A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean
This should be getting far more attention from the media, and it should be investigated as a hate crime. A 14-year-old Black teen was targeted, beaten, and dehumanized with racial slurs by white teens while people stood around cheering. 1/4
Man, I feel this. 🙏🏽😭
You guys see where this is going? Right?
As we begin a new month, my law firm is litigation 51 voting and election cases in 25 states. 6 in Arizona 6 in Georgia 4 in Florida 4 in North Carolina 8 involve redistricting
I remember early November 2023. I think I was the first person on US mainstream media, while at MSNBC/Peacock, to say the G-word on TV. On my show. It was seen as hugely controversial then. It's controversial no longer. It's undeniable, irrefutable, the consensus view.
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
Welch: He claims that he's the law and order president. But we all know that's a lie because he's a convicted felon. He pardons convicted felons, he surrounds himself with obsequious people that kiss his all day, every day
American exceptionalism
Don’t look away
Dr. William Foege, 89, who helped end smallpox in the 1970s, recently wrote: RFK Jr.’s “words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.” And his actions are more lethal still. He’s waging war on America. That’s an impeachable offense. He must be removed from office. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
The Department of Homeland Security is reportedly barring states and organizations that receive government funds from helping undocumented immigrants. This will make it harder for the most vulnerable people to get help in the aftermath of disasters. It was always about cruelty.
🚨50 shades of fucked up. No fear but much loathing these “people” in 2025.
As long as guns are easily available to crazy people, mass killings directed at so-called soft targets will continue. This is a fact. Countries where it's more difficult for crazy people to obtain guns have less shootings. This is also a fact. Do with these facts as you will.
I just someone drop a single bottle of water from a helicopter down to Katrina survivors stranded on a roof. These documentaries are incredibly important to watch and painful to watch. Think about people who needed insulin.
Watch. If you claim one of these to get a vaccine, they’ll use it later as a preexisting condition to crank up your health premium or kick you off your plan.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
Pay attention. Your family’s safety is on the line.
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.
President Donald Trump is continuing to transform the Justice Department into a tool for vengeance against his political enemies, including billionaire philanthropist and Democratic donor George Soros. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
17 democratic senators voted to confirm this woman as labor secretary
8/25/25💡Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, a 400-page account by Virginia Giuffre localstories247.com/epstein-vict...
"It's going to be dangerous if the financial markets perceive that Donald Trump, of all people, the most erratic man on the planet, is in charge of monetary policy."
Trump's DC takeover runs into resistance in courthouse. A grand jury refused three times to indict a woman accused of assaulting an FBI agent and a magistrate said an arrest followed the "most illegal search I’ve seen in my life" @rizzotk.bsky.social Mike Laris www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
"The political appointment, first reported by Democracy Docket, shows how self-styled election investigators who have thrown themselves into election conspiracy theories since 2020 are now being celebrated by a presidential administration that indulges their false claims." apnews.com/article/heat...
"Danny, Oct. 7th doesn't justify killing paramedics and then mass-grave burying them with their ambulances. That is a war crime." Watch my full heated interview with former Israeli deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon on Gaza and more. Preview below. zeteo.com/p/danny-ayal...
A MAGA Warrior Is Rifling Through Your Mortgage Paperwork talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-mag...
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
The political appointment, first reported by Democracy Docket, shows how self-styled election investigators who have thrown themselves into election conspiracy theories since 2020 are now being celebrated by a presidential administration that indulges their false claims.
The US Attorney who declined to prosecute an Israeli government official arrested last month for underage solicitation has a colorful collection of deep-pocketed donors from past political campaigns, including one who fled a fraud case by going to... Israel. prospect.org/justice/2025...
Psaki: "If you have to keep telling people you aren’t a dictator, maybe your actions are getting a little dictator-y."
Stuart Stevens on National Guard deployment: "The murder rate of Jackson, Mississippi is 3 times that of D.C.... the whole thing is complete fraud"
They warned that the Trump Administration's cuts to disaster response and the current FEMA leaders' complete lack of experience risk placing the country at a "Katrina-level" disaster. So Trump fired them. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
23 Dem governors are “crucial in resisting Trump’s defiance of our federal system & the independent power of states. The more Trump over-reaches in his deployment of military troops & other criminal violations, the more we should expect Dem states to say no.” www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-y...
note how Trump on a daily basis is trying to normalize the idea that he's a dictator
The televised groveling festival lasted over three hours. Here are some of the most shameless examples from yesterday's roundtable of the Trump sycophants running the government praising their leader. 🙇 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Almost every day there’s a Trump scandal that skates by that in any other moment of presidential history would launch endless follow-up stories, congressional investigations, and sink an administration. I zeroed in on just two of them from this week: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/a-watergat...
Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crow’s yacht
Herr Himmler says what?
This, about a man who threatened to annex Canada and Greenland, bombed Iran & Yemen, put military forces on the streets if the USA against the citizens he swore to protect, conspired with Putin, Netanyahu withdrawn help from Ukrain and allowed Israel to commit war crimes. #NobelPeacePrize my arse
And I threw up a little in my mouth
"For those people out there who ... say, 'Well, I just don't like those people either' ... You could be next. ... This is not about any one individual, this is about our rights as Americans, and our right to have a justice system where choices about prosecuting are made without fear or favor."
While tracking the data is challenging, the movements on the ground point to a monumental new chapter in the history of migration: the disintegration of the American dream. Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
This is precisely what Donald J. Trump wanted and this is what we have: a cabinet thoroughly engorged with men and women of the" necessary insignificance and pliancy to render them the obsequious instruments of his pleasure." open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
Beginning to get emails like this from small overseas businesses I've ordered products from in the past. I guess this is freedom.
This is not who we are. We must join together to call this out, to make more people understand what is happening and work to stop it.
The Trump Administration manipulates data provided to the public from agencies like the Dept. of Energy & the EPA, to help his buddies in the fossil fuels industry. @govjayinslee.bsky.social: “Trump is a big speedbump” in the fight for clean energy, but Inslee has a plan. youtu.be/XQMpwJ4CzEo?...
“Trump’s pretense to ownership of public goods and public spaces isn’t some quirk to be ignored or waited out — “there goes our Donald!” — but a direct expression of his autocratic ambitions and despotic cast of mind.”
Cash bail creates a two-tiered system of justice where the wealthy can buy their way out of jail. Cashless bail lets judges detain people based on flight risk and community threat, rather than financial means, and does not raise crime rates. Don't fall for Trump's lies.
Inflation and cost of living are way up as Trump appears to be spoiling like a Trump Steak. Also, still no Epstein files. But at least Trump is fighting Cracker Barrel for you. Feeling great yet, everyone? https://meidasnews.com/news/trump-white-house-spoke-to-cracker-barrel-about-logo-switch
Watching Loomer harass & demonize individual Muslim government employees simply for being Muslims while the Democrats & 'liberal media' say nothing is a reminder of how mainstreamed & normalized anti-Muslim bigotry is in the US, across the spectrum. Imagine if these were Jewish or Black employees.
💦🤍💦 Wed, Aug 27 Yesterday, the T36As & T46s spent the day in Saratoga Passage, last reported in Possession Sound & a humpback was surface active off Point No Point. Will they stay or will they go? 📸 A member of the T46s while in Bremerton area on Aug 19 - by Julie Davis. #psws
Thank God someone is stopping the dangerous... uh... violinists in Utah. Entered the US with proper papers at 10, later graduated with a fine arts degree from the University of Utah and stayed. Invasion! There's evidence he's been part of the vicious gang known as The Salt Lake Symphony Orchestra.
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
“It’s absolutely mind-boggling to be discussing message testing in response to abductions, concentration camp construction, and unleashing [the] military on Americans.” Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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?
Masked immigration raids don’t protect us. They hide abuse and strip away our dignity. Stand with me in demanding transparency and accountability by adding your name to this petition.
You’re not dropping a single, asshole. If you’re actually knew anything, it would be criminal not to reveal it now. But of course, this is a bullshit publicity stunt.
Thank you, Your Honor, and way to go, Utah! The state’s Legislature will now be forced to quickly redraw its congressional districts after a judge ruled Monday that lawmakers had sidestepped voter-approved safeguards designed to prevent partisan gerrymandering.
wow. we’d heard rumors to this effect. now it’s more than rumor.
"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
WTF
Another successful cabinet meeting with Dear Leader
First, they came for John Bolton And I did speak out Because even though I'm not a nutty right-wing warmonger with a ridiculous mustache, I am an American who is horrified by a simple-minded tyrant using our Justice Department to avenge his petty, personal grudges.
Hey mainstream media colleagues: you cannot be deported to a country you are not from. That’s kidnapping and trafficking. Call it that. You are lying if you say otherwise.
Don't agonize — organize! Here are five steps you can take between now and the midterms to resist Trump's tyranny. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W-l...
Nyet
The Trump regime is waging war on all of human civilization and on the planet we all share and have a sacred duty to preserve and protect. The only right answer to such self-destructive insanity is: NO!!!!!!!!!! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/c...
Time for the presumption of IRregularity www.mediaite.com/media/tv/we-...
I’ve confirmed with a person in the neighborhood where the truck crashed that the two men were *not* “El Salvadoran gang members” as the ICE thug so confidently asserted. They’re from Guatemala and Honduras, and one of them has lived here for 15 years and has multiple children.
I wrote down some notes on privatization and the transfer of wealth. Tell the MAGA in your lives that they’re subsidizing billionaires by voting for republicans.
Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I have spent the last 17 years in my own prison for what she, Jeffrey, and all the co-conspirators did to me. I was raped three times a day. Ghislaine must die in prison.”
See this is why we gotta liquidate this whole class.
Warren: He said that with a single phone call he would end the war in Ukraine. He said he would end the war in Gaza. And I think I remember him saying he would release all of the Epstein files… He promised that on day one he would lower costs for American families. We are now on day 215.
"Democratic governors are on the frontlines of the redistricting fight. They have the power to veto rigged maps, pass fair ones and go on offense to counter Republican extremism in places like Texas." - Meghan Meehan-Draper www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...
omg
FFS
Q: As a conservative, do you think the govt should have ownership stakes in private companies? LAWLER: Generally speaking, no... I think what the president is seemingly trying to do is get a return on these tens of billions of dollars that are being invested by taxpayers into companies like Intel
🚨 Mayor Wu faces criminal charges because she is decent. We all know what ⏰ it is. Of course you are going after a female POC first. She is a “suspicious person” in 2025.
we really do need to figure out how this guy managed to create an environment where he can say "i wasted an amount of taxpayer dollars so large I can't even tell you how much it was" & it doesn't cause immediate national outrage
Of note: they tell you how much it costs for the government to run the free filing system, but they don’t tell you how much it would cost to have a private corporation do it. (Hint: it would cost taxpayers more to have a private corporation do it.)
The Coast Guard works for ICE now. Coast Guard planes previously used for search and rescue have done hundreds of secret ICE flights in recent weeks, including two I watched from a public parking lot near BWI. My exclusive for Rolling Stone: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Extraordinary new detail about the FBI purge. *Senior officials were asked to fire lower level officials tagged by online right wingers as being anti-Trump. *When they asked for a reason - required by law - they were not given any. They refused. Then they were fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/politic...
Trump proposes to rescind AIDS funds. Congress rejects the proposal. So Trump and his henchman Russ Vought just refuse to spend the money and try to hide that decision from Congress and the public. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/h...
ICYMI: “The trips have become so regular that JJ in DC was able to figure out their schedule and predict their next moves.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Biden State Dept Spokesman Matthew Miller tells Channel 13 Netanyahu/🇮🇱 sabotaged ceasefire & hostage deals — the opposite of what he said from the podium for years. He says Netanyahu told him this war will be going on for “decades” Full: x.com/dropsitenews...
Now they have arrested Jonathan Porritt! A one time advisor to King Lug Ears. This gang of liars at Downing Street are making a fool of the law & are using the police force as their puppets. They are complicit in Genocide. They must be voted out as soon ASAP. #NeverStopSpeakingAboutPalestine
Trump looks like hammered dogshit these days. His ankles are horribly swollen, he's got a weird discoloration on his hand, his eyes are glazed over and he's not even wearing a necktie in the Oval Office anymore. He's rambling more than ever and seems deeply out of it. But Joe Biden, huh.
The purge continues taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-fi...
Administrators at the state university’s campus in Colorado Springs thought they stood a solid chance of dodging the Trump administration’s offensive on higher education. That optimism was misplaced. apnews.com/article/trum...
Greenland breathes sigh of relief as it turns out Trump has decided on a military occupation of the United States instead.
Reposting this for some reason.
Your regular reminder that everything happening in the current presidential administration is from the Project 2025 playbook. -It threatens democratic institutions, imoses extreme social policies and politicizes the civil service and LE and much more. Track it here: www.project2025.observer/en
Warren: Donald Trump and every single Republican in Congress, including 5 Republicans right here in Nebraska voted to say we're take 10 million people, little babies, and grandmas and tell them no more care for you. That's the Republican Party, Donald Trump is building,