Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
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Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
These taken together constitute the toughest measures adopted by any European state yet and come after the Belgian Deputy PM, who is also Foreign Minister, threatened to block all other government business unless Belgium adopted these measures.
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians. By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social (Published Oct. 2024)
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In case you were looking for this tonight … How The 25th Amendment Actually Works — And What Nobody's Ever Figured Out www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chri...
More framing like this, please www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
The combo of legit speculation on the health of Trump and this weird kumbaya makes for quite a dangerous situation for the USA: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
journalists are being threatened and jailed. media outlets are paying settlements to THE PRESIDENT. but gosh golly gee, is democracy under threat? who can really say!
Wow imagine that
You’ll enjoy this more than you think you will.
Seems like as good a time as any to reshare my story on the Coffee County voting system breach, which details the key role Giuliani played in Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
⚡️EU considers tighter rules to block Russian gas after 2027 ban, Bloomberg reports. The plan specifically raises concerns over gas shipped through TurkStream, the pipeline linking Russia with Southeast Europe.
After Trump’s executive order designating English as the official language of the U.S., government agencies have cut back on services for other languages.
Trump on the cover of French magazine Le Point. Translation: “Man from Moscow” Le Point is a major French weekly news magazine. It is considered a center-right / conservative-leaning publication.
“Red State, Blue State; Never Mind the Crime Rate”. Head over to Substack and subscribe for more on Trump and the National Guard: open.substack.com/pub/frankfig...
Here is my look at this weekend: www.lawdork.com/p/this-weeke...
A brilliant post from Prof Timothy Snyder for Labor Day. A snippet: "The death that Trump and Vance prefer, and cause, and need is indirect and passive-aggressive: by destroying government functionality, the generate unnecessary suffering, which they then blame on migrants and African Americans."
The Right's Rising Neo-Nazi open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
Advocates for immigrants and low-wage workers said the companies owe it to their drivers to speak out.
“Every day little children came into Union Headquarters, some with their hands off, some with the thumb missing, some with their fingers off at the knuckle. They were stooped things, round shouldered and skinny. Many of them were not over ten years of age…”
Netflix is putting its money where its mouth is: 💰 $2M to back Newsom in the redistricting fight 📺 A deal for Sesame Street — new episodes and the full archive free to watch. That’s how you pick a side.
These are the people everyone should be citing, interviewing, & listening to. Stop platforming the charlatans and parroting their snake oil arguments about things that didn’t happen.
Repeating this because people are misreading it again: This is a report from *the attorneys for the migrant children*—not DOJ! bsky.app/profile/anna...
Even in this age of police bodycams and bystander videos, there are certain categories of footage that most media organizations won’t share with the public. But it’s hard to imagine today’s media suppressing, as they did in 1937, footage from the anti-labor crackdown that resulted in 10 deaths.
“Best as we can tell, the US has lost 40,000 manufacturing jobs since ‘Liberation Day’.” Fascinating discussion on so much more than that podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
NEW EPISODE: Documentarian Ken Burns joins @nicollewallace.bsky.social on “The Best People,” to discuss his upcoming doc on the American Revolution and how it showed him tensions felt today mirror tension that gave birth to our nation. WATCH the full episode on YouTube: www.msnbc.com/thebestpeople
Unprecedented corruption - 1500x what Hunter Biden made from his paintings and going directly to the president.
Trying to give our taxpayer money to maniacs like these
It's crazy that we've spent more time this year talking about the *former* president's health than the current one's, given the numerous warning signs and unanswered questions that are accumulating.
It's often been debated if Trump could pull off a fascist takeover of the United States, because he's clearly not very smart. I talked to @anneapplebaum.bsky.social about that for my newsletter
Once there was an entire generation of white male Wunderkinder who were going to change the world, & journalism, with their commitment to data, engagement with policy experts, & such. Then they hit their 40s, we had a pandemic & a bit of inflation, & they lost their minds. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Not all of them were doing nothing, unfortunately. bsky.app/profile/ever...
Well, now we know what they mean by great again. Sigh.
Just an astonishing, powerful op-ed that drives home what we are losing and what's already been lost. We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
I have a language suggestion, which everyone can do, but is primarily for media members who value truth and Democratic politicians: Instead of asking and adjudicating if an obvious lie is false, make the fact that it's false your premise. "Why are you lying?" instead of "some say that's not true."
Lots of people with questions about this The government said there were 76 putative class members (children) loaded on planes yesterday But the putative class covered by the judge’s order isn’t limited to kids that were loaded on planes for imminent deportation That’s why the ~600 estimate
It's his imagination and we're just lucky to be living in it.
Disgusting.
I hope people read these stories and are encouraged to take their own action: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/la-u...
Damn! I've never seen Andrea Mitchell so upset! Worth a watch folks. She's been in news forever, trusted source. Damn.
Watching this tonight and arguing with the people I'm listening to. (yep, saying it out loud to no one) Well, more like me insisting that what they are saying isn't true but who believes that anymore. I don't know how they sleep at night. www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...
Yep.
This.
Racoons? I'm downtown so no racoons but likely rats. Port city on the East Coast.
Great to stop by Hyde Park and see Chef Erick Williams. This Black Business Month and every month, we’re proud to show the world what Illinois is really all about.
Did something happen that I missed? Is there some alert I should know about? Animals and bites?
Winning!
Watching this tonight and arguing with the people I'm listening to. (yep, saying it out loud to no one) Well, more like me insisting that what they are saying isn't true but who believes that anymore. I don't know how they sleep at night. www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...
I don't pray, but if I did......
the judge is now basically checking every couple of hours to make sure her directions are being followed to the letter because she is dealing with lying liars who lie astounding how much credibility the government has burned with the courts
Me too. Me too.
Seems like.
😚 Trump goes half a weekend without committing an impeachable offense, and we all just assume he's dead.
Brilliant
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OH WOW! Guessing MSM didn't cover this? This is 3 weeks old and I've never heard a word about it. LOL Unbelievable! He's still not the king of the world.
300 and 3 planes, one took off and returned? That's what I read. But I could be wrong.
The trauma these poor children are dealing with! Someone needs to be held criminally responsible for this! JC!
It's like that old friend you've known for over 30-40 years. You didn't think they were racists and then that day comes, you wonder why you didn't notice before, but they never said it out loud before. Now people feel free to express their hate for others. And I wonder, why were we ever friends?
Do anyone still believe this crap? Look to Canada, we have sane gun laws and so much less death. The 2nd Amendment is killing Americans every single day. It's the leading cause of death for children.
Aren't they all though? lol
Thanks for the giggle!
I couldn't look! Did anyone find out if it's real yet? LOL
How does this happen? I was taught in elementary school where my ancestors came from and their journey. We even went to the graveyard, stones from the late 1700s. Many died on the journey. That's when WE were the OTHERS. We were the immigrants to North America. We took the land, it wasn't ours.
"Sending away the 'others' to make way for white people to flourish is at the literal center of Gast’s painted vision of the West. That vision is reproduced in Homeland Security’s own videos." ICYMI:
I'm in Canada but I promise to break open a bottle for that day! I think the entire world will.
I'm still in shock! Can't believe they voted this idot back into power.
Has anyone checked recently? Is the Constitution still alive? Did he burn it in the fireplace yet? Try to flush it down the toilet perhaps? Wouldn't be the first time. Just sayin'.....
That my friend, sounds like a FU I'm blocking your ass moment to me if there ever was one. Have a lovely long weekend!
I think we know why, can't wait for September 3rd. Believe them!
Semafor White House reporter Shelby Talcott, fmr. SDNY Criminal Division Deputy Chief @kristygreenberg.bsky.social, and staff writer for The Atlantic @markleibovich.bsky.social share their expectations for Epstein related events in Capitol Hill this week and more. www.msnbc.com/weekends-wit...
Omg sis! Lmao 🤣 😬🤣🤭 If only..... thinkin same thoughts 🥊
There were B-2s in the sky that day. Sigh.
He can try to make Americans forget but the rest of the world will ALWAYS REMEMBER! I will be a stain on America forever, as it should be.
Philly steppin' up! www.msnbc.com/the-weekend/...
Huh. Same thing in Canada. Imagine that.
Because it IS the answer to everything that is happening now!
I wonder what the counter programing will be when the victims speak on September 3rd. Any bets on that? I'm not a gambler but this one is a sure win.
It doesn't have to be.
The healthcare sector would immediately come to a halt without nurses! This is how you do it folks! Band together! It's up to you all.
wow
Online today watching the latest news of the long weekend. Some wealthy DC residents have noticed that their their house cleaners and nannies aren't showing up, it's harder to get delivery services, DC is full of uniforms of some sort. Huh. Imagine that.
“What independence means is that the technocrats at the Central Bank use economic reasoning, data” to achieve economic goals, says Fmr. Fed Chair & Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen. ‘Americans need to worry’ about political interference. It’s “a recipe for runaway inflation.” #Velshi
Fatality.
Yeah. You don't have to defend something you don't know, right? The less you know.....that's his only defense.
Posted above. OOPS!
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America First = America Alone.
This federal judge understated the matter when she called “surprising” the government’s attempt “to remove minor children from the country in the wee hours of the morning on a holiday weekend.” She was right to issue a temporary restraining order. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Some are fighting back! bsky.app/profile/mout...
The values of the government of Florida are the values of the third reich. The values of the Ku Klux Klan. They demand an erasure of all other races, all other peoples, all other creeds. They will demand all others be made legally subordinate, as they already have done to trans folks.
Currently watching some of these brave women speak online. LISTEN TO THE VICTIMS! BELIEVE THE VICTIMS!
Repost please! 💥
Our children's children will tell stories and fables about this man to scare them from doing stupid shit. There was an old man.........
I just hope Karma is paying attention.
He seems more than happy to take one for the team. Loyalty is everything so...
I heard it firsthand at Eloy Detention Center: women are given used underwear—causing rampant UTIs—and people with cancer are denied specialists. These human rights abuses are bankrolled under Trump with billions in taxpayer dollars. Unacceptable. We’re demanding change.
Again, this is why the United States is on the Human Rights Watch list.