Some of the brightest lights I’ve known have been forced to eat shit repeatedly in their careers. And they were the “lucky” ones—in that they were able to stay in the game. Many more just got completely pushed out and we never know about them except as faceless statistics.
This whole thread. Outstanding women 👇
More framing like this, please www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
free Dem slogan idea: "50 for 50 hospital plan" - plan to construct 50 new, state of the art hospitals, one in all 50 states, to help make up for the hospitals Trump is closing that can't be reopened
Surely Sean O’Brien has something to say…wait, I’m hearing Black women are a big cohort here…never mind www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
"President Trump owes us answers about his health": weak, frames him as good-faith statesman, boring "What did JD Vance know about Trump's health and when did he know it?": interesting, carries implication Trump's health is fucked up as a given, implies scandal spreading throughout admin
This week, Oversight Committee Dems are meeting with many of the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. We will listen to their stories and continue our work to seek justice against anyone responsible for these horrific crimes.
This has been my go-to when dealing with MAGA. I also add that it’s a sin to bear false witness. Really gets them into a stir. Last time one said, “Careful who you call a liar,” to which I responded, “I’m very careful. And I’m calling you a liar. You are lying, so you are a liar.”
Are the interns who run his socials also dead?
Raise the minimum wage. It’s been $7.25/hr since 2009. Some states have voluntarily raised the minimum wage. Most red states have not. Workers should not have to work several jobs just to survive. WA is at $16.66/hr, CA at $16.50 #LaborDay www.paycor.com/resource-cen...?
The results were so secret that they were published for the entire world to see, even RFK Jr. But, as @jimalwine.bsky.social and I wrote back in February, “Kennedy, a science denialist, will never accept the real scientific evidence that vaccines are safe”.
Former CDC heads warn Kennedy is endangering Americans reut.rs/4n8DN0y
Happy Labor Day! California is proud to be ranked the #1 state for workers. We’re leading the nation with strong wage standards, worker protections, and labor rights that make our communities, businesses, and families stronger.
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?
Please be aware of your surroundings. REMEMBER do not open the door without a judicial warrant, you have the right to remain silent, do not sign anything. If you have any additional info call our hotline 202-335-1183. 2/
A Florida Judge tried to strip me of my law license after I objected to ICE fascism As major law firms capitulate to Trump & offer up $100M in free legal services to appease him—I am refusing to bend the knee to intimidation & instead speaking out publicly. qasimrashid.substack.com/p/a-florida-...
Given his rant this AM, I wonder if Trump will grasp that the main propagandists against COVID19 vaccines are all now running his admin’s health agencies: RFK Jr. (HHS), Bhattacharya (NIH), Makary and Prasad (FDA). Someone should tell him why so many people wrongly think COVID19 vaccines are bad.
Sign up for Trump's forces and reap the benefits of impunity. You can be as violent and thuggish as you like and face no consequences for it. You may get a bonus. www.thehandbasket.co/p/parks-offi...
This is the type of person Trump pardoned. He proudly asserts that they should have injured a US Capitol Police Officer worse than they did on January 6th (@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social) had to medically retire). But MAGA supports law enforcement? Seriously? Then show me by condemning this guy.
Trump's dodging the cameras as much as he's been dodging the Epstein files
At around the 22-25 minute marks, Yarvin, JD Vance’s court philosopher, proposes a system where black people would be made wards of religious ministers, who could force them to work as indentured servants and require them to submit to 24/7 “air-tag” monitoring.
this is a feature, not a bug. the idea is that you don’t need a lawyer to defend your interests under the law, but one with friends at the Court of Mar-a-Lago who will get you the best deal possible. the law firms that rolled over to make themselves eligible for that business.
This is the classic parricide pleading for clemency as an orphan, and the Trump administration does it constantly. Knowing courts are slow, they charge ahead with illegal conduct, then whine about how disruptrive it will be if, months later, courts finally tell them to stop breaking the law.
Listening to a podcast where a well known tech world wannabe fascist calls journalism "nonconsensual invasion of privacy for profit" and thinks that's clever and my goodness does that reveal a lot of how completely brain wormed a bunch of these guys are once they faced a tiny bit of criticism.
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...
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
Judge Sooknanan: "These children are going to be deplaned. They're going to be returned to ORR custody. And no attempts will be made to remove them from ORR custody and remove them to Guatemala, in light of my order, while these preliminary emergency proceedings are pending."
The “pro life” people are responsible for the trafficking of children.
DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administration’s effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala. Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.
#LaborDay Remembering Utah Phillips He was an American Labor Organizer, folk singer, storyteller, and poet Always telling the stories of American workers and the struggles of labor unions Thank you, Utah Phillips #UnionStrong
@jollygoodginger.bsky.social is in DC with other vets right now standing up for democracy. He's playing General Milleys speech on repeat for them today 💜 #LoveTheVets!
Maybe we can jog Tom Emmer’s memory about why he opposed common sense, bipartisan legislation designed to protect schoolchildren from mass shooters
BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children — perhaps within a matter of hours — granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
Once again, Border Patrol tells the press this was a targeted kidnapping, yet they took a man who is legally here & in the immigration process. This shows that it was not a targeted investigation as they claimed. Press must stop printing lies. apnews.com/article/immi...
A big difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans understand the science of political communication. Republicans dictate the topics/terms of debate while Dems (and the left) usually burn energy in constant response. Thiel and Co call this mimetics, Lakoff calls it framing.
Wrote about Comer/Mace attempting to doxx and intimidate Wikipedia editors in an effort to force their own viewpoint onto Wikipedia.
Since returning to the White House, Trump has widely deployed the National Guard, with clear plans to expand its presence nationwide and few safeguards to limit him. And it looks like he might take his use of the military to the polls in 2026 and 2028.
Not defending Polis! Just explaining the irony of why laws many states have had for decades to safeguard public health are backfiring in the face of abject corruption by the Trump-RFKJr. killing machine.
Trump regime decimated the NPS and park groundskeepers who kept DC’s many national parks and monuments beautiful and clean lost their jobs. Then, Trump crime regime ordered in Nat’l. Guard troops, taking them from their families and jobs, to come spread mulch in these parks hundreds of miles away.
If you don’t know about Heather Honey, you should. She’s a national embarrassment, virulent election denier and now in charge of election policies for the US government. www.propublica.org/article/heat...
"kept bringing it back up in conversations.” #DeleteMeta
In response to a suit by @maketheroadny.bsky.social a federal judge has blocked Trump’s expanded use of “expedited removal.” The courthouse abductions w/o due process that we’ve been protesting are illegal—and must stop. We’ll be back next week to make sure they do. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
Of all the “honestly I never expected” things — Congress absolutely rolling over and abdicating its power to the White House — any White House — is one of the most shockingly unnecessary. It will not be remembered well in history, by either side, ironically. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
Trees can be replaced, but that takes time and effort. Dirtier air, soil erosion, habitat destruction … these are all irreversible in the short run, and cause lasting damage in the long run.
“The state of Texas is only 40 percent white, but white voters control over 73 percent of the state’s congressional seats,” Derrick Johnson, President and CEO of the NAACP, said.
Washington Post vs Democracy Docket covering the latest on the GOP's redistricting power grab in Missouri. Who do you trust to give you pro-democracy news, information and analysis? Support DD and subscribe today: hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
The Canadian novelist Miriam Toews’s new memoir reckons with the death of her father and sister—and examines the forces that made her a writer, Maya Chung explains in The Atlantic’s Books Briefing.
RFK Leads the GOP's Pro-Death March The Dangerous Politicization of Public Health in America: Why RFK Jr.’s Rise to Power Puts Millions of Lives at Risk open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R
A dramatic, extremely worrying moment; over 61,000 people held in ICE detention. That is the highest number ever on record in United States history; roughly 6,000 higher than the previous record set under Trump six years ago, and over 21,000 higher than when Trump took office just seven months ago.
Just in time for Taco Tuesday
When is enough going to be enough? How many parents have to lose their children before we end the violence? We need bans on assault weapons and high capacity magazines, comprehensive background checks into the mental health of potential gun owners, and federal red flag laws.
At 3 pm Wed., a woman was stabbed just off a busy intersection on H Street, NE. National Guard members were dining al fresco at a taqueria DIRECTLY across the street, yet the suspect got away. "So safe," a local texted us. Our postcard from an Occupied D.C.: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The scenery at Zion National Park in Utah, USA, is truly breathtaking! #FridayFeeling #FridayMorning
The Bondi family business. Charges dropped…for those with the right connections.
So, who has standing if not the actual voters who joined the lawsuit?
Two days ago, while covering his hands and ankles, at the cabinet meeting, Trump said , "There is no inflation." H LIES.
I should add that this is not a comment on Polis but rather an explanation of existing state law that complicates distributing vaccines not approved by the vaccine advisory board.
For example, I can get a shot in SC because SC has historically been so contrarian that they had no such law. SC also allows unpasteurized milk for sale. So states w/ laws to protect public health are ironically affected because the pub. health infrastructure has been corrupted by MAHA sociopaths.
This is happening in NC as well but not because CO and NC are terrible. The existing laws served to ensure that available vaccines were cleared by the vaccine advisory board. That worked until RFKJr corrupted the board, so now those laws hamstring what would otherwise be advised vaccines.
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
“was Lee or Grant a better general” is a question with an obviously correct answer that a whole lot of people get wrong
US builds up forces in Caribbean as officials, experts, ask why reut.rs/424dRev
Gotta say Joni deciding to pull her objections to Hegseth to spare herself a primary challenge only to not even run for re-election is incredibly on brand for a Very Serious National Security Republican
NEW: Mississippi asked the Supreme Court to determine whether voters and advocacy groups can continue filing lawsuits under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The state argued that such lawsuits can only be brought by the Justice Department.
“You’re lying!” several people shouted as Moore claimed that denying immigrants access to health care would somehow make the system solvent.
⚡️ Ukraine calls emergency UN Security Council meeting over Russian strike on Kyiv. The Ukrainian delegation will reportedly brief the international community about the scale of destruction and urge an immediate ceasefire.
📣AI propaganda factories🏭 are now operational. My study shows how small, open-weight models can run as fully automatic generators in influence campaigns. mechanising personas, engagement, cadence. Possible for State, non-state, and micro-actors, including and bedroom ones.
A little bit of hope today from Mona Charen rounding up examples of effective pushback to Trump's overreach: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-sub-he...
As expected. Noted antivaxxer Geier, who has had many retractions in the lit and was fined for practicing medicine without a license, is who Kennedy hired to "find the cause of autism."
"Money that could keep thousands of commuters out of their gas-guzzling cars is instead propping up an underperforming plastics plant that has already been fined $10 million for frequent air pollution." Another timely and important piece by @willbunch.bsky.social
In the photos, you can see how the Russian army remotely mined roads and intersections in Kherson. Russians use anti-personnel “petal” mines for this. Fortunately, they were defused by explosive ordnance experts. Russia acts cruelly toward both military personnel and civilians.
Forward this letter from me to any Trump voters you know. Who knows? It might just help. Thanks.👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialco...
Governor Pritzker pointed out that cities in Tennessee and Mississippi have higher crime rates than Chicago. “And yet Donald Trump is sending troops here? And not there? Ask yourself why.” trib.al/h96Yfsn
Pay attention. Your family’s safety is on the line.
Scientists have studied mRNA for decades. The vaccine has proven to be safe & effective-saving millions of lives. Researchers are working on mRNA vaccine for HIV. RFK Jr is an ignorant nut. In 2019 he visited Samoa & told ppl measles vaccine is dangerous. Tragically he was believed. 83 kids died
If a dude offered to help you write crappy memos and essays, and you found out they were also helping children kill themselves, would you keep working with that dude?
Constantly amazed by the compassion people show! 💜
"Marc Elias’s Democracy Docket has quietly become a pro-democracy media force, expanding its newsroom to 20 staffers as it surpasses 50,000 paid subscribers." Story here: www.status.news/p/democracy-...
Meiselas on GOP now saying it's the states' job to lower costs: So everything that happened with the economy while Biden was trying to put out the fire created by the arsonist Trump during his first administration, was blamed on Biden. But Trump makes everything worse, now its a state issue?!
bsky.app/profile/raws... This timeline of Trump's Epstein cover-up reveals so much www.rawstory.com/trump-epstei...
Mexico and Canada are showing the world how respect, heritage, and trade can walk hand in hand—no borders, just shared dreams. Thanks to our Trumpism, both Mexico and Canada are decreasing their trade with us at warp speed to increase trade between their two countries. ========================
NPR first wrote about the group "No Sex for Fish" in 2019 — Kenyan women out to end the practice of trading sex to a fisherman in exchange for his catch to sell. Since then they're faced tribulations.
Apparently Lindsey Graham is mad that that Norway’s sovereign-wealth fund is ditching its shares of Caterpillar – among the world’s largest manufacturers of construction equipment – over Israel's use of the company’s equipment in systemically leveling homes in Gaza. www.rawstory.com/israel-26739...
jfc www.reddit.com/r/Landlord/s...
![r/Landlord u/Buriram108 • 1h [Landlord-US-NY] Ethical Dilemma: Eviction or ICE Landlord I tend toward progressive politically and do not like the activities of ICE in our neighborhoods. I reside and rent a few residential units in NYC. I have one tenant who was the roommate of the leaseholder. That lease expired and the leaseholder has departed but the roommate refuses to vacate the apartment nor pay rent. The tenant is a single male (no family here) immigrant with no Green Card. As far as I know he is law-abiding (except for his tenancy now) and he is not escaping political violence in his home. He is also a pest in the building with the other tenants as he doesn't dispose of trash properly, makes noise, etc. I was just going to begin the eviction process which takes 18-24 months all without rental income. I'm a small time landlord and loosing this rental income would be difficult. Facing this terrible situation, I had the thought to just contact ICE and basically rat him out. But that really is unpleasant territory. Anyone with thoughts, guidance, insight? Which would you choose? 个1 83](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ssxnmhdtz6le6nxu7jfhglz6/bafkreiegt54krcn5sp3pt3z5a4xmutz24orh4bbhk6mef5m4fkfwrecsre@jpeg "Click to view full size")
When I reported for duty at Naval Station Great Lakes, I never imagined that some day a US President would seek to use it as a base for surveillance and enforcement activity on American soil. Our military was not set up to cater to the whims of a would-be American dictator.
The only real candidate for "something else to happen" is for the full D.C. Circuit to rule on the pending cross-motions to either keep the district court's injunction in place or to put into effect the 2-1 panel ruling vacating it. Whether Roberts *knows* that's coming or is just hoping, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
A small cartel of billionaires and conglomerates dominates the U.S. media landscape. And too many of these companies are caving to Trump. Check out our Media Capitulation Index to learn more: https://www.freepress.net/who-owns-media
Chinese officials "were saying, it's very interesting to watch President Trump because we've had a long-term strategy to basically try to weaken and divide America's alliances....President Trump is just doing it for us." Jake Sullivan joins @timmiller.bsky.social on the latest Bulwark Podcast:
Would an administration that is truly focused on "government efficiency" really be using government resources to try to charge a man with a felony for throwing sandwich? This is about authoritarian control, not what is best for the country.
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.
A judge dismissed a DOJ lawsuit against every federal district judge in Maryland. The department’s suit sought to overturn a court order that temporarily blocked the government from deporting people after they had filed a challenge.
"How many Americans will die driving hours to a distant hospital? How many rural resident will lose access to preventative care and critical diagnostic tests? How many trauma centers will close, leaving accident victims without emergency care? The Trump regime apparently does not care."