No. I thought Americans would stop before sacrificing the health of their children on the altar of their resentment.
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No. I thought Americans would stop before sacrificing the health of their children on the altar of their resentment.
Talk about this every day, Dem lawmakers!!
"If a beautiful 25-year-old woman is just *so* interested in you and your work, check for the camera!" @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social talks Project Veritas's Epstein files video with @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:
Sweet Jesus...!!
mom's spaghetti
Thread.
"Of the possible deployment of the National Guard in Chicago, Trump said: 'I have the right to do anything I want to do. I’m the president of the United States." Given the Congress and Supreme Court we have now, he might be right.
Go girl!!!
Couldn't have made that decision up even if I tried 24/7/365...
I thought this was the whole thing w the Qan peo, that trump's going after the traffickers. What happened to that story? Do these maga derpwaddles just shrug and think, "ope, I guess he got em all" and just switch to "research" the next weird story? How do they know when to go to the next one?
Cue the lawsuits claiming that Hegseth has no authority to take even administrative actions going forward since there is no such thing as the Department of War in the Constitution or in federal law (at least not since the 40s).
NEW: Missouri Republicans are steamrolling Gov. Kehoe’s extreme gerrymander with the House Rules Committee voting 7–3 to advance the map. This rushed process could lock in a 7–1 GOP majority in Missouri's House delegation by dismantling Kansas City's 5th district.
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I’m old enough to remember when the Justice Department told a federal judge that Abrego Garcia’s immigration matters would be handled by an ICE desk officer like it would in any other “garden variety” case
I can’t wait to see the detailed FBI files showing Trump’s extensive work as an informant.
Our once-thriving (2024) economy is decimated… … but at least brown-skinned people are being indiscriminately rounded up, pedophiles are being protected, and our loved ones can once again die from preventable diseases—ain’t that right, MAGA? #winning
To be clear: I wasn’t read in on the specific details of the SEAL mission, but there were rumors of a failed… something, and we saw a *lot* of increased DPRK military activity in the area after what we now know was a botched insertion where North Korean fishermen were killed.
So ... Trump rounded up, imprisoned, and deported all the "illegals" who were "stealing" our jobs, right? And yet, somehow, there are now significantly LESS jobs for Americans, lower wages, and a tanking economy.
Not watching anyway, but thanks for confirmation of the wisdom of that decision going forward.
🚨MAJOR BREAKING: DOJ Deputy Chief Joseph Schnitt was caught on a hidden camera saying the government will “redact every Republican” from the Epstein files and leave only the Democrats. He also revealed that Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to a minimum security “to keep her mouth shut.”
Trump wants desperately to erase his bone spur deferments from his life record. He wants to be seen as a real man instead of the coward he knows he is, and noone can feel completely safe from his quest as he approaches his own demise.
The regime that blew up a boat carrying 11 people, with no legal justification for doing so, is also responsible for killing a number of North Korean civilians
Makes all of us twice as glad the survivors will be compiling their own database of names and faces as a counterbalance to the DOJ monkey business we all knew would be coming.
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Umm … it’s pretty stupid.
Wow!! Grandpa "moves on'em" (to use the phrasing of the guy he no doubt voted for as president...) when they're **THAT** young? Might be a good idea for his relatives to start asking questions of any young girls in their own family.
I wonder what the makeup of the management team is.
Now <> is brilliant communication!
Mamdani has raised the max he’s allowed to spend. So he’s created this brilliant ad.
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Our client is willing to say everything under oath Secretary Kennedy. How about you? www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-cdc...
PULTE: Public officials shouldn't be exempt from scrutiny SORKIN: Speaking of that, Ken Paxton has at least 3 examples of alleged mortgage fraud. Are you looking at that? PULTE: Unless it's been made public, I'm not going to comment on any specific situation S: Why wouldn't you make it public?
"I was at the bottom of my class. I started doing heroin, and I went to the top of my class. Suddenly I could sit still and I could read." We’re not doctors but it kinda seem like this should’ve been disqualifying 🤷🏻♂️
One seldom sees such complete self-awareness as this!
Woman w no criminal history detained by ICE after a routine check-in discovered she was pregnant and had a miscarriage while in custody. Judge ordered her released yesterday, citing apparent due process violations. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Wow!! Another day, another fact that says the administration's stupidity never allows them to see beyond the tip of their individual noses. There were likely hundreds of federal employees (now fired) who could have pulled together a report on the effects of any proposed fed rule change.
Foreign countries would be well advised to demand proof of vaccination for people coming in my way of Florida
Can we schedule those arrests to be done over a fourteen day period so we can extend the holiday feel of it all?
You mean all those feelings we (who have never bankrupted a single casino in our lives) have been feeling are TRUE???
Can someone in the legacy media explain to me how this is not front page news? How is it that only Democracy Docket is covering this unfolding authoritarian takeover? www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
The Trump regime is targeting US veterans specifically. He sent his goon squad to arrest a patriot for conspiracy, and the conspiracy? A peaceful protest against ICE. All he has to do is label them terrorists and he’ll murder them too. #3E
Help!
#ICYMI: Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641. As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.
WE.WILL.KNOW.ALL. OF. THEIR. NAMES. They better know that. The hiding is over.
Guards at 'Alligator Alcatraz' engaged in indiscriminate beatings of detainees after an uprising at the detention camp forced them to regain control last week, several people held at the widely condemned site told Noticias 23/Univision last week:
🚨🚨🚨No words, just watch and listen! Holy shit. 1/2
I know it's late,, but somebody ought to wake Chuck Schumer up, hand him his readers, and let him watch the video. Might need to gently suggest what he might do next, downplaying the sending of a sternly worded letter to the DOJ.
Holy smokes!
I went away to write for a few hours and when I came back the [checks notes] United States Justice Department had oosted the equivalent of a notes app apology on 30% battery in airplane mode like a B-list celebrity circa 2016, what else did I miss??
Four years ago, I tested for COVID. I'd had dinner with someone with cancer the night before. Thanks to the vaccine, I did not give that dinner companion COVID. And I only ran a low-grade fever for a few days. Fuck that idiot RFK Jr. and the equally stupid buffoon who hired him.
This is what lawlessness looks and sounds like
youtu.be/NfjAduqNL4U?... And you know who’s going to be right to the top of this list.
Sen. Warren Daniel (R–NC, District 46) was caught trading stocks right on the Senate floor. Didn’t even wait for a break. Playing the market on the taxpayers’ time…pure abuse of power.
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.
Oh, so guns *do* kill people? Gotcha.
Love how DeSantis will stop vaccines for public schools when his kids go to a private school that requires vaccinations. So trumpian.
Uneducated
Middle and low-income earners’ consumer confidence is plummeting, while high earners’ is going up. Be warned: this spells doom for our consumer spending-driven economy.
Second Amendment for me but not for thee.
Yep. Looks right.
Any Senators here? I’m a biomedical scientist with immunology, cancer, infectious disease expertise. RFK Jr lied to you in his confirmation hearings. Repeatedly. Provably. He’s lied to EVERYONE for 30+ years. Repeatedly. Provably. He WILL lie today. Repeatedly. Provably. 1/
When a baseball player crosses the plate after hitting a home run, points up to the sky, and thanks God, it makes you wonder why the same God decided to screw the pitcher.
I wrote kind of a nice poem once. The next one was hard.Then I decided it was just easier to read other people's stuff and (without guilt) feel like I was doing them a great honor. All the best to you, no matter which path you end up choosing.
Thomas Massie is a Republican bulldog with a bone in his teeth for the victims, and MTG is right alongside him for publicizing names and faces of the rich and famous "men with benefits". Probably time some of them to sit down with their wives about what might be coming.
The takeaway from the Epstein survivors’ press conference: the era of silence is over. The powerful men who exploited and protected this network — including those in Congress and the Oval Office — will no longer escape accountability.
LA City Attorney: Businesses are empty and shuttered. The city’s law enforcement personnel have received countless 911 calls about what, for all intents and purposes, looks like a kidnapping. That’s what it looks like — individuals who will not identify themselves.
As the GOP pushes its whitewashing of Jan 6, may I humbly suggest you follow me, a reporter and person who has never spent any time pussyfooting around the insurrection and its many apologists?
Senator @campbell4tn.bsky.social calls out Pinocchiogles
The guy that ordered 8 fighter jets to perform a low altitude fly-over in an effort to drown out Epstein survivors is the same guy who wants you to believe he's innocent.
Losers then, losers now.
"These are the sorts of things you do in politics as a matter of routine, especially for the sake of memorializing a tragedy not even ten years old—and that shook a community to its core. But that’s not how DeSantis, Duffy, or anybody in MAGA operates."
Did he not take his pills again tonight?
Real posts from the President of the United States and official United States government accounts
Kids always hate getting caught for doing stupid things, even kids working at the trump Pentagon.
"Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Parents of one girl told Guatemalan authorities ‘that if their daughter returned, they would do everything possible for her to leave the country again, as she is under a death threat,’ the report said.”
Yale Law School never beating the “they don’t teach law at Yale” allegations
Welp.
WATCH: “Whatever pretext this administration may claim, this looks for all the world like a flagrant violation of U.S. and international law,” says Chris Hayes on Trump boasting about the U.S. military’s deadly strike on a boat he says was carrying drugs from Venezuela.
May it be so.
This is all so gross. A vote for Cuomo is a vote for Trump. Every New Yorker should know this. And for @SenSchumer & @RepJeffries to continue withholding their support from Zohran is outrageous.
Damn! This man Massie is serious!! Makes you think he has had a close relationship with someone similarly abused. And to be complete here, Mace, MTG, and Bobert also deserve our respect and admiration in this particular case.
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NEW: The NAACP has filed a lawsuit to stop Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe’s special session meant to rig maps and the ballot initiative process. The outcome of this case could determine the future of democracy in Missouri.
Maybe Chuck and Hakeem have accidentally been deleted from the DNC mailing list. (There just has to be a reason for their actions that doesn't make my head explode.) /s
Embarrassing for @schumer.senate.gov & @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
Massie: Politically, it’s really bad for Republicans. They should just have this vote and put it behind them. 80% of Republicans support releasing these files. So, they are at odds with our base right now—particularly the Maga base.
Hey Single Payer advocates, you have a chance to do the funniest thing ever… (I know, I know…)
Anyone want another TACO...?
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Republican-controlled North Carolina elections board teamed up on a proposed deal that could disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters in the Tar Heel State. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
This guy is a real on-target Dem.
“While the score & critiques an application receives in peer review are important factors in determining the scientific merit of a proposal,” [NIH Director Bhattacharya's] memo stated, NIH institutes and centers should not rely on the scientific merit rankings “in developing their final pay plans.”
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