So maybe the problem wasn’t with the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics?
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So maybe the problem wasn’t with the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics?
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There was never a plan to lower your grocery prices.
Florida’s move on vaccine mandates will lead to avoidable illnesses and deaths.
Guys, I’m starting to think he may not be trying to make America great again.
New in PN: @itsafronomics.bsky.social on why Trump's attack on Lisa Cook is an attack on Black women & Black economists "In a time where there are attempts to erase the contributions of Black people & more specifically Black women from the history books, her leadership is needed now more than ever"
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with one of his own states. This is completely unhinged.
🚨 A FELON in the Oval Office. 💀 A PUPPY KILLER at DHS. 🚫 An ANTIVAX EX-ADDICT at HHS. ❌ An ILLITERATE running Education. 🥴 A DRUNK in charge of Defense. 🇷🇺🕵️ A RUSSIAN ASSET as DNI. ⚡💥 This isn’t politics. This is the COLLAPSE of governance in real time. 💥⚡
I think it’s to keep people away from schools and teachers to tamp down critical thinking and to isolate people from community.
“Trump had nothing to do with Epstein” “Trump was a confidential informant that helped take Epstein down” “Releasing the Epstein files will destroy the Democrats” Then why the fuck is Trump threatening to primary the Republicans who are trying to release them?
Kamala was not on the list nor would she have had a wacko secretary of health and human services or Attorney General who would have put the USA in jeopardy.
it is always worth remembering that vance made a conscious decision to be a person of low character. he has eagerly contorted himself into evil for the sake of what amounts to a whiff of power.
Honest question: why pull vaccines. Why kill the peoples they need for their farms and factories? What is their ultimate goal?
Heritage Foundation !
The better question is whether working people can exist in the city they built.
The WH threatening any Republican that signs the Epstein discharge petition. It’s 100 percent clear Trump is covering up criminal child sex trafficking
So much greatness.
Reminder: congresspeople, we can’t go to war unless you say so, and this cia and palantir operation is the same playbook that made Iran contra, but on steroids. You have the power to stop this criminal madman.
There is no democratic justification for withholding these files. This is a coverup.
I’ve spent a good chunk of my career relying on American science and engineering to keep me alive. Yesterday, RFK Jr. testified at the U.S. Senate Finance Committee. It was sad to see him try to destroy the life’s work of so many American scientists. He shouldn’t be in this job.
Branding failure 101 — is costly, is not accurate and makes us look pointlessly insane www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Priorities.
Nothing says, "Hey international companies, bring your manufacturing to the US" like arresting 475 workers at a Hyundai (70% of whom are South Korean).
As your Governor, I won’t stop fighting to defend your reproductive freedom.
CHICAGO!!! We’re out protesting at the Broadview Detention Center (1930 Beach St) where ICE is detaining and deporting our neighbors. We’ve scared them off once today. Come by and help us do it again.
Mostly Stephen Miller. I’m still trying to figure out what happened to Trump last week. He’s back to doing some of his tweets himself, but he clearly went like 3 days without dictating any of them.
Keep going! You're doing great!
Reminder: At the start of his legal career, RFK Jr. failed the bar, was forced out as a D.A., and got arrested for heroin. Without the Kennedy name, that story ends there.
Gov. Pritzker enlists the public's help: "What we've asked is that people pull out their iPhone or their Android phone and film what they're seeing. Take a video of everything so see so that we can know if, in fact, laws are being broken by these federal officials coming into our state."
Changing the name of the Department of Defense will cost billions.We could build units for all unhoused veterans. Or give service members a pay raise so 35K active duty members wouldn’t have to rely on food stamps. Or… or… or…
A quick word about the new Downton Abbey.
🚨CHICAGO—Emergency Protest Plan
I really don’t know what was so damn “concerning” about Joe Biden when this MFer is out there sounding like an escaped Mental patient on meth every fucking day.
That's his whole thing. He wants to be cool so bad, but he's not and he never will be. He's a creepy pedophile con man. Nobody likes him.
A great explainer about what the law says regarding sending un-federalized troops to Illinois from Texas. open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...
National media: Are *you* ready to start asking this question - every day?
Trump: I’m anti-war MAGA: yay he’s the president of peace! Trump: we’re going to rename the Department of Defense the Department of War MAGA: yay Department of War! Trump: I’m going to make things cost more so I can pay for tax breaks for my rich friends MAGA: yay tariffs!
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
Bravo!
Pritzker: "We've gathered information from unauthorized, patriotic officials inside the government and from-sourced reporters about Donald Trump's plan, which is to deploy armed military personnel to the streets of Chicago."
you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
🗳️Vote All Republicans Out!🗳️
The news cycle continues to feel like marinating in sewage
It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
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RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
Kennedy must be removed from office. He has already caused a catastrophe at HHS and the CDC. I strongly suspect that he is about to use data manipulated by unscrupulous and unqualified individuals to attempt to falsely show that vaccines are in some way a net harm. He simply must be stopped.
Thank you on this labor day!!
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
Right now, no Republican in a swing district can hold a town hall because everyone in their district is showing up to scream at them. Democrats have a clear message: Republicans are cutting healthcare and jacking up the cost of living. It does not bode well for them heading into 2026.
Impeach inquiry of Trump for sex crimes. That will stop him from pardoning Maxwell
It’s time for these victims receive justice. It’s time for Trump to stop protecting the rich & powerful & to start telling the truth. It’s also time for Republicans in Congress to find the courage to sign the discharge petition that would force a vote to release the Epstein files. (2/2)
We’re back in session after Speaker Johnson let us out early at the end of July, feeling the pressure from our subpoenas for the Epstein files. Today, @oversightdemocrats.house.gov sat down with survivors who endured horrific abuse. What we heard was beyond disturbing. (1/2)
Susan Collins should actually be *concerned*. I'm not sure if Maine wants this, but I've been waiting to hear someone tell everyone who Collins is for more than a decade.
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
This hits harder than when I saw this movie the first time. #CaptainAmerica
*stares into the abyss*
WILL THERE BE A SHUTDOWN? Every fall there’s a government shutdown warning. This time it could happen. By @jennifershutt.bsky.social for @statesnewsroom.com DC www.newsfromthestates.com/article/ever...
The common denominator in every place where birth rates are dropping is women’s increased access to education.
Schummer with his "strongly" worded letter with 8 "strong" questions can take HIS WEAK ASS out of the Senate and maybe we can replace him with a strong woman with bigger balls. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dijM...
BREAKING: The Pentagon has authorized up to 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges. This is a blatant expansion of military power into a civilian judicial process, a dangerous erosion of the separation between the two. Every day, we inch closer to fascism.
Why would someone in this administration sign off on Ghislaine Maxwell being moved to a minimum-security prison?
"When did we become a country where it's okay for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything – especially something we don't want? Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation – that we treat this as normal?" Gov. JB Pritzker
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?"
The House Oversight Committee will be holding a closed-door roundtable tomorrow (Tuesday) to hear from Jeffrey Epstein's survivors, says Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.).
A guy who bragged about peeping on teenage girls is giving a prize to a guy who tried to have sex with a teenage girl.
Happy to take the birthrate people seriously the second one of them is like omg, have you seen the black infant mortality death rate? We’re losing out on so many lovely black babies!
It's so weird how Greenwald and Nate Silver and the like—who aren't even here—keep insisting that Bluesky is pro-DNC, when I've yet to see anyone here ever say anything nice about the DNC at all. Also, evaporating? Lol. Bluesky now sends WAY more traffic to @techdirt.com than Twitter *ever* did.
"The GOP is signing on to mass murder of children based on the novel theories of a man who has no party ties except a single Trump endorsement. It is a measure of the party’s utter hollowness, brokenness, and evil that even in this case, it can barely find the resources to demur."
The move comes after the Justice Department last week made changes to who could qualify as a temporary immigration judge —effectively lowering the requirements and removing the need to have prior immigration experience. n.pr/41v8FAb
Pritzker: "He has no idea what's he's talking about. There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops. He is insulting the people of Chicago by calling our home a hellhole, and anyone that takes his word at face value is insulting Chicagoans too."
The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to: •admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states •abolish ICE •grant citizenship to any immigrant •disband the 5th Circuit •expand the Supreme Court Seriously: Why the hell not?
Nongovernmental groups like the League of Women Voters are now barred from registering new voters at naturalization ceremonies, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced. n.pr/4g7YKqg
So they re-released most of the same shit they gave the GOP binder crew in February? Color me shocked. Never thought I’d say this, but I’m with Massie. Release the rest of the damn Epstein files, not this cherry-picked bullshit.
This is how you do it folks: gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com/gov-pritzker...
I don't think they are going 3mph. I walk 2.3 mph on my walking pad and 3 mph is pretty quick.
It’s corruption, plain and simple.
What ever happened to "States Rights!"
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When is this abomination going to be held accountable for his lies? 🤥😡👇🏼
Pritzker: When did we become a country where it's okay for the president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything, especially something we don't want? Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?
30 cases of voter fraud annually, and the GOP passes 104 voter suppression laws. 47,000 gun deaths a year, and the GOP does absolutely NOTHING.
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
As many as 100 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and other victims of sexual abuse are expected to attend a rally Wednesday in Washington, D.C. as a bipartisan Congressional effort gains steam to force the U.S. Department of Justice to make public its controversial files on the disgraced sex trafficker.
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
We were taught to fear communism & socialism but Christian Nationalism wasn’t even on the radar. Genius.
What in the ever loving fuck is going on here
It's not mental illness or video games. It's the guns.
This is why I call COVID an airborne heart attack virus. After my 2nd COVID infection, I started having heart pain while pushing my toddler in their stroller. Before I turned 40. I’m an ER doctor. I know what “heart pain” sounds like. It was terrifying to experience it so young.
We all know the answer to this. Prositutes you pay to leave. Gold diggers you pay to keep around. It's why Melania keeps renegotiating her prenup.
Over 300 MILLION American citizen's files stolen by DOGE. Why can't 1 person with access steal the EPSTEIN Files? #LEAKtheEPSTEIN_Files