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GOP Rep. Thomas Massie filed a discharge petition today to force the disclosure of Justice Department investigative files related to the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Working with Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna, Massie now needs to persuade 216 additional House members to sign it.
So they re-released most of the same shit they gave the GOP binder crew in February? Color me shocked. Never thought I’d say this, but I’m with Massie. Release the rest of the damn Epstein files, not this cherry-picked bullshit.
But of course #nokings #nopedophiles #nonazis
So our military just bombed a boat in international waters and extrajudicially killed suspected drug traffickers without so much as a conversation, let alone a trial? Then posted it on social media? And we’re all supposed to just trust their account?
THink about it Prove me wrong
So we’re getting announcements about moving the HQ for Space Force… a Venezuelan ship hit in international waters… pissy postings about the Xi-Putin-Kim Summit… But still not distracted: Release the Epstein Files.
The American experiment is based on the idea that citizenship is not based on ethnicity. We tried to conflate the two with slavery and the constitution failed as a result. The reconstruction amendments made this principle explicit. This shit is fundamentally anti American and anti patriotic.
DOGE cutting that waste and fraud.
The Trump Administration is rounding up and locking up latinos simply for having tattoos. Exhibit A on why White Supremacy is for cuck fluffers. A below average racist alcoholic and wildly incompetent cuck fluffer is running the most powerful military on earth. #Pentagon #firehegseth
Trump admits daily that he is a sex pervert who was involved with sex trafficking!
Unbelievable - the Secretary of Energy somehow thinks that electricity is not energy! And gets the sums TERRIBLY wrong in terms of what solar would produce if the planet were to be wrapped in solar panels. Trump's problem, as with so many departments, of hiring people who know nothing to lead them.
Sounding overtly paranoid today. Are they conspiring? Maybe. Could a more competent, emotionally mature president have averted such a public display by our adversaries? Yes.
when you’re upset at the cool kids for not inviting you to their lunch table
People chasing power for themselves often burn bridges. Those who lead by serving others build trust, stronger relationships and successful organizations. Lessons for CEOs and the rest of us:
Pro-MAGA GOP State Rep. Ty Burns of Oklahoma - who tried to gouge his wife's eye out and run his wife and 16 year-old daughter off the road with his truck - has resigned after pleading guilty. lawandcrime.com/crime/lawmak...
The move comes after the Justice Department last week made changes to who could qualify as a temporary immigration judge —effectively lowering the requirements and removing the need to have prior immigration experience. n.pr/41v8FAb
Nongovernmental groups like the League of Women Voters are now barred from registering new voters at naturalization ceremonies, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced. n.pr/4g7YKqg
Is this a sign of growing backlash or evidence of incompetency under Pirro’s leadership? They say you can indict a ham sandwich… but Pirro’s office can’t indict a tossed sub sandwich or a woman with rumored mental health issues.
Two more solid Democratic overperformances in tonight's 2 Florida special elections. Kamala Harris won these districts by +23 and +35, respectively. Democrats won them tonight by +45 and +40, respectively. That makes for overperformances of +22 and +15 , respectively. The Dem energy continues.
UHC is trying to bankrupt a #Texas cancer surgeon who spoke out against UHC after they called the doctor DURING SURGERY ON THE PATIENT in question to justify an overnight hospital stay! The whole company should have been shot! #UniversalHealthcareNOW! @statuscoupnews.bsky.social
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No. It’s We the People who are the last line of defense.
DHS/Border Patrol getting trained on mortar for "law enforcement".
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the National Guard of one state can’t invade another state. They are separate sovereigns
ALIVE AND KICKING TRUMP WAS AWARE OF THE RUMORS HE HAD DIED, SOURCES SAY The president denied hearing about the baseless rumors circulating on social media that he died over Labor Day weekend www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
To be a political reporter in 2025, you have to be gullible enough to believe that a convicted felon who launched a violent coup attempt is worried about crime. Or you just have to be willing to pretend you’re that gullible. Either way, we deserve better.
It’s corruption, plain and simple.
. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .
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
Florida has literally took their hoods off and it’s shameful!
It's being reported that the Pentagon is authorizing military lawyers to serve as immigration judges. This is a threat to the Constitution. Don't say we didn't warn you. From the archives:
Let us be clear: there is no emergency in Chicago that warrants the President of the United States deploying the military. I joined Senators Duckworth and Durbin and 10 Members of Congress from IL to demand that Trump & the Pentagon suspend plans for the deployment of military personnel to Chicago.
The U.S. military is now going to be judges in immigration court cases. If you think it’ll stop there you’re wrong. It’s a military coup. If we ever get past this the bloated, corrupt Pentagon needs to be gutted.
Trump just authorized up to 600 military lawyers to serve as immigration judges - effectively doubling the bench overnight. Courts are supposed to be independent, not staffed by the Pentagon. This is how you turn immigration into a battlefield instead of due process.
Trump is such a malicious bastard. He fired immigration judges, leaving immigrants stuck in limbo, at constant risk of being kidnapped by ICE thugs. Now the Pentagon has authorized up to 600 military lawyers who have no experience with immigration law to serve as judges. This can't end well.
The Pentagon appointing 600 military lawyers to serve as immigration judges has a real "Volksgerichtshof and Sondergerichte" feel to it.
The Pentagon authorizes military judges for immigration cases, the National Guard occupies DC, and Federal forces prepare to deploy to Chicago. They’re attacking democracy, terrorizing Black & Brown communities, and quelling dissent. We need to be prepared—learn how here: bit.ly/resistancetoolkit.
🚨Regarding the #Pentagon and #SpaceForce announcements: Reps @rokhanna.bsky.social (D-CA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) are holding a press conference tomorrow, 9/3, 10:30am, with ten victims of Epstein’s sex trafficking. Link to watch live: youtube.com/live/q6fUosr... 🗣️ Release the Epstein files
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
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.
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."
LOL this is SO EMBARRASSING.
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: “I never said that.” KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.” RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com
Gavin Newsom mocking Karoline Leavitt as Effie Trinket from the Hunger Games 👏🏼🤣🏆
We need this to get viral #nationaguard #military #resistancekitty #revolution2025
I used to read books like Lord of the Rings or watch movies like Star Wars and think the villains were unbelievable. And of course, now watching the tech oligarchs (who could not spend all their money if they tried) destroy civilization for power, I’m like, guess I was wrong. People are that awful.
Debbie Reese, one of the most prominent reviewers of Native children’s literature, just spread incorrect information about Indigenous people in Texas. She wrote, “But, the state of Texas does not extend state recognition to anyone.” This lie’s been used to erase Lipan people fighting for recognition
Trump just lying about everything now, especially Washington DC. Says businesses are booming and restaurants coming back. Nope, revenue way down bc people aren't going out due to 2000 armed National Guard members. No mention of Epstein Files...weird.
Repeat after me: Trump CANNOT deploy the National Guard to Chicago. He does not have the constitutional authority to do so. National Guard troops, outside of DC, are NOT his to command. So Chicago & my home state of Illinois need to tell Trump to fuck right off.
Trump has sent Texas military personnel to within 20 minutes of my parents as part of a plan to invade Illinois with another state's National Guard. What the literal F.
Trump is moving 'Space Command' from Colorado Springs – within Colorado's 5th CD and currently represented by Republican, Jeff Crank – to Huntsville, AL which is within Alabama's 5th CD and represented by Republican, Dale Strong. Republicans just lost another House seat.
Republican Rep. Jeff Crank: “Continued efforts to move [Space Command] headquarters only hurts our national security.”
Trump’s decision to move U.S. Space Command to Alabama is deeply disappointing. It undermines national security, wastes taxpayer dollars, and disrupts military families. Colorado Springs remains the best home for Space Command and the men and women who serve there.
Trump’s decision to move Space Command out of Colorado is a waste of taxpayer dollars & weakens America’s national security. Full statement:
A funny thing about the president of the United States is that before today, he had never heard of the city of Huntsville Alabama, which has been known as Rocket City since at least the '50s because of the huge role it's played in US space and rocket design.
#TangTyrant thinks this Space Force Command & Huntsville AL aka “Rocket City” is something he invented. This is not the flex his spirochete 🧠thinks it is🤣 Wernher von Braun made Huntsville Rocket City. The Army moved Redstone Arsenal & the Nazi 🚀 to Huntsville AL in 1950.1/ youtu.be/Rq1990HjW3Y?...
So Space Command’s moving to Alabama because… Colorado’s mail-in ballots hurt Trump’s feelings? Not logistics. Not strategy. Feelings. Rocket City better hope politics doesn’t burn up on re-entry before the launch pad’s even built. apnews.com/article/spac... #TruthBombTuesday
It's all projection. He said Alabama is getting it. Huntsville now known as Rocket City, and then says it isnt because he won it by 47 points.. And then throws in billions and billions USA will make somehow... Nothing about Epstein files or the failing economy.
If Huntsville, Alabama, is now called Rocket City, then Trump Tower is now called Pedophile Plaza.
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
Pritzker: "We have reason to believe that the Trump administration has already begun staging the Texas National Guard for deployment in Illinois."
Trump: "We've taken in almost $17 trillion of investment." (That would be more than half the entire US GDP, so no.)
“Expedited ruling as a backstop” Trump memorized a new phrase over the weekend. That’s a lot of syllables for him.
If some university did this they’d be accused by the very same administration of anti-semitism.
photos of Trump's hand today (via Getty)
The argument is: We're all meant to sacrifice a bit, so that tariffs can help rebuild American manufacturing. Let's ask American manufacturers whether they're helping.
At least it wasn’t posted on a Signal chat.
> @davebrown.bsky.social @politico.com
"The GOP is signing on to mass murder of children based on the novel theories of a man who has no party ties except a single Trump endorsement. It is a measure of the party’s utter hollowness, brokenness, and evil that even in this case, it can barely find the resources to demur."
No lie.
SPOTTED: Mobile billboards driving around D.C. demanding federal agents take their masks off — because public servants should face the public. Go follow @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social!
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.
“Space Command is moving to Alabama” is actually right in the sweet spot of “Not meaningful enough to warrant a public appearance” that I’m actually now convinced something’s up
Let's spend more money for no real reason. Trump shifts Space Command from Colorado to Alabama, rewarding a loyal red state. The move undercuts readiness and exposes national security to partisan games, turning defense strategy into another MAGA political favor.
Didn’t he try this before? Of course, now he has sycophantic generals who will go along with it.
If reports are true, Trump is ripping Space Command out of Colorado Springs out of pure political spite, endangering jobs, our economy and national security. Colorado Springs deserves better. Colorado deserves better. Are we Great yet, Jeff Crank?
Live view of the Trump regime deciding to move Space Command.
Greetings from Kyiv, where the air raid alert has been ongoing for three hours. Drones. I’m furious that children have to spend their second day of school in shelters.
#Venezuela is not a problem. #Trump is the problem. Let’s not lose sight of that fact.
A view from Venango County
More incredibly irresponsible policy from the criminal Trump administration that will be irreversible: share.google/UxXBzjbaB9CW...
By far my favorite part of January 6.
Check out these 'sticker shock' numbers: 450K Pennsylvania residents will face an average *85%* premium increase for their ACA plan...and some will even face a *300%* premium increase. And it's all because Republicans won't extend the popular Obamacare subsidies. triblive.com/local/region...
#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...
Lori Chavez-DeRemer: "I was elected as the Labor Secretary for all Americans" (She was not elected)
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
Sen. Roger Marshall on the CDC purge: "This is the same group of so-called experts that told the entire country we should live in fear of monkeypox, but failed to tell us that unless you're a homosexual man you don't have to worry about this at all, that monkeypox is a sexually transmitted disease."