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We’re back in session after Speaker Johnson let us out early at the end of July, feeling the pressure from our subpoenas for the Epstein files. Today, @oversightdemocrats.house.gov sat down with survivors who endured horrific abuse. What we heard was beyond disturbing. (1/2)
I know this sounds crazy, but shouldn’t the Secretary of Energy know something about energy?
If it’s under Title 32 authority, the Texas guard remains under state control. That would mean that one state is deploying armed forces into the territory of a non-consenting state. And that’d clearly be a violation of the principle that states are co-equal, territorially limited sovereigns.
This is the most important news of the day. Sending Texas guardsmen to Illinois is an intentional, unprecedented provocation. It should be immediately challenged in court. Follow @democracydocket.com for breaking news and updates on this developing story. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Nory Sontay Ramos was a thriving high school student in L.A. until she and her mom were deported by the Trump administration in July. For @msnbc.com, we visited her in Guatemala as she tries to graduate remotely while hiding from the same gang they fled years ago. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/n...
Officers who shatter car windows aren’t being disciplined — they’re being promoted. One officer who smashed a window in front of a local TV reporter now has a senior ICE position overseeing operations on the East Coast.
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
White House reporters have all seen Trumps bruised hands. It’s an active choice not to make an issue of it while these same people spent years freaking out about Biden.
Minnesota is grieving - and we are determined to turn our grief into action to protect our children.
Gavin Newsom mocking Karoline Leavitt as Effie Trinket from the Hunger Games 👏🏼🤣🏆
Okay, he's not dead Back to the topic at hand: where are the Epstein files?
And I share it!
CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while worker pay is up just 24%. Millions live paycheck to paycheck as they struggle to afford basic goods. Is it any wonder why 70% of people said they believe the American dream no longer holds true or never did? www.wsj.com/economy/wsj-...
I’m sorry this guy sucks
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." ~ Oscar Wilde #QuoteOfTheDay
Another protest in Washington, D.C.!!! Women dressed in red lined the street for almost a block!! What a strong statement by women who took time off to protest on a Tuesday!! Thank you so much!! 💗
Trump begins Festivus now and attacks Newsom and Prtizker. Talks about crime in blue cities but no mention of murder rates in Louisiana and Tennessee etc. Calls Chicago and Baltimore a "hell hole." Says there are "bullet fires" in LA. What is that? Who knows.
Is Trump correct that museums, universities, and the media have a left-wing “woke” bias? Of course not. It’s the question Trump would like everyone to be asking, but it obscures the more important question. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/who-decides-what-we-know-and-learn
"Our democracy is only as strong as the people willing to defend it. State and local officials are on the frontlines of this work, and they must stay firm in the tough battles ahead — for the systems they manage and the voters they serve. The stakes couldn’t be higher." -- Pamela Smith
ProPublica is hosting a virtual conversation on the changing role of the federal government in counterextremism efforts. 🗓️ Join the virtual discussion on Thursday, Sept. 4, at 4 p.m. ET and submit a question:
🚨BREAKING: Federal court STRIKES DOWN down new South Dakota law imposing a nine-month deadline to file ballot measures declaring it unconstitutional under the First Amendment. Congrats to Dakotans for Health and their legal team! www.democracydocket.com/cases/south-...
Republican governors have sent National Guard troops to Democratic-led Washington, D.C., even though cities in their states all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
This is my 95-year-old neighbor. He's been living alone since his wife passed away from cancer, and not long ago, he also lost his loyal companion dog. Now, every day, our chicken Hei Hei escapes the yard just to visit him. She sits with him, accepts treats, and lets him pet her like an old
Thank you for sharing this lovely story. Does your neighbor have a cat that’s watching from behind the storm door?
Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer: -Australia by 2028 -Sweden by 2027 -Rwanda by 2030 -UK by 2040 -Indonesia by 2030 -Bhutan 2030 -El Salvador by 2030 -Canada by 2040 How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban. You will note USA is not on this list.
📢 Calling on all resisters. DO NOT spend a dime in Ron DeSantis' MAGA Florida. Instead, come from away to beautiful Newfoundland & Labrador - where the only thing put in cages is lobsters.🦞 Keep the boycott strong! 💪 youtu.be/S0shgfCdNos?...
Joe Gallina This video of Trump saying he's surprised Biden put in Powell as Fed Chair while a video of Trump nominating Powell HIMSELFplays below is going viral Share this video of Trump's mental decline because the media won't.They're too busy giving wall-to-wall coverage for some autopen bullshit
BREAKING: Judge Charles Breyer finds that the Trump administration violated the Posse Comitatus Act by using the military for domestic law enforcement purpose in Los Angeles. He enjoins further violations of the Posse Comitatus Act ⬇️ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .
Already bad when people in your country try to get you rounded up and kicked out. A foreigner doing it, and stoking the sentiment, including with bigoted lies at scale, because his wealth and media control enables it, is insane. It’s already caused considerable harm, and appears to be getting worse.
this is the guy that the modern right wing considers one of their finest intellectuals
More framing like this, please www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
WWII ended 80 years ago today, as Japan surrendered on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
“Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
Holy smokes This is the crowd at the Bernie Sanders/Graham Platner Fighting Oligarchy event in Portland, ME tonight Platner is the oyster farmer challenging Susan Collins; Senate seat👇 Overwhelming turnout! I feel like maybe Susan's number is finally up ..
If you can get there, please do. tfg *Despises* these marches, rallies & demonstrations. It’s an easy way to troll him.
Some new street art spotted in DC 🤣
Every person, without exception, who claims they voted for King asshole “because of the economy” is lying. All of them. Not a single person voted for that criminal asswipe because of the economy. They voted for him because they wanted team white man to win and be in charge. That’s it.
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians. By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social (Published Oct. 2024)
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Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is now less valuable than a few Chuck E. Cheese tokens.
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 ✊🔥
Post of the week. Couldn't say it simpler or better.
Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale co-founded the University of Austin Texas (UATX) in 2021. UATX’s recent “Convocation Address” was titled, “In Defense of Inequality.” “To the class of 2029: you have chosen to rebel. Not against hierarchy, but against its abandonment.” 1/ x.com/uaustinorg/s...
This boycott guide is being updated on the regular, save the link and refer to it often. Hit 'em where it hurts! Thanks to Pete @psychopete.bsky.social for his dedication and hard work! ✨
Timely as hell.
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Nate Silver criticizing Bluesky as inherently flawed because a large group of people who reject our current sucktopia must interact with the sucktopians or else they are not getting the full sucktopian experience.
Not an inconsequential amount of local hospitals. Please elect all blue in 2026 💙
This is cool
Bluesky has been critical to Democracy Docket's growth and reach. Nate Silver is an idiot.
I was hoping @markhamillofficial.bsky.social was going to repost the boycott guide because we could use help in spreading it. We are hurting the oligarchs by withholding our money. This is a real way to fight them. See the boycott guide pinned to my feed
NEW: Counsel for the migrant children say that, as they understand it, all putative class members have now “been deplaned and returned to ORR custody.” As for the delay, they add that they inadvertently overlooked the part of the court’s order requiring them to file a report.
Stop murdering journalists
I think he’s always been a creep.
Washington DC: The crowd continues to grow as streets in the area of Half Street & L Street SE have been closed by police.
Feminists have been screaming this for literally decades but they are coming after birth control and they will use any bullshit excuse to do it. It's the last defense for women to prevent unwanted pregnancy and if they want us back in the kitchen barefoot they gotta take out bc.
J.B. Pritzker is 100% right. Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
TODAY: This Labor Day, we stand together for a country that puts working families before billionaires. Find an event near you: bit.ly/3Vm59ED
substack.com/@petercoyote... great read. Wake up America !
Today in Mason, Ohio we marched for #WorkersOverBillionaires
Small town North Carolina #workersoverbillionaires #laborday #indivisible #camelcityindivisible #resist
Back when Donald was a failure in real estate, he was famous for not paying his contractors. He would come up with fictional fault in their work as an excuse not to pay them. Now, this unscrupulous cretin is short-changing the National Guard. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
Fyi. Added Netflix to this list of companies to support. They aren’t perfect but supporting them is good strategy. Boycott guide still pinned to my feed. Updating daily.
RADDATZ: You talk about what can be done. After shootings in Buffalo & Uvalde, Congress passed a bipartisan Safer Communities Act. It provided hundreds of millions for schools to expand mental health services. You didn't vote for it. Why? TOM EMMER: I don't remember the reasons I didn't vote for it
Beef prices have hit record highs this Labor Day Weekend — in part thanks to Trump's tariffs. Remember when Trump said he would bring down the cost of groceries? https://youtu.be/9EXi6xyOXSk?feature=shared
Literally.
This is how they beat up on a minority they already despise to distract from guns being the #1 killer of US children. Pls read, comment, subscribe... johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/straight-w...
Let’s go!
What better way to celebrate Labor Day than by fighting against billionaires in defense of our democracy and in advancement of our rights? Find a protest near you at MayDayStrong.org.
#LaborDay2025
It’s a tough Labor Day with Trump’s assault on public workers and labor rights but the union movement is tough and America overwhelmingly supports the right to organize and bargain.
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says Elon Musk is “one of the only people in the world” who could build Houston’s much-needed tunnel system for flood water mitigation. But Musk's Boring Company has never completed a major public project in Texas.
If they enact a new illegal congressional map, Missouri will be sued.
With that, I'm signing off for a bit to try and enjoy what's left of Labor Day. If you're just catching up, here's my live coverage of yesterday's hearing: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/emer...
Better than autopen. Where is the real pedophile? This is not him.
Rs, before the Trump cult took hold, frequently railed (rightly so) against communist and fascist regimes that nationalized industry, indulged in crony capitalism, and substituted propaganda for free speech. (The five-year plan is working!) How times have changed. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Actions Speak Louder than Words !
We did this to ourselves www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
RIP: Charles Bierbauer, longtime CNN correspondent and journalism dean, dies at age 83. Every journalist should hope to be remembered for “asking impertinent questions.”
If I was granted one wish, it would be for the world to wake up and stop singling out the already marginalized people. Stand with the marginalized people, make the world understand that what they do, is not your business! Just because you don't understand doesn't make it wrong, it makes you ignorant
This is exactly how I felt on November 4, 2024 and every day since.
RIght on the mark, let's have more of this.
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Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
He can pretend to be dead all he wants. I still want the Epstein files released.
This morning 9 former CDC Directors, whose tenures date back to 1977, published this warning in the NYT: RFK Jr is a danger to public health. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...