If Solzhenitsyn were alive today, he'd recognize Trump for exactly who he and his fascist regime are, fucking monsters. 😳👇
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If Solzhenitsyn were alive today, he'd recognize Trump for exactly who he and his fascist regime are, fucking monsters. 😳👇
Mary Shelley wrote an entire book trying to warn us about extremely arrogant nerds who create things irresponsibly and take no accountability for them for when they wreck society, by the way.
Republicans: “Stop making everything about race.” Really? White people enslaved Black people for generations, stole Native land, lynched and segregated us, burned down Black communities that thrived, and treated Mexican land & labor like property to be taken. America already made it about race.
MAGA extremists are falling for white Christian nationalist ideas, a severe danger to our democratic freedoms. Strengthen constitutional separation of church and state. Oppose radical right-wing authoritarian Project 2025.
Robert Mueller was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2021. We’re just learning about it now because he was asked to testify in the Epstein matter and won’t be able to. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
Day 3. 27 miles. 56,243 steps. 9 1/2 hours. Still moving. Still fighting. Every step is for working families who rely on transit—and for a government that shows up for us. #WalkForTransit
"Nancy Mace Says She’s Looking Forward to Watching ‘Soldiers’ March into Chicago" Again we are war. Mace does not want to protect the Democrats in Chicago-she wants to oppress them. She is from the former Confederate state of South Carolina. www.mediaite.com/politics/nan...
the Federal Employees & Contractors Oral History Project (FECOHP) was launched in 3/2025 by the Organization of American Historians (OAH). Directed by an experienced oral historian & former federal historian, the project seeks to capture this pivotal moment through the voices of those who lived it.
Why is the Draft Dodger-in-Chief trying to drag us into a war with Venezuela? The claim is that drug cartels are so out of control they’ve been designated an international terrorist organization, so we need to send warships. But we’re denying Venezuelan’s asylum claims who fled for their lives. 🤔
Instead of posting the Ten Commandments in public places let’s post the 25th Amendment
As they point out, taxpayers paid for this before it was hidden. So, after Felon 47 fired them, they made it public again. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This! 👇
They attack Fauci, an actual doctor and scientist, but praise RFK Jr., who’s never even seen the inside of a lab. Make it make sense.
One of the Best Cartoons ever: Two astronauts on the Moon encounter a prone female body in place there. One looks at the other and exclaims: “My God, Biff…it’s Alice Kramdon!” Long live The Great One! Love you, Jackie! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
A small but curious detail: how Putin and Aliyev were greeted in China.
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
Emmer does remember why he did not vote for the Safer Communities Act because the $261,530 he received from Gun Rights advocates is clouding his memory. He chose money over children. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
One thing that's particularly maddening about what's happening today—beyond that it's happening—is that when people talk about how we are moving toward authoritarianism, toward fascism, by a collection of narcissistic sociopaths, many Americans' eyes glaze over.
Why Isn't Donald Trump's Declining Health Being Covered by Corporate Media? Where are the op-eds & news programs calling for Trump's resignation due to his declining health, impaired abilities, & march towards fascism? Oh, yeah, "both sides" corporate journalism. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
Why doesn’t America listen to our strong women? She told us what the future would look like with Trump 2.0, and still hate showed up and voted. It’s love’s turn. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #Pinks
Sure, maybe ten years ago it was, for some, a considerable accusation to make – but not any more. Not for a long while. You'd have to be willfully ignoring so damn many things not to see it now. It sure AF looks like we have a pedofile sexual predator for a president. Release the Epstein files.
“I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt,” wrote Retired Army Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling in an op-ed published Saturday in The Bulwark. “She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” www.rawstory.com/ashli-babbit...
You don't have to buy any conspiratorial thinking to say that at the most fundamental level, Trump told Putin that the consequences of his slaughtering women and children nonstop are that the president of the United States will treat him like a conquering hero.
The last 3 years have been the hottest in around 125,000 years. CO2 levels are their highest in MILLIONS of years. But most people have no idea this is happening, let alone what it means for our kids’ futures. Our politics & media have failed our children. We should be furious.
This part. Everyone should be taking notes from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social’s @mizzwelch.bsky.social
They’re doing all this to prevent people from MEMORIALIZING A MASS SHOOTING
🚨This OK lawmaker was found guilty of running a vehicle with his daughter and an adult relative off of the road and INTO a ditch, causing injuries — and he is STILL in office?!? Of course, he has a history of both domestic violence and law enforcement.
Trump says museums focus too much on the “negative aspects” of American history, like “how bad slavery was.” And plans to purge cultural institutions. But be clear: he’s not talking about alternately uplifting Black inventors, builders, and leaders we were never taught about…
This is the type of person Trump pardoned. He proudly asserts that they should have injured a US Capitol Police Officer worse than they did on January 6th (@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social) had to medically retire). But MAGA supports law enforcement? Seriously? Then show me by condemning this guy.
These are my patients. Kids dying of brain cancer. Kids and families desperate for treatment and hoping to find a cure through experimental therapies. Trump is dismantling science and children with brain tumor are the victims. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
Thousands of women writing and speaking for decades with all the creativity and feeling possible about the wrongness of rape can’t make sexual violence stop or even be understood as real violence but RFK Jr croaking “beef tallow is the philosopher’s stone” has the force of policy now
Trump is again threatening Chicago with a takeover on social media. We will again say those who trade liberty for the illusion of temporary safety deserve neither. We are not, and will not become, a military state. Remember freedom is something they can never take away, no matter what they tell you!
I applaud whoever decided (probably Miller himself) to have Stephen Miller act increasingly as “spokesman” for this Administration’s policies. He is so fundamentally repellent that I suspect even loyal MAGA adherents get the heebie-jeebies when they listen to him,& ask themselves, “Am I w/this guy?”
In the 16th century, the Catholic Church used the abhorrent practice of selling indulgences—offering salvation for a price—to raise money for the Church. Trump is trying that now: to buy indulgence not for your wretched soul, but his own. His cynicism knows no bounds.
This is like in Peter Pan where the audience tries to revive Tinkerbell with applause. Except, you know, the opposite.
What a bunch of BS‼️ Vets shouldn’t need a permit to exercise their first amendment rights‼️ Thank you for standing up for ALL OF US ‼️
Unless the Nobel committee breaks its own rules, nominations for this year's prizes closed on Jan 31, 2025. 11 days after the inauguration.
Who forgot to put into the constitution that a convicted felon cannot hold the office of the president?
At least SOME countries recognize the value of NATURE and all its offerings.
This is why this vile evil bitch was initially sentenced to a high security prison.
Let that sink in.
Hell fucking yes. Fight the fascists who wish to control your every move. We will push love and refuse to accept their hate.
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...
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"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
Trump authorized the painting of the Border Wall. Mexico refused to let them paint the other side, then there is Gloves and Nighttime. 😂🤣😂🤣 the Republican Party is so Fucked up by an Incompetent Uneducated Felon Con Man. Never vote for a Republican Ever Again.We Deserve Much Better. You Must Vote.👊🗳️
Once again, Border Patrol tells the press this was a targeted kidnapping, yet they took a man who is legally here & in the immigration process. This shows that it was not a targeted investigation as they claimed. Press must stop printing lies. apnews.com/article/immi...
Wichita is protesting every Saturday at 10am 🔥🔥 And I am here. For. It. 🇺🇸
The money going into a Trump Caribbean account . Trump’s Grifting won’t stop 🛑 until he breaths his last breath of air😡😡😡⚖️⚖️😎🇺🇸
These two Trump Staff Picks are Both Corrupt but what is Extremely Disturbing is they are UNQUALIFIED. 😡😡😱⚖️⚖️⚖️😎🇺🇸
Because he is pushing the vaccine scenario and doesn't want anyone to know the real cause.
A federal appeals court reminds us that presidents are, indeed, not emperors who can impose massive taxes by whim and decree open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
This man needs to be committed to a mental health facility.
Happy weekend! From c. 3,600 years ago, here’s an ancient Egyptian bead in the form of a curled-up hedgehog! 🦔💙 Blue faience, c. 1985 -1650 BC. National Museum of Scotland www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c... 📷 by me #Archaeology
Trump wants to control the Fed not simply because 1) he wants more control over everything and 2) he has a general preference for low interest rates, but 3) because he wants a loyal and politicized Fed to goose the economy at the right time in 2026 and especially 2028. vimeo.com/1114403325/7...
🎯 cc @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov
Newsom 2028
Thei wante us talkinge on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.
My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
“Only in Trump’s America do we fight wildfires with immigration raids. Washington State is literally on fire - 9,000 acres gone. Red flag warnings, firefighters busting their asses in brutal heat - and Border Patrol shows up, not with water, not with hoses, but with handcuffs?…” - Oval Offense
$30 billion for ICE-ed out Trump like vehicles $50 million for Trump's bday parade $934 million to overhaul Trump's luxury Qatar jet $34 million for Trump's statue garden $200 million for Trump's ballroom That's $31 billion and 218 million dollars of our tax money in just 7 months For Trump
Normally they've booked 40% of their fall soybean sales to China at this point. This year, they are at 0% booked, and no, that's not a typo. www.farmprogress.com/soybean/us-s...
Right wingers prefer their milk raw and unfiltered, but their history pasteurized and homogenized.
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.
"January 6 survivor and former MPD Officer Michael Fanone launches a campaign demanding that federal officers remove their masks, advocating for transparency." Check out our new D.C. campaign demanding federal agents take off their mask! @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social www.wusa9.com/article/news...
Page One in Raleigh: #SNAP
the united states navy has deployed warships to venezuela’s coast. the naval buildup isn't dominating the headlines right now (but should be). www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-a...
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there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
#FireJFKJr #CDCImplodes. #ManagementResigns. #CDCWorkersWalkout
Pam Bondi: defending ‘traditional marriage’… by collecting them like Pokémon. 😂😂 #BlueCrew #GOPHypocrisy #Resist
I don't know that he wants to genocide the population. But I do know that he wants our government to be a corporate dictatorship. And mass genocide is the most likely result of such a government. Those who can't "input" have no use in a corporation, or corporate government. Its that simple.
The power of voodoo dolls! ♥️😏🔪 #Pinks #PhonyJoni #GoodRiddance
Alt HEADLINE: RFK MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO GET COVID VACCINES IN 3 STATES.
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Lots of right-wing political pastors and charlatans about to get rich from FEMA money.
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
*Colonel* Robert E. Lee. He was only a general in an illegal army
Gov. Newsom: I don't think Trump wants another election. Were you there January 6th? He tried to light democracy on fire. Now he's doing it in plain sight, and people say, 'Oh, just Trump being Trump.' You think he's joking about 2028? Wake up. You will lose your country.
Mike Johnson will go down in history as the white supremacist Christian nationalist Speaker of the House who attempted to cover up a pedophilic criminal regime and replace US democracy with a fascist dictatorship.
Keith’s Tibits: Republican Party passed 104 Voter Suppression bills in their States, because they found 30 Voter Fraud cases out of the 156 Million That voted in 2024. 🤣😂 obviously 🙄 to say this is an overreaction proves Republicans want to Suppression our Right to Vote. Never Vote Republican 🗳️🗳️👊👏👍😎
People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.
We need to make sure he knows what happens when he leaves office. He is so hated that no legacy will be left to him except as the most failed presidential administration in history, a ranking that will remain the bottom of all time. And his cabinet is making this so everyday in office. #RESIST
The idea of “unskilled labor” is a classist myth used to justify poverty wages.
🛢️🔥 Russian refinery downtime hits historic record after latest Ukrainian drone attacks, — Reuters The volume of downtime at Russian oil refineries in August hit a historic record — 6.4 million tons. Since the beginning of the month, an average of 23% of primary oil refining capacity has been idle.
