NEW: Gov Jared Polis (D) tells me he won't free President Trump's ally Tina Peters from prison to prevent more retaliation like Trump's removal of Space Command from Colorado. "Justice is not for sale," Polis said. #copolitics
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NEW: Gov Jared Polis (D) tells me he won't free President Trump's ally Tina Peters from prison to prevent more retaliation like Trump's removal of Space Command from Colorado. "Justice is not for sale," Polis said. #copolitics
Epstein survivor: We were horrified to learn that Ghislaine Maxwell had been transferred to a prison camp. She is someone who was found guilty by a jury of sex trafficking. She also participated in the abuse. She was a major architect of the scheme.
Again, these are not the statements of a sane person. Trump is out of his mind. It's ridiculous that we are not having a serious national conversation about his clear decline, and the danger it represents to the country.
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
HUGE. The 5th Circuit joins many other federal courts in holding that Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act was unlawful. The judges emphasize that the law is fundamentally about *war* and about military actions; not illegal immigration or drug trafficking.
BREAKING: 5th circuit panel rejects Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to expel Venezuelan nationals, saying there has been no "invasion" or "predatory incursion." Majority Southwich (George W. Bush) Ramirez (Biden) Dissent Oldham (Trump) s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Pritzker: When did we become a country where it's okay for the president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything, especially something we don't want? Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?
I'm confused...is he saying that only gay men have sex? And more importantly, is he saying that as long as only gay men can contract monkeypox, who cares? And least importantly, if the entire country has been living in fear, why was I left out of the loop?
Sen. Roger Marshall on the CDC purge: "This is the same group of so-called experts that told the entire country we should live in fear of monkeypox, but failed to tell us that unless you're a homosexual man you don't have to worry about this at all, that monkeypox is a sexually transmitted disease."
COVID was Dems' fault because they acknowledged it. Any societal disruption could've been avoided if only we pretended. First time US media and voting public didn't hold the president responsible for a bad thing on his watch. Even as he messed it up on live TV. Nothing I can think of comes close.
It is really, really time for them to move on.
Everyone on the Dem side?
Pulled from their jobs, families, and lives to collect garbage and plant waste.
Warfighters demonstrating leafality.
New - Governor Poll - Virginia 🔵 Spanperger 53% 🔴 Sears 41%
Never forget this: Working people outnumber the billionaires and CEOs by a huge margin. If workers stand together, they will win. Solidarity.
Some insiders have theorized that the White House installed Fugate to oversee a pivot away from traditional counterterrorism and to steer resources toward MAGA-friendly sheriffs and border security projects before eventually shuttering operations. (Published June)
22 year old man whose previous experience is a grocer. The header of counter terrorism. MAGA is Affirmative Action for Mediocre White Men
Should the president send the National Guard to Philadelphia?
I feel this loss
Kressly: I expect in the next couple of weeks, this is going to get worse. You’re going to hear from the same administrative people who have gutted the expertise needed to promote child health — pushing false narratives like, “we need to look at the link between vaccines and autism.” That is a lie.
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.
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
1961 for me, but I passionately, deeply, profoundly echo your disappointment and disbelief that we are not beyond this. And not just that we didn't PROGRESS in kindness, empathy, understanding, and compassion...we are going BACKWARDS. Many are ATTACKING kindness and empathy as undesirable traits.
Gavin Newsom, for the win! Let's fucking go! 🙌💪👏✊👇
Wonder how Rashida Tlaib feels about her incessant attacks on President Biden and VP Harris now? Are they still uncommitted?
At every single second, they worked their hardest to destroy trust, to foment doubt & anger & resentment, to *prevent* solidarity. And those lies mattered. The vaccine skepticism deliberately spread by the right led to 100s of 1000s of preventable deaths. Again: *they caused mass death*.
I don’t use AI because I’m infuriated for the artists and writers and philosophers who’ve had their intellectual property stolen. I also hate boring and impersonal shit. If someone can’t be bothered to write something, why should I be bothered to read it?
Meanwhile in Russia: Vladimir Solovyov and Margarita Simonyan discussed Trump's health and America's diminishing global standing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezOy...
Cato Institute found that ICE has booked 204,297 people, of whom 65% (~133,687 people) had NO criminal convictions. Among detainees with convictions, 93% had no violent convictions. YOU might be their next target, especially if you are a person of color.
She was arrested on the morning of Feb. 20 at her home in Charlotte while caring for her three younger siblings — the youngest of whom has autism — while her mother was at work.
Just heard from over 200 veterans and military family members at our town hall in Raleigh with NC Attorney General @jeffjacksonnc.bsky.social. They’re fired up because Trump is cutting the services they depend on here and across the country, and we’re going to keep fighting to stop him.
This. I vividly recall the theatrical post-COVID balcony scene during his first term. If Trump were even healthy enough to *try* put the rumors to bed, he would have done so already. The fact that the best he can muster is a short walk to a motorcade and a week-old Jon Gruden photo is quite telling
So Martha Radditz wants to know why, if D.C. crime is down, Wes Moore wouldn't want... a fucking police state with soldiers in the streets in his city. The fact that she even asked that question should cost her her job. "Why wouldn't you want to live in a police state if it stops crime?
What’s wild to me: NOW, media outlets & medical organizations are “stunned” by the damage RFK Jr. is doing to CDC, other health agencies, & public health. Me & my colleagues have been screaming about him for years. Years. Even more so in the last year. We were called hyperbolic. 1/
THANK YOU FOR WATCHING THE LYING LIARS & NEWS STINKERS OF FOX "NEWS" SO WE DON'T HAVE TO! IT IS VERY MUCH APPRECIATED BY THOSE OF US WHO VALUE HONESTY, INTEGRITY & DECENCY WHILE ALLOWING US TO CONSUME ACTUAL FACTS WITHOUT THEIR BRAINWASHING TECHNIQUES & ABILITY TO TRIGGER BOUTS OF VIOLENT NAUSEA. 🤮
Did I mention ICE arresting firefighters who were LITERALLY fighting a massive fire at the time of their arrest? 🔥 #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
Between RFK decimating the CDC, normalizing Ashli Babbitt & the umpteenth school shooting... I'm losing the will to post. #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
Just joined! 👍
Honored that Mark is now a Democracy Docket member.🙏 The force of democracy must be with us!!!🥳
I like the rebrand.
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:
Fatality.
JUST IN: Judge who blocked the transfer of about 600 Guatemalan minors from US to Guatemala Sunday is keeping a very tight leash on the government. Echoes of Alien Enemies Act litigation simply deafening here. Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
She fled violence as a child, won a scholarship, dreamed of being a nurse. Instead of celebrating her, ICE jailed her for 6 months until she broke. 😡 Cruelty is not justice. We must fight for dignity & reform! #BlueCrew #Resist #ProudBlue #antimaga #AbolishICE #ImmigrantRights
To be clear: 1. We’ve taken in roughly $150 billion in tariffs - nowhere near a single trillion, much less trillions. 2. Tariffs single-handedly saving our military — which has been the strongest in the world for decades — is the dumbest shit I’ve read today.
You are always so fair and open minded! ❤️
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Cyclists, don't forget to wear hi viz!
I love you so much @velshi.com, but please read this entire thread and see if you agree there is an opportunity to further improve your stellar and very important reporting. We need to highlight the effective fighters along with the ongoing threats. We need some hope too. bsky.app/profile/arie...
WE'RE ABOUT TO PUT A MEMECOIN OUT 😂
Judge Sooknanan isn't buying it... The plaintiffs are telling me, she says, that the children do not want to go back to Guatemala, that no request has been made, and that they fear returning to Guatemala, and may be subject to harm
Sooknanan: And from the plaintiff's perspective, you do not think that that's true? Plaintiff's counsel: We know that is not true for all the children in the class...and even if it were, the provisions the government cites as legal basis does not override other protections in the statute
Sooknanan: I have counsel telling me that there are children whose parents did not request their return to Guatemala. I have declaration representations contrary to what you're telling me. How does that [factual discrepancy] get resolved?
Judge: I got a call at 2:36 a.m. because the govt chose this time on a holiday weekend to execute this plan. I have been up since then. I haven't been able to reach anyone from govt until this morning at 9:30 a.m. So absent this intervention, all children would already have been sent to Guatemala!
@radiofreetom.bsky.social I am thinking of you so much right now because I am sitting between two women who have both kicked off their shoes while awaiting the start of boarding.
Judge Sooknanan: As I said at the start of this hearing, I got a call at 2:36 am [last night] because the government chose the wee hours of the morning on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend to execute a plan to move these children. That's why we're here.
Must be Gruden’s favorite golf outfit since he wore it last week at Trump’s club in Virginia.
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...
Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
"The lunatics are running the asylum."
RADDATZ: One of the things they are trying to do in DC with the National Guard is have them back up local law enforcement WES MOORE: They are picking up trash
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri... lmao they’re activating them for 29 days over and over so they don’t get full active duty pay
When you see a sudden increase in negative portrayals of a public figure without an apparent cause, stop and think. Is a false narrative behind this? #DisinfoBuster #TruthBrigade
Pritzker: "National Guard troops, any kind of troops, on the streets of American city don't belong unless there is an insurrection, unless there is truly an emergency. There is not."
Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.
Jones: We have a presidential administration that has more outrage about the changing of the cracker barrel logo than they do about changing the policies that allow our children to be gunned down in school…
“ILLEGALS” MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
@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.”
Welch: As someone who lives in a red state, let me just tell you what MAGA supermajorities get you. We're 50th in education. The worst in the whole country for women to live. We're poorer, worst health care. And if you look at the bottom ten states, they are all MAGA supermajorities.
🚨The worst of the worst criminals are going after kids with backpacks and leaving their scooters in the road. 📌 WAKE THE HELL UP AMERICA. We are running out of time. 🚨
“When I call Kennedy a ‘dangerous crank,’ I'm not saying that as an insult or as hyperbole, but honestly as the most economical way of describing the man's views,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on RFK Jr.
Disgraceful.
You don’t speak for me.
And just exactly what was her crime. Was she a rapist? No. Was a con artist lying to people? No Was she paying taxes ? Yep that’s how they found her. Ya know what’s different? Skin Because our President is a rapist of children, He lies and cons,he doesn’t pay taxes. Now, who should they arrest?
How do these ICE officials live with themselves? When they were young students in school, did they ever foresee the day they would be the bad guys?
ICE kidnapping a mother as her child begs the officers not to take her. Heartbreaking 💔 😢
What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Art depicting “Sandwich Guy” now at the scene of the alleged misdemeanor.
Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"
Doomers: The 2026 election doesn't matter, Republicans are just going to rig the whole thing anyway Various red state republican incumbents: I'm just going to quit now because if I run in 2026 I'm going to get absolutely killed
More retirement news: Conservative Wisconsin justice Rebecca Bradley will NOT seek reelection next spring. Liberals (as you all know now) have a 4-3 majority on this high-stakes supreme court. This is their shot to go up 5-2, in April.
A federal grand jury has declined to indict another person arrested as part of President Trump's D.C. crime surge. This was the only case we know of in which the National Guard participated in an arrest. After the grand jury declined to return an indictment, DOJ moved to dismiss the case.
Trump’s claim that he'd stand up for workers was always a lie. He has consistently attacked the right to organize — even the already very limited rights of federal workers. More of the same from Don the Con. We will fight back in the courts.
Public opinion is turning sharply. Several polls indicate Donald Trump may end the first year of his second term as the most unpopular president in American history.
I say shade the parking lots with solar panels. It’s a win-win.
RFK Jr is driving this country towards an almost certain public health disaster. If Democrats can’t stop it, at the very least they can get it on the record now that they wanted him gone and the GOP wanted him kept in. Underline how they own the disasters to come. It’s Politics 101.
My grandfather also wants to pass along the message that RFK Jr. is destroying one of the prime achievements of American medicine. This is something he knows well, given the decades of his life he dedicated to medicine, to the scientific pursuits, and to helping research new treatments for diseases.
"Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who made a series of conscious, ill-advised decisions to engage in treasonous behavior, and she got exactly what she deserved. She was a traitor. She was a threat to national security. There is no nuance needed here."
I often talk about the fact that MAGA does not access the same news as the left wing. I present to you Exhibit A. Dr. Daskalakis’ resignation letter excoriated RFK Jr. and shared that RFK Jr. was lying to the public, manipulating data, and ordering unethical actions. This what Fox News served.
