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I first fought alongside Jerry Nadler when we took on a corrupt bankruptcy system that was rigged against working families. When New Yorkers needed a champion, Nadler always had their backs. He’s a man of principle, and I’m deeply grateful for his years of public service.
Reasonable point.
Nadler ‘said that under the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel was committing mass murder and war crimes in Gaza “without question.”’
the thing about Zohran is he is really fucking good at politics and everyone on the Dem side behaving like he’s a liability has lost their minds I don’t care how you define It, he has It
The right decision. More of this please.
BREAKING Belgium to recognise Palestine at UN General Assembly, says foreign minister
New - Governor Poll - Virginia 🔵 Spanperger 53% 🔴 Sears 41%
78 YEAR-OLD REP. NADLER TO RETIRE: “Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Interestingly enough Pelosi actually called for a suspension of offensive military assistance to Israel back in the spring of 2024 and it didn't matter whatsoever. Biden, Schumer, Lew, McGurk and Blinken all ignored her.
Happy Labor Day!
Thank you on this labor day!!
There can be no more fitting conclusion to the career of a disgraced politician than to receive recognition from the most corrupt and despicable leader in our history.
👇🏼👇🏼Pitch in, if you’re able to.
The thing about arrogant guys who are frequently wrong is that they are so dependable in their arrogance and wrongiosity.
Thanks.
So happy to see this.
"A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration's Federal Trade Commission investigation into Media Matters, arguing the probe violated the liberal watchdog group's freedom of speech." www.axios.com/2025/08/28/f...
At least Putin has more lifelike body doubles.
This piece is built on the premise that Mamdani and Trump are similar candidates. They are not. One is a dangerous liar. The other is an honest, engaging, smart, progressive Democrat who soundly beat other Democrats in a highly competitive primary. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
On this Labor Day, spare a thought for those who do not work very hard but who look great doing it.
Many people seem concerned that Trump may be dying. They may be overlooking an even worse outcome.
“Weekend at Donald’s”. We’re living in a horror simulation based on a shitty comedy.
> @governor.ca.gov
Trump's presidency has produced many victims with many many more to come. But there has been no greater beneficiary...and it is not even close...than Xi Jinping.
This. They must go. Removing them must become a top Congressional priority or the deaths they cause will be on the hands of every member of Congress...and lest they think there be no consequences, those deaths will be mounting up by the time of next year's election.
🧵Don’t scroll past. There is no denying that Israel is committing genocide on the Palestinian people. As a Jew I am heartsick. To all moral people “Never Again” means this can never happen to any peoples. Bibi & his government has disgraced & brought shame to Israel by destroying this mission⬇️
It’ll take longer than that. And I think the plan needs to be to ensure that Ukraine can endure until then.
We do not fully grasp how damaging the SCOTUS’ presidential immunity decision was. What we know is it was a disaster and the huge damage it has caused is being compounded daily. That is because the result is a collaboration between corrupt justices, a supine Congress and a demented President.
It’s over to the EU and Ukraine now. The US has switched sides. Until it has a new government. Then, who knows? We may regain our senses.
This is terrifying.
A full 🧵 Israeli High School students are striking and protesting, all across the country against the far right government of Netanyahu’s failure to end the war and return the hostages. Children are the future. Video and stills from today: threadreaderapp.com/thread/19623...
Ukraine said on Monday that it had arrested a suspect in the murder of a former Ukrainian parliamentary speaker, accusing Moscow of involvement in one of the most high-profile killings since the war began. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
The only way to produce lasting peace in Ukraine is to defeat Russia, force it to return to 2014 borders and admit Ukraine into NATO and the EU. Anything less is likely simply to produce only a temporary pause before Russia attacks again.
IAGS Gaza Resolution recognizes that Israel has already destroyed a substantial part of the Palestinian group by killing and maiming (one should add starving and stunting for life) tens of thousands of Palestinian children in Gaza 👇🏼
Thanks to @SenTimKaine for standing up against the Trump administration and far-right Israeli government, both of which apparently want to ethnically cleanse Gaza (Trump wants to turn it into some sort of luxury resort - warped/sick) bluevirginia.us/2025/09/mond...
It is undeniable. In fact, denying it abets the criminals behind the crimes, even as their toll rises and even worse abuses are contemplated. Israel and the US must be stopped and held accountable. The international community should use every available tool to do so.
“The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.” 86% of those who voted backed the resolution.
The USA has screwed up so badly by decimating the US relationship with India because of Trump’s childish, destructive ego, that the state department is now in the process of grovelling. In the end the US will probably cave, as it has with China.
Since US President Donald Trump waged a trade war against both countries, India and China have accelerated their efforts to repair ties with each other. Here's what you need to know.
What are we even doing?
wow
Anna has had excellent coverage of this developing case in which the Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children.
No big whoop, just Donald Trump pissing away three decades of U.S. diplomacy due to a fit of personal pique. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/donald-tru...
THIS ➡️ "the New York Times is very much implicated in the false balance and "performative neutrality that enabled this moment"
Late is the hour in which both William Broad and the New York Times (www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...) express concern over the Trump administration's promotion of antiscience: 🧵
DC area folks — this non-partisan rally in solidarity with survivors exploited by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell is happening Wed morning if you want to support.
If only there were a Nobel Prize for crimes against humanity, Trump would be a shoe-in.
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.
What Just Happened? Dismantling the Intelligence Community’s Foreign Malign Influence Center www.justsecurity.org/119653/wjh-d...
Little kids with brain cancer. That’s who Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are screwing over by cutting health care.
What in the ever loving fuck is going on here
You could try to be more cartoonishly evil than this but it’d be difficult.
"We are watching and we are taking names." This is where Pritzker has leveled up over his fellow Dems, by promising a future of accountability and retribution for the destruction Trump and his minions are doing to the constitutional order and our individual freedoms. newrepublic.com/post/199800/...
These are public employees who decided to leave rather than accept jobs where they actually did nothing. Remember that the next time they tell you that government employees are lazy and inefficient.
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
'Trump and his granddaughter Kai Trump load the motorcade on the south lawn of the White House in Washington DC on August 30, 2025, as they head to Trump National golf course in Sterling, Virginia' (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Turkey closes airspace, severes economic ties with Israel: apnews.com/article/turk... #Turkey #Israel
WIRED breaks down how ICE’s unprecedented expansion will actually affect every person in the US—citizen or otherwise. www.wired.com/video/watch/...
Tr*mp’s “repeated claims about having “solved” the India-Pakistan war infuriated Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India. And that was only the beginning.” Really, what did Modi expect? B/c he’s a fellow fascie, we’re true buds? Lying narcissists always center themselves in every narrative
Senator Bernie Sanders ( @sanders.senate.gov) pens New York Times op-ed calling for RFK Jr. to resign: "Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is endangering the health of the American people now and into the future. He must resign." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
As I said earlier this year… www.editorialboard.com/unsaid-make-...
The two countries seem to be swapping places. Temporarily at least, the role of the Western hemisphere’s democratic adult has moved south. The trial of Jair Bolsonaro indicates why
More of this please. Generally speaking public officials should eschew funds from pro war crimes organizations.
So I wrote this…checks notes…yesterday. Hmmm.
I’m a big fan of @mizzwelch.bsky.social
The Gaza Health Ministry says the death toll in Gaza has surpassed 63,000, as Israel launches its planned offensive in Gaza City.
So many netizens tonight seem to be indulging in the kind of hopeful flights of fancy typically reserved for kids on Xmas Eve. It’s all silly, of course. But seeing the joy it brings warms the heart. We haven’t lost the capacity to dream.
Someday scientists will discover the brain eating microbe from outer space that did this to so many of our fellow Americans.
Thank you.
It was a pleasure to join @velshi.com just now...and to follow the segment featuring my brilliant friend and colleague @normornstein.
Joining @velshi.com tonight: @tribelaw.bsky.social @doggett.house.gov @normornstein.bsky.social @djrothkopf.bsky.social @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social @benwikler.bsky.social #LastWord
A swarm of Russian/Iranian attack drones just passed over my part of western Kyiv. In the video you can hear two, but four or five in total passed in a few minutes- never heard so many at one time.
And that explains why the U.N. is moving out of the U.S.
Frying Tonight: Krasnodar oil refinery, Krasnodar, Krasnodarsky Krai, in the SW of fascist Russia, hit by Ukrainian drones and on fire. Geoloc: 44.998169, 38.966075. Around 12 Russian oil refineries have been attacked by Ukraine in recent weeks.
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social has the hardest job in show business
The timing of Vance declaring that he's ready to step in is starting to look even more suspicious.
Alchemy at work: between terrible economic policy and authoritarian impulse to undermine judiciary, the Congress and increase unchecked executive power. Toxic cocktail the result.
Trump just declared “Overdose Prevention Week.” But behind the scenes, his team is withholding $140 million Congress already set aside to fight fentanyl overdoses. Programs are being forced to pause. Lives are at stake. youtu.be/RFW-OlmAgDE
In the first Gilded Age, the wealthy wanted hospitals named after them. In this shit 2.0 version, Elon racks up dead kids like it's points in a game he hired someone else to play.
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.”
Seems important
Jim O’Neill, the No. 2 HHS official who has since become the CDC’s new acting chief, was present at meetings where Susan Monarez faced pressure on vaccines.
Can we get a statement like this from every Democrat in the country?
Thief warns of 'embarrassment' if burglary ruled illegal
Trump is damaging our national security by failing to live up to our commitments to those who risked their lives and their families' lives to help us in overseas conflicts. Why would anyone trust America's word again, even after Trump is gone?
Colorado, you in danger, girl.
Thanks.
An important nudge from @djrothkopf.bsky.social — the how, why & exactly when of the Great Leader’s ultimate permanent change of address is far less important than whether or not we’ve prepared for it — you can bet your booties that the same folks who prepared Project 2025 already have prepared
The golden urinal troughs surrounding his grave will be sublime.
After Seeing Gaza's Starving Children, My Work as an Israeli Pediatrician Will Never Be the Same "The power is in our hands only. We must put a stop to the atrocities that are being committed in our name." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
You can be pretty sure that the CDC under Trump, RFK Jr and their band of crackpots is going to restrict Covid vaccines for everyone. The CDC will be an anti-vaccine agency, just like Trump has reversed the mission of the EPA to serve industrial polluters. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
It's really just 'thoughts and prayers' in advance. #HarshButFair #EvenBillionairePsychopathsAreNotImmortal
Another potential grave self-inflicted wound.
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This is a great read!
Trump Lunatics Will Kill Thousands Upon Thousands of Americans. Critics See Big Risks. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
Good food for thought. But I'm absolutely still throwing a fucking party for days.
“Thanks to his cankles, he is the lamest of lame ducks.”