Probably not a great month to go out fishing in the Gulf now. The US military might be your judge, jury and executioner.
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Probably not a great month to go out fishing in the Gulf now. The US military might be your judge, jury and executioner.
Someone posted they're looking for a body double but won't allow comments or quote posts. I found his body double 7 years ago. She's a potato farmer in Spain. 😆 time.com/5254669/trum...
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Trump and Hegseth just murdered people fishing or going on a joyride on their boat. There's no way this tiny boat was shipping drugs from Venezuela to America. This was just murder and our soliders followed the orders to kill.
CARTOON OF THE DAY
THE DAY AHEAD: A shot of nitroglycerin in the controversy over the “Jeffrey Epstein files” ====>
I love karma, big or small. Happy Taco Tuesday 😁
Judge Charles Breyer rules that the Trump administration brazenly violated the Posse Comitatus Act when it deployed soldiers to enforce domestic laws in LA. Breyer says Trump may not create "a national police force with the president as its chief." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
TODAY: Epstein survivors expected to meet behind closed doors with the House Oversight Committee members.
Chicago isn’t even in the top 50. Colima, Mexico is the “MURDER CAPITAL” of the world…
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Essentially, Breyer bars the Trump administration from using troops illegally in California. The ruling is stayed for 10 days, to allow for implementation to be planned and for any appeal.
BREAKING: Trump, Hegseth violated the Posse Comitatus Act with their troop deployment to Los Angeles, Judge Charles Breyer rules after trial. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
If 2pm presser is about Venezuela, my prebunk/theory: Trump's military provocations on Venezuela are a way to create a factual basis to sustain his Alien Enemies Act deportations. And, he may try to use it to expand his original executive order to all Venezuelans, not just TdA
Beyond pathetic.
Trump just secured Colorado will stay a Blue state.
So the troops can stop doing litter pickup outside the WH and can go home now, right?
Leaked ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan dismissed as ‘insane’ attempt to cover ethnic cleansing www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
MAGA Host’s Wife To Die Thanks to RFK Jr., But He Blames Biden
India, China and Russia are about to forge a global trade alliance that may even supplant the U.S. dollar as the principal trade currency. That would be disastrous for us. The thing is we might (maybe) beat the GOP in 26, but so much damage will be done
"Trump is Unfit and Unwell: It's Time For the 25th Amendment" @daniellemoodie.bsky.social and I believe questions of Trump's Presidential fitness, succession, and Democracy can no longer be ignored. We bring the receipts to make our case. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
Yeah he's not beating the allegations
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
The Smithsonian : "Donald Trump will destroy our institution as soon as the President & his son-in-law are done stealing Syria's oil & energy" bsky.app/profile/edhi...
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Fucking INSANE scenes in this country of ours where a judge needs to do a bed check for scared children because our government is trying to ship them to a place they don't want to go
MORE: Judge Sooknanan orders further status report from DOJ, setting 8:30 p.m. deadline to address whether all of the unaccompanied children have been returned to the custody of HHS's Office of Refugee Resettlement.
"He deployed National Guard troops on multiple 29 day orders, specifically choosing durations under 30 days to avoid paying full Basic Allowance for Housing Type 1" Shocked? 'It infuriates us': Veterans rage at 'abusive' Trump over reports of him stiffing soldiers www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
Release the Epstein files!!!!
Garcia: “We finally heard from the Epstein estate. They’ve agreed to provide the actual Epstein book, along with other documents that haven’t been made public yet.”
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...
Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.
Instagram influencer Adventorin goes viral after demonstrating how simple it is to climb over the U.S. Border Wall.
If Missouri Republicans mid-cycle redistrict and break the law, they will be sued. That is a promise and I don't bluff. Just ask Texas. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
I applaud whoever decided (probably Miller himself) to have Stephen Miller act increasingly as “spokesman” for this Administration’s policies. He is so fundamentally repellent that I suspect even loyal MAGA adherents get the heebie-jeebies when they listen to him,& ask themselves, “Am I w/this guy?”
Well, hypocrites should get all kinds of criticism! 🔥🔥🔥🔥 ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
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I don’t care that Trump went golfing today. Something strange is going on—his lack of interaction with the press is simply not normal. What is the White House hiding? 🤨
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I wonder why Trump imposed secondary tariffs only on India for buying Russian oil while not caring about all the other countries who buy Russian oil?
AP: “When Trump awarded a contract for $1.2 billion for 🇺🇸’s largest immigration detention complex, it handed it to Acquisition Logistics LLC, a small biz with no experience… its address a modest home in suburban Virginia.”🤔 Golden Age of Corruption. apnews.com/article/trum...
"Perhaps the most important thing to understand about Trump’s mobster state capitalism is that it isn’t about economic efficiency or stimulating growth, let alone a vision of how the economy works and what it should create. It’s about *power*, pure and simple."
Uhhhhhhh
On a serious note, he looks like shit. Why is he so swollen?
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Trump update: White House pool reporters snapped a photo of the president this morning as he heads to play golf
“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group.” This is on Trump. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
A Texas Republican lawmaker who last week blocked Democrats’ effort to filibuster the state’s gerrymander made disturbing comments at a 2022 legislative hearing — suggesting a way to deal with immigrants might be: “shoot, shovel and shut up.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Legal and constitutional experts worry Trump is laying the groundwork to use the Guard to seize control of any city he wants to bring to heel. On Monday, he signed an executive order that primes the Guard “for rapid mobilization,” across the country. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/tru...
A federal judge has blocked a Trump administration effort that aims to speed deportations of migrants detained in the interior of the United States, slamming it as a violation of due process. https://cnn.it/4n7JJHl
Why am I not surprised..
🧊🧵✈️ ICE AIR – SAT 30 AUG 2025 👉 Saturday ICE Air Forecast 👀 🛬 Portsmouth NH~10am EDT 🛬 Kansas City~~~10am CDT 🛬 San Diego~~~~~9am PDT 🛬 Seattle (Boeing)~10am PDT Follow this thread for updates ⤵️
2/ 🧊⚠️✈️ NEW HAMPSHIRE‼️ 👉 ICE Air is inbound to Portsmouth Avelo 737 – Tail: N801XT ETA – 9:20am 👀
“Something clearly is up with the 79-year-old president, and the official explanations don’t make sense. That’s not surprising given that Trump is a world historical liar surrounded by toadies who surrendered their shame long ago. But it’s past time for reporters to ask some questions.”
A day in the life of ICE Air ethnic cleansing operations. Friday 29 August 2025 0000-0000 UTC *(3) Coast Guard C-27s used. *(1) C-17. *N207AX back from Cuba. *N846AX back from India. *N999AH back to Phoenix-Mesa from Senegal. *N996GA left Kenya for Stockholm?! globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=a1ac1a,...
Charles Borges, the chief data officer at the Social Security Administration, resigned Friday — days after filing a whistleblower complaint alleging DOGE employees had uploaded a copy of the entire country's Social Security information to a "vulnerable cloud environment”
Maggie Haberman Says Bombshell Ruling ‘Big Blow’ To Trump Agenda
New polling shows that Trump's approval rating has steadily declined with the group over the summer.
Don't get your hopes up, Folks We're not that lucky.
Trump has not made any public appearances in the last several days. His public schedule shows no public events or appearances scheduled on August 29 and 30. Makes you wonder…
This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
The Resistance Is Getting Louder and More Great News
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I was glad to see an exchange between Nicolle Wallace and Miles Taylor moments ago. Miles was issuing warnings we all feel. Nicolle interrupted him to ask: "How does this end?" Miles had, IMO the right answer: "We're going to have to mobilize. It must be non-violent, but it's a real need." I concur.
Today is the eighth day that the homepage of Reginfo.gov — the federal government website for informing the public about what survey data and other information agencies collect — has displayed a notice saying it's "currently undergoing revisions" with no further explanation
At least 3 men w/ ties to Trump 2.0 have reportedly “been involved in secret influence operations in Greenland,” & Denmark is pissed. “One of the 3 men reportedly worked on lists of Greenlanders who are respectively positive & negative toward the idea of Greenland being under US control.” 1/
For Trump's ultra-wealthy donors, fascism is just good business. zeteo.com/p/ice-no-bid...
Maga just realized that Witkoff has USSR roots and is freaking out. Really.. the name didn’t ring any bell in that church of yours? 🫠
Russian channels are reporting lots of Ukrainian UAV activity over occupied Crimea.
‼️Kyiv. Right in the middle of the yard lies Russian drone "Gerbera"
⚡️ CNN publishes an interesting infographic: UAV attacks on Russia and Ukraine. 🔵- Russian UAV attacks; 🟠- Ukrainian UAV attacks.
After showing his guns emblazoned with racial slurs, far-right slogans, Minneapolis shooting suspect displayed a message "Hail Breivik. Hail Brenton." Neo-Nazi Anders Breivik killed 77 in Norway in 2011. Brenton Tarrant killed 51 in shootings at 2 mosques in New Zealand in 2019.
Undermining the Fed to get lower rates now is like ripping the batteries out of your smoke alarm because it’s beeping. It’s quiet for a bit. Then your house burns down. Credibility anchors expectations; expectations anchor inflation.
Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.
My God is right Lorie. But all I can truly say is, just wait. It’ll happen again. And again. And again. As it has in this country, that is so in love with the gun, they will allow their children to be targets. Because gun control is to strip the adults of their god given rights to bear arms.
Shocker, the Trump Administration is going to re-direct taxpayer resources to some private entity. Who could have seen that coming?? Americans,they are looters, nothing but looters masquerading as a government
Minnesota is heartbroken. From the officers responding, to the clergy and teachers providing comfort, to the hospital staff saving lives, we will get through this together. Hug your kids close.
"'People don’t want to reach this conclusion: This is authoritarianism."
This is an excellent piece by @stevevladeck.bsky.social. Not only does he lay out the case in a way that's easy to understand, but he talks about why the Trump administration feels like it can improperly run straight to SCOTUS. Definitely worth the read.
"It is without a doubt the most illegal search I've ever seen in my life," U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said from the bench. "I'm absolutely flabbergasted at what has happened. A high school student would know this was an illegal search." unreal quote 😭
Amtrak doesn't belong to them, it belongs to all of us.
🚨 MAJOR BREAKING Democrat Catelin Drey FLIPS Iowa SD-1 — a district Trump won by 11.5 points in 2024 — defeating Republican Christopher Prosch in a landslide special election and breaking the GOP supermajority.
Iowa Democrats are averaging a 24-point overperformance in Special Elections this year. In 2024, Iowa Republicans won... #IA01 by .2 points #IA02 by 16 points #IA03 by 4 points Throw in what could be close races for #IAGov and #IASen AND I AM TELLING YOU, DO NOT SLEEP ON IOWA IN 2026.
Elizabeth Warren: "Donald Trump needs a scapegoat and a diversion, and that's what he's doing with the Fed."
Democrats just picked up a seat that was +11 pts for Trump in 2024 to break an Iowa supermajority. Trump wants to appear indomitable. But he's also a lame duck and those winds can shift quickly. www.the-downballot.com/p/iowa-democ...
Dems flip Iowa’s first state senate district, break GOP supermajority in Des Moines www.siouxlandproud.com/news/your-lo...
🔥 Sorry, folks — after Trump broke Putin’s isolation, Lavrov is back on your screens. Not a diplomat. A 21-year war criminal in panic mode. 💥 Ukrainian drones wrecked their oil refineries 🚫 Druzhba pipeline down 🧾 Lavrov now lies about the Budapest Memorandum: “No promise of sovereignty”? TOTAL LIE
Not all heros wear capes but this man from Missouri is pretty bad ass to me. Listen to him put Rep Mark Alfrod in his place about what a POS Trump is and who we need to get Trump out of office!
Moore: The president seems to obsessed with me. Today he called me a beauty. And when I first met him, he just talked about how I was a good looking guy.
