He hates it when his depravity upstages his tyranny.
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He hates it when his depravity upstages his tyranny.
Reporter: What is your message to President Trump? Epstein Survivor: Listen, I don't want to send a direct message to him. I'm already scared enough. Just pass the vote. Listen to us. This is not a hoax. It’s not going to go away
Putin will decide how to handle the United States after talking with Trump.
Putin continues to obliterate Ukraine and sell India oil at a discount, those 2 weeks have been 8 months long.
"I thought they were going to make me board the plane like they did with the other kids from the shelter, but they asked me for my name and told me I was not on the list." A terrifying declaration from an unaccompanied child nearly removed to Guatemala straight out of Schindler's List.
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
A federal appeals court rejects the Trump administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act to mass deport Venezuelan nationals. The Brennan Center and @cato.org filed an amicus brief arguing that using a wartime law for these deportations is a flagrant abuse of power.
Thank you. People need to stop pretending we cannot foresee where this is all headed.
Oh, I was so close.
Scott Jennings and Ben Shapiro are currently both sitting at a panel table on CNN, not OANN. Seems like a pretty good barometer of where things are in this country. 😕🇺🇸
Kristi Noem literally attacked CBS for not airing her *false* claims about Abrego Garcia. If this continues, journos should state plainly that they're not in the business of amplifying MAGA lies and smears, and any official who expects them to can stuff it. New piece newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Media & Political Elite consider this publication (and many like it, hi NYT), which is normalizing & legitimizing Trump functionally ending Constitution & usurping authoritarian power, as left/liberal/pro-Democratic despite fact it is very literally pumping out pro-Trump disinformation.
Deceptive editing is how they’re attacking media coverage they don’t like. They want every channel To be FOX.
Ambitious Goals? Understatement of the century.
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
The truth is there is no secret plan to defend American democracy. But what gives me hope is when people reject the cool cynicism of despair and choose to act rather than surrender. That is what keeps democracy alive, @marcelias.bsky.social writes.
What a gang of mindless amateurs in Washington accomplished in Beijing:
President Trump’s most recent attack on mail voting is part of a concerted effort to undermine our elections. The administration has provided us with clues about what comes next. The good news: key actors can be ready to respond. bit.ly/4fRIqtA
QAnon memes were not a small part of what mobilized Trump’s January 6th mob. Ignoring this is a dangerous mistake and we are making it twice.
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
RFK is by far the most dangerous lunatic in an administration staffed exclusively with dangerous lunatics.
NEW: Social Security’s chief data officer, Charles Borges, has resigned, three days after submitting a whistle-blower complaint that alleged members of DOGE had uploaded the confidential personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to an insecure cloud server.
When Big Balls uploaded our SS information to a sweet little cloud it made it so much easier for all the cyber criminals Trump pardoned to steal it. It's a win win guys. I'm sure they have they're best and brightest trying to "fix it".
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...
D5 Indiana Rep Victoria Spartz from UKRAINE said immigrants don't deserve due process. They're all really bad at their jobs.
Heroes, every one.
Oof. Trump is a chaos agent, but this list from @donmoyn.bsky.social is a disturbing reminder that he is surrounded by Vought, Miller and many others who are not. They're terrifyingly methodical in achieving Trump's goals and their own.
Governor Mike Braun of Indiana if asked wouldn't hesitate to send the Hoosier National Guard to Illinois, further disgracing the state.
Seize train stations first, then the trains. Pretty obvious.
They couldn't wait for the very last WWII vet to die to before declaring Hitler and slavery something we should reconsider.
If Trump, who pardoned violent Jan. 6 felons, actually cared about D.C. crime, he would not have appointed a TV personality or an unqualified political buffoon to the U.S. attorney’s job, nor would he have cut more than $1B in D.C. funding.
Not to add to the discourse, but… It’s ‘toe the line,’ not ‘tow the line.’ It’s ‘free rein,’ and not ‘free reign.’ It’s ‘eke out,’ not ‘eek out.’ It’s ‘sleight of hand,’ not ‘slight of hand.’ It's ‘Anchors aweigh,’ and not ‘Anchor's away!’
I live in Indiana, the place where if they could they would ask you for your license plate number.
Random brown men and women and maybe their children are getting thrown to the ground face first and then the knee to the back of the neck makes all the difference.
JD not wasting any time proving to Americans how much he hates being among us. Raise the river men. I'm going kayaking.
This from @lizsaila.bsky.social is one of the most important projects I’ve ever seen. Looking at the data you can visualize the various intersecting strategies as various groups disseminate legislation templates. With a complicit news media, they manufactured the political will for where we are now.
Trump isn't really ever in America, is he.
Wonder what Foxnews would be talking about all day this week if Obama had done this?
my idea for a business is getting billions of dollars in taxpayer money and never paying any taxes
Did I not hear Trump correctly when he said he was going to give Putin mineral rights in Alaska before this waste of time meeting? They reported on it like it was no big deal.
Trump wanting to concede Ukrainian territory that Russia does not even occupy (and that's not his to concede) is just about the worst case scenario. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Um I doubt it's only immigrants he doesn't want to count.
BREAKING: D.C. sued the Trump administration on Friday morning, asserting that the admin was violating the Home Rule Act, the Administrative Procedure Act, and separation of powers. D.C. A.G. Brian Schwalb is seeking a temporary restraining order to block A.G. Pam Bondi from enforcing her order.
HERE WE GO: Judge Reyes calls a 2pm hearing on DC's restraining order motion, which will be publicly accessible:
Cool cool cool. Remember when Biden got elected and Fox went after Jill Biden immediately for not being a "real" doctor? This Madonna Melania shit is unforgivable from the media.
I cannot recommend this essay highly enough. @donell-harvin.bsky.social is one of the most important voices How to Truly Keep Washington, DC Safe: Trump’s militarized approach undercuts what’s been working Harvin is former Chief of Homeland Security & Intelligence for District of Columbia 🧵
Costco is a great company at a time where very few of the fortune 500 companies can be trusted. Costco pays for part-time benefits, it is way more progressive than most companies. The CEO has hosted many Democratic fundraisers for Obama, Hillary, Kamala and others. Let’s not take the bait. 🤷🏻♀️
Organized crime works better when they control all branches of the government.
Yes. Once you start seeing this (Institution X probably wanted do this conservative thing anyway but now can blame it on Trump), it's everywhere. It's not capitulation, it's agreement. "We can stop doing this thing we started doing from 2014-2020 because of woke/progressive/anti-racist pressure."
The Trump era in one headline: "Trump nominates Jan 6 'bystander' to produce better job numbers." Perfect, from @donmoyn.bsky.social.
President Trump’s latest entry bans — targeting Venezuelans, Muslims, Africans, and Haitians — will deprive the United States of the economic benefits that flow from tourism, investment, and international talent. bit.ly/45zhGJM
Why do we have to PROTECT our children, our land, our Constitution from Trump?
🔔 REUTERS: INFLATION NOT JUST DUE TO TRUMP’S TARIFFS — ICE RAIDS TOO “1.4% surge in food prices account for 40% of ⬆️ in the cost of goods... 38.9% ⬆️ in the cost of vegetables… Farmers report worker shortages as Trump rounds up immigrants…” www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
As of now, the authoritarians are winning.
He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.
BREAKING: D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb is suing Trump over his executive actions asserting control over the D.C. police department and attempting to install an emergency police commissioner. Schwalb called it the "gravest threat to Home Rule that the District has ever faced."
The adamant elite refusal to call bullshit is a big part of How We Got Here. The prevailing cultural attitude for years is you must not, under any circumstances, treat anything as bad faith. You are obligated to find some reasonable idea and engage with that, even if you distort to get there.
This is great but you gotta find a way to explain it to everyone and fortunately Bum Phillips already did
this is just straight-up dictatorship and it’s repulsive and pathetic our newspapers and TV stations still won’t say so. there is no emergency. there is no precedent for this in US history. Trump is establishing military and paramilitary control of the capital
Like Indiana, it could become an ultra super majority.
Can we go as far as firing everyone at the BLS today? Tomorrow?
Trump‘s firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because he didn’t like the numbers should alarm all of us. This is the kind of disinformation that can destroy an economy and integrity in government.  
Trump is panicking because the economic numbers are giving a recession vibe. From the Chief Economist at Moody's.
They're asking the wrong guy.
In a digital world where historical context is eliminated, essays like this are the remedy.
My hopeless MAGA state of Indiana is fully invested in deregulation, mass deportation tactics and fully supporting the BBB. Apparently this can only be achieved by obliterating democracy nationwide, not just in the state of Indiana.
The most corrupt White House in history. Here is an account of what people are paying, directly to a PAC called MAGA Inc, in order to meet the president, get pardons, change policy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...
Trump has a lot of quislings in the academy and such, but a lot of very powerful institutions simply can't believe what is happening. they stand there like a jacklighted deer going "buhh? guhh?" while MAGA draws a bead on their forehead bsky.app/profile/unav...
Bravo to this Scottish paper!
Because of course.
There’s a kind of expected tit for tat between partisans over who does more crimes, whose worse etc. on most things obvs turpitude isn’t clearly partisan but having observed these things for years, theres an exception. Sex with minors, child porn, overwhelmingly Republicans.
This dovetails with @brianbeutler.bsky.social's topic in his latest post—how the Right weaponizes bad faith as a means to an end. www.offmessage.net/p/how-libera...
BREAKING: JD Vance just gave a big speech in which he claimed that "for the first time in a very long time, workers' wages are rising faster than inflation.." The only problem? The Trump Labor Dept. reported exactly the opposite just yesterday, showing real wages falling in June. #EconSky
The need to punish those without mega millions or billions is stronger than ever in America.
You don’t build a concentration camp for legal detainees. You build a concentration camp for people you want removed from society.
250 people detained in the Florida Everglades have no criminal convictions or pending charges.
I hope we all understand where the road we are on leads. The United States experiment has failed.
Had Joe Biden tweeted "Pete Buttigieg killed it on MSNBC this morning" and Buttigieg wasn't even on, Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson would've written a book about it. Normal stuff from Trump though.
Fox news wins again.
The people in my little MAGA town love this guy and everything he says.
Cuz they're owned by billionaires. Connect the dots ya'll.
Aha! There it is. I just want to make it clear-this is a tremendous scandal. A massive failure. Remember also that FEMA Region 6 (includes Texas) has NO REGIONAL ADMINISTRATOR!
Regime media gets a scoop that the regime is targeting regime critics.
Beshear on Trump's bill: "It's the single worst piece of legislation I've seen in my lifetime & it is an attack on rural America. In my state alone, 200k are gonna lose their coverage... 20k healthcare workers are gonna lose their jobs & we've got up to 35 rural hospitals that may close."
NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group. By Anas Baba
What's funny about these headlines is it's not just NC, it's all of America losing access to healthcare and hospitals. ICE just got a hundred billion dollars to terrorize America, not just one city, and we're supposed to remain calm when they start building detention centers in our backyards.
While simultaneously dismantling it?
Ask either one of them if they have any regrets. They'll tell you they have none. They have access to everything the world has to offer yet they spend their time encouraging hate, suspicion and division on every level of American life.
It is undeniable that much of our political culture, especially among white people, is driven by a desire to harm people seen as less deserving of a good life. And many white folks have calculated that harming those people is worth harming themselves in the process. It supersedes self interest.
Stephen Miller has made Americans see his diabolical plans up close. In their communities. And people fucking hate it Republicans just gave him billions to make it worse
wow @nytimes.com i know its not quite as scandalous as a brown guy accurately reflecting his ethnicity on a college application a few decades ago but heres an actual lie actually being told for political gain and its happening like right now in the present day
How many baby carrots can one family eat?
“We are witnessing a capitalist class so drunk on its own power that it has become incapable of recognizing its own interests…So contemptuous of the institutions that created their wealth that they are destroying the conditions that make capitalism possible.” open.substack.com/pub/mikebroc...
Priscilla Chan’s decision to stop funding the school she opened to help struggling families shows the risks for communities reliant on wealthy private donors.
When U.S.-supported soup kitchens in Sudan were forced to close because of Trump’s funding stoppages, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
The Trump administration is seeking to cut the only federal after-school programming in the nation that funds activities that reach about 1.4 million students nationwide.
Like public education, women's healthcare is being phased out in MAGA states like Indiana. If they pass that awful bill, there will be lots of surprised Hoosiers in rural areas.
Who has gone out on a limb to challenge Trump? Lots of federal district court judges. Whom did the Supreme Court choose at this moment to rein in (having passed on doing so under Biden)? Federal district court judges.