This is an insult to all who deserved the honor…
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This is an insult to all who deserved the honor…
"Even in a long line of anti-labor GOP presidents, Trump stands out. And while he may not succeed in completely destroying collective bargaining in America, he’s poised to strike terrible blows against organized labor." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
Trump Demands ABC News 'Pay Me More' Following $15M Settlement share.newsbreak.com/et0wvb26?s=i16
Below the radar, the second Trump administration has taken extraordinary steps to expand the rights of gun owners and manufacturers. He doesn't care about crime, nor does he care about kids. Trump 2.0 shows every sign of doing anything the NRA wants. trib.al/JOEX4xp
Shame on the courts for going along with the pernicious fiction that American national security required stripping employees of union protections
Back when Donald was a failure in real estate, he was famous for not paying his contractors. He would come up with fictional fault in their work as an excuse not to pay them. Now, this unscrupulous cretin is short-changing the National Guard. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
Trump's immigration push puts California's immigrant labor force at risk Trump's immigration push puts California's immigrant labor force at risk www.cnbc.com/2025/09/01/t...
Historians See Autocratic Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on Science www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...
The main stream media was obnoxious about President Biden and silent about Trump. Why is that??
Troops hanging out in the DC metro today, displaying assault rifles, doing absolutely nothing
This is literally the largest act of union busting in American history. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Happy Labor Day! Stick with your union. Screw DJT!
Trump to award Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom This puke should be in jail not decorated. share.newsbreak.com/eszolxrk?s=i16
Humanities Montana continues with their mission after losing federal funding #mtpol share.newsbreak.com/esylbka1?s=i16
Pentagon Orders Reinstallation of Robert E. Lee Portrait, Complete With Slave
www.salon.com/2025/09/01/w...
Trump plans a hefty tax on imported drugs, risking higher prices and shortages Source: The Associated Press share.newsbreak.com/esxrnm5y?s=i16
The regime has cut minimum wage protections for federal workers and halted plans to require companies to pay disabled workers $7.25 per hour; and it will advance plans to eliminate minimum wage protections for millions of child care and home care providers. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
Trump and his greedhead cronies may get a big surprise in spite of their efforts to rig the 2026 election. They could find themselves swamped by a blue wave. Americans are wising up to the fact that Trump is turning the American dream into a nightmare.
Trump is decimating federal employee unions one step at a time www.npr.org/2025/09/01/n...
That hat snatching CEO says he’s gonna sue anyone who insults him We should insult him harder
After banning visas for Palestinian children seeking medical care, the Trump administration is now banning any Palestinian passport holders from entering the United States. Extraordinary bigotry being converted into US policy. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
Yellowstone-area wolves observed moving pups to follow elk — upending scientific assumptions dailymontanan.com/2025/08/31/y...
1.2 million immigrants are gone from the US labor force under Trump, preliminary data shows Source: The Associated Press share.newsbreak.com/esxdcgh9?s=i16
Putin says he reached 'understandings' with Trump over end of Ukraine war Source: BBC share.newsbreak.com/esx8bp3i?s=i16
A federal district judge issued a temporary restraining order after the U.S. attempted to deport hundreds of unaccompanied Guatemalan children without proper immigration proceedings.
Crime Festers in Republican States While Their Troops Patrol Washington www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Hey, Jake Tapper.
The media conned you. George Clooney conned you. Pelosi conned you
Hey Congress – make Alex Acosta's testimony public and televised. There's absolutely no ethical reason for it to be private and transcribed. Nefarious AF. We need to hear your questions. We want to see him squirm. We need to see him squirm. Yet another sign of a cover-up.
The most urgent task for Congress is to avoid a government shutdown on Sept. 30, when federal funding runs out. https://to.pbs.org/4lRR6By
Another DJT dick move.
Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
The National Guardners
Happy Labor Day! Did you know that Montana’s first labor union–the Helena Typographical Union Local No. 95–was established all the way back in 1866? Since then, most of Montana’s labor unions have been railroad workers, miners, and smelters.
montanafreepress.org/2025/08/21/i...
'Classic dictator': Experts sound alarm over Trump's 'performative authoritarianism' Source: Alternet share.newsbreak.com/essm854h?s=i16
Trump to offer Palestinians $5,000 to leave Gaza for 10yrs as he plans to turn war-torn enclave into ‘Mid East Riviera’ Source: The US Sun share.newsbreak.com/ess4fnj8?s=i16
A devastating new milestone: key indicators confirm that conditions have officially reached famine levels in the #GazaStrip. Our colleagues are on the ground doing everything possible to deliver for children in #Gaza, despite the immense challenges. Follow us for humanitarian updates. #promoted
federalnewsnetwork.com/unions/2025/... In a new executive order, Trump added more federal agencies to his list slated for collective bargaining cancellations “to enhance national security.”
U.S. Suspends Visas for Palestinian Passport Holders: What to Know apple.news/Aju4Ht8-6Rj-...
China tries to use Trump turmoil to unite leaders against U.S.-led order - The Washington Post apple.news/AenzujhVvTeS...
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel... www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Robert Mueller Has Parkinson’s Disease, Family Says www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Pete Hegseth’s move to reinstall a Confederate statue is, at worst, a move to show that “he and the Trump administration are making common cause with apologists who believe that the wrong side won the Civil War,” Mike Nelson argues.
How Trump Administration Cuts Are Hurting National Parks www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Social Security and Medicare cuts are coming because the bond market will eventually bring Congress to its knees, economist says Source: Fortune
'Something is very wrong': Ex-Trump insider flags 'alarming' news about president's health www.rawstory.com/trump-someth...
Trump Goes On Wild Social Media Spree Shouting Out Fox Pundits, Attacking Newsom and Encouraging ‘Major Lawsuit’ Against Major League Baseball Source: Mediaite share.newsbreak.com/esjcp8l6?s=i16
Fairfax, along with Arlington schools, sued the U.S. Education Dept. to block funding cuts over transgender student bathroom policies.
Montana is not getting rid of mail-in voting. That's a MAGA pipe dream. 'We can't ban it': GOP lawmakers rebel against Trump over policy 'no one supports' www.rawstory.com/gop-lawmaker...
At least while alienating all of our allies, Trump has been instrumental in bringing others closer together.
During the four years of the Biden administration, ICE used "unusual and compelling urgency" as a justification for limiting contract competition six times. During Trump 2.0, ICE has already used it 12+ times. Those contracts have overwhelmingly gone to companies with administration ties. 🧵
Excuse me but we have not had significant, extreme tariff tax increases in place since the Great Depression and our country has thrived... *** Blocking tariffs would be "end of the United States," top Trump adviser says www.axios.com/2025/08/31/t...
Pritzker: "We want more help—civilian law enforcement help. We would like ATF agents to help us take more guns off the street. We would like FBI to coordinate with local law enforcement to help catch perpetrators. If they do that, we'd welcome it. That's not what they're doing."
wow
DHS Using White Supremacist and Neo-Nazi Symbols in ICE Recruitment, Study Finds www.latintimes.com/dhs-using-wh...
After the U.S. government loaded children onto planes overnight to be sent back to their native Guatemala, a federal judge temporarily blocked the flights as their attorneys said authorities were violating U.S. laws and sending vulnerable kids into potential peril. https://to.pbs.org/3HZi4cA
She is unqualified and incompetent. Gabbard’s gotta go.
Gaza postwar plan envisions ‘voluntary’ relocation of entire population Ethnic cleansing. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Judge orders administration to halt deportation of hundreds of Guatemalan children www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Not only is our new acting director of the CDC NOT a scientist, but he also has deep ties to Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s techno-utopia movement. One epidemiologist compared Jim O’Neill’s appointment to “making Elon Musk head of the FAA.”
We’re fighting a war on American soil in voting booths for Americans to wake up and see what Donald Trump is doing before it’s too late. trib.al/67Oel9z
This is what leadership looks like.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
The Middle-Class Vibe Has Shifted From Secure to Squeezed - WSJ www.wsj.com/economy/cons...
In January, Border Patrol agents descended on Kern County, California, arresting and detaining people without due process. The raid — dubbed “Operation Return to Sender” — marked the start of a troubling new chapter in immigration enforcement. But the community was ready to fight back.
Federal appeals court annuls block on Texas law giving police broad powers to arrest migrants Source: Los Angeles Times share.newsbreak.com/escibnnu?s=i16
I'm not mailing my ID with my ballot. lol Trump says he will order voter ID requirement for every vote www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Ghislaine Maxwell hinted at Epstein’s ties to Trump officials – why wasn’t she pressed for names? - The Guardian apple.news/ArhEscxZJStq...
Go ahead, make my day Mr. Trump We @democracydefendersfund.org immediately sued you & got an injunction on your 1st voting EO We will do the same here if you try it again The Constitution gives this authority to the states & Congress, not you! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Transcript: Trump Lets Slip Dark Truth About His Plot to Rig Midterms newrepublic.com/article/1992... via @newrepublic.com
Because suppressing the vote favors Republicans, Trump is desperate to make the 2026 midterms as difficult as possible for Americans to vote. With voter fraud at approximately 0.0003%, voter fraud is far less likely than being struck by lightning. This is a fascist power grab, PERIOD.
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump said in a weekend social media post he plans to issue an executive order to impose voter ID requirements. And he reiterated his desire to ban mail voting. The president lacks the authority to take either step. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
My latest, on Trump's military police, Stephen Miller's pseudo-posse, and a retired general's warning about state-on-state violence:
Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
All those years of shooting up heroin takes its toll.
Trump Announces Executive Order Plans on Voter ID Requirements share.newsbreak.com/esbe60td?s=i16
#ProudBlue A censored Human Rights Report = a gift to dictators. The State Dept cut the truth out of its annual report. That’s not “streamlining”—that’s shielding abusers. If you can’t name atrocities, you’re complicit in them.
Trump’s plan to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War shows (once again) that his self-characterization as the “pro-peace” candidate was complete bullshit. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Trump administration cancels $679 million for offshore wind projects at ports - NPR apple.news/A05G7zf9TQhu...
Flag burning has a long history in the U.S. — and legal protections from the Supreme Court - NPR apple.news/ArUsigAWxSTC...
This is the most compelling case I’ve seen yet that America is no longer a democracy but an authoritarian state. Not a *soon-to-be* authoritarian state—a *current* one.
Rest assured. The seeds of Trump’s destruction have already been sown. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-263
Trump's envoys are ticking off other countries. 'Calm down,' the White House says Source: Los Angeles Times share.newsbreak.com/es9rz0yb?s=i16
Israel weighs West Bank annexations in response to Palestine recognition push www.axios.com/2025/08/31/i...
'Opposition through the roof': Polling shows voters 'spitting out' president's key policy share.newsbreak.com/es9bh8e3?s=i16
I’m sure these people are thrilled that they’ve been called away from their families and jobs to deal with DC’s crushingly important mulch emergency. So much government efficiency.
The US Holocaust Museum is planning to "upgrade" its exhibit on the US response to Nazi Germany, and staff are concerned the Trump administration wants to downplay the extent to which the Immigration Act of 1924 doomed more European Jews to die. abcnews.go.com/US/upcoming-...
Plus: China’s Salt Typhoon hackers target 600 companies in 80 countries, Tulsi Gabbard purges CIA agents, hackers knock out Iranian ship communications, and more. www.wired.com/story/doge-s...
*Court rules that Trump's policies are illegal but allows them to stand anyway* is the best summary of America in 2025 I know.
Oh, no, now we’re going to have to show our license plates.
Judge: Planned Parenthood clinics can remain Medicaid providers while lawsuit continues | via @sofiaresnick.bsky.social #ksleg
I’m loving freshman QB Sagapolutele. Go Bears!
Trump’s show of farce.
A naturalization ceremony is scheduled for the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky, at 1 p.m. Friday.
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
A cruiser, destroyers, a sub, Marines, and an amphibious group off Venezuela isn’t a drug bust force. That’s power projection... blockade, strikes, intimidation, special ops.