This tactic - pressuring corporations financially until they put a regime friendly voice in charge - is exactly how Orbán took over the free press in Hungary
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This tactic - pressuring corporations financially until they put a regime friendly voice in charge - is exactly how Orbán took over the free press in Hungary
Genuinely don't understand why cultural institutions are rolling over for the weakest, most unpopular, most close-to-being-deadest president of my lifetime.
Everything on Fox - the fear, anger and resentment channel - fits into a box. This is the “crime is rampant in Democrat big city x” box.
And you, sir, are a disgrace who’ve destroyed whatever good will you once had.
They’re not there to bring crime down. The notion that they are is undermined by the headline.
Great lead headline right now, @nytimes.com.
Marconi plays the mamba.
I guess interdiction was out of the question.
He did not write that.
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
Check out Vance’s studied sycophant face.
Thank you, Gov. Pritzker.
In the coming days, we expect to see what's playing out in LA and DC happen in Chicago. These efforts are not about fighting crime or making communities safer. This is about Donald Trump testing his power and producing political drama to cover up his own corruption.
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.
God is calling you home.
Rogue grand juries.
I’ll take it.
BREAKING: Judge Breyer rules that President Trump's deployment of the military to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, says Trump is using military as a "national police force with the president as its chief." Injunction granted. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
It sounds tough and not-woke, though.
I guarantee you that if there are memes like that, they were not created by the people who “took your job.”
Public servants should face the public. So why are federal agents wearing masks to hide their faces? Check out our mobile billboard driving around Washington, D.C. right now demanding federal agents take their masks off!
Judging by the folks at my local fair, the wrong people are having babies.
Weird, putting tariffs on construction materials and throwing day laborers in concentration camps should have solved the supply problem by now
Sarge!
Oh, but it's not the guns. It's mental health, family issues, moon phases, or liberal values -- but certainly not the fact that we have the most guns on the planet that causes us to have by far the most homicides on the planet.
So, the woman whom Giuliani was helping was on the southbound side of Interstate 93. But the car in which he was injured was on the northbound side. And this all happened in the dark of night. www.concordmonitor.com/2025/08/31/r... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Enormous impoundment-related changes in Trump/Vought's Circular A-11 update from Friday, which is OMB's guidance to agencies They: -removed the definition of impoundment -said GAO's impoundment determinations don't matter -claimed pocket rescission authority -claimed profound deferral authority 🧵
Is this a rhetorical question?
Tariff revenue is up, but it’s less than 2% of federal revenue and barely dents the deficit. Tariffs also slow trade, raise costs & hurt growth. In the big picture? A drop in the bucket. But hey, the GOP only cares about debt when Dems are in charge.
Excellent juxtaposition.
He got distracted while “zipping up his pants.”
I canceled my WaPo subscription, but…props to them for this.
If only there were a Nobel Prize for crimes against humanity, Trump would be a shoe-in.
Bill Cassidy is a physician who is being humiliated daily by Robert F. Kennedy. Kennedy has exposed Cassidy’s craven prioritization of his own power over the health and safety of his constituents and of the United States of America. Kennedy has exposed Cassidy’s powerlessness to stop him.
I’m not sure I would notice the difference between an AI version of today’s popular music and today’s popular music.
Some view it as hyperbole; others don't even know what the words mean. But it's all textbook. Textbook history, textbook political science, textbook psychology, textbook social psychology. Elementary stuff, not obscure. And it's happening in real time, right before our eyes.
I cannot overstate the import here: Nvidia not filing the deal with the Trump administration also means *you cannot verify to whom they promised to pay 15% of their revenue*. I genuinely think this is very big. Please share. open.substack.com/pub/cohen489...
Donald Trump incited a violent coup to overthrow the 2020 election and hold onto power. It will never be ok that he was not held accountable, including banning him from ever again holding public office.
I will be there and you should come too. We cannot let the Epstein story die.
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.
My perverse fear is that, if the tariffs go away, then certain people will not feel any economic pain, thus making the Trump criminal regime palatable to them.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=83OY...
The VP is allegedly “moving fast” behind the scenes to seize power as an aging Trump continues to brush off rumors that his health is slipping.
I only mention it because sometimes there's a man... I won't say a hero, 'cause, what's a hero? But sometimes, there's a man.
Anybody can watch the damn video. He did his job. I would have shot her ass too.
I can’t deny that it sounds exciting! It’s not too late for a beach read.
I hope his stupid library becomes a failed dictator museum.
I hope you’re right, but Maine has lots of old people who seem to have a deep emotional connection with her. “My Senator.”
That’s real emotion. People respect that, whoever they are. This is what it takes.
I’m sure the markets will be thrilled.
He’s a walking void of charisma and tangibly phony. Good luck with that.
Peter Thiel crony named acting director of CDC. Jim O'Neill was CEO of the Thiel Foundation and was managing director for Thiel's Clarium Capital and Mithril Capital. He also co-founded the Thiel Fellowship. gift link to WaPo, which barely mentions these things:
This gives me hope.
Our leaders who spoke truth to power were just escorted off Roybal campus by security. Speak out and you’re gone? Go ahead - we’re not afraid. 🖕
Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years: 1. Make them fire you 2. Don’t go along to get along 3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role 4. Always escalate the conflict
It’s a fetish.
It has been wild to see what were always the two most paranoid pro-Second Amendment scenarios—the government snatching people away and sending occupying armies into communities—literally happen this year, to the delight of conservatives
Trump's DOGE cronies put YOUR Social Security data on an unsecured cloud server. Now, 300 million Americans are vulnerable to identity theft & could even lose benefits. This is a reckless failure. They must be held accountable. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
Yep. Walking dead.
Did this gentleman defend one Orenthal James Simpson?
You beat me to it!
Or ate pizza with a fork.
I feel sorry for the guardspeople thrust into this situation and made to look like fools.
I just expressed my disapproval by emailing her at eom@dc.gov.
It’s what aryan Jesus wants.
Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze,
This should provide ample opportunities for more shakedowns.
Maybe so, but that’s not the issue.
If it’s so great to be with Jesus, why doesn’t he kill himself?
Yes, and then there the people who didn’t vote for Harris because Biden was too pro-Israel…or something.
It says a lot that I hadn’t even heard about this until now. Heartbreaking.
I’m pretty sure that poor woman stormed the Capitol on J6.
I think people should see it. Anybody but a cult member will see this is nuts.
It’s always so easy to laugh at this, but it’s not funny. For 3hrs today, grown men & women all took turns getting down on their knees, fellating their dear leader. In front of the cameras. It’s sad. It’s gross. It’s North Korea. It shouldn’t happen here.
If you think Donald Trump and Gavin Newsom are on the same planet with respect to how they treat/will treat trans people, you’re not paying attention.
That’s nuts. Newsom may not be pro-trans, but he’s not going to try to destroy their civil liberties and erase their recorded existence.
Whether or not you “feel” him, we will all suffer if he’s the obvious lesser of two evils and you don’t vote for him. Not voting out of protest is like yelling for help in a bottomless chasm.
As you watch the extraordinary spectacle of Trump's government attempting to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, let's not lose sight of just how lawless and indefensible Trump's misconduct has been all throughout. Here's a thread recapping all of it. 1/
He doesn’t care if he tanks the economy. He doesn’t care if troops end up firing on Americans. He doesn’t care if he disappears innocent people. He doesn’t care if he turns to a convicted sex-trafficker as a character witness. What he cares about is not releasing the truth of the Epstein files.
There go my Japanese-pressed jazz records.
What "domestic unrest"? Truth is, there should be domestic unrest over the fascist takeover, but there isn't. This headline implies permission to react to something that doesn't exist. Trump order calls for broader National Guard role in domestic unrest www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
My stepfather voted for Trump three times. It wasn’t until the tariffs hit that he uttered any criticism.
Am I to conclude that this was not Intel’s idea?
This is Meeting The Moment, from Pritzker. Please watch this 90-second clip.
presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
And lots of law enforcement were in the Klan.
I’d be curious to see if there was a bump in Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine product stocks before this was announced.
I notice that the “Don’t Tread on Me” types that overwhelmingly voted for Trump seem to be perfectly fine with this bs.
Is The Daily Beast taking framing cues from the NYT? The main impediment to Trump getting the prize isn’t that the majority of the committee has publicly condemned him; it’s that he’s directly undermined the prospects for peace in any number of international conflicts.
Even NPR is going with a euphemism. It is not a “makeover.”
Silicon Valley is full of developmentally stunted men-children.
Yes, and his niece says Fred paid someone to take the test for him to get into Wharton.
MAGA don’t understand Latin shit like per capita.
He’s not trying to choose what people call you, and people of Latin descent didn’t get together and decide to start using Latinx.
