Wes Moore is NOT playing: I am the Commander in Chief of the National Guard. I will not authorize the Maryland National Guard to be activated. THIS is how you fight back.
Wes Moore is NOT playing: I am the Commander in Chief of the National Guard. I will not authorize the Maryland National Guard to be activated. THIS is how you fight back.
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?"
Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
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."
Bon Jovi 'Living On A Prayer', definitely
Congrats to @corybooker.com on a beautiful engagement! I’m so happy for you and Alexis. I have strong opinions on what Jersey music is appropriate to be played at a wedding.
the question is what will move us to constructive dialogue, first and foremost we have to hold the media accountable for highlighting conflicts instead of researching and presenting examples of common interest that affect Americans of all backgrounds. Also I prefer 'civility' to 'politeness'
Politeness towards people who have somewhat different political opinions than you is good and important, actually
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."
so much for drawing firm red lines ...
TACO is lethal.
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.
CBS editing out lies might actually help Noem from getting sued for defamation, but is also good journalism -- to not spread lies!
Teens calling Idaho's suicide hotline are being told they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up. Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...
Awww ...
🚨 𝗛𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗡𝗢𝗪: WOW! Thousands of protesters marching in the streets of Chicago. Trump’s not ready for this wave of people power.
"WEAK LOSER" DONALD TRUMP (CRAPPY HAIR!) IS A BROKEN-INSIDE MANCHILD. (SAD!) HIS TYRANT FATHER (KKK!) DESTROYED HIM AND NOW WE ALL MUST SUFFER AS A RESULT. YOUR FAVORITE WRITER (ME!) EXPLAINS THIS IN A GREAT POST THAT MANY ARE SAYING IS THE GREATEST POST EVER. READ IT HERE: bit.ly/3HD7AQd
keeping it classy and luxurious
Labor Day #WorkersOverBillionaires march gets underway at the Inner Harbor ...
hmm ... hmm ...
I don't blame anyone for being suspicious about that. I am.
CHICAGO IS IN THE STREETS! #LaborDay #DefendHigherEd #WorkersOverBillionaires
Happy Labor Day to the union workers who built America’s middle class.
Concord, NH lit up today with the truth: when the people rise, no billionaire class can break our spirit. Voices rang out: The people united will never be divided. We’re done with crumbs while the rich feast. We’re all in for #WorkersOverBillionaires ✊🔥
Blocks and blocks of Chicagoans marching against Trump’s fascism.
He's going to be such a good mayor, and most importantly a mayor for all New Yorkers.
Oh, Andy Borowitz. What a gem you are.
I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “Mamaroneck #WorkersOverBillionaires Labor Day Kickoff” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...
Trump wants to control the Fed not simply because 1) he wants more control over everything and 2) he has a general preference for low interest rates, but 3) because he wants a loyal and politicized Fed to goose the economy at the right time in 2026 and especially 2028. vimeo.com/1114403325/7...
hey amigos, the link below is a clip from C-Span's Washington Journal (yesterday, Aug. 29) The caller, Harold from Tennessee, make as passionate argument opposing the actions of RFK Jr. on vaccines. It's well worth a watch for his Tennessee drawl alone! www.c-span.org/clip/washing...
"Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American..taught in schools, in seminaries & colleges...written in Primers, spelling books & Almanacs...preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, enforced in courts of justice...become the political religion of the nation." --Lincoln
Speaker Mike Johnson on the Minnesota shooting: "At the end of the day the problem is not guns. Ok, Jen Psaki? The problem is the human heart. It's mental health."
“Are you Jonathan?" "Hoo?" "I'm looking for Jonathan." "Hoo?" "So it's gonna be like that, huh?"
As I speak across Missouri's 2nd Congressional District and the St. Louis area I keep hearing our fellow Americans expressing doubt and fear of what lies ahead. We have to push away defeatism. It’s nothing more than surrendering in advance. I refuse. You should too. Check out my new post!
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
#FortLee NJ #VisibiltyBrigade
Psaki: Comer was a little slow to move forward with the subpoenas, at least in my view. Moskowitz: That’s actually his regular speed. He’s just a little slow in general.
self aggrandizement and plunder
Karoline Leavitt: “The president has the authority to fire those who are not aligned with his mission.” What exactly is his mission?
"We show that negativity toward other groups is not always key to going viral. Rather, positive ingroup emotions appear to play a leading role in times of crisis." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
birds of a feather ...
NEWS: ACLU pushes to revive criminal contempt proceedings against Trump officials
A very good boy and their girl: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/PetsareAma...
Good.
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
On Thursday, I joined the National Action Network's March on Wall Street with Rev. Al Sharpton, MLK III and hundreds of union members, civil rights leaders, and people from NYC and around the country.
Micah Parsons to the Packers instantly makes them Super Bowl contenders. I don't care what they gave up: It was worth it.
Outside the CDC, people are chanting “USA, not RFK.” They are fed up with having one unqualified person dictate the nation’s health. #USANotRFK
Newsom: Perhaps the president could deploy the National Guard in every corner of Mississippi. Murder rate is out of control there. And the governor may want to make that phone call.
not exactly pleasant
This is insanity. This is the sign of a government that has lost its mind.
Yesterday, HSI and MPD set up a checkpoint on Rhode Island Ave in DC. Neighbors stood on either end, holding signs saying “LA MIGRA ADELATE.” As HSI and MPD started to pack it up, residents told them, “we don’t think you’re good Americans” and “fuck you guys, go home.”
[Bill Cassidy looking down at corpse of chicken he has fucked to death]: That chicken should not have been fucked that hard
Angus: I’m saying we need to start building progressive media that people actually listen to. I’ll give you an example: MeidasTouch. Wherever I go in Canada, working-class people listen to MeidasTouch because they talk about what’s happening in a practical way. They give facts.
Bunch of folks pointed to Paul Krugman’s depressingly plausible answer, which is that in the case of extraordinary disruptions, markets are biased toward pretending things are normal until it’s undeniable, then tanking. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-arent-...
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
"It’s often said that a prosecutor can get a grand jury to ‘indict a ham sandwich’—but not, it seems, Sandwich Man." @monacharen.bsky.social appreciates the signs of defiance to Trump out there:
Agree with this. Make them fight for every inch. Worth reading this thread.
Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years: 1. Make them fire you 2. Don’t go along to get along 3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role 4. Always escalate the conflict
We are in very dark times. It’ll take an entire political/social movement, an overwhelming rebuke at the polls, and a new vision of governance to unstick this country from whatever this collapse is.
doesn't really address the question
a man with zero gravitas
Never before in our history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next. This is what dictatorship looks like.
🚨🚨🚨 This. More of this.
This is precisely what Donald J. Trump wanted and this is what we have: a cabinet thoroughly engorged with men and women of the" necessary insignificance and pliancy to render them the obsequious instruments of his pleasure." open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
makes sense ............
OLLINS: But the Pentagon reviewed this wind project in 2023 & found that there were negligible national security impacts BURGUM: In particular there's concern about radar relative to undersea drones...people with bad ulterior motives to the US would launch a swarm drone attack through wind farms
I really need to know if the sandwich was a ham sandwich
Pritzker: Over the last four years, we have seen homicides drop in half. That’s something the President should pay attention to. I know he doesn’t read but I know he watches TV so perhaps if someone from Fox or Newsmax is here
A quick post from me on Crooked's substack @crooked.com on how the Republican appointees on the Supreme Court enabled Donald Trump's attack on the independence of the Federal Reserve Board. crookedmedia.substack.com/p/the-suprem...
"But of course, the business of THIS president is not fundamentally like that of his predecessors. The business of THIS president is subverting our free government. And yesterday was another day at the office for carrying out THAT business." www.thebulwark.com/p/dictator-f...
Stuart Stevens on National Guard deployment: "The murder rate of Jackson, Mississippi is 3 times that of D.C.... the whole thing is complete fraud"
Gov. Pritzker is one of 23 Dem governors who must defy this despot deploying the military: “This is exactly the type of overreach our country's founders warned against, and it's the reason that they established a federal system with a separation of powers….” www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-y...
SCOTUS thought they could ride the tiger and get what they wanted ideologically. In exchange, they would give him everything he wanted except the Fed. Just leave the Fed alone and you can ignore all federal law. But it ended the same way it has for everyone who tried to ride the tiger since 2016.
🚨 MAJOR BREAKING Democrat Catelin Drey FLIPS Iowa SD-1 — a district Trump won by 11.5 points in 2024 — defeating Republican Christopher Prosch in a landslide special election and breaking the GOP supermajority.
This absolutely. The crash of 2008 broke the system and fascism and many other dark forces flooded through the cracks.
“Part of the point was a theatrical display of law-enforcement power deployed against a critic of the administration…That was part of the point too—that the administration will offer only the thinnest of denials that it is gunning for its political enemies.” www.thebulwark.com/p/john-bolto...
Love the Mets baby let’s go Mets
Rep. Veronica Escobar: "We need more people marching in the streets."
alrighty then ...
Moore: The president seems to obsessed with me. Today he called me a beauty. And when I first met him, he just talked about how I was a good looking guy.
Taylor Swift's ring is nice and all, and congrats on the engagement, but damn, I want her watch.
“If you hurt my people,” Gov JB Pritzker said, “nothing will stop me, not time or political circumstance, from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.” www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-y...
THE UNITARY EXECUTIVE
Who is more effective? Pritzker or Newsom? One is SUBSTANTIVE. One focuses on what fucking matters. One is focusing on artifice in part because he, too, is happy to sell out his own constituents for votes. WORDS AND ACTIONS ONLY
American hero
Happy National Dog Day! 🐾 #voteblue
note how Trump on a daily basis is trying to normalize the idea that he's a dictator
“I have the right to do anything I want to do—I’m the president of the United States,” says the lawless and unfettered Trump musing about being a dictator. This is what John Roberts, the Supreme Court’s supermajority and over 77 million Americans have done to our beloved country.
"seems to"
dear everyone MOCKING PEOPLE'S APPEARANCE ISN'T HOW YOU BUILD A MORE JUST WORLD MOCKING ABILITY OR HEALTH MOST *CERTAINTLY* ISN'T how many times must we cover this yes this includes "chosen" things like self-tanner FFS it doesn't matter people's SPEECH & ACTIONS are what matter GO AFTER THAT
What can we do? Where is the pushback? Well, ICYMI, here is what it looks like. So I thought I would do something I rarely (if ever) do… share the whole damn thing. No snark. No spin. Just the whole speech. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
let’s be real—Taylor Swift did this to distract us from the Lisa Cook story
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
“This is about the President of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.” – Gov. J.B. Pritzker
I know you, Chicago — and I know you’re up to the difficult time we have ahead, thanks to this President.
Too bad that our legal and institutional safeguards only work to prevent good policies. It would be cool if they also stopped the evil stuff
woo hoo !