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America’s heritage like the slavery we aren’t supposed to talk about?
Make it stop
The one thing that kept popping up in my head over the last 25 years is that the bogeyman the Ammosexuals were all terrified of was literally themselves. They are traitors and the enemies of America. They are burning down the country every single day.
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
At least 50 National Guard with long guns around Audi field and Navy Yard metro station as I leave the Washington Spirit soccer game. Free DC.
Must be Gruden’s favorite golf outfit since he wore it last week at Trump’s club in Virginia.
Correlation doesn't mean... who the fuck are we kidding? Organized labor is the only true counterweight against corporate greed and power. We the people, means we the workers.
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
California stepping up.
Ok but hear me out, what if we taxed the fuck out of really rich people
A true legend is gone. #RIP @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/news/mark-kn...
Reap what you sow. You tricked the American people for decades, now the chickens are coming home to roost. Good luck out there!
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What is like to be a Trump 2024 voter, thinking he will lower your costs, and then you see this happening? EVERYTHING is more expensive and it is getting way way way worse. Just wait until companies start to actually pass through tariff costs to customers. Inflation is gonna pop off. MAGA?????
Listen to it all the time, never fades
Trump taking Ls all week. What a loser. Weak. Pathetic.
CAP ECON: “We obviously have no particular insight into whether the Supreme Court will uphold .. If it did, “Treasury would .. need to return most of the now-close to $100bn in additional customs duties .. and there is a danger .. other countries would back-track on any preliminary agreements.”
you mean "we're all going to die" wasn't polling well?
At what point are we going to start talking about morality in business? Corporation have massive power and influence over our lives, but somehow they are exempt from all religious, moral, and ethical consideration? What would basic morality say of this pay difference? That the CEO is a sinner.
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
Couldn't be the 400 million guns in America, could it? NO IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!
“The fact is, printing newspapers and putting them in trucks and driving them around and delivering them on people’s front stoops has not been the most effective way to distribute the news in a very long time,” he said. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/b...
Tells you all you need to know about ICE
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
We had one until the wing nut psychos ended it. No one needs a semi-automatic AR15. They are meant ONLY for war. That was the intention of the inventor. Time to take them away.
Another L for the dimwit fascists!
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Trump's use of red state National Guards in DC is really about viciously turning Americans against each other, about stoking hate and violence *among Americans.* JB Pritzker's response is so good because it lays *this* bare. Me and @brianbeutler.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/1997...
Sen. Patty Murray is calling for RFK Jr. to be fired. "We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired." "I hope my Republican colleagues who have come to regret their vote to confirm RFK Jr. will join me."
JUST IN: Lisa Cook's forthcoming lawsuit to contest her firing appears to list Trump *and* Fed Chairman Jerome Powell as defendants.
BREAKING: Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook has just sued Trump over his attempt to fire her from office.
Quinnipiac poll: 67% of voters disapprove of the way the Trump admin is handling the Epstein files. 19% approve. 73% think the Justice Department is not being transparent in the way it's handling the Epstein investigation.
Minneapolis Police Chief: All of the remaining victims are expected to survive.
The power of the people won't stop.
Breaking NYT: Federal prosecutors were unable to secure a felony assault indictment against the man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent on the streets of Washington this month, according to two people familiar with the matter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
* Kroger to cut 1,000 Corporate Jobs @bloomberg.com $KR @mikezaccardi.bsky.social
JUDGE CULLEN: “.. this concerted effort by the executive to smear and impugn individual judges who rule against it is both unprecedented and unfortunate.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
🚨 Trump cited Bill Pulte's criminal referral in his illegal attempt to fire Lisa Cook. Pulte had served on the Board of PulteGroup (Pulte Homes) the company founded by his grandfather. Should PulteGroup speak up to distance from Bill Pulte? $PHM #RiskManagement www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
actual propaganda i’m losing it
Breaking on MSNBC: An attorney for Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook says they're planning to sue Trump after he threatened to fire her — alleging he "has no authority" to do so.
Zach Cregger’s ‘Weapons’ crosses $200M at the global box office 💰 Production budget was $38M
New Jersey Attorney General Platkin: As I sit here today, I don’t know who is in charge of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in my state…
Who am I to judge... SAYS THE JUDGE!!!
Has this famously terrible film been rehabilitated, or are we just throwing the word “classic” at anything over 10 years old?
I mourn my fellow journalists murdered by Israel.
The fact that you think anything they are saying is genuine and not a 7-layer cake of lies, propaganda, and authoritarian bullshit is baffling. Literally everything they say is wrong, because they have ZERO relationship with the truth. It is all about power, power, power, at all and any cost.
WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: Republicans "might consider how the next Democratic President could use the government’s stake to press the left’s political imperatives -- Intel profits to build low-income housing?" @wsj.com $INTC www.wsj.com/opinion/and-...
if you work in media and aren't loudly and unambiguously using your platform to fight this dictatorship, then you are failing.
NEW — A DC National Guard member spotted carrying an M17 pistol, as The Handbasket first reported they would. (Photo shared with me by @publius24.bsky.social)
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The game is afoot. Or atrain. Or abus. Post along the way with #ZcavengerHunt
went to visit my extremely normie, MSNBC and CNN binging Dem mother-in-law in SW Virginia today. and she's saying "I think I'm a socialist now" and then referenced the end of Mussolini so, yeah, there's some drive and fight out there
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.
When you’re too dumb to tell the difference between imitating and mocking.
lmao at zohran getting more people to show up for a scavenger hunt around NYC when it’s 80 degrees out than cuomo could get even if he paid them
One week after Trump rolled out the red carpet for Putin on American soil, Ukraine is no closer to peace. No ceasefire. No additional sanctions against Russia. No new help to allow Ukraine to bring the fight to the Russian invaders.
“.. The campaign against Cook .. took an ugly turn on Friday night. An image posted on the president’s social-media account .. labeled Cook as ‘The Fraudster.’ A post on Saturday included a photo labeled as Cook’s Michigan home.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/cent...
The cult coming-of-age teen drama ‘Pump Up The Volume’ starring Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Seth Green, and Ellen Greene was released to theaters this week in 1990. 🗣️ 🎙️ 📻 #OTD "𝙵𝚎𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚍 𝚞𝚙 𝚊𝚝 𝚊 𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚍 𝚞𝚙 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚊 𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚍 𝚞𝚙 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚗𝚎𝚌𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚕𝚢 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚍 𝚞𝚙."
never blocked someone so fast
Gov. Pritzker: "There is no emergency that warrants the President of the U.S. federalizing the Illinois National Guard." "Trump is attempting to manufacture a crisis, politicize Americans who serve in uniform, and continue abusing his power to distract from the pain he is causing working families."
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THIS Jim Jordan? youtu.be/1Su8kTukkEg?...
Why are so many republicans pedos, rapists or abusers? 🤮
It’s not the first time Jim Jordan has covered for sexual abusers. The Republican Party is no longer functioning as a political party. It’s a child sex trafficking and sexual abuse ring. Reprehensible.
He is weak and not a true believer in liberal or left causes. He needs to go now.
idiot
It’s spreading.
Amazing
Oh boy
In DC earlier this evening, US Marshals—one carrying a long gun—were patrolling the green/yellow line at the Gallery Place metro station. Photo shared with me (gun strap is visible but weapon out of view when pic was snapped, per witness):
Virginia Giuffre's family: "The content of these transcripts is in direct contradiction with felon Ghislaine Maxwell's conviction for child sex trafficking. During DAG Todd Blanche's bizarre interview, she is never challenged about her court-proven lies, providing her a platform to rewrite history."
Always getting the scoop!
The official order to arm DC National Guard Members has come down from Sec. Def. Pete Hegseth:
theonion.com/atrocities-k...
I can only imagine the show federal officers are going to put on for Trump tonight. Stay vigilant out there. If you see anything, send to marisakabas.04 on Signal.
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“I just wanted to be her friend,” Winnie Greco said. “I just wanted to have one good friend. It’s nothing.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
NEW—Earlier this evening agents from ICE/other fed agencies were outside Rhode Island Ave metro in DC asking people exiting the station for their IDs, per someone who experienced it. When the person presented their Real ID license, an agent said that wasn't sufficient. Luckily they had secondary ID.
".. plumb the depths .."
BREAKING: A federal court ruled that Mississippi’s Supreme Court district lines must be redrawn to ensure Black people in the state don't have their voting power diluted.
People are so excited that we might be on the verge of civil war. I’m not. I’m a basic bitch who likes basic things like pumpkin spice lattes and not getting shot at in the grocery store.
Just in case you needed another reason to hate Crisp Ratt (I sure didn’t). What an incorrigible piece of Hollywood shit
I keep thinking about how Amy Coney Barrett was such an asshole to Ketanji Brown Jackson in her Trump v. CASA opinion but then got the fucking law wrong. White women getting in their feelings because they can't stand that a Black woman they work with is better and smarter than them. Boring.
Video of Columbia Heights residents driving ICE agents out of their area. source: www.instagram.com/reel/DNjkvLQ...
Yes. Yes, it does.
Neo-Cons were almost uniformly WASPs.
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When there was positive economic data under Biden, the New York Times told us to worry, with headlines like: “Why a Strong U.S. Economy Is Making Stock Investors Jittery” and “Inflation Has Been Easing Fast, but Wild Cards Lie Ahead” But when there is worrisome data under Trump, NYT reassures us:
SCOOP — Members of DC National Guard are preparing to carry M17 pistols, multiple sources confirm to me. This follows earlier reports that the guard reversed course and would soon be arming members in DC. Now we know they’re making sure they meet requirements if/when the order to arm them comes.
It’s important to underline that the DCNG was saying as recently as THURSDAY that available weapons remained in the armory. By the weekend, WSJ and NPR reported plans to arm members. Now The Handbasket confirms the type of weapons they’ll carry.
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PANTHEON: “.. Steady import prices imply the US is bearing all the cost of new tariffs.”
Latest from NY Fed, Business Leader Survey, starting to see Prices Received go up... Inflation Time is here
Connect the dots. It's likely that in 2026, we'll see ramped-up military maneuvers in Dem strongholds or swing areas—whether to intimate voters or to fabricate a crisis atmosphere—and whatever limits on voting he can impose, all justified with pretexts that he invents out of nothing. More here:
BREAKING: DENVER (AP) - Conservative network Newsmax agrees to pay $67 million in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims.
Cut immigration, cut labor supply, add tariffs on imports… and voilà: higher food prices.