Eph. New Englander by heritage, DC resident by choice. Free market socialist. Opinions are my own. #TCM #TCMParty
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Wanted to elevate this so more people see this 31-tweet assessment of Trump's health that only raises more šØ that the press is not doing its job asking the most basic Qs. It's over on X but I compiled it here so you don't have to visit the hellscape: share.google/iPfZyFmPxI5W... What say you?
The data is clear and damning:
Great, which civil rights should "your kind" give up to ensure this democracy succeeds. Please provide a list.
Putting aside the whole "transition changes your physiology so the sports argument is bovine excrement," issue, do they not remember a key plot line of "the Bad News Bears" was a girl playing on a boy's team?
Funding public schools with local tax dollars is one of the biggest drivers of inequality in this nation.
Greed is like water, incredibly powerful and useful when under control (e.g., personal ambition for a promotion at work), but potentially devastating, especially if you don't take basic precautions to minimize predictable damage.
I've been saying the same thing. He passed 1.5 years ago from diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Same bruising issue, too, from blood thinners.
I can remember picketing on the 70s outside our town's school board meetings with a sign saying "Give My Mommy a Raise." Her teacher's union pension made my Dad's retirement (she'd passed by then) financially possible.
The thing I donāt get is the same press that is being kept at a distance from an obviously not hale and hearty president isnāt screaming for answers?
Does anyone know if Adderall overuse causes kidney disease? Asking for no reason whatsoever (h/t @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social)
I'm guessing a fall and I wouldn't be surprised if he's using face make up to hide resulting bruising.
If only there were an agency to assess the safety and efficacy of new pharmaceuticals.
Oh, is Eric upset about some free speech? Does the little snowflake need a safe space and some chamomile tea to cry it out?
The biggest news story in the news right now is that the president of the United States hasn't made a public appearance or spoken to the protective pool in four days and the White House is actively lying about his activities, yet no news organization is covering it.
There's only one way to stop the rumors about Donald Trump's health: a press conference. Why won't he talk to the press, and why isn't the media doggedly demanding it?
Especially when it only raises more questions when the alleged DV victim was in the southbound lanes, and the statement claims he continued on his trip, but was struck in the northbound lanes.
Hmmm, should I have eggs or waffles for breakfast?
For a second I thought this was a clip from the 1968 documentary "the Queen," about the NYC drag pageant pre-Stonewall that inadvertently launched the Ballroom scene. Someone -Domingo, Carpenter, the director - knows their history.
Where is the mainsteam media? Anyone out there? Can you hear me???
If anyone needed more proof The Rapist spent exactly 0 time interacting with the wider DC population, his ignorance about the Divine Nine should surely end the discussion.
Now that's a deep history cut.
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdownāso @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:
Why Isn't Donald Trump's Declining Health Being Covered by Corporate Media? Where are the op-eds & news programs calling for Trump's resignation due to his declining health, impaired abilities, & march towards fascism? Oh, yeah, "both sides" corporate journalism. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
But it's not just his citizenship that's the problem. Because grandpa Drumpf died young, his German wife, who hated the US, raised her son not to appreciate the land that gave them refuge, but to see US citizens as marks. It's the combination that's so damning.
He was born to a German father who fraudulently obtained US citizenship (to avoid German taxes & military service) & a noncitizen mother. His citizenship was based on a technicality the #MAGA movement wants ended (for non-white people). He was no more American than Nicole Kidman (born in Hawaii).
His mother was Scots and his father was German.
Yeah, I was there and know the history. I also recognize the only Constitutional means of preventing him from holding office was impeachment. Once again, we blame Democrats while holding the #MAGA party absolutely unaccountable for their lack of ethics and integrity.
The Border Patrol Chief Leading the California Immigration Crackdown Gregory Bovino has orchestrated thousands of arrests, using confrontational tactics that have made him a MAGA star. His critics say heās crossing legal and political lines. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
Great, when any member of this administration gets sick, they need to follow through and not even ask the experts' advice. Don't go to the doctor, but instead rely on your spiritual guide or horse paste or whatever quack theory you claim is true.
Only to follow up with "I'll sue you if you criticize me."
Jungle...(Wait for it)...red!
When you drag delivery drivers off their motorbikes for the "crime" of appearing Hispanic, it's not considered a carjacking, right? That might account for some of the alleged decline.
Voter ID is already in place. For my DC mail-in ballot it's called my signature. If it's good enough to hold me accountable for my mortgage, it's good enough to identify me as an eligible voter.
That's what happens when a party coalesces around someone with 0 US ancestry and who was raised to see the public as rubes to con out of their money.
Nothing the DOJ could have done would have prevented The Rapist from running for office, even from a prison cell. The only mechanism for that was conviction on second impeachment, so the failure lies with Pence, McConnell and McCarthy.
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Sourdough doesn't toast well? What planet is she on?
This is the type of person Trump pardoned. He proudly asserts that they should have injured a US Capitol Police Officer worse than they did on January 6th (@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social) had to medically retire). But MAGA supports law enforcement? Seriously? Then show me by condemning this guy.
RFK Jr must be fired. Heās too deranged and full of himself to leave voluntarily. So itās 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...
That's presuming a patient willing and able to accept a serious diagnosis like that. I'm guessing he isn't that patient.
A white convicted felon and his white immigrant wife are attempting to deceive America, pushing the false narrative that the nationās problems rest solely on the shoulders of Black and Brown communities and dark-skinned immigrantsā¦ā¦ā¦Let that sink in.
But is it permissible to deface the signs saying it's illegal to deface the sidewalk? Like with rainbow stickers that don't block the letters.
I think a body double would look a little more, IDK, human and healthy. That's him and he's not in good shape.
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My Dad looked like that at the end. Just saying.
Still looks like "death warmed over" as Ma would have said.
šØšØBREAKING: Most of Trumpās global tariffs ruled illegal by U.S. appeals court We have no kings in America šŗšøšŗšø
And I thought it was messy when a guy at my office sent flowers for Valentine's from the same florist to both the women he was dating in the office.
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
Those same people voted for an admitted rapist with five known children from three different women. Spare me the moral outrage.
In the 80s Frontline featured a jury's deliberation: a convicted felon in possession of a weapon - a clear crime. But the defendant was borderline developmentally delayed and clearly didn't realize the law applied to him. Jury didn't know about nullification, but that's basically what they did.
I actually think it's great to make him the party's attack dog, while gathering support around a candidate who respects the entire party and doesn't give credence to the conspiracy theories and lies of the right.
If you really believe he's the best option, then you should be pressuring him to reverse himself on, at a minimum, trans issues and commit himself to the basic cause of human rights.
Can anyone imagine walking into a child's funeral and saying this to the parents? Do these people live in the real world?
The Grand Jurors looking at the law and then looking at this case.
I will get around to explaining what Newsom is up to. It's not the content of his message. But for now, here's what I wrote two months ago. www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/20/g...
Among the many, many reasons why a remake is utterly unnecessary is the Chris Columbus and his team so perfectly realized the magical world in those first two films so any remake is going to look like a rip-off.
Gen X conservativism is more about a backlash & rejection of the Boomers, although HIV/AIDS certainly contributed to the cynicism. The transition in yearbook photos from the hippies who were seniors when my sister started high school in '79 and the Alex P Keaton clones in my '85 class was dramatic.
I haven't set foot in one in my entire life, in part because they conducted a nasty anti-LGBTQ+ crackdown many years ago, firing all out employees. This confirms I will never set foot in one, and I'm now in their target demographic. That's some great "free market" conservatism there.
Heaven forfend children learn that there are people who don't fit a narrow binary. What's next, insisting ambidextrous people are also erased?
I just threw up a little in my mouth reading that vile nonsense.
I think he's talking about cars with auto stop and start to save gas. Dear Lord.
So they're ensuring no one who doesn't already eat there will ever bother with their services.
The band itself also seems a bit old fashioned (in a good way) and that's why I thought it might be a family piece remade.
āØIFāØ you voted for anyone other than VP Harris or didn't vote at all āØTHENāØ you helped Trump. The famously flawed 2-party U.S. system is a zero sum game. Google if you need, but just know: EVERY vote or non-vote either helps or harms BOTH candidates. If you did not vote Harris, you helped Trump.
Asking for myself: does anyone know an Indigenous women in science at an Ivy League? I am looking for mentoring around navigating the specific elements of Ivy institutions as an early career rooted in community workā¦ and I donāt seem to have any one to ask for advice. Itās lonely out here š„ŗ
"Remigration"? Is Donnie going back to Scotland?
Chef Jose is not wrong, but trying to use reason with President P***y Grabber is like trying to explain the plot of "War & Peace" to a toddler.
If his new, leaner, build allows him to be successful on the field this year, they're really going to lose their damn minds.
The ring already looks interesting - I'm guessing it's at least partially an heirloom.
āDear White Peopleā¦If you believe in democracy and you care about freedom, donāt stand with us, stand in front of us. Because that work is waiting, and itās yours.ā š¬@majorleeg (IG)
E! News is covering it. It has to be true.
I loved how she noted on the podcast that she'd been writing about fairy tale love stories her whole career, and this was her real life version. I'm glad she found someone not only successful in his own right, but so happy to support her in her success. That's an ideal set up.
I think Kylie Kelce spilled the beans, slightly, when she announced Taylor was her latest daughter's godmother. That's traditionally a way to welcome a new in-law to the family.
Omg
They're really taking this fake relationship pretty far. /s
Cheapest I saw in the DMV was $2.99 last weekend. Highest was $3.49.
".. unless Pulte somehow had particular knowledge about issues with Cook's application, which is unlikely, then one has conclude that Pulte handed Fannie and Freddie a list of political enemies and asked for their loan files for review."
As you watch the extraordinary spectacle of Trump's government attempting to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, let's not lose sight of just how lawless and indefensible Trump's misconduct has been all throughout. Here's a thread recapping all of it. 1/
If Joe Bidenās hand had looked like it was covered in grey scale Fox would be running that shit on a loop 24/7.
Have you all noticed Trump now has bruises on both hands?? He previously had bruises on just one and covered it up with makeup. Plus his cankles are pretty severe. Heās the walking dead.
Red state cities w/ higher violent crime rates than DC & Baltimore DCās violent-crime rate: ā 949 / 100k. Kansas City, MO: 1,724 Indianapolis, IN: 1,334 New Orleans, LA: 1,121 Wichita, KS: 1,022 Baton Rouge, LA: 1,027 We know why Trump is targeting DC & Baltimore.
Judge Xinis: Your clients are *absolutely forbidden* from removing Mr. Abrego from the continental United States. You understand this? DOJ: Yes.
Fun fact: I once left my car parked in front of my house in DC with the trunk just barely open (forgot I hit the button to open it) for an entire week. Didn't realize until I went out to go somewhere and the battery was dead (trunk light was on the whole time). Nothing was stolen from the car.
Because remember folks, the #MAGA Party, formerly GOP, must never be expected to act with any integrity, ethics or morals, and must ALWAYS be treated with privilege because they're white, straight and "Christian."
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
Climate change is a hoax. Right.
This is the most inadvertently feminist film ever. While Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin & George Kennedy are out alpha-male-ing each other, it's Jean Seberg, Maureen Stapleton, Helen Hayes and Jacqueline Bissett who drive the plot forward, and the latter two are the most courageous people on the plane.
As a new school year starts, Trump is terrifying the children of the District, thousands of whom rely on public transit to get to school and will now be greeted by a coterie of federal agents and armed soldiers who know nothing of their lives or their communities
The only thing that scares me about this scene is that the men may not have fully stretched and could pull a muscle.
Union station, DC
This scavenger hunt is so charming and smart and actively engaging. It gets New Yorkers out and about, exploring the city, talking to one another, taking advantage of public transportation and working toward a common cause. The levels! Itās just so great.
And you know the pub crawl after it's all over will be epic, which means $$ poured (literally) into the coffers of NYC businesses and in taxes. It's a fantastic idea all around.
Well that's obviously a complete failure! /s
Game on.
Every person in this society, no matter their ancestry, experiences the same de facto racial hierarchy with whites on the top. It is impossible not to be affected by that. Stop thinking racism is a negative characteristic of only "bad" people.
The first terrorist attack was on the Capitol itself. Now they're waging economic war on the city to punish us for not kissing the Rapist's feet.
The State of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from the federal government asking if we need assistance, and we have made no requests for federal intervention.