Blocks and blocks of Chicagoans marching against Trump’s fascism.
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Blocks and blocks of Chicagoans marching against Trump’s fascism.
5/ “Trump administration's newest allegation against political foes: Mortgage fraud” 8/20/25 www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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“Peter Thiel’s AI Palantir Is Supercharging Trump’s Lawfare” In May, Trump’s FHFA Director Bill Pulte announced a “partnership” w/ Palantir to “establish an ‘AI-powered Crime Detection Unit (CDU).’” The CDU promptly began “work at the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)” 8/29/25…1/
Nine former CDC directors basically said RFK Jr is a threat to public health.
Whether or not these people are actual foreign agents is almost irrelevant. Their actions are observationally equivalent to & indistinguishable from the actions actual foreign agents would be taking. The consequences of our total Article I constitutional crisis, right here:
Since US President Donald Trump waged a trade war against both countries, India and China have accelerated their efforts to repair ties with each other. Here's what you need to know.
Assuming he's sick, l just pray he follows the medical advice of "one of the world's foremost voices, advocates and experts on public health," RFK Jr.
Make no mistake, everything that’s happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media. Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are. Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
This text is quoted accurately. It is also a clarifying lie. Totalitarian governments know that normal people do not have time or resources to research every health, economic, or security issue. Their project of attacking all expertise is a project of seizing trust & thus power for themselves.
What's left of the CDC is reporting a dramatic rise in rabies cases.
1000 Little Girls Were Sexually Abused & Raped By Epstein & Ghislane Maxwell. Here Are Six Women Who Were Teens When Maxwell Groomed, Sexually Assaulted, Raped & Trafficked Them To Rich Depraved Pedophile Men. They Were Raped. Believe Them. tRump Is In The Epstein Files. youtu.be/9sweVMJzJ-s?...
'Existential dread': Trump renews health concerns with 'very weird' email about 'heaven' www.rawstory.com/trump-weird-...
Looks like a couple of pics are old ones #wherestrump
I think it's time to discuss the 25th Amendment.
wow
John Prine's wife, Fiona, came to Tanglewood tonight, & Bonnie Raitt played the most beautiful, heart-wrenching "Angel From Montgomery" I've ever heard. Completely wrecked me & I loved it ✨️🎶
The plot thickens!
MAGA www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/t...
Not surprising - Atlas Network is so shady. Read on ➡️ www.desmog.com/2023/09/12/a... @schilldawg.bsky.social @albertateachers.bsky.social @thebreakdownab.bsky.social @carlapeck.bsky.social @juliekusiek.bsky.social @abcpatricia.bsky.social @jantafrench.bsky.social #education #abed #schoolchoice
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
He’s on another QAnon posting spree tonight.
He obviously knows where he’s going.
This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 196. A wild weekend with news coming from all different directions and speculation running rampant about Trump’s health. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
Targeting firefighters while they work. Dragging children from their beds in the dead of night. MAGA will go to any length. We’ve said it before, eventually the monster comes for us all!
A couple people in D.C. spent the night in custody Friday after writing messages in chalk on a flagpole outside Union Station. The National Guard apparently witnesses the vandalism in progress. (Which is maybe not surprising as one of the people was in a banana costume.)
As Marco Rubio shuts down USAID, CNN find clips and a letter of him praising USAID
Anna has had excellent coverage of this developing case in which the Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children.
There's only one way to stop the rumors about Donald Trump's health: a press conference. Why won't he talk to the press, and why isn't the media doggedly demanding it?
Post a video of yourself with today’s newspaper saying this
It’s time for the GOP’s old favorite, “state’s rights”, to do some heavy lifting.
Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & well, here we are, hundreds of miles on the interstate past the Goldwater-Rhodes exit that we already should have taken. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
"We're going to need a story about this accident. Say he was helping a woman. That should work. Also, is he wearing pants? Make sure he's wearing pants."
. RFK Jr. is currently the deadliest person in America . . . ... everyone knew what was coming ! Photo via Mother Jones 💠 🧐 💠
It’s not just a Bluesky thing, in case you were wondering.
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Trump is not dead. He just smells that way.
He won’t let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
#ProudBlue Trump has succeeded in running Republican Senators out of the Senate Senators are expected to retire leaving open seats in the midterms Others are predicting Cassidy, LA, & Collins, ME to throw in the towel too Democrats could easily retake both the House and Senate in 2026
Maybe we should measure the economy by the fact that 60% of Americans can’t afford basic necessities while billionaires can write off the entire cost of their private jets and yachts on their taxes.
Alex Phillips - I miss being able to eat normal white bread but thankfully I have salmon soufflé, dainty rainbow salad, keto coconut, langoustines, kedgeree & burrata in pancetta with chive oil to feed my working class pallet.
40% of Missourians vote for Democrats, and this is the Congressional map the Republicans are pushing for.
Yes, the Nazis killed autistic people too. Asperger's (still the accepted medical term in Germany) was literally named after a Nazi doctor who diagnosed it and sent autistic children to Nazi death camps.
Yes, the Nazis would have fully recognized RFK Jr and his impulses. Part of his "theory" comes from reading a German Covid denier, who comes out of the German esoteric tradition (Rudolf Steiner etc.) which was extremely compatible with the Nazis. Also the eugenics of letting virus run through.
Spoiler: she was possessed. Possessed people do those things. And fascist regimes do these things. It is not fascism plus, or and, or some secret third thing between fascism and authoritarianism. It is fascism.
Devil: I am the devil. Drawer open Priest: hmm. You said THE devil, not a devil. Also, could you do it again. Asking for my bishop.
We’re at the part in the Exorcist where the skeptical priest is making sure to check off every “is she possessed” box when the devil is making the drawers open and close
And I also know that people are dunking on this and that is no fun, but it is really really bad! This misconception is prevalent and needs to be dispelled.
No, the point isn’t that the Trump administration is Nazi Germany. The point is that Nazi Germany is a paradigm case of fascism and what is being described here is entirely consistent with that paradigm.
Counterpoint: yes it does, it explains everything, this is what fascist regimes do. This really could be a description of Nazi Germany, and if that is not widely understood—particularly by reporters!—that is a problem.
RFK, Jr., Secretary of Health & Human Services,is the epitome of mentally ill. His behavior is completely out of control along with 47. These 2 need a hospital, real doctors and good medication. #wtpBLUE #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #VoteBlueforOurFuture
Fed Gov. Lisa Cook going to court, which likely means... -Judge rules that a Senate-controlled position is Senate controlled, and transparently lying doesn't count as legitimate cause -SCOTUS takes it up, saying Congressionally enacted laws don't count Worth doing regardless (because she's right).
Joni Ernst ran for Senate vowing to combat sexual assault in the military. She won, and proceeded to do some work towards that goal. Then she supported a rapist for president and voted to confirm a rapist as Secretary of Defense, and with that legacy, retired.
We're reached the stage of democratic backsliding where federal judges are openly musing in court that, if they rule in accordance with the law, corrupt loyalists on the Supreme Court will just say the law doesn't count, so maybe it isn't worth the effort.
Pete Hegesth keeps talking about a warrior culture, which apparently means masked man kidnapping our allies to send them to our enemies to be tortured. Absolutely shameful.
In a two week period: Trump fired 7 of the 8 members who do independent federal oversight on nuclear waste. Peter Thiel (Palantir) is found to be backing the first privately developed uranium enrichment facility in the US.
Trump dying in office after Biden lived through his term would be such an indictment of the press. Made “Biden Old” the top story, treating it as an uncovered secret, a scandal. Then lamented not covering it even more. All while treating “Trump Old” as a nonstory. Because he’s loud and lies a lot.
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie. (Seriously, that’s the answer)
Official reason for letting Trump's tariffs remain in place despite finding them unconstitutional is give him a chance to appeal. Worth noting that courts can issue a stay, blocking action they deem unconstitutional unless a higher court allows it, as one did with Biden's student loan forgiveness.
Court ruling that Trump's tariffs are unconstitutional but he can keep doing them for a while anyway illustrates why the judiciary hasn't upheld rule of law, even though some parts really are been trying to. "Let him keep doing it, even if unconstitutional" is basically the message from SCOTUS.
Putin, Modi, and other leaders gathering in China, looking like serious, respectful diplomacy, is such a contrast to Trump’s fanboying over Putin in Alaska. What an embarrassment. Future historians seeking images to illustrate the end of the American century will have a lot to choose from.
It’s not true that there are no principled conservatives, and every time they appealed to principle it was merely a mask for “it’s bad if you do it, but good when we do it, and we’re eager to do it a lot more.” It’s just that principled conservatives all went NeverTrump, by Jan. 6 at the latest.
The "He who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" treadmill only works if there's a steady supply of absurdities.
Their legal work product - including from Trump's DOJ - is contemptuously inept and basically an assertion that the current legal system is invalid. Trump has destroyed the DOJ in only seven months. It's all downhill from here.
The lies' laughable implausibility is a feature, not a bug. They're not trying to convince discerning, skeptical, fact-based people. They're trying to give supporters a fantasy that validates their feelings and creates a sort of loyalty test, while flaunting the absurdity in everyone else's faces.
They will literally say **ANYTHING**.
RADDATZ: One of the things they are trying to do in DC with the National Guard is have them back up local law enforcement WES MOORE: They are picking up trash
"I can't believe these fascists are doing [maybe one of the top 3 hallmarks of every fascist government in human history], this is unprecedented and goes beyond fascism"
Chatbots killing their users suggests that big tech has transitioned from simple parasite to parasitoid, indicating that keeping the host alive is no longer essential for their evolutionary strategy
GenAI is the informational equivalent of hummingbird feeders filled with sucralose. It's wildlife who die because their stomachs are filled with plastic. It's a child seeing a stranger from behind and thinking it's their mother. It's the uncanny forced upon an entire world, and it's obscene.
I just hate this tech. I've seen other people start to call it obscene and that is truly what it is. GenAI is obscene. It's an affront to humanity, pushed by tech bros and c-suiters who are forcing this rancid emptiness onto everyone else because they themselves believe in nothing.
Me: “I think A.I. is stupid and embarassing.” Somehow the most confident stranger in the world, every time: “Yes, which is why I only use it for the following reasons—“
New study confirms what I always said, risk of shut down of critical ocean current AMOC is much greater than previously thought, and ”could shut down as early as 2055 under a high emissions scenario Even a slow down itself before a collapse will also have an impact www.politico.eu/article/gulf...
AI's best use case will always be scams. It's scamtech, top to bottom. Everything about it is crooked. Its bedrock is theft and its legacy is the destruction of the environment, both physical and virtual. Even most of its 'legitimate' uses are a form of lying. "I wrote this." "I created this."
Moodys downgraded the full faith and credit of the U.S. from Aaa to Aa1 due to tariffs and inflation risks caused by the tariffs. When Trump takes over the Fed, it won’t matter what our credit rating is. No one will be buying our debt. Making the Fed political is what third-world countries do.
VistaVision rules!
The Republican Congress is going to try to rewrite the history of RFK Jr.’s confirmation as HHS Secretary. “We didn’t know” “Nobody told us” “He promised he wouldn’t…” This thread will be about the warnings from thousands of scientists and HCW who loudly and publicly opposed his confirmation.
There really is a gay Republican mafia..
In summary, the average child sexual predator’s profile is: married, male, white, heterosexual, religious, surrounded by friends and family, and a parent.
War. Yeah. What is it good for? Absolutely distracting from the Epstein files.
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...
gosh I wonder why they fired this bro
This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
“The Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium, which has conducted dozens of trials since it was established in 1999…has 6 active trials; 5 are related to treatment. These are early phase trials evaluating the safety and efficacy of novel therapies for pediatric brain cancers”
European starlings.
The TRUTH BY Mike Luckovich AJC #RFKJRisDangerous
ATLANTA: “The city is opening a grocery store to clear up a downtown food desert… City leaders say the market will help those in the area who have not previously had easy access to healthy food.” (cc: everyone acting like @ZohranKMamdani is crazy🤔) www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
Omaha now has to do the same.
Oh man… this is hysterical. Canada is giving Gavin Newsom a free plane? 😂😅🤣
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RFK Jr didn't just run an anti-vax campaign in Samoa that killed 83 people, mostly children < age 5—he *wanted* people to get measles to see what would happen. We already know what happens. People get sick & die. Watch our whole conversation here: open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
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