Probably not a great month to go out fishing in the Gulf now. The US military might be your judge, jury and executioner.
Probably not a great month to go out fishing in the Gulf now. The US military might be your judge, jury and executioner.
Aside from admitting his unquestioning fealty to Trump, shouldn’t he know what Trump is advocating for?
i cannot overstate how extraordinary it is for federal civil servants to do this
He is, but Trump senses the stink of Loser on him (he’s polling a distant 4th place) and is so terrified of a Mamdani win that he’s willing to take Adams on as a houseboy.
"It is past time for both Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer to step down and step aside. This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting and fearless opposition... we all deserve better." I make the case, in my latest for The Guardian, for new leadership:
The President has launched a stablecoin whose value is supported by binance, whose CEO is currently in jail, hoping for a bit of a pardon.
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
It's really quite a thing to have a Secretary of Energy who does not understand, ummm... energy.
Pritzker: Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next
Let's break this down. I'm a merchant Captain for former USAF officer. The US Navy destroyed a civilian vessel in international waters without attempting to seize/board the vessel and without being engaged in combat. This is "manifestly unlawful". The US Navy has a DUTY to refuse illegal orders.
Trump is notorious for stiffing contractors and other creditors, so anyone who chooses to do business with Trump is, per force, stupid.
Again, the key divide within the Democratic party does not map onto a left/right axis: It is between those who want to fight back forcefully, like Pritzker, and those who can’t/won’t shake the impulse to accommodate, appease, and uphold “normalcy.”
Under Dr. Oz, Medicare is launching a pilot program that will use AI to determine whether patients would be covered for certain procedures. Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims. Who in their right mind voted for this? No one.
Democrats "have to give up on the idea that they're a governing party. They have to give up on the idea that the Republican party is a traditional political party of which you can have some sort of meeting of the minds." @stuartpstevens.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social:
"It’s obviously not about crime, because they’re not focused on high-crime areas. They’re focused on Democratic-run cities. And you have an entire political party, not just Donald Trump, pretty eager to deploy the United States military to intimidate." trib.al/jUp6NyH
the DOJ atty (& 2x Harvard grad) who suggested Harvard showed "wanton indifference to antisemitism" once wrote a paper from the perspective of Hitler & expressed admiration for Mein Kampf stunning reporting from @hilaryburns.bsky.social @talkopan.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
#ETTD
That’s because former Fox host Jeanine Pirro was unable to get the grand jury to indict her, which is conveniently left out here.
GOP Rep claims Muslims in US want to impose "sharia law" as he literally pushes for his right wing "Christian" beliefs to be US law! Say no to religious law, say no to the GOP! My article: deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/gop-rep-wa...
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"How Silicon Valley Groomed JD Vance to Replace Trump and Usher in the Broligarchy" Vance has been groomed by Silicon Valley oligarchs to replace Trump and establish a techo-fascist utopia for the world's wealthiest men who want to conquer space and live forever. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
It’s past the time for mockery. This is actual Big Brother shit.
President Zelenskyy needs to catch up on Trump’s Two Weeks Dodge™️.
As we begin a new month, my law firm is litigation 51 voting and election cases in 25 states. 6 in Arizona 6 in Georgia 4 in Florida 4 in North Carolina 8 involve redistricting
“I really do not want my pictures in your offices, for the President is not an icon, an idol or a portrait. Hang your kids’ photos instead, and look at them each time you are making a decision.” — Volodymyr Zelenskyy, 2019 inaugural speech
2019 #Banksy
Somehow this reminds me of an old Lenny Bruce routine that ended with Christians wearing little gold electric chairs on chains around their neck.
This is more about the competition to see who can flatter Trump most unashamedly than it is about the Nobel prize, about which these hosers know nothing.
Trump has not made any public appearances in the last several days. His public schedule shows no public events or appearances scheduled on August 29 and 30. Makes you wonder…
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
Trump’s ICE goons now literally arresting firefighters. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Did anyone really think a guy who dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park and made it look like a bicycle accident would be a superb guardian of the public health?
When Laura Ingraham was a student at Dartmouth, she attended a meeting of the Gay Student Union and wrote down the names of the attendees, which she then published in the student newspaper. This was a time when it was very dangerous to be outed as gay. She is a dispicable, vile person.
Don't worry, she's not capable of feeling embarrassment.
If Ashli Babbitt's parents really wanted to avenge her death they would, instead of pitifully whitewashing her legacy, be suing Fox News for filling their child's gullible head with dangerous nonsense that directly led to her death.
A couple of months ago, the Navy dishonored civil rights hero Harvey Milk by removing his name from a ship. Now, the Air Force is dishonoring itself by celebrating a domestic terrorist called Ashli Babbitt.
Another Trump business/product gone bottoms up. ==============================
This is true. Somebody please explain to me why @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov aren’t screaming about this constantly.
This guy would be living under a bench in Union Square park if he wasn’t a Kennedy. What a difference from his father.
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
Kamala Harris warned you and they called her a liar.
Mike Luckovich nails it. These cabinet meetings are a grotesque display of fawning over a narcissist and shows how pathetic he expects his toadies to be.
This is exactly what it looks like. Wake the fuck up!
I'm tired of this theater where Donald Trump asks Republicans to do something, they seem to push bank and then cave. The only two factions of the current GOP are proud MAGA and scared MAGA. Anyone who thinks Republicans are acting in good faith is delusional.
Two kids are dead and more than a dozen others injured in a mass shooting because people like this guy wants to go for coffee dressed like this👇
FUN MAGA FACTS: ➡️ Donald Trump attempted to get himself invited to Chelsea Clinton's wedding, but failed. ➡️ Donald Trump was a registered DEMOCRAT until a Black man was elected president in 2008. ➡️ Donald Trump donated to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign against this Black man.
The corporate euphemisms for price hikes are hilarious. Urban Outfitters: "gentle" price adjustments Victoria's Secret: "evolving promotional approach" Hormel: "targeted pricing actions” @wsj.com $HRL www.wsj.com/business/ear...
Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who chose to break into an unauthorized area during an insurrection against the repeated warnings of law enforcement. She ignored those warnings and got killed through no one's fault but her own. She was a traitor. She doesn't deserve full military honors.
One part of the resignation letter from Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who formally resigned from his position as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC.
Case study: Erdogan replaced technocrats with loyalists and kept rates low when they needed to rise. Inflation soared to 86%, and is still painfully high. That’s the playbook Trump's floating. Keep the Fed independent if you want low inflation without the drama.
Remember when John McCain died and Trump refused to fly the American flag at half-staff because he didn’t like the guy? thehill.com/policy/defen...
Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadn’t happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.
According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.
So let me get this straight. ChatGPT coached a kid through suicide attempts while validating his ideation. The response from OpenAI is, "yeah, turns out if you talk to an LLM long enough the safety features stop working." Guess the usage patterns of people who most need safety features!?!
Saying the quiet part out loud.
And if anyone knows nothing . . .
Can’t **anybody** edit Wikipedia?
No self-respect at all. Not one of them. Trump almost looks disgusted himself.
It doesn’t. No need to thank me.
That’s not comforting, oddly.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
"When the WSJ says that it warned readers of the risks Trump II, that is technically true but substantively false. The reality is that the WSJ conceded that Trump might pursue vendettas while making the sub rosa case for a second Trump term."
DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server, according to the agency’s chief data officer. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
Ominous: Trump and Stephen Miller are very clearly working to acclimate Americans to the spectacle of US troops in US cities, to the idea of the military carrying out domestic enforcement on US citizens. Harrowing stuff from @vermontgmg.bsky.social in this exchange: newrepublic.com/article/1995...
NEW: Jack Smith’s lawyers write to the Office of Special Counsel to say that they’ve read news reports about an investigation into Jack Smith, but no one has actually reached out. “The predicate for this investigation is imaginary and unfounded.” 1/
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
“Trump is using…state-sponsored violence, military violence, law enforcement violence, and naked corruption to further entrench authoritarian rule and consolidate autocratic power behind himself. Newsom is proceeding as if that's what Trump is doing-and that is what Trump actually is doing.”
Pelosi whiffed. Mueller whiffed. Garland whiffed (or sold out). Joe and Mika sold out. Schumer whiffed or sold out. Jeffries hides. Ken Johnson whiffed. NO WONDER TRUMP IS GETTING AWAY WITH IT ALL! It didn't need to be this way.
In addition to creating a joyous event, Zohran Mamdani just showed the stupidity of Fox News's "Crime is so bad in New York City, people are afraid to go out in the street or take the subway!!!"
"Those who bought into his $Trump memecoin after its launch day lost a lot of money—it is down about 90% from its high on the day he was sworn in. One consolation, of sorts: They would have lost even more in $Melania..." www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
Kushner had already served his time when Trump pardoned him, but pretending this jailbird should be an Ambassador is Trump AF.
Giving NYC a bad name on top of it . . .
President Trump’s threats to militarize law enforcement in U.S. cities are getting uglier and more unnerving. Meanwhile, Republicans are all in with what Trump is doing. trib.al/c66v3Yr
Way to go, San Francisco!! 👏👏
Ease up, Captain Reassurance. You guys gave one to Henry fucking Kissinger.
It is almost immaterial to me entirely what Bolton did or didn’t do; we all know what this is, and other considerations are secondary or distractions at best
Seems relevant
Sure, they are openly using federal agencies to investigate and potentially prosecute their opponents, but maybe someone filled out a form wrong?
Holocaust Survivor Felt ‘Sick’ Seeing Israeli Spokesperson Wear a Yellow Star, Says Media ‘Guilty’ of Aiding Gaza ‘Genocide’ www.mediaite.com/media/tv/hol...
Trump Is Inflicting More Damage Than Even the Pessimists Anticipated In every realm that allows him to harm our country’s interests, values, and norms, the president continues to outdo himself in all the worst ways.
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Hannity is self-aware, but he's also aware of the credulousness of his audience (and Fox "News" viewers, generally).
When they go low, we F with their heads.
Greco had to quit her City Hall job because she was being investigated for corruption and contact with the Chinese government. Adams using her in his campaign is typical of his casual ethical practices.
Can you imagine a US envoy handing a Nazi medal to the family of an American who died fighting for Hitler? Because this just happened: www.cnn.com/2025/08/20/p...
Gavin Newsom on Fox’s obsession: “Should I start charging rent in their heads?”
Corrupting economic statistics will change our economic reality. Here's how: Tariffs raise prices. Social Security is indexed to inflation. If Trump tells a partisan BLS head to downplay inflation, seniors' social security checks won't keep up. Rigged stats = stolen benefits.
Intelligence is MAGA Kryptonite™️.
My best tweet ever was “Let’s put the cialis in socialism” and I’m still mad it didn’t go wildly viral