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āLiberals donāt want to spend time with assholes. Conservatives sad no nice people will talk to them.ā
Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.
Oh, waitā¦heās not dead??? š„
JFC! One more reason to love Maineās ban on billboards.
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
Sometimes I need to drive to Colorado to visit my family. Hard to avoid the vowel states.
. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ā¬ļø ā¬ļø ā¬ļø .
When you drive through Indiana, giant billboards alternate advertising porn shops and mega churches. They are a very conflicted people.
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.
The average person and pundit (and apparently US Senator) being totally unable to correctly answer āwho was POTUS in 2020?ā explains a disturbingly large amount of our current situation.
Remembering when the NYT went on a weeks-long bender covering a decades-old real estate deal the Clintons were involved in, in which they *lost money*.
I mean that literally - no one is discussing the massive loss of rights trans people have experienced throughout the country. When Dems talk about trans women in sports, they're not just giving ground on sports. They're giving ground on everything, bc sports bans were the big issue 3 years ago.
After banning visas for Palestinian children seeking medical care, the Trump administration is now banning any Palestinian passport holders from entering the United States. Extraordinary bigotry being converted into US policy. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
To be fair, try this could be any flaccid old white man.
I see people from countries with more vestiges of democracy asking why we arenāt in the streets all the time. We are. Thereās no reporting on it, and it doesnāt move the needle because the will of the people is irrelevant to the organs of power here
God help America if we ever have a major war again or a depression. Apparently, if everything doesn't go perfectly in a crisis half the country just completely falls apart. It really wasn't the end of the fucking world that things shut down for a while during COVID. The problem was all the dying!
Revoking an entire nationalityās visas is collective punishment and never acceptable ā especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
The U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rate among the worldās richest nations and the Trump regime is determined to make it still worse. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
they're really going to try stretch a Weekend at Bernies out for three more years
To be fair, I really donāt care about the welfare of the president. Like the opposite. But tree, plants, the universe, yes.
The Department of Homeland Security posted an image of the ideological moral allocation heat map. Theyāre calling people who care about what happens to other living beings beyond just their family and friends, losers and their opinions invalid. /
Itās been 29 months since ProPublica exposed Justice Clarence Thomasās undeclared gifts from billionaire Harlan Crow & yet he remains on the SupCt, unpunished, unrepentant & still writing & helping write rulings harming Americans & democracy based on tortured interpretations of the Constitution.
Today we celebrate the strength and resilience of working people everywhere. Nearly 300,000 federal employees have lost their jobs this year not because of necessity, but because of a political agenda. And while peopleās lives were destroyed in the name of āsaving money,ā
RFK Jr. is not a vaccine skeptic. He's a vaccine denier whose anti-science extremist views and actions are destroying one of humanity's greatest scientific achievements. He's going to kill a lot of people, and those deaths are on the 52 Republican senators who confirmed him and those enabling him.
Speaking of guns, since the ostensible justification for having them in the US (standing up to government tyranny) is clearly bullshit, it seems the only reason for having them is to commit mass murder, shoot schoolchildren, kill hapless animals, commit suicide, or keep people from taking your guns.
I hope you understand that private industries have, for years, worked to limit scientific credibility. They don't want to be accountable if they cause cancer, if they poison you by dumping in your neighborhood's water.
Is he dead yet?
My piece in Common Dreams on Trump's paramilitary plans, as we endure our daily violence from guns like the Annunciation Catholic School shooting in Minneapolis. #minneapolischurch #gunsense #gunreform #UnathorizedNRA www.commondreams.org/opinion/gun-...
Are the soybean farmers happy with their voting choices?
When did we stop calling his spawn Uday and Qusay?
Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss
If you donāt believe that Trumpās authoritarianism can be defeated, look at how scared MAGA is of chalk:
The thing the mainstream media is not remembering about Hurricane Katrina is their own lethal, racist contribution to treating rumors as facts used to demonize the stranded in New Orleans, turning them from victims to be aided to enemies to be contained.
Trump/RFK are decapitating our public health system, a pillar of American greatness. So Dem Govs should scour every corner of the law for creative new ways to defend their people from this madness. Dems should polarize this debate to the max. Thoughts on this here: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
For the 2nd most rural state in the country, Mainers have stayed consistently engaged in #theresistance. It's making a difference in public opinion. #Maine #MEpolitics #RESIST #EveryEffortCounts Here's the list of Maine (and border) towns for Labor Day 2025, Workers Over Billionaires:
Is he dead yet?
Theyāre doing all this to prevent people from MEMORIALIZING A MASS SHOOTING
Letās Joni Ernst this fossil.
Susan Collins voted for the VA Administrator. #mepolitics
Irredeemable behavior. š”
Little kids with brain cancer. Thatās who Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are screwing over by cutting health care.
CHICAGOā¦
One notable wrinkle of a potential Platner vs Collins match-up: Susan smeared Gideon as Schumer's tool (often in antisemitic ways) in part to other her. But Graham says he won't back Schumer and painting him as Sanders puppet doesn't have the same resonance. So how does she slime him? #MEpolitics
Bernie Sanders endorses Graham Platner. A striking, early intervention by one of the most popular political figures in the country. #MEpolitics
Hello, I am furious www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-...
We have a saying in Maine: āHeās too mean to die.ā Pretty much applies to all these assholes.
One clear dividing line between Democrats and Republicans is that Democrats can care about others from afar while Republicans only care when they are personally impacted. I guess the good news is this admin is attacking virtually everyone except the billionaires, so maybe thereās hope.
A Maine ballot measure restricting mail voting could have an outsize effect on older folks. āWeāre not even a voting rights advocacy organization, but weāve had to become one,ā says the director of the Maine Council on Aging.
JFC
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says āCan I help you find something?ā āIām looking for the obituaries.ā āThe obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.ā āNot the one Iām looking for.ā
This means you, Susan.
Have we considered the possibility that he used so much bronzer that ICE accidentally deported him to El Salvador?
I wake up to this photoā¦You now have my attention.
Hello, Maine? Letās do this!
Maybe they all Heavenās Gated themselves?!? Thereās no one left to make the call.
I was just in QuebecCity, which has a very European vibe, except for the North American level of vehicle traffic. Kept expecting old, narrow streets to be pedestrian only, but almost none are.
Hints about the news I come here every day to hearā¦..š¤š¤š¤ššš
The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.
One thing Dem governors can do is scale up clinics and use those to help people get Covid vaccines who will suddenly find it a lot harder under Trump/RFK's deranged new restrictions on them, one expert tells me. newrepublic.com/article/1998...
The 21-day period to help save the Roadless Rule has kicked off. Three weeks is a stupidly short comment period for something of this magnitude- because they IKNOW how unpopular it is. Let's remind them again. Our voices DO help. www.fs.usda.gov/about-agency... saveourroadlessforests.com
The devastating flu epidemic of 1918 was particularly dangerous for young adults, for people in their prime, who died by the millions. But RFK Jr. is too stupid to know that. Link below.
I donāt care where he dies, as long as itās painful, humiliating, and soon!
Every time you use ChatGPT or something like it, youāre helping to train an algorithm that is actually being developed to do things like this
I donāt think Iād trust an agent of this administration to keep her safe.
Honestly, sheās probably safer *without* federal agents in her space 24/7.
Kudos to whoever made this
Fuck this guy. But also, I love how Jen Psaki got under all their skin. More of that please.
The insurrectionists succeeded. It just took awhile.
For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society
Susan effing Collins has blood on her hands.
It's important to know what we're dealing with. Though some in the media still try to horse-race, both sides this, we're faced with psychopaths at the helm of our nation's public health, scientific and healthcare efforts. They want to inflict pain and suffering. It's a goal, not a by-product. 6/
Greta Thunberg: āYou do not kill journalists unless you have something to hide. āIsrael is now deliberately targeting journalists. If that is not a sign of their genocidal intent then I donāt know what isā.
Fuck these nazis.
I wholeheartedly agree with this!
Hell yeah!
I decline to listen to this garbage factory.
Send ice cosplayers to the fire lines. Watch them cry.
Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who chose to break into an unauthorized area during an insurrection against the repeated warnings of law enforcement. She ignored those warnings and got killed through no one's fault but her own. She was a traitor. She doesn't deserve full military honors.
It shouldn't be up to American children to save each other from getting shot. It's the job of American adults to stop shootings from happening in the first place. Ban assault weapons again now.
Frey: "We need an assault weapons ban nationwide. We need to have a high capacity magazine ban. And if the federal govt and states aren't gonna act, give us the ability to protect our constituents. Give mayors & council members the ability to protect in Mpls 435,000 residents that call Mpls home."
The GOP Senators who voted to put RFK Jr in his dangerously powerful position know that they and their families can and will get any & all vaccines, as well as the best, most scientific up-to-date medical care. They do not care about the other 330 million Americans.
Reminder: Since being elected, Trump has moved quickly to undo progress made with gun safety policies.
Landlords say they canāt afford a rent freeze, but have $2.5M to give to Cuomo. Reminds me of corporations that spend millions to bust unions instead of just raising wages and offering benefits. Doing the right thing is always cheaper than the cost to block it.
Because destroying the US is not enough, Trump is using tariffs, visa restrictions, and trade deals to pressure other countries to abandon climate goals and increase fossil fuel use, further destroying the world and the future.
Too bad they voted for him.
I havenāt been in a Starbucks since I saw the grody rag they used to wipe off the milk frother after they made my (too sweet and not very good) chai latte, more than 10 years ago. Pretty easy company to boycott.
Starbucksā 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.
Two children were killed and seventeen people were injured in a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School. A Cracker Barrel logo change received far more scrutiny and attention than any fight against the epidemic of gun violence in this country. Our priorities remain idiotic.
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
Voting should be easier than buying guns.
Psaki: I felt a mixture of angerāa lot of angerāand emotional exhaustion about this today, as Iām sure many of you have, because we have been here so many times. And yet again, like clockwork, half the politicians in our country have little more to offer than thoughts and prayers.
Sen Patty Murray (D-WA): āIf there are any adults left in the White House, itās well past time they face realityā¦ We cannot let RFK Jr. burn whatās left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the groundāhe must be fired.ā
Are vaccines safe? Let's ask this guy who sounds like a dying refrigerator compressor
RULE ABOUT AMERICAN FLAGS: If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail. But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.
This is the best thing Iāve seen all year.
Those who have the power to stop mass shootings can go to hell with their "thoughts and prayers." Do something about it, you evil bastards.
