
AP: “Florida could be on the hook for $218 million… Alligator Alcatraz may soon be completely empty as a judge upheld her decision late Wednesday ordering operations to wind down indefinitely…” apnews.com/article/flor...
On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
Nine former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are speaking out, saying Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is endangering the health of Americans. abcnews.go.com/Health/forme...
Gonna keep reposting this @timdickinson.bsky.social / me item: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Former CDC leaders slam RFK Jr for endangering Americans’ health
This is literally the largest act of union busting in American history. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Trump family amasses $6 billion fortune fter World Liberty crypto trading launch - at least on paper The Trump family's inflated crypto assets now surpass the value of their inflated portfolio assets The grift is astronomical www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
Historians See Autocratic Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on Science. Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed science as a rival for social influence. Experts see President Trump as borrowing some of their tactics. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...
Print newspapers, already vestigial in an era when news consumption overwhelmingly occurs online, have been slow to disappear entirely in part because many continue to turn a profit. www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/the-...
Clots and prayers.
No. I was just pointing out that the post was about one tree in the forest that isn’t even actually a tree, and all the other trees were lumped into the hyperbolic accusation.
Trump did not post this
Clots and prayers
Remembering when the NYT went on a weeks-long bender covering a decades-old real estate deal the Clintons were involved in, in which they *lost money*.
Pennsylvania nuns who stood up to claims of election fraud win national award https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/9/1/2341194/-Pennsylvania-nuns-who-stood-up-to-claims-of-election-fraud-win-national-award?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=
'Big betrayal': Trump accused of breaking campaign promises by major union
If he had paid attention in school or read the Constitution, Trump would know elections are run by the states, not the federal government and certainly not a crazed and corrupt president.
If he had paid attention in school or read the Constitution, Trump would know elections are run by the states, not the federal government and certainly not a crazed and corrupt president.
#ICEALERT
Yours or mine?
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Hahahaha
May you never live your life so that the three quarters of the world is hoping for your death.
Sources? You have sources?
NEW: Huge anti-Trump protests happening across the US for Labor Day. This is the current scene in San Diego. A seemingly endless line of thousands of people on the streets! @50501movement.bsky.social #workersoverbillionaires #NoKings (🎥 10-97 News)
According to former Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich: The clearest picture of corporate greed in this country is CEO-to-worker pay ratios. At the 100 lowest-paying major US companies, CEO pay averaged $17.2M in 2024. Median worker pay at these companies was just $35,570. That's a ratio of 632 to 1
US Treasury Secretary Betsy Devos expressed confidence that the Supreme Court will support President Trump's tariff policies.
Kamala Harris would not be secretly trying to deport innocent children to Guatemala if she was our president instead right now.
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🚨 Donald Trump lashes out at his own supporters for questioning his ties to Jeffrey Epstein — despite decades of allegations, lawsuits, and Epstein’s own claims that fuel their suspicions. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/trump-sava...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Trump administration may declare a national housing emergency this fall as the White House looks to highlight key issues for midterm campaign voters
I don’t know what did or didn’t happen to Trump, but what I do know is the country has the right to know the truth.
MAGA www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/t...
Because nothing screams “qualified diplomat” like a guy whose entire foreign policy experience is yelling at women from his car. johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/trump-pick...
Then say it was Fox and not, “The White House Press corps did wall to wall coverage of President Biden’s root canal.” That’s not true. Why join Trump’s crusade to discredit the news media as a whole. For what it’s worth, ChatGPT disagrees with your assertion about Fox.
MAGA Rep Crumbles on CNN Over Simple Question. Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for “eroding confidence” in the Centers for Disease Control. www.thedailybeast.com/maga-rep-cru...
Your daily reminder. You have a sexual predator in the WH. #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles
![DEFENDANT TRUMP TIED ME TO A BED, EXPOSED HIMSELF TO ME, AND THEN PROCEEDED TO FORCIBLY RAPE ME [AT AGE 13].... TRUMP THREATENED ME THAT, WERE I EVER TO REVEAL ANY OF THE DETAILS... MY FAMILY AND I WOULD BE PHYSICALLY HARMED IF NOT KILLED. KATIE JOHNSON](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3sdbof6be3apln2u62iu6ljn/bafkreigazw5wigt3dryrrmqtttfftdcao6xx6wmq4ey5tamlv4vntakn7m@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Chick-fil-A is junk food for people who don’t care about obesity
Chick-fil-A abruptly begins closing stores as economic crisis accelerates. All across America, restaurants are going dark. “Closed” signs are popping up as jobs disappear. The downturn has come for everyone – even Chick-fil-A. share.newsbreak.com/eswuvvcz?s=i16
🚨We🚨Must🚨Not🚨Allow🚨Brutalization🚨Of🚨Protesters🚨To🚨Be🚨Normalized!!!
Wall to wall coverage means live, nonstop coverage. It wasn’t.
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
The Resistance Roars While Trump Withers Away
Today is the first day of public trading for Trump’s crypto scam.
Long the envy of the world for its capabilities and expertise, the CDC finds itself no longer able to advocate for what its scientists believe the best available research shows. @citizencohn.bsky.social on the CDC purge: www.thebulwark.com/p/kennedy-rf...
🚨 Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s former chief of staff, claimed in an interview with Al Jazeera that the President is named in Epstein files. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
Wall to wall? Really?
As mentioned yesterday, every new photo released of Trump since Tuesday, August 26 shows a slack jaw, vacant expression. All only the left side of his face
Nightmare fuel
Where's his hair? He looks like he's on death's door. He needs to address the media.
After its flagship crypto venture opened trading of a new digital currency Monday, the Trump family notched as much as $6 billion in paper wealth.
Prison chaplain at ICE facility in Pennsylvania accused of sexually abusing immigration detainee
Breaking Labor Day news (for MAGA): Donald Trump inherited nearly half a billion dollars. After bankrupting six companies, he got his first non-family job at age 71. And was fired four years later by 81,282,896 of his employers for defrauding them. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
On #LaborDay, we recognize the workers who make so much of our everyday lives possible. And every day, we should have American workers' back by supporting their organized efforts to secure higher wages, good benefits, and safe & dignified workplaces.
Trump wants to erase Black history stating it’s too “woke,” not enough energy is spent on American "Success" and "Brightness.” Our nation is great because of Black geniuses. There are so many inventions by Black people. Often never receiving proper recognition for their valuable contributions.
* Trump Family Amasses $6 Billion Fortune After Crypto Launch @wsj.com
PRICES KEEP GOING UP
Afghanistan earthquake kills 622 with more than 1,500 injured reut.rs/3I2YVGJ
Brothers, cousins, sons: the human stories behind four of the war’s fallen journalists
The US State Department has instructed its diplomats to refuse most visas for Palestinian passport holders, whether they live in the West Bank, Gaza, or overseas, according to a cable seen by CNN. https://cnn.it/4n6T0iJ
www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
U.S. Suspends Visas for Palestinian Passport Holders. The move will stop, at least temporarily, travel for medical treatment, attending university, visiting relatives or conducting business. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
Robert Mueller Has Parkinson’s Disease. The former special counsel, who led the Russia investigation during Trump’s first term, has had difficulty speaking in recent months. A congressional committee dropped a request for Mueller to testify this week. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Oh, Andy Borowitz. What a gem you are.
Same outfit from a week ago. Hope he at least changed his undies.🥴
University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index was 74.0 in December, now 58.2 in August. Conference Board’s consumer confidence index was 104.7, now 97.4. Government officials shouldn’t go on TV and blatantly lie like this.
Just heard from over 200 veterans and military family members at our town hall in Raleigh with NC Attorney General @jeffjacksonnc.bsky.social. They’re fired up because Trump is cutting the services they depend on here and across the country, and we’re going to keep fighting to stop him.
DESCRIPTION: self-described alpha male, wearing body armor, assault rifle, and wraparound sunglasses because he’s “afraid of nothing.”
Putin showcases robust Russia-China relationship on Beijing trip
The Trump administration has announced it will make it more difficult for Intel, Samsung and SK Hynix to manufacture microchips in China.
Trump's newest crypto endeavor isn't just another instance of his self-promotional ethos in action, Will Gottsegen argues in The Atlantic Daily.
China tries to use Trump turmoil to unite leaders against U.S.-led order. Twenty leaders — including from Russia, Iran and India — will gather for a forum, part of Beijing’s efforts to be seen as a reliable counterweight to the U.S. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard blindsided CIA leaders last week when she disclosed the name of an undercover CIA officer on a list of people she stripped of security clearances … The move alarmed the agency’s workforce. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
“.. with the exception of the pandemic, Black women have never seen such staggering losses in employment.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
“Hope this helps” #DAF (DumbAssFascusts)
They still haven't released the Epstein documents.
“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention. One year out of college and with no national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the tasked with overseeing the main hub for combating violent extremism. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) on his push for Epstein files: “What will be explosive is the Sept. 3 press conference… with 10 Epstein victims, many who have never spoken out before… and they will be saying clearly to the American public that they want the release of the Epstein files for full closure
Trump’s “assault on researchers and their institutions is so deep that historians and other experts see similarities to the playbook employed by autocratic regimes to curb science.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...
Putin's newest #BFF is Billionaire Steve "Witless" Witkoff Witkoff’s sons, Alex & Zach are the co-founders of Trump family cryptocurrency SCAM oops-business 1- @juliadavisnews.bsky.social x.com/juliadavisne... 2-Grok agrees: therevolvingdoorproject.org/billionaires... #AmericansAreStupid
Middle-class Americans are increasingly feeling squeezed by their daily dollars-and-cents reality: The cost of living adds up to simply too much Consumer sentiment has dropped, pessimism about jobs is increasing and middle-class customers are cutting back. www.wsj.com/economy/cons...
The gap in confidence between high- and low-earners is now the widest it has been in the seven years of tracking the data. “More U.S. consumers now say they’re dialing down spending than when inflation spiked in 2022.” www.wsj.com/economy/cons...
Rich people are using brown and black people to manipulate stupid white people. Same thing with gay people and if you are brown and gay or black and gay, it's a double whammy. The facts behind the Republican effort to send migrants to Democratic-led cities cbsnews.com/news/migrant...
The Middle-Class Vibe Has Shifted From Secure to Squeezed. After months of tracking high-income earners’ positive economic outlook, America’s middle-income households appear to be losing confidence. www.wsj.com/economy/cons...
Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.
