I’m aware. I just don’t think he can sell it. He’s cringe AF & I don’t think he’ll be able to hold Congress & institutions hostage effectively. His own side can’t stand him.
1. If you vote for Caligula, don’t expect Cicero. 2. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t understand how anything works. 3. You’re not obligated to underwrite your own oppression. 4. Fashionably anti-fash. 5. I don’t let anything sink in.
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I’m aware. I just don’t think he can sell it. He’s cringe AF & I don’t think he’ll be able to hold Congress & institutions hostage effectively. His own side can’t stand him.
Let’s be our own country.
Old dogs, be tricks, etc. plus, he stopped developing before he hit double digits.
Word.
Not today, Satan‼️ Got this garbage in the mail a few days ago. Republicans trying to trick California voters into voting NO on Prop 50. Suddenly they care about “democracy”? Please. Vote YES on Prop 50. Don’t let the cheaters write the rules.
Are Floridians every going to object to burning their tax dollars on the altar of Governor DeSpiteful’s endless ideological crusades & performative cruelty?
SAAAAAAAAAAAME!!!
Good to see a bipartisan group of former CDC Directors raise alarms in the NY Times about RFK Jr. dismantling US public health. And I can’t help but feel frustrated that they didn’t do this last year when public health was on the ballot—nor did NYT frame it that way—when we had a chance to stop it.
Begs the question: if GOP weren’t intentionally dismantling the cultural, economic, intellectual, legal, social & technological preeminence of the U.S., what else could possibly explain their complicity in this national suicide?
Also, while JD has similarly evil designs, he has waaaaay less special sauce to implement them.
This is quite brilliant analysis.
That’ll be his next book. About Biden.
This. They must go. Removing them must become a top Congressional priority or the deaths they cause will be on the hands of every member of Congress...and lest they think there be no consequences, those deaths will be mounting up by the time of next year's election.
I’m going to get to the bottom of this shade today. As God as my witness, I will.
🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
I think its time to discuss a new constitutional convention.
Trump/RFK are decapitating our public health system, a pillar of American greatness. So Dem Govs should scour every corner of the law for creative new ways to defend their people from this madness. Dems should polarize this debate to the max. Thoughts on this here: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
I was already pretty done with the news media but seeing clips yesterday from the Sunday shows where an anchor is like “but what if living in a Police State does reduce car jackings? Why would you be against that?” probably was the end
This text is quoted accurately. It is also a clarifying lie. Totalitarian governments know that normal people do not have time or resources to research every health, economic, or security issue. Their project of attacking all expertise is a project of seizing trust & thus power for themselves.
A DOGE whistleblower revealed that employees uploaded a Social Security database—containing full names, dates of birth, and addresses of hundreds of millions of Americans— to a cloud server without “independent security or oversight," creating “enormous vulnerabilities" to hackers. trib.al/FDTWG43
80 years of slowly-accumulated soft power given away for nothing in 8 months.
Did you know in 1890 manufacturing employees worked on average 100 hours a week? It would be decades before the eight-hour workday became real. It took labor activists and labor unions to turn the cry for change into policy and practice. www.americaamerica.news/p/a-labor-da...
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
Look, I just want a president who isn't at war with everyone and everything, everyday - but if he wants war, I expect the people who represent me in government to make it their business to fight it, vigorously, competently and unceasingly. Those are my thoughts on politics today in a nutshell.
Dear ever-loving Christ. And I’m sure she wasn’t even challenged. L.A. would be in much better shape if we didn’t have to have our progress hindered & our money stolen to fund GOP & Red State shenanigans.
This thought surfaces in my consciousness multiple times a day.
Oh, to be sure. Just the nadir of absolutely every imaginable metric. Which makes me alternately sick with rage and overcome with despair.
I don’t feel we should limit ourselves to American history to describe the ignominious demise of Little Marco. May be the humiliation of the millenium, and the millenium is young. Time will tell.
Thank God. Language matters. And, no, not academic language that scares the Right because it contains multi syllabic words and abstract conceptualizations. But because every we time we adopt their language, we’re helping them. Pritzker is doing it right.
"No one in the administration – the president or anybody under him – has called anyone in my administration or me – have not called the city of Chicago or anyone else. So it's clear that, in secret, they're are planning this – well, it's an invasion with US troops." Gov. JB Pritzker
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We need to withhold funds.
In Los Angeles, this should be done everywhere. The pics of Americans snatched by ICE Gestapo is being projected on the side of a detention center in Los Angeles. #iceout #losangeles #california
Wishin’ and hopin’ and thinkin’ and prayin’ 🎶🎵 🎵 Plannin’ and dreamin’ each night of his har-ar-arms 🎶 🎶 That tomorrow he will bite the far-ar-arm
He looks like what he is: a giant douchebag with a tiny [ahem] self-concept.
Indeed. Would that HuffPo & Bolton had banged these drums before we gave malevolent know-nothing power to destroy civilization. Would have been better. but Biden was old & there were bad books to hawk. So many have failed so epically when they could have made a difference. Now it no longer matters.
The government has argued that the children are simply being reunited with their parents. But Sooknanan reads from a series of declarations that seem inconsistent with that claim.
Judge Sooknanan isn't buying it... The plaintiffs are telling me, she says, that the children do not want to go back to Guatemala, that no request has been made, and that they fear returning to Guatemala, and may be subject to harm
Drew “Thirty Pieces of Silver” Ensign once again defends the indefensible & asserts government’s prerogative to torment & torture innocents for sport & Stephen Miller’s favor.
Not just thrive. This admin punishes intelligence, creativity & scholarship. It’s vile. Good for the researchers, terrible for U.S. Are Trump voters proud of this? Does it ease their relentless insecurities & resentments? Because they, too, will pay the costs of this brain drain.
Once gone, they won’t return. The brains go where they are allowed to thrive. www.aau.edu/key-issues/r...
Do. It.
One day, they’ll claim they really wanted to report truth but were prevented from doing so by nameless corporate overlords. You can’t call yourself “free” press when you are *not free* to report facts. This is individual choice by each reporter that, in aggregate, amounts to conspiracy to gaslight.
Also, appeasement doesn’t work. I hope Newsom makes good on threat to withhold fed taxes. CA could deal w/high cost of living much better if we weren’t forced to keep “low-tax” Red States afloat w/our $$. They’re low-tax bc we foot bill. I do not consent to taxation w/o representation.
These are my people.
Yes. I agree with you. And I think you should notify your town that you are now mayor.
But, professor, she is a *very serious journalist* asking all of the *tough questions* (when it poses no risk to her career or network). Are you suggesting she is disingenuous? That just can’t be. Scratching my head…
Raddatz asks how anyone could object to the National Guard in DC because carjackings are down 87%. Brilliant. If they hermetically sealed all DC residents inside their homes, they could get that stat down to nothing at all. Should we do that, Martha?
This is fantasy. Please, I am begging elected Dems, PLEASE stop churning out stale talking points that ignore reality. We are living, undefended, in Hell on Earth. That is where you need to be; that is where you must focus.
But therein lies power, no? If we don’t accept, states can nullify (as grand juries are already doing). That should be strategy. SCOTUS has torched whatever thin credibility it had. I don’t feel inclined to adhere to its musings on imaginary constitution they consult to give a madman superpowers.
ABC/Disney keep paying tribute to their petulant puppet master in the WH. This time in the form of feigned naïveté on the part of reporter-turned-pink-dress-lady.
Yes, we need you to show up to talk to us. More importantly, we need you to show up to defend our liberties & our institutions, which are under massive assault every minute of every day. We need you to fight for us & our country.
REP. BUDDY CARTER: We want to make sure that children are protected from trans and that we keep men out of girls' locker rooms REP. WESLEY BELL: So we're going back to attacking trans folks ... let's talk about what's actually happening here
"Perhaps the most important thing to understand about Trump’s mobster state capitalism is that it isn’t about economic efficiency or stimulating growth, let alone a vision of how the economy works and what it should create. It’s about *power*, pure and simple."
That’s true. But we know what the Constitution says, even if they try to distort. This is not tenable for much longer. I don’t know what will happen, but I know I’m done with tyranny and rigged systems of power.
This is so dystopian, I can’t even wrap my head around it.
A President Harris would never have proposed this.
15. They couldn't tell that story. No one was listening, because no one could hear it. Trump’s attack ads worked in tandem with thousands of media sites, including the one formerly known as Twitter, that have been operating around the clock since 2020, often in parallel with the DC press corps.
2. So Democratic Party critics like Third Way are basing their criticism not on what Harris said but on what Trump said she said, as they are accepting as true the allegations of the Republicans against the Democrats.
It is clear, actually. He doesn’t have any authority whatsoever to do this.
“I have faith in people outside of government. The professional organizations, doctors, nurses, and other providers—and also the parents…So I’m hopeful in that sense. I’m just not necessarily hopeful that the federal government is going to be the answer anymore…” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
Goodnight, kindred spirits. I really hope we don’t die before we have a chance to hold the fascists accountable. Amen.
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
Because we are among the world's biggest human rights violators now. And allied with not one but two ajudicated war criminals. Well done, maga. You ended the empire.
New in PN: Making Slavery Great Again "Without irony or shame — and to absolve their followers of any guilt or responsibility — Trump wants to whitewash America’s original sin."
Same.
ICYMI — JUDGE: “This case represents the consequences of a decades long drumbeat of anti-immigrant sentiment and misinformation being broadcast & broadcast & broadcast…” 2 immigrants shot in Washington, gunman sentenced in June. Barely even a story. 🤷🏻♂️ www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/g...
I have this conversation multiple times a week with students. No point in “doing” HW if the machine does your thinking & processing. You learn nothing & lose opportunity for cognitive development & sharpening of critical thinking skills.
www.threads.com/@amlfighter6... We have to remember people can change. Watch it all the way through.
The Social Security Administration official who exposed that the Department of Government Efficiency had left millions of Americans’ personal data vulnerable says he has been forced to resign due to retaliation. Charles Borges, who served as the SSA’s chief data officer, told
Harming innocent people who make the world a better place as a spectator sport. It’s gross. But Biden was old and people had nose rings, so there was no other choice, apparently, than to become a nation of sadists.
We know. We pay for it. And pay for it and pay for it and pay for it.
My reporting uncovered the existence of DoJ training videos instructing FBI personnel on how to flag Trump’s name in the Epstein files. I’m suing to get the videos under FOIA. substack.com/@muellershew...
Jones: I would say to my colleagues who serve in government—keep your thoughts and prayers, keep your tweets. If you want to address gun violence, you don't need to tweet. What you need is a mirror. You have the power to change things.
Seconded. It feels like it can’t be real. But it is. Breaks my heart every damn day.
Over 300 MILLION American citizen's files stolen by DOGE. Why can't 1 person with access steal the EPSTEIN Files? #LEAKtheEPSTEIN_Files
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
My kind of town…
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
It’ll never happen. They had a plan & they’ve implemented it. Only way we ever see accountability is if GOP radically changes course & decides to maintain the republic instead of violently dismantling it.
Unbelievably bad. “The CDC you knew is over. Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
DOGE wasn’t a cost-cutting venture. It was a data mining operation for private interests. Trump opened the gates to the castle from inside for invaders with bad and greedy intent to plunder and exploit.
Stuart Stevens, currently to the left of most democratic leaders on the Hill
I did! I am taking names. My list is long.
Indeed.
He isn’t. And I will never. I will, truly, die on that hill (though I hope that won’t be necessary; I have kids & I’d like to see them into adulthood).
Gotcha. Yeah. Would be cool if fake cheating weren’t entertained as a story and real cheating were investigated as such. Is that what you mean?
I’m not sure I follow, but I am sure we are aligned in our convictions & that is more than enough for me. May justice have the final word sometime in the not too distant future.
[heaving sigh]
He lied and our intrepid media helped him do it. This country democratically elected to commit economic, legal, political & social suicide. No patience for those acting stunned. They telegraphed every horrible facet of their diabolical plan. Americans *chose* not to believe them.
Some of us comprehended last summer when HF came out & said they intended to subdue dissidents w/violence. Media yawned & aired another faux-scandalized “Can You Believe Biden Continues to Be Old When That’s Such a Political Loser for Him?!” I feel so betrayed on every level by my fellow citizens.
There is no righting this ship. Let us know when the sclerotic Dems in Congress move out of fantasyland & rejoin us here in Hell on Earth. Then we can talk about what to do. For now, you are speaking the language of someone utterly detached from reality.
So not only do churches NOT have to pay taxes, they're going to get YOUR tax dollars to boot. This seems like oh, I don't know, government establishing a religion in violation of the First Amendment?
They just keep letting him break the law. At what point do Blue States decide we’re done living under a tyrannical ruler we never consented to?