Rhetorician, Mets fan (it builds character), and Poet-in-Residence at Cal State Dominguez Hills.
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Trump wants Cuomo. Cuomo is courting Trump. The same people who bankrolled Trump's campaign are bankrolling Cuomo. So, NYC, a vote for Cuomo is a vote for Trump. It's that simple.
National Guardsmen now stationed outside our DC building confirmed that the only thing they can do if they witness a crime is call 911. The have no more authority than my office mate to intervene. Despite the handcuffs, they can't make arrests. They are very expensive mall cops.
The Epstein saga lays bare the playbook: right-wing media, GOP politicians & MAGA propagandists colluding to hide heinous acts, divert attention and protect the powerful. Itâs what they do on EVERY issue. If your eyes are open, you can't miss it â unless you are willingly looking the other way.
The War Against the Cows
He's right that after he's gone all the political journalists who cover for him today will laugh about how bad it was and how "everybody knew"
Give us the ability to make sure the bills are paid, and we will thrive! Again and again the "experiment" works--take the damn boot off our necks God knows I'd love to be able to get off SNAP & afford my rent, instead of doing the financial equivalent of shuffling deck chairs around on the Titanic
Big news: California, Oregon and Washington State just announced a joint "West Coast Health Alliance" to counter Trump/RFK destruction of our public health system. As I argued last week (see below), this is becoming a new frontier in Dem Gov resistance to Trump.
One of the fundamental differences between the US right and US progressives is that the US right understand getting the attention of voters is what politics is. Enacting policy is *governing*. Getting attention to get power to enact policy is *politics.* Not all of it, but a huge chunk of it.
You are not qualified to be a media critic if you misunderstand the source material this badly. May the ghost of Mary Shelley haunt this reviewer for time and all eternity.
The black hole of disinformation and bullshit continues to suck in huge portions of the US. Rabies is spreading in the US. One reason is that many people are not vaccinating their dogs. Why? Many actually believe rabies vaccinations will make their dogs autistic.
You CANâT TELL ME that after thousands of hours of FBI investigations that someone OTHER THAN Epstein & Maxwell should have been criminally charged. WHERE ARE THE ARRESTS AND PROSECUTIONS? WHERE IS THE JUSTICE FOR THOSE VICTIMS?? America demands not the âreleaseâ of the files! HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE!
Every one of these events is this Administration taking opportunities to claw away norms, normalize what we know is wrong & bleed America of its empathy and outrage.
Yeah dammit
Our congressional leaders have to WANT to put an end to this. They absolutely canâŚthough many of them will lose massive donations etc. Will they put human lives & souls above money? Not a lot of precedent for this, here in đşđ¸. đ¤Ź
Pay attention to the way people are accepting Trump and Rubio's claim the boat was full of drug traffickers without providing one shred of proof about the boat's occupants.
@timmiller.bsky.social on the Trump family's crypto profits: âAgnew resigned over $10K in a paper bag andâŚsome other side deals. But this is $5 billion.â @stuartpstevens.bsky.social: âAnd no one in the Republican Party will say a thing.â
Exposed give himself to *underage women* at a bowling alley while accompanied by his future wife, who was herself underage at the time.
Weâve compiled a few essential tips, drawn from the experiences of on-the-ground activists and immigrant rights groups. Guide: lataco.com/documenting-...
These problems are even bigger. As a constitutional matter, the deployment of unfederalized Guard personnel into a nonconsenting state can never happen. Never.
Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.
Like this is just not acceptable, sorry
Trump is in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. Maybe he needs to rethink his pending announcement.
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
The Curse of Watergate - "it's only a crime if it's in secret, and the cover-up is always worse than the crime"
I used to read books like Lord of the Rings or watch movies like Star Wars and think the villains were unbelievable. And of course, now watching the tech oligarchs (who could not spend all their money if they tried) destroy civilization for power, Iâm like, guess I was wrong. People are that awful.
I have expertise in very few things. One of those things is the law of smuggling. And this is absolutely unprecedented and illegal in peacetime.
also, what do you think people conclude when they hear you say Donald Trump is a "wannabe king" who is "attacking the American people" (both true things Jeffries has said) and also that you want to find common ground with him? Probably that your criticisms are insincere or that you're weak or both
40% of Republicans think the COVID vaccine killed more people than the COVID virus. One in four believe that QAnon is real. No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.
"Donald Trump is a monster and we desperately want to work with him" is a batshit position to take, it makes you sound like an insincere and feckless empty suit
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
Man, can't wait to rally behind the message of "let's find common ground." That'll really juice the numbers. Fucking milquetoast bullshit.
Trump has sent Texas military personnel to within 20 minutes of my parents as part of a plan to invade Illinois with another state's National Guard. What the literal F.
Hey @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social: you said this three days ago. And now today you want to find bipartisan solutions with them? Why should any person take you fucking seriously? bsky.app/profile/hake...
âŚHoly shit he literally just said "It's both good and bad, if something really bad happens just blame the AI"
Ding ding ding ding ding
This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.
starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result:
It's one of the dozens of renames/rebrands of minor league teams, designed specifically to sell t shirts. Almost all of them done by Brandiose Studios out of San Diego.
What a tool. "I have a suggestion for Il Duce"
Honestly can't think of anyone who squandered a huge victory faster than Labour has. Are Starmer's advisors the same ones who talk to leading Democrats? Because whoever is telling him to out-crazy Reform is pulling a massive prank.
One of the definitive days of this admin imo was the WSJ identifying racist posts from a DOGE staffer - the kind of stuff that would be read out loud to you as HR explains why you're not getting severance - and Vance saying no, we won't let the media cancel people anymore.
The U.S. military is not a civilian law enforcement agency. This is dangerous. John Hutson, Steven Lepper, and Andrew Turley @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/dangerous-...
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New York does not miss. The bleach did it for me. đ
The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to: â˘admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states â˘abolish ICE â˘grant citizenship to any immigrant â˘disband the 5th Circuit â˘expand the Supreme Court Seriously: Why the hell not?
Only the right side of The President's face is able to move, causing yet another quandry for The Left.
My understanding of screenplay format is that *all* of "RIVERS OF SNOT" should be capitalized.
Thank you on this labor day!!
Right-wing politicians and news NEVER shut-up about Biden's health. Like everything else, DEMOCRATS & the left media are being WAAAY too quiet about Trump's obvious decline. ALL of them should be speculating wildly about his health right now. Stroke? Heart attack? CANCER? Stir the fucking pot, Dems.
And we're supposed to swallow thing after seeing Trump's MAGA horde storm the Capitol and beat the hell out of hundreds of police. Even though the president himself is a convicted felon and adjudicated fraudster. But sure, they're the party of "law and order" and we just have to accept that
My understanding is Abel Archer 83 is #2 behind the Cuban Missle Crisis in terms of how close we came to WW 3.
If they could put him in front of a camera, they would.
What these Schatz posts say to me is that Dem elected officials like him seem incapable of perceiving the right as a *political movement.* The response to Covid mitigation and the Floyd protests was not a spontaneous reaction...it was a right wing backlash organized by a reactionary movement.
Reminder: the apparent plan was to spirit these children away in the middle of the night without them ever seeing the inside of a courtroom to challenge their deportation. Children.
The warfighters in DC got the trash picked up, now time to mulch.
Whatâs wild to me: NOW, media outlets & medical organizations are âstunnedâ 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/
It does allow me to laugh at them when they put the bite on me, though.
A Leave it to Beaver world supported by a top tax rate of 91%.
If you have tomorrow off, if your kids attend middle school instead of working in a factory, if you have workplace protections, and if you have sick leave and vacation time, thank unions. Even if you don't belong to one, they're responsible for things we all take for granted. And happy #LaborDay.
I don't know when you were there - I was mid-80s, and all of the campuses now have *considerably* less wabi-sabi than they had then. Except for Scripps, which was always very nice.
Sagehen here.
For several years they were in a place on a Foothill in *Upland*, an office building otherwise mostly full of dialysis clinics. They've been gone from that place too for more than a year.
Didn't know that. Go Wolfpack!
They admitted several weeks back that he has Chronic Venous Insufficiency.
Greetings from beautiful Claremont, where the not-beautiful Claremont Institute no longer has an office.
And/or didn't want to pay, got run down by her business associate.
And then have your car run down by that woman's close friend/business associate.
A basic principle of campaigning is to set the terms early and force your opponents to follow you. If you do it they'll almost always come out smaller. Pritzker is doing that.
As I said to Wolf Blitzer ⌠{checks notes} ⌠*9 days* after the election: "Conservative attorney George Conway on Thursday suggested that some of Donald Trumpâs most controversial Cabinet picks were ones youâd make 'if you were actively trying to do harm to the country, to destroy the country.' ...
When they go low, we fucking kneecap them. Thatâs the mantra from here on out, say it till it sticks
I think SpiritualStreetFighter is the "artist"
Greetings from Queens
Or dinosaur like
You know who benefits most from antivaccine conspiracy theories as national health policy? Our enemies.
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
A must for reposting.
Chicago passes ordinance requiring all law enforcement to be unmasked and have their names and agency they work for openly displayed This will hamstring Trumpâs ICE Gestapo when they invade Chicago. Their actions will wither in the light. Unmask ICE Gestapo nationwide #ProudBlue
Just saw a video of Bill Maher calling Mamdani a âstraight up communistâ and I continue to be struck by the depiction of policies associated with the New Deal Order as far-left extremism, which goes along with a refusal to depict Trumpâs unprecedented authoritarian actions as far-right extremism.
We have a decades of scholarship on how pro-democracy forces win in competitive authoritarian systems: they form a united opposition that brings together people with otherwise profound political disagreements.
this pointâthat this era is not forever and accountability can come in many formsâhas for some reason proved bizarrely elusive for democrats
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romneyâs presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
I applaud whoever decided (probably Miller himself) to have Stephen Miller act increasingly as âspokesmanâ for this Administrationâs policies. He is so fundamentally repellent that I suspect even loyal MAGA adherents get the heebie-jeebies when they listen to him,& ask themselves, âAm I w/this guy?â
Americans are begging for Democratic leadership to get off the mat and back into the fight. If youâre a political leader in this country and are not prepared to fight with both hands, not prepared to make âgood troubleâ, then perhaps you should step aside and make space for those who will. #Velshi.
Guy who wrote a book saying his mom is a junkie slag and his people are lazy trash thinks that everyone else should be more grateful
thread form Alec i'm just not worried - at all - about liberal anger going 'too far', the primary failure of liberalism, for decades, has been us *forgoing* justice & accountability after bush v gore, the iraq war, endless criminality, & a literal coup attempt
The inside always ends up outside
Trump: âIf my hand gets any blacker, Iâm not going to let it vote.â
Just admit it: You love your guns more than your children. The first step is acknowledging the problem.
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.
-- using last night's rumor as an excuse. There was that whole night when people were saying online he was dead. And he was fine! So he's fine now!
âThe guys before you broke things so bad that you werenât able to fix it before the next election and weâre angry, so as punishment, weâre putting the guys who broke everything back in charge.â
Fuck, man
California alone is the fourth largest economy in the world. Blue states can definitely do this. We can unite on many other issues as well.
