With @dahlialithwick.bsky.social the growing—and possibly unprecedented—lower court revolt against the Supreme Court: slate.com/news-and-pol...
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With @dahlialithwick.bsky.social the growing—and possibly unprecedented—lower court revolt against the Supreme Court: slate.com/news-and-pol...
Nothing says, "Hey international companies, bring your manufacturing to the US" like arresting 475 workers at a Hyundai (70% of whom are South Korean).
Umm … it’s pretty stupid.
So much greatness.
CNN put together a clip of RKF Jr denying today he linked antidepressants and mass shootings, followed by a clip of RFK Jr last week linking antidepressants and mass shootings
This is what lawlessness looks and sounds like
Warnock: Clearly you have an agenda. It is a threat to the public health of the American people. It's clear that you are carrying out your extremist beliefs. RFK JR: We’re the sickest people on earth. How am I a threat? Warnock: I think that you ought to resign.
Pssstt. It’s him
LA City Attorney: Businesses are empty and shuttered. The city’s law enforcement personnel have received countless 911 calls about what, for all intents and purposes, looks like a kidnapping. That’s what it looks like — individuals who will not identify themselves.
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Moskowitz: Do you think the Epstein list should come out? Farage: I have no opinion on it. Raskin: It’s been reported that he’s called for it to be released Moskowitz: I have it here. Do you agree with yourself?
DeSantis “also announced the creation of a commission to align Florida with goals laid out by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. .. “.. The commission will be headed by Casey DeSantis, the governor’s wife.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
The Attorney General of Florida and all of his family members are fully vaccinated. 🤷 Don’t let the pedophiles take away your medicine Florida!!! #EpsteinFiles
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?"
Phang: The judge notes that the MacArthur Park show of force was just sheer political theater. Major General Sherman, objected, expressing concern that there would be a large number of people because it was Father’s Day. To which Bovino criticized him, questioning his loyalty to the country.
REP. @yassaminansari.bsky.social on the bipartisan demand for the Epstein files: “This is the most corrupt administration in 🇺🇸 history, and this story shows it more than anything.”
Don't feel like doing a repost that puts the murder video on the timeline yet again but do feel like repeating the point that the president just straight-up assassinated 11 people for supposedly doing something that wouldn't be a death-penalty crime if they were caught and convicted
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.
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?
Meiselas: Xi Jinping and Modi and Putin and all these world leaders are gathering in China, and they're laughing. You know when Donald Trump says the world was laughing at us — the world was not laughing at us before. The world is quite literally laughing at us right now.
NYT reports TRUMP & MODI had a falling out because Modi wouldn’t back Trump’s lie that he brokered the India-Pakistan ceasefire — a lie 🇺🇸 media has let him get away with with even as India’s media has openly mocked him for it. Video: x.com/thetnholler/...
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
That’s because former Fox host Jeanine Pirro was unable to get the grand jury to indict her, which is conveniently left out here.
This is not reporting. This is propaganda.
Under Dr. Oz, Medicare is launching a pilot program that will use AI to determine whether patients would be covered for certain procedures. Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims. Who in their right mind voted for this? No one.
Lori Chavez-DeRemer: "I was elected as the Labor Secretary for all Americans" (She was not elected)
This is a truly fantastic quote, and if you don’t speak “higher court” it roughly translates to “away with this dipshittery”
"The courts have been unpersuaded that we live in a state of permanent national emergency that is global in scope and decades-long in duration, requiring swift executive action on the theory that Congress could never assemble in time to address the issue. … www.nationalreview.com/corner/divid...
Low birth rate is zero threat to anyone anywhere. Trying to call… something, because who the hell knows… “the West” is gross.
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
This is the way
IDF spokesperson: "we are doing everything we can to keep civilians out of harms way" Like dropping 2,000lb bombs on densely crowded refugee camps, killing 15 medics in cold blood, firing 355 bullets into a car to slaughter a family, double tap strikes to murder journalists etc?
Jill Stein and Cornel West both disgust me — such goddamn, self-serving hypocrites.
CHICAGO…
The mother of a 15-year-old boy who was detained at gunpoint by federal immigration agents is seeking $1m in damages and accusing the Trump administration of false imprisonment and “unconstitutional racial profiling”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The warfighters in DC got the trash picked up, now time to mulch.
If he thinks a few transgender people out of several thousand murderers is "a common denominator," wait until he hears how many of them were using automatic weapons.
If this oleaginous haircut thinks local crime rates merit a federal military intervention, then he should be leading the armored column down to his home state of Louisiana, which is one of the worst in the nation.
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There is no possible legitimate reason to do this. It’s what despots do. It’s petty. It’s dangerous. It’s unAmerican. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
This week, a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service broke the law when it decided not to protect gray wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains under the federal Endangered Species Act. www.humaneworld.org/en/blog/laws...
CDC scientists receive a heroes welcome after walking out today.
Yes, it should. However, that would require an effective mainstream media in America — which we don’t currently have.
New in PN: Trump's flag burning executive order flames out "This is a blatant attempt to transform protected speech into criminal conduct, despite decades of SCOTUS precedent barring just that. And it was immediately challenged by a veteran who set fire to an American flag just across from the WH."
DJT: “I have the right to do anything I want to do. I’m the President of the United States.” This would have been considered a pretty shocking statement under any other circumstances.
Federal Emergency Management Agency suspended over 30 employees after they wrote to Congress warning that the Trump administration had severely weakened the nation’s ability to respond to hurricanes, floods,
Litter is definitely a massive emergency that warrants mobilizing units from several states’ National Guard, arming them heavily and sending them into the streets of the capital.
Apparently, the way it works is that there would be some consequence for schools not doing what Paxton illegally tells them to do, but there are no consequences for telling them to do it. Cool system.
Vote Blue
Make America great again… like when we were a dictatorship 🤔
Trump: So the line is I’m a dictator, but I stop crime. A lot of people say, if that is the case I would rather have a dictator
The people around him are so afraid of him that they won’t even tell him how math works
CNBC: So we should expect the US government to be taking more equity stakes in businesses around the country? KEVIN HASSETT: It's possible, yeah. That's absolutely right.
Words cannot adequately describe what a colossal disappointment our mainstream media has been during our slow descent into authoritarianism.
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
I apologize in advance: Where the fuck is Clooney, Colbert, Reiner, Disney CEO; and all the other powerful people that called for Biden to resign? Crickets? All we heard for weeks from them is that Biden is unfit to serve... Now? Crickets?
1) ABC/NBC should lose license or pay hefty fees because their reporting is mean to him. 2) MD should maybe lose bridge repair funds because Wes Moore was mean to him. 3) The feds should investigate Chris Christie for Bridgegate because he was mean to him.
Parker is a true warrior with relentless spirit ✊ Parker was shot in the head in June.. she spent weeks in the hospital with a broken skull and a blood clot in her brain. Now out, she's back at the LA Music Festival.
What is it called when government owns the means of production again?
Following the failed summit at Anchorage, Trump imposed no sanctions on Russia, indeed, he relaxed sanctions. However, he imposed critical sanctions on Ukraine, including blocking Ukraine's use of long-range missiles that are now coming into availability. Again, Trump is helping Russia, decisively.
My continuing question... Why is anyone still visiting or living in the backwater state of Florida?
The fallout from the Alina Habba ruling has begun A judge in New Jersey postponed indefinitely a CEO’s sentencing, citing a judge’s ruling Thursday that prosecutors were not legally authorized to handle cases under Habba’s leadership. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
💥 The NFL is stoked to be woke. “All 32 teams will feature an end zone message of their choice at each home game throughout the season, selecting from four options: ‘End Racism,’ ‘Stop Hate,’ ‘Choose Love’ or ‘Inspire Change.’ africa.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
Despite accepting pre-orders and promising that “the wait is almost over,” Trump Mobile doesn't seem any closer to proving the T1 Phone actually exists. www.wired.com/story/trump-...
Krishnamoorthi on the FBI raiding Bolton's house: "It looks like it's also an attempt to distract from the other big news of the day, which is the first production of the Epstein files that is required by subpoena from the Oversight Committee and they want to change the conversation."
JUST IN: A federal judge has ruled Alina Habba’s appointment as Special Attorney for the District of New Jersey is unlawful. Judge Brann: “I conclude that she is not [lawfully performing the functions and duties of U.S. Attorney].” Her actions since July 1 may be void.
Another reason I hate 🍊🤡: he pardoned the Chrisleys and now I have to hear that criminal’s annoying voice on tv again (just commercials). And why does this POS even have a reality show? Stupider than Jersey Shore. And shame on lifetime for promoting this criminal.
Do you know how insane and infuriating it is to live in a country where one party claims, with media and public support, the mantle of being the ‘tough on crime’ party while its leader openly calls for convicted criminals to be released from prison ‘or else’?
Conservative commentator admits they really are just sheep.
Trump stripped 37 current and former national security officials of their security clearances, a group that included many who had focused on Russian activities and foreign interference in U.S. elections, according to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
A beatdown in broad daylight was caught on video: Masked men in tactical vests grappled, tased, and piled onto a delivery worker. Pinning the worker face down on the pavement, agents tased him again and punched him repeatedly in the head.
Narrator: the 4 minutes leading up to this statement detailed with great specificity “not getting the joke.”
Not sure why or how, but we finally found the thing boycotters will actually boycott… as opposed to just saying they will.
The amusing thing about this clip is the infrastructure bill was literally the first and only thing Nancy Mace brought up in terms of her accomplishments in Congress. Her biggest win for her district was legislation she voted against.
🚨BREAKING: A new lawsuit filed Tuesday aims to stop New Hampshire, already one of the most difficult states in which to vote by mail, from enforcing even more extreme restrictions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Nancy Mace: "In my time in Congress, I actually helped secure the largest infrastructure grant in state history, in South Carolina history. So I've worked very hard on the policies that matter to voters here." (Mace is taking credit for legislation she voted against!)
Texas is a Seriously Fucked-Up State. Redneck-i-stan doesn't really capture the current level of Assholery in this MAGA Wasteland. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Yes. They did. They voted for, “the guy who makes me feel better about being a racist, no matter what else comes with it.”
James Madison was elected in 1812 during the War of 1812. Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1864 during the Civil War. FDR was elected in 1944 during WWII. JBJ & Nixon were elected in 1964 & 1972 during the Vietnam War. George W. Bush was elected in 2004 during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
The bow of obedience from states sending national guard to DC for nothing other than pledging loyalty to DJT. Man. Something to behold.
Newsmax has settled with Dominion and will pay them 67 million dollars for defaming them over claims their voting machines were switching votes. Lying losers. Only fraud going on is your sham of a network.
Most Americans have no sense of where violent crime is highest in the US: that's in the eleven states of the Old Confederacy. And those states have always had the highest violent crime rates in the country, going back to the first compilation of statistics just before World War I.
Can’t wait for @jaketapper.bsky.social’s book about this
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I have no idea how smart Gronk is, but, “his personality is now a winning brand that makes money,”… as evidence of not being dumb, is the dumbest thing I’ve heard today. So, way to go… checks notes… @forbes.com
President Macron: We are talking about an imperialist and revisionist power that is today's Russia, which since 2008 has constantly sought to conquer new territories, has constantly revised international borders, and has never kept its promises of peace and non-aggression.
I just came back from the wilderness in Quebec offline for the past 7 days. Did Trump “easily” end the war in Ukraine like he said in one conversation with Putin because he “knows exactly what to say to him”?
ICE GOONS in South Norwalk, Connecticut, brutally kidnapped Ricardo Chavez and his brothers. Notably, the goons never presented a warrant, and all the arrested individuals possess legal status to reside and work within the United States.
Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning. The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc