The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
The gaslighting on the signature is maybe their most embarrassing thing yet. Just an absolute disregard for the truth, or dignity. @reptimburchett
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
The gaslighting on the signature is maybe their most embarrassing thing yet. Just an absolute disregard for the truth, or dignity. @reptimburchett
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." —Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted
Trump gets booed at the US Open today.
WhatInTheActual…? (@d-c-s-66.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s so OBVIOUS. Can we call it what it is? A house of cards. Lies, lies and more lies.
WhatInTheActual…? (@d-c-s-66.bsky.social) reply parent
I know, old news, but why do we refer to the double as Melania v. #FakeMelania?
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Comfortably Numb (@numb.comfortab.ly) reposted
USTA to Broadcasters: DO NOT show Trump getting booed. Streisand effect:
Angry (@angrystaffer.bsky.social) reposted
The GOP usually LOVES these O’Keefe hidden cameras. Let’s see what they have to say about this one admitting the Epstein coverup.
Eli Valley (@elivalley.bsky.social) reposted
Such an odd thing to read in the newspaper www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
AnarchoTerran (@anarchoterran.bsky.social) reposted
The strike on a Venezuelan vessel was nothing less than extrajudicial mass murder and an act of war, whether or not it was carrying drugs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8uJ...
Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) reposted
So...no due process? Cool, cool. Good luck, everyone. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Citizens' Impeachment (@citizensimpeachment.com) reposted
The victims deserve justice. Americans deserve transparency. If two more representatives sign the discharge petition filed by Reps Massie and Khanna, the House will have to vote, for the first time, on releasing the unredacted Epstein files. Call your Rep NOW. ☎️ (202) 224-3121
Democracy Docket (@democracydocket.com) reposted
NEW: Cleta Mitchell, a prominent anti-voting lawyer who played a key role in Trump’s bid to overturn the 2020 elections, suggests on a podcast that the president could declare a national emergency to get around his limited authority to regulate federal elections.
WhatInTheActual…? (@d-c-s-66.bsky.social) reply parent
Agree. Even so, with Coco out, I’m rooting for Osaka.
MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) reposted
De Georgiou: And to be clear, the only motive for opposing this bill would be to conceal wrongdoing. You have a choice: stand with the truth or with the lies that have protected predators for decades.
George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted
I wish somebody would ask him to specifically list the "seven" or however many wars he claims to have ended and then hand him a map and ask him to show us on it where the wars were.
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
The president is using the military to dismantle cities that didn't vote for him The president is using the military to distract from women speaking out against his and Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuses. We are not living in ordinary times. Extraordinary responses are called for.
Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted
A victim of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has revealed how a group of survivors is compiling a client list of their own.
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
As a survivor, I can't think of a more fitting metaphor than a rapist creating loud noises with planes as a survivor tries to tell her story. I mean... just wow. Nevertheless, she persisted.
Angry (@angrystaffer.bsky.social) reposted
Epstein survivors say they’re compiling their own client list. “We know who abused us. We saw who came and went. This list will be survivor-led—for survivors”
Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted
The overall takeaway from the Epstein survivors’ press conference is that they are united and are no longer going to allow rich and powerful men to victimize, silence and intimidate them. Including the ones in Congress and the perp in the Oval Office.
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
"Stay tuned for more details" -- Epstein survivor announces that survivors are creating their own list of Epstein-related abusers
muscular baby jeb lund (@mobute.bsky.social) reposted
you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later
Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) reposted
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.
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.
Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
I love this guy
WhatInTheActual…? (@d-c-s-66.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, that’s a little bit of good news!
WhatInTheActual…? (@d-c-s-66.bsky.social) reply parent
BOO! You weren’t elected- to anything!! Wonder what you had to do to get picked by Rump? 🤔
WhatInTheActual…? (@d-c-s-66.bsky.social) reply parent
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Kimberley Johnson (@kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social) reposted
According to Parnas, "The reality is, something is wrong. Very wrong. And while America is kept in the dark, while his inner circle hides it, dictators overseas are already calculating their next moves in a world without him."
George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted
JD Vance on Donald Trump: “I’m a Never Trump guy. I never liked him. I don’t think he’s the person. I don’t think he cares about folks. I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.” { ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social }
Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) reposted
Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.
MorbidAnjel (@morbidanjel.bsky.social) reposted
Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"
Angry (@angrystaffer.bsky.social) reposted
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.
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
The next days and months and years will demand from all of us great courage — and solidarity. Be prepared.
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Welch: Everybody's missing the point here. The point is, he's doing this on purpose. He's priming the public to get accustomed to having the military in the streets
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
Don’t look away
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
If someone tells you there's nothing we can do about gun violence beyond thoughts and prayers, remind them: —Gun laws in other countries have prevented mass shootings —More guns don't make us safer —A majority of Americans want gun reform We don't have to live like this.
Denise Wheeler (@denisedwheeler.bsky.social) reposted
The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)
Barack Obama (@barackobama.bsky.social) reposted
Republicans are trying to redraw congressional district lines to keep their grip on Congress in the midterms and beyond. Voters should pick their politicians, not the other way around. Get involved with the @democraticredistricting.com as they fight back: bit.ly/3HJ1ayW
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Newsom: Perhaps the president could deploy the National Guard in every corner of Mississippi. Murder rate is out of control there. And the governor may want to make that phone call.
Krassensteins (@krassenstein.bsky.social) reposted
BREAKING: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey JUST CALLED FOR a statewide and federal ban on assault weapons. Who’s with him?
Jess Piper (@piperformissouri.bsky.social) reposted
They are sending soldiers into cities to prepare to intimidate people at the polls next year. They gerrymander because they can’t win on policy. They intimidate because even gerrymandering won’t work at this point.
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
Attempting to rig elections on his behalf. Turning the military on citizens. Toying with the idea of declaring martial law. Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out against his regime. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
WhatInTheActual…? (@d-c-s-66.bsky.social) reply parent
She disgusts me.
Catherine Zoltan (@catherinezoltan.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Republican Political Party propaganda hour. It's like Captain Kangaroo for MAGA. Only now it's Captain Chaos.
WhatInTheActual…? (@d-c-s-66.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes.
WhatInTheActual…? (@d-c-s-66.bsky.social) reply parent
What in the actual…? Mygod. Buffoon.
WhatInTheActual…? (@d-c-s-66.bsky.social) reply parent
😂
Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) reposted
"Honey, I don't have much time. I've been arrested by ICE and they are sending me to a detainment center. I love you and the kids, I will be OK, please call our attorney" -- John Shin, DACA resident, speaking to his wife last week. She hasn't heard from him since www.fox13now.com/news/local-n...
Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted
US citizen says he was racially profiled as federal goons detained him outside his job
Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) reposted
Last week Trump said he likes the idea of starting a war so he can declare “no more elections” and stay in office forever. Today he just said “a lot of people” want “a dictator.” See where this is going?
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
“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.” – Gov. J.B. Pritzker
Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) reposted
“They’re going to kill me here,” Neri Alvarado thought. Alvarado was allegedly targeted by the Trump administration because of his tattoo of an autism awareness ribbon. Now, free from El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison, Alvarado wants the world to know what they lived through.
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Pritzker: Trump looked at the cameras and asked for me personally to say, Mr. President, can you do us the honor of protecting our city? Instead, I say, Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. Your remarks about this effort have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties
WhatInTheActual…? (@d-c-s-66.bsky.social) reply parent
WTAF
Katherine (@wordwatcher.bsky.social) reposted
I think this may be my favorite because everything he says is true. (R rated.)
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
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.
Carter P. Hayes (@allchronology.com) reposted
Florida banned The Diary of Anne Frank. Whoever signed off on that should have to eat every page of that book — one by one — and choke on the lesson they’re trying to erase. 📚🔥 #BannedBooks #AnneFrank
KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 (@kojamf.bsky.social) reposted
🤘🙂☕ stevenwilhelm555 Steven
Indivisible ❌👑 (@indivisible.org) reposted
Trump serves billionaires while working families pay the price.
Hillary Rodham Clinton (@hillaryclinton.bsky.social) reposted
On the left, my warning from September 2024 about what Trump 2.0 would look like. On the right, recent headlines. I wish I'd been wrong. But because Trump is following a classic authoritarian playbook, it’s up to state and local governments to push back on this tyranny while it’s still possible.
Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) reposted
It isn’t normal for a president to repeatedly threaten the use of military force against American citizens. Treating the National Guard as a political pawn disrespects those who serve and undermines public trust in our military.
Denise Wheeler (@denisedwheeler.bsky.social) reposted
If a prez wanted to become effectively a dictator, he’d: 1. Purge govt of non loyalists 2. Weaponize law against opponents 3. Use military to police opposition strongholds 4. Threaten media, schools, biz's w penalties to get them to heel 5. Change election rules in his favor We're at #4, almost #5
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
“I was r*ped sometimes 3 times a day on that island… and I was not the only girl on that island… Ghislaine must die in prison, because I’ve been in hell and back for the last 17 years.” Listen to the survivors.
WhatInTheActual…? (@d-c-s-66.bsky.social) reply parent
“Worse than we imagined” 😭😩
Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) reposted
Virginia Giuffre’s family denounces “DAG Todd Blanche’s bizarre interview” of Ghislaine Maxwell in a statement. www.allrisenews.com/p/maxwell-tr...
Rep. Ted Lieu (@reptedlieu.bsky.social) reposted
A message for the most “transparent Administration” in history: Release the Epstein files.
Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@nothoodlum.bsky.social) reposted
We’re not distracted and it’s not going away.
The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) reposted
Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning. The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc
Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) reposted
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "Wake the fuck up to what's going on in this country... We're going to put everything on the damn line... People haven't given up yet. We're going to do this. We can win this November. We can win next November, and then we can get this country back on track."
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
Life comes at you fast
Katelyn Oldham *Do not obey in advance.* (@katelynstarrpdx.bsky.social) reposted
Watching the authoritarian Trump government deploy military personnel in D.C. and other cities under the clear pretense of stopping crime is chilling. From Duerte, Orban, Putin, Pinochet, Hitler, Mussolini and many, many others, we all know where this leads. Where is the Democratic Party?
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WhatInTheActual…? (@d-c-s-66.bsky.social)
www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n... Putin found his perfect idiot.
Adam Schwarz (@adamjschwarz.bsky.social) reposted
“Putin would eat you for lunch.” Today, exactly that happened.
D. Earl Stephens (@dearlstephens.bsky.social) reposted
🇺🇦 Re-upping this one in the name of decency and democracy. Slava Ukraini!
Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) reposted
Imagine if they’d had sandwiches. 🥪
Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted
Mayor Bass reacts to Bovino's raid outside Gov Newsom's Press Conference in Little Tokyo 8/14