What else do you all need
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That is…uh, not a drawing of an adult woman. *shudder*
Don’t say “Dems aren’t doing anything.” There’s just little attention to the courage of these Missouri Dems resisting the extreme gerrymandering of Republicans desigmed to increase Republican numbers in the House. www.kfvs12.com/2025/09/05/m...
This undersells what insurance exchange policyholders will feel if Congress doesn't act. The 18 percent increase is on the raw cost of insurance. But many will also lose enhanced subsidies that expire at the end of December. Those people will feel an average increase of *more than 75%.*
There it is.
We're gonna need Nuremberg Trials when this shit is over.
The shooter was the exact kind of extremist the GOP pretends doesn’t exist, while arming them to the teeth. substack.com/home/post/p-...
"You are a hazard to the health of the American people." Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) questions HHS RFK Jr. during Senate testimony. WATCH: www.youtube.com/live/O3MORmB...
Whether or not he committed sexual crimes, #JohnPaulson certainly enabled them, and is helping cover them up by shoveling obscene amounts of $ at pedophiles. Shine the light on him, and tell him stop protecting child rapists! #Justice4EpsteinSurvivors #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinCoverup
REMINDER: Trump and Republicans’ “no tax on tips” is a giant SCAM. It locks out countless tipped workers and expires in just two years. But the tax breaks they passed for their billionaire buddies? Those are permanent. www.newsweek.com/rep-pramila-...
Ummmm…. Who gonna tell him - they have already mangled the reputation of the court and it is in shameful tatters?
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
Today's column for @seattletimes.com: "But for many others, Katrina affirmed what they already knew: The color of your skin and the size of your bank account determined whether you could flee or were left to die, or whether you could rebuild or were displaced." #katrina
“Immigrant workers are our friends, neighbors, and loved ones – and they deserve to be here,” writes @tusk81.bsky.social. “...allowing families to continue building their lives here is simply the right thing to do.” On #LaborDay, we say clearly: immigration is good for America. 🇺🇸
When Tiffany Cross referred to WH adviser Stephen Miller as a “white supremacist,” apparently, people who don’t own dictionaries were outraged Fortunately, we found someone who can clarify things
“ILLEGALS” MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
I cannot even deal with this.
TEXAS: “Would I be required to carry my birth certificate to the restroom because I have short hair? Is there anything in it to protect people like me?” REP. ORR: “No. It protects biological females.” @jessicafortexas.bsky.social : “That’s what I am.” More: www.fox7austin.com/news/texas-h...
Trump and Dr. Oz want AI to decide which Medicare patients get care—and they're giving AI companies a profit-incentive to deny coverage. Everything about this is sick and wrong. Tell Congress to intervene NOW:
Cheaters shouldn’t prosper.
Absolutely
Harry Yoshikawa and his family were among nearly 2,000 Japanese Americans who moved from California to Colorado during a “voluntary evacuation” period that allowed them to avoid WWII incarceration—but, as Harry recalls here, this supposedly "voluntary" journey was not without its perils.
Pretty much.
Where are all the corporate media headlines demanding his resignation? Where are the all the assumptions that about specialists visiting the White House meaning the president is dying? They did this daily with Biden. Why not now? Are they covering for their cash cow? Are they paid to cover it up?
It’s back to school for some kids, but not for others. There will be empty desks in classrooms after schoolkids as young as six have been swept up and deported by the Trump regime: americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/back-to-sc...
Gregory Washington, George Mason University’s first Black president, will not be apologizing over diversity initiatives he's pursued since his hiring in 2020. Washington's lawyer says the Trump administration conducted an incomplete and haphazard investigation full of "gross mischaracterizations."
Teaching abt slavery doesn’t make America look horrible—slavery itself is what made America look horrible. Museums just have the receipts. johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/yes-he-hat...
I still don’t think we talk enough about the fact that Trump’s secret police has a larger budget than most countries’ militaries
“Stringer noted that real officers do not wear ski masks.”
“The released Epstein documents are largely thousands of pages of recycled content already made available to the public,” @summerlee.bsky.social says in a statement: summerlee.house.gov/newsroom/pre...
Donald Trump is attempting to manufacture a crisis, politicize Americans who serve in uniform, and continue abusing his power to distract from the pain he's causing families. We'll continue to follow the law, stand up for the sovereignty of our state, and protect Illinoisans.
He doesn’t have kids cancer charities to defraud… on to greener pasturess? 🧐
kudos to @eddiekimx.bsky.social who, whilst dealing with the lingering effects of pepper spray, walked to the office, changed his shirt and sat down to report this morning's events
Let me get this straight. Maxwell spent days meeting with the Justice Department and didn't implicate anyone. But she got moved to a minimum security prison anyway. So, what exactly was she rewarded for? This ought to be a scandal, but it seems like nobody cares.
The DC resistance isn’t manifesting this week as recognizable members of Congress marching up and down Pennsylvania Avenue with CNN cameras in tow, but as an array of ordinary DC residents documenting what’s happening in their neighborhoods and mobilizing pop-up actions.
Psst … They weren’t servants, they were slaves. Big difference. HUGE difference. Glad we cleared that up.
“A federal judge barred the DeSantis and Trump administrations from bringing new detainees to Alligator Alcatraz and demanded the state close out operations at the immigration detention facility within 60 days”
Turns out the absurd red envelope with cash in the potato chip bag to reporters at Mayor Adams campaign rallies wasn’t a one time thing. So, yeah. #ZohranForMayor www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/n...
Check this shit! Earlier today, ICE tried to break into private property in Lynwood, California — no judicial warrant, no authority. Acting like thugs, not federal agents. Spoiler alert: Lynwood does not play. This trio of goons got sent packing.
I can’t believe how insane this redistricting thing is. There is no Historical precedent for a president calling a governor and saying you need to get me five seats. We are now in a literal arms race for the House of Representatives. Trump knows what he’s doing is not popular and he knows this is….
The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social
More than 100 members of Seattle's Japanese American community gathered to urge officials to act on immigration enforcement policies and conditions at the NW ICE Processing Center. Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero reports here: soseaem.org/45Pv3FO #SeattleNews #Immigration
If you’re seeking immigration assistance, reach out to my district office. Dreamers and our immigrant communities deserve dignity and respect no matter what. www.mercedsunstar.com/news/article...
Again: statutory Bivens has to be on the to-do list. The failure to do it so far (& to fix QI) is inexcusable. As a bonus, there will be Republican votes for both, particularly if a Dem is in the White House. This is one of those things (they do exist) that are both good & can be bipartisan.
A reminder from Rick Steves: funding for public broadcasting amounted to $1.60 per American every year — but Republicans cut it, gutting local NPR and PBS stations. Listen to more of our conversation about public media cuts here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFl0...
“Ms. Bishop passed away during the course of this litigation, but her family and legal team continued to pursue justice on behalf of her estate and in her memory, with hopes of preventing similar treatment of incarcerated people living with HIV, including transgender people living with HIV.”
They say phones only make us miserable but I just got this news alert and laughed for a solid minute so who is to say
www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...
The use of national security rhetoric to justify mass incarceration today echoes the same logic that led to the incarceration of Japanese Americans. It is inconceivable that the US is once again building concentration camps, denying the lessons learned 80 years ago. www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...
Join us for a Day of Action to defend the truth of WWIl Japanese American incarceration history. Hear from incarceration survivors, community activists, and allies to honor our history and demand that this injustice never happens again. #ProtectEveryPark Saturday, August 23, 10am @ JANM Plaza
I am America. Mayflower descendant on my father's side, and of 20th century Finnish immigrants on my mother's side. And everything in between.
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
REPORTER: States administer elections, not federal authorities. So can you provide details about how the White House plan to eliminate mail voting? LEAVITT: The White House continues to work on this
They told us they were targeting "the worst of the worst," but they are going after delivery drivers and their bikes. This isn't about criminality or immigration; it's about intimidation.
Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night on the House floor after refusing to agree ‘to round-the-clock monitoring by state troopers’ www.keranews.org/texas-news/2...
FOX: What was the reaction among European leaders when you decided to call Putin during your meeting? TRUMP: I didn't do it in front of them. I thought that would be disrespectful to President Putin.
"Bad actors have, indeed, masqueraded as ICE agents … Various people have reportedly impersonated ICE agents to commit or attempt robbery in Pennsylvania, kidnapping in Florida and South Carolina, scams in California, sexual assault in North Carolina, rape in New York ...” #AbuseofPowerWatch
ISRAEL — “STOP BIBI’S WAR” GUARDIAN video of hundreds of thousands of Israelis protesting Netanyahu’s war and saying he needs to bring the hostages home
The only thing that will stop Trump is a grassroots movement using diverse tactics. (not just protests! We need boycotts, strikes, slowdowns, guerrilla art, disruptions, gumming the works from the inside, etc) from a cross-section of society. It’s on us. A few skeets here with resources: 1/x
New— Nazis with giant swastika flags marched in downtown Indianapolis on Saturday with two police escorts. They shouted “white power” and said to the woman who took this video (reshared here with her permission) “fuck you, n***** bitch.” Police did not intervene. I cannot find local news coverage.
A man understandably refused to hand over his ID or get out of the car for a bunch of masked thugs who refused to identify themselves. And when he drove away, they opened fire on him. This isn’t how you do any sort of enforcement when your goal is to uphold the law. This is gangsterism.
Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning. The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc
Look what Trump and Hegseth have already made our military look like. How long can we endure this shame?
Outside Dupont north metro
Exactly how life in America was largely unaffected by Nazi Germany.
This is what gerrymandering looks like. Photo via: Boone County Democrats.
By the way, if the police had just given me the 911 recording when I originally asked for it, it might have still been inside the retention window. The reason it's no longer available now is that the police department destroyed it.
By the time I've gotten the original police report, answer to a yes/no question, 911 recording, or whatever, it will be years out of date, no longer relevant, and basically useless. This is not good governance, and it certainly isn't accountability.
What an utter disgrace the meeting between war criminal Vladimir and felon Donald was. Such a distraction, such a performative sideshow. The decline of the United States continues. Release the Epstein files.
Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
This is unconscionable. And illegal.
I hope your community is never occupied like LA or DC. But if it is, you’ll quickly find that people don’t take kindly to having their city under federal control. And folks are just getting started. 📌 Protesters gathered near a checkpoint in the U Street corridor in Northwest Washington.
ICE conducting a show of force at the Japanese American National Museum.
Not long ago, the Trump administration was touting Washington’s declining violent crime rate. Now, with his abrupt reversal and declaration of a “crime emergency,” his repeated false alarms signal a clear pattern. Norm Eisen and Tom Joscelyn explain.
BREAKING: A federal appeals court affirmed that Louisiana's state legislative districts dilute the power of Black voters and must be redrawn.
It’s quite sickening.
As has been made clear before, the claim that everyone at Alligator Alcatraz has final orders of removals is just a straight up lie, point blank.
Opining about the male loneliness crisis while women are losing access to reproductive rights, the maternal mortality rate is rising, and women are being forced out of the workforce is a real choice. It is a choice to ignore the deaths of women to promote the perceived victimhood of men.
The Air Force and Navy are poised to cancel two nearly complete projects worth about $800 million because they want Salesforce and billionaire Peter Thiel's Palantir, to have a chance to win similar projects. The result could be a costly do-over. www.reuters.com/world/us/how...
🔥 Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social to Will Cain : "Do you know how many Republicans joined Dems in Congress to ban gerrymandering? All the Democrats voted for it. 0 Republicans voted for it. Spare me your both sides rhetoric."
This is OUTRAGEOUS. I wrote to the administration in February demanding information about U.S. Citizens who have been detained during raids, and I still haven’t received a response. Trump and ICE are out of control. We need answers. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
“Ms. Giuffre’s family … has decried Ms. Maxwell’s transfer as ‘the justice system failing victims right before our eyes. The American public should be outraged by the special treatment afforded to a pedophile and a criminally charged child sex offender.’”
Here’s @mehdirhasan.bsky.social asking the question we’ve been asking for a week The Sunday shows ignored it, and Hegseth just stood next to Trump for an hour and nobody asked
Mamdani seems to have the youth vote securely on his side. Cuomo appeals to tailors and seamstresses, many of whom are employed sewing buttons back on blouses.
Corporate landlords shouldn’t be using pricing algorithms to collude and raise your rent, period. This settlement prohibits the country’s largest landlord from doing this. But we must go further to stop price fixing that hurts millions of Americans. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
David Sakura was 6 years old when he was forcibly removed to the Puyallup Assembly Center and Minidoka concentration camp with his parents & younger siblings. He describes the traumatic impact of this experience on his 3yo brother: “I remember him crying constantly. My mother couldn’t console him.”
I encourage people to amplify this. SPD's refusal to answer basic media questions, and their policy of effectively denying all records requests, is outrageous.
Its really telling that these people are so WILLING to take positions they are clearly unqualified for. Healthy, normal people would know they will destroy their futures by being incompetent on a national stage.
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“.. DOGE increasingly looks like a giant joke as the initiative winds up saving essentially zero dollars for US taxpayers .” - Vital Knowledge @politico.com 🇺🇸 www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
The “law and order party” just let the 2nd most notorious living child trafficker be approved for work-release at nearby colleges.
More of this please
BREAKING WSJ: The Trump White House plans to conduct a far-reaching review of Smithsonian museum exhibitions, materials and operations ahead of America's 250th anniversary to ensure the museums align with "Trump's interpretation of American history." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
They gonna shoot cuz they surely ain’t gonna run…. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
To repeat: Israel is deliberately killing journalists after labeling them as "terrorists." Based solely on their being Arab / Palestinian. This is not just racist targeting. It's genocidal. Every single leader of that country needs to be dragged before the ICC. War criminals, the lot of them.
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.