NEW: Massie tells CNN that there is significant pressure from the White House to BLOCK the release of the Epstein files.
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NEW: Massie tells CNN that there is significant pressure from the White House to BLOCK the release of the Epstein files.
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
Yeah he's not beating the allegations
As Trump attacks unions and occupies our city, we’re called to remember how we got here. Labor Day would not exist without the workers who fought and died at the Haymarket Massacre and the Pullman Strike in Chicago. It’s not a coincidence he’s targeting Chicago:
Thank you on this labor day!!
The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
It’s time to teach Susan Collins a lesson.
it's less "AI drives people to kill themselves" and more that "tech companies do it, and are indifferent about it". and, bleakly, some journalists seem determined to convince you that the focal point of this story is a high point of engineering rather than a low point of humanity
#ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #Pinks Thoughts and prayers do not bring back dead children. Republicans, it’s the guns and the ease of obtaining them. Protect the fetus but abandon the children. That’s the evil in the party of maga.
It's about time people realize @VAXMYASS8814 who has a ton of Twitter followers is more trustworthy than some fancy college boys.
this garbage framing really needs to stop. it's not about crime. we know this. asking people how they feel about crime pretends that it is about crime. pretending it's about crime is supporting trump's framing. stop it.
Our news media are so broken. There's a way to challenge someone in an interview without looking like you're the press secretary for the other side. ABC's Martha Raddatz badly misses the mark. "Why fight with the president?" she asks.
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
In part because they fired 90% of the DC National Park maintenance staff, reducing it from 200 to 20.
RADDATZ: One of the things they are trying to do in DC with the National Guard is have them back up local law enforcement WES MOORE: They are picking up trash
Why are Jill Stein and Cornel West silent now? Answer--because they both want to burn everything down...
Snowden is exactly the person all the shitlibs claimed he was and like every time the shitlibs turn out to be right about one of these guys all the cool kids have just memory holes their years of support for him and pretend they never defended the guy.
"Lawyers representing the Department of Homeland Security have been instructed to appeal every decision in which someone is granted bond and immediately pause the judge’s ruling while the appeal is pending." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"His mother told NBC4 that the agent told her son they had confused him with someone else, but to “look at the bright side: you’re gonna have an exciting story to tell your friends when you go back to school”." WTF www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
listen he cannot officially be declared un-dead until his caddie casually drops a ball on the green after he shanks one into the woods sorry I don't make the rules here
don't want to let it slip under the radar that racist law prof amy wax lost her discrimination suit against penn and will be suspended from teaching this year
Drats. Also, here’s your manly man hero, MAGAts. Fine specimen of humanity, isn’t he? (Don’t miss the Alt text.) Closeup from this morning’s alleged golf outing:
I know it's illegal on here to notice that our leaders are actually fighting back in the job we actually elected them to do, but here's the Wall Street Journal bitching about Schumer's "historic" delaying tactics that have left almost 90% of Trump appointee slots empty. archive.ph/2025.08.27-0...
some shit is about to go down
And they thought they were voting to reduce the price of eggs . . .
"The first wave of grocery-price increases will likely hit this winter. Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year as inventories clear and new contracts kick in." fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
I have a bottle of very old Scotch I intend to open on that glorious day.
A federal appeals court ruled that most of President Donald Trump's global tariffs are illegal, striking a massive blow to the core of his aggressive trade policy. Friday's ruling is the Trump administration's second straight loss in the make-or-break case known as V.O.S. Selections v. Trump
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
🚨BREAKING: Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) reinforced GOP power grabs sweeping the country, calling a special legislative session Friday to redraw congressional districts and weaken the ability of voters to pass laws through ballot initiatives. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Garcia: We finally got word from the Epstein estate. They're going to be providing the actual Epstein book… the estate is actually going to actually now get us that book and a bunch of other documents that they have that's actually not been reported yet.
Learn to decipher the codespeak.
This is really bad.
Americans are now climbing the wall to see if it's true about black paint 😅😅😅😅 #borderwall
When the executive ignores laws they find inconvenient, it is called a dictatorship.
The right has like, a soup worldview. Anything goes in the pot so long as it erodes demand for and trust in government. Believe one part of it, you’ll eventually have to accept the others to stay relevant with the right. Even if it’s contradictory and the sum of the parts doesn’t make sense.
And I will also add that these efforts to politicize and undermine the government, public health authorities, and pandemic response were pretty successful. What should have been a catalyst for progressive change ended up serving the re-election of Donald Trump and the rise of anti-science cranks.
The TL;DR here is that the mainstream political right came to embrace anti-vax bullshit because it helped undermine their favorite targets. Groups like Brownstone Institute and Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance acted as bridges to that world of Robert Kennedy Jr. But it was all politics.
With COVID vaccines, didn’t matter that Trump facilitated their production. It just mattered that they could be used to undermine the right’s favorite enemies: - government - Democrats - public health authorities - teachers and schools …and appeal to their natural base: - affluent whites
Alright, I have a minute: So we got the seeds for anti-vax bullshit on the right with the embrace of fake cures like hydroxychloroquine and later, ivermectin. Also, the herd immunity crowd is a natural ally for anti-vaxxers. Bc they said we didn’t need a vaccine for herd immunity, just infection
Now, on the surface, it doesn’t make sense for the right to oppose the COVID vaccines, right? They presented a way out of the pandemic. They were created through Trump’s Operation Warp Speed. But logic doesn’t apply here. Pure politics do.
Just tried watching Ezra Klein’s latest NYT podcast episode on how the U.S. got to this point where vaccines are so politicized. It’s pretty clear that Klein and his guests—David Wallace Wells and Rachael Bedard—really do not understand why/how the political right turned on vaccines.
At every stage I did what the state asked me to, even though it was humiliating, degrading and cruel. And it kept moving the goalposts, and reneging on the agreements it made, whilst continuing to hold me to them even when they are now mutually contradictory. (12/13)
As it's still valid, presumably if I don't keep following it, I am also breaking the law and subject to arrest. The law of the land simultaneously requires me to be both a man and a woman and if I do either then I am breaking the law and subject to arrest. (11/13)
And that the legal obligation I have to live as female for the rest of my life, which I signed and gave up my marriage for, is still in effect but also if I keep following it, I am breaking the law and subject to arrest. (10/13)
Some men were willing to overlook the racism for the misogyny.
i was told that trump’s modest improvement with black and hispanic men meant that racism had nothing to do with MAGA. oh well.
Meiselas: It seems that the outcome that Republicans want is whatever the worst possible outcome could be. More disease, more deaths, more murders, a horrible economy. And let’s literally pick the worst people for each possible position at every level.
I remember when Republicans were freaking out about the Jade Helm conspiracy theory.
WATCH — @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “If a Democratic president were doing any of these things you would be losing your mind.” 🎯
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
When Laura Ingraham was a student at Dartmouth, she attended a meeting of the Gay Student Union and wrote down the names of the attendees, which she then published in the student newspaper. This was a time when it was very dangerous to be outed as gay. She is a dispicable, vile person.
. Gavin Newsom 'seems to get it' ! Some audience members don't. 'Laughing off' tyranny is an invitation for enslavement ! Effective defensive/offensive leadership is imperative. .
Hire unvetted assholes to treat immigrants like criminals and they will behave the way you would expect. "It appears the judge’s decision to shut down the camp infuriated the guards, who have sadistically taken out their anger on the remaining immigrants at the facility." Ya think?
If I were charged with a federal crime, I’d hire Pam Bondi’s brother as my lawyer. Because I don’t think this is a coincidence.
Ousted CDC chief told to break the law: Colleague www.rawstory.com/cdc-firing-i...
I remember when Republicans were in a frenzy about the Jade Helm military exercises being a plot to invade and seize control of red states. Now we are watching the Trump Administration actually deploying the military to take control of cities, and the Right is cheering them on.
Back in my Republican days, me & my GOP 2nd Amendment pals would talk about how vital our guns were to defend against a potential “tyrant like Obama.” But now, there’s a REAL tyrant in the White House, and all my former GOP 2nd Amendment pals support & embrace the tyrant. Smdh.
I don’t want to be starting the day dooming and all the rest of it but Jesus Christ what a vile shower of gangsters these people are.
Case in point is nuclear weapons. Since the first two uses in war, nukes have never been used once in combat in the last eighty years, despite there having been lots of efforts to develop strategies and tactics for their use, and instances of generals and advisors advocating for a nuclear strike.
Don’t let billionaires convince you that creepy, problematic technologies aren’t creepy & problematic. Because once they can convince enough people of that, well… then we’ve lost. But we (the 99%) haven’t lost til then. Technology is not destiny & they KNOW it. They’re terrified we might know too.
Y’all remember google glass? Y’all remember what killed it? And it looked way less goofy than holding your phone up to record like people do now. But it failed because the social contract at the time (and still) said you don’t semi-surreptitiously record people in public unless you’re a creep.
It’s not a surprise that we’ve ended up here, with the “boy geniuses” breaking the federal government for profit and ever more consolidation of power, just like they broke other systems, laws, labor markets, and norms before.
thread I posted back in June that I still stand by
NY Times reporter says Lisa Cook didn’t make clear why she stopped beating her wife as Trump accused. See if you can figure out why this framing of events is a problem
What is important to remember is that the initial installation of the Robert E. Lee portrait had little to do with history. It was installed in the 1950s. To understand why you need to appreciate the vagaries of historical memory. The relevant history or context is the 1950s and not the 1860s.
My heart. Members of the US Public Health Service (the uniformed service branch no one has ever heard of, who serve at the CDC and elsewhere in the US), massed within the CDC property, saluting their departing uniformed leaders who were escorted out by security today after resigning on principle.
Trump regime operatives exposed in plot to undermine Denmark and overthrow the government in Greenland. Regime operatives attempted to disrupt democracy through misinformation and disruption operations aimed at recruiting traitors and collaborators to help sway public consensus towards the US.
According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.
Lmao troops marching into American cities is deeply unpopular, go make VP bitch boy go up on stage and make him be the one to backpedal
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)
bsky.app/profile/edhi... RFK Jr. Says Jan 6 Wasn’t That Bad, Claims MAGA Rioters Burning Capitol Wouldn’t Endanger Democracy dailyboulder.com/rfk-jr-says-...
It only makes sense if you believe in their conspiracy theories.
Three senior CDC leaders who resigned told The Post they were asked to participate in an unscientific vaccine recommendation process that they believe could harm the health of Americans.
Important clarification, multiple CDC sources tell me: Federal employees are not allowed to strike/walk out, so this is *not* a walkout but a "clap out" to show support for departing leadership. Current employees were either given permission to attend by a supervisor or used leave time to attend.
Oh my Cthulhu! She's gone into the red zone of her "Concern-0-Meter"
She voted to confirm the Fox to guard the henhouse, and is now alarmed that the hens have all been eaten.
BIDEN DID THAT! DEMOCRATS DID THAT!
Angus: I’m saying we need to start building progressive media that people actually listen to. I’ll give you an example: MeidasTouch. Wherever I go in Canada, working-class people listen to MeidasTouch because they talk about what’s happening in a practical way. They give facts.
CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else. #USAnotRFK Lets gooooo
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
NEWS: A federal judge just BLOCKED Kari Lake from ousting VOA Director Michael Abramowitz, saying that Abramowitz can only be removed by a majority vote of the VOA’s advisory board — which Trump fired. Trump will have to replace the board members before Abramowitz goes anywhere.
She appears unaware or what her own government decided yesterday. Most of the country can NO LONGER get the vaccine. It isn’t about individual choice.
These people are monsters, every one of them. Posing as pious Christians while they destroy the nation. Gibbering about the “power of prayer” while they do everything in their power to enable more gun violence. Monsters.
NEW: CNN's now publicly released video analysis shows Israel's 'double-tap' attack on Nasser Hospital was, in fact, actually a triple-tap. They bombed the hospital, and then fired upon the rescue team and journalists with not one but two more shells.
People need to understand just how openly genocidal the rhetoric on the far right is getting towards transgender people. They're openly talking about eradicating us and forcefully mass institutionalizing all trans people. These are people with direct ties to the Trump administration.
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
JUST IN: Judge COBB has set a 10am hearing for *tomorrow* on the emergency bid by Lisa Cook to remain in her job at the Fed.
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."
absolutely insane to see a man with a completely cooked brain take a country with such an intense founding mythology about the rejection of kings, and turn it into his personal vanity project in the span of like six months. kind of embarrassing for us collectively as a society
Every American has to decide what they are going to do now, because your government is out to kill you. Perhaps in January, this might have seemed like hyperbole, but in late August, it sounds like just another Thursday morning in the United States. 9/
I've lived through two epidemics (HIV in the US in the 80s/90s and in South Africa in the 2000s) and through COVID with the rest of us. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing has been as terrible as what is happening now. 8/
The price of eggs? Wait until you see your ACA premiums. Got cancer? The hope for new cures has been dashed. If H5N1 develops mutations that confer easy human-to-human transmission? Fuggedaboudit. 7/
It's important to know what we're dealing with. Though some in the media still try to horse-race, both sides this, we're faced with psychopaths at the helm of our nation's public health, scientific and healthcare efforts. They want to inflict pain and suffering. It's a goal, not a by-product. 6/