This staggering one-day, $5 BILLION windfall is a stark reminder that Trump and the Republican party only work for themselves, not working families.
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This staggering one-day, $5 BILLION windfall is a stark reminder that Trump and the Republican party only work for themselves, not working families.
Ah yes. Selective justification.
Don't get distracted! The Epstein victims are testifying on Capitol Hill on Wednesday Not a hoax, or fake. Real victims, real trauma, real files, and FD47 is in the Epstein Files, regardless if 1K FBI agents flagged and removed his name from the documents It doesn't take away that he was/is in it
The president’s military occupation of the capital has escalated in recent days into something not seen since British troops marched the streets of colonial Boston.
DHS/Border Patrol getting trained on mortar for "law enforcement"
I think you are both wrong, as Jim there was just signing his poem like art while simultaneously telling everyone he is known as the "tiny bone" guy. I'm sore he drives a lifted truck as well.
If the CDC was going to publish these guidelines its scientists had an obligation to review the evidence behind them. But HHS officials rebuffed repeated requests. “The answer was no—they declined to share any of the materials that they were using to support that decision…CDC has never seen it.”
FASCISM BELONGS IN FICTION
You say that like both sides are equal, but one is ACTIVELY fighting for the oligarchy.
We want to apologize if it feels like we’ve been venting a lot lately. It’s just hard to ignore that nearly every move from this administration seems to be illegal, unlawful, or outright unconstitutional and yet nothing happens.
OMG this cracked me up!
Chicago keeping art alive:
Head injuries tend to make people more conservative somehow.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
Kamala is a centrist who was willing to say anything to try and win both sides. The problem is that the right has swung SO FAR right that centrists are now near right conservatives, and they ignore a vast amount of the population on the left.
“…this is not the time…” Never seems to be the time, and it’s been DECADES to have the time.
The same people lauding the flag burning jail time executive order seem to LOVE breaking every other part of the flag code. Just another day in MAGA hypocrisy.
The First Amendment protects our right to dissent, whether President Trump likes it or not.
Welch: He claims that he's the law and order president. But we all know that's a lie because he's a convicted felon. He pardons convicted felons, he surrounds himself with obsequious people that kiss his all day, every day
Just a more eloquent “thoughts and prayers” though, huh?
Psaki: I felt a mixture of anger—a lot of anger—and emotional exhaustion about this today, as I’m sure many of you have, because we have been here so many times. And yet again, like clockwork, half the politicians in our country have little more to offer than thoughts and prayers.
Words cannot adequately describe what a colossal disappointment our mainstream media has been during our slow descent into authoritarianism.
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
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.
I completely agree with you on all of these posts. I just have the unfortunate dishonor to work with the service support back in the staffing area. None here seem to want to be here, many stating as such. It’s a terrible position to be put in.
Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
That’s where you are wrong though- their orders, while dubious, are legal. During a declared emergency the president can authorize up to 30 days for DC and federal lands. The emergency is made up, and his talk of other cities is nonsense, but sometimes the worst things ARE legal.
The CEOs of the country's lowest-paying large companies made $17.2 million on average last year. Their workers made $35,570.
Joined the union at a new job today. Get excited about your unions!! Whether workplace or tenants unions, they hold great power to collectively organize. I’m a big fan of “yes, and” organizing. YES! I am organizing for a general strike. AND! I am participating in local efforts. AND! In my union!
Again, I think that’s a bit harsh. They don’t WANT to be here, but they are following the law. Their superiors gave them legal orders, even if on dubious grounds. If you are a military member and you violate a direct order, you go to prison. Saying YOU would do different isn’t genuine.
He’ll likely die before leaving office at this rate.
BREAKING: We're filing a petition for the immediate release of Mario Guevara, a journalist who is being detained by ICE because of his reporting on law enforcement activity. The First Amendment is clear: Journalists cannot be detained for doing their jobs.
The Trump administration spent months illegally hiding how your taxpayer dollars are spent. After the courts stepped in, they at least partially restored the website. Congress needs to know how the administration is spending your money to exercise oversight.
Sooooo, you brainstorm with the stolen writing of others' works?
Trump has made special concessions for both Apple and Nvidia that will boost their bottom lines. Trump's latest financial filings show that he owned stock worth more than $600,000 in both companies as recently as last year. See the problem here?
It never ends. Last night three local Texas activists, along with a Democratic leader, gathered at the Texas Capitol to show support for Rep Nicole Collier. Collier who had refused to sign a GOP-mandated “permission slip” requiring a Department of Public Safety escort and instead staged an overnight
…including both the US AND Russia.
…including both the US AND Russia.
None of them want to be here. It’s a dubiously legal order, and they all just want to go home.
You think the NG gets that money? What an absurd thought. I’m actually down here with them, and NONE of them that I’ve spoken to want to be here on a dubious “emergency.” 30 days.
As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous. Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.
Dear Leader has his propaganda posse embedded now in DC. White House sending social media teams with FBI on some arrests in D.C., sources say wtvbam.com/2025/08/18/w...
Under Trump and Republicans’ policies, inflation has increased, and most Americans are stressed about grocery prices. You deserve better.
Birthright citizenship isn’t just a legal doctrine — it’s central to who we are as a nation. We will do whatever it takes to keep President Trump's unconstitutional executive order blocked nationwide.
They are absolutely armed. The legal but dubious “emergency” that brought them to DC runs out after 30 days, but I think the damage that is done to their credibility as defenders against enemies “ foreign AND domestic” will forever be tarnished. I wish there was a way for them to speak out openly.
One hundred times THIS.
Unfortunately DC is a legal exception. They are following what is legal, on a technicality, but… I’ve been here with them and talking to them- so far not one has wanted to be here, but all are afraid of what would happen if they refused a technically legal order.
The men were struggling to sleep or leave their homes. Wilmer broke into tears telling me that he had a panic attack the first time he walked down a busy commercial street. In many cases, the celebration was bittersweet. The men were home but they were scarred. www.propublica.org/article/ceco...
The ability to respond to new pandemics with fast development of vaccines is going away due to the opinion of a man who has no medical or scientific training and a worm in his brain from a 14 year heroin habit. The contempt Orange Shitler has for us has no limits www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...
Oh for fuck’s sake- you’ve given everything, but MEN, they are just idiots playing along with the dictators plan. You certainly have a high opinion of yourself. If you’ve given everything, apparently it was all in vain because we’re all still living in this hell.
What the fuck is wearing with you? This isn’t black and white, and just like EVERYONE in America right now they aren’t doing anything for fear of retribution from the regime. Or, you can tell me how YOU lost everything to do some minor good for the cause?
Timeline of Epstein-Maxwell law enforcement failures (1996-2025). From the FBI to the Southern District of Florida, they all failed the victims of Epstein, Maxwell and their wealthy clients. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles www.justsecurity.org/119137/timel...
Thank you, Boston Globe. This is how it's done.
“With less they beat slavery. With less they beat Jim Crow… Harriet Tubman didn’t have email, Twitter, Texts, TikTok…”
The US is under attack. It has been for decades, the dumbing down, foreign money, Christian supremacy, it’s all part of the same effort to destabilize democracies. We are going back to monarchies Facsist or otherwise. The mules are about www.boisestate.edu/bluereview/d...
The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice. The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
Wait, what is straight softball? How does it differ? How do I know which one I’m playing?
That’s a pretty messed up coping skill to retain after all this time. Please stop pushing it on others.
This wasn’t just a security breach, documents obtained by NPR from a hotel guest who found them on a printer revealed something even more disturbing: a planned luncheon in honor of Vladimir Putin. The menu literally read, “In honor of his excellency Vladimir Putin.”
If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?
A message for the most “transparent Administration” in history: Release the Epstein files.
During their smoke breaks and during duties I’ve been talking to them. They don’t want to be here, but it’s all grey area. Again, I don’t see others going all in and risking their lives for grey areas. People are just online telling OTHERS what THEY need to do.
As far as men, again that’s bullshit. I’m literally here, in the room with them. It’s a good 50/50 mix at any time- which doesn’t fit your preconceived notions. Most are still kids, being told by parental figures to fall in, grab gear, listen to briefings and eat chow.
That’s extremely reductive. There’s a load of technicalities, which is why it’s even happening. The president has the ability to use them in a case of emergency, which he declared, which is poorly defined. It’s all legal bullshit, and it’s not like I see many others doing legally dubious things.
Flock's nationwide license plate tracking system is bad enough, but now the company is also analyzing our driving patterns to determine if we’re “suspicious." This is a privacy nightmare that will only lead to racial profiling in policing and misidentify people as dangerous.
I expected a tyrant with an iron fist, not a clown with a spray tan and swollen ankles.
$14.5 billion of our money to shore up farmers that are being ruined because of the tariffs that we’re also paying for. Are we winning yet?
I’m here, like literally in the HQ, and none of them seem to want to be here. The lower enlisted said they feared repercussions for not following direct orders, and they are national guard so many only get cursory knowledge of what that even is.
I’m here in the building they are stationed in and there are just as many women as men here, and NONE of those talked to (perhaps 50-60) have wanted this. They all think it’s a joke but are afraid to not follow orders.
You know exactly why.
Former servicemen here, and a guy now having to provide for their billiting. Just know that after talking to quite a few, not one has wanted to be here. The consensus as a group seems to be that this is bullshit.
Let them identify themselves. Banning words doesn’t ban the hate, it just masks the hate.
President Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to DC is a dangerous abuse of emergency power.
I mean, what do you want us to do? America is a large country and any one person fighting back quickly becomes yesterday’s statistic.
More bad news! A federal appeals court has cleared the Trump administration to push forward with plans to gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, overturning a lower court’s attempt to halt mass layoffs.
Operation “Get him to stroke out” is in full swing.
I want every blue state to do what Gavin Newsom is doing. Give the GOP no quarter. 
And they are replacing it with Prager U. Propaganda instead of education. “Dictator for a day” he said, not mentioning that it would be EVERY day.
And don’t let centrists be the propaganda that tells you “good enough.” They need to EARN votes. Stop assuming that any votes non Trump are ones that would have gone to the most feeble democrats they can muster.
What?! The couch doesn’t vote Trump, it doesn’t vote. That and you have no clue whom I voted for. I’m just tired of the shit representation being sold to us while progressives get sold out by their own party. Oh, and Trump likely rigged the election it turns out.
… that’s lobbying.
Trump just used our money to have federal funds dumped into Intel. While I laugh at their accidental communism, I also know Trump pumped and dumped, and has made BILLIONS since he took office.
ANCHORAGE…
Throwing a sandwich at a cop: felony. Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: tourist behavior.
An unarmed veteran was attacked from behind, sustaining injuries and being dragged into a Portland ice building.
Which means it breaks the constitution. No religion may take precedence.
Still not bipartisan, still no trust.
47 needs the 25th.
She is in NO WAY a progressive.
The movie The Purge, but only super-rich people are allowed to commit crimes and get away with it, and it’s every day… and I’m just describing our country right now… never mind.