On Trump’s orders, Missouri Republicans plan to gerrymander a Black lawmaker out of office. If successful, the new map would give Republicans 90 percent of seats in a state Trump carried with 58 percent of the vote in 2024.
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On Trump’s orders, Missouri Republicans plan to gerrymander a Black lawmaker out of office. If successful, the new map would give Republicans 90 percent of seats in a state Trump carried with 58 percent of the vote in 2024.
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HAPPENING NOW: Epstein survivor press conference. They deserve to be heard: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6fU...
[#47] & "Vance seem to believe the US will go on forever, regardless of what they do. ...It is one thing to build things and imagine that all must bow before them indefinitely.... But it is a less forgivable mistake to believe the destruction can go on forever." open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
“I get tired of only my thoughts. I get bored of only hearing my voice. I find it so tedious that I can only ever see things the way I can see things. I feel trapped in here. Do you know what I mean?” open.substack.com/pub/miniphil...
“weakening centuries-old power” is another way of saying violating the Constitution. But why speak clearly when euphemisms will do?
As of Monday, Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP lawmakers have officially made it even harder in Texas to prevent school shootings, suicides, and murders by domestic abusers.
Deploying the military against Americans.
DOGE cutting that waste and fraud.
Nongovernmental groups like the League of Women Voters are now barred from registering new voters at naturalization ceremonies, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced. n.pr/4g7YKqg
I know this sounds crazy, but shouldn’t the Secretary of Energy know something about energy?
Epstein survivors speak out. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Trump turns up the threats and intimidation on his Epstein cover up.
At least half a million people across the U.S. marched in more than one thousand Workers over Billionaires demonstrations on Labor Day—but you wouldn’t know it by the amount of coverage media devoted to it. trib.al/2U3225B
So our military just bombed a boat in international waters and extrajudicially killed suspected drug traffickers without so much as a conversation, let alone a trial? Then posted it on social media? And we’re all supposed to just trust their account?
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
Image caring more about stopping a memorial for people killed in a mass shooting than stopping mass shootings. #Priorities
RFK Jr must be fired. He’s too deranged and full of himself to leave voluntarily. So it’s vital to convince Trump that keeping Kennedy around drains his own political power and thus his personal wealth by so visibly endangering the health of everyone in the U.S. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
One of several top CDC officials to leave their post this week—after Kennedy fired the agency’s director for refusing to “rubberstamp unscientific, reckless directives"—is telling all. Including that Kennedy has never been briefed by any of the center’s scientists on major diseases. trib.al/Vd2vBxu
This feels like a metaphor for 2025 www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
How it started How it’s going @SenJoniErnst edition
Idiocracy in action 🫤
If you are a wealthy criminal defendant, it makes sense under this administration to hire the AG’s brother to represent you.
Petty Trump cancels Kamala Harris's Secret Service protection just as she is about to embark on a national book tour. She will be more likely to cross paths with unhinged MAGA lunatics than at any time after leaving office. Trump is an evil clown. edition.cnn.com/2025/08/29/p...
Here he goes.
Blaming the unnerving prevalence of mass shootings in America on the existence of trans people here isn’t just a dangerously stigmatizing, politically motivated take. It’s also bad math.
Vance lies.
The US Air Force is rife with Christian Nationalists who have no interest in the Constitution beyond the Second Amendment.
She was a criminal and now they are giving her the honors of an American hero at the same time that the Republicans in the House refuse to hang a plaque honoring the hundreds of Capitol Police that defended them. Just disgusting. thehill.com/policy/defen...
Firefighters in Washington state were waiting for their superior to arrive when Customs and Border Patrol showed up in “Police” vests. The agents made the entire crew line up and show ID—detaining 2 firefighters, with no chance to say goodbye to fellow crew members and loved ones. trib.al/jdA36k9
It's time for poetry
One thing people never ask after a mass shooting: “What is her name?”
Keep the dream alive ❤️ “On Aug. 28, 1963, during the March on Washington, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech before an estimated 250,000 people in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.” youtu.be/vP4iY1TtS3s
Wowsa.
VICTORY: In a major victory for voting rights, the Arizona Court of Appeals has rejected a lawsuit brought by right-wing groups and the Arizona Republican Party that sought to limit how election officials verify mail-in ballot signatures. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Jones responds to Ogles…
RULE ABOUT AMERICAN FLAGS: If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail. But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.
This is a major story. “Trump wants Greenland”? King Leopoldo wanted the Congo. And took it. It’s naked imperialism. And espionage. More than 80% of the population of Greenland is indigenous. “Beautiful” Inuits are not “asking Trump to take over.” They categorically don’t want it.
MEMPHIS—FedEx filed a notification detailing 611 layoffs at its facilities in Shelby County less than a year after raking in huge corporate tax breaks from Gov. Bill Lee. Exhibit ♾️ that trickle down economics is really just welfare for the rich.
“Poor teeth...beget not just shame but more poorness: people with bad teeth have a harder time getting jobs and other opportunities. People without jobs are poor. Poor people can’t access dentistry – and so goes the cycle." aeon.co/essays/there...
I'd ask the same questions of Ohio @govmikedewine.bsky.social
Good morning — Today would be a good day to release the Epstein files
Federal Emergency Management Agency suspended over 30 employees after they wrote to Congress warning that the Trump administration had severely weakened the nation’s ability to respond to hurricanes, floods,
These guys should be home with their families.
Thanks, SCOTUS—for giving him this dumb idea.
Links: www.reuters.com/legal/govern... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... www.latimes.com/california/s... abc7.com/post/charges... www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... immpolicytracking.org/policies/eo-...
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When a grand jury declines to indict a case, it’s called a “no bill.” Here’s why that matters so much right now. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
As a near lifelong Chicagoland resident, I remind y’all that Chicago isn’t even top 25 nationwide in violence, the majority of illegal guns here are from IN & WI who have weak gun laws, & Trump is sending the Nat’l Guard to try & intimidate us & normalize military occupation, because he’s a fascist.
"The political appointment, first reported by Democracy Docket, shows how self-styled election investigators who have thrown themselves into election conspiracy theories since 2020 are now being celebrated by a presidential administration that indulges their false claims." apnews.com/article/heat...
A MAGA candidate for Congress is going viral on social media this week because of her provocative act of taking a flame thrower to the Qur’an and calling to ban Islam in America. Here is response, point by point, piece by piece. Hope you read & share: www.qasimrashid.com/p/a-maga-can...
Celebrity chef and D.C. icon José Andrés pushed back on Trump’s propaganda in a post on X, writing: “I understand why you are confused… all your time in D.C. you haven’t eaten ONCE outside the White House or your own hotel.
Trump and his MAGA movement have mastered the art of projection, accusing the left of doing what they themselves have done. But now, Trump has taken that to a new level, becoming the manifestation of an oppressive state that the right has always warned against. So why aren't more sounding the alarm?
This could happen anywhere…. Rainbows abounding.
On YouTube, videos claiming Trump-world figures bested their antagonists during micro-interactions are generating thousands of views and a flood of supportive comments—and they’re all completely fake.
“It is more than hypothetically possible that Mr. Trump, when frustrated, will try to compel the obedience of state election officials by throwing the weight of the executive branch against them.” Constitutional limits on his power don’t mean anything to him. Scary!! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
We are very far off the cliff here folks. 🇺🇸
This approach is not bad because it’s socialism. In in my view there is plenty of good in socialism. It’s bad because it is insane, corrupt, weakens the companies, is beyond the capabilities of the government, and weakens the US.
Page One. @chicago.suntimes.com
It's an interesting thought exercise if nothing else.
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Hmmm.... "it is one thing to know the *behaviour* of an electron and quite another to know its intrinsic nature: how the electron is, in and of itself." aeon.co/ideas/panpsy...
And we were reminded (politely!) that our tie-dye is not appropriate in some settings...not that it was necessary 😊
“This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.” www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
There’s a non-zero chance that Trump is destroying the country to distract from Epstein
Worth reading this www.creditslips.org/creditslips/...
Kristi Noem on Newsmax makes a great case for people with immigration court hearings to opt to skip them
Read my newsletter, Civil Discourse. No sugarcoating. We have work to do to keep the republic. joycevance.substack.com/p/only-monday
Echoing Gov. Pritzker: “To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country...I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
“This administration is on the dictator track.” open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
President Trump has signed an executive order ending cashless bail for detained suspects in D.C.—a system that allows suspects to avoid spending time caged before they’ve been convicted just because they can’t meet bail. trib.al/DqeZxxq This is yet another aggressive move in his federal takeover.
🚨BREAKING: In a landmark victory for voters, a Utah judge struck down the state Legislature’s gerrymandered congressional map and reinstated the citizen-led redistricting reforms voters approved in 2018. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Our first computer (1985?) was an Atari console, small B&W TV for a monitor, and a cassette player as hard drive/media storage.
We are creating a Spanish language section on The Rumpus, for original creative work written in Spanish and are looking for a volunteer editor for this section. If this could be you, please send a brief letter of interest to roxane@therumpus.net by Tuesday, September 2nd!
📢 Submissions for River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, Beautiful Things, and the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize all open September 01 ✨ Submit your creative nonfiction essays, books, and micro essays via our Submittable page through our website riverteethjournal.com
So, now they want to say if you burn a piece of cloth that you own, you should go to jail for that, but if take books illegally from a library and burn those, that's fine.
100%. Let’s make spaces where AI is not at the forefront of our discussions just because a bunch of money put it there. That’s ludicrous. Higher ed professionals who think this is a solid future are implicated in the clear plan to destroy universities as places of critical thought & innovation.
Distressing to see...along with the schools - at all levels - who are pushing it, all while acknowledging the many, many errors and "hallucinations"
I'm thinking of all the many times I wore a watch, used a park, and walked a street in DC and was never robbed or mugged. Was I just *incredibly* lucky? Or is Stephen Miller a shameless fucking liar? (Hint: I suspect the latter.)
Read more right here!
A recent collision of a red-light-running, 14-ton armored vehicle with an SUV isn’t the biggest news involving the federal takeover of Washington, DC. But it’s a tidy metaphor reflecting the counter-productive, heavily militarized display that Trump has embarked on while overriding democracy.
TIMES OF ISRAEL confirms Israel bombed a retrieval team at Nasser Hospital live on air after an initial strike killed multiple journalists. FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION: “We demand an immediate explanation. This must be a watershed moment.” The video: www.instagram.com/reel/DNx2g8J...
LISTEN.
Good buy to that whole “affordable” part. Why? Because billionaires got a tax break.
TRIGGER WARNING ⚠️ - Israel just bombed Nasser Hospital again as they were trying to recover bodies after a bombing that had killed 15. Live on air.
No surprises here. The administration backed itself into a policy corner & now people & their families are paying the price for MAGA political rhetoric. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
We’re waiting, Jake.
It isn’t just that JD Vance lies constantly. It’s that when he lies he does it with smugness, arrogance and condescension.
So important...and sometimes so difficult #WritingCommunity
Dozens of immigration courts across the country have become epicenters of the Trump administration's efforts to increase the rate of immigration arrests.
#47 is panicking: "There seems to be some tension in the White House tonight. As [#47]'s poll numbers are in the low 40s on his job performance and underwater on every one of his policies" open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
The revenge presidency, with Calvinball as the national sport, is in full swing. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
ICYMI — according to Grok, @GovWesMoore did receive the Bronze Star… and Trump did claim he had bone spurs to dodge the Vietnam War
Does he not remember Trump went to court over the census and lost trying to add a citizenship question?
"It is our job to try to help students to acquire one of the central skills ...: how to think via writing. Effectively turning a blind eye to students’ use of generative AI to write their essays is a serious abdication of professional responsibility." open.substack.com/pub/katemann...
Seeing Bonnie for the third time next month near Dayton! ❤️