Remember when the Very Serious Professor argument against expanding the Supreme Court was that it would end up too big and that would erode the court’s majesty? www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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Remember when the Very Serious Professor argument against expanding the Supreme Court was that it would end up too big and that would erode the court’s majesty? www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Like Nebuchadnezzar in the Book of Daniel, they're increasingly starting to see the handwriting on the wall... even Mike Johnson has been quoted as foretelling that "IF" his party loses Congress next year, Trump's administration will effectively be done. NO MORE Project 2025.
Don't get your hopes up yet, but the MAGA right might indeed be starting to feel some Trump fatigue. ICYMI @willsommer.bsky.social:
Specifically, the stop work result for RI and CT ratepayers would be “tens of millions in higher electricity costs … each year.” All those assertions are sworn in court under oath, not Trumpster nonsense unsworn in the press. (They’re free to come to federal court in RI.)
I guess America first means declaring war on America while kissing Putin’s ass.
We KNOW Trump's DOJ is totally corrupt.
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www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
bit.ly/4fRIqtA
Her attorney wants out and she didn't show up as ordered in court. So now Tucson wants a federal judge to throw out Wadsack's case against the city and make her pay its legal fees. tucson.com/news/local/s...
contrarian.substack.com/p/immigrants... super impressive
Yes, I too find it more peaceful here and not at all filled with constant outrage
Don't worry, if you're struggling to make ends meet, Donald Trump suggests you just wait it out for a couple of years.
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects last year. (Published July 2024)
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He won't get away with it if we cause a ruckus about it.
He's right, IMO.
Now would be a good time to contribute to ProPublica.org
Trump is exploring ways to provoke hate.
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer; Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy; and Lee Zeldin, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator EACH have multiple primary residence mortgages. Why isn't Trump targeting these three? www.propublica.org/article/trum...
It seems Pete has been studying the House Minority Leader.
History will not look favorably upon the fascist’s enablers. Shame on you @cbsnews.com. What a cowardly thing to do. You just forgot all about that First Amendment, huh?
Zohran Mamdani’s allies have a message for top New York Democrats as Trump works to block his path to City Hall: Get off the sidelines. Now. Pressure is mounting on Gov. Kathy Hochul, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to publicly endorse the 33-year-old candidate’s mayoral run.
This looks a textbook ethical violation by Pirro to me.
@elviadiaz.bsky.social www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... Vaya con Dios Elvia. ✊🌻
FUN FACT: For those keeping score, in President Biden’s last full month, the U.S. economy added 323,000 jobs. ⬆️
The fiction that all of this was only ever about the narrow procedural question of illegal immigration is more and more openly false.
Fucking "pro-life," my ass.
Release the Epstein Files. #JusticeForTrumpsVictims #EpsteinFiles #EPSTEINS4EVER #Pedophile47 #Escort #TrumpIsADictator #TrumpIsCorrupt
www.thegodpodcast.com/p/bless-ever...
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Yes, irony is involved, but the scope of trump's fraud was much bigger.
You might have those sq ft figures backward.
Inviting an evil, racist, misogynist to speak to the cabinet is not a good look. I don’t care what playbook he knows. Don’t normalize this. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Grand juries are not engaged in nullification, they are declining to return indictments because they are doing their jobs and overzealous Trump-aligned prosecutors are not. www.thebulwark.com/p/grand-juri...
There are definite limitations at this moment to AI, which is being used a lot for spam phone solicitations. I've gotten one every day lately. THE KEY is that it's NOT difficult to identify the AI as NOT human. I answer the calls. I then tell them I know they are bots or AI. Usually they hang up.
Trump Is Turning America Into A Cruel, Dark Place
RFK Jr. is testifying today. The real warning came this morning from the CDC Director he just fired after 29 days. Dr. Susan Monarez refused to rubber-stamp his anti-vax agenda. She held the line for science. He fired her. I've worked with her, and America should listen.
www.borowitzreport.com/p/trump-reva...
Haven't voters in special elections this year made that clear already?
Democrats should make a criminal referral to DOJ over Kennedy’s outrageous lying to the committee.
I don’t give a damn how frustrated Republican Senators NOW are with RFK Jr. Those Republican Senators put that whack job in charge of our nation’s public health. They gotta live with that. Today’s show, 11am ET/8am PST, here.👇 m.youtube.com/@socialcontr...
Voters have seemingly figured it out anyway, according to special election results lately.
This new article by @lawrencehurley.bsky.social is tremendously important. Features interviews with 12 lower-court federal judges, circuit and district, D- and R- appointed, speaking anonymously.
“It is inexcusable,” a judge said of the Supreme Court justices. “They don’t have our backs.” 🎯
Outdated laws from the 1700s and 1800s give the president tremendous power to use the military at home. It’s past time for Congress to repeal the Alien Enemies Act, close loopholes in the Posse Comitatus Act, and reform the Insurrection Act. bit.ly/4oxXJLN
I wish somebody would ask him to specifically list the "seven" or however many wars he claims to have ended and then hand him a map and ask him to show us on it where the wars were.
Only 4 Republicans have signed the Epstein files discharge petition: Thomas Massie Lauren Boebert Nancy Mace Marjorie Taylor Greene Why don’t other Republicans want the files released?
WTF is Donold so skeered is in those documents that he'd make that threat???????
To the brave women who spoke today about the horrors of Epstein/Maxwell, I say this: For any legal concerns about speaking the names of people who sexually abused you and others, have no fear of legal expenses; I'm sure plenty of angry Americans will help fund you. Count me in. Get it done.
Confronted Rep. Randy Fine about why he doesn’t support fully releasing the Epstein files. Also spoke to several Epstein survivors and Rep. Thomas Massie — who said his Republican colleagues (like Fine) are trying to pull the wool over the public's eyes by passing a bill that actually does nothing:
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
youtu.be/M05D8PZFVDI?...
😡 JD Vance has a lot of nerve visiting the Minneapolis church where those kids were killed last week. If we didn't have Republicans, we wouldn't have mass shootings. This is on him & all the 2A wild west fans who think this is the price for their "freedom." Dead kids so they can have big man toys.
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Trump's Epstein Cover-up Is Failing open.substack.com/pub/charlies... What is Donold so freakin' freaked out about being discovered in the Epstein documents? 😱
The human fascination with watching others—whether through reality TV, Instagram stories or overheard drama—is often dismissed as nosiness. But new research suggests this impulse may be a social survival tool dating back millions of years. www.scientificamerican.com/article/chim...
My whole political stance pretty much boils down to "I care about other people and the planet," and wow, does that make some people mad.
Reporter: What is your message to President Trump? Epstein Survivor: Listen, I don't want to send a direct message to him. I'm already scared enough. Just pass the vote. Listen to us. This is not a hoax. It’s not going to go away
Bullshit! www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
Projecting?
Can you share this? This is one hell of an ad from a Democrat running for US Senate against Susan Collins. We need to take back the Senate and have a real majority. Don’t forget Maine has ranked voting. We need great Democrats running. Don’t let her forget about Kavanaugh or Roe.
Photograph one: 9.20 AM Waterfront metro station, Washington DC
Photograph two: 2.52 pm Same place Your taxes are paying for the National Guard to spend the day doing nothing in particular
Trump’s decision to move Space Command out of Colorado is a waste of taxpayer dollars & weakens America’s national security. Full statement:
Translation: The Town Halls in which Ernst angered constituents told her she can't win.
electionlawblog.org?p=151633
Alabama allows mail-in voting, too. 🤔
Republicans have handed Democrats a politically powerful agenda on the issue of health care: Undo the Medicaid cuts. Keep the health insurance tax credits. Provide vaccines. Trump is now on the unpopular side of these arguments.
US District Judge Jia M. Cobb wrote that the administration’s policy in January to expand a process known as “expedited removal” — which had previously been used to deport migrants detained at or near the border — doesn’t provide adequate due process rights to those detained inside the country.
Is WH press is doing a good job asking Trump about his health at his press conference as Trump claims Chicago violence is worse than any other place on earth, DEI police hires not strong enough to lift a gun out of a holster, Baltimore needs crime prevention but not more housing etc?
Epstein Survivors Press Conference Sept 3rd, 10:30 a.m. ET Tune in to support them.
youtu.be/mMxj77REOW0?...
Trump sends the National Guard to blue cities while ignoring rising crime elsewhere. VoteVets’ Max Rose: “If Trump cared about safety, he’d have a national strategy — not stunts.” All politics. Zero leadership.
In a win for voters, a Utah judge struck down the state’s GOP-drawn 2021 congressional map, ruling it unconstitutional for diluting the voting power of non-Republican voters. The map must now be redrawn in order to facilitate fairer elections in 2026.
Make no mistake that Trump and this Republican Congress are the most anti-worker in history. Not just anti-Labor. WORKER. Wage earner. Average American who isn't sitting on half a dozen properties and a massive stock portfolio. They hate us for earning a paycheck and not living off of capital gains.
Democratic Centrists who believe the republican propaganda spouted by the media and who feel shame about being labeled woke, who have refused to criticize Trump’s invasion, need to be removed from the party. @davidhogg.bsky.social @radiofreetom.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @chrislhayes.bsky.social
Federal judge: Trump's National Guard deployment to LA violated the Posse Comitatus Act. It's "an extraordinarily important ruling," says @lizagoitein.bsky.social.
And who’s facilitating these bets that Trump’s whole tariff strategy will collapse? Cantor Fitzgerald, an investment bank run by the sons of Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary.
“If this were a benign repatriation to send children back to their parents, it wouldn’t be happening at midnight on Sunday of Labor Day weekend.”
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Smart men don't tell you how smart they are. Rich men don't tell you how rich they are. Tough men don't tell you how tough they are. Honest men don't tell you how honest they are. Con men do.
Good morning
My latest: “Emergency-Gate: Focusing on Challenging the Premise of Trump’s Power.” open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Today marks the day we undertake the work that must be done. #DefendDemocracy #DemocracyMatters #DemocracyStrong @lwvus.bsky.social @lwvva.bsky.social
*8/31/2025 noncooperation thread* Sidebar I don't think we'll ever rly know the impact of our choices to refuse compliance; the smallest choice can knock over a domino. All each of can do is the next right thing within our power. Some of it won't do a damn thing. All together, it's how we win. 8/
Berkeley Breathed is out with some new Bloom County strips based on the situation with ICE. 🧵
An upcoming news conference with victims of Jeffrey Epstein could be “explosive,” one of the congressmen pushing for full release of the files on Epstein predicts. Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said the victims’ accounts will force lawmakers to vote on a bill requiring DOJ to release its files.
Nobody actually saw Trump golfing today.
California stepping up.
Absent a major scandal, he won't go of his own volition.
I think this is going to be a huge story.