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Trump: "We're making a determination now -- do we go to Chicago, or do we go to a place like New Orleans where we have a great governor who wants us to come in and straighten out a very nice section of this country that's become quite tough, quite bad?"
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"Why should I care about U.S. Space Command being transferred to Alabama? I hate the military-industrial complex. We spend too much money on defense. Why does it matter which rich people get richer off it?" There are a number of reasons you should care, but you really only need one. (thread)
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
Thread, on how LA and MS are sending NatGuard troops to DC even as homicide rates are higher in many of their own cities, and even as Trump guts federal funding for any and all programs that reduce crime but don't use a gun. Social control, not safety. Over and over and over and over.
Chicago has a long history of defiance, featuring bold characters such as Ida B. Wells, Studs Terkel and Jane Addams. Now Gov. JB Pritzker, Mayor Brandon Johnson and throngs of protesters are continuing the tradition, telling Trump: Keep your troops out of our city. My Stop the Presses newsletter.
“.. Quite a hot mic moment on CCTV in Beijing today as Putin and Xi, both 72 years old, are caught casually talking about living to 150 and maybe forever thanks to organ transplants. (As picked up by Bloomberg.)” (via @yarotrof.bsky.social)
DC currently has only one source of drinking water. FEMA must create a backup plan to provide potable water for the District should this sole source be contaminated. I filed an amendment to the FEMA Act requiring FEMA to submit such a plan to Congress.
Fox isn't showing the Epstein victims' news conference, which is both newsworthy and compelling. MSNBC and CNN are showing it. Fox is part of the right-wing campaign to cover up the Trump-Epstein scandal. Fox is anti-journalism. The more you watch, the less you know.
🚨 Breaking: “Eric Trump Is Now A Billionaire In His Own Right” @kylekhanmullins.bsky.social, @danalexander21.bsky.social for @forbes.com
An Epstein victim says she's afraid of Trump and his gang. Think about why that is.
As a governor who cares about the well-being of my people, I can’t live in a fantasy land where I pretend Trump is not tearing this country apart for personal greed and power.
This is a concept so stupid that it is defeated by the fact that kids have filmed everything from shoplifting to murder and posted it online.
Re-upping this thread with facts about sexual predators Trump, Epstein and Maxwell. Please consider sharing it so everyone understands the depravity of these people.
2026: Gonna be a bad winter.
That “first” is f***ing ominous.
Someone needs to ask Governor Jeff Landry what he thinks of the President calling him an incompetent danger to national security.
Favorable view of Supreme Court August 2020: 70% August 2025: 48% -- among Democrats 26% -- among Republicans 71% www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
We are filing a request for a preliminary injunction to block the extension of soldiers’ deployment in Los Angeles through Election Day. There was never a need — and there is certainly no need now — for troops to be deployed against their own communities.
Look, it's the rule. You can't have the competitive authoritarianism without the crony capitalism.
Donald will protect the rich and powerful child molesters. He cares NOTHING about crime victims. At the conference today, an Epstein survivor said it felt like being "gutted" when Trump calls their truths "a hoax."
this is almost certainly under Title 32 authorities (meaning the TX guard will be nominally under TX state control but on a federal mission), meaning the posse comitatus issues that came up in California will not apply. that said, it raises a whole lot of other legal problems
The Everglades Concentration Camp costs 3x one of these trains.
🇺🇸🇺🇦 Yermak: On September 2, the US Treasury Department imposed full blocking sanctions against a network of companies and ships that were involved in smuggling Iranian oil disguised as Iraqi oil. An Iraqi-Chinese businessman living in the UAE is behind these deals.
...while the global picture remains fragile, with US 30-year Treasury yields (which set the tone for global markets) touching 5% again www.ft.com/content/1287...
Trouble at the long end continues 🧵. UK gilts and £ make the UK frontpage as pressure rises on Reeves
🇱🇹✈️ The plane of the Lithuanian president was unable to land in Vilnius immediately due to the drone. According to Flightradar24, the plane took off from Helsinki at 19:10 on September 2, after which it circled over the central part of the country for some time and only landed in Vilnius at 21:17.
🇺🇦⚓️ The Navy destroyed another speedboat of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, which was trying to deliver a unit of airborne troops to the Tendirivska Spit. 7 invaders were destroyed, 4 were wounded.
A 3-judge panel of the 5th Circuit held late Tuesday that the Alien Enemies Act did not apply to Venezuelan migrants the Trump administration says are members of the Tren de Aragua gang, which they claim is invading the US. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
🇵🇱 Polish FM Sikorski: Putin is mocking Trump’s peace efforts, I’m amazed at Trump’s patience with this guy.
The New York Times’ headlines are still repeating claims by the most pervasive liar in U.S. political history without including even a hint of skepticism.
Holding you in my heart. ❤️
"Kennedy was conspicuously slow to acknowledge the attack, which left a police officer dead, or to express solidarity with CDC workers. Trump also didn’t say anything right away. In fact, he still hasn’t commented on the shootings."
Paramilitaries, you say? 🤔
Schutzstaffel in formation. Not sure what the final title & mission will be, but an array of paramilitary forces that will use violence to carry out the (illegal or unconstitutional) policies of the leader are coming into view:
On Tuesday evening, the Fifth Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, blocked removals from the Northern District of Texas under Trump’s Alien Enemies Act proclamation. This is the case that went up to SCOTUS b/c of overnight-flight concerns, leading to a late-night emergency SCOTUS injunction.
Rep. Jim McGovern: "Republicans are terrified because the president doesn't want to release all the Epstein files after promising that he would release them during the campaign ... What are they trying to hide?"
I'm totally okay with the America he envisions disappearing. I was, in fact, supposed to be gone already. That was very much the point of 1861-1877, and I'm not thrilled that we very much did not actually get the job done then.
I REALLY need this timeline--not the Bluesky one, but the real one--to stop creating nightmare Mad Lib sentences that should not exist in the English language. "Vice chair of the Intelligence Cmte denied a meeting ... because Laura Loomer objected." That's, like, a mantra that opens doors to hell.
First of all, again, Don't. Stenographically. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. Second, the actual headline should be that this is a massive violation of international law. What is journalism, anyway?
Trump threatening members of Congress not to sign the Epstein files discharge petition saying it would be a “hostile act” against him is definitely something an innocent person would do. And scheduling a military flyover in the middle of the survivor press conference is also totally normal behavior.
Rep. Robert Garcia: "The Attorney General herself has said that President Trump is in the Epstein files."
September 2, 2025
Yes, Donnie. Yes. So, stop being their ally in Ukraine and their inevitable invasion of Taiwan.
👇🎯 He can, & will, do all of the illegal things until the other people who are also violating their oaths of office to preserve, protect, & defend the Constitution of the United States stop doing that & start doing their own damn jobs.
Exhibit 248,926 proving that MAGA politicians believe their voters are morons.
A fascist conference
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
#Ukraine war briefing: No action from Trump as another Putin deadline passes. US president ‘very disappointed’ in Russian ruler; Trump had promised to get Putin to negotiating table with Volodymr Zelenskyy. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Laura Loomer has more power over your government than US Senators.
Wow.
BREAKING: 5th circuit panel rejects Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to expel Venezuelan nationals, saying there has been no "invasion" or "predatory incursion." Majority Southwich (George W. Bush) Ramirez (Biden) Dissent Oldham (Trump) s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
“A Hidden Camera Protest Turned the Tables on China’s Surveillance State” Li Yuan for @nytimes.com
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"Del. Court Tosses Trump Media Suit, Avoids Immunity Fight" Jeff Montgomery for @law360.bsky.social
Congressional lawmakers return to D.C. with a massive September agenda, including efforts to avoid a government shutdown and a debate on whether to change the rules for confirming nominees. n.pr/41xSX7t
NEW: An unspecified senior security source told a UK-based website, Oil Price, on September 1 that Russia and North Korea have sent nuclear scientists and missile experts, respectively, to Iran since June 2024. Iran Update, September 2, 2025: isw.pub/IranUpdate09...
It’s annoying that the bilateral symmetry of Chicago’s flag makes it impossible to fly upside down in defiance of whatever is about to happen. Anyway, I hope they get to add a fifth star after this. Tho not as an follow-up to #2 (the Fire), but for the opposite.
NGL, when I read the actual Frankenstein, I was genuinely floored--I'm not sure I've ever encountered a bigger disconnect between the source material and the Hollywood version. Source: a non-green, deeply erudite good guy, no villagers with torches, etc. You know: like this.
MORE SCIENCE TALK ON BLUESKY: "During August, there were twice as many posts about science 🧪 each day compared with July and more than triple the number from March" www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Related, growing Bluesky chatter about this study www.nature.com/articles/s41...
If we’re so worried about aliens, isn’t it Space Force that should be mobilized in our defense?
Pritzker reframes the discourse.
THEY VOTED TO RESTORE THE IMLS FUNDING. This isn't the end. It's nowhere near the end. But the House and Senate subcommittees voted to restore the IMLS in their budget markups. Full House budget markup is tomorrow.
"Repelling wave after wave of Indian war band attacks"??!! What kind of anti-Indigenous nonsense is this??
The Republican Party platform.
The White House declares that it would be a “hostile act” if House Republicans voted for a complete release of the Epstein files. Trump seems desperate to cover up any connection with his friend who raped children.
I thought the whole frog-boiling process was supposed to be more incremental than this.
Khanna: It’s going to be a bombshell press conference tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. The American people will hear directly from survivors of the Epstein abuse. And they’re not just going to talk about Epstein’s and Maxwell’s abuse — they’re going to talk about rich and powerful men…
Republican men standing with Trump against the Epstein victims to maintain the cover up.
The city of Alexandria’s public housing agency is investigating its CEO after he was found to be living in a public housing unit, sparking outrage in the wealthy Virginia community where access to affordable housing has long been a challenge.
Well...Kazakhs are the majority ethnic group, but you can also say "Kazakhstanis" if you want to make sure to include all citizens, many of whom are not ethnically Kazakh (e.g. Russians). It's the same in Turkey. A pedantic point except Schmitt is precisely debating ethnic vs. civic belonging!
Contra any Trump intellectual, American foreign policy under Trump is driven not by any thought-out conception of U.S. interests but by whims and impulses shaped by Trump’s peculiar combination of prejudice, avarice, and an unquenchable thirst for praise.
So our military just bombed a boat in international waters and extrajudicially killed suspected drug traffickers without so much as a conversation, let alone a trial? Then posted it on social media? And we’re all supposed to just trust their account?
What's going on with his comb over? This is a screen capture from the press conference today
The key here, or course, is this: www.wired.com/story/white-...
Meanwhile: www.cbsnews.com/news/grok-el...
Dems "need to just go at this stuff and they need to *very* personalize it. I would be putting billboards in front of Mike Johnson's church, saying, does Mike Johnson support a pedophile? Child sex trafficker in a Club Fed?" Stuart Stevens joins Tim Miller:
can everything just stop….happening. plz
Trump blaming AI after his own staff had already offered an explanation suggests that much of what dominates online discourse —like whether or not Trump is dying—doesn’t always reach the president’s ears. He later said, “If something happens really bad, just blame AI.” trib.al/PKdMDdf
A great explainer about what the law says regarding sending un-federalized troops to Illinois from Texas. open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...
Rudy says if the police try to charge the 19 year old woman with something who was involved in the car crash with him he will refuse to testify against her.
oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
You can find an excellent explanation of the issues at stake in Matter of A-B- here: cgrs.uclawsf.edu/en/our-work/...
Mein Gott in Himmel!
This sounded better in its original German. Oh and its historically illiterate as you can get.
Three Wins Today (Sept 2, 2025) MD Tue, Aug 26 - Trump appointee, Judge Thomas Cullen has dismissed the Trump Administration case against Obama Appointee, MD US district court Chief Justice George Russell 1/
And what is with his hair?
So now we officially need a combined account (daily blog) w @dieworkwear.bsky.social & some physicians, & a make up artist to sort out weird clothing, makeup, hair, & probable medical diagnoses. Peak Interdisciplinarity.
So the greatest military on the planet that has been handling pirates for centuries and developed means of killing anyone, anywhere couldn't handle a single speedboat in international waters. No. It smells like the tail wagged the dog so they could post lethality on social media.
Good vibes headed your way.
Tonight @ 9pm ET I’ll join @jenpsaki.msnbc.com to discuss how the courts continue to be a vital bulwark against Trump’s corruption and illegal actions I'll also discuss today’s Atlantic article by Michael Scherer, which highlights the central role of @democracydefendersfund.org in key legal battles
🚨NEW: AG Bondi uses her authority as AG to reinstate two precedent decisions from Trump's first term (Matter of A-B- and Matter of L-E-A-) that aim to end asylum for victims of domestic violence from countries unwilling or unable to protect them, and asylum for people targeted for family ties.
Yeah, I don’t know …
Not going to repost the snuff video of the DJT folk killing a boat full of people. Were they guilty of something? Maybe. Was death the proper penalty, if they were? Nope. Due process matters, folks. We all deserve the right to be innocent until proven guilty.
Yup.
Happy Birthday and clear sailing!
THIS will be the concession that gets Trump off their back. I’m SURE of it. Lucy really is going to hold the football this time! www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
The president sent 4,000 National Guards and 700 active-duty Marines to LA, claiming “violent mobs” were attacking ICE—the same officers snatching up residents. It was a clear exaggeration then, and Breyer has made it known now that it was a complete violation of U.S. law as well. trib.al/a9hMjvd
