It’s always punching Nazis in the face season
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180 shots fired, 150 broken windows. Tumultuous firings and resignations at the CDC. The installation of a techno-optimist with a history of pushing unproven medical treatments. The month of August 2025 may go down as the worst in the history of the US Health and Human Services Department.
You’re only “tough on crime” if you send in a militarized police force to beat, smash, and arrest. The actual results are irrelevant.
Good morning. Immigrants are #HereToStay.
1. Monday was a landmark day in one of the most brazen political and economic grifts in history. It netted Trump, at least on paper, $3.4 BILLION. Follow this thread for details. 🧵
A good report about how the federal SCAAP program feeds data into ICE deportation machine. Some quotes from me about how we analyzed it in Wisconsin.
I’m shocked
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...
Weird, putting tariffs on construction materials and throwing day laborers in concentration camps should have solved the supply problem by now
Seems like as good a time as any to reshare my story on the Coffee County voting system breach, which details the key role Giuliani played in Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
Nadler ‘said that under the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel was committing mass murder and war crimes in Gaza “without question.”’
This is literally the largest act of union busting in American history. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
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Respect
Inject this into my veins
Please talk to some Black people before dismissing the psychological impact of having Feds running around the neighborhood hemming people up en masse.
In a democracy, this is what the party of the working class would sound like.
18K US Doctors Signed Quickly! Remove RFK Jr because he endangers lives. More are signing every minute!
Not a drag queen or a trans person, just another white cis Republican.
CHICAGO IS IN THE STREETS! #LaborDay #DefendHigherEd #WorkersOverBillionaires
Shout-out to Mt. Airy, NC (Andy's hometown) for an amazing turn-out for #WorkersNotBillionaires #WorkersOverBillionaires Cult-man's brown shirt club had 20 show up; we had over 100! Take that Surry County.
Somebody is throwing things out of a window of the White House wtaf
Adding one thing: this whole dynamic is neatly replicated around the issue of climate change. Dems take shit constantly: they're acting too fast, too slow, doing the wrong things, focusing on the wrong tech, bad Dems! GOP gibbons just throw shit & lies & block all policy & that's fine I guess.
Somehow our diseased information environment has produced the net outcome that *the pandemic is considered a political problem for Dems*, not the party that lied about it & got people killed at every juncture. The party that tried, but not perfectly, to save lives, is being forced to apologize.
But it's always like this. Democrats try to do the right thing. They fall short, like humans do. Everyone teams up to shit on them. Republicans don't even bother pretending. They lie, they smear, they destroy lives, they get people killed, & they face NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT.
At every single second, they worked their hardest to destroy trust, to foment doubt & anger & resentment, to *prevent* solidarity. And those lies mattered. The vaccine skepticism deliberately spread by the right led to 100s of 1000s of preventable deaths. Again: *they caused mass death*.
But the entire Dem professional establishment was desperately *trying* to do the right thing & be responsible. Contrast: immediately upon the arrival of the virus, the right started spreading insane conspiracy theories, attacking public health officials, & refusing to act in solidarity.
Majority of non-city roads would be literally deadly to kids on bikes in the US.
Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.
Just for fucking once say it plainly: he’s LYING.
Labor Day March in SF. This is our day and we are fighting back against the attacks on schools, against the attacks on students, the attacks public education, and against the attacks on all workers! Educations is the foundation of our democracy. #WorkersOverBillionaires.
NEW: Huge anti-Trump protests happening across the US for Labor Day. This is the current scene in San Diego. A seemingly endless line of thousands of people on the streets! @50501movement.bsky.social #workersoverbillionaires #NoKings (🎥 10-97 News)
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
So it’s been six days, does anyone know where the hell the President of the United States is?
It is beyond wild to me that there is zero coverage of "Workers over Billionaires" rallies anywhere on The New York Times or The Washington Post right now. This is a colossal failure in journalism. Mainstream media can't just pretend that hundreds of thousands of protesters don't exist
Back when Donald was a failure in real estate, he was famous for not paying his contractors. He would come up with fictional fault in their work as an excuse not to pay them. Now, this unscrupulous cretin is short-changing the National Guard. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
Illegally. All illegal. Fucking say it for once.
Remember that we can always find power, solidarity, and hope in the labor movement. [Artwork by Ricardo Levins Morales]
Once again I ask, if this was a foreign agent government systematically dismantling American power and influence in the world, what would they be doing differently?
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?
Body double
Someone please kill me right now.
In the long historical tradition of going to parks armed to the teeth, clearly
On this Labor Day, as we face a federal regime that’s declared war on working people — dismantling unions, destroying jobs, empowering & cutting taxes for the largest corporations in the world — let’s recommit to fighting for workers, the people who actually make our country run.
On #LaborDay, I stand with every worker demanding fair pay, safe conditions, and respect on the job. The fight for dignity is far from over. (2/2)
Trump and Republicans attack unions because they know organized workers are powerful. But let’s be clear: workers built this country—not billionaires. (1/2)
“They Will Attack Every Organized Worker in America” A powerful warning from the head of the largest federal employees union. Trump’s attacking federal workers and their unions now. But it’s only a matter of time before the most anti-labor president in history attacks every union—and every worker.
That comment should instantly ban them from commenting on a school district policy forever.
Cannot parody them anymore
Exactly. Keep the pressure on. Trump will not stick with anyone he thinks may be dragging him further down. That was the beginning of his distancing from Elon. Keep the pressure on. RFK must go.
Every day an avalanche of disgusting, inhumane and cruel policies come flooding out of the fascist regime which has captured the US.
Simply disgusting
The ethos behind Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again movement blames individual people for their chronic diseases and links Medicaid users’ value to their economic productivity.
Bars in Hawaii are largely OUTDOOR spaces omg
Trump going to sleep earlier, which I think is a little noteworthy
A mere one year ago, this was The Central Issue Of Our Political Age. It's not even news in today's papers.
Of course when they complain about “foreigners,” they mean non-whites.
Good morning. Immigrants are #HereToStay.
News outlets should send their medical correspondents (the ones who are actual doctors) to the White House on Tuesday - and every day after that - to ask him questions about his health, hand bruising, if he’s getting lasix infusion, etc etc
KOH: “Trump Stripped 1 million workers’ bargaining rights while plastering his face on the Labor Dept… Closed miner health clinics… Cut $2.4 Billion from youth & senior job programs… This is the real story of Trump & Labor.” #LaborDay
Omg 🤦🏻♂️
This is, of course, false. The United States exported $83 billion in goods and services to India last year alone.
“One of my running themes of media criticism in the Trump era has been that the national media knows all-too-well how to provide wall-to-wall coverage and elevate something from a ‘news story’ to a ‘news event.’ (Think Hunter Biden or Hillary’s emails!)”
I need proof that’s not a body double
RFK Jr. is currently the most dangerous member of this fascist regime.
I'm not sure Americans have a frame of reference for the sort of gangster government we have now. Any objective functions it performs are an afterthought. The law only used as a tool to punish political enemies and ignored in every other instance
So the photos we get of the “golf outing” today is a pale and feeble looking one of him getting to a car at the WH and this one of him returning. Nothing from the course.
Palestinians will be offered $5000 for their land, 4 years of rent subsidies, & a year of food—if they “voluntarily” leave. This is ethnic cleansing, a war crime If Palestinians don’t “voluntarily” leave, they’ll be placed into concentration camps & imprisoned. This is genocide & a war crime 2/4
Thread BREAKING: A new 38 page proposal shows Trump & Netanyahu are openly planning to take over Gaza & turn it into a casino & tourism resort. Here are the horrid details, & yes all of this is a violation of international human rights law & further confirms Israel is committing genocide. 1/4
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
Judge: I got a call at 2:36 a.m. because the govt chose this time on a holiday weekend to execute this plan. I have been up since then. I haven't been able to reach anyone from govt until this morning at 9:30 a.m. So absent this intervention, all children would already have been sent to Guatemala!
Paging my governor Healy
Federal agents in DC have been starting dangerous car cases for small stuff like tinted windows. The chases violate DC police policy. Out of 10 cases, six ended in a crash. One car had a minor in back. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Evil to the core
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
The plan is completely illegal; it’s openly in violation of black letter law. Nevertheless, the Trump admin is trying to claim that the budget bill effectively amended the law; even though it was a budget bill, and cannot by definition amend the law.
Parroting Trump, Raddatz repeatedly attacked Moore for claiming he had a Bronze Star when he didn't. She apparently didn't know that Moore now HAS the Bronze Star that his superior officer told Moore he had earned years ago in battle.
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.
He won’t let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.
Mock the fuck out of them.
Pritzker out here giving a master class in countering the right wing propaganda machine’s efforts to justify further federal invasions and occupations of American cities: he’s effectively reframing the discussion (beyond debates re: crime rates) to one of rising authoritarianism & federal overreach.
tiktok taking down their live feature in indonesia while the protests are happening shows they understand the ability that app had to show people what was really happening in gaza and they intend not to let it happen again
Madman raves online, news at 11.
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
If he’s even still alive
Why Isn't Donald Trump's Declining Health Being Covered by Corporate Media? Where are the op-eds & news programs calling for Trump's resignation due to his declining health, impaired abilities, & march towards fascism? Oh, yeah, "both sides" corporate journalism. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
Exactly
Convicted Felon, Donald Trump, disrespects our armed forces & offers military funeral honors to deceased 1/6 insurrectionist, Ashli Babbitt. My latest on how the Trump Admin paid her Estate $5 million & inspired a copy-cat lawsuit from the Proud Boys. youtu.be/4SVwrjpvTAc?...
What the fuck is she on about? I mean, I know it’s propaganda and largely aimed at the audience of 🤡 but the utter smooth comfort with which she lies is psychotic.
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
So do we have an irrefutable proof of life yet or…?
"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...
Trump’s idiotic tariffs are destroying so much of the economy.
They’re doing all this to prevent people from MEMORIALIZING A MASS SHOOTING
Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
Netanyahu is restricting aid trucks into Gaza—the best way to get food to starving people there—so Jordan is delivering some with air drops. The Jordanians said @merkley.senate.gov & I could join one of those flights to see the devastation, but Israel denied authorization for our scheduled flight.
The U.S. is one of the world's biggest human rights violators under Trump. Well done, maga.
Because we are among the world's biggest human rights violators now. And allied with not one but two ajudicated war criminals. Well done, maga. You ended the empire.
Oddly not being asked to resign by the very law abiding president.
ICE detain man who is legally in U.S.—son of a decorated military veteran. "As a granddaughter of a Master Sergeant veteran," she said. "I never believed my home would be at risk in the country my family fought for." He is living in U.S. legally—and has never commit a crime. Dallas, Texas.
Judge: Planned Parenthood clinics can remain Medicaid providers while lawsuit continues | via @sofiaresnick.bsky.social #ksleg