Ossoff: "It's been extraordinary to see the Speaker of the House reduced to lying in order to cover up sex crimes"
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Ossoff: "It's been extraordinary to see the Speaker of the House reduced to lying in order to cover up sex crimes"
Massie: "The Speaker of the House just offered a fig leaf to my colleagues. They're gonna vote on a non-binding resolution today that does absolutely nothing ... they're allowing the DOJ to curate all of the information that the DOJ is giving them ... the perpetrators are being protected"
Wes Moore is NOT playing: I am the Commander in Chief of the National Guard. I will not authorize the Maryland National Guard to be activated. THIS is how you fight back.
This is the most important news of the day. Sending Texas guardsmen to Illinois is an intentional, unprecedented provocation. It should be immediately challenged in court. Follow @democracydocket.com for breaking news and updates on this developing story. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
The White House has warned Republican rebels in Congress that pushing for the full release of the Epstein files would be seen as “a very hostile act” by Trump.
Guys, This is the basics of what I heard from Melanie Stansbury. Today's press conference will reveal an awful systemic abuse system from the very top. We need to make sure this doesn't happen again. #USDemocracy
BREAKING: A federal judge ruled Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles broke the Posse Comitatus Act...barring the military from domestic policing. Order limits troop roles in CA; stayed until Sept. 12 pending appeal. Confirmed by AP and Reuters
Rep. Stansbury: “What we heard today is a cover-up. A cover-up potentially involving foreign countries and foreign actors. As you will find out in coming days and weeks, this goes all the way to the top. Because there’s happen to be a very powerful person who doesn’t want these stories out.”
The Supreme Court has original jurisdiction for disputes between states (meaning they can actually file the lawsuit there, rather than have it go up on appeal). This would be a good time for Illinois to utilize it.
Pritzker: "We've gathered information from unauthorized, patriotic officials inside the government and from-sourced reporters about Donald Trump's plan, which is to deploy armed military personnel to the streets of Chicago."
Things feel uncertain right now, Illinois. I want you all to know we’re doing everything we can to protect your rights. Make sure you know how to stand up for yourself and others at illinoisimmigrationinfo.org.
FINAL: #RedSox beat #Guardians 11-7 to win the series with one more to play. BOS starter Garrett Crochet allows a career-high 4 HR and 7 ER, but BOS offense fights back with 6 doubles and 2 home runs (Nathaniel Lowe and Ceddanne Rafaela). More: @live.rsnstats.com
We are overdue for a “ Have you no decency” kind of moment.
#RedSox had 6 doubles and 2 home runs tonight. Was their #MLB-best 10th game this season with 8 or more extra-base hits. Over the last 5 seasons (since 2021), no Major League team has more games with 8+ XBH than BOS (37).
#RedSox had 18 hits tonight, tied for 3rd-most hits in any game this season (also June 28 in a win vs #BlueJays). Only more: 21 hits vs #Cardinals on April 6 (Game 2) and 20 hits vs #Orioles (Game 1). All 4 of those games were at Fenway Park.
Good for them! I wish them both the best. Will always be happy for former players’ achievements.
Former #RedSox Rafael Devers named National League Co-Player of the Week alongside another former BOS slugger, #Phillies Kyle Schwarber. Devers, who got off to a slow start at #Giants after the June trade, led #MLB in slugging (.957) and OPS (1.513) last week. Was his 4th such career honor.
Khanna: It’s going to be a bombshell press conference tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. The American people will hear directly from survivors of the Epstein abuse. And they’re not just going to talk about Epstein’s and Maxwell’s abuse — they’re going to talk about rich and powerful men…
GOP Rep. Thomas Massie filed a discharge petition today to force the disclosure of Justice Department investigative files related to the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Working with Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna, Massie now needs to persuade 216 additional House members to sign it.
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Plz stop talking about it and do something. Stop the mess that is about to happen in Chicago, for example.
🚨BREAKING: Federal court STRIKES DOWN down new South Dakota law imposing a nine-month deadline to file ballot measures declaring it unconstitutional under the First Amendment. Congrats to Dakotans for Health and their legal team! www.democracydocket.com/cases/south-...
We are filing a request for a preliminary injunction to block the extension of soldiers’ deployment in Los Angeles through Election Day. There was never a need — and there is certainly no need now — for troops to be deployed against their own communities.
Pritzker: Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next
Pritzker: "He has no idea what's he's talking about. There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops. He is insulting the people of Chicago by calling our home a hellhole, and anyone that takes his word at face value is insulting Chicagoans too."
Pritzker: When did we become a country where it's okay for the 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?
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
As many as 100 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and other victims of sexual abuse are expected to attend a rally Wednesday in Washington, D.C. as a bipartisan Congressional effort gains steam to force the U.S. Department of Justice to make public its controversial files on the disgraced sex trafficker.
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."
Go to court?
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?"
For some reason I was just thinking about Bush v. Gore. First time in my life the Supreme Court let a candidate steal an election.
I am 76 & I have had most of these vaccinations at one time or another. Also vaccinations against Covid, Tetanus, plus Cholera & Yellow Fever when travelling in foreign countries. These prevented me catching horrible diseases & dying a gruesome death. They did not harm me, they protected me!
Someone just said DEI ruined our schools. Interesting because Massachusetts is number one where education is concerned and they wholeheartedly believe in DEI. Just ask Maura Healey, the only openly lesbian governor in the country #USDemocracy
The Red Sox are 2.5 games back in the AL East. That is their smallest deficit in the division standings since ... May 11. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/01/s...
Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
Last night, at the final show of her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour, Cyndi Lauper brought out Joni Mitchell (for “Carey”), Cher (“Girls Just Want To Have Fun”), SZA (“True Colors”), John Legend (“Time After Time”), and more. www.stereogum.com/2321337/cynd...
Nearly 250K people have already watched my interview with Cong. Jamie Raskin that posted on Friday. That is a lot for our YouTube channel! Take some time this weekend and watch for yourself. You will hopefully learn and enjoy. youtu.be/YDLIgNzb5FM
I wish they would
Why won’t a reporter list the people that were pardoned and arrested again, then ask whatever person is doing a press conference: “ Do you believe that pardoning them was appropriate?”
Dogs are amazing! ❤️🐕🐾 #dog #dogday #bluesky
This is appalling.
My wedding dress may have burned up in the Altadena fire, but we’ll always have the memories. 6 years married and over 10(!!) as a couple. Happy Anniversary Jeff ❤️
Sunday’s inside-the-park home run for Jarren Duran (14.71 seconds) was the fastest of the 4 such HR by a #RedSox in the Statcast Era (since 2015). Was also fastest of the 7 inside-the-park HRs in #MLB this year.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
If so, let’s feed and house everyone who needs it!
In approximately 60 days, several major elections are going to take place across the country. I think SOMEONE at the DNC should be responsible for INFORMING all of the Dems in America how we can help our team members win. SOMEONE should be sending out links to sign up for letter writing, call &
Florida, through their gerrymandering, could steal Maxwell Frost and my own representative seat. I'm not happy but if we make it up somewhere else, I guess it's something we need to deal with.
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"Nobody wants to be a cop [in DC]. They were abused. They were spit on." "When you when you say they were abused and spit on, I'm assuming you're talking about January 6th, correct?" "All you guys want to do was bring up J6 about the answer to everything."
Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
I'm still waiting for the relentless onslaught of media demands for a press conference and calls to resign.
Absolutely! Saved so many lives!
Pritzker on Trump's authoritarian takeover: "The playbook is the same. It's thwart the media. It's create mayhem that requires military interdiction. These are things that happen throughout history and Donald Trump is just following that playbook."
WELKER: Do you have 100% confidence in Secretary Kennedy? LANKFORD: I believe he's who the president picked. He's challenging some of the assumption - what is it about autism? He seems to be following the science WELKER: The science has debunked links between autism & vaccines for more than 20 yrs
This made me smile!
My 6-year-old puttering around the house singing ‘Rikki Don’t Lose That Number’ ❤️
This morning was the first time in eight days that I didn’t test positive for COVID.
Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpractice—when you pray for something you have the power to change.
Mother Nature cracked open her purple and orange paints the other night and splattered them all over the sky. Those of us who were there as witnesses won’t soon forget it. Soon she’ll pick new colours to play with. May we be so lucky to be given another chance to watch. #ldnont #canada
Jones: We have a presidential administration that has more outrage about the changing of the cracker barrel logo than they do about changing the policies that allow our children to be gunned down in school…
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Love the Cape!
Cape Cod sunsets.
okay my friend in the White House press pool says he’s going golfing today, everyone stand down, good practice run great job team we can get a few more drills in before the big day
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
CHICAGO…
Welch: The people that elected Donald Trump are the people that he's punishing the most with this stuff. And you guys, if a democratic president was doing this, would be going bananas. You guys would lose your minds.
Yet he won’t do anything to be sure the guns stay out of the hands of those who struggle with mental health and they continue to defund organizations that try to support those with mental health issues. Why doesn’t the interviewer respond? Ug.
Then why does he vote to cut funding for mental health treatment? Why does he oppose background checks?
Iowa State Senator Zach Wahls, who hopes to fill the Senate seat being vacated by Joni Ernst, talks with Jen Psaki about the top two issues he hears about on the campaign trail: the economy, and political corruption. @zachwahls.bsky.social
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders has called for a special Senate committee hearing on the CDC crisis, demanding that RFK Jr. testify under oath about the disaster he’s created.
#bluesky #news
The same people who villainize Dr. Anthony Fauci, an actual doctor with a speciality in immunology and research in virology, are praising RFK Jr who has never seen the inside of a lab.
"January 6 survivor and former MPD Officer Michael Fanone launches a campaign demanding that federal officers remove their masks, advocating for transparency." Check out our new D.C. campaign demanding federal agents take off their mask! @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social www.wusa9.com/article/news...
I realize it's been 5 years but how is it no one remembers the early days of the covid pandemic and how scared we were? I was waiting for medical doctors and epidemiologists to do their thing and save us. I welcomed the vaccine after I almost died. Does no one remember how bad it was?!
You may already be aware of this. If so...it's good reinforcement: The President of Portugal branded Trump a RUSSIAN ASSET. Whether it’s true or not doesn’t even matter; what matters is this: world leaders see Trump as weak...compromised...and beneath respect.
I cannot understand how this is legal. So at what point can they prove they actually are documented?
They don’t care if you have papers or not. What they care about is whether you look like an immigrant from south of the border.
Welch: Am American president talks to other American citizens like that, and propagandists come on TV and normalize this behavior. And nothing about this is normal. Nothing
We want to apologize if it feels like we’ve been venting a lot lately. It’s just hard to ignore that nearly every move from this administration seems to be illegal, unlawful, or outright unconstitutional and yet nothing happens.
Huge news - appeals court rules that a majority of the President’s tariffs are illegal. The President is wreaking havoc on our economy, and he is breaking the law to do it. We must right this ship. We need sane trade policy again.
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
This is just sickening.
Garcia: We finally got word from the Epstein estate. They're going to be providing the actual Epstein book… the estate is actually going to actually now get us that book and a bunch of other documents that they have that's actually not been reported yet.
A federal judge has ordered Florida to shut down "Alligator Alcatraz," after the state spent a staggering $218M to build the now-vacant detention camp. Closing it will run taxpayers another $20M. An utterly cruel and costly waste.
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
“Give your kids an extra hug and kiss today.” Jesse Merkel spoke at a news conference outside Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, where his 8-year-old son, Fletcher, was one of two children fatally shot at a back-to-school Mass on Wednesday. Read more: nyti.ms/45HBSKN
Jain: We have a U.S. Attorney’s Office that is also facing a vacancy crisis. And that is at least partially because the predecessor to the current U.S. Attorney, Jeanine Pirro, was Ed Martin. He fired more than 20 prosecutors whose only “crime” was prosecuting violent January 6 insurrectionists.
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The reported meeting is part of the House Oversight Committee’s broader investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein case.
The fun would be watching Chump's reaction to it. 🤯 #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files