Labor Day/Novi Michigan
Spoiled rotten American who has enjoyed my liberty and freedom. Retired. Mother, Grandmother , love my friends,former small business owner, loves horses, dogs, cats, Politics activist— bearing witness- doing what I can
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Labor Day/Novi Michigan
Now they're throwing shit out of the second story window of the White House. WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING?
California stepping up.
www.newsweek.com/piotr-szczer...
> @governor.ca.gov
Here in the US, “two weeks” actually means never.
At least while alienating all of our allies, Trump has been instrumental in bringing others closer together.
You know where we're not omitting these critical facts? On The Contrarian! We had extensive coverage of these issues all year long & esp. over the past days as we build towards Labor Day We will cap that off with live coverage tonight at 8 PM ET 6/x open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
@erikloomis.bsky.social I admire your scholarship But there are some serious omissions in your Times essay as I detail below I don't see how you can write that essay without addressing the evidence to the contrary I know you are not coming from a bad place but this is wrong
Exxon and California Spar in Dueling Lawsuits Over Plastics www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/c...
Ukraine War Leads to Global Shortage of TNT www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Russia Suspected of Jamming GPS for E.U. Leader’s Plane, Officials Say www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
Israel’s Push for a Permanent Gaza Deal May Mean a Longer War, Experts Say www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w... The U.S. has no good reason to continue funding Israel!
With Drones and I.E.D.s, Mexico’s Cartels Adopt Arms of Modern War www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
Trump Is Wiping Out Unions. Why Are They So Quiet? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
The Unchecked, Unbalanced Reign of King Donald www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
He Burned a Flag and Won an American Right. He Worries It’s at Risk. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Man Who’d Served His Time in U.S. Is Deported to an African Prison www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
Smiles and Clasped Hands as Xi, Putin and Modi Try to Signal Unity www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
Crime Festers in Republican States While Their Troops Patrol Washington www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Very inspiring vid forLabor Day from @indivisible.org! Let’s go! @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social @indivisiblenwi.bsky.social @ivindivisible.bsky.social @indicalaveras.bsky.social @indivisiblehv.bsky.social @ocindivisible.bsky.social @indivisiblebrownco.bsky.social @bkindivisible.bsky.social
A federal judge rushed an emergency hearing after learning that Trump was moving to deport children to Guatemala despite an order she had issued earlier Sunday. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Why is the Draft Dodger-in-Chief trying to drag us into a war with Venezuela? The claim is that drug cartels are so out of control they’ve been designated an international terrorist organization, so we need to send warships. But we’re denying Venezuelan’s asylum claims who fled for their lives. 🤔
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."
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FEMA employee on leave describes "culture of fear “ among agency employee
www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...
I believe the victims!
www.wusf.org/politics-iss... They are covering up rainbows honoring #LGBTQ+ people who were murdered. Now they are covering murals honoring #BlackLivesMatter. Florida is one very HATEFUL state!
This is the way
WTF are all you commie libs talking about? He looks great!!
Dead, alive, hiding — doesn’t matter. Release the Epstein files.
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.
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
Folks this was Nixon with phlebitis right after Watergate
In the years leading up to the Civil War, the southern/slave states were belligerent, bullying pricks who thought Northerners were too weak and afraid to fight back. Finally the Northerners had enough, got organized and kicked their everlovin’ asses. Something to think about.
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Absolutely… Spot On!
Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.
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Would banning rope stopped the KKK from lynching?
GORKA: Instead of blaming an inanimate object, which is the weapon, how about addressing the human being instead? KEILAR: DHS cut funding in July to the Minnesota Dept of Safety and the Hennepin Country Sheriff's Office in July that is the kind of funding used to assess mass violence threats
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
I recently sold a car to a gentleman from Nicaragua. He said we are living in a dictatorship.
Who voted for war with Venezuela?
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
T-R-A-I-T-O-R www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Every ICE agent needs to identified, interrogated and charged with kidnapping and assault.
Pritzker: "National Guard troops, any kind of troops, on the streets of American city don't belong unless there is an insurrection, unless there is truly an emergency. There is not."
A mother is filing a $1 million claim after her 15-year-old son was held at gunpoint by immigration goons in Los Angeles.
Remove RFK Jr for dereliction of duties. Immediately.
Jill Stein and Cornel West both disgust me — such goddamn, self-serving hypocrites.
This is the kinda stuff right wing media said when Michelle Obama oversaw a school nutrition program fyi. Glenn Beck transcript is from 2010.
What are his qualifications to challenge anything?
WELKER: Do you have 100% confidence in Secretary Kennedy? LANKFORD: I believe he's who the president picked. He's challenging some of the assumption - what is it about autism? He seems to be following the science WELKER: The science has debunked links between autism & vaccines for more than 20 yrs
www.newsweek.com/pam-bondi-br... DOJ ended federal legal action against two clients represented by attorney Brad Bondi. DOJ has asserted Pam Bondi was not involved in the decisions, dropping both cases raises concerns about whether the Trump administration is favoring those linked to it.
REP. BUDDY CARTER: What eroded confidence in the CDC was the covid vaccine BEDINGFIELD: Who was president in 2020?
🚨Priest uses his body to attempt to stop ICE vehicles in Broadview, Illinois outside of a detention facility that has refused entry to members of Congress.
When Cuts to Medicaid Hit Home www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/o...
Historians See Autocratic Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on Science www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...
How Trump Could Overhaul the Fed www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/b...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Temporarily Blocks Removal of Guatemalan Children www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u... No surprise, read Project 2015. Their intentions are to disappear all people black and brown in an attempt to overthrow our democracy to make us a white Christian nation.
LIVE NOW: Contrarian Publisher Norm Eisen and Crooked Media's Jon Favreau in conversation. 📍 Tune in on Substack open.substack.com/live-stream/...
Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpractice—when you pray for something you have the power to change.
Jones: I would say to my colleagues who serve in government—keep your thoughts and prayers, keep your tweets. If you want to address gun violence, you don't need to tweet. What you need is a mirror. You have the power to change things.
Full video from Katie Phang’s YouTube channel here: youtu.be/7WMea-UkakE
Su: The BLS collects statistical information — things like the nation’s inflation rate, the unemployment rate, the number of jobs created, which industries are growing, and which are contracting. And on every one of those fronts, Trump is failing.
WE'RE ABOUT TO PUT A MEMECOIN OUT 😂
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
America in Reverse The ORANGE IDIOT in the White House wants to put America in REVERSE. “Rivian CEO says it 'blows my mind' that the US auto industry is reprioritizing capital toward gas-powered vehicles.” VOTING is just like DRIVING TO GO BACKWARD CHOOSE 'R' TO GO FORWARD CHOOSE ‘D'
My Sunday post is up!
One week ago, thousands of New Yorkers tried something new. They heard about it last minute. They didn’t know where it would take them or who they would meet. It was free, earnest, even educational. It was the #ZcavengerHunt and it was a thing of beauty.
Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
RADDATZ: One of the things they are trying to do in DC with the National Guard is have them back up local law enforcement WES MOORE: They are picking up trash
Texas AG Partizan Attack On Beto Ken Paxton threatens to arrest Beto O'Rourke for fighting the illegal gerrymander of five congressional seats. Speech is no longer Free in Texas! open.substack.com/pub/betoorou...
Americans are begging for Democratic leadership to get off the mat and back into the fight. If you’re a political leader in this country and are not prepared to fight with both hands, not prepared to make “good trouble”, then perhaps you should step aside and make space for those who will. #Velshi.
Chicago, Illinois @ Trump International Hotel &Tower Tomorrow September 1
Catlettsburg, Kentucky Tomorrow September 1
Looking forward to hearing all your insights.
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Canoga Park, CA — 3 days ago Rodrigo Almandariz, an American citizen born in Canoga Park, was arrested by ICE agents who pulled him from his truck without asking any questions or listening to him. It happened so fast they failed to put their SUV in park and it rolled away & hit a parked car.
"It's further eroding...the credibility of those who are in leadership positions in our military, that they would allow full military honors to someone who lost their life while committing the act of sedition." Michael Fanone discusses Ashli Babbitt with JVL:
CHICAGO…
Yes is the right answer.
So is every other cabinet member.
How the Trump-Kennedy Alliance Is Pushing the Boundaries of Public Health www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u... I have always believed in vaccines. The vaccine deniers always bothered me. Now with Kennedy in charge, I’m afraid of his vaccines.
Will the C.D.C. Survive? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/h...
“The Constitution cannot enforce itself. It takes people of character, to do that” — Lawrence Tribe
If you are worried that Trump will cancel the midterms, read this from Lawrence Tribe:
ILLINOIS - @govpritzker.illinois.gov : “Trump doesn’t seem to understand it’s actually Republican states that have the crime problem.”
TEXAS: “Would I be required to carry my birth certificate to the restroom because I have short hair? Is there anything in it to protect people like me?” REP. ORR: “No. It protects biological females.” @jessicafortexas.bsky.social : “That’s what I am.” More: www.fox7austin.com/news/texas-h...
Just like that you’re disappeared. No identification no markings on a vehicle. This is illegal. In every city, the police should be called and these men must account for who they are. They should not be allowed to be driving, unmarked vehicles, and abducting people off the streets.
GOV. WHITMER on marriage equality 🏳️🌈 attacks: “Treating people equally is a Michigan value… LGBTQ+ Michiganders make our state stronger, better, and more vibrant.”
“You cannot pretend as if he did not try and stay in power the last time he lost an election. That actually happened.” Abby Phillip & @mizzwelch.bsky.social refuse to let the Republicans on the panel pretend Trump is not a threat to our democracy. 🇺🇸