President Trump celebrated an airstrike that killed 11 people on an alleged Venezuelan drug-trafficking boat, but historian Greg Grandin says the operation amounts to "pure premeditated murder."
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President Trump celebrated an airstrike that killed 11 people on an alleged Venezuelan drug-trafficking boat, but historian Greg Grandin says the operation amounts to "pure premeditated murder."
Here to build a factory that will employee Americans in a Republican state, these are engineers, etc who have valid visas, legal status, and citizenship being chained and dog walked like you would expect for a convicted rapist who molested children in a sex trafficking ring.
Just saw an Infrastructure Act sign in town this week and wondered if he'd do this. Of course he would.
👍 "Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear."
Never underestimate how effective it is to maintain a consistent Totally Fucking Irritating Presence. It's an essential part of the work. It's happening most days of the week in front of immigration court in SF: when the sidewalk is loud and Totally Fucking Irritating, people don't get kidnapped.
So, Chicago, thwart. Thwart like lives depend on it because they do. This was long and nobody'll read the whole thing, but man it felt good to write because, for the time being, LA fucking won. 11/end
We didn't stop them, but we slowed them down. They got hundreds of us, but we kept them from getting hundreds more, and it wasn't violence or graffiti or insults that did the job, it was regular people getting involved. It was my neighbor the speech therapist, it was my friend the life-coach. 8/
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Sept. 10: @davidhogg.bsky.social and @pasenatorsaval.com to Speak in Montgomery County About Defeating Right-wing Extremism and Fighting for a Progressive Future | “This [event] is a call to action," said Social Justice Indivisible's Claire Gawinowicz.
Gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/o...
To be clear, POTUS (any potus) can't block a bill. He can only twist the arms of cowards and sycophants. There has never been a weaker, stupider, more craven or, I'm going to say it, more treasonous American political party than that of today's Republicans.
This is not just about "sexual misconduct:" "The southern district is primarily the federal government’s prosecuting arm for Wall Street securities fraud, organised crime and political corruption; prosecutors do not make their careers busting sex crimes, whatever the level of moral public outrage."
If you haven't heard this man speak, find him! This is Great!
Sarah Kendzior, @sarahkendzior.bsky.social, has had her fingers on the pulse of our society like no other journalist or author or anthropologist that I know of. One of the best independent writers to follow and subscribe to, imho
If you paddle the basin in Forest Park in St Louis, you can see FREE PALESTINE spelled out on the railings
National Guard keeping DC safe
Some new street art spotted in DC 🤣
Finally, a way to "get the hay down where the goats can get at it."
You had your chance to remove and bar him from the presidency after Jan 6. And you chickened out.
"And that is why . . . there should be some [govt.] institutional intervention to ensure that wealth is redistributed." Succinctly, perfectly explained.
Primatologist Frans de Waal (RIP—read Our Inner Ape) ran experiments showing why bosses don’t want workers talking pay. The rich talk money freely—they trained you to see it as rude so you’d stay underpaid. They know what everyone earns. You don’t. That’s control. #Science #Inequality #EndOligarchy
de Waal's 1982 book "Chimpanzee Politics" is one of the most enlightening books on human social behavior that I ever read. Highly recommended or ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQOB...
One time, I stopped to help a young lady with a broke down car on the highway. Told her, I would get back in my car and wait for the people she called to help her. I didn't want to be a threat, but I wanted her to be safe, so I waited. Hope someone does that if my daughter needs that kind of help.
Pepper gel. Spray can fly back into your face easily.
I don't know why I keep reaching in my mind for this analogy but American political culture feels to me right now like what Moses found when he returned from Mt Sinai and everyone had said "screw it" and started worshipping the golden calf.
RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.
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BREAKING: Trump's Fed Nominee just confirmed to @reed.senate.gov that he will NOT resign from the White House while serving at the Fed. President Trump is trying to take over the Fed and install his lackeys. Trump's takeover would make life far more expensive for American families.
"Scott Bessent just confessed that Trump has been lying in his claims about tariffs...There’s no reason SCOTUS should accord claims in his underlying Executive Orders any presumption of regularity." @emptywheel.bsky.social www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/04/s...
This is why I advocated handing out fliers to inform the Guard that Trump uprooted them to avenge Big Balls, the guy who stole their Social Security data.
Appeals courts say that many of President Trump's uses of emergency powers are illegal. The Supreme Court now has the final say in this showdown over presidential power. Subscribe to The Briefing to learn more: bit.ly/3GjiauG
Rep. Khanna: Trump is saying, 'I'm going to exempt Apple from tariffs, I'll exempt your company.' If he puts huge tariffs and doesn't exempt them, their companies are going to suffer. It's actually chilling that we have a president that has this much power over private companies
Right up until the minute Trump’s business ventures like Trump Shuttle, Trump Atlantic City casinos, Trump Steaks, Trump University, etc, etc, went bankrupt, Trump was claiming they were a huge success with big things right around the corner. Just like now with the economy.
www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
SNIPER TRAINING FOR ICE!?! SNIPER TEAMS ARE COMING TO CHICAGO? WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON? "SRT units were preparing to deploy to several Democratic-led cities, including Philadelphia, Chicago, Seattle, Northern Virginia, and New York."
Pentagon to be renamed “pentup-Don”! So immature family, crime family! 🤬🖕🤯
Enough said!
This isn't the storming of Fallujah. It's downtown LA this week. The same scenes are playing out in DC and soon here in Chicago. Anyone who thinks this is a 'crime crackdown' and not an authoritarian power grab is fooling themselves. Photo by @melbuer.bsky.social
Quick (100% non-AI) reminder for anyone wondering what Georgia's biggest attention whore was doing with the survivors of Epstein and Maxwell yesterday besides getting a photo op. Marjorie would be mortified if this video went viral.
Though not the biggest fan of Occupy Democrats, they had given me the opportunity to publish my mea culpa that I was leaving MAGA, & acknowledging my mistake of supporting MAGA, Trump and my governor, Ron DeSantis. I never thought anyone would care that I left MAGA. web.archive.org/web/20220830...
Dr. Adam Hamawy —who served in US Army as a combat surgeon -explained what he saw volunteering in Gaza was unlike any war zone he ever was in. In Gaza he saw “almost exclusively civilians and mostly children that were coming in, and with devastating injuries.”
So ... when is the biggest drug trafficker of all time, Ross Ulbricht, getting summarily executed? Oh, wait ... he got PARDONED BY TRUMP? www.bbc.com/news/article...
Monsters. Nothing short of mass prosecutions will fix this.
🚨BOOM!!! Pritzker listed the successful crime reduction programs and called out the GOP lAw aNd oRdEr bullshit. "Trump & his GOP allies in Congress cut those programs because they're unserious people who seem to know nothing about fighting crime." Every American Must See This.
This video is fantastic and absolutely true. We're going to get to some of this later in the series on peasants but the time-labor demand of 'household chores' before ten seconds ago was enormous. One 1900 report put the average food prep per week per woman at 44 hours; another 14 hours on laundry.
This is a rogue regime.
The biggest scandal in US public life *ought* to be that we are the richest country in history & yet our infrastructure sucks, our transportation choices suck, our cities suck, our healthcare sucks, our public administration sucks, & in dozens of little ways, our daily lives suck.
The House and Senate are back in session this week. Who else thinks it's time to ban members of Congress from trading stocks?
The Supreme Court will soon face a choice: Stand up for the Constitution or lie down for Trump.
Breaking: Peaceful activists, many with disabilities, are being arrested at the Capitol right now. These individuals are putting themselves on the line to do all they can to save healthcare for millions of Americans.
I realize I can't recall my last belly laugh. Thx!
I'm still working on my own response piece to the recent slew of anti-UBI takes from "Beltway wonks and denizens of econ Twitter" based on three recent pilots that took place during max Covid, but in the meantime here's another good response, this time from @annielowrey.bsky.social. archive.ph/vegfb
Amazing, unusually direct rebuke to Gorsuch and Kavanaugh from Judge Burroughs. She is, of course, entirely correct.
If you speak Spanish, and want to help with Newsom's YES on #Prop50 campaign, we need you!! www.mobilize.us/cadems/event...
Our Political Director, Naveed Shah — a U.S. Army Veteran — joined House Veterans' Affairs Committee Ranking Member Mark Takano (CA-39) and Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) to oppose the VA’s proposed abortion ban. 🔗 youtu.be/D4gFCRZnaXc
RT to show your support for the victims They are more than brave Too bad more women in the MAGA caucus are not even remotely this brave🤬
Judge orders Trump administration to unfreeze nearly $2.2 billion in federal grants to Harvard This is just Harvard but it's finally happening y'all! All the protests and town halls, now the judges are doing their jobs! It was worth it! Yay US! 💙🤞🏼 His downfall is happening before our eyes!
NEW — Are you looking for ways to resist? In preparation for whatever Trump sends to Chicago, several nonprofits, grassroots organizations and activists are providing Chicago-area residents with information on how to stay safe during these times. thetriibe.com/2025/09/we-k...
Coming from the people who arrested firefighters during a fire www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-...
JUST IN: The US now has more unemployed people than job openings for the first time since April 2021
Speaker Smarmy after sitting in on the Epstein survivors' statements to the Oversight Committee 9/2. Contrast that with the Dems' post hearing presser & 9/3 survivor statements for the public. Makes my skin crawl. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2GU...
Trump called republicans and threatened them not to sign the discharge petition to release the Epstein files saying he would consider it a "hostile act" against him.
I was a victim of childhood sexual abuse. Seeing these women getting the coverage and support they are this morning...brings a smile to my face. I don't see broken women. I see strong and empowered women. They. Will. Prevail.
What prison conditions are like will not be a deterrent to those on boats who are challenging the Israeli genocide of Gaza, writes @annwright666.bsky.social: www.commondreams.org/opinion/isra...
EPA Scraps Rules to Curb Pollution from Meat and Poultry Plants Read more from the Food Policy Tracker ➡️ buff.ly/bvWc9vz
Yes!🙌
🇺🇸 September 2 is not just a date. It is the day America cast aside its servants abroad. My brothers and sisters at USAID you built schools healed wounds defended democracy. Today you are erased but your devotion endures. This nation cannot stand without you.
🚨About Trump's phone interest in crime: @davidjbier.bsky.social has revealing new info about diverting crime fighters from....crime. "These numbers represent staggering shares of federal law enforcement agents, being shifted from criminal law enforcement to minor civil immigration offenses"
After watching the brief & frankly smarmy statement 9/2 by the Speaker following the Committee briefing w Epstein survivors & their attorneys, I watched the entire presser by the Dems. Worth every minute of my time. Highly recommended. There were juicy moments of a ferocity that might not quit.🙏
BREAKING: September 2– This statement from Rep Stansbury after hearing from Epstein victims is one of the most important statements you will hear this year. Absolutely the voice of justice against a massive coverup.
Well, be careful what you wish for.
to this point, i can definitely trace my ancestry in this country to at least the very early 19th century.
Am I the only person who wonders if fotus' May '25 trip to the Mideast, and return home with the "free gift" of a fantastical airship from his new bestie, had some very direct connection to the DOJ & Epstein files?
The most recent U.S. ambassador to Viktor Orban’s Hungary: “After years watching Hungary suffocate under the weight of its democratic collapse, I came to understand that the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence.”
Wow.
Greg Sargent: "So perhaps it’s time for news organizations to state unabashedly and affirmatively that they are not in the business of amplifying Trump officials’ lies and smears, and any official who feels entitled to such amplification can go stuff it." newrepublic.com/article/1998...
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.
Serious question: who conducts a "kinetic strike" on a drug boat? Especially if you want to prove Venezuela is shipping all the drugs to the US?? Wouldn't you, oh, I don't know, board and seize the vessel?? Maybe as it approaches or enters US waters?? TOTAL FRAUD! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Labor Day 2025 is a con. Banners scream “Workers First” while contracts are shredded, wages gutted, unions erased. A tax break on tips is crumbs for waitresses who can’t pay rent. The republic built by labor is selling labor out, and calling it patriotism.
Trump and Dr. Oz want AI to decide which Medicare patients get care—and they're giving AI companies a profit-incentive to deny coverage. Everything about this is sick and wrong. Tell Congress to intervene NOW:
Make a state’s core identity synonymous with a religio-cultural “nation” and everyone else’s rights become contingent. That’s exactly what Hazony wants for Israel and for the United States.
The WH should get Gavin Newsome's mock-post writer to do their posts now, since whoever did this one has no idea of how he writes. No spelling errors, appropriate capitalization, almost perfect punctuation. And it doesn't end with "Thank you for your attention to this matter." A bad fake at that.
This is a clear summary & cogent argument for a paper ballot handcount for North Caroline. It's the first time I feel confident staying on top of developments. "Bottom line: This is a serious report that raises legitimate questions." michaeldsellers.substack.com/p/she-won-or...?
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
Thank you, Mayor Johnson!
NEW — The “Workers Over Billionaires” march stopped by Target. Pastor Jamal Bryant, who is spearheading the boycott, spoke. “To many in America, we look like criminals, but we’re not the ones that stormed the Capitol on January 6,” he said to a roaring applause. thetriibe.com/2025/09/live...
Breaking news: It's a beautiful weekend in Chicago. So for this weekend, the city has safely hosted: 🚴♀️ Bike the Drive where hundreds pedal down a temporarily closed Lake Shore Drive 🏠The ARC music festival (Chicago is the home of house music) ⚾A White Sox game 🍒Farmers markets & food fests 1/
Maybe now the conversation will zero in on the trump immigration /ICE lies…specifically that he was going to arrest & deport convicted criminals. These are KIDS, not convicted criminals. KIDS.
Bulgaria has confirmed the incident and added that since February 2022, a significant increase in GPS jamming and spoofing is being observed.
President Trump’s most recent attack on mail voting is part of a concerted effort to undermine our elections. The administration has provided us with clues about what comes next. The good news: key actors can be ready to respond. bit.ly/4fRIqtA
“.. a scene .. almost certainly intended for an audience on the other side of the world: The leaders of China, Russia and India .. smiling and laughing like good friends ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
Why are we paying #Congress? Why didn't they get #DOGE 'd?
KOH: “Trump Stripped 1 million workers’ bargaining rights while plastering his face on the Labor Dept… Closed miner health clinics… Cut $2.4 Billion from youth & senior job programs… This is the real story of Trump & Labor.” #LaborDay