This man is batshit crazy.
The latest in a string of rulings against Trump. Why? Because he keeps breaking the law.
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The Supreme Court has original jurisdiction for disputes between states (meaning they can actually file the lawsuit there, rather than have it go up on appeal). This would be a good time for Illinois to utilize it.
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
In case you were looking for this tonight … How The 25th Amendment Actually Works — And What Nobody's Ever Figured Out www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chri...
"Our democracy is only as strong as the people willing to defend it. State and local officials are on the frontlines of this work, and they must stay firm in the tough battles ahead — for the systems they manage and the voters they serve. The stakes couldn’t be higher." -- Pamela Smith
Trump Administration Caught Trying to Sneak One by the Courts Yet Again talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Finally! Every common person with any sense of history has long seen it.
So many to bite these days!
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I enjoyed his acting. 💔 🇨🇦🪶
Norway cancels its $13.5 bn in contracts with American shipbuilders, moves the contracts to the UK. Why? Under Trump, the US is no longer a reliable ally. www.reuters.com/business/aer...
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!
Good info on how to interpret (and what to watch for) in Trump's firing of Lisa Cook and his moves to control the Fed.
The upshot of Dr. Daskalakis's interview is that we can't trust information coming out of the CDC anymore due to RFK Jr.'s corruptive interference. [In case you hadn't already realized that.]. Still worth a listen to understand what went on.
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This here - is not a conspiracy, will not go viral, but it is real. She was 2. She was killed by Russia.
Bots (run by companies that will make money by denying claims) will decide whether Medicare will cover your procedure. [The headline sucks.]
I guess we'll have to start sneaking into Canada in order to get healthcare in the future
Gosh, why would anybody holding USD be afraid of Trump manipulating the Fed?
Intimidation attempted again and again. Three times the grand jury says NOPE. Still they proceed with a misdemeanor charge and still there is a chilling effect.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Who would’ve thought Americans wouldn’t want to live in a military state? Oh that’s right, all Americans. Another negative impact of the military crackdown in DC small businesses are struggling to make sales. Restaurant reservations have dropped by nearly 30% compared with last year, and some owners
Our tax dollars at work holding the boot on our own necks. 🤬
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NYT reports that the government will not get a board seat or any special governance rights, but presumably will be able to vote its shares.
bsky omitted the second part. bsky.app/profile/gtconway.bsky.social/post/3lwtfazo2hk2w
NEW: Law Dork talks with California A.G. Rob Bonta: The president, Bonta said, "is probably the most powerful person in the world with their actual given official power ... but he regularly attempts to grasp and seize power that he does not have."
🇺🇸 We the People. We who care about democracy and the principles in the Constitution. 🇺🇸
Cynicism asks nothing of us; hope demands everything. When people choose to act rather than surrender, that is what keeps democracy alive. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...
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Trump now has a TikTok account. Remember that TikTok should have divested from foreign ownership by now, and third party providers were supposed to stop carrying it if they didn’t. Trump has not only given them permission to break the law, he now gives China incentive to promote his content as a QPQ
Of course, one could argue Intel may have needed a bailout if not for the grant, but that's a stretch. Their market share has certainly declined due to AMD, Nvidia, and companies like Apple and Amazon making their own ARM-based chips. Still, this seems bad for the free market.
It's happened before, as in the 2008 bailouts. But it shouldn't be standard operating procedure.
This seems wrong in many ways, even worse than the 15% cut of China sales scheme agreed with Nvidia and AMD. [Gift link]
Spot on.
Despite the title this podcast starts with a good section on the Friday fallout on the JGG v. Trump case and Boasberg ignored orders. An incredibly bogus ruling from Trump-appointee judges on appeal. crooked.com/podcast/how-... Jump to about 05:25 into it.
Disgusting.
No preliminary cease-fire. Just more agression. [Gift link]
August 17, 2025
Between his crypto ventures, real estate deals, and licensing agreements, Trump and his family have profited off the presidency to the tune of $3.4 billion. The grifter-in-chief knows no bounds. We must not become numb to this.
Pls someone dig up the Budapest Memorandum and point to the signatures.
A government agency bragged about destroying posters protected by the First Amendment.
Read the Reddit. No need to hate on Costco just yet.
Inaccurate posting. The depicted sandwich is on "Dutch Crunch," which has a hard crust. The actual "dangerous weapon" was on a soft Subway roll. 😉
Important.
I believe the traditional media are cowed by the possibility of retaliation, which he has already applied both in ousting White House press corps members and extorting companies at regulatory (e.g. FCC, FTC) checkpoints (in his case choke-points).
Federal district court blocks FTC investigation into Media Matters, finding the "expansive" investigation is "a retaliatory act" for Media Matters' criticism of Elon Musk. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
NEWS: Judge Dolly Gee denied DOJ’s request to terminate the Flores settlement — a 1997 settlement that provides court oversight of gov’t treatment of migrant children subject to detention until a final rule is in effect. The settlement will remain: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Comer: "We're gonna support doing this in other cities if it works out in Washington DC. We spend a lot on our military. Our military has been in many countries around the world for the past two decades walking the streets trying to reduce crime. We need to focus on the big cities in America now."
Also, any meeting in Moscow is extremely dangerous for Zelenskyy, so Putin's suggestion for the next meeting to be there is aimed at making it very hard for Ukraine to have a voice.
Putin displays greater "art of the deal." Even "unoccupied" territory will give him better ground from which to stage future land grabs, which you can bet he will. Trump can't see two moves ahead.
Despite being American citizens, three children — a 4-year-old boy with Stage 4 kidney cancer, his 7-year-old sister and a 2-year-old girl — were detained with their families by immigration authorities in Louisiana and quickly sent to Honduras, according to a lawsuit.
Here's the thing. There just aren't millions of criminal illegal immigrants. They are already forced to expand their net to the honest hard-working ones. When they exhaust those, they will turn their attention to the "home-growns" in order to justify the funding.
Surprise, surprise.
America is the tech superpower that it is today because of decades of investment in the underlying science and education, and because of the pipeline of talent that investment has fostered. Huge (1000-fold) ROI. All of the tech billionaires of today have benefitted. It's just plain stupid to cut it.
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Senator Whitehouse asked the BOP for Ghislaine Maxwells sex offender waiver, custody level, transfer code, and security point score. I have them. She's also been granted the ability to leave the facility for work assignments. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
Yup. This is what is going to happen all season.
As statewide politicians look to steal Kansas City’s congressional seat mid-decade (and score an own goal on their own more competitive seats), I’m proud of locals standing up. Stood yesterday with two of young leaders coming from Center High and Mizzou and our KC legislators!
In PN: "There is a critical difference between acknowledging the nation’s history & celebrating its worst moments. In Germany, they don’t erase their shameful Nazi past but that doesn’t mean they’re erecting hagiographic statues commemorating Nazi war criminals." www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-conf...
Strict Scrutiny podcast on Trump's right-wing bozo appointments across the Federal Courts. This link skips forward to about minute 20, where the real meat is.
Let's be clear: mRNA vaccines were the way that we, humans around the world, were able to respond quickly to the COVID-19 pandemic, and are our best current hope against future viral pandemics. That's the science. The future deaths that result will never be connected back to this idiot.
This link breaks because of the apostrophe in the link. It breaks for me on Firefox and Safari, but not on Google Chrome, which is smart enough to URL-encode the apostrophe. Firefox and Safari both truncate the link where the apostrophe appears, yielding a 404 (Not Found) error.
a sarcastic Bernie Sanders: "Why not? When you get bad news, fire the guy who delivered the news. I think that's sensible policy."
I don’t like the facts. Fire the messenger.
Desires of the rich are driving Tennesseans into fury. The biggest new debate is a Tesla Only tunnel that no one voted for. /
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We're already capable of feeding the world's population. We don't need AI and robotics to get there.
So let’s see…the Trump admin is sending innocent people to be tortured in foreign gulags, bringing back in homocidal maniacs, and transferring convicted sex traffickers into minimum security prisons. Do I have that right? nypost.com/2025/08/01/u...
ICE GOON forcefully grab activists filming outside the immigration court and forcefully knock her phone out of her hand.
Weakest 3 months of job growth since 2020.
Think about what the GOP is revealing with their attempt to suddenly change the Congressional maps: they know their agenda is so unpopular that they're going to lose unless something changes. Of course, what they should be changing is their policies, not the maps.
This Administration and this Congress has thrown us into a new and unstable state, breaking old rules, both written and unwritten, politicizing everything. How do we ever return to sanity? Here it sounds like Gerrymandering all around is on the table to counter the MAGAs (?) What have we come to?
SPOILER: YES
Planted! That’s the ticket! 🤣
They're prepped to claim it happened under Obama. They're also misleading the public by equating the release of the grand jury proceedings with the release of the DOJ file content. They knew their request for the release of the grand jury proceedings would be denied. All distraction.
Gotta hand it to Welker on this one.
Federal agents must be accountable for their actions. We're calling on Congress to pass the VISIBLE Act, which would require that ICE agents wear visible identification and stop hiding behind non-medical face coverings.
The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/24/f...
Kelly: And there are a lot of people in D.C. who’ve forgotten what this symbol truly means. So I promise you—we will remind you every day. You say you stand with veterans—then how can you justify the cuts you’ve made at the VA?
Always projection with these people.
Because Trump's efforts to distract from the Epstein scandal have had little impact, he's getting more and more extreme.
Trump and his crew make such great deals. These idiots will kill what remains of our industries.
I'm pretty sure there will be a small industry of apps/automated agents to help people with the increased paperwork requirements.
Let that sink in for a sec.
EXCLUSIVE: I have spoken with more people since my initial article on the review of the Epstein files and one thing is clear: more people had access to them because of the rushed nature of the review than previously thought. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
Really fascinating reporting suggesting even more undisclosed third-country removals, often involving small charter jets with a few people on board.
Be like this woman and politely refuse to tolerate this kind of B.S. I don't think I could have restrained myself so well. Admirable.
For too long, our government stopped vigorously enforcing laws that keep Corporate America in check. Corporations got more powerful while our basic economic freedoms went unprotected. Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains.
When it’s done without due process it’s called “human trafficking”
Still too little, but better than the time-served sentence the Trump DOJ was pushing for.
"I'm a citizen of GTFO"
What sucks most to me is that we're now totally distracted battling off fascism, racism, and oligarchy. This could have been a time when we were building up clean energy infrastructure and prospering while working toward avoiding this doom.
Judge Sullivan rules that that Trump administration broke the law by concealing realtime data about how the government is spending congressionally mandated funds. He notes this data is crucial amid concerns about potential illegal impoundment. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
Fascism is a spectacle of violent power, designed to terrorize people into submission. Don't allow them to terrorize you. Stay joyful. Focus on the ways you can take care of yourself and others. jennifermercieca.substack.com/p/when-folks...
