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5/ Trump‘s attempt to fire Lisa Cook from the Fed continues. The Fed is insulated by statute from the whims of a president for precisely this reason. Trump wants the Fed to do his bidding, but the economists there are using their expertise, not his need for political wins, to guide the economy.
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Appreciated the opportunity to join Dr. Ali Khan and @richbesser.bsky.social via @wsj.com to discuss recent changes to public health and what this means for health and preparedness @altcdc.altgov.info www.wsj.com/video/three-...
Something that has been missing from the Trump administration’s review of the Epstein case: considering the survivors. This week, they speak out, and we should all be listening. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Stephen Miller is REALLY bad at pretending to be Trump. Like this doesn’t even almost sound like a Trump tweet
White House releases new photo of Trump golfing today Your move, shitlibs
Here's the govt bid to get him detained. I think they try to misrepresent photos for body cam. Why is there body cam of the gun, but not the alleged assault? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
And then they compare w/Jan6 release (earlier they cite Munchel, the precedent for those cases).
Here's the response from Paul Bryant, the Black veteran and lawyer whom the govt arrested in part bc he had a legal weapon in DC, to USG attempt to get him detained. It leans heavily into the lack of Body Cam proving he shoulder checked some Guardsmen. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
His administration is more authoritarian than ever, the red states are as aggressive as ever, the destruction of our health care system is worse than ever—and Trump doesn’t seem particularly engaged or even well. What’s up as we enter September? Tim and JVL discuss. youtu.be/N3XMfXXnD4I?...
JUST IN: Drew Ensign, on behalf of DOJ, reports that all of the migrant children have been returned to ORR custody.
In Ghislaine Maxwell’s Justice Department interview, she comes off as pathetic, loathsome, and utterly lacking in remorse. The entire operation was damage control—an attempt to exculpate President Trump from his own involvement with Jeffrey Epstein.
An 11-year-old boy who was shot while playing the “ding dong ditch” prank in Houston on Saturday night has died, the authorities said.
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Here’s a photo of him helping the victim
Pro drop off gone awry presumably.
Oh stop it, both the media for this idiotic reductive narrative and Dem centrists for being such astonishing wimps. The voters of NYC — especially young ones — made their clear choice, so either move along or go sit down. You win nothing by being cautious and scared www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Those hats would last 10 seconds (maybe) on my savage crew.
Clyde turned 3 today; his little sisfur Gracie turned 1 in June and we didn't want her to feel left out 🤣
It’s September! The leaves are falling, the air is chilled and Congress is back. Ok, let’s see the Epstein files, Mr Speaker.
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👇🏽
This is cool
Afterparty by invitation only at FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING 7339 State Road Philadelphia, PA 19136
What the hell happened to Martha RavagedFace? What has happened to most of the goddamned media?
From my latest: Emergency-Gate: Focus on Challenging the Premise of Trump’s Power.” open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
"Even in a long line of anti-labor GOP presidents, Trump stands out. And while he may not succeed in completely destroying collective bargaining in America, he’s poised to strike terrible blows against organized labor." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
Right-wing Daily Caller just released a transcript of an interview they did with Trump last week. This was part of it.
It’s still early, but pretty good turnout so far for Bernie Sanders and Graham Platner’s (running against Susan Collins) rally here in Maine today.
Today in Politics, Bulletin 197. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
some white racists mad as hell today
Trump going to sleep earlier, which I think is a little noteworthy
Three demential chess I tell you
"It is grasping at straws to justify an open-ended 'national emergency' power of the sort that should be disfavored in our laws unless it is granted in terms far more explicit than these."
"The courts have been unpersuaded that we live in a state of permanent national emergency that is global in scope and decades-long in duration, requiring swift executive action on the theory that Congress could never assemble in time to address the issue. … www.nationalreview.com/corner/divid...
Would his initials be JT?
I desperately want to email this to a certain journalist
Today's a good day to learn Colbert found a new job. Hope it's a good one for everybody! #HappyLaborDay
What a cutie patootie.
Happy Birthday Clyde! ❤️ #CorgiCrew @gtconway.bsky.social
Today is the first day of public trading for Trump’s crypto scam.
Russia, Russia, Russia!! HOAX!! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
"There's only one way to drive directly between Michigan's peninsulas, and it requires crossing this absolute feat of engineering. This is the story of the longest suspension bridge in the Western Hemisphere: the one, the only, the Mackinac Bridge." crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2025/09/alex...
Anyway, I’m glad to know the president is still technically alive so he can watch this tomorrow www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
I hope the bury him in the weeds next to Ivana.
As we begin a new month, my law firm is litigation 51 voting and election cases in 25 states. 6 in Arizona 6 in Georgia 4 in Florida 4 in North Carolina 8 involve redistricting
Tennis Cap Swipe update: Piotr Szczerek, the swipee, is either denying he made the "tough luck" non-apology - or apologizing for it (Auto-Translated from Polish. Hat tip - yup - to @patriottakes.bsky.social)
Y’all be sympathetic towards to people who don’t even view y’all as humans. I’ll never understand it.
The Trump Cabal IS unfathomably cruel.
An upcoming news conference with victims of Jeffrey Epstein could be “explosive,” one of the congressmen pushing for full release of the files on Epstein predicts. Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said the victims’ accounts will force lawmakers to vote on a bill requiring DOJ to release its files.
Care to comment, Jake Tapper?
Very good, serious piece…
Found the Epstein Files
MOSHI IS MISSING IN FAIRVIEW, NJ: last seen at Anderson Avenue and 7th Street. He's 11 pounds and chipped: 985113009818149. If you've seen or found him please call 888-466-3242 and PLEASE RT MOSHI!
I didn’t really need more evidence that RFK Jr is nuts and delusional.
A 1941 WPA road gang of migrant workers in New Mexico, many of whom were simultaneously working as farm laborers. Trump would have deported all of them.
Not sure why everyone is doubting Giuliani’s spokesman’s story it sounds totally plausible and not suspicious at all
I can
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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.
The LGML case came very close to being JGG redux. But just before the hearing began, the judge decided not to wait. She entered a TRO barring removal of all the children. That made all the difference: DHS already had the kids loaded on planes. One plane even took off (then turned around).
My theory is that Trump wants Roberts to act now because if the stonks crash before it gets to them, his argument for getting the MAGA 6 to ignore the law (IT MADE US GREAT AGAIN!) will evaporate.
Trump now routinely barks orders to the Opus Dei Court and they do whatever he commands of them.
J.B. Pritzker is 100% right. Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
Troops in the streets and he thinks he’s going to get a Nobel, peace begins at home
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
I'm gonna surmise this lovely specimen got bullied massively in HS and this is his BIG GET EVEN tour.
Many thanks to independent journalist Amanda Moore (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social) for all the footage she captured.
BURGUM: “I was shocked to find out, like, ‘oh, [USPP] pull somebody over and they just drive away and you can't pursue them?’ And they said ‘no, we can't.’ We got that rule changed in 24 hours because of President Trump's leadership. The next night they had so much fun. They pulled people over.”
I’ve been sent numerous photos the last few days of guards members with rifles, including down by the wharf for jazzfest.
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You can read the study here It’s actually pretty positive www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
You guys see where this is going? Right?
There are few things Elon Musk knows less about than birth control. However, his “seed the world to save Western Civilization” fantasies know no bounds. It’s also worth noting that he’s retweeting this British racist for his “facts.” hopenothate.org.uk/2024/06/20/e...
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."
Trump wants us to stop focusing on the bad parts of slavery. Wrote about how we tend not to focus on one of the worst parts—sweeping, horrific sexual violence. Christofascist patriarchs don’t want to talk about that, for obvious reasons. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/slavery-wa...
Like it’s not an exaggeration lol bsky.app/profile/atru...
There are people in public life clearly and accurately stating the danger to America at this bizarre moment. Those people need support from every Conservative and Liberal American who find our Constitution worth preserving.
"It isn’t that many more Americans wouldn’t like to belong to unions if they could —they don’t have the chance. That decline in union membership is no accident." By @paulwaldman.bsky.social in PN: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-labo...
Informative, timely, and well written The work of Public Notice and @atrupar.com has become one of my favorite news sources
Trump leaves the White House this morning (Andrew Caballero/Getty)
If that Trump Truth Social account posts an apology to someone, admits making a mistake, or accepts responsibility for something, then we will know something is definitely up.
Everything is perfectly normal and fine. Nothing to see here.
The White House posts that the US has now taken in $8 Trillion in tariff revenue so far. Preposterous insane lies on an hourly basis.
Statement from Trump about his good friend Rudy Giuliani who was injured in a serious car crash on Saturday:
Here in the US, “two weeks” actually means never.
Weekend at Donnie’s bsky.app/profile/atru...
Why did Hollywood studios decide not to make Weekend at Bernie's III? Because they became too woke.