Raskin: "When private comments made by federal employees are scrutinized for anti-Trump bias and they can lose their jobs because of it, then we've entered the realm not just of Vladimir Putin but Joseph Stalin."
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Raskin: "When private comments made by federal employees are scrutinized for anti-Trump bias and they can lose their jobs because of it, then we've entered the realm not just of Vladimir Putin but Joseph Stalin."
As a governor who cares about the well-being of my people, I can’t live in a fantasy land where I pretend Trump is not tearing this country apart for personal greed and power.
LMAO Pritzker scares the shit out of this coward
Florida road crews in St. Pete were out at 3 a.m. just to do this
Not going to stop thinking about the comment that Trump is sending Confederate armies to occupy Northern cities. How much more is there to say? That’s not a “distraction.” It’s what the white supremacists who tried to secede have wanted for over a century. It’s not a distraction to them at all.
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The far-right loves uncanny AI generated content and it’s shaping the way we perceive politics. Today, @jamellebouie.net joins @nndroid.bsky.social to unpack the new authoritarian art style & what happens when reality can’t match fantasy. Listen: linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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In the aftermath of Emmett Till's lynching, white supremacists called for federal troops to invade and occupy Chicago. "If the federal government intervenes in the interests of law enforcement anywhere, it should start in Chicago, crime capital extraordinary." h/t @larryglickman.bsky.social
It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed. There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea. Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.
oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
Been thinking a lot about Fort Sheridan, north of Chicago. It was built on land donated by Chicago's wealthy elite to have a nearby army base so troops would be around to break strikes and respond to labor unrest. Sheridan Road existed in large part to transport troops to Chicago's south side.
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
Guy who shrieked about tyranny when they closed Applebees during a pandemic: Mr President sir I saw a homeless man downtown today please send in the 82nd Airborne
Seems Trump might be trying an end-run in which Texas mobilizes its National Guard. That would be Texas invading Illinois, which as you can imagine is unconstitutional. One wonders about potential remedies, such as IL seizing assets of TX corporations like X, xAI, and SpaceX. Just a thought. 🤔
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trump is talking about the number of people killed by gun violence in chicago right after saying guns aren't a problem in america.
It was a mistake for #CBS to cave. We bend to tyranny and we’ll wake up to a dictatorship. Is it too late?
Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
The asymmetry between the parties is reflected perfectly in these bad-faith dust-ups over TV news editing. CBS edited Harris down for time; here, by contrast, edited out a bunch of defamatory nonsense from Noem. Fox edits down Trump to make him sound sane. Etc. newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Now that a judge ruled Trump's invasion of LA illegal, I wonder if Dems who avoided this topic will reflect on whether it might have been good to put their stamp on it now that it's been unmasked as a massive abuse of power. Pundits who urged caution should reflect on this too, but they won't.
“I’m fiscally conservative” is a safe way for people to say,”I’m okay with some people being considered expendable.”
Proof that none of the antisemitism claims are real
I get that part. And spider-webs would do the trick
Wait, you don't drink coffee?
All the fucking time
Well done.
Wowsa.
'Nuff said youtu.be/ZYG5J4s0D_s?...
There's no self-defense justification for genocide, or any other affirmative defense. It's frustrating how little Israel supporters engage with what international law actually says (because they have no argument and they know it)
Hard agree! sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/07/comp...
Christ.
This morning (9/1) at 8 AM feds pulled over a couple at 18th & Park NW. They smashed the window, dragged the husband out & arrested him. When a community member stopped to record they were grabbed & threatened w/ pepper spray by this piece of shit. @mayorbowser.bsky.social do you welcome this too?
@flavorflav.bsky.social and crew with an important Public Service Announcement: m.youtube.com/watch?v=mmo3...
Picked a really bad weekend to watch the Big Short and then read Half Asleep in Frogs Pajamas
If I was a foreign invader that conquered us, I’d put in place a Vishy government just like this to rip the country apart, so I don’t have to. They’re literally destroying everything great about America, which has been a Russian goal for a long time. Coincidence or orders?
Fuck Newsome
The writers who kept me subscribing to WAPO and NYT have all jumped ship. The latest Charles M. Blow went live today. open.substack.com/pub/charlesm...
Get well, Mr. Mayor. Whoever did this is dethpicable.
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J.B. Pritzker is 100% right. Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
Could someone please tell Chuck Schumer that his imaginary friends want new party leadership?
@joshd.bsky.social after seeing the full set on YouTube. The 18 year old back in pdx says yer band is "SIIIICK"
Q: Is Karoline Leavitt AI?
America's mayor did not fall for a tunnel painted on a brick wall, turning his whole car into an accordion.
Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay. Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas. Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
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We are not welcoming Rudy Giuliani to The War on Cars.
Right now in Michigan, we’re in the middle of a budget showdown. The Republican Speaker of the House slipped a provision into the budget that would kneecap our Attorney General – and make it near-impossible for us to take the Trump Administration to court.
rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
Bigotry was deployed--purposefully--to prevent us from developing solidarity with people whose economic interests are similar to ours. We cannot use the tool of blocking solidarity in order to develop it.
Seen on my run in Rock Creek Park today. Parking lot near Beach and Tilden. Paper taped on over a Harris 2024 sign.
This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org
Everyone who says "well, we have to win over those voters SOME way" is right--our end game here needs to look like true solidarity between urban and rural populations. But choosing people to hate together isn't solidarity.
I'm feeling called out
Trump's contribution to our politics was exposing that conservatives don't care about any of the principles they've said are sacrosanct for 100 years, and all they wanted was to be openly evil instead of circuitously evil. The Democrats who win will be the ones who understand this and act like it
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
California alone is the fourth largest economy in the world. Blue states can definitely band together to establish a formidable block. We can unite on many other issues as well.💪
If you played me this clip of a Georgia congressman named "Buddy Carter" talking with this accent, I would've called you a hack filmmaker.
So I imagine that folks who insisted it wasn’t ethnic cleansing, land theft, forced removal are lined up to apologize for insisting that this was just about defeating Hamas fighters and the return of the hostages.
NEW: Man who wants Nobel Peace Prize creates Department of War.
there is nothing, for instance, that can trump can say or do that would force the colorado secretary of state to mandate voter ID or restrict mail-in voting
This seems exceptionally unhinged, even for Trump.
Who voted for war with Venezuela?
“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.” - Fred Hampton
Remembering Fred Hampton born Aug. 30, 1948, assassinated Dec. 4, 1969 by Chicago police and the FBI
Right. Same thing as 2020 [see below].Through 2 debates and a session on Economics in Chicago during the 2024 campaign I never heard a reporter bring up the cost of the 2020 tariffs & the bailout to farmers WE paid for to cover Trump’s tariff folly. I’m sick of it. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
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?
I wonder why Trump imposed secondary tariffs only on India for buying Russian oil while not caring about all the other countries who buy Russian oil?
During a town hall Wednesday in Worth County, Iowans urged Hinson to “stop lying” after she claimed that the president’s key legislation had ushered in “higher wages” and an improved cost of living. “Higher wages?” shouted one woman incredulously. “For who? For you?” trib.al/KPLYXyQ
From @truthout.org “multiple billionaires and their companies have funneled more than $19 million into political action committees (PACs) that support Cuomo or oppose Mamdani and other candidates” incl. bloomberg, ackman, griffin, & the owners of airbnb & doordash truthout.org/articles/the...
To hell with this “maybe Trump has a point” bullshit. He is not making a good-faith effort to clean up government. We must fight his moves for what they are—on the terms he himself sets: power grabs to consolidate a dictatorship and punish his political opponents.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated that Russia is attempting to destabilize Germany, including targeting its infrastructure, and therefore Berlin is in direct conflict with Moscow.
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The next days and months and years will demand from all of us great courage — and solidarity. Be prepared.
A resonant echo of the famous September 1939 headline: “How the Hitler-Stalin Alliance Is Pushing the Boundaries of Poland.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
regardless of what happens to the tariffs, they're doomed from the start because the average conservative holds all three of these positions at once: — virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing — against increasing the minimum wage — buys foreign imports because they're cheap
I vaguely remember tweeting something like the country that effectively captures this free energy source at scale will rule the 21st century. whelp.
Migrants sent by the US to the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba earlier this year faced “abusive and inhumane detention conditions” that seriously affected their physical and mental health and even led to some suicide attempts, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch.
I’m really sick of the courts finding this administration broke the law in some unprecedented way, but they get to keep doing illegal things for a few months as a little treat. They’re defaulting to rewarding lawbreaking.
California alone is the fourth largest economy in the world. Blue states can definitely do this. We can unite on many other issues as well.
My latest piece @thenation.com written with the great Chuck Modiano: "The DC Night Patrols Are Showing Our Cities How To Fight Back Against Trump’s Occupation" www.thenation.com/article/acti...
I keep forgetting who passed the CHIPS Act, all history before January of this year is pretty fuzzy.
Are you at an OASIS show?
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
Guess it’s time for your periodic reminder that mentally ill people are actually statistically less likely to commit violent crimes; more likely to be victims; and more at risk of hurting themselves than others. If you want to curb gun crimes curb guns. Threading some studies here!
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It's even more intense. With continuous enrollment in Medicaid and a pause on all student loan repayments, we were as close to free college and universal healthcare as this country has come. It worked great. It was absolutely affordable. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
I don't understand how people look at the current state of the world and still insist voting for the "lesser evil" is a solid strategy. As if that isn't precisely what got us here.
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Chicago: take notes
Western leaders have appeased Donald Trump since he returned to power, only to be hit with new demands after every concession. On Tuesday, Trump declared economic war on countries that regulate its tech companies. It’s time for the world to break from the US and aggressively target Silicon Valley.
they think they can just erase trans joy and trans freedom. they can't. they can make things a lot harder and more painful. but that joy and that freedom is not theirs to take and it is incumbent on all good people to say so.
The first large-scale Nazi book burning was on 6 May 1933, when Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin was attacked by Nazi students. It would take decades for science to recover the knowledge about trans-affirming healthcare that was destroyed that day.