Don't feel like doing a repost that puts the murder video on the timeline yet again but do feel like repeating the point that the president just straight-up assassinated 11 people for supposedly doing something that wouldn't be a death-penalty crime if they were caught and convicted
OpenAI may report your ChatGPT conversations to police OpenAI has quietly started scanning ChatGPT conversations for threatening content and may alert law enforcement if human reviewers judge there is an imminent risk of harm. The company outlined the policy in a blog post
Khanna: It’s going to be a bombshell press conference tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. The American people will hear directly from survivors of the Epstein abuse. And they’re not just going to talk about Epstein’s and Maxwell’s abuse — they’re going to talk about rich and powerful men…
Box O'Wine Pirro is still catching big #FAILs —she's up to 7! "It is extraordinarily rare for a grand jury to balk at returning an indictment, but it has happened at least seven times in five cases since Trump last month ordered a surge in patrols by federal agents and troops in DC." 🧾 is.gd/elg5O5
⚠️18 U.S.C. § 592 explicitly prohibits any U.S. civil, military, or naval officer from bringing, keeping, or having control of troops or armed men at any polling place during an election. The statute reads as follows:
An Aquatic plant producing oxygen. #bluesky
Birth rates are lowering *literally everywhere.* The only countries which keep growing in power will be the ones which continue to grow, and without immigration that will not be “the West.”
“Rather than defending civil liberties and civil protections, you’re turned inward to potentially hinder [them].” In June, we sat down with a veteran and military law expert to discuss “being used against your neighbor” as a soldier.
Pritzker: When did we become a country where it's okay for the president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything, especially something we don't want? Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?
GOP Rep. Thomas Massie has filed a discharge petition to force the disclosure of Justice Department investigative files related to the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
ICYMI — “LA wouldn’t be standing today” This is a real thing @Sec_Noem said on tv, with a straight face
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No idea what this Oval Office announcement is. Could be resigning Could be apologizing because Stephen Miller molted all over the Residence and someone caught staff dumping the exuviae out of the window Could be clarifying that tariff revenue is really eleventy three trillion
The United States is the only place on earth where poor people shun unions, free healthcare, and free education because the rich tell them to.
What if they not letting Trump speak because he had a Reverse Fetterman Stroke and hes woke now
Trump limits National Guard assignments to 29 days at a time to keep the called up service members from getting healthcare and housing benefits while on duty. And the NG troops are catching on. Stereotypical Trump. Don't give those losers and suckers an extra dime. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
NEW: Since corporate media won't call for Trump's resignation, I will. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/trump-must...
This seems exceptionally unhinged, even for Trump.
The world is moving on without Trump.
Fake Trump talks about trade policy. Real Trump talks about crowd sizes, hamburgers, and toilets that don’t flush.
Trump wants war. Trump wants emergency powers. Trump wants Totalitarianism.
Stephen Miller is REALLY bad at pretending to be Trump. Like this doesn’t even almost sound like a Trump tweet
Trump did this
Until Trump speaks publicly, I’m going to assume he’s incapable.
Has Trump addressed the public yet?
💯%. I've come to accept how morally depraved Donald Trump is. But I'll never get over how blindingly imbecilic he is. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Hey Congress – make Alex Acosta's testimony public and televised. There's absolutely no ethical reason for it to be private and transcribed. Nefarious AF. We need to hear your questions. We want to see him squirm. We need to see him squirm. Yet another sign of a cover-up.
At the time, it appeared (serial adulterer #RFKjr) had a woman in almost every city, including at least five in Toronto; one in Paris; others in Palm Beach and Pensacola, Fla.; Alaska; Aspen, Colo.; Miami; Montreal, and Cleveland. #sexaddict nypost.com/2024/09/21/u...
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
“Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
This should be getting far more attention from the media, and it should be investigated as a hate crime. A 14-year-old Black teen was targeted, beaten, and dehumanized with racial slurs by white teens while people stood around cheering. 1/4
Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.
Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
A 50-year assault on the social contract & everything that made better living standards possible has predictably resulted in this. The American Rescue Plan was the only significant pause of that assault. Other than that, it’s been an unrelenting attack. And now, here we are 👇
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NEW from me. In today's Washington Post, I show that the Trump White House's promise of $6 to $7 trillion in ten-year tariff revenue is fantasyland math. Tariffs may offset just 3% of ten-year deficits (or 1/6 of the new tax cuts) with lots of economic pain.🧵 www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Trump firing the BLS director for a bad jobs report - days after demanding the Smithsonian remove him from the list of impeached presidents - is banana republic stuff. If a Democrat pulled these stunts, Republicans would be setting themselves on fire outside the White House.
1) The BEA (Commerce Dept) measures GDP - not BLS. 2) That stratospheric pre-2012 election GDP estimate showed... 2.0% growth. 3) Zero evidence of these estimates being rigged. 4) That DOD jump was driven by the looming sequester. These conspiracy theories are absurd and sad.
It turns out that - no surprise - the White House had been illegally hiding a key federal spending database in order to obscure that it was beginning to illegally impound spending, as it had prevously signaled it would do. 🧵 www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Thus, giving Trump unlimited impoundment power would be extraordinarily dangerous - Congress and the courts must step in. (Excuse any typos in this thread, I had surgery this morning and am a bit foggy). thedispatch.com/article/trum...
NEW from me at The Dispatch. Imagine if a president could just eliminate border spending on a whim. Or gut defense, Medicaid or veterans spending. Even defund SCOTUS after a decision, or end SocSec in blue districts. This is the power Trump seeks with impoundment. 🧵 thedispatch.com/article/trum...
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, what’s the timeline for the book on how the President went missing like a week after he had weird bruising on his hands?
Difference between a husky and border collie... 👀😅🤣 #dog #dogday #bluesky
Thank you on this labor day!!
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
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."
Just admit it: You love your guns more than your children. The first step is acknowledging the problem.
As long as guns are easily available to crazy people, mass killings directed at so-called soft targets will continue. This is a fact. Countries where it's more difficult for crazy people to obtain guns have less shootings. This is also a fact. Do with these facts as you will.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
Starbucks CEO pay: $96 MILLION Starbucks worker pay: $15,000 Coca-Cola CEO pay: $28 MILLION Coca-Cola worker pay: $14,000 CEOs used to make like 20x the average worker. In 2024, the average CEO earned 632x more. The system is rigged.
Pay attention to what’s going on at the CDC tonight. It’s the agency charged with reducing the spread of disease and several of its scientists say their work is in danger.
Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.
Release the Epstein files. We don’t care about party. Hold them all accountable! But think about it: why is Trump trying to stop the Epstein files from coming out? He’s not doing it to protect Bill Clinton.
Vanity Fair staffers threaten to walk out over a proposed Melania cover: “We are not going to normalize this despot and his wife… if this happens, i’m gone, and so is half my team.” www.thedailybeast.com/i-will-walk-...
NEW: Yesterday, I posted that I was unable to get the COVID vaccine at my VA clinic, and many of you assured me that the new one would be available soon and that I was overreacting. I was not overreacting. I am no longer eligible for the vaccine. apnews.com/article/vacc...
Something is wrong with a system where 76% of workers say they’re worried to make ends meet, while greedy corporate CEOs make 285x what the median worker does. Working people don’t have to accept this. A union contract is how we fight back.
The only thing more disgraceful than having groveling cabinet members so willing to debase themselves in this shameless way is having such a damaged, insecure, and needy president that they know desperately needs to hear this BS.
Brutal. A humiliation ritual.
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
Frey: I think the impetus has to be on all of us to recognize that we've got more guns in this country than we have people, and it's on all of us to recognize the truth and the reality that we can't just say that this shouldn't happen again, and then allow it to happen again and again
We stand with Gavin Newsom, JB Pritzker and every other American willing to stand up to fascism and take back our country.
NYTimes "Abruptly Departs" All other media: "being ousted"
I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR FROM ELECTED OFFICIALS IN DC THAT THIS IS A SCARY MOMENT. WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT??????? THAT'S ALL PEOPLE WANT TO HEAR.
Someday I am going to write a book about how America managed to create a strain of Christianity that is completely antithetical to, well, Christianity.
There’s something afoot in Iowa! Second flip of a GOP state seat there this year. Well done!
School just started, and we are already mourning two children killed and dozens more injured as they prayed during mass. It doesn’t have to be this way. Congress must act to keep our kids safe.
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), top Dem on the Senate health committee, on this evening's chaos at CDC: “We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired."
"The marketplace in ideas is broken; peddlars of crap do not exit as they would in a well-functioning market." @chrisdillow.bsky.social
1 in 4 people globally still lack access to safe drinking water - WHO, UNICEF ->World Health Organization | #DrinkingWater | More info from EcoSearch
John Kenneth Galbraith’s logic lives on: tech firms now plan, persuade, and partner with states, shaping demand and privatizing markets. The industrial state didn’t vanish—it evolved into a digital technostructure with unprecedented power. davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/the-new-in...
I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!
AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid.”
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
He lost his mind years ago. But this community note😂😂😂
Guys, I have a special & unusual request today. My cousin Sean is a union bus driver here in Los Angeles who was just FIRED in retaliation for saying he would not let masked ICE agents onto his bus to abduct riders. The fight is on to get his job back, you can help: actionnetwork.org/letters/send...
This is very bad news. Louisiana won't even defend its own map in SCOTUS. It abandoned its own Black voters. Those of us committed to defending the VRA are now entirely on our own. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Absolutely disgraceful. This is a crime against humanity. I hope Musk, Rubio, Lewin, and the rest of the doge boys are held responsible
Over 125 economists signed the open letter calling on the President, Congress, and the American public to uphold the principles of Federal Reserve independence and not remove Lisa Cook without due process. There's still time to sign! And please share. #EconSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...
You have to start to wonder if the interior decorator is actually trolling him.
"The oft-mentioned tyranny being opposed by gun owners is really just the sense that the wrong people are encroaching on the privileges and prerogatives of whiteness." From 2020:
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
🇺🇦 Zelensky: Now the Russians, unfortunately, are giving negative signals about the meetings and further development of events. The strikes on our cities and villages continue. Every day new victims. The Russians will only consider strong pressure in response to all this.
I think "advised" is too soft of a word. ***Trigger warnings Self Harm*** The kid uploaded his suicide plan and ChatGPT told him it'd "upgrade it." He also said he wanted to leave the noose out so someone would stop him and ChatGPT told him not to. The bot fucking killed the kid.
The famine is obviously the worst, but the cover up and denial is also disgusting.
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In 2020, when I told people that I was building a pro-democracy media outlet, people thought I was kidding. When I told them that the fight for democracy was the fight of our time, they thought I was being overly dramatic. Well...here we are. Subscribe to Democracy Docket now. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
In the absence of responsible ownership, social media desperately needs some sort of arbitration/ombudsman to identify and penalize spreaders of disinformation. This isn’t a new problem. Disinformation is a societal disease that we could fairly easily cure.
🧵Putting these stats and facts out there for my great state of Calif. Remember this every time Trump & his thugs rail about crime & unleash the military on us. Trump is arming them not only with weapons but lies. Go, Gavin Newsom, JB Pritzker, and every Dem governor. Red crime is the real crime.
