This, btw, is the shadiest shade that has shadeth.
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This, btw, is the shadiest shade that has shadeth.
Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people. Using our database, you can search for organizations and people that have paid the justices, reimbursed them for travel, given them gifts and more.
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New York does not miss. The bleach did it for me. 😭
NEW: Trump will be making an announcement from the Oval tomorrow at 2 PM ET.
I'll keep boosting these reminders, bc if ANYone deserves to be heard, it's these women 📍🗓️
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The only reason Rudy would stop to help any victim would be to take advantage of them. He's a dried-in-the-wool predator.
Still no word from the Washington Post about Trump's latest attack on democracy. But, it is now offering advice to Trump about how to effectuate his tariff plan. Support pro-democracy independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
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Every law, every system, every opportunity was shaped by that history. So no, we’re not “making it about race.” America did that!
Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U.S.-funded nonprofit.
This is what happens when you obliterate the presumption of regularity. Endless homework assignments because the court can't trust the government to follow orders in good faith.
AP: “Florida could be on the hook for $218 million… Alligator Alcatraz may soon be completely empty as a judge upheld her decision late Wednesday ordering operations to wind down indefinitely…” apnews.com/article/flor...
Robert Mueller was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2021. We’re just learning about it now because he was asked to testify in the Epstein matter and won’t be able to. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
If you start here, and scroll down, you’ll see the planes that are likely in play either never went anywhere, or like this one, actually departed and returned. As represented in court. I am NOT defending Ensign or the DOJ, I’m just as surprised as you that they told the truth.
MORE: Judge Sooknanan order DOJ to file yet another status report. She sets 10:45 pm deadline for Ensign to address whether all of the children have been returned to ORR custody.
One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”
Thanks to you for reporting and the judge, who went above and beyond to help these vulnerable children. ❤️
And we're done. Thanks to all who followed along on this Labor Day weekend. If you appreciate @lawfaremedia.org's live coverage of court proceedings, I hope you'll consider supporting our non-profit newsroom. See you next time! givebutter.com/journalism/a...
Watch. If you claim one of these to get a vaccine, they’ll use it later as a preexisting condition to crank up your health premium or kick you off your plan.
What if we established a tax-exempt Church of Democracy and sued the government for infringing on our religious freedoms when it does authoritarian stuff?
Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment. (Published April 2025)
FLAG: Missouri's governor just called a special session of the state legislature to pass a gerrymandered congressional map in favor of Republicans. Just like what Greg Abbott did in Texas.
🚨 Medicare Cuts👇🏽 This is what it looks like. No matter what lies @MarshaBlackburn and the GOP tell about Trump’s big ugly bill. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
Fairfax and Arlington schools sued the Trump administration today over its anti-trans funding threat policies and actions. The @washingtonpost.com broke this news but was apparently unable to link to the lawsuit. Here is the Fairfax complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Excellent question.
California is awarding $80M through the Jobs First Initiative to support 23,000+ jobs and drive sustainable economic growth across the state. We’re putting real dollars to work to ensure regions have the necessary tools to create good-paying jobs and strong industries.
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A Texas Republican lawmaker who last week blocked Democrats’ effort to filibuster the state’s gerrymander made disturbing comments at a 2022 legislative hearing — suggesting a way to deal with immigrants might be: “shoot, shovel and shut up.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Oh so he's not being charged with flag burning and won't be going away for a year? How embarrassing for Donald!
Not an exaggeration.
So not only do churches NOT have to pay taxes, they're going to get YOUR tax dollars to boot. This seems like oh, I don't know, government establishing a religion in violation of the First Amendment?
It's nonstop. One atrocity after another. I must boost/sound alarms about stuff like this, easily, 20x a day.
Where's the outrage from firefighters all over the US? There was certainly some here, on site here 👇🏼
GIZMODO: “Jim O’Neill, Kennedy’s deputy secretary, has been selected to take over the CDC… the sure-fire tell that this man waves a freak flag is his deep connections to PayPal co-founder and all-around weirdo Peter Thiel.” gizmodo.com/the-cdcs-nig...
Corporations socialize their losses and privatize their gains.
NEW: The DoJ fails to get a grand jury to indict sandwich guy, blue city mayors are assembling a united front against Trump, Lisa Cook fights back, and Jon Ossoff's GOP challenger says Trump is in the Epstein files on a hot mic. Free to listen and subscribe! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
⚡️Death toll of Aug. 28 attack on Kyiv rises to 25, 2-year old girl and mother among killed. Russia launched a large-scale aerial strike on Ukrainian cities overnight on Aug. 28, attacking Kyiv with missiles and drones.
The U.N. Security Council will convene on Aug. 29 at Ukraine's request to discuss a recent deadly Russian attack against Kyiv; Russia has lost close to 220,000 people killed in the war against Ukraine as of August; and more.
Republicans aren't running for office...their polls are dropping...their own base is mocking them and yelling at them at town halls... And yet they seem very comfortable and unbothered. Ask yourselves why?
In addition to everything he details about data concerns, which is important, do note that Borges makes three statements that certainly sound like an employment lawsuit is coming: - "involuntary resignation" - "constructive discharge" (means, functionally, you fired me) - "hostile work environment"
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Fact check: True true true.
A federal judge issued a permanent injunction BARRING Trump loyalist Kari Lake from removing Voice of America director Michael Abramowitz. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Chief Justice Roberts has yet to call for a response to the Trump administration's latest emergency application (in the foreign aid impoundment case), even though it was filed Tuesday and docketed yesterday. That's weird—and suggests he's waiting for something else to happen before doing anything.
This is so clearly wrong — and it helps explain why Trump’s approval numbers are in the toilet. Anyone who thinks this young woman deserved to be treated this way can go fuck themselves.
Lisa Cook lawsuit v. Trump: "Independent Federal Reserve also prevents presidential administrations from using monetary policy for self-serving political ends.. such as ensuring the govt cannot simply print more money to finance debt. This practice, when unchecked, can lead to economic collapse "
Wow.
New RFK Jr CDC guy thinks kidneys can walk.
"In doing so, Gabbard has dismantled the last remaining U.S. federal government organ dedicated to tracking and analyzing State-sponsored efforts to interfere in U.S. institutions, elections, and society"
JUST IN: Judge Carl Nichols, Trump appointee, draws criminal case against DOJ lawyer Sean Dunn, accused of throwing Subway sandwich at officer amid Trump DC surge. Grand jury wouldn't indict so it's a misdemeanor. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Literally slaying Americans
If you're not a radical by now, nothing could ever make you one. (And to be clear, I mean here "radical" by the standards of mainstream corporate media—whose blithe, cowardly, and capitulating normopathy is stifling, crippling, unyielding, and at this point extremely dangerous to the United States.)
Shortly after Trump met with Putin in Alaska, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard abruptly ousted a CIA expert who had helped brief Trump’s team in the lead-up to the meeting. By naming this person in a memo, Gabbard appears to have identified a CIA officer who was operating under cover.
A number of postal services around the world have paused package deliveries to the United States this week. The suspensions, which affect shipments of goods valued under $800, follow a recent executive order that Trump signed that effectively ends the de minimis exemption on August 29.
@nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com
The mother of a 12-year-old girl who was injured in a shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in South Minneapolis on Wednesday morning, was working in the intensive care unit of the hospital where her daughter was rushed.
Why don't you show me where I've ever said that. Jesus taught me the joys of calling out religious hypocrites; and I prefer to do it with the book they pretend to follow.
LOL, oops
Let's not forget about the #EpsteinFiles
Nobody "asked for the help" and "invited them in"
NEW: A judge in Utah orders fair maps, Susan Collins is heckled during a ribbon cutting, democrats CRUSH in an Iowa special election defeating the GOP supermajority, and prosecutors fail to indict sandwich guy. News, with swearing! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Where is Trump’s attention to this matter?
Here's one more livestream
20 mostly white private academies, all founded in the 1960s and 1970s, brought in more than $20 million from North Carolina in three years. None reflected the demographics of their communities. Few even came close. (Published Nov. 2024)
The federal Bureau of Prisons has posted an estimated prison release date for former Rep. George Santos (R-NY): Sept. 28, 2031
One part of the resignation letter from Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who formally resigned from his position as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC.
From a pal To: @governor.ca.gov 🚨We need Dem politicians everywhere in CA explaining this is temporary + response to TX actions. As a CA resident, I have already received 2 big glossy brochures from anti redist. orgs. NO mailings from Newsom, Dems. We have 2 mos to convince CA's to fight back.
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What does it take for ALL Americans to finally get it? Trump is about whatever benefits #DictatorTrump, he cares nothing about anyone else.
Keep 'em coming
Once again, Marc nailed it.
Wtf!?!?!?! The audible scream i just let out. thehill.com/policy/defen...
Reup: John Roberts gave Ed "Big Balls" Cositine live and unaudited access to every Americans' social security data. www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/26/a...
The only thing I want to say about whatever the hell is going on with Trump’s hand is that he’s in the Epstein files.
Just what they signed up for 🤦🏻♀️ Beats intimidating the public, I guess.
Your honor, I’d like to enter into evidence…
Btw, all mushrooms are poisonous to dogs.
The journey begins in the basement with the history of enslavement, then rises floor by floor until it ends in a jubilee of Black pop culture, art, and triumph. Trump better not lay a finger on this.
This hits right on time… My wife and I had the great privilege of visiting the African-American Museum in DC, and let me just tell you if you have not been…It is a masterpiece—go.
"Play these parties"... Oops. Paging Freud. And then, "play the game of diplomacy"? This is not a game. Innocent people are being murdered. Children are dying, kidnapped, trafficked. THIS IS NOT A DAMN GAME.
Intelligence has its limitations and stupidity is infinite is pretty much my guiding Rule #1 to explain most awful things in life. That and, obviously, evil folks who take advantage of Rule #1 endure.
Aww. #RIP Jerry Adler.
Oh Trump is high, alright, on swollen ankle meds.
Trump: "But if Wes Moore needs help, like Gavin Newscum did in L.A., I will send in the 'troops,' which is being done in nearby DC, and quickly clean up the Crime ... Also, I gave Wes Moore a lot of money to fix his demolished bridge. I will now have to rethink that decision???"
Hope is what we do when the odds are long and the options limited. It is the stubborn act of trying when despair feels easier. Rather than a passive optimism, hope is the commitment of those who believe they can make a difference, however small. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...
It is the taxpayers’ money, not Dictator Trump’s money to be used to threaten people who say things he doesn’t like.
James Dobson was never a “Christian leader.” He was a well-paid hate merchant in a bad suit. He sold cruelty as righteousness, fear as faith, and violence as love. johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/james-dobs...
📌"We aren’t distracted, you nitwits, we are wide awake, and furious about ALL OF IT, and wondering when the hell it is people like you will stop worrying about us being 'distracted.'" 📌My latest is up. I mean, if you aren't currently being distracted ...
Ann does it again
Wes Moore confirms that he's considering retaliating against Republican gerrymandering by redrawing the maps in Maryland to eliminate the state's one Republican seat
He was also rightfully impeached twice, rightfully found responsible for sexual abuse and fraud, rightfully convicted of 34 felonies, rightfully accused of inciting and aiding/abetting a violent insurrection, rightfully caught hanging out w/ BFF Jeffrey Epstein.
MISSOURI…
the actual communication problem democrats have is this: their most prominent national figures filter everything through focus grouped lines and are incapable of plain speech
F*ck‼️ Fort Bliss Army base used for a WWII Japanese internment is now the nation's largest ICE detention center.
Andy reports. He does not cater to one side or another. He's one of the best out there. Don't like his work? Don't follow him.
I wrote down some notes on privatization and the transfer of wealth. Tell the MAGA in your lives that they’re subsidizing billionaires by voting for republicans.
