Like a 1980s televangelist, Trump is now asking his supporters to send him $15 to help him get to Heaven. meidasnews.com/news/trump-a...
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Like a 1980s televangelist, Trump is now asking his supporters to send him $15 to help him get to Heaven. meidasnews.com/news/trump-a...
What do they imagine happening to the rest of us? Serious question.
Wall Street was closed for Labor Day, but Monday was a big day for the crypto market with the launch of the Trump family's digital token. The launch reportedly means a windfall of billions of dollars for the family. The White House has often denied any conflict of interest for the president.
@claytoonz.bsky.social By Clay Jones.
Source: John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social
If you're fighting for the next unstable 20something mass shooter to have easy access to AR-15s, bc "personal freedom" means more to you than the bodies of dead American children, then maybe the problem is *your* mental illness.
This is how they beat up on a minority they already despise to distract from guns being the #1 killer of US children. Pls read, comment, subscribe... johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/straight-w...
Flags from across the Caribbean diaspora, heavy bass rhythms and elaborate costumes filled streets in Brooklyn for the West Indian American Day Parade. The Labor Day tradition honors Caribbean heritage and culture at the end of a weekend of Carnival festivities. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Man, I feel this. 🙏🏽😭
My heart hurts for Latino neighbors. Campaining for Kamala last year, I withstood curses, threats, pickup trucks swerving to scare me. Customers of the bodega I stood near would help with signs, etc, without being asked. I knew they'd come to my rescue if I were directly attacked. Good people, all.
Platner: Our taxpayer dollars can build schools and hospitals in America, not bombs to destroy them in Gaza.
Thank you for this! I've been begging Dem candidates for years to give up using District numbers which no one, even politics hobbyists like me, remembers from election to election. The only reason I know my District # on a ballot is because I know the current office-holder. How many voters don't?
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.
Giuliani played a key role in attempt to overturn Trump’s loss in the 2020 election by promoting false claims of fraud.
Military honors for Ashli Babbitt "tells those who gave their lives in defense of the Constitution that their oath was no more meaningful than the motivations of the mob that attacked the Constitution."
EPA Fires ‘Dissent’ Statement Signers The EPA fired agency employees who signed a June declaration decrying moves that contradict science and undermine public health www.scientificamerican.com/article/epa-... as Labor Day weekend started.
Meiselas: Xi Jinping and Modi and Putin and all these world leaders are gathering in China, and they're laughing. You know when Donald Trump says the world was laughing at us — the world was not laughing at us before. The world is quite literally laughing at us right now.
Working people make this country great. We’re celebrating this Labor Day by uniting to demand justice, equity, and dignity for all workers. Visit maydaystrong.org to learn how you can join the movement.
So, Trump targets Chicago for his next illegal invasion, using violent crime as his excuse. Then 33 homicides happen there in one weekend. Things that make you go hmm... 🤔
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
Dem Governors should make clear they “cherish our public health system as a pillar of American greatness and see vaccines as a miraculous human achievement” — unlike their foes who indulge “in juvenile conspiracy theories disparaging ‘deep state’ medical professionals.” Good @gregsargent.bsky.social
While the U.S. spent a half a billion dollars painting a fence black on their side, Mexico invited artists to paint their side to express their artistic talent. 💗 The contrast between the two countries highlights each country’s priorities.
What would you call a millionaire who snatched a sports gift out of the hand of a child, then brags about it??
It SHOULD have alarmed the wonderful @nytimes.com, as it was normalizing this deranged fascist 24/7 during the campaign -- and to this day, it refuses to use the term dictatorship or fascism as Trump persecutes dissidents, mobilizes the military against civilians, and acts the part every single day.
“I love this city fiercely. It has given me every good thing in my life. It has given me my children. It has given me my friends who are now my family. It has given me purpose.“ thetriibe.com/2025/08/trum...
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Breaking news: It's a beautiful weekend in Chicago. So for this weekend, the city has safely hosted: 🚴♀️ Bike the Drive where hundreds pedal down a temporarily closed Lake Shore Drive 🏠The ARC music festival (Chicago is the home of house music) ⚾A White Sox game 🍒Farmers markets & food fests 1/
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
Pritzker on Trump's authoritarian takeover: "The playbook is the same. It's thwart the media. It's create mayhem that requires military interdiction. These are things that happen throughout history and Donald Trump is just following that playbook."
“This is a historic win for the families,” said Brett Eagleson, whose father was killed in the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. “The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is going to be held accountable.”
Today marks 62 years since the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
The only reason Trump dropped out of sight is because situations that require a human response - like the murder of schoolchildren in a church - give him the ick. Given his status as a shooting “victim” himself he would sound even more cold & gross taking the “thoughts & prayers” route on this one.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson gave the most encouraging speech I've heard from Democrats today. Johnson was direct and convincing in his commitment to Chicagoans' safety. And he portrayed the gravity of the federal threat — and the seriousness of the required response — with clarity and resolve.
Promise tariffs ⟶ faff around ⟶ announce tariffs ⟶ pause tariffs ⟶ promise deals ⟶ court rules tariffs illegal ⟶ appeal ⟶ court order stayed ⟶ make no deals ⟶ 90 days expires ⟶ delay tariffs again ⟶ announce tariffs again ⟶ appeals court rules tariffs illegal again ⟶ you are here
Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze,
Bracing speech today by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson! "Protecting Chicago Initiative will ensure that every Chicagoan knows their rights, that every single family is prepared, and every part of city government is directed to protect the people of Chicago from federal action." tinyurl.com/4pavuxr6
40% of Missourians vote for Democrats, and this is the Congressional map the Republicans are pushing for.
A collection of clips from MSNBC of multiple Republicans getting booed at town halls this week.
this is quite a split screen:
Trump did this
So good
The problem: Mortgages signed by the Paxtons contained inaccurate statements declaring that each of those three houses was their primary residence, enabling the now-estranged couple to improperly lock in low interest rates, according to an Associated Press review of public records.
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…
REP. @brotherjones.bsky.social: “People want to give thoughts and prayers after a shooting, but it’s a form of theological malpractice when you pray for something you have the power to change.”
The Guardian is finally saying it: It’s all about the racism. No “both sides.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
That elides quite a bit of history. Trust did take a hit during Vietnam and Watergate, but it fluctuated after that for a few decades and then spiked after 9/11. It was Iraq, Katrina, and 2008 that caused it to fall off the cliff.
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
A court ruled in our favor and declared that the President cannot impose tariffs whenever, wherever, or however he wants. This is a victory for hardworking families and businesses in New York and our nation. We will never stop fighting to protect people and their wallets.
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
But why? Serious question. What do Trump and our shadow government gain by relinquishing leadership over the West? What do our traditional allies conclude when talking among themselves? It can't be all about Putin.
Do we still assume that the shadow government behind the Trump admin is the team that produced Project 2025, complete with ready legal rationales? Why haven't mainstream news outlets, with all of the journalistic prizes to be won, run that question to ground? It's not these sycophants.
Thank you, Trump voters.
The coming decades of severe climate change are going to see an absolute renaissance of disaster capitalism.
Since Trump has proposed ending FEMA, I've been wondering why a wanna-be king would plan to rule over a land of burnt out and flooded wastelands. Now I have my answer. Dreadful.
But why is Trump allowing RFK Jr to "go wild" as he said? What kind of king wants to rule over masses that are sick and dying? Serious question.
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.”
For those who are confused or pissed off at the CDC senior leaders for resigning…
I'm really worried about Kamala Harris' safety. She's too easy a target for MAGA wildmen. I hope she hires adequate private security. It would kill me if anything happened to Kamala. 😬
National Guardner? National Park Service workers laid off, and now the National Guard is doing landscaping in DC. Felon Trump really turned soldiers into gardeners.
Trump as a Russian asset aside, WHY is he doing all this damage to us?
I’d ask if maga is ok with ICE abducting firefighters who are working on a massive wildlife in Washington that was only 13% contained as of yesterday, but that would be a stupid question considering they’ve been cheering on their lord and master burning the rest of the country to the ground.
Jeanine Pirro did everything she could to indict the sandwich guy-who is apparently a veteran-and failed Meanwhile the administration is giving Ashli Babbitt a funeral with military honors So if you're MAGA and you assault a police officer *for Trump* You don't get prosecuted You get celebrated
NEW: USA Jeanine Pirro's office charged D.C. lawyer & West Point grad Paul Bryant yesterday w/ threatening to kill National Guardsmen. Today, Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui released him, calling it "perhaps one of the weakest requests for detention I have seen." www.wusa9.com/article/news...
Federal immigration officials in Washington state arrived on the scene of the largest wildfire in the state on Wednesday and arrested two firefighters who had been working to contain the blaze. stateline.org/2025/08/28/i...
I just found another burn from AMERICA’S FAVORITE GOVERNOR, GAVIN C. NEWSOM.
When people have no jobs, AI has displaced entry level ones, can't feed their families without food stamps, can't get basic health care without Medicaid, maybe there'll be a boom in sales of extra body organs.
New acting director of CDC Jim O'Neill expressed being pro paid organ donation. "There are plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused."
Jim O’Neill is a tech investor, former CEO of the Thiel Foundation, and co-founder with Peter Thiel of the Thiel fellowship. He has no direct medical education or experience. It’s hard to get away from the feeling that they really are trying to kill us.
📌Republicans are to blame for the slaughter of our children in our schools. Repeat: 📌REPUBLICANS ARE TO BLAME FOR THE SLAUGHTER OF OUR CHILDREN IN OUR SCHOOLS. Stop getting it twisted ...
THIS IS AMERICA 🇺🇸 A mom runs to find her child after a school shooting because Republicans ran to protect the NRA.
Thank you to that veteran! 🫡
PN today: "Perhaps most insidiously, Trump suggests that .. Marco Rubio and .. Kristi Noem should deport any immigrant who dares to burn the US flag-a legal exercise of the right to expressive speech which is protected by the Constitution. .." Very important context here:
As the Illinois governor infuriates Trump with an extraordinary response to his threats on Chicago (the president called Pritzker a bunch of names and instructed him to bow down and beg for “HELP”), it suggests that pundits are wrong. Dems can challenge Trump on this issue—and win. trib.al/R752v1i
Trump's use of red state National Guards in DC is really about viciously turning Americans against each other, about stoking hate and violence *among Americans.* JB Pritzker's response is so good because it lays *this* bare. Me and @brianbeutler.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/1997...
Reup: One thing many are missing abt Social Security whistleblower complaint is this: DOGE--including Big Balls, who has ties to criminal hackers--put ALL American Social Security data on an insecure AWS site AFTER SCOTUS GOPers intervened and let them do that. www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/26/a...
Prices are up and better yet, the jobs are going away. Trump’s shitshow economy is becoming a double-flusher. https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/more-u-s-companies-plan-to-slow-hiring-in-second-half-of-2025-183c4c5f
It's *almost* always a young, white male who's been radicalized by white nationalists and the racist gun-lovers the right loves to promote. It's *almost* never the people they want you to be afraid of who are doing this shit.
Mississippi health officials declared a public health emergency last week in response to the state’s rising infant mortality rate, stating that too many “families are losing their babies before their first birthday.”
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.
isnt it cool and fun how we make 10year olds live through insane fucking trauma like this instead of regulating the nra's penis substitutes?
Jones responds to Ogles…
Schools Theaters Concerts Malls Churches Synagogues Mosques Parks Nightclubs Offices Festivals Stores Military Bases Bars Post Offices Yoga Studios Super Bowl parades Nowhere is safe from the scourge of gun violence in America. You can't tell me we must simply accept it.
Our slide into authoritarian rule would not be possible without Trump's willing accomplices. William Pulte's corruption of the bureaucracy to single out the mortgages of Trump foes like Lisa Cook for "investigation" is the perfect example of this. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1996...
The Battle of DC is underway, brave US troops march on the nation’s Capitol, meeting the enemy head on in a desperate struggle against littering. With steel in their hearts and plastic bags in their hands, the troops brave behind enemy lines.
In this video, @markjacob.bsky.social and I discuss a WaPo story about Trump’s “dream role” as a big-city mayor. Seriously. Not a parody, utter journalistic malpractice as Trump exploits our military to occupy DC and advance his dictatorial police state. www.americaamerica.news/p/journalist...
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday were unable to secure a felony assault indictment against a man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent on the streets of Washington this month, according to two people familiar with the matter.
ICYMI: Trump has just about decimated the federal workforce, with more than 199,000 people pushed out since Jan, per a new report. Nearly 10% of the entire federal civilian workforce gone. “The services that Americans have come to expect are not going to be there.” www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
This is painful to watch. Felon Trump has the National Guard picking up trash in D.C. Because there isn’t enough crime to keep them busy?
I know there is some anxiety around how to protect yourself in light of Muskrat and his herd of shitler youth getting their hands on all our personal information so here are the steps you can take to protect yourself. I’ve seen these in various threads but thought it worth putting them together🧵 1/?
NEW: The Social Security Administration's chief data officer has blown the whistle, saying Trump's DOGE team uploaded a database containing the hundreds of millions of Social Security records of most Americans to an AWS cloud server, allegedly without proper access controls or monitoring in place.
Kilmar Abrego García -
Residents of California, Texas, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey are hit the hardest.
KILMAR IN BALTIMORE: “Never lose hope. Promise me you’ll continue fight for freedom — not just for me, for everybody.” He was just taken into ICE custody.
September 1st, we are joining with May Day Strong to stand in support of laborers across the U.S. The U.S. recently produced weak jobs growth, amongst increased lay-offs. Our country is suffering and we increasingly can’t afford the cost of living. We’re underpaid and overworked.
Imagine how this makes them feel.
David Roberts @volts.wtf What percentage of the US population do you think really knows & understands what's going on right now?
VETERANS, Family & Friends: Want to participate in organizing Veteran led peace patrols to reassure & remind our National Guardsmen that they have sworn an Oath to the Constitution? It’s forming on every city. JOIN HERE : rememberyouroath.org
They warned that the Trump Administration's cuts to disaster response and the current FEMA leaders' complete lack of experience risk placing the country at a "Katrina-level" disaster. So Trump fired them. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...