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The bipartisan Restore Trust in Congress Act is a necessary step to ban Members of Congress and their families from engaging in insider trading. It is time to pass this bill and make it clear to the American people that their elected officials put them first.
Ouch SCOTUS
So every judge/court/lawyer/journalist/etc should ignore any and all SCOTUS guidance that ignores established precedent? That's helpful.
Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then, well, when you put it that way 👇🤷♂️
Kennedy is killing science. That will end up killing people.
Article II of the Constitution is not a license to commit murder in international waters.
So far during the second Trump administration, this puts the US military at: —1,000+ air strikes in Yemen (in March-April) —65+ air strikes in Somalia —5 air strikes and 2 JSOC ground raids in Syria —1 night of B-2 strikes on 3 sites in Iran —1 air strike in Iraq —1 air strike in the Caribbean
The White House covering up Trump’s current health condition is EXACTLY what they accused Democrats of doing with Biden.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/no-good-pe...
Happy Labor Day!
Sooooo. Damned. Good. from @radleybalko.bsky.social
"Walking" is doing a lot of running here Don!
Something blue states will need to explore: how to create cross-state compacts dedicated to a functioning government as the Trump administration walks away from it's responsibilities.
An ostrich blocked me for this post discussing statistical evidence of vote manipulation in the 2024 election that warrants paper audits. The cognitive dissonance on the left from even discussing this is pretty frightening.
I mean I was trying to help you clarify yourself & you failed spectacularly in doing so. You could be right with everything you are saying in that blog post but you can't even substantiate or vet your NSA audit assertions. How then can I even consider the other tangents you delve into without that?
I skimmed both but saw no evidence being brought forth on the ES&S machines & NSA audit? The responses shared made me question the validity of your credentials & did nothing to reinforce your assertions 🤷♂️ @dissentinbloom0.bsky.social broke the de minimis update story IIRC, from you or someone else?
@snopes.com concluded "there's no credible evidence to support claims that faulty voting machines or election software rigged the election in Trump's favor" Some will only look at this conclusion to make up their mind. Can you provide them with more evidence to support your claim?
I am really more looking for a focused response that you can provide to @snopes.com regarding the ES&S voting machines and NSA audits? The responses you just provided to me are very protracted away from that focus.
@azraeltengu.bsky.social Can you speak to this or provide more information to @snopes.com directly?
Did they vote for them though? There is plenty of statistical data indicating vote manipulation in 2024. Independent paper audits need to be conducted to know for sure. #VerifyTheVote #SecureTheMidterms
@jollygoodginger.bsky.social is in DC with other vets right now standing up for democracy. He's playing General Milleys speech on repeat for them today 💜 #LoveTheVets!
Paywall bypass: archive.ph/EqDE3
At Union Station, veterans play a speech from General Mark Milley warning soldiers of the threat that President Trump poses.
"These people want us to give in to despair. They want us to give up. They want us to look at their scoreboard of victories and determine that the game is unwinnable. So I’m playing a different game, one that is not about winning or losing, but helping or not helping." #AltGov #AltFam #AltCitizen
🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
Obviously everyone in the world wishes the President well.
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
The "steal the election insurrection" started well before J6th w/Trump's fake elector scheme, his find the votes call, rallies repeating the big lie & Roger Stone organizing w/fake militias. Technically the insurrection never ended bcz no legal remedy for inciters/aiders/comforters has been found.
@indivisible.org @50501movement.bsky.social help champion a mass Union Station chalking event with Veterans. Enjoy a days worth of temporary art making with like-minded patriots who denounce fascism. Street vendors could sell felony grade hoagies and other criminally delicious baked goods.
RFK Jr. will kill Americans, sure as death. You have the GOP to thank you for that.
really worth watching
Remember when the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio cycled around corporate mainstream media for months? This story hasn't even made a blip. Why?
Exxon has held secret talks with Russia’s biggest state energy company about resuming business in the country. -WSJ
Jesus Christ. If your credit isn’t frozen at all three bureaus, I would strongly consider doing that now
A MUST WATCH!
Hooah This began shortly after this was posted last week. darkskyinnovation.com/articles/civ... It's a compilation of effective, asymmetric, nonviolent, counter-insurrection strategies and tactics for civilians. Like these patriotic vets taking back DC bsky.app/profile/iwil...
VETERANS, Family & Friends: Want to participate in organizing Veteran led peace patrols to reassure & remind our National Guardsmen that they have sworn an Oath to the Constitution? It’s forming on every city. JOIN HERE : rememberyouroath.org
I was the executive director of U.S. Open Data, a non-profit that I created at the behest of the Obama White House. I worked as one of the nation's leading experts in open data. Putting open data on the blockchain is a profoundly stupid idea that fails nearly every test of good open data.
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According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.
Krasnov's Gabbard
#Pinks #ProudBlue
If you rightly know guns are the problem regarding mass shootings in America then that problem is also "Republicans" refusing to pass common sense gun reform. If you think mental illnesses are causing mass shootings then providing medicare for all is the solution. Both would benefit all Americans.
It's the guns, it's the "Republicans" and it's our prioritizing profit driven wealthcare over a more affordable medicare for all system.
Early reports of a school shooting this morning at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis (I was baptized at the church there). As always: it's the guns. The US is the only country in the world that politically tolerates and legally ensures the routine mass slaughter of its own citizens.
Lutnick: "Karl Marx and Lenin weren't communists, they were capitalists!"
Huge ecological/public health disaster happening in Roseland Louisiana right now and it isn't being reported on. Started 4 days ago.
“The danger inherent in Palantir’s AI-powered super-database on all Americans is connected to the vast wealth and power of those associated with the corporation, and their apparent disdain for democratic institutions.” By Robert Reich, 6/30/25 … 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Step 1: Get every industry reliant on my garbage dystopian robots Step 2: ?????? Step 3: SUSTAINABLE ABUNDANCE
Tech oligarchs oppose the idea of any supposedly undeserving person getting financial help from the government in 2025. But they want you to believe they’ll give *everyone* free money in the future. It doesn’t make any sense, but it’s the techno-utopian lie they will keep selling.
Memo to Congress: it’s not a distraction, it’s fascism
The gish do be galloping
MAGA OBEYS
Beware: Brainwashed Zombies Avoid the far right misinformation echo chambers of Xitter, FoxTabloids, TabloidMax, One Amerika Tabloid Network, LiarsSocial, Dimbart, & more! Regular consumption of these propaganda rags may result in Nazi sympathizing & other attributes commonly associated w/zombies.
@jackohman.bsky.social
#gaza #GazaAid
Latest @theguardian.com cartoon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I mourn my fellow journalists murdered by Israel.
This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
The war criminal Netanyahu decides on full occupation of Gaza Strip, IDF activity in areas with hostages Netanyahu will convene a meeting on Gaza and a hostage deal, noting that "the prime minister is considering all available options regarding next steps. Fuck him. www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be
holy shit
Same shit, different asshole Netanyahu moves to fire attorney general prosecuting him for corruption www.axios.com/2025/08/04/n...
I’d like them to ban the word distraction. None of this is a distraction, it’s the onset and implementation of authoritarianism.
They are incoherently belligerent on stolen power and longing to abuse it.
📊 Trump has named Heritage Foundation economist E.J. Antoni to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics — weeks after firing its chief over a “rigged” jobs report. Critics warn the move could turn trusted economic data into a political weapon.
Palantir has been getting a huge number of deals like this, in what is extremely obviously self-dealing.
@billbramhall.bsky.social
If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
legal clarity by means of incomprehensible gobbledygook
(AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired a general whose agency’s initial intelligence assessment of damage to Iran nuclear sites from U.S. strikes angered President Donald Trump, according to two people familiar with the decision. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/pent...
Trump’s claim that he’s invading Democratic cities and militarily occupying them to “fight crime” is no different than Bush’s claim he was militarily occupying Iraq to “find WMD.” And much of the media is still mindlessly repeating the bullshit premise as if it’s real.
Intelligence Blackout: US Reportedly Cut Off Five Eyes From Ukraine Talks: www.kyivpost.com/post/58733
archive.ph/omxME
Krasnov's Gabbard
It's the brainwashing. Here is an excellent documentary on the subject 👇
Yet another impeachable bribe thrown onto the pile of dozens of other unenforced impeachable bribes. Another day goes by where the GOP has abdicated their oath to the Constitution wholesale. @johnbonifaz.bsky.social @algreen.house.gov
👀 NEWS: IRS documents show conservative propaganda machine PragerU spent $650,000 on a gala at Mar-A-Lago - and soon after Trump targeted PBS for elimination, setting up PragerU to fill the educational void in schools across the country America. www.levernews.com/prageru-is-m...
Like this?
#Trump #Epstein #NationalGuard #distraction #DonaldTrump #WashingtonDC #news
Have the National Guard focus here
I feel safer already.
Molly Jong-Fast 