U.S. officials of both parties spent years struggling to develop homegrown alternatives to China’s telecom giants. The GOP abruptly defunded its biggest tool.
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U.S. officials of both parties spent years struggling to develop homegrown alternatives to China’s telecom giants. The GOP abruptly defunded its biggest tool.
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?"
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
Trump says he’s moving Space Force because Colorado has mail in voting. Lol wut
This anti‑MAGA guide gives simple slogans, repetition loops, and cult‑breaking strategies that can be used to counter Trump's election meddling. https://americanmanifesto.news/anti-maga-messaging-guide-v1
Trump and House Republicans thought they could make the pedophile Epstein issue go away by forcing Congress to leave early for recess. They failed. We’re back. The Epstein issue will not go away until the Administration does the right thing. RELEASE THE FILES CANCEL THE CUTS
All kidding aside, it is so *insane* & *shocking* & *dangerous* that Corporate Media has collectively decided to completely bury objective fact that the President is uninformed, confused, and physically & mentally deteriorating.
Shame on the courts for going along with the pernicious fiction that American national security required stripping employees of union protections
This is your Labor Day reminder that our tax code taxes investment income at a lower rate than income from actual work. The only reason to do that is to make the rich richer.
Ok but hear me out, what if we taxed the fuck out of really rich people
Medicare for all. Paid leave. Universal childcare. Break up corporate monopolies. Take on Wall Street greed. Get big money out of politics. Support unions. Raise wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda.
If they made a watch that looked like this today, I would so buy it, even if it only told time.
The US is abundantly wealthy. EVERY person here could have health care, a roof, food, & a way to contribute that fits their capacities. The #GOP are making sure the rich get richer & the poor get poorer. Then they blame the poor for not praying hard enough - while they protect child rapists.
Congrats on your time at Princeton. I just dropped my son off at Princeton University yesterday. He’s a junior pursuing a mathematics degree.
Trump recently ordered the Department of the Interior to halt work on a huge wind farm. 1,000 union workers had already completed 80% of the project. Now they're fired. He made sure the oil and gas billionaires got their tax breaks, though. Happy Labor Day, I guess.
Imagine having this much disposable income and getting a huge tax break on top of it
can we please tax these people 95%
If this were a fun house business this would be really neat, but knowing it's just some rich guy's hobby makes me really depressed that I can't even buy a 1 bedroom apartment
Make no mistake, everything that’s happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media. Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are. Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
Dems had a great turnout in Point Pleasant this morning & the Ocean County Visibility Brigade was there! It’s go time New Jersey! We can address affordability, keep our National Guard home & overcome any challenge the 47 regime throws at us. Find a brigade near you @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
Turns out when you treat teachers well, invest in students, and focus on improving schools, you get real results. Illinois now ranks third in the nation for our education system for a reason.
Et voila! Case proven. #solar
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.
At some point in the not too distant future the conventional wisdom will be that this was a period where the US focused on dumb shit while China took the lead in multiple domains
Killing clean energy projects means killing jobs and raising bills. 64,000 jobs already lost or at risk. 400,000 more on the line. The future is clean energy—and that’s where we must invest.
New Jersey was the crossroads of our Revolution. The fight to establish our right to self determination & citizen participation in democracy goes on. We’re turning out on Sept. 17th to make sure 249 years of sacrifice were not in vain! Follow handsacrossnj.bsky.social Sign up handsacrossnj.org
NEW: A federal judge ordered an Arkansas school district to take down Ten Commandments displays in its classrooms following our lawsuit.
I am truly sorry for what happened to Ashli Babbitt. Sorry she got sucked into a cult shaped by ragertainment masquerading as news. Sorry she joined a mob supporting a madman. Sorry she deluded herself into thinking treason was patriotism. (1/2)
NEW QUINNIPIAC POLL: Trump approval rating: 37% Trump's handling of: Crime: - 12 Russia/Ukraine: -12 Foreign Policy: -16 Economy: -18 Trade: -18 Israel/Hamas/Gaza: -19 Sending weapons to Israel: -28 National Guard to DC: -15 Epstein files: -48 Smithsonian: -27 poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
It's time to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr from government before he kills us all
A man who donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Republicans received a $2.25 million no-bid contract from ICE.. To be clear, those hundreds of thousands of dollars were a bribe. The corruption is right out in the open. zeteo.com/p/ice-no-bid...
Shuler: This is the choice working Americans have been given: chaos, or the same broken status quo. We wanted cheaper groceries—and we got tanks in our streets. We wanted affordable health care—and instead, 16 million Americans are about to be kicked off their coverage
George Retes, a 25-year-old U.S. citizen and Army veteran, intends to sue the federal government following his violent arrest and three-day detention by ICE without any explanation.
Jeffrey Epstein’s neighbor is SPILLING! 💅 🎬 @nickshirley
Every couple of days it stops me dead in my tracks and knocks the breath out of me to realize how bad things are gonna get for how many people in how many ways, and how it is all down to the petty insane whims of one of the worst people America has ever produced.
Another successful cabinet meeting with Dear Leader
Watching Trump’s cabinet cult members taking turns slithering in and out of his ass today was by far the most repulsive exhibit of self degradation I could ever imagine witnessing.
Thanks for normalizing the crazy PBS. SMH
Electricity prices are growing at more than twice the rate of inflation. Dive into the reasons behind the rise with our chart of the week:
They should have let him cook. We could have had nice things.
Reading an article titled "Why didn't Brazilian democracy die?" and a key part of the story is a Supreme Court that actually did its job
Gavin Newsom is parodying Donald Trump online—and the reaction from Trump’s supporters is proof that Newson is on to something, @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues.
It’s clear that the main goal of the Maxwell interview was to get her to say that she didn’t see Trump do anything wrong. Which can only mean that there is something in the files that suggests that he did. Why else would she need to say that? The interview is more incriminating, not less.
Republicans had a choice: expose child s*x traffickers or protect Trump. They chose Trump. They chose traffickers. They are the party of child s*x trafficking.
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I would buy this album in a heartbeat (@fakemusic_br instagram) #funk #acdc
That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
Two of the single greatest advances of our lifetimes are mRNA technology and renewable energy tech and somehow the United States is now virulently against both.
Brett Meiselas: People are looking for real fighters—authentic fighters. Somebody who can harness the anger that so many of us are feeling about these freaks who have taken over our government. The person who can harness that anger—that’s who will be the next nominee in 2028 for the Democrats
BREAKING: The CA assembly has PASSED the first of three bills in Newsom's redistricting fight 30 - 9 www.youtube.com/watch?v=29OH...
AC/DC all the way
Yes
Do i make more coffee at 4PM...
The amusing thing about this clip is the infrastructure bill was literally the first and only thing Nancy Mace brought up in terms of her accomplishments in Congress. Her biggest win for her district was legislation she voted against.
I feel like I'm living in a alternate universe. Never ever in my long life did I expect to see or hear such idiocy from a US President. Worse, how legacy news treats it as normal. Even worse are the enablers bowing & scraping before the mad king. May all the Powers in the universe have mercy on us.
I wasn't overreacting.
Sarah, a victim/survivor of Epstein/Maxwell, & co-conspirators tells all. Listen. Feel. Believe. Demand #Justice4Survivors. #WhereIsTheList
Gavin Newsom: "We're gonna punch these sons of b*tches in the mouth."
The GOP is causing all of this chaos just so everyone will stop talking about the Epstein files. Never stop asking where the files are and why they're covering it up.
Household electric bills are up 10% nationally since Trump took office. Meanwhile, household gas prices rose by 56%. Energy costs are set to go up more as the Trump-Republican budget bill guts clean energy projects. Remember how the entire election was about lowering prices?
This is so disgusting and tacky. Everything about him is so disgusting and tacky. This is what people with zero class think class looks like.
White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.
"Massachusetts has collected about $1.8 billion from a voter-approved surtax on the state's highest earners through the first nine months of the fiscal year." It's going to be used for education and transportation. See? Equitable taxation benefits everyone. www.wgbh.org/news/politic...
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is calling on Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to retract a recent unconstitutional threat to eject citizens from the state Senate chamber if they do not stand during official prayers. ffrf.us/4lyVdCA
🚨 A man in Middleton, NY, demonstrates how to protect our communities by example. 1/2
It sounds conspiratorial to suggest that Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump behind closed doors to launch an assault on mail-in voting in elections administered by the states, and Trump immediately set about mobilizing federal power to do it… but that is literally Trump’s account of what happened.
JUST IN: The right-wing news channel Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 million to Dominion Voting Systems over its coverage of the 2020 presidential election. A trial had been scheduled for October. n.pr/3UuKeyZ
Good news, everybody! Dictator Putin agrees that wannabe dictator Trump should make it harder to vote.
The war is apparently Zelensky’s fault. Tomorrow is going to be another shit show.
Hey @seanhannity.bsky.social, I know you get asked this question a lot, but I’ll ask it again: How do you live with yourself? I mean, I know you make a shitload of money, but really, how do you live with yourself? www.mediaite.com/media/tv/han...
Now that Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is law, 51,000 more people will die preventable deaths each year. Republicans voted to let thousands of people die so they could give billionaires government handouts.
The left-leaning media outfit has surged in Donald Trump's second term, appealing to progressives outraged by the president. Still, the online streaming world remains dominated by right-wing voices.
It’s Saturday! Time for fun and games. 😃 Let’s play, “Guess The Penalty!”
Nope. The exact opposite. I wish for Trump to fail BECAUSE I wish for America to succeed. What Trump is doing - his stupid tariffs, his cruel deportations, his traitorous siding with Putin - will all hurt America. I don’t want to hurt America. So of course I want Trump to fail.
Please don't say Putin "played" Trump and got everything he could've ever wanted from the grotesque spectacle in Alaska without also noting that it's *easy* to play Trump. Putin isn't a genius—a *child* could play Trump. Just flatter him and indulge his delusions. He's pathetic.
This is sick stuff. Trump citing a war criminal who mounted information warfare against the US to help elect Trump. It’s absurd that Trump depicts Putin as a credible source on democratic and fair elections.
We're in court today challenging a Texas law that requires all public K-12 schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom. Public school is for learning, not evangelizing.
The only thing that should be happening in Alaska is the arrest of indicted war criminal Vladimir Putin. Anything else is a victory for evil. A POTUS should meet with those defending themselves against war crimes—with Putin begging to be involved due to a fear of consequences.
No not PBS news. Make better headlines!
I’ve always been a big 2nd Amendment guy bcuz I fear government tyranny. I fear masked & armed government agents taking to our streets against the people. So how come all my fellow 2nd Amendment guys, who said they too feared government tyranny, are now happily on the side of the government tyranny?
youtu.be/dGNKffQYE00?... This is my experience in red PA. I hate here. ☹️ I can't do small talk!! 🤷🏼
I think this is it. The statement below, I mean. We have finally found the most cowardly thing ever said by any man. I wonder if we have any photos of Hercules Mullin cowering during January 6? Oh, that’s right... we do.
Taking photos and video of law enforcement officers performing their duties in public is our constitutional right. This includes police, FBI, National Guard troops, ICE agents, and other government officials.
Dear business owners against bike infrastructure, I biked to the gym, then stopped at a local bakery on the way home. This was a spontaneous purchase decision made possible by my mode of transportation that the chaotic nature of car operation never affords me.
Will be hard to explain in the future that the US government went antivax, causing a lot of avoidable suffering and death, not in response to any negative incident with vaccines, but to the biggest, fastest, most successful, most impressive vaccine rollout in history.
Why am I only finding out about this deleted scene from Borat 2 now?! (Not safe for work) www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8sm...
I hate it when weak-minded media such as the Washington Post say that DC crime is dramatically down but "many residents still do not feel safe." They're talking about an *information problem* more than a crime problem. Right-wing propagandists don't want anyone to feel safe.
Let’s concentrate on a few hundred asylum seekers whilst the Earth burns
The number of children injured or killed by cars while walking or riding a bike has fallen steadily since the 1970s, but CDC researcher note that this decline is not because streets are safer, but because fewer kids are out and about in the first place.
The movie The Purge, but only super-rich people are allowed to commit crimes and get away with it, and it’s every day… and I’m just describing our country right now… never mind.
Anyone who accepts a Kennedy Center Honor in 2025 would have been a 'Good German' in 1939.
Hot crackers! A new @climatetown.bsky.social is out. 👇
@betoorourke.bsky.social: "I was just in Oklahoma City, in Omaha, Indianapolis, Kansas City. We're seeing Democrats, but we're also seeing people who say "I routinely voted for Republicans because that's just what we do in our family. But now my eyes are open and I want to know how I can help out.'"
The Trump administration is floating ending monthly job reports because they’re so fucking bad right now.
Trump raked in $3.4B from his presidency via self-dealing—foreign leaders, crypto, the works. Ethics lawyer calls him the “greatest con artist” in U.S. history. Power’s just another hustle when you’re running the ultimate grift. www.rawstory.com/trump-wealth...
"So, Dems need to do two things" 1 - Use every tactic that McConnell employed to such great effect. 2 - Make it clear that we are simply replicating McConnell's tactics, by referring to each instance of employing these tactics as “McConnelling". www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...