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ICE is on track to gain access to controversial spyware designed to hack phones and read private messages after the Trump administration jettisoned a Biden-era order.
Not even the scariest quote in the article.
The indictment was handed down 2 days after career prosecutor Richard Barker, the acting US atty for eastern Washington state, resigned. In a social post, Barker wrote āI am grateful that I never had to sign an indictment or file a brief that I didnāt believe in.ā www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
4. After Trump won the 2024 election, we found out. Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun ā who was being prosecuted by the SEC for fraud and market manipulation ā purchased $75 million worth of WLFI. Sun's investment paid off. In February, the SEC told a judge it was halting the prosecution of Sun.
1. Monday was a landmark day in one of the most brazen political and economic grifts in history. It netted Trump, at least on paper, $3.4 BILLION. Follow this thread for details. š§µ
Rather than reproaching Israel for human rights violations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the Trump administration is taking aim at its critics. Rubio just expanded sanctions on the judges & prosecutors of the International Criminal Court for probing alleged Israeli and US crimes. wapo.st/4nahJCH
ā.. There was a period of time, briefly, where the middle-income consumer looked like they were being dragged up by all that was going well in the world. .. Then things fell off a cliff.ā @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/cons...
A new Mexican restaurant opened up near me in the last few months. Went by today and it had a sign on it saying "Temporarily closed due to staffing shortage." I can guess the cause!
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social @jonathanpienews.bsky.social police have raided DoJ - arrested the wonderful Tim Crossland and Paddy. I feel sick to the core. I hope more take to the streets. When a government makes enemies of the best of humanity something is seriously rotten. Ffs.
I'm just going to keep noting that the owner and operator of Twitter -- the social media that too many politicians and pundits use to determine what's "normal" -- keeps on pushing the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory that has been the motivation for multiple mass shootings in this country.
Alarm after FBI arrests US army veteran for āconspiracyā over protest against Ice www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimesāassaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justiceāthey can be prosecuted.
āAnti-war Presidentā
Okay. I just came back to this and you arenāt calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
Absolute garbage person www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Donald Trumpās No Tax on Tips policy is a major part of his appeal to working-class Americans. But tipping is itself a strange and flawed system invented to preserve inequality. Critics worry Trumpās policy will only intensify tipping culture.
People literally bled & died fighting against corporate interests, robber barons, corrupt local & state politicians, cops & hired killers, & the federal government & US military for better working conditions for the rest of us so reflect on that today for just a bit while you're doing whatever else.
US cattle prices are at record highs, now hitting $2.40/lb, double where they stood just four years ago. The surge comes as Americaās cattle herd shrinks to its lowest in decades, squeezed by relentless droughts and soaring feed costs.
You guys see where this is going? Right?
We've got more for you on Labor Day. More than 82 percent of civilian federal workers have had their right to collectively bargain stripped in the largest act of union busting in US history. Unions are a voice from below, and their autonomy poses a threat to autocrats, Harold Meyerson writes:
"Israelās policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)". Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
The dollar is losing reserve currency status. Goldās share of global reserves hit 24% in Q1 2025, the highest in 30 years and now second only to the dollar. This marks a third straight annual increase, while the dollar slipped to 42%, its lowest since the 1990s.
A reminder that if we hope to ever rebuild an economy that works for everyone, we need a much stronger labor movement.
happy labor day
Rhode Island passed a law banning mandatory anti-union employee meetings. Union-busting law firm Littler Mendelson held a webinar for employers about the law. And they essentially told employers... to break the law! We got the transcript and the PowerPoint: prospect.org/justice/2025...
Donald Trump is once again threatening to issue an executive order targeting voting. This is an effort to subvert the Constitution and the 2026 election, which grants states and Congress but not the president power to regulate federal elections. If he does this, we will sue and we will win (again).
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdownāso @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
The party of āfamily valuesā is attacking our kids.
"America has become a country where armed officers of the state shout āPapers please!ā on the street at men and women heading home from work, a vision we associate with the #Gestapo in Nazi Germany" writes @vermontgmg.bsky.social in a great piece for @motherjones.com; via @brunojnavarro.bsky.social
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and šššššš
The UN/other countries should start putting sanctions on the US.
UPDATE: The firefighter Trumpās ICE goons arrested in Washington was on track for legal status. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Thinking about taking a dip at the beach over Labor Day weekend? Many beaches are advising against swimming due to fecal contamination levels
I got to talk with @lataco.bsky.social's @eltragon.bsky.social about his tireless documentation of immigration raids in LA, and how his knowledge of the city's street food scene makes him a better immigration reporter
"Her patient had signs of what could be a cancer or could be an unusual infection ā diagnoses that would require completely different treatment. Ordinarily, she would confirm an infection after sending a sample to the CDC for testing ...the CDC no longer has the capacity to do that"
Hello, I am furious www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-...
Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.
Right now, your ability to get access to a COVID vaccine this fall is in jeopardy, whether or not you fit the new, restricted eligiblity criteria. Please send a letter to your member of Congress here. And spread the word. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...
This is an INSANE decision by the E.U. āBy signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail ā it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.ā This will kill people.
Them: āCities are all rotting hellscapes!ā Cities:
This father nails how silly this manufactured problem is compared to real problems.
As the article notes, DOGE actually fired the people working on this design work, including the best designers I've ever worked with in my career. Now I guess DOGE is going to pretend to work on government websites themselves. But the work will never actually occur.
Trained, credentialed historians are needed MORE than ever. So much dangerous and ignorant slop out there.
Every time you use ChatGPT or something like it, youāre helping to train an algorithm that is actually being developed to do things like this
Reminder that the US Trump regime conspired to over throw Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, a direct attack on democracy in Ukraine and worldwide.
Back when Trump was at his rallies saying āwe know who shot herā this is what he was saying but people werenāt interested in digging deeper.
āI donāt have any choiceā says the kidnapper.
š„ @airborne1970.bsky.social : āWhen you get rid of SNAP benefitsā whatās a poor family gonna do? The middle class has carried this country since Reagan said ātrickle-down economicsā. Time for the billionaires to carry this country. Thatās how šŗšø will get great. But not under this regime.ā
Donāt look away
Robot who drinks all the earth's water while goading you into killing yourself can also call the cops on you!
Former DC Assistant US Attorney Jennifer Kerkhoff Muyskens was charged with misconduct by the DC Bar for concealing and altering the Project Veritas video footage, which was central to the mass conspiracy prosecution of Trump inauguration protesters: unicornriot.ninja/2025/newly-r...
Trump regime operatives exposed in plot to undermine Denmark and overthrow the government in Greenland. Regime operatives attempted to disrupt democracy through misinformation and disruption operations aimed at recruiting traitors and collaborators to help sway public consensus towards the US.
NEWS: CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states and DC ā even to people who meet the new FDA criteria ā because the CDC hasn't signed off and isn't expected to do so (if it does so) for at least three weeks.
RKF Jr. is a dangerous man who is determined to abuse his authority to act on truly terrifying conspiracy theories and disinformationāleaving us unprepared for the next deadly pandemic and snuffing out potential cures while heās at it. My full statement.
The new head of the CDC, Jim OāNeill, has no degree in science or medicine, and has pushed unproven treatments for COVID like ivermectin. This is so incredibly dangerous.
I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
Excellent summary of this administration's moral vacuousness when it comes to crime. We must imprison every shoplifter and homeless person, but if you can flatter, donate to, socialize with, or do a favor for Trump -- or if you remind Trump of himself -- you can crime with impunity.
Without Congressionally-approved funding, public media stations say communities will be left with aging infrastructure amid growing risks from extreme weather.
CTA: Call Your Member of Congress and U.S. Senators Regardless of which party your Member of Congress and U.S. Senators belong to, please call them (actually call them on the phone if at all possible) and tell them: www.patreon.com/posts/137525...
![Urgent CTA: RFK Jr Moving to Destroy CDC. Call Your Reps Hello my name is [$NAME]. I am a constituent calling from [$CITY/TOWN, $ZIPCODE]. I'm calling to urge [the Senator / the Representative] to demand the removal of RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary. RFK Jr. is a clear and present danger not just to the health of the American people but to the entire world. Firing CDC Director Dr. Monarez because she was carrying out her duty to ensure that life-saving, safe, and effective vaccines against COVID, a disease which has killed more than 1.2 million Americans, are available to all Americans is inexcusable. RFK Jr's deliberate, determined campaign to undermine the public health mission of CDC has caused the principled resignations of four other senior CDC leaders, including the expert who heads the national center that combats emerging infectious disease ā the top CDC official in charge of preventing bird flu from killing millions of us. RFK Jr. is compromising the biosecurity and national security of the United States and endangering me and my family. Shouldn't Need To Be A Lawyer Patreon.com/mattbc](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rtsa65yj6j6azdkmatuckxec/bafkreieyr7dzvbywv6egqajygailivvkaifvothb6japh6anopm5jni5qm@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Heās talking about Missouri Republicans repealing earned sick time. I donāt care if heās late to the party. Letās go.
URGENT: Sahar needs money to evacuate, PLEASE share and help if you can.
Audio of museum victim blaming Oregon Coast Military Museum board member calls alleged abuse victim 'little slut' She was 15, the perpetrator was 26. And this POS wants to #VictimBlame? š”š”š¤¬š”š”
Let's say this "Alcatraz" held 1,000 people a day for the 55 days it was open (it usually didn't hold that many). And let's say it cost $220 million to build and take down (it likely cost more.) That works out to $4,000 per detainee per day. bsky.app/profile/bgru...
They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.
AND NOW THE SENIOR CDC LEADERS HAVE JOINED THE WALK OUT! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...
Learning the shooter was a detransitioner spouting the same shit detransitioners have been smearing all over the country for the past decade really boils my blood at the people who jumped on the chance to salaciously report "the first trans woman mass shooter" yesterday.
RW, cis gendered men are exponentially more inclined to commit mass shootings. Where is the outcry for them to be labeled as āterroristsā? Theyāre excused time and again.
The moronic use of crossed swords behind their name tell me their performative masculinity is hanging by a worn thread. Their insecurity is weaponized against a small population of people who are just trying to live their lives in peace.
RFK Jr. and Donald Trump are already sending our health care system into chaos by ripping insurance away from 15 million people. Now, theyāre making it harder to get a handle on measles, flu, and other public health threats. Itās Trump politicizing every part of government.
yup. I wrote something similar last week christinapagel.substack.com/p/grand-desi... "the very word āAmericaā conjures up the celebrated ideal of āAmerica the freeā. But āAmerica the freeā are just words and they are rapidly losing all meaning."
The honors come despite the fact that Babbitt attempted to climb through a shattered glass door inside the Capitol as lawmakers fled for their lives during the insurrection and ignored commands to stand down before she was fatally shot. My report for HuffPost: www.huffpost.com/entry/ashli-...
BREAKING: Robert F. Kennedy Jr poised to surpass gun violence as leading cause of death among American children.
The Trump administration says they're the "most transparent" in history. But when I asked the Department of Homeland Security who writes their social media posts, something extremely weird happened: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Pennsylvania needs buses, not boondoggles.
VP Vance frames this as a left-wing argument opposed to faith, but that's not how it's worked. Faith leaders *themselves* regularly made similar arguments ā including in his own tradition, Catholicism. E.g., this is a statement from Sisters of Mercy of the Americas (Catholic nuns) on the shooting.
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School shooters are fueled in part by obsessions with past school shootings, part of a pattern of isolation and rage, and a need for infamy. We've written about that a lot: www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...
"The federal government plans to hire private companies to use artificial intelligence to determine whether patients would be covered for some procedures, like certain spine surgeries or steroid injections." More financial incentive to deny claims. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
70 years ago, on this date, Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered by white men. His family, including his cousin who was with him at the time, is repeating the train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955 to mark the anniversary
New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we donāt acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
āItās absolutely mind-boggling to be discussing message testing in response to abductions, concentration camp construction, and unleashing [the] military on Americans.ā www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
this is a scene straight out of a war zone. the president has declared war on his own country.
The shooter at Annunciation Catholic School used an assault weapon to fire dozens of rounds through the stained glass windows of the schoolās churchākilling two children and wounding 17 others, including 14 children.
šØBorder Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member āyou need to get the f*ck out of here. Iām going to make you leave.ā
Father Michael Louis Pfleger a priest at the Sabina Catholic Church, a Black parish in Chicago's Auburn Gresham neighborhood has a message for Trump! Before you dare speak about any violence in Chicago, look into your mirror, and address the violence coming from the White House! š„
Gupta: Hereās why this matters: 1. Because the FDA indications have changed, if I prescribe it to you, Iām opening myself up to a lawsuit. He directly signals thatā¦ 2. A pharmacist is no longer able to prescribe and administer a COVID-19 booster that doesnāt meet indications.
Shuler: Thirteen billionaires in one pictureāfour of whom now run agencies of our federal government. If youāve ever met someone who says the word āoligarchyā is too confusing or too complicated, well, you can explain it with that one photo.
My grandfather is 101. He was a doctor and researcher for generations. In his life heās seen near-miracles of medical science come to fruition. To this day he reads Nature and Science and keeps up with the latest discoveries. He tells me he is deeply worried about public health.
CDC quietly stopped checking food supply for 6 pathogens (campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and yersenia)ļæ¼ about two months ago, leaving everyone more vulnerable. Less food surveillance = less food safety. Hey where are you RFK Jr and MAHA moms?
In a new podcast interview with a QAnon figure, Kirk Moore, a plastic surgeon the DOJ dropped charges against for throwing away COVID vaccines & selling fake vaccine cards, falsely suggested that COVID showed "we've been lied to about everything," invoking the Holocaust, AIDS, & the moon landing.
How can one look at this picture in this context & be so callous as to suggest that the victims are with āthe person who loves them the mostā and offer nothing but thoughts & prayers. The GOP/NRA should be made to erect statues of every child killed in a mass shooting as martyrs to their āfreedomā.
this picture of a mom shoes off sprinting to the Mpls school: www.startribune.com/minneapolis-... By Richard Tsong-Taatarii for @startribune.com, which should be a go-to source for anyone following
āA double-tap strikeā¦ Israel has killed more journalists in Gaza than all journalists killed in wars since World War 2 combinedā¦ā @chrislhayes @krystalmball @esaagar @aymanm cover the horrific Nasser hospital strikes, where rescue workers were targeted. Not a āmishapā.
UKās richest set to produce 13 times more transport emissions than poorest by 2035
The point is they can take all that $$ that has already been earmarked for education & pour it into the pockets of his supporters & his family. Not like those leeches need anymore, but their addicts. They canāt help themselves.