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Additional evidence that these men were simply murdered in cold blood. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...
Double standards.
Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
What a mess.
Thank you, Senator Warren.
This administration’s DOJ is not trustworthy.
HAPPENING NOW: The Trump administration withdraws its claim that parents of the Guatemalan children it tried to send back last month had requested their return. DOJ says it has no basis for that claim now in light of contradictory info provided by the Guatemalan government.
You can condemn murder and political violence without whitewashing Charlie Kirk's shameful history of hate, racism, white nationalism and promotion of dangerous conspiracies that radicalized Trump supporters to violence. You can do both.
None of this would have happened on any day if virtually anyone other than Donald Trump were president.
One day after the Supreme Court lifted the ban on racial profiling, federal agents swarmed a car in Van Nuys. Four masked agents with guns drawn yanked people out, slammed them to the ground, and pointed a weapon at a pregnant woman. There is no justification for this. None.
At least 19 Russian drones crossed into Polish air space last night. This was not an accidental breach or a mistake.
Will Trump ever pay the judgement?
Justice Kavanaugh filed an opinion today telling Justice Sotomayor that it’s “common sense” that a Latina in the U.S. might not be here legally. That’s a deep, deep low point in Supreme Court history—disgraceful. supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf…
Today it was confirmed that the president told the world's most infamous pedophile and child sex trafficker: "We have certain things in common." For any other president, it would be the biggest scandal of their lives, possibly career-ending. For Trump, it's just Monday.
The instinct to fact check White House claims that the signature on the letter is not Donald's is how they win. It's how they move this into the realm of two competing truths. Just mock them when they make those claims.
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Trump was relentlessly booed at the U.S. Open men’s final in New York City.
Trump mercilessly booed at the US Open final. Love this for him
No solidarity. Reporters let Trump talk this way to a woman reporter and then clamor to get their own question answered. He used to do it to April Ryan, Yamiche Alcindor and Abby Phillip. And that’s why he controls media. No solidarity.
My collaboration with Ivan Ehlers for the @latimes.com
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File this in the "systematic problems with immigration law" box. The Victorian-era "Crimes involving moral turpitude" concept has been part of US immigration law for over a century, and it holds that any fraud crime (including passing a $25 bad check) can be grounds for deportation or exclusion.
The next national NO KINGS event is OCTOBER 18. Mark your calendar and tell all your friends. Start planning your outfits and signs and bring a drum to beat and make noise. Plan to be LOUD. Reach out to a local 50501 or partner organizations to get involved or to plan your own event. We need you!
Kegseth is a tool.
This Administration is cruel and shameful.
If writing one bad check a decade ago is “moral turpitude” then I have some deeply troubling news about the President of the United States
As I was saying….https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/09/07/trump-epstein-johnson-fbi/?utm_campaign=wp_main
“Why the fuck are you talking to the president about me? Fuck you. I’m gonna punch you in your fucking face... I’m going to fucking beat your ass." -- Our Treasury Secretary, speaking to our Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency www.politico.com/news/magazin...
The Trump admin has a new propaganda video claiming that DHS is "safeguarding our culture and shared values." Micah Bock, the Trump appointee in the video, was accused in college of rubbing his erection against a sleeping woman and claiming she was "asking for it." h/t @jasonpaladino.bsky.social.
NEW: MSW Media and the @meidastouch.com network have a big announcement! muellershewrote.substack.com/p/new-meidas...
The Trump administration is canceling the DOT’s rule to get passengers compensation for extreme airline delays - just the latest example of them siding with corporations and against customers.
I don’t care if you’re a Democrat, Republican, or independent—if you’re protecting predators instead of survivors, you don’t deserve a seat in Congress. Our oath is to the Constitution and to the people, not the powerful.
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Clearly there needs to be a class action suit against a state policy that will cripple and kill citizens. Hopefully a criminal case can also be prosecuted to hold those responsible accountable.
WELKER: Trump said tariffs were gonna spark a manufacturing renaissance but since he announced them the US has lost 42k manufacturing jobs. Is that proof tariffs are failing? BESSENT: We can't snap our fingers & have factories built W: The economy added nearly 500k manufacturing jobs under Biden
It looks like Trump stopped the West Point Military Academy from giving Tom Hanks an award because Hanks doesn’t support Trump. Trump is such a petty little bitch. www.npr.org/2025/09/06/n...
But guess what time the government began notifying the children’s attorneys about their removal to Guatemala? IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT OVER LABOR DAY WEEKEND, WHEN THE CHILDREN WERE BEING PULLED OUT OF BED TO GET ON PLANES 4/ bsky.app/profile/anna...
Now, keep in mind, ORR sent these notices *AFTER THEY ALREADY DETERMINED THAT THE CHILDREN MET THE CRITERIA* Meaning, in other words, that ORR expected attorneys to "affirmatively protest" the child's reunification w/ a parent in Guatemala BEFORE THEY EVEN KNEW ABOUT IT bsky.app/profile/anna...
rhetoric alone from hostile nations has led to consequences ranging from diplomatic isolation to military deterrence. This administration should be well aware that Americans will always stand ready to protect our nation from all threats, both foreign and domestic.
Wow. New NBC poll finds 78% support vaccines, including 72% of independents and 67% of Republicans. As I keep trying to argue, Democrats should polarize the shit out of the vaccine/public health debate. Make people take sides. It will split Republicans and MAGA. See this:
The VP is as cruel as his boss.
This is a damning anecdote from Rep Jim McGovern. He tells me that during debate over Trump's big budget bill, House Rs privately admitted to him that it would screw over their own constituents, yet they had to vote for it anyway. Read all of it. He wrecks them: newrepublic.com/article/1999...
"'I'd respect you more if you told me you actually believe in this crap and that's why you were supporting the bill. But to tell me you don't believe in this stuff, you think it's going to hurt your own constituents, and vote for it anyway, that's cowardice.'"
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Stealth jets moved to Puerto Rico during hurricane season. 🙄
Bill Pulte ended up getting his own dad busted.
Hyundai would like a word. 😁
"It has nothing to do with fighting crime." Illinois Governor Pritzker believes the Trump administration's use of ICE enforcement and National Guard is a pretense for interference in the 2026 and 2028 elections.
Blumenthal: They’ve exhausted the 120 days for Alina Habba, and so they’ve tried to make her acting US Attorney. But the statutes simply don’t authorize that. A judge has concluded she is without authority for any of the actions she’s taken. Everything she’s done could be challenged.
I have read Trump’s “war department” EO. This is nothing. He changed nothing. He added pretend secondary titles with no power under the law. He will make the government spend hundreds of millions for vanity labeling purposes. If you’re in the media and you don’t harp on that, you’re failing.
The Speaker of the House has learned that the President worked for decades behind the scenes on a secret strike force to take down the world's most notorious pedophile. He planned the announcement for maximum impact: responding to a guy yelling at him in a hallway with at 5:30 p.m. on a Friday.
This @washingtonpost.com editorial doesn’t make it past the second paragraph without a glaring (and telling) factual error. President Washington didn’t create the War Department in 1789; *Congress* did: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
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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."
I'm very grateful to everyone who shared and responded to this post. With permission from my friend, we are now raising money for his small business to help address ICE's ongoing threat to him and his employees. We're close to our goal if you can chip in a little! gofund.me/622c80403
“The most disrespected person in America is the Black woman.” - Malcolm X
Trump wants to replace doctors with AI to determine whether Medicare patients get the care they need. A machine will have the ability to override a licensed doctor to deny care in order to increase profits. Make no mistake, this is a direct attack on Medicare.
Mamdani has raised the max he’s allowed to spend. So he’s created this brilliant ad.
He’s a tool.
So much greatness.
This story is WILD. Trump sent Seal Team 6 into North Korea to plant a listening device. The entire thing went sideways within minutes of landing when they noticed a fishing boat near the beach. They killed everyone on board, sunk the bodies to cover their tracks, and fled. Congress was never told.
Today we learned that in June the US economy lost jobs for the first time since 2020. We haven’t seen this kind of net job loss since - well, since the last time Trump was in charge.
Why are either of them spitting in the first place?! 🙄
Disrespectful indeed.
"Donald Trump and his Republican cronies love to put Democrats in the position of crying, 'You can’t do that.' It’s time to reverse that trend. Make Donald Trump run to the courts to try to stop the Democrats’ sweeping agenda." -LP Senior Advisor Stuart Stevens
Spencer Kuvin, Epstein's victims' lawyer, says the FBI interviewed 40+ girls, some just 14, and prepared a 54-count indictment. Then came the secret plea deal that let Epstein walk. Those interviews are in the files. Kuvin says Alan Dershowitz scoured the girls' MySpace pages to smear them as liars.
NEW: The Trump admin may be planning to remove more unaccompanied noncitizen children from the US this weekend, this time from a different country, after its stalled attempt to remove Guatemalan children, says the National Immigration Law Center @nilc.org. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
SCOOP: Three Trump Cabinet Members Have Multiple Primary-Residence Mortgages @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @justinelliott.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
In 1900, nearly 1 in 5 children in America died before age five. Vaccines changed that. But Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lies are fueling a public health catastrophe. People will get sick. People will die. Science saves lives—misinformation kills.
Our billionaire President put an airline lobbyist in charge of the Department of Transportation. So no, this is not a surprise.
Pritzker: Trump seems a little obsessed with me and with Chicago — maybe he’s got Pritzker derangement syndrome.
We need an HHS Secretary who respects science and does not make policy based on conspiracy theories. Vaccines are safe and effective. Kennedy is threatening the health of our kids and all Americans. He must resign.
PBD podcast: Pam Bondi, you lied to us. You're the highest law enforcement. What, you think we're stupid? You guys are freaking lying. So, obviously, the people that are involved are still circling around like vultures going, 'don't do that.' It drives me bananas.
Pritzker: It appears they are amassing ICE officers… It’s been reported that about 300 officers are planning to come in and do what they did in LA — terrorize neighborhoods and cause mayhem. Their plan is to create enough chaos on the ground that troops will have to be called in
JUST IN: DC attorney general sues the Trump administration to rescind Trump's troop deployment, calling it an infringement on civil liberties and a violation of Posse Comitatus. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
RFK JR: We're not going to recommend a product for which there's no clinical data for that indication—is that what I should be doing? Warren: What you should be doing is honoring your promise that you made when you were looking to get confirmed in this job.
Senator Sanders has receipts, and did not come to play.
Harvard University scored an important win against the Trump administration, as a federal judge ruled the government acted illegally when it blocked billions of dollars in research funding.
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Attention students: Save the date to apply to be a #NOAAScholar!
It was only a matter of time before we'd see both stories like this and passages like footnote 9 in Judge Burroughs' ruling yesterday in the Harvard case. It's one thing to be bound by #SCOTUS; it's another thing to respect what the justices are doing. The decline of the latter is a five-alarm fire.
Ossoff: Absolutely RFK JR should resign. He should have never been confirmed to begin with. He is utterly unqualified. This is someone who has embraced every piece of quackery and pseudoscience that he’s come across.
There’s a reason the White House is pushing hard against this discharge petition. I’m signing so that the truth comes out. The survivors of Epstein’s abuse—and the American people—deserve answers.
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We won!! “Defendants used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities … Their actions have jeopardized decades of research and the welfare of all those who could stand to benefit from that research.”
Mehmet Oz: "In my agency we spend about $1.7 trillion. The major driver of that expense is the health of the American people not being good. If you chronic illness, you end up causing massive problems."
When you stand up and fight; sometimes you lose and sometimes you win. But do you know what happens if you don't fight at all? Nothing.
