This is a deeply reported, heart-pounding read Gift link ⤵️ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...
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This is a deeply reported, heart-pounding read Gift link ⤵️ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...
Q: "Trump said that this Epstein issue is a hoax. Can we get your reactions?" Epstein survivor Haley Robson: "Mr. President Donald J. Trump, I am a registered Republican...I cordially invite you to the Capitol to meet me in person so you can understand this is not a hoax."
I would be fine with him being home arrested at MAL but don't allow any visitors. He could wander the halls talking to himself.
NO WHITE FLAGS!
The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to: •admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states •abolish ICE •grant citizenship to any immigrant •disband the 5th Circuit •expand the Supreme Court Seriously: Why the hell not?
Who Dat Representing! Whose number we are wearing today?
Trump's tariffs are basically illegal, federal appeals court rules
🧵 How many times have you heard "Blacks are 13% of the population and commit 50% of violent crime"? Well, racists have been using the UCR wrong for their tired narrative. Let's set the record straight. Pull up a seat, folks.🪑 #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
I have no desire to have Trump pass away while he holds the office of President. They would make a martyr out of him.
According to my GOP Senator John Kennedy social media team, they are not ( they are).
Senator Kennedy social media team tried to gaslight me on Facebook when I called him out for GOP wasting money.
Should see the video clip of Trump supporters saying the exact same thing Biden supporters were saying before he dropped out of the election.
Shepard Fairey claps back🔥 🧵 “I was disgusted to see the style of my Obama HOPE poster used to attack Kilmar Agrego Garcia. The case against Kilmar is corrupt. Kilmar has been convicted of no crime, and his alleged ties to the gang MS-13 were based on him wearing a Chicago Bulls jersey and hat.
I loved @vermontgmg.bsky.social's latest piece so much that I asked if I could republish it on The Handbasket and he so generously said yes. If you haven't read it yet, please do. It's essential:
A man, near the White House, who describes himself as a "retired disabled combat veteran," after burning an American flag tells bystanders "I am being detained because I expressed my First Amendment rights."
Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.
I am not taking back my words. 👇
In a sad attempt to remain politically relevant, my Senator tries to use another sad attempt of staying relevant to boost his LSU and MAGA credibility. If you have to explain the joke at the end, it was not that funny. It just makes you look cringy.
Walmart, Home Depot, and many other companies are raising prices because of Trump’s tariffs. Grocery prices are ridiculous—coffee is up 15%, beef 11%, and eggs are still up 16%. It’s basically impossible for most people to afford a house And Trump keeps saying he’s defeated inflation...
The great @jeffgoodell.bsky.social "The cooled are people like me, who work mostly indoors, bathed in the soothing breeze of manufactured air...The cooked are people like Matthew Sanchez, the pit manager at Terry Black’s BBQ in Austin." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...
David Kirkpatrick: Trump's Self-Enrichment.
If we knew exactly who was investing in Trump's meme coins, then we could ask them what value they see in them. David Kirkpatrick joins @timmiller.bsky.social in the latest episode of The Bulwark Podcast:
youtube.com/watch?v=AaUm...
Went ahead and updated my map of cities with higher crime than D.C. to accommodate the two new states from the Deep South who are sending troops to the capital. In the five states there are 64 cities, home to 1.7 million people, that had more crime in 2024 than D.C. www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...
A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.
The meeting was a disaster for everyone except two people. Trump got his photo op and his ego boost. Putin got his photo op, whitewashing of war crimes and no sanctions. No one in Ukraine, Europe or the United States benefited in any way.
Tapping the sign. bsky.app/profile/seth...
BREAKING: ICE Adds Random Person to Group Chat, Exposes Details of Manhunt in Real-Time 🔗 www.404media.co/ice-adds-ran...
Host: Staffing at VA hospitals is now at crisis levels. A report finds that every single one of the nation's 139 VA medical centers faces severe staffing shortages. The need is 50% higher for both clinical jobs like doctors and psychologists, and non-clinical jobs like police and custodial workers
Trump’s DC coup is here—an authoritarian power grab wrapped in lies, distraction from the Epstein files, and open war on self-government. If he can crush democracy in the capital, he can do it anywhere—and he will. Stand with DC and learn how to fight back. open.substack.com/pub/demcastu...
I will say it again. No one is covering the GOP's redistricting scheme as closely, with as much context and analysis as Democracy Docket. Its team of 20 works around the clock to provide you independent pro-democracy news and information. Support their work by signing up today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
"That viral, fact-driven combativeness helped propel Hasan to stardom—and ultimately paved the way for the 46‑year‑old to strike out on his own...skeptics questioned whether his audience would follow him beyond cable news. Fifteen months later, the answer is clear: Zeteo has become a breakout hit."
How John Durham and Chuck Grassley Covered Up Getting Ass-Handed by Russia www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/01/h...
@deecherrywriter.bsky.social Have you seen this guy before?
Love this guy explain how this powerful queen destroys this witless pawn. youtube.com/watch?v=mqLw...
‘There are good interviewers working today. For example, look at how Mehdi Hasan has confronted figures like Erik Prince and Vivek Ramaswamy. One of the rules he lays out in his book Win Every Argument is that you must always “bring receipts”’
My super quick summary of what the latest document dumps from Tulsi are. I explain why: 1) Tulsi must fire herself 2) Jim Jordan must go to prison 3) John Durham and Chuck Grassley are being dishonest www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr65...
It’s really worse than any confirmation in modern memory. There’s just no argument - none- that he’s suitable unless you think all the whistleblowers are lying (and even then, with the rest of the evidence, EG Adams). Republicans didn’t think that they just put their heads down. Travesty.
This Chiropractor was dropping off his precious child at preschool when ICE thugs broke his window with his toddler in the back seat & detained him in front of his kid. No community is safe from the Pedo's thugs! He just finished his Greencard interview & was waiting for finalization. Speak out!
NEW: Every year, the Elie Wiesel Act requires the president to report to Congress on how the government is preventing mass atrocities. This year, that report never came. In its absence, at least 10 former US federal employees who worked on atrocity prevention released a Shadow Report.
Holy shit, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell corrected the orange felon’s lies on live television without hesitation. This is how you do it.
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
Powell fact-checked Trump in real time as the president made another attempt to discredit him. Trump has made it known that he wants the Federal Reserve chair fired, and this number fudging was purely antagonistic. At least Powell was there to fact-check him. https://trib.al/GOlJqPp
Uber knows your phone’s about to die and charges you more for the ride home. Congress might finally put a stop to “surveillance pricing.” From @ddayen.bsky.social: https://trib.al/msNRezs
ICYMI: Federal judges blocked Trump ally Alina Habba from staying on as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor. In response, AG Pam Bondi fired the official next in line, defying DOJ protocol and labeling the judiciary as “rogue” on social media.
Tulsi Gabbard Teams Up with Russian Spies to Wiretap and Unmask Hillary Clinton www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/24/t...
"At this point, women have been cleared out of all of the military’s top jobs." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Good explanation of the newest distraction attempt by Trump while one of his former personal lawyers is talking to Epstein's pedo wing person. youtu.be/NerxA-edTMY?...
Did any reputable Democrats—or mainstream journalists—ever allege that Russian cyberwarfare targeting the 2016 U.S. election included actual vote-rigging? Gabbard certainly produces no examples of such claims.
He's right, and it's not just Brazil. Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.
Totally watch the earlier seasons religiously. Most of those guys were very creepy.
Zach Khan, a high school journalist, has a new investigation he's hoping you'll all read.
Tap into their ancestral Puritan.
Must read of the morning:
The illegal population is disproportionately working-age and disproportionately employed. In other words: the opposite of “takers” and “parasites.” The nativists arrive at racism via factual errors. Or maybe it isn't about economics.
This is the story of a man with no name who was disappeared from a mall in New Orleans. It's about disappearances—past and present. About the U.S. legacy in Guatemala. About banana empires, CIA coups, and the people still paying the price. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/frui...
This is just sick. via @ktla.com: Footage obtained by KTLA shows a young man crying, saying his mother had just been taken, and children and protesters running from tear gas that was deployed when a crowd gathered at an immigration raid at a Ventura County farm this afternoon
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
Same here. The sound acoustics and claustrophobic nature of garages make it a perfect horror movie feel .
Basically the original poster is doing two things with this post. 1. Ignoring that Trump disastrous cuts to weather services will make tragedies like this more common 2. Trump is taking credit for something that already happens with National Guards response teams.
A father who died saving his family, children at summer camp, a loving grandmother: The faces of the Texas flooding tragedy
“Prayer matters,” Abbott said. Prayers “could have been the reason why water stopped rising”. What a shameful MAGA debacle of a press conference - a conference supposedly intended to help families desperate for information on the Texas flooding. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Veteran FBI agent, former Federalist Society member and law clerk for libertarian @inst4justice explains how new FBI leadership forced him out of FBI for being friends with Pete Strzok, who worked on Trump-Russia probe. Via @lawfare www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...
Unserious fool! Sorry US... from blue dot in red Boot.
The fiscal conservatives in the GOP just added $4 trillion to the deficit to give the wealthiest people on earth a tax cut. The pro-family party just took healthcare away from 17 million Americans to give ICE a bigger budget than Brazil’s military. The single most inhumane bill ever passed.
The bill "provides its most generous tax breaks early on and reserves some of its most painful benefit cuts until after the 2026 midterm elections"
They know they’re going to lose the House and probably the Senate in 2026 and they are setting up the bill so they can blame Democrats when the worst suffering sets in, when it will really have been MAGA that did this. This is forward facing propaganda planning. We need loud, fearless truth tellers
NEW: In first public account, Kilmar Abrego Garcia details weeks in Salvadoran prison CECOT. Says he was subjected to 'severe beatings,' psychological torture & soiled himself. Also says jailers confirmed his tattoos have no gang meaning. w/@kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."
AOC: This bill is a deal with the devil. It explodes our national debt. It militarizes our entire economy. It strips away health care and basic dignity of the American people for what? To give Elon Musk a tax break.. We cannot stand for it. And we will not support it. You should be ashamed
their greatest moral failure is arguably not lack of courage but rather lack of empathy. They simply do not care about the pain they are inflicting on others. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
This is the sort of mental shutdown we *didn't* see from Biden—despite hyperventilating claims the contrary. Biden would stutter, switch his train of thought in mid-sentence, and on rare occasion garble his words, as he has been prone to do for many years. This is Trump *literally malfunctioning*.
Every major health system in Louisiana is warning Speaker Mike Johnson and the rest of the state's congressional delegation that the Senate GOP's Medicaid cuts "would be historic in their devastation." www.politico.com/live-updates...
Fuck Trump's July of 4th deadline. Fuck all of Trump's fake deadlines. Fuck all of Trump's shit supporters. Fuck Trump's Big Authoritarian Deadly Bill. Fuck you for voting for Trump. Any questions?
The Trump admin has agreed to release from prison a three-time felon and spare him from deportation in exchange for his cooperation in the federal prosecution of Kilmar Abrego García. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
ICYMI: Actor Diego Luna used his opportunity of hosting the Jimmy Kimmel Show to talk about our immigrant neighbors, how immigrants built and rebuilt our country I respect him using his voice for good. More people with large followings need to #OnYourSide #UnmaskICE m.youtube.com/watch?v=7726...
Trump: "In China, you know how long it takes? One day. It's called President Xi. 'Boom. It's okay.' Over here we're gonna have almost the same thing. We're getting fast approvals."
Gross 🤮
In 2020, when I told people that I was building a pro-democracy media outlet, people thought I was kidding. When I told them that the fight for democracy was the fight of our time, they thought I was being overly dramatic. Well...here we are. Subscribe to Democracy Docket now. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
It has been a crappy days with tonight's vote the cherry on top of GOP shit sundae 🤬
More like a bribe for with carve outs for Alaska.
NEW: Senate Republicans do NOT have the votes to pass the Big Beautiful Bill at this time! 3 holdouts - including Rick Scott, Cynthia Loomis, and Mike Lee - are currently refusing to vote for the bill
UPDATE: Republicans’ Big Beautiful Bill cuts nearly $1 TRILLION from Medicaid.
Republicans are panicking and blowing up JD Vance’s phone because the THIRD Republican; Ron Johnson, just voted NO on Trump’s so-called Big Beautiful Bill. That’s 53 Republicans – 3 defections = 50. They’re one vote away from total collapse.
🚨 ICE disappeared a woman on Wednesday night. She was grabbed by men in plainclothes and taken to an unidentified location. ICE is refusing to say where she is being held. It’s 72 hours later and not even a dedicated team of lawyers can find her. This is WRONG. We can’t let this be the new norm.
These numbers are staggering in their level of offensiveness.
A minority of voters elected the presidents and the senators that confirmed 5/9 judges currently on the Supreme Court. That group — all nominated by Republican presidents — is now deciding cases disproportionately in favor of a Republican Executive overstepping his constitutional powers. Seems bad!
The "hot stove" theory... Let the people feel the pain of a Republican government with no guide rails and replace all of them.
Today's Planned Parenthood decision was a devasting blow to women, and it wasn't even about abortion. It was a devasting blow to civil rights, and it wasn't even about Civil Rights. It's one of the worst decisions from this SCOTUS, worse than you probably think. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Ugh.
The data is undeniable: •15 of top 16 states with the highest rates of infant mortality are red states that deny/ban repro access. •12 of top 13 states with the lowest rates of infant mortality are blue states that protect repro access. Why is this even a debate? www.qasimrashid.com/p/three-year...
Self-deportation isn’t a thing. ICE forced this Hawaiʻi resident to leave the country. He’s lived in the US for nearly 50 years, served in the military, received a Purple Heart for being shot in combat, but is being forced to leave for a drug offense.
Trump is furious at Israel this morning for bombing Iran after his cease fire was announced, and says he’s “not happy with Israel” and they “don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.”
Perfect time to dump Bill Clinton again.
👀 Scoop: Trump and Republicans want USPS to sell off its brand new EVs and chargers. That would mean literally **ripping up post office parking lots** to auction off assets with no private-sector value. It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Where is DOGE when you need it?
A Virginia guy hunted a Latino man, cornered him, questioned him, and then shot him and his friend, because he assumed the guy was an undocumented immigrant. He was radicalized by Fox News etc. and, of course, Trump. www.wric.com/news/local-n...
![“[Cornett] then described his anger at illegal immigration, telling the detective that he was ‘pissed’ about undocumented migrants receiving welfare funds, phones and health insurance, and that he had ‘driven around before with the same thought,'” court documents state. “[He] later asked the detective whether he could be ‘charged for [his] thoughts,’ and went on to explain that he fantasized about flying an Apache helicopter gunship to the border and firing on undocumented migrants traveling into the United States in order ‘to deter’ other undocumented migrants from attempting to cross the border.” Cornett’s housemates also told detectives that he was “kind of obsessed” with cable news stories about undocumented immigrants entering the United States. Notably, neither victim was identified as an undocumented immigrant within court documents.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7vmqlqtvqkkmuegzp7efeptu/bafkreigkmknd4ea23irjxqw2l6kdma7jloi73fzrnenhnq4fkqohzkijwa@jpeg "Click to view full size")
