Another dispatch from the “hellhole” of Chicago.
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Another dispatch from the “hellhole” of Chicago.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
And…
"We’ve seen it before: the Trump regime attempting to clandestinely and illegally remove people from the United States under the cover of darkness, only to be ordered to stop operations mid-flight." Terrified children shipped off to somewhere dangerous in the middle of the night. WTF are we doing?
Effing people see real estate not lives.
@cnn.com CNN is a perpetual self own w bullshit panels that are nothing but clickbait.
As long as I’m your Governor, I can promise you this: No matter what you look like, where you live, who you love, or who you pray to, you have a home here in Pennsylvania.
News in this piece: 1) JB Pritzker's health officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines in bulk to distribute to constituents 2) Mass Gov Maura Healey is leading a coalition of mostly blue states that could coordinate purchasing of pediatric vaccines Read all about this here:
Dragged my father in law to women’s sporting event because I know he doesn’t care but he’s so invested in banning trans folks.
When MAGA gets done banishing trans people to the ends of the Earth, the right wing will definitely retain its newly formed, super-sincere interest in the purity of girls' sports, right? Right?
Raddatz is a willing fool.
RFK is a effing moron.
Yeah, man, totalitarianism is when people listen to experts. Good talk, always a pleasure to hear from you.
Raddatz is a fool.
This is who they are.
These ppl walk among us. Here’s the mind-blowing response of this miscreant. Could’ve been written by Trump about the FIFA trophy or Putin about Ukraine: www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...
They don’t effing care. Ask my father in law.
SIGNS OF FASCISM 🪧
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…
Where is that sh8t stain mark meadows?
Biden was outflanked by this. He should have been preventing any of this from happening since January 7 2021.
Democrats don’t get this now.
F miller. Crown jewel my ass.
I’m not sharing this to scare people—though it’s fucking terrifying. I’m sharing it because we all need to be on guard. We won’t be getting reliable data from the CDC anymore. Worse, the guidance could be harmful. RFK Jr. has no medical training, no scientific background…
Friday Rant! While the left complains and plays purity politics, the fascists in the WH are plotting to harm us more. STFU already
I have a column on this going up in the morning, but I'm telling you folks, there's an immediate need for people to light up lawmakers' phones and clang pots and pans and protest and do whatever the hell can be done to get RFK Jr. booted, or at least constrained. This is a five-alarm fire.
Honestly, after D & R administrations carried water for Saudi and Jared Kushner got $2 billion from their “fund” —I didn’t think this was possible. Good for the 9/11 families!
Robert E. Lee killed more U.S. troops in battle than Adolph Hitler and Osama bin Laden combined
"Donald Trump is not governing—he is waging war on the American government itself...This is all the same project: attacking the government and re-engineering it to serve as a weapon against the American people." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-cdc-th...
Tough on crime Trump the convicted criminal and insurrectionist and rapist is pretty rich.
Trump has been allowed every side of the issue he wants since birtherism and news media and press have allowed for it. It’s almost as if the news media and journalism ecosystem wants it this way.
And this is why Cracker Barrel did it. To juice their numbers. Smart move whoever planned that.
Ffs
JUST IN: Democrat Catelin Drey wins Iowa’s SD-01, 55% to 45%, a district Trump carried by 11.5% in 2024, breaking the GOP super-majority.
And the job little Marco will never have is president.
Ffs.
There is no sadder, more pathetic group of people than Trump’s second Cabinet.
People are sick.
Had he really believed it he’d have taken it on daily. Love Biden but he didn’t. He thought he could win the argument and he was very wrong.
Jordan. A man so innocent.
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.
Clinton was right. Harris was right. Trump was and remains wrong. And USA was and remains wrong.
“This is about the President of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.” – Gov. J.B. Pritzker
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.
Sick f_____!
Cause he’s a white supremacist.
My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
🚨BREAKING: In a landmark victory for voters, a Utah judge struck down the state Legislature’s gerrymandered congressional map and reinstated the citizen-led redistricting reforms voters approved in 2018. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
UPDATE: Lisa Cook says she's not going anywhere and Trump's bid to fire her is baseless. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
if you work in media and aren't loudly and unambiguously using your platform to fight this dictatorship, then you are failing.
January 6th. Biden won and yet we all lost because Biden and the rest thought it would go away. It was inevitable.
Trump taking on flag burning as if this is a thing beyond a west wing episode from like 2000. Or again at Zoey Bartlet’s birthday in season six.
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
Yes so epidemic of flag burning!? This was an episode of the west wing in like 1999/2000.
All the "my red line is genocide" 🙄 non-voters and 3rd-party voters allowed this to happen. You pretended that you cared sooooo much about people in a foreign war in an area roughly the size of Detroit that you, with malicious glee, threw the people of Detroit under the bus.
January 6th.
If I said something like this on the job, any of my jobs, I’d be unemployed
That’s *alleged* gang member, trafficker etc & highly improper for the govt to say while a criminal case is in progress. DHS may yet have to eat its words, just like they did after THE Sec’y previously said he’d never return to the US.
"Trump puts armed troops in DC and you see people say, 'Well, is this really the best crime fighting remedy?' No, that is not the concern with putting armed troops in DC. The concern is that it is an authoritarian outrage that would have been inconceivable in American politics even six months ago."
Amen.
What this administration has done to this man (and so many others) is criminal, but that's what you get with a convicted felon president.
Trump’s America is a cruel, ugly, ignorant, fearful, chickenshit America.
Lying pos.
Way too late. It should have been clear eyed reporting ever since January 6th and it’s not.
Glad that mainstream news is starting to be a little more aggressive about connecting the dots and recognizing white supremacy in this administration. But phrases like "right-wing activists" still hide the ball. This is a story about the White House welcoming open Nazis and antisemites. Say that.
It's so rare these days for an elected official to keep his promises to voters! Except the politician is Trump, and his campaign pledge was American fascism. How could anyone have not seen all this coming? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
Because we have a flag burning problem. F off.
It’s almost as if the supremely qualified Black woman was right about everything as Clinton was the first time.
Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally: "Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
So stop the pretense that Trump is about helping ANY segment of Americans.
Does he not remember Trump went to court over the census and lost trying to add a citizenship question?
The paragraph I posted is from an Associated Press story.
Nichols: Even though these guys come across as clowns, they're clowns with flamethrowers.. They have the machinery of government behind them. These are people that normally would be struggling to hold on to middle management jobs in a department store somewhere
Petulant child.
Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
John Bolton: “The historical verdict on Trump will be devastating. It’s rare to see one person being so destructive. He’s more like a vandal warlord than a constructive president. That’s what history will judge him on very severely.”
A hole in action.
Coup isn’t slow moving. It’s been happening since 2020.
“I was r*ped sometimes 3 times a day on that island… and I was not the only girl on that island… Ghislaine must die in prison, because I’ve been in hell and back for the last 17 years.” Listen to the survivors.
It’s clear that the main goal of the Maxwell interview was to get her to say that she didn’t see Trump do anything wrong. Which can only mean that there is something in the files that suggests that he did. Why else would she need to say that? The interview is more incriminating, not less.
Welker is terrible at this job. Vance is worse.
Plainly. They suck. Jeffries and Schumer are toast.
And it’s pretty rich whenever the patriarchy or fascists or white supremacists or criminals or insurrectionists don’t want us calling them what they are.
the reason this discourse will never end is because it is completely untethered from any kind of evidentiary standard. as long as there is a 19-year-old barista somewhere saying “cultural appropriation,” guys like nichols will complain that “democrats” use alienating language.
F tom and the patriarchy. @radiofreetom.bsky.social @taylorswiftlyrics.bsky.social
Having read @clintsmithiii.bsky.social's piece in The Atlantic, "Actually Slavery Was That Bad"—which, as words must, understates the truth of that title—I've just found, watched the first episode of, and subscribed to his "Crash Course Black American History" Youtube series. I commend it to you.
Ffs
“Papers, please”
And press will jump on Biden as soon as they see him again. Pathetic.
In case this matters, I would like anyone who did this or anyone considering doing similar to know that this repainting meant a lot to my gay teenager.
Why can’t a single American journalist do this? Trump has repeatedly claimed he’s ended numerous wars — he’s now increased the number to ten! — and he’ll surely do it again. Ask him to name the wars he says he’s won. Ask Leavitt. Ask Hegseth. Ask Rubio. Just fucking ask them & don’t let go.
But Stephen A Smith believes him so he’s got that. 🤪
This isn’t education, it’s indoctrination. The Trump administration gutted PBS and NPR not to save money, but to control the narrative. In their place, PragerU is moving into more classrooms. Already in Florida, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Idaho schools.
The anti indoctrination folks love it when it’s their indoctrination.
Press doesn’t give a shit. Majority lost their minds on birtherism and simply never recovered.
To the white people saying the Black History museum has an “overemphasis” on slavery…here’s an idea.