So, the 34-felony convict liable for sexual assault will have awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to an adulterer (Limbaugh), an election fraud charged with 9 felonies (Giuliani), and a pedophile protector (Jim Jordan). The medal is now meaningless.
MO Gov Mike Kehoe is calling a special session to gerrymander the 5th District which encompasses Kansas City. He is specifically violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans any voting practice that denies or weakens the power of a racial minority to elect its preferred candidates.
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...
Labor Day isn’t just a day off—it’s a time to honor the workers who fought for our rights. Today, the American Dream is under threat from rising costs & Trump’s attacks on workers. I’m fighting for good-paying American jobs & a future that puts workers first.
We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.
They want to drag us back to the dark ages. Do not comply. Vaccines are still one of the crowning achievements of American science. "Trump’s creepy consigliere, Stephen Miller, told reporters that Kennedy is 'a crown jewel of this administration.'” Poppycock! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
Donald Trump can't win the 2026 midterms fair and square - so he's trying to cheat by calling up his cronies in red states and asking for seats. California: YOU have the power to stop him. Vote YES on Prop 50 to defend fair elections and STOP Trump's election rigging.
The shooter did not act alone. He was assisted by one president, 219 House members, 53 senators, and the NRA.
This week, this video keeps coming to mind. One IS too many. But, so are the excuses from MAGA. Stop saying: - illegals are violent when you ignore mass shootings - you’re pro-life - it’s mental health after cutting a trillion from Medicaid Do. Better. #VoteBlue youtube.com/shorts/V4B5P...
Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good. Your best is good enough. Annotated bibliography. Escaping the Cycle of Perfectionism www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...
TRUMP just now: “NEVER FELT BETTER IN MY LIFE” Are you guys buying this? Because I’m not. His account has posted over a dozen times in the last hour. Someone’s overcompensating for him. What are they hiding? We deserve proof of health, not just a grainy photo of a man looking like a stroke victim.
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DESCRIPTION: self-described alpha male, wearing body armor, assault rifle, and wraparound sunglasses because he’s “afraid of nothing.”
NEW: Man who wants Nobel Peace Prize creates Department of War.
Every authoritarian regime that embraced this aesthetic inflicted violence and chaos on its society
Jill Stein and Cornel West both disgust me — such goddamn, self-serving hypocrites.
Will Bunch hits the nail on the head again
Just as Democratic governors should pool their resources to bulk purchase vaccines that RFK opposes, they should coordinate their messaging, aggressively holding GOP to account for their new, risky health policies
Dumb people
Journalists ignored his well-documented history & wrote flattering articles about him. He’s doing the same shit he has for 40 YEARS. Did you actually think he’d stop being an anti-science profiteer? Of course not. Now he’s got the power and authority of the Federal government behind him. 2/
What’s wild to me: NOW, media outlets & medical organizations are “stunned” by the damage RFK Jr. is doing to CDC, other health agencies, & public health. Me & my colleagues have been screaming about him for years. Years. Even more so in the last year. We were called hyperbolic. 1/
Every voice matters immensely. This is our mission: help all citizens understand their responsibility
Trump’s “executive order” will be challenged in the courts and likely defeated. It is blatantly unconstitutional - as described. But everyone should be on notice that he is attempting to control America’s elections in an authoritarian manner.
Genocide AP - Israel declares Gaza’s largest city a combat zone as death toll surpasses 63,000 Israel declared Gaza’s largest city a combat zone and recovered the remains of two hostages on Friday as the army launched the start of a planned offensive that has drawn international condemnation.
If you don’t know about Heather Honey, you should. She’s a national embarrassment, virulent election denier and now in charge of election policies for the US government. www.propublica.org/article/heat...
“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group”
Of all the “honestly I never expected” things — Congress absolutely rolling over and abdicating its power to the White House — any White House — is one of the most shockingly unnecessary. It will not be remembered well in history, by either side, ironically. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
This is why Trump’s Big Ugly Bill increased ICE’s budget by $170.7 billion More than the military spending of most countries, and more than the US appropriated for the FBI, DEA, ATF and Marshals-combined Trump is amassing an army to employ against Americans in blue states And Illinois is up first
Trees can be replaced, but that takes time and effort. Dirtier air, soil erosion, habitat destruction … these are all irreversible in the short run, and cause lasting damage in the long run.
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
The BALLS these people have to say they defend women when they put an adjudicated sex offender and probable child molester in the White House who just made an unprecedented deal with a convicted sex offender and child molester. The absolute BALLS.
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.
I very much doubt it happened but if/when it does, the story will probably break in some ridiculous way, like a cabinet secretary accidentally posting it on Pinterest
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
This was transparent about RFK Jr from day zero. Millions of dopes think “well, that logic is brutal but effective,” when it’s brutal and INeffective. Letting diseases rip through the population—especially when it’s DOZENS of diseases all at once—doesn’t leave a strong and healthy population behind.
This part. Everyone should be taking notes from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social’s @mizzwelch.bsky.social
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Republicans used to be against federal government overreach—but now they're silent as Trump seems to be forming a personal paramilitary force.
Welch: Am American president talks to other American citizens like that, and propagandists come on TV and normalize this behavior. And nothing about this is normal. Nothing
Nearly two dozen states have passed laws regulating how tech companies collect data from our faces, eyes and voices. It comes as Congress has yet to pass any facial recognition technology.
Jonathan Alter - Extortionist-in-Chief Trump’s mob-style shakedown of colleges, networks, law firms, and businesses is the through line of the Trump era.
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JFC
I mean, nothing matters any more, but it's worth pointing out that preventing demagogic leaders from controlling the money supply was one of the *central issues in the American Revolution*.
You want to make everyone absolutely fucking hate all cops? This is how you do it. Don't FUCK with firefighters!
Economy/affordability
This should be a non-stop media campaign for the next three years. Stop running solely against Trump; he won't be on the ballot. Explain over and over again why unless you're a billionaire, Democrats are *always* better for your personal financial situation. The evidence is abundant. 🧵1/x
“FDA’s New Drug Approval AI Is Generating Fake Studies” Meanwhile, RFK Jr’s commission issued a report that was “later found to be filled w/ citations for fake studies … We still don’t know if the commission used Elsa [the FDA’s AI tool] to generate that report.” 7/23/25…1/ h/t @awkword.bsky.social
Democrats invested $400,000,000,000.00 in renewable energy when they passed the Inflation Reduction Act, now Donald Trump is burning that progress to the ground. Never tell me both sides are the same.
I don't know anything about these people but I was inherently skeptical of anyone picked by Trump and Kennedy to run the CDC. But that these other top officials - who made it this far - have quit is very, very ominous.
The MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) anti-vaccination conspiracy movement, led by RFK Jr., is in control of the U.S. government’s health agencies, including the CDC. MAHA is already causing health crises, and it will cause more in the coming months. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
This is very bad news. Louisiana won't even defend its own map in SCOTUS. It abandoned its own Black voters. Those of us committed to defending the VRA are now entirely on our own. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Hey is it good that FEMA is suspending employees that warned publicly that the agency isn't ready to manage disasters with the peak of hurricane season two weeks away
When Republicans were the out party they became the in party by falsely accusing Obama of doing what Trump is actually doing.
Trump's false claim here--about how "radical left globalists" (i.e. Soros) are the puppeteers who fund & organize civil rights protests--is the same basic story that the fascists of the 1950s and 60s told about the civil rights protests of that era. It's a familiar cocktail of racism & antisemitism.
The President of the United States is getting involved in the private employment contract of a comedian on television after the comedian criticized him.
Next up: Commenting unfavorably on the president's cankles will be reclassified as a federal crime. We've entered a new phase of U.S. history: government by brain fart.
The Trump administration has claimed to be the most transparent in history. So why do we have to keep suing to get information that should already be public? What are they trying to hide?
This is painful to watch. Felon Trump has the National Guard picking up trash in D.C. Because there isn’t enough crime to keep them busy?
I legitimately cannot imagine the point of getting a job in this administration if you just want to fellate a gross old man there are a lot of truck stops out there that require less naziism
Donald and Marco are protecting pedophiles. This Israeli cyber security expert was in the states to meet with NSA counterparts and thought he could do whatever he likes. He was right, because nothing happened to him when he was caught in a sting.
Trump doing this "bad Jew"="Palestinian" bit over and over again is a form of priming. It establishes a frame that draws on both antisemitism and anti-Palestinian racism at the same time.. His audience can then start blending those antisemitic and anti-Arab narratives into a conspiracy smoothie
Undermining the Fed to get lower rates now is like ripping the batteries out of your smoke alarm because it’s beeping. It’s quiet for a bit. Then your house burns down. Credibility anchors expectations; expectations anchor inflation.
Trump wants to be Putin so bad.
The tiny island of Australia stopped sending post to America yesterday. Perfectly normal stuff. bsky.app/profile/dail...
Trump: "I'm planning to force lots of corporations to give me shares. If they don't I'll destroy them." Investors:
this isnt communism or socialism, its a sundowning egomaniacal lunatic, completely untethered from reality, accumulating power because he wants to and no one is going to stop him
He ‘blamed’ them? Ummm
The middle ground is abolishing ICE and prosecuting ICE and top administration officials in a Nuremberg style process. They're putting immigrants in concentration camps and torturing them. There's no middle ground to be had. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
FEMA employees have warned Congress that Trump has rolled back all the advances made in disaster response since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the NYT reports. Almost like he wants to make the US vulnerable.
I mean, this was true in the 2000 Bush v Gore decision. And Citizens United. And Shelby County. It’s been a long obvious road where the Republican Supreme Court majority rules in favor of the Republican position on important cases involving political power
We should always strive to achieve great things without selling out our values. I want democracy *and* I want to sleep at night. MAGA, on the other hand, is a win-at-any-cost faction, selling out democracy and their own Christian values to own the libs. History will remember.
- Appreciate Newsom Fighting Fire w/ Fire - Appreciate Pritzker Standing Up for Texas Dems - Appreciate Mamdani Bringing Fresh Hope to the Party - Appreciate AOC and Bernie Taking On the Oligarchs We need ALL of these voices now! Let's worry about 2028 after we secure OUR VOTE and DEMOCRACY.
I like what Newsom is doing. I like what Pritzker is doing. I like what Mamdani is doing. We need all hands on deck NOW. We can worry about the presidential race LATER. Once we secure its relevance.
"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 is causing working families," Pritzker said.
Of note: they tell you how much it costs for the government to run the free filing system, but they don’t tell you how much it would cost to have a private corporation do it. (Hint: it would cost taxpayers more to have a private corporation do it.)
Now that the majority is experiencing “stop resisting” when they’ve done nothing, we can actually call it out Are they starting to see that it was never about compliance at all?
You know what's crazy? There have been no op-eds or editorial statements in major newspapers this year calling on Trump to resign. None calling for his impeachment. None asking if he's medically fit to be in office. Not one in any major newspaper all year.
Hegseth just fired two more Navy Admirals. bsky.app/profile/keep...
FWIW, "yours for the restoration of the Republic" was a common salutation American fascists gave to each other in the 1950s and 1960s. This is from a 1952 letter by Ohio white supremacist terrorist Peter Xavier. The rest of the rhetoric here might be familiar too.
If you’re a convicted felon and your character witness is your dear old friend, the convicted child sex trafficker and enabler of your other dear old friend, the most notorious raper of children in modern history, you’re definitely a total piece of shit.
I both agree with this 100 percent and I read this in Jeff Foxworthy’s voice.
Slouchy, loser felon in chief
Those are all dudes who are clearly unemployable anywhere else. Losers.
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The President is demanding that a state release a convicted felon or face consequences
Snowflakes crying that Cracker Barrel is now anti-cracker is the most maga thing ever.
This isn’t vetting, it’s an attempt to *create* a bunch of “illegal” immigrants. Nothing has ever been more transparent in the world. They’re gonna revoke visas of people who like Kamala Harris on Facebook.
"The actions add up to an unprecedented attempt by a sitting president to interfere in a critical election before it’s even held, moves that have raised alarms among those concerned about the future of U.S. democracy..." apnews.com/article/trum...
Today's fundraising email from Trump. Subject line: "Yes or No. Should Trump take control and stop crime near your home?" He is creating a permission structure for martial law, for the federal government taking charge of law enforcement in every locality in the country.
An estimated 93,000 will die a premature death due to the loss of SNAP between now and 2039. The ‘Make America Healthy Again’ party would rather people sink deeper into poverty and food insecurity than get the essential assistance they need to buy groceries.
I mean…
He told us during the campaign that if you voted for him you would never have to vote again.
BREAKING — Dept. of Defense civilian employees all received an email a short while ago offering them the opportunity to support ICE and CBP “as they fulfill the President's intent to ensure a safe and orderly immigration system.” Full text of email and attached memo from Sec. Def. Pete Hegseth:
The company running license plate tracking cameras across Colorado has insisted that immigration agents don't have direct access. Flock now says they were wrong. CBP has access. (Using license plate info for immigration enforcement is prohibited by Colorado law) #copolitics