Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
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Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Nine former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are speaking out, saying Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is endangering the health of Americans. abcnews.go.com/Health/forme...
I love how music transcends not only every human but every species. That’s why I love all musicians because they share a message that resonates with every living being on this planet.
If they enact a new illegal congressional map, Missouri will be sued.
We are already suing Ohio.
Today's a good day to learn Colbert found a new job. Hope it's a good one for everybody! #HappyLaborDay
Ditto.
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
Hope the 19 million Dems who didn't vote last Nov, & those who voted 4 the POS in the white House as they believed the bullshit, or couldn't vote for a woman, esp a woman of color, understand that this is on THEM! We are not getting the govt WE voted for! They are getting the gvt they deserve!
In Which Nadine Amuses a Dragon and Makes Autumn Happen
The Knights Who Say Ni****
NEWS: Walgreens just got taken over by private equity. Private equity has a record of running companies into the ground. Walgreens could be the latest victim: closing more stores, service plummeting, workers losing their jobs, and eventually bankruptcy.
This part. Everyone should be taking notes from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social’s @mizzwelch.bsky.social
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@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
CHICAGO…
Did you know in August 1943 prisoners at Sobibor extermination camp in Poland revolted and guards indiscriminately beat and fired gas canisters at prisoners as they shouted “freedom”? Actually no, this was this month in Florida. (Sobibor revolt was in October 1943) #USpol #ice #noem #desantis
Corporate America’s playbook: 1) Exploit workers to maximize profits 2) Use profits to buy Congress 3) Use Congress to pass union-busting laws 4) Use these laws to further exploit workers 5) Repeat Let's break the cycle and keep building back a powerful labor movement.
"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:
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)
I see New Hampshire is looking to live free and die then 😅
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
Monarch migration www.mlive.com/news/2025/08...
Newsom: Perhaps the president could deploy the National Guard in every corner of Mississippi. Murder rate is out of control there. And the governor may want to make that phone call.
🚨BREAKING: Arizona Court of Appeals REJECTS right wing challenge to Arizona's signature matching process. Another VICTORY for my law firm's clients and the voters of Arizona. www.democracydocket.com/cases/arizon...
BREAKING: Robert F. Kennedy Jr poised to surpass gun violence as leading cause of death among American children.
This is brilliant reporting from the FT, lifting the lid on just how fucking horrendous these flights are.
“the trees are about to show us how beautiful it is to let go”
This nurse has been feeding him nothing but carrots for like 9 days now, and I'm starting to get a little suspicious that she doesn't even work here.
Dr. William Foege, 89, who helped end smallpox in the 1970s, recently wrote: RFK Jr.’s “words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.” And his actions are more lethal still. He’s waging war on America. That’s an impeachable offense. He must be removed from office. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
Did you know the great final two verses of Pete Seeger’s classic “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” antiwar song — the ones in which the soldiers went to graveyards, and the graveyards to flowers — were added by singer, songwriter, and folk music archivist Joe Hickerson, who died Aug. 17 at age 89?
If someone tells you there's nothing we can do about gun violence beyond thoughts and prayers, remind them: —Gun laws in other countries have prevented mass shootings —More guns don't make us safer —A majority of Americans want gun reform We don't have to live like this.
MIAMI (AP) - Judge won't halt closure of 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades. @apnews.com
If the Democratic Party intends to win this fight, it must stop functioning solely as a party & instead step into its moment in history: to lead a pro-democracy movement capable of confronting this authoritarian threat. https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/stand-up-america-the-time-for-a-pro?r=2lckc
I saw someone refer to Cracker Barrel as "Honky Bucket" and I have not been the same since
NEW: A federal grand jury has REFUSED to indict sandwich guy! I imagine the DoJ will keep trying. They have two weeks, at which point they’ll have to drop the charges or reduce it to a misdemeanor. 🥪 www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
RULE ABOUT AMERICAN FLAGS: If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail. But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.
Never before in our history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next. This is what dictatorship looks like.
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
Proof? Most necropsies done on dead whales that wash ashore show other causes, mostly ship collisions.
That's the Republican standard, they all get participation trophies 🏆
Phwoar!! Where's me bucket!!
Yay 🎉
Mine did (she's gone now, had her 18 years). Used her shit-pit, sauntered into the bedroom, curled up for a minute, then jumped down and could be heard vigorously digging to cover the poo as deep as possible.
Chief Justice “Calvinball” Roberts has earned this ignominious place in American history, thanks to the incomparable Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson:
#cdnpoli #Canada 🇨🇦 #CanadaSky #TeamCanada #CanadaProud #CanadaStrong #ElbowsUpCanada 🍁 #BuyCanadian #ViveLeCanada #NovaScotia #BlueNose
Walked 15 miles from Kinloch Hourn to Inverie, and have a greater understanding of why the Romans never managed to conquer Scotland 😰
Consider the irony: "The president"—unquestionably the biggest blowhard on the planet—"is not a fan of wind."
😆 🔥 some beautiful, creative resistance
Cf Benito Mussolini
Humanity A system that rips fathers from their families in immigration court is not justice; it’s cruelty. People can only take so much before heartbreak turns into resistance.
Way to go, San Francisco!! 👏👏
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
🤬 This is sick and unworthy of a "great nation".
"A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people." ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt #trees #art #nature #landscape #bluesky #photo #photography
No one would be confused about what's happening if you saw it in another country. No one.
Newsom’s Twitter troll is genius because pleading and crying in front of an authoritarian does nothing, but pointing and laughing enrages the authoritarian.
🚨BREAKING: Hours after Texas passed its new map, my law firm has challenged it in federal court. In addition to violating the VRA, HB 4 violates the 14th Amendment because it unjustifiably considers race and partisanship as part of a voluntary, mid-cycle redistricting. @redistrictfdn.bsky.social
The DOJ released the security video of Epstein's jail in parts so they could take out anything inconvenient. The DOJ released the Maxwell/Blanche transcript in parts so they could take out anything inconvenient. Such an obvious cover-up.
Loving this!!
@annettebeebe.bsky.social Good morning, Annette! 🙂❤️ Get your Friday swerve on, my wonderful friend! 🌞😀😊🤗
I said what I said.
Such a beautiful bird…. 🐦
Why is Nicole Collier not trending here? THIS is America, Nicole Collier is America, and what she's having to go through with Texas authoritarians, is NOT America. #RESIST this admin and its P2025 Steering Committee. Are you America? Check @hcrichardson.bsky.social at: bsky.app/profile/hcri...
An executive order isn’t a law.
I thought you might 😉
Dog sneeze core
Novo Nordisk’s move to cut the price of Ozempic to $499 for the uninsured is a modest step forward, but let’s not forget. Ozempic costs just $59 in Germany while it costs less than $5 to make. The U.S. must no longer pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.
Cynicism asks nothing of us; hope demands everything. When people choose to act rather than surrender, that is what keeps democracy alive. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...
Smooth. Lol
You, too, can put champagne coolers on your mantelpiece to make it look like you're always winning 🙄
Some Texas Democratic women have torn up their permission slips and will now be hosting a “slumber party for Democracy” on the House floor.
Those urn type things on the mantel are champagne/wine chillers. Nice given Donald is teetotal.
Unlike Californians, Hoosiers weren't given a voice in this. Democrats believe in a government that is decided by we the people. MAGA believes in a government decided by the rich and powerful. Which form of government do you want? Let our voices be heard! www.wishtv.com/news/politic...
Yup, I was addicted to this one myself.
Someone gold-plate a turd and give him that.
Another shocking bombshell exposing Assad depravity: forced disappearance of thousands of children of regime critics, many put in orphanages, *abetted by SOS Children’s Villages International.* Summary of Shane Bauer’s long-read, no paywall—longer piece is linked.) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/m...
Yes, Ma'am!
Redford, 89 years old today. “All the President’s Men” (1976) owes its existence to him — buying the film rights, developing a script and cajoling a reluctant Woodward & Bernstein. I thought it was “a great character study,” he said — but for months, “they didn’t return my calls.”
So Trump is a perpetual motion machine? 🤔
Oh, this is just swell
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Both EVIL
BREAKING - Zelensky: “Russia must end this war, which it itself started.”
Holy shit.
I'm tired of stories like this.
When you spent the entire plane ride to Alaska giddily practicing your Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech about how you "Art of the Dealed" a ceasefire agreement out of Putin, only to have your dreams snatched away by that smarter, more savvy Russian once again.
Wowzer!
Endangered Sawfish Trapped in Tampa Bay Saved by Scientists An endangered smalltooth sawfish that had been trapped in a lower Tampa Bay wetland was safely relocated on August 9 thanks to a team effort by researchers and concerned citizens. www.tampabay.com/news/environ...
Because #Nature
"Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble." #GoodTrouble
