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WATCH — Sen. @ossoff.senate.gov : "It's been extraordinary to see the Speaker of the House reduced to lying in order to cover up sex crimes.” He adds that RFK JR. must resign.
We are Through the Looking Glass now. Ladapo is barking mad, and I mean actually deranged. And please stop calling him a skeptic. He’s a full out anti-vaxxer and denialist. This only ends badly not just for Florida, but for the entire country. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Just a great song from a cool era of music for REM
I’m not floored by most news anymore but the fact that no mandatory vaccines in schools has become a litmus test for the GOP after Florida today—these are scary times.
He went to 8 years of MD Training…Wake Forest & Harvard…all to deny what has been scientifically proven to reduce childhood death and chronic disease…what has happened to him that he would carry out such a policy?…
Good morning to you 🌞 from the Southern Coast on the
The Democrats’ addiction to left-marginalization strategies is especially unwarranted in Mamdani’s case, who does what the same cohort of centrist party leaders tirelessly claim they want to do: He focuses on “kitchen-table issues."
Is he an MD?!…
The Epstein survivors are going to release *their* list of people who molested them. At last we'll finally get them. Lawsuits will doubtless be filed; be prepared to raise a major storm if this list isn't released. #ProudBlue
These people are Idiots
Personally I think it was the guy who was running the country. Whoever that was
Booooooo!…..
I have not been to Florida since Pandemic…I will not be going in the future to the Land of Disease and Decay
aka Chesteron's Fence, infection disease edition.
SCARBOROUGH: We do Republicans keep promising to release these files and then keep releasing the same things and making fools of their followers? REP. ROBERT GARCIA: Because there is a massive White House coverup going on right now
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8B31y7P/ Thank you @cbsnews.com
🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation. Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."
California pushes back on Trump's CDC with West Coast Health Alliance
Jesse Watters, a man obsessed with masculinity, admitted that his 13-year-old daughter beat him in a foot race. Then a viewer sent text pointing out that it was proof that men don't always win in women's sports.
Here's a source, since people on social media are allergic to providing verifiable claims and love to just post unattributed screenshots. www.reuters.com/business/us-...
Because it appears we're going to be needing to be talking about Posse Comitatus, you should be reading Chris Geidner
Big day for me at Democracy Docket. 1. New video podcast interview with Nicolle Wallace posts this morning. 2. My latest on Trump's authoritarian escalation goes out via email midday. 3. My LIVE podcast recording with Heather Cox Richardson is tonight at 7pm. Links in thread🧵
So China, USSR, NK, and India are all meeting to take over the entire world. Europe is meeting to save the entire world and the United States is attacking Chicago. Anybody else see a problem!? Fuck this. 😒
I grew up in the ’60s and ’70s as a proud American, feeling sorry for people in the Soviet Union forced to live under a system of crushing corruption and cruelty. We’re those people now.
Trump threatening members of Congress not to sign the Epstein files discharge petition saying it would be a “hostile act” against him is definitely something an innocent person would do. And scheduling a military flyover in the middle of the survivor press conference is also totally normal behavior.
"In his footsteps, we can condemn the journalists and publications that are helping to derail democracy. But we can also actively support others at independent outlets like Bolts, Law Dork, Balls & Strikes, the Handbasket, and L.A. Taco. We can reward them by subscribing." @chrisgeidner.bsky.social
"Given this myopic approach to events by our public intellectuals and journalists, what are we to do?" 1/ degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/see-no-evil
Excellent analysis from @chrisgeidner.bsky.social on the latest developments for LA, DC, and Chicago.
Phang: The judge notes that the MacArthur Park show of force was just sheer political theater. Major General Sherman, objected, expressing concern that there would be a large number of people because it was Father’s Day. To which Bovino criticized him, questioning his loyalty to the country.
Oh, I was so close.
Students being progressive is not a bigger problem than a sustained assault by an authoritarian president, please get a grip www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
So Trump is “vetting” museums. starting with the Holocaust Museum exhibit that calls out America for shutting the door on Jewish refugees. Erasing history is the oldest authoritarian play in the book. "He who controls the past controls the future" - George Orwell
The Trump administration's threat to kill the Revolution Wind offshore wind project would leave a gaping hole in New England’s energy mix, driving up already-high power prices and increasing the risk of grid collapse during winter storms: www.canarymedia.com/articles/off... #energysky
his entire statement is excellent, and thanks to @atrupar.com as always for quality clipping and quoting. idk how you keep up with it all, man.
He shot an 11 year old boy, running away, after he knocked on his door for a prank, in the BACK!
I love it when a politician sounds like a human being who likes living in reality
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
RFK Jr. and Trump tell us they want to Make America Healthy Again. Great slogan. I agree. Unfortunately, they are doing the exact opposite. Vaccines work. They are safe. They save lives. No more conspiracy theories. Kennedy must resign.
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US 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?"
NO rights at all…a total lie…again
“.. There was a period of time, briefly, where the middle-income consumer looked like they were being dragged up by all that was going well in the world. .. Then things fell off a cliff.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/cons...
Yet another reason why Harvard, and so many other institutions like it, should not capitulate or "strike a deal" with the Trump administration. These are the Trump apparatchiks you're negotiating with who claim to be "fighting antisemitism." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
How much more embarrassing can it get
"It’s obviously not about crime, because they’re not focused on high-crime areas. They’re focused on Democratic-run cities. And you have an entire political party, not just Donald Trump, pretty eager to deploy the United States military to intimidate." trib.al/jUp6NyH
the DOJ atty (& 2x Harvard grad) who suggested Harvard showed "wanton indifference to antisemitism" once wrote a paper from the perspective of Hitler & expressed admiration for Mein Kampf stunning reporting from @hilaryburns.bsky.social @talkopan.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
Your reminders: Trump ended the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team which investigated crypto-related crimes like fraud and money laundering. Trump also fired the ethics watchdog overseeing corruption in the executive branch. This is just another Trump family scam.
New in PN: "By the time you read this, the White House may have put out a Labor Day statement. It will no doubt offer an effusive tribute to Trump, who in his infinite beneficence has delivered workers a utopia of prosperity. But back on Earth, he's the most anti-labor president in modern history."
A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean
That’s our POTUS on LABOR DAY!…lying for not reason, as if he’s supervising the project…and if he actually is - who the fuck is our acting POTUS while he plays subcontractor Supervisor?!?! 🙄🤦♂️🤬
Hey Congress – make Alex Acosta's testimony public and televised. There's absolutely no ethical reason for it to be private and transcribed. Nefarious AF. We need to hear your questions. We want to see him squirm. We need to see him squirm. Yet another sign of a cover-up.
Drug deaths in the U.S. are at their lowest level since March 2025, according to federal data. Trump continues to cite fentanyl as justification for policies ranging from tariffs to immigration.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Bno5mM/ @goose-band.bsky.social ❤️🔥‼️🔥❤️‼️
The same mainstream media who continues to write about Biden’s health months after his presidency ended, and who made Hillary’s cough national news, has been silent on Trump’s health. Meanwhile, here’s an excellent, non-speculative, non-sensationalist post doing the MSM’s job for them.
Outrageous. FEMA staff warned that disaster response has been gutted—and instead of fixing it, they were suspended. Retaliating against civil servants for telling the truth puts Americans at risk.
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
Chicago cordially invites the Mad King to go fuck himself open.substack.com/pub/jefftied...
This. They must go. Removing them must become a top Congressional priority or the deaths they cause will be on the hands of every member of Congress...and lest they think there be no consequences, those deaths will be mounting up by the time of next year's election.
Former CDC heads warn Kennedy is endangering Americans reut.rs/4n8DN0y
The National Guardners
This is, of course, false. The United States exported $83 billion in goods and services to India last year alone.
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
MO Gov Mike Kehoe is calling a special session to gerrymander the 5th District which encompasses Kansas City. He is specifically violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans any voting practice that denies or weakens the power of a racial minority to elect its preferred candidates.
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.
"We have a message for the rest of the nation as well: This is a time to rally to protect the health of every American."
Here in the US, “two weeks” actually means never.
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It’s why he wants to do way with mail voting, can’t intimidate citizens unless you make them stand in line w authorities “watching”
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
I’m a big fan of @mizzwelch.bsky.social
It’s a Sirloin Steak dinner…that’s all I can focus on - is this Sizzler circa 1980?
Today's column. Excerpt: "It [cabinet meeting] was so fawning, so lickspittle-y, so grotesquely despotic that one can only hope every participant in this charade spends the rest of their miserable lives having nightmares about those three hours on August 26, 2025." www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Narrative buster: NYT finds that DC arrests were up only 13% over the previous two weeks and that the biggest change has been more arrests for minor infractions like smoking weed in a public place. (This does not include immigration abductions.) (Gift link.) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC, revealed that RFK Jr. has NEVER been briefed by CDC experts on measles, flu, or Covid: “No one from my center has ever briefed him on any of those topics…He’s getting his information from somewhere”
i tried to imagine a wnba athlete as boastfully, indulgently, and wholly fucking dumb as michael porter jr
"Newsom is saying two things. First, we’re not going to let Republicans play by different rules anymore. And second, we are going to use our power however we can, no matter what The New York Times editorial board says about it." trib.al/LHfzgCF
He lied about winning in 2020. He lied about the 2024 election being a landslide. He lied about voter fraud and election fraud. He pretended to have been vindicated in cases that merely ran out of time to imprison him. He ran as an open fascist who *still* wasn't honest with voters about his plans.
Did we get an equal starter back for 2025?…2 1st’s from a playoff team w Now a bigger upside…
🦋 LATEST: Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara on school shooting at Annunciation Catholic School Two children aged 8 and 10 killed 17 injured; 14 are children with 2 in critical condition Shooter armed with rifle, shotgun & pistol took his own life 🦋
Today, the children at Annunciation Catholic School were shot while praying. Two were killed in the pews. Thoughts and prayers are NOT enough. We need immediate and comprehensive gun safety laws. That’s what saves lives.
Two children were killed and seventeen people were injured in a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School. A Cracker Barrel logo change received far more scrutiny and attention than any fight against the epidemic of gun violence in this country. Our priorities remain idiotic.
Sorry, fuckface. California consumers make the car rules because of our buying power and we won’t go along with this dipshittery. Nor will we allow lower fuel standards.
This post made me research whether Mississippi is gerrymandered. It is. I’ve always wondered how a state with so many Black residents can continue to elect evil white dudes. The Black vote is being suppressed in Mississippi via gerrymandering: www.aclu-ms.org/en/news/figh...
This was an amazing discussion about media, democracy, and community. Heather Cox Richardson Leigh McGowan (Politics Girl) Joanne Carducci (JoJoFromJerz) Dana Goldberg substack.com/@muellershew...
This administration is a criminal syndicate and no one can tell me every one of them does not deserve prison. www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
Undermining the Fed to get lower rates now is like ripping the batteries out of your smoke alarm because it’s beeping. It’s quiet for a bit. Then your house burns down. Credibility anchors expectations; expectations anchor inflation.
The Iowa Senate seat that Democratic candidate Catelin Drey flipped tonight has been in GOP hands for 13 years. Not anymore.
"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
The President of the United States sat in the Oval Office and said "a lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator" and that is not even a top story.
Cigarette butts smoked by immigrants in the US legally! Got ‘em!!!!
Democrats just picked up a seat that was +11 pts for Trump in 2024 to break an Iowa supermajority. Trump wants to appear indomitable. But he's also a lame duck and those winds can shift quickly. www.the-downballot.com/p/iowa-democ...
JeeezuzFukkkinKrist!!!…. sycophants 🙄🤦♂️
Ok @nbcnews.com @abcnewsbot.bsky.social CBSnews.com Top Story of the Day/Week/Month!!!!! Dictator states it out loud
There's a point Arendt makes in Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship that people who convince themselves to cooperate with the regime in pursuit of "the lesser evil" end up conditioning themselves to accept evil, which the regime then ratchets up. A similar story with the press here.
FUCK OFF!!!!
I celebrate every victory for voting rights, but this one is particularly special. No issue has been more hotly contested or more important to PA voters than this one. The DSCC and DCCC fought hard and it is great to see them prevail. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
This is how you talk to people.
