Tulsi Gabbard revealed undercover CIA agent’s name on Twitter. Can we please have a real government?
Tulsi Gabbard revealed undercover CIA agent’s name on Twitter. Can we please have a real government?
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.
“They claim to read the same books” is such a multilayered burn, I LOVE it
I still cannot get over the fact that Rufo is associated with IM-1776—an internet magazine that publishes self-identified fascists who worship people like Leon Degrelle—and nobody cares in the slightest. Everyone just continues to act like Rufo is just some guy off the street.
They know they can't win the criminal case so they're sending him away.
Guy who doesn’t understand anything says you shouldn’t either.
Must read story. Misinformation from DOGE and Elon about USIP-funded work of an Afghani working with the US against the Taliban leads to his family’s kidnapping by the Taliban
Two things can be true: Bolton sucks AND this retribution against critics is fascist bullshit.
Post-election, neutered Joe Scarborough has been one of his best allies, downplaying the DC occupation, the Epstein files, and criticizing Newsom for copying Trump's Twitter style.
Trumps best ally in being a fascist isn’t Mike Johnson, it’s the mainstream media
reflecting on this piece today as Trump takes FBI weaponization to a new level
Here legally, engaged in a sanctioned process to determine their eligibility for asylum, they have committed no crime. They are arrested anyway, and the lives they’ve risked to come to the US are thrown into chaos. Inside a photographer's view of ICE's relentless courthouse arrests.
his mission is to turn america into Stupid Russia and it’s working
Trump just called, once again, for an end to mail-in voting. He makes clear why he wants it ended: "100 additional seats will go to Republicans!!!"
He's never run a Bureau, has no expertise about Labor, and has no expertise in Statistics, suggesting that merit has nothing to do with Trump's decision to nominate him to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
NELLIS: “There are fewer cops on the street because of the Trump/Republican budget.” @tomilahrentv.bsky.social : “I thought it was the left that wanted to defund the police.” @mikenellis.bsky.social : “Some on ‘the left’ did. But Trump actually did it.” LAHREN: “…..” 😬
Can’t hard same any harder than I already am.
The amusing thing about this clip is the infrastructure bill was literally the first and only thing Nancy Mace brought up in terms of her accomplishments in Congress. Her biggest win for her district was legislation she voted against.
Texas last night. They locked a representative in the building, they arrested those who stood up for her. We are here at the point in the fascist timeline where lawmakers are arrested, kidnapped, silenced, shot, threatened and abused. Yet there are still people who think it’s normal.
Hey Marsha Blackburn we found your people
Great. More online crime, terrorism, and intelligence operations aimed at the US.
ABC: “Eye-popping 38% increase in wholesale vegetable prices… immigration raids across 🇺🇸 could be impacting workers…” We’re all paying for Trump’s tariffs and cruel immigration policies. An own goal. This is our Brexit. abcnews.go.com/Business/tar...
“.. Newsom is counting on the press corps to be .. oblivious to their double standard. .. He suggests: You notice my trolling? You notice it sounds like I’m a demented old man yelling at clouds? But not Trump? Why?” @editorialboard.bsky.social www.editorialboard.com/newsom-shows...
What's so clear here -- and so terrifying -- is that these cops view themselves as Trump's goons and know that Trump will let them get away with anything. www.thehandbasket.co/p/federal-ag...
One thing that would be useful now is to attack ICE, specifically, as a rogue agency, because it sets up pressure for reforms and also pressures other agencies to conduct themselves differently. There is massive evidence ICE has become, effectively, a neo-Nazi and white supremacist paramilitary
Holy ****. For months —years — I have warned that Trump’s assault on federal statistics was beginning to resemble actions taken by authoritarian governments in China, Venezuela, Stalin-era USSR. Critics said I was being hyperbolic. How do they feel about this threat below? bsky.app/profile/atru...
Reminder: Everything from Trump's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is simply BS!
Coming from the same people who see "The Dukes of Hazzard" (who are basically doing the same thing in a rural area) as "heritage", this is a bit ridiculous.
NEW: On Friday, a gunman shot up the CDC campus in Atlanta. He reportedly believed himself injured by the COVID-19 vaccine. The following day, NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya appeared on Steve Bannon’s War Room and called to end the mRNA platform while promoting misinformation about the shots.
Good point. See the original:
It's funny to be in love with something for more than twenty years and the love never fades. Will always love seeing true tailors at work. Unfortunately these sorts of small shops continue to disappear. IG soulsofitaly
"He believed the COVID vaccine made him suicidal… some laid-off CDC employees say @RobertKennedyJr shares responsibility for the violence and should resign…” With a head full of lies + easy access to weapons he fired at the CDC and killed Officer Rose. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
I voted Trump and now I’m totally fucked.
This was a random Democratic congresswoman a week ago.
After the DOGE purge, reality is setting in. It turns out, workers are actually needed. The FAA just announced plans to hire at least 8,900 air traffic controllers. The National Weather Service is bringing on hundreds of new staff, just months after losing more than 500 people.
"Let's restore the Confederacy only less science and more pedophilia"
There is just no precedent in recent world history of an advanced industrialized country sabotaging its own scientific establishment, and destroying the base of scientific knowledge necessary for basic policymaking. An avowedly, actively anti-knowledge regime.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/b... The right invented a "backlash" just so they could do their own backlash.
Dear Sen Bill Cassidy, You could’ve stopped this dangerous whack job. You could’ve prevented this. Shame on you. Sincerely, Your Former Congressional Colleague
He’s turning the White House into his garish 1980s-style Florida club.
That’s exactly what he’s doing. So tacky. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so sad. All it’s missing is a shuffleboard court and a bingo caller.
ok but that one trans kid is still banned from playing jv tennis with their friends right?
The next part of the plan to steal the midterms and/or the 2028 election - an attempt to do a mid-decade census to take seats and electoral votes away from blue states. I knew this was coming.
In reviewing the Sussmann case, I realized HOW MUCH original reporting on the jan6 cases I did--that fucking TV lawyers and certain WaPo journos couldn't be fucked to do--while covering this case full time. And then assholes like this claim they know better bc they sat on their ass and watched TV.
🚨WHOA. According to @haleaziz.bsky.social, the Trump admin was actually going to implement the ICE "bounties" it has repeatedly said were false, offering $200 per arrest leading to a rapid deportation — and only walked the plan back after the New York Times got a copy of the memo.
When Fox producers obsess over something, Trump believes because he sees it on Fox every hour that it is *the* pressing issue.
🔥 @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “Dems supported a national ban on redistricting this way, all Republicans opposed it… Speaker Johnson adjourned Congress to avoid voting on the Epstein files and Republicans said nothing. Be equal opportunity in your complaints about fleeing your job.” 👀 🎯
Most of the reasons costs are going up are directly related to their intransigence, though.
“Don allowed his billionaire buddy to wreck our federal agencies and now they can barely detect a flood let alone respond to a hurricane.”
Remember when the right hit Biden on this? Here’s an opening for Dems and this time it’s true, cause they allowed their boy Elon to decimate the federal response infrastructure
He was handed the absolute strongest post-Covid economy in the industrialized world. And he’s singlehandedly fucked it up. And eventually even many of his most diehard voters will realize it. And it’ll be a painful realization for them.
A $35 shirt that reads, “Make Alligators Great Again.” Mugs, car decals, and hats celebrating an immigration detender center. The juxtaposition between reports of life inside Alligator Alcatraz and the comical branding of the facility by Republicans could not be more jarring.
Trump and Republicans have the govt trifecta, are living out their lawmaking fantasies and long-time goals, and the result is a likely recession that they were warned could result from their dumb ideas.
Moodys Chief Economist Mark Zandi: “The (US) economy is on the precipice of recession…Consumer spending has flatlined, construction and manufacturing are contracting, and employment is set to fall. And with inflation on the rise, it is tough for the Fed to come to the rescue.”
“.. what Trump is doing now is something different. Confabulation is sometimes called ‘honest lying,’ because the person doing it genuinely believes what he’s saying, even if it is obviously and patently false.” @thehill.com thehill.com/opinion/camp...
If you're ruthless for the right, you get money put behind you. If you're ruthless for the left, you get money put against you. America First Legal got >$50 million in funding. A left version of the same would get attacked by Dem orgs and donors, and everyone associated with it blacklisted forever.
Having flashbacks to Trump’s 2021 demand that a state official “find” missing votes, because the numbers weren’t in his favor. This is what he expects of the BLS commissioner too: “find” missing jobs. He will try to appoint someone who does this bidding, unless GOP senators miraculously grow spines
also, this is very Soviet, except that Stalin then arrested and executed the statisticians
Just thinking back to the halcyon days of 2016 when Susan Sarandon came on Chris's show and they had a BIG LAUGH about how Trump winning would accelerate the arrival of Bernie's so-called 'revolution.' It was a simpler time, friends. 🙄
Wow
The former chief economist of the Republican staff on the Senate Budget Committee. 15 years at Heritage!
Yeah he's gonna cook the books and tank the economy but at least he's telling us he's gonna cook the books and tank the economy
We are pleased to report from the new MAGA Patriotic Bureau of Labor Statistics that thanks to Leader Trump employment is up 10 million jobs for the month of August.”
Now that he's fired that BLS official for his numbers, I feel comfortable saying it's all propaganda from the WH from here on out.
Inciting stochastic terrorism as part of the ongoing attack on the judiciary and the rule of law
The Golden Age bsky.app/profile/atru...
Too Good to Be True craigunger.substack.com/p/too-good-t...
Petition forgery is as old as time, and you get one fellow here who says he never signs anything, but still a surprising amount of, "Him? Never!"
My favorite was the guy who killed himself in 1997.
I've long believed 2016 Russian operation in US was most successful intelligence operation in recent history. With disclosure that Durham investigation all predicated on disinformation, I double down on that opinion. Russia completely destroyed the United States. www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/01/h...
recall his mug on the homepage of the New York Times because Ross Douthat finds him "interesting"
"Trump isn’t winning his trade war — except, possibly, in the media, which have apparently decided that shooting yourself in the foot and not facing retaliation is a victory."
Don't these stats come from Howard Lutnick's agency? Are they suspect? Max Kennerly and Heather Cox Richardson posted a couple of days ago about the quality of CPI data deteriorating, wondering if Trump admin was messing with data or if there were issues stemming from DOGE cuts to labor dept.
Trump’s latest story is that he ended his friendship with Epstein because he “stole” a 16 year old girl who was working in Trump’s spa & that was after Trump warned him not to do it again because he “stole” others previously. I think I believe this one except there’s more to it.
this is it #scisky #medsky www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Trump administration has shown signs of enthusiasm for a pronatalist agenda. DOGE head Elon Musk, a father of 14, posts regularly on social media about the need for Americans to have more babies; he has also promoted NatalCon on X.
Key Republicans are regretting a tax hike on gamblers that they inserted into President Trump’s megabill, calling for its repeal. One GOP senator says they didn’t even know it was in the bill they voted for. 🎰♠️♦️🎲
note that this isn't a denial and ICE is kidnapping and disappearing people
No, Marjorie Taylor Greene isn't. Democrats from every state in the union have spoken out against this. Even President Obama has spoken out on this. For fucks sake people. This anti-Democrat shit is reaching psychosis levels.
Lying by an officer should be a one-strike-you're-fired situation, and the officers who did so should all be prosecuted. I won't hold my breath. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Yeesh, a third of data in the CPI is estimated, not actually collected. This is of course entirely Trump's fault. I don't know if that's the Trump admin fiddling with data, the BLS not having adequate resources to collect data thanks to DOGE cuts, or both. But it ain't good.
🚨 #SocialSecurity is on the chopping block. Thanks to Trump’s so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill,” retirees are now staring down $18,000-a-year benefit cut in just seven years. Seniors who paid in their whole lives are left holding the bag. – $13,600 cut for a typical retired couple.
So Nashville sees Musk’s unregulated boondoggle in Vegas and thinks that’s a good idea? 🤔https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-boring-company-las-vegas-loop-oversight What could go wrong? We’re hearing this week’s announcement is private, not open to the public/press.
Remember how MAGA spent a year saying Biden giving a speech in front of a red light meant that he was a dictator? How terrified they must be now that Donald Trump has given a speech in front of a red light and quoted himself speaking of "dominating, conquering, and controlling."
👇🏻
This is twice as money much as the Department of Energy spends on solar power R&D. We could have more solar power but instead we’re paying to build detention camps.
An occasional reminder. We are not related.
This is the death of the US by the way, an isolationist US will eventually collapse in on itself leading to balkanization.
Snatched from immigration court as he tries to follow the rules. Sent to who knows where, for who knows how long. While Trump and Stephen Miller’s private prison friends and ICE rake in billions.
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> @reuters.com www.reuters.com/business/us-...
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Never would have happened if Biden was president. This is Trump’s war.
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At the same time Mike Johnson was telling the media that he had to adjourn Congress to avoid a vote on Epstein because Trump was working on getting the grand jury transcripts released, DOJ was telling the court that there is no legal basis to release the grand jury transcripts.