article is good. fine, another case of headlinitus, which is nearly as bad
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article is good. fine, another case of headlinitus, which is nearly as bad
“suffers setback”??? that should be “repelled from”, “rightfully prevented” or something like that. media just keeps groveling at his feet ffs
Trump abused his power by deploying the National Guard against the will of the Governor. The courts just called it what it was: unlawful. That’s why I introduced the Stop Trump’s Abuse of Power Act. I will keep doing everything I can to put an end to this unlawful chaos.
Not all Dems have figured out social media yet, and that’s okay. Finding an authentic voice in front of a camera doesn’t come naturally, but I’m working it, just have some grace, they weren’t elected to be celebs. DAILY DEMS DOING THE WORK, MAKING NOISE, AND FIGHTING BACK Day 219 🧵
The Everglades Concentration Camp costs 3x one of these trains.
There’s so much more to say about SCOTUS, but one thing I hope came through in this convo is what a winning streak Trump is on at SCOTUS right now - & how insane it is that the court is blessing many of his assertions of executive authority w/o a word of explanation @strictscrutiny.bsky.social
in 2010 state elections, california went super majority blue and has stayed that way since. joke was on them! previous districting had favored them and they were too dumb to realize it i’m glad to see the proposition specifies a return to the committee in 2030.
fun fact. republicans lobbied for our independent committee bc they WERE SO SURE they were being gerrymandered out by the mean conniving democrats. so one of schwarzenegger’s final acts was to sign it in 2008.
do you have a link to this requirement? i’m keeping an eye out bc of upcoming travel but have not encountered that
i thought emptywheel did a pretty good job of teasing out the differences (and effects so far) of newsom’s and pritzker’s approaches www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/02/a... ( personally prefer pritzker’s approach but i think her evaluations are useful reading)
Bloomberg: "US factory activity shrank in August for a sixth straight month, driven by a pullback in production that shows manufacturing remains bogged down by higher import duties." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
dc needs to become our 51st state. they are really screwed with their current setup
🚨I just signed a discharge petition to force a vote on legislation that would release the Epstein files. The American people and the survivors deserve the truth. We need full transparency and accountability.
Been thinking a lot about Fort Sheridan, north of Chicago. It was built on land donated by Chicago's wealthy elite to have a nearby army base so troops would be around to break strikes and respond to labor unrest. Sheridan Road existed in large part to transport troops to Chicago's south side.
Everyone knows, but I'll say it anyway: the US Coast Guard and also the Navy have decades of experience in stopping and searching boats for drugs. Which, y'know, proves or disproves the presence of drugs. Without blowing anyone up. If any of that is the actual goal. Signed, a former Coastie
looks like it’s been suspended when i went in to do so
anyway it’s shocking that no one was able to predict that when the George W. Bush administration gave itself unreviewable powers to murder and imprison people, those powers were eventually going to get used intentionally on noncombatants
That Pritzker presser was electric—a governor openly saying the Union is tearing apart and his state is under military invasion by an authoritarian regime. This isn’t politics, it’s crisis. Big shoutout to Gov. Pritzker for telling the truth. 🙌🏽
stephen miller targeting mexican independence day celebrations, anything you want to say about this man is correct
I encourage anyone affiliated with the U of MN to contact President Cunningham- here is what I sent her
🚨 Last week, I again went to what will be the largest immigration detention center in the country, Camp East Montana. This is a $1.24 billion facility funded by Trump's "one big beautiful bill" located on Fort Bliss property. I spoke to detainees and here are my takeaways 🧵
The “male loneliness epidemic” becoming a bigger deal than FEMICIDE tells you everything you need to know about how the world feels about women and patriarchy.
Today’s court ruling is what we’ve been warning about for months: Trump is unlawfully using the military to terrorize Americans, including kids and hardworking immigrants — many of whom have contributed to this country and are part of American families.
It’s time for these victims receive justice. It’s time for Trump to stop protecting the rich & powerful & to start telling the truth. It’s also time for Republicans in Congress to find the courage to sign the discharge petition that would force a vote to release the Epstein files. (2/2)
We’re back in session after Speaker Johnson let us out early at the end of July, feeling the pressure from our subpoenas for the Epstein files. Today, @oversightdemocrats.house.gov sat down with survivors who endured horrific abuse. What we heard was beyond disturbing. (1/2)
Officers who shatter car windows aren’t being disciplined — they’re being promoted. One officer who smashed a window in front of a local TV reporter now has a senior ICE position overseeing operations on the East Coast.
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
A good read about a terrible person Russ Vought.
happened in la too…
i think both of these responses are crucial and useful. It’s also instructive to see actual plans and such out door by each governor (and look further afield too such as the medical alliance in northeastern states)
NEXT NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION: OCTOBER 18th! SAVE THE DATE!! www.nokings.org
The last week of the August recess brought jeers, laughs, and unanswered questions. At town halls across the country, attendees booed and demanded answers as their GOP representatives tried to defend President Donald Trump’s agenda. Read more about the rowdy town halls here: https://bit.ly/4n4kHbS
DC UPDATES SEPTEMBER 2ND
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.
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
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.
the thing is that by getting out in front of this instead of waiting for it to happen Pritzker might actually short circuit the whole thing. Texas is already issuing denials.
Los Angeles - Black mayor D.C. - Black mayor Chicago - Black mayor Baltimore - Black mayor San Francisco - Just lost a Black mayor Seattle - Black/Japanese mayor New York - Black mayor (technically) and Letitia James We gotta stop with the "Democratic Run cities" bullshit and see what it is
The Trump administration has decided to get more immigration judges from an unprecedented source: the military. According to several former military lawyers, this move is probably illegal and “should raise all sorts of alarms."
Nobody knows if civil conflict will start in US. But this is certainly how a civil war could start. The breakdown of constitutional mechanisms to resolve tensions, leading to use of coercive and even lethal force by both ‘sides’. Yep, civil conflict is one foreseeable outcome of this escalation
American business has no objections to crony capitalism as long as they are the cronies. As it turns out, they also have few objections to a state-run economy if they think they will be the beneficiaries of a beneficent regime. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
In a move that is sure to shock no one, a judge has ruled that Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to LA was illegal. As a retired National Guard member told our friends at @revealnews.org in June, Trump's co-opting of the military is putting our democracy in extreme danger.
oh SOMETHING was going on last week but he seems to still be shuffling along
yup arrrrrrggggghhhh
As of this moment, there are five representatives that have signed Massie's Discharge Petition re: H Res 581 #Epstein #EpsteinFiles - Start contacting your Congress members now!
okay, weirder and weirder time.com/7313902/whit...
thought the WH later confirmed it was some kind of contractor work? i find it deeply sus as well
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
pretty sure they can’t do that
total overhaul of immigration, border management, number of house reps tied to national population, elimination of winner take all vote process… someone stop me now…
const amendment on impoundment, reparations, land back, tie the number of scotus to be a multiple of the federal circuits (1x13, 2x13, nx13 etc) with a random subset of nx5 judges assigned to cases heard by the court
oh i don’t know what’s being circulated but that’s on my list :-/ no citizens united, publicly financed campaigns only no insider trading in congress, lobbying illegal, expansive taxes over 150mil, repeal AEA, universal health care
threatening me with a good time…
yanno, as long as it’s all consenting adults, they can be on twitter amirite?
dude everything abt this regime is illegal wd i like to see california leave? hell yes! do i think it’s likely? certainly not w/a cheeky “see ya” if it happens it wd probably be bc the entire fed govt collapsed & at that point we wd probably have several regional entities, not cleanly state-shaped
The judge for some reason apologized for not knowing that SCOTUS shadow docket orders are considered precedent, which is something no one else knew either until a couple of weeks ago.
the fuck?
“Rather than defending civil liberties and civil protections, you’re turned inward to potentially hinder [them].” In June, we sat down with a veteran and military law expert to discuss “being used against your neighbor” as a soldier.
Nobody is paying attention to this latest BS from Cheetopedo. We all want to hear from the Epstein survivors.
while air force does zoomies overhead?
…full of would-be asylum seekers or immigrants in reality?
well we’re cooked. the alabama location isn’t ready. so our national defense & warning systems are going to be crippled i’d be madder about this but i always figured san diego is a ground zero spot anyway www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...
import bread or bread flour from europe to see if it’s the pesticides or process?
i think that’s the wednesday part i was thinking of!
NEITHER HAVE YOU! peace out—
yep similar consequences. still a different MOTIVATION
still missing it. by stopping ice and billionaire payouts, those are some steps to prevent harm esp to blue states
half hour late so far? think they are trying to take attention away from the epstein hearing?
anything yet???
Things feel uncertain right now, Illinois. I want you all to know we’re doing everything we can to protect your rights. Make sure you know how to stand up for yourself and others at illinoisimmigrationinfo.org.
what I’m saying is my efforts are motivated by wanting to by stop ice and to stop the billionaire payout. It is not motivated by a desire to punish a set of people (well ok billionaires excepted 😂).
what I don’t agree with is the punishment view because there are too many people in those states who are actually blue, who are children, or who do not have the financial means to walk away We do need good leadership to try and figure out how to claw back the means that support this regime
I hope the meeting is productive!
We need to stop thinking of the Constitution as a sacred document made for priestly interpretation. Citizens United inarguably proved the document as-is inadequate. Trump is the proof. There is no semblance of democracy without EXPLICIT bans on billionaire election-buying.
100% agreed and sorry for the auto correct mishaps above; I’m not even sure of what the exact word king was supposed to be but I guess the meaning was clear enough😂
that is for tomorrow, Wednesday, not today, right?
And I don’t think so cartoonish now!
And pay the full-time from the start!
so anyway, I think Newsom should deploy the California National Guard to protect the immigration courts. There is absolutely no reason ICE should be snatching people away when they are following the law in regards to their immigration hearings and appearances.
Any individual who wants to stay on Twitter at this point more than welcome to stay there as far as I am concerned Any of the businesses who think they have to stay there are going to lose my business
honestly, I figured the video was a false one! So somebody really was throwing things out the window? oh ffs
Does this "maintenance" activity comply with White House security protocol? What was in the bag thrown out of the WH window? Have WH maintenance crews ever thrown stuff out a WH window before? time.com/7313902/whit... So many questions... 🤔
oh hai miller
"Work from home is bad for everyone Only a few people retain productivity Intangible office connections are gone Young people r further isolated and lonely City centers decay" -Vinay Prasad, the FDA Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, who barely comes into the office.
it will take all of us working together and not an “i alone can save you” “heroic” presidency, which, again, would be better for us as a country LOTS of work ahead
I would like to see the restoration of the balance of the three branches of the government and not a seizure of it for anyone’s own purposes. on the bright side i think much of this can be accomplished w/o using traditionally extra-constitutional powers while also paring back the executive branch
while i think you want to do good stuff, this fails to reign back the executive branch, and in fact cements the current expansion of the presidential powers. So all that means that the next Republican president can go even further.
180 shots fired, 150 broken windows. Tumultuous firings and resignations at the CDC. The installation of a techno-optimist with a history of pushing unproven medical treatments. The month of August 2025 may go down as the worst in the history of the US Health and Human Services Department.
Prasad has only been showing up at the FDA 3 days every 2 weeks. Prasad is commuting from CALIFORNIA. Notably the FDA is *paying for his travel* to and from California. In-person work for thee but not for me. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
#BREAKING: Judge Breyer has held that the Trump admin. *violated* the Posse Comitatus Act in its military deployments in and around Los Angeles, and has enjoined further use of those troops for law enforcement tasks. The order is stayed through 12 PDT on 9/12: georgetown.app.box.com/file/1973361...
Idea: we cap net worth at 10,000 years of minimum wage. $7.25/hr * 40hr/week * 52 weeks/yr * 10,000 years = $150.8M If you raise MW to $25/hr then a married couple could have $600M net worth. Yes it’s high but once you’ve tied MW to wealth you can adjust.
best news!
We could station National Guard around your kids’ schools to prevent mass killings. OR Station them to collect those machine guns killing them. OR Station them to help in natural disasters that are on the rise. OR just use them as political props.
@wired.com sat down with @theonion.com ‘s CEO, @bencollins.bsky.social and what struck me in this was at one point they both talk about how they’re the few remaining that are still covering what’s happening. A tech magazine and a satire site. Neither anticipated how easily media would fold. /
“and all within the no-pay timeframe—suckahs!!” i mean the regime’s contempt for the nat guards is palpable
It’s time to have a serious conversation about Trump’s health www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
BREAKING: Judge Charles Breyer finds that the Trump administration violated the Posse Comitatus Act by using the military for domestic law enforcement purpose in Los Angeles. He enjoins further violations of the Posse Comitatus Act ⬇️ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
