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.
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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.
California stepping up.
Wow: French President Emmanuel Macron just called out Trump at a major press conference with the German Chancellor 😳
So not only do churches NOT have to pay taxes, they're going to get YOUR tax dollars to boot. This seems like oh, I don't know, government establishing a religion in violation of the First Amendment?
What if we established a tax-exempt Church of Democracy and sued the government for infringing on our religious freedoms when it does authoritarian stuff?
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
The White House says the CDC director is fired, but she's refusing to leave. Dr. Susan Monarez rejected RFK Jr's crazed stance on vaccines. Her lawyers say the firing was “legally deficient.” They also say her situation symbolizes larger issues, namely the dismantling of public health institutions👇
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.
🚨Now in D.C. 🚨 “Hey hey, ho ho, millionaires have got to go!”
For those asking, this is an ammosexual.
“When I call Kennedy a ‘dangerous crank,’ I'm not saying that as an insult or as hyperbole, but honestly as the most economical way of describing the man's views,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on RFK Jr.
Dear people who are saying that the CDC directors who quit yesterday should have “stayed and fought”, With all due respect, you do not grasp the magnitude of the problem of RFK Jr. He is asking them to do unethical and immoral things that will actively harm the people of the United States. 1/3
Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadn’t happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.
🚨🚨 U.S. March on Wall Street: Americans are sick of having a mob boss running the country.
"Literally no one thinks prayer is a substitute for action." Then why is prayer, literally, *always* the substitute for action, you willfully obtuse asshole?
BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia is has just asked a judge for a GAG ORDER against Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi and their subordinates.
She was the very epitome of a traitor.
Ashli Babbitt was a domestic terrorist who was shot while committing a violent crime that demonstrated a clear intention to do bodily harm to the people on the other side of those doors. The officer ended the threat she represented...as they were required to do by lethal force if necessary. It was
📌 Scientists are not in the business of advancing missions antithetical to public health. ✊🏼
This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
A couple of months ago, the Navy dishonored civil rights hero Harvey Milk by removing his name from a ship. Now, the Air Force is dishonoring itself by celebrating a domestic terrorist called Ashli Babbitt.
Everyone at the CDC is getting fired or resigning. RFK Jr. wants to ban all vaccines. His idiocy will get millions of people killed.
I do not understand why government officials resign when asked to do something bad. The resignations will no longer be treated by the public like a scandal. It’ll be out of the news within 24 hours. People should stay and force the White House to fire them. Do not make it easy.
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. Your family’s safety is on the line.
Today marks the 62nd anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, where a quarter of a million people rallied for economic justice and civil rights.
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.
“Transparent”
I hope the damages are unmanageable. I hope OpenAI collapses under the weight of the liabilities and Altman is left destitute. I hope it serves as a warning to the others
🚨BREAKING: 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!
In a small town in County Cork, Ireland, a monument stands in appreciation to the American Choctaw Indian Tribe. Although impoverished, shortly after being forced to walk the Trail of Tears, the tribe somehow gathered $170 to send to Ireland for famine relief in 1847 [Historic Vids]
Must be nice to have no oligarchs on your supreme court.
CANCEL THE CUTS RELEASE THE FILES
Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Imagine thinking scientists, historians, scholars, economists, and journalists devoted their lives to deceiving you — but a reality-TV star, proven in court to be a lying felon, is your beacon of truth and honesty.”
No surprise whatsoever, the number of abandoned babies in TX has skyrocketed. Weirdly, the number of people willing to adopt these babies, many of whom are not white, has NOT kept up with surge. GOP policy is always stupid and cruel. Always.
The State of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from the federal government asking if we need assistance, and we have made no requests for federal intervention.
Kharkiv right now ❤️🩹 I’m almost crying. We’re banned from organizing celebrations. Warned against crowds and gatherings due to constant russian bombings. But we’re alive, and we’ll keep living. That’s our collective "fuck you" to russia.
I would love to see a cooking show where they do everything in a home kitchen (a small one). No little glass bowls of each spice set out. No pre-prepared chicken breasts read to go. Everything done by scratch. Then let them say "it's an easy meal to whip up in 30 minutes!" Fuck you.
Dems should swap out Hakeem Jeffries with Jasmine Crockett. They need that kind of fire.
Today, the president threatened to militarily occupy numerous American cities without authorization or rationale. He was also praised by a notorious child sex trafficker, with whom he obviously cut a deal, to cover up evidence he sexually abused kids. The GOP is united behind him. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I'm not interested in what notorious liar Ghislaine Maxwell has to say. I'm interested in evidence of what she did. Release the Epstein Files. Stop Donald's coverup.
Meanwhile, red state rural crime rises as state law enforcement agencies busy themselves with war on blue cities.
Bolton’s home raided, Gen. Kruse fired, Epstein coverup proceeds, seizure of 10% of Intel another step towards state capitalism. Just one day in the somewhat chaotic but directionally purposeful march towards…despotism. Does anyone think they’re doing all this so they can hand over power in 2028?
Trump just told on himself. Asked if DOJ should release the Epstein files, he didn’t demand truth—he cried that “innocent people” might be named, called it a “hoax,” and begged to bury it. Translation: he’s terrified. The cover-up is cracking. Keep your eyes on the Epstein files. 👀
Seeing a lot of intelligent folks describe Trump's stake in Intel (similar to his stake in US Steel) as socialism. Socialism is when there are not private corporations. Fascism is when private corporations are directed by the state.
We don't tax the rich so we don't have funding for critical public infrastructure so we have to rely on the rich to for critical services which makes the rich richer while public services degrade which increases our reliance on the rich so we don't tax the rich and don't have funding for critical pu
What was released today was not the Epstein files; it was spin to try and clear Trump’s name. Release the REAL Epstein files !
From 2019-2024, Lowe's spent $46.6 BILLION on stock buybacks. That's enough to give each of its 273k employees a $28k bonus for the next six years. Instead, it paid its CEO 659x what it paid median employees. And we STILL think corporate tax breaks will magically trickle down?
I guarantee you that none of the men who paid for sex with the girls Maxwell and Epstein trafficked were roofers looking for work at a Home Depot
We Remember and Honor Aunt Crabby ! And We Agree With Her, We Must End Chump........
23 of Epstein’s victims have testified in court. In an August 2019 hearing, 22 women spoke about the abuses committed by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. 4 women testified at Ghislaine’s trial. Investigative reporting has identified roughly 80 survivors in total. 🖕🏼👇🏼 www.justice.gov/maxwell-inte...
🔥 STEWART: “This is the lie they tell you — that all this money flowing towards corporate interests is actually for YOUR benefit…. That government intervention for corporations is our ‘FREE MARKET’, but government intervention for workers is ‘SOCIALISM’.
Whether it’s freaking out about the new Cracker Barrel logo or some other bogeyman, remember this: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption, worker oppression, and staggering wealth inequality.
With how much MAGAts are losing their minds over the new Cracker Barrel logo changing, maybe this will grab their attention.
The Voting Rights Act used to stop racist voter suppression-specifically in Texas But the Supreme Court gutted the VRA-consequently Trump and the Republicans are disenfranchising Black and Hispanic Americans So Gavin Newsom will push California to respond With democracy hanging in the balance
The size of Pete Hegseth’s security detail is insane. Grown to 400+ agents since January. They’re pulled from the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division, which should be investigating crimes in the ranks. Instead, they’re stuck guarding his ex-wives, multiple kids, and multiple properties.
Gavin Newsom responds to Fox's OBSESSION with him
The numbers are in. The new maps republicans just passed in Texas reduce Hispanic Texans to one-third of a white person and Black Texans to one-fifth of a white person.
The joke (and irony) is truly going right over their heads. They really are all this stupid and self-owned, huh?
The lack of self-awareness @gavinnewsom.bsky.social has baited them into is incredible. This is easily the funniest thing Hannity has ever said.
Hey Netflix, now might be a good time to add Roots (1977 miniseries) to the livestream library. A dose of Kunta Kinte is what America needs right now. #history #remember #museum
The most important histograms you'll see this year. @adambonica.bsky.social is doing incredibly important work in revealing the ills of our campaign finance system. Beyond dysfunction, SPAM PACs approach criminality. data4democracy.substack.com/p/spam-pacs-...
Ossoff: "There is at some point is going to be a reckoning for all of this. These folks who are working at these private prison companies who are on Kristi Noem's staff right now, they are at some point going to have to testify under oath about what is happening in the facilities they're running."
NEWS: DNC Chair Ken Martin says TX State Rep. Nicole Collier was threatened with a FELONY charge for speaking on a press call with him, Cory Booker, and Gavin Newsom.
Saw it! Had to share the PSA!!
I wish more politicians understood how the economy is rigged against regular people the way Bill Burr does.
"Massachusetts has collected about $1.8 billion from a voter-approved surtax on the state's highest earners through the first nine months of the fiscal year." It's going to be used for education and transportation. See? Equitable taxation benefits everyone. www.wgbh.org/news/politic...
The company running license plate tracking cameras across Colorado has insisted that immigration agents don't have direct access. Flock now says they were wrong. CBP has access. (Using license plate info for immigration enforcement is prohibited by Colorado law) #copolitics
The judge points out that the 76 pages of grand jury testimony are a drop in the well compared to the 100,000 documents the government could release.
Red states rely on the money from Blue states to function. This can all be over the second Democratic governors actually wield their power.
How about we pull out all our investments in Texas companies and those who have headquarters in Texas. Let's break their BALLS.
Sure “Welcome to NAZI Germany” please enjoy your stay. Tourism has dropped by 22.5% in 2025 in dollars that’s about $29 Billion.
Because nothing says “you should feel free to come visit Washington” like standing in front of dozens of armed soldiers next to a guy who thinks women shouldn’t be able to vote 🙃
Both please, but if I have to choose, 2.
So embarrassing.
The decision of European leaders to all join Zelensky in his White House visit was one of the savviest diplomatic moves I’ve seen in a long time. Historic. THAT is how you unify for democracy.
There is no moral equivalence between bullies and the bullied, between tyranny and democracy, or between brutality and decency. No individual can be free in a society devoid of justice. There can be no liberty where brutality reigns.
94% of teachers have had to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. An estimated 1 in 6 have second jobs during the school year to make ends meet. The average Wall Street employee got a record $244,700 bonus last year. Something has gone terribly wrong.
I’ve been paying into Social Security since I was 17. It was not a donation, so when the time comes — b*tch better have my money. #HandsOffOurSocialSecurity Don’t let anyone fool you into thinking the only fix is making it harder to get. Lift the cap, and it stays solvent.
Having things go over your head must be hereditary in the Cuomo family.
Mr. Homan, all I have been trying to do is “come visit” your facility. You. Will. Not. Let. Me. Now that your lawyers have admitted in court that you’re abusing your detainees, please explain why you continue to lie to the American people.
DC really doesn’t know how to deal with this brand new police state. They are shocked at the massive display of douchery in their streets.
My reporting has come to the attention of Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorney. Here’s the response I provided to the @thedailybeast.bsky.social
Jizzlane’s hush money is a Club Fed.
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What baffles me is that neither Mayor Muriel Bowser nor AG Brian Schwalb have filed any action to stop TACO from his illegal take over of DC. There is NO emergency warranting the exercise of that power and we all know it. Make him defend this shit in court.
This is A+ trolling
Do it! And Democratic governors who don't participate need to be voted out. Dems, stop playing softball. You're holding the moral high ground and losing American democracy.
The President cannot commandeer any local law enforcement. The President does not run the Smithsonian. The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law. Release the Epstein files. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
The FBI came to my house to intimidate me because I’m critical of Trump. And they wouldn’t let my girlfriend take a picture of their badges. They had printouts of my posts.
Changing the jobs report to be quarterly instead of monthly doesn't solve the problem of needing to wait for revisions. You can do a monthly jobs report 90 days in arrears to solve that if you want. But putting a report out in April for Q1 will still need to be revised. Weirdos.
D.C.’s worst day for crime was January 6, 2021. That’s a fact.
Remember in 2024 when South Korea’s president declared martial law in order to cling to power and 1 million people protested? Then both parties immediately impeached AND removed him from office, leading to him being arrested earlier this year for inciting an insurrection? Okay good. Me, too…
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