This is the most incompetent, unprofessional, embarrassing thing I have ever seen from an administration official in my entire life— worse, dare I say it, than Hegseth’s signal chat fiasco. Posting a notes apology on the official DOJ account? Are you joking?
Smart to run against Trump, although Cuomo is bad enough that he shouldn't stand a chance anyway. Defining him as "Trump's candidate" will not improve his popularity.
Part of me is annoyed at myself for letting this Israeli racist colonel get under my skin. Part of me thinks we should in fact normalize telling genocidal war criminals to "fuck off" on television. Full 'debate': www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A0c...
HAHAHA: Gavin Newsom’s press office just posted this VERY REAL picture of Trump after he posted a distorted image of Rosie O’Donnell. Donald should take his own presidential fitness test!
Pritzker: It appears they are amassing ICE officers… It’s been reported that about 300 officers are planning to come in and do what they did in LA — terrorize neighborhoods and cause mayhem. Their plan is to create enough chaos on the ground that troops will have to be called in
The press grilled Biden over bike rides and coughs, but when it comes to Trump’s health, they toss him garbage questions like Peter Doocy’s: “How did you find out you were dead?” That’s not journalism, that’s the most ridiculous, toothless version of a question, served up that way on purpose.
Last night, yet another person died on Rikers Island — the fifth New Yorker to lose their life in City custody within the last two weeks and the 13th this year. These deaths are a result of Eric Adams' failure to reckon with the crisis of violence and neglect in our jails.
Congrats to @aoc.bsky.social's team on getting this passed! #energysky #greensky 🔌💡 ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/press-...
"On Sunday, the govt tried to kidnap hundreds of Guatemalan kids and sneak them out of the country. This gross abuse was only halted by the quick action of Judge Sooknanan. It was a remarkable display of judicial tenacity and a testament to how the DOJ has shredded its credibility with the courts."
Trump doubled down on his threats to revoke Rosie O’Donnell’s citizenship. O'Donnell and Trump have feuded since at least 2006, when O'Donnell criticized Trump on a daytime talk show. O'Donnell has lived in Ireland since early 2025. www.rawstory.com/trump-267395...
What a pathetic human being Trump is. What an unconstitutional piece of crap President he is. Yet another distraction from Epstein by threatening Rosie O’Donnell Yes this is real, unfortunately.
It’s almost as if the 25th Amendment doesn’t exist…
Everyone involved should be sent to the Hague.
Everyone is rushing to defend Graham Linehan as some martyr to free speech but don't actually state what he tweeted. He explicitly called for people to violently assault trans women in the bathroom. In another instance, he cyberstalked a trans minor. He's legitimately a danger to trans people.
WATCH: “I think it’s outrageous,” Zohran Mamdani says on new reporting that Trump is considering offering a job to Eric Adams to clear the NYC mayoral field for Andrew Cuomo. “This is an afront to our city’s democracy.”
With Bari Weiss/Free Press news, all I can think about is this recent article.
Best part of the Harvard ruling from today is when the judge repeatedly quotes Trump boasting over and over again that what he’s doing is exactly retaliation
The definition of “American” that Schmitt uses excludes Black Americans as well as immigrants from Latin America, Asia and anywhere besides Europe. That means that, per his definition, nearly half of all US residents aren’t “Americans,” including an average of about 4 in 10 residents of each state.
The government promised student loan relief but denied 460,000 borrowers overnight, leaving many from marginalized and first-gen backgrounds deeper in debt, stuck in forbearance, and unsure if help will ever come. Critics warn of rising inequality. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
Gaslighting 101.
Remarkable: Trump's losses in court are suddenly piling up in a big way. *court just invalidated his nixing of Harvard funds *use of Alien Enemies Act blocked *tariffs ruled illegal What's really becoming clear is that his entire agenda rests on extraordinary abuses of power.
1) Someone should tell dumdum and his fanboys about the Panic and Depression of 1873-1877, and the Depression of 1893-1897. 2) Tariffs were immensely unpopular and a political disaster for the Republicans in the 1890s. 3) Donald's head is filled with rocks and garbage.
Anyone arguing the occupation of DC and potentially other cities is popular and a smart strategic call by Trump are operating outside the data available to us. Like every other major initiative of his these last few months it is now consistently under water.
wtf?! This guy is nuts. And dangerous.
They’re going to fight the wind so they can boil the ocean. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/c...
Good.
Yes, this was always going to be the way. A “Northeast Health Alliance” should follow. Sadly this also hastens, at least lurches toward, an end to these “United” States. But, culturally & politically we’ve been moving towards that end anyway.
This new West Coast Health Alliance will give unified recommendations to residents of California, Oregon and Washington State on vaccines and other public health matters. This is very similar to what public health experts told me is the way forward. More ideas here: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Big news: California, Oregon and Washington State just announced a joint "West Coast Health Alliance" to counter Trump/RFK destruction of our public health system. As I argued last week (see below), this is becoming a new frontier in Dem Gov resistance to Trump.
Meanwhile, in MAGA-stan:
A Florida court detained a US Citizen for being an "illegal immigrant." He showed the court proof of citizenship. The court agreed—& held him anyway. I criticized the ruling online & a Florida judge responded by trying to strip me of my law license. I fought back www.qasimrashid.com/p/a-florida-...
Stephen A. Smith is a bloviating moron who doesn’t know anything about anything. That’s exactly why he should run for president.
🚨 James Yokeley, a Republican election official in North Carolina, is accused of spiking his step-granddaughter and her friend’s Dairy Queen Blizzards with MDMA and cocaine. Police say surveillance video allegedly caught him in the act. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
No country on Earth has to match us militarily nor do they want to. Our military is a stone around our necks financially that in no way returns the investment. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Fox News had to pay 3/4 of a BILLION dollars for lying to its viewers. And it STILL lies.
The month of August 2025 may go down as the worst in the history of the US Health and Human Services Department. After a month of shocking removals, resignations, and a shooting at the CDC, Democrats are demanding that RFK Jr. pack his bags.
Years ago, a woman (unscientific, obviously) accused me—without a shred of evidence—of betraying our mutual friends in bizarre ways. It didn’t add up; it wasn't even clear that it was a single person. Then I realized, bc she was capable of those things, she had no trouble imagining others were.
The same pattern appears with RFK Jr.—he believes everyone is a paid shill because money motivates him. Naturally, he can only see others as driven by money.
More than 80 experts have denounced it as a "mockery" and a "travesty."
"It didn't make sense to put Space Force headquarters in any state other than Colorado when the only priority should be quick and effective communication in a nuclear crisis and there was already an infrastructure."
*pointing upward and nodding sagely on Tiktok*
40% of Republicans think the COVID vaccine killed more people than the COVID virus. One in four believe that QAnon is real. No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.
This is beyond disheartening. We have no shared reality in this country.
I feel like in the 1980’s/90’s this would be a major plot point in a Tom Clancy novel, and the operation would be carried out as an off-book, illegal black op, with various characters trying to cover it up lest they face congressional hearings. Now the President just announces it.
I’d like to believe Rudy’s story about the car crash, but I remember Shop Rite 2022.
Thanks to @andrewdessler.com for leading our group of 85 scientists to denounce the Trump administration's climate report which is packed full of misinformation. @michaelemann.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/c...
I’m old enough to remember when we had 47,000 congressional hearings over Hunter Biden allegedly making money off his father’s name. Meanwhile, Trump’s corruption, in the billions, gets openly celebrated.
11/ What can you do? Go call your member of Congress. Ask them to get briefed. Ask for oversight. And on a personal level? Apple's Lockdown Mode & Android Advanced Protection both offer some serious security benefits but neither is a silver bullet..
10/ After 14 years of working on this topic, I tell you this with confidence: Highly invasive mercenary spyware is a power abuse machine. It's incompatible with Americans constitutional rights and freedoms. And our legal system and civil society is not prepared for the next chapter.
7/ Cases kept coming & after initial denials.. Italy had a major national scandal about surveillance overreach & spyware abuses. Ultimately the dust & a parliamentary intelligence oversight committee investigation led #Paragon & Italy parting ways... www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
6/ Almost immediately after the WhatsApp notifications, we started learning about the targets. They weren't the supposed serious criminals... They were Journalists... human rights defenders...groups working on sea rescue of migrants.. etc By@skirchy.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
5/ Then in early 2025 #Paragon's rosy image met reality. #WhatsApp caught the company hacking people across their networks & notified targets. We worked with several & did a forensic analysis of their devices. Cases started coming out fast... By @raphae.li www.reuters.com/technology/c...
4/ Not everything was rosy though. The White House had been on a major push to rein in spyware proliferation and somehow the ICE contract seemed to have slipped under their radar. So the contract got suspended, pending a review with the 2023 Spyware executive order.. www.wired.com/story/ice-pa...
2/ Paragon framed themselves as the abuse-free anti-NSO. Then they had a very NSO-like spyware abuse scandal. We @citizenlab.ca caught their spyware on the phones of...journalists & human rights activists. Our investigations: citizenlab.ca/2025/03/a-fi... citizenlab.ca/2025/06/firs...
NEW: Mercenary spyware is coming to the US. ICE just quietly unsuspended their contract with spyware maker #Paragon. Remember them? Caught earlier this year being used to hack Italian journalists. This is bad, let's talk about how we got here 1/ jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
Serious question. WTF is wrong with Trump?
Tell us how you really feel, Donnie 🙄
There is only one reason Space Command is being moved from Colorado to Alabama: Donald Trump is a petty tyrant who doesn't care about Americans who didn't vote for him.
Because the people with firearms will more often be Trump supporters. Every decision they make is political.
As of Monday, Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP lawmakers have officially made it even harder in Texas to prevent school shootings, suicides, and murders by domestic abusers.
In Trump’s pay-to-play justice system, you can get away with defrauding nursing homes, skirting your taxes, and committing securities fraud. So much for “law and order.” https://youtu.be/NflcWXdV-B0?feature=shared
MAGA will never understand.
Deploying the military against Americans.
October 18, 2025. Mark your calendar: No Kings 2.
The Trump regime will do everything in its power, both legal and illegal, to reduce voter turn out in order to maintain and grow the MAGA Nazi death cult’s grip on power. They want voters either too afraid, busy, or misinformed to vote in any election.
Nongovernmental groups like the League of Women Voters are now barred from registering new voters at naturalization ceremonies, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced. n.pr/4g7YKqg
Valued users! We understand that over the past 250-odd years, you have come to rely on the services provided by the U.S. of A.: postal delivery, representative government, edible food, clean water, lifesaving vaccines, and no kings—ever, guaranteed. Well, 250 years of free is enough.
“Weather forecasting has gotten bizarrely politicized because underneath the weather is the climate. Meteorologists I have talked to now feel that they could be attacked if they mention climate change and its connection to major weather.”
One of the most respected Indigenous actors of his generation, Greene appeared in more than 200 television shows and movies. He played a Lakota warrior in the 1990 blockbuster Dancing With Wolves.
Since returning to office, Trump has: -Stripped 1 million federal workers of collective bargaining rights -Reversed Biden's minimum wage hike for federal contractors -Gutted OSHA and frozen enforcement of a regulation protecting miners from lung disease "Pro-worker" president.
President Trump: Without the United States, everything in the world would die. It's true. It's so powerful. It's so big... We're the hottest. We're the best.
🚨Portugal, a founding NATO nation, just delivered a shock: its president says Donald Trump “functions as a Russian asset.” At a historic rupture, allies fear America’s leader is tilting the West’s security and NATO itself toward Moscow. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
Trump is going to announce he's going to do that Doctor Who thing where he gets a new body isn't he
Can Vance kill Trump with the same black magic he used on Pope Francis? We asked three MAHA moms at a Bob Evans in the north Cincinnati suburbs.
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Has anyone seen Putin? I hear there are things being thrown out of the White House windows.
Like AOC, Zohran Mamdani has betrayed his progressive principles to suck up to the shitlib wine moms who define themselves by their hatred of Donald Trump, who I do not support. by Glenn Greenwald
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has pledged to fight Donald Trump tooth and nail over the federalization of the New York City. But Leightyn Winkel-Carruthers, a Bushwick microdistiller who usually supports Democrats, says that such a confrontational approach leaves him deeply uneasy.
Republicans are practicing reverse Robin Hood. Raising taxes at people in lower income levels under $30,000 a year and cutting taxes for billionaires and the biggest corporations.
Perfect example of what @volts.wtf posted today in his thread. Obama tries to help people and gets criticized for making mistakes. RFKJr is actively destroying things that will increase deaths and escapes responsibility.
This is, I swear to Christ, the lead story at the Atlantic Monthly right now
JFC, Atlantic Monthly. Michelle Obama wanted kids to eat healthy and exercise. She wasn't bent on destroying our federal health agencies.
Michelle was so ineffective in her role as Secretary of HHS, that no one even remembers her having the job!
Michelle Obama: “Eat more veggies and exercise!” RFK Jr: **bans vaccines** Tom Bartlett: “These are the same thing.”
The assault on expertise is driven by an agenda to place uniformed, ill-conceived, often politically-motivated antiscience from charlatans on an equal footing with scientific consensus. Please read #ScienceUnderSiege by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & me: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/science-un...
Someone please kill me right now.
Labor Day | noun | a day set aside for special recognition of working people
I can't think of a more perfect way to sum up what is happening in all corners of life + politics in the late-stage capitalist oligarchy hellscape that is the United States: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." -Upton Sinclair
Labor Day protests tomorrow! @eastpdxindivisible.bsky.social event is before the big 50501 protest downtown, so it's possible to go to both if you're up for it!
"In short, if Trump and Kennedy are going to divide the country over public health, Democrats should polarize the living heck out of this debate as well—but on *their* terms." YES
This Labor Day, never forget: the sitting President said we have "too many non-working holidays." Happy Labor Day, workers.✊
Dem Governors should make clear they “cherish our public health system as a pillar of American greatness and see vaccines as a miraculous human achievement” — unlike their foes who indulge “in juvenile conspiracy theories disparaging ‘deep state’ medical professionals.” Good @gregsargent.bsky.social
The White House posts that the US has now taken in $8 Trillion in tariff revenue so far. Preposterous insane lies on an hourly basis.
NEW SUBSTACK: TRUMP CHECKED! For years Trump has wielded executive power like a hammer—bludgeoning democratic norms, ripping apart families, and trampling constitutional rights. But now, at last, the judiciary is rising to remind him: you cannot rule by decree when the Constitution stands above you
This is nothing else but a hybrid war that Russia wages against Europe Let's name things as they really are:Russia has made an assassination attempt of the President of the European Commission Russia has been jamming GPS-signals over many Eastern Europe countries that are in its immediate vicinity
Trump’s only focus right now is midterm voter suppression via illegal national voter ID mandate, redistricting in favor of more red house seats & removing ballot boxes and mail-in ballots. He’s terrified of being shellacked come 2026, and imprisoned come 2029.
It's one of the most famous rock songs ever — Bohemian Rhapsody — and now, for the first time, it's been translated with Queen's blessing into Zulu.
Graham Platner, an oyster farmer from Maine, announced a bid for the seat of incumbent GOP Sen. Susan Collins. His goal? To “claw back wealth that was created by the labor and the consumption of working class Americans who have not shared in the riches they helped build.”
Robyn 