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Republican governors have sent National Guard troops to Democratic-led Washington, D.C., even though cities in their states all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
When you think about this as Trump taking control of the Capitol city this makes more sense.
Happy Labor Day, Illinois!
🚨 GOP Targets Obama as Epstein Trump Files Resurface: Senators demand special counsel amid explosive new intel, but critics call it a diversion from damning Epstein revelations. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
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Trump on the cover of French magazine Le Point. Translation: “Man from Moscow” Le Point is a major French weekly news magazine. It is considered a center-right / conservative-leaning publication.
If democratic electeds spent a third of the time trying to understand their own voters that they spend trying to understand republicans voters, the world would be a demonstrably better place.
Schatz seems to forget that Trump was in office when COVID lockdowns began and that the mismanagement was entirely due to the GOP catering to horse dewormer-peddling anti-vaxers
I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters. The latter understand what's going on. The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this. Quote Steve Guest @SteveGuest · Aug 31 Politico 5 years ago: [screenshot of article falsely claiming public health officials lied about COVID measures then abandoned them for BLM protests] Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/bafkreihsypwydo5rcis7mc54cwct6h33l5co477nvh7g7hs7na2fz4jl3q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
NEW EPISODE: Documentarian Ken Burns joins @nicollewallace.bsky.social on “The Best People,” to discuss his upcoming doc on the American Revolution and how it showed him tensions felt today mirror tension that gave birth to our nation. WATCH the full episode on YouTube: www.msnbc.com/thebestpeople
“If this termination is allowed to stand, the Federal Reserve will no longer have any insulation from presidential control, and that means the death of the Federal Reserve as an independent agency,” Special Counsel Amit Agarwal told the @nytimes.com.
Life is better in a union. Unions helped build our Social Security system. Strong unions make a strong Social Security system.
I’m sorry but facts don’t care about your feelings. If you are blaming Democrats in 2025 for COVID policy in 2020 you have been brainwashed by Trumpism and the death of expertise. The basic point is that Trump associated COVID with his fate in office. That’s it. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
"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.
“The vast majority of Quebecers (86%) say they’re proud to be Canadian.” ⚜️🇨🇦
Graham Platner, an oyster farmer from Maine, wants to “claw back wealth that was created by the labor and the consumption of working-class Americans who have not shared in the riches they helped build.”
Trump is a union buster.
Who does Poilievre work for? The Axis of Evil or Canadians? Poilievre MUST undergo a security check. Canadians MUST know who he’s indebted to. #cdnpoli
This is literally the largest act of union busting in American history. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
📌Nate Silver out-Nate Silvering himself by spreading his noxious fumes on a toxic, right-wing site owned by an apartheid-loving racist ...
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This should be getting far more attention from the media, and it should be investigated as a hate crime. A 14-year-old Black teen was targeted, beaten, and dehumanized with racial slurs by white teens while people stood around cheering. 1/4
It’s still early, but pretty good turnout so far for Bernie Sanders and Graham Platner’s (running against Susan Collins) rally here in Maine today.
“Danielle Smith doesn’t care about Canadian sovereignty, and it shows whenever she speaks to the American far-right, which is unfortunately often. Her actions — always immature, often childish and completely unacceptable for any Canadian politician — have proven her unworthy of her office.”
You know who benefits most from antivaccine conspiracy theories as national health policy? Our enemies.
One of his best! Made me LOL!!
You made me laugh out loud! Much needed! "Winter's coming, and it wants you dead!" 🤣🤣🤣
It’s been almost a week since Trump made a public appearance or spoke to the press, apart from being spotted leaving the White House, allegedly on his way to the golf course. This is very unusual. What’s going on?
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If you’ve ever compared unvaccinated kids to vaccinated kids, you’ve seen the former are more likely to die.
Thanks, President Joe Biden! A Labor Day message from a real president...
An Instagram reply to the White House’s post bragging about Trump’s economy
Here in the US, “two weeks” actually means never.
Trump working hard to lower prices this morning
The Hague also just emailed me that they’re working on their pre-UNGA80 statement that is to be released soon.
🤨 Sounds very ominous.
“As Conservative trolls engage in deliberate disinformation campaigns, it’s a good time to remind Canadians that accusations of fake news have become a popular method among right-wing populists to strategically attack news and opinions they don’t like.” An editorial by @mtltoula.bsky.social.
A 1941 WPA road gang of migrant workers in New Mexico, many of whom were simultaneously working as farm laborers. Trump would have deported all of them.
A plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the EU's executive arm, suffered from jamming of GPS navigation while flying over Bulgaria. The authorities believe that Russia was behind the operation, European officials said on Monday.
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A California court denied Republicans’ petition asking it to stop state officials from putting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s redistricting measure on the ballot. The decision appears to clear the way for the governor’s plan to appear on the November ballot.
How long will Europe allow this South African white supremacist oligarch and social media platform owner to meddle in our politics? It's time to tighten social media regulation
“They say they are ridding D.C. of violent crime, and at the same time they’re giving early release to people convicted of gun crimes, even if they have a dangerous, violent criminal history...[this] is the height of hypocrisy for this administration.” - Eric Tirschwell, Everytown Law
Happy Labor Day! Trump is once again stranded on the back nine digging out of a sandtrap. As per the pool: In total, he has visited golf courses he owns on 66 of the 225 days of this term, meaning he has played golf at his courses on 29.3 percent of his days since Jan. 20.
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On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
Opportunistic wench.
The country is run by psychopaths.
Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — 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...
As a Palestinian-American — but also as a human — I urge every member of Congress to take action to reverse this decision. If I were in Congress, I sure as hell would. You can read more about my aims for humane foreign policy here: www.katforillinois.com/issues/human...
Get out today, if you can! There are hundreds of Labor Day events where you can stand up for workers and against the cruelty and destruction of this billionaire-consumed regime. www.mobilize.us/aflcio/map/...
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9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
We in @eupha.bsky.social unequivocally condemn the illegal attempt to dismiss Susan Monarez, CDC Director. Another outrageous attack on science. @standupforscience.bsky.social eupha.org/articles/sta...
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Join us in celebrating the people who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. Únase en celebrar a la gente que trabajan en los campos para poner comida en nuestras mesas. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay
*Trump* may not be canny enough to be *planning* to weaponize the government in a methodical way, but "there are people behind the scenes...and they know what they're doing." @radiofreetom.bsky.social talks Trump's abuses of power and more with @timmiller.bsky.social:
🚨Denmark has summoned the U.S. envoy after reports tied Trump-linked operatives to covert influence in Greenland. The clash raises NATO tensions, threatens Arctic sovereignty, and spotlights a brewing fight over security, resources, and U.S. credibility. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
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Dayam Cam!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 @cameronkasky.bsky.social youtu.be/Ay1p6hdIgSs?...
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Why is the Draft Dodger-in-Chief trying to drag us into a war with Venezuela? The claim is that drug cartels are so out of control they’ve been designated an international terrorist organization, so we need to send warships. But we’re denying Venezuelan’s asylum claims who fled for their lives. 🤔
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.
He ditched the military. Time for the military to ditch him.
Oh, Andy Borowitz. What a gem you are.
Robert Mueller was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2021. We’re just learning about it now because he was asked to testify in the Epstein matter and won’t be able to. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
If this is the “strong leader” they keep selling us, why are they hiding him like Weekend at Bernie’s? 👀
August 23. 🤔
If we don’t stand up for these victims, who will ?
Early night for Sleepy Don. Not even any insults either.
Grandpa’s heading to bed early tonight. What’s going on?
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If that Trump Truth Social account posts an apology to someone, admits making a mistake, or accepts responsibility for something, then we will know something is definitely up.
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Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
Republicans: “Stop making everything about race.” Really? White people enslaved Black people for generations, stole Native land, lynched and segregated us, burned down Black communities that thrived, and treated Mexican land & labor like property to be taken. America already made it about race.
Newsom responds to Trump’s odd post announcing he is going to bed early
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The Good Liars - Talking About Guns youtu.be/v8U3TuQN3Ro
The first Black mayor of a tiny Alabama town has overwhelmingly won an election, four years after White residents locked him out of the town hall and refused to let him serve. https://cnn.it/4p0fkwn
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen didn’t mince words in describing Russia’s Vladimir Putin during a visit to Poland’s border with Belarus yesterday.
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro also described India as ‘nothing but a laundromat’ for Moscow. scroll.in/latest/10860...
Zuckerberg is as bad as Musk, just quieter
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OTD in 1939 Adolf Hitler began his special military operation to protect ethnic Germans from persecution by Poland. Imagine such a bullshit excuse today