It makes me happy that Silver has intimate knowledge about the tax law of gambling losses
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It makes me happy that Silver has intimate knowledge about the tax law of gambling losses
3 more #Florida people who used chalk to protest DOT's deletion of the Pulse crosswalk released from jail: “I would argue water-soluble chalk that washes away while you’re being arrested doesn’t amount to over $1,000 worth of damage." www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/09/01/t...
Seems a good day for Cory Booker to challenge Trump to beat his filibuster record
From this photo after he arrived at the golf club it looks like the camera angle capturing a bump above Trump's nose bsky.app/profile/patr...
My pure speculation - and who doesn’t love it? - is that Trump went AWOL for throat surgery and hasn’t recovered enough to speak without it being obvious
Bluesky could pump those numbers if we had more shitposting AI bots to drive engagement
While on vacation this summer we saw similar signs elsewhere. Places we've visited in the past were not as crowded, and the drop in vacationers appeared to weigh on hotels and restaurants
Kinda hard to believe Trump wouldn't at least post something about this meeting, 'tho
My watch sign for Trump's death is insiders suddenly dumping his shitcoin (and that's not happening right now)
Somebody alert the Florida DOT
When they got nothing they attack the powerless to puff up their manliness like all bullies do
Also known as ethnic cleansing
You may be surprised to learn that New York City is different than Virginia
I declare I now have editorial control over the NYT, even though I have no explicit authority. I expect the NYT to pay me the same deference as the states have given to Trump’s unconstitutional election executive orders
It’s long past time you all stopped using “Congress” when you mean “Republicans”. Not a single Democrat voted for this hot mess of an appointment. This endless grind to maintain a non-partisan tone, despite the partisanship of our fascist reality, is willfully blind, & a betrayal of your country.
The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*
Sorry to disappoint, but there's a photo of him off golfing today
Trump's neck is so swollen it has disappeared
If you've been grocery shopping recently you've probably already noticed produce prices are going up and quality is going down fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
If Jake Tapper starts saying Trump is old, take it as a sign
SCOOP: Donald Trump and DOJ ‘Special Attorney for Mortgage Fraud’ Ed Martin are speaking as often as four times per week as the GOP activist prepares to seek indictments against prominent Democrats www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
For someone supposedly tough on crime Trump is pretty wimpy at fighting it
Trump is damaging our national security by failing to live up to our commitments to those who risked their lives and their families' lives to help us in overseas conflicts. Why would anyone trust America's word again, even after Trump is gone?
Retirements are an early indicator that the national mood is running against a political party. Maybe the 20 point swings we're seeing in Iowa special elections have spooked Ernst (and Reynolds)
Better than if they were made from babies
You’ll love this — the demo from Toto’s Pocaro who wrote Human Nature for his daughter being bulied at school youtu.be/Rk7IBcYD_k4
ICE kidnapping a mother as her child begs the officers not to take her. Heartbreaking 💔 😢
Oh. abovethelaw.com/2025/08/inte...
You got it. There was a back and forth
I sang "Down in It" with Trent Reznor at a small club on the Sunset Strip. He knelt down from the stage and we sang into the microphone together
I know it's illegal on here to notice that our leaders are actually fighting back in the job we actually elected them to do, but here's the Wall Street Journal bitching about Schumer's "historic" delaying tactics that have left almost 90% of Trump appointee slots empty. archive.ph/2025.08.27-0...
Looks like more people -- and more enthusiastic people -- than for Trump's birthday parade
Good. I have questions and the American people deserve answers.
(The shooter was not a minor)
Fox could stop their racism any time they want. They choose not to
Folks. Congress is not in session. Democrats literally cannot file RFK Jr. impeachment articles right now. Complain about it next week when they're back in session if they don't do it
I expect Trump will grift the hell out of a Republican convention and punish anyone who supports the Democrats
I'll bet a Democrat files RFK Jr impeachment articles when the House returns to session (August 29). At that point it will be a matter of the caucus and leadership supporting it
The House is not in session right now (it is in pro-forma session)
fyi to the "Democrats must do something" crowd: The DNC is already considering holding a "mini-convention" before the 2026 midterm elections to (hopefully) push the party's message past the gatekeeper media www.axios.com/2025/08/27/d...
ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?
I’m not trivializing his seat or him. I’m pointing out Republicans targeting him isn’t simple politics
Every seat counts. However, Moskowitz has been a DeSantis ally, served in his administration, and voted with Republicans in Congress.
And courts
Florida is already heavily gerrymandered, like Texas. Maybe Republicans can eek out another seat (Moskowitz)
Very serious people: you’re welcome! Let me now tell you how Trump’s military occupation of cities is good politics
Disease will no longer be controlled in America
Trump deployed military to DC because Big Balls got kicked by a 15 year old girl But he will do nothing in response to kids being shot and killed at a religious school
I'm one of the 37 targeted below by DNI Tulsi Gabbard. I haven't had a clearance nor worked in government since 2013. This is political theater & a dangerous example of government abusing its powers to punish private citizens for openly exercising their 1st Amendment rights. My full statement:
The social security example is relevant since I suspect some of the law enforcement being taken off their duties to aimlessly walk DC streets investigate white collar fraud
Trump claimed there were "millions and millions of people over 100 years old" receiving social security. He has still not prosecuted a single person for this alleged crime. Who's really soft of crime? www.factcheck.org/2025/02/trum...
Pundits and media: Being tough on DC crime is a big winner for Trump! American people: Yeah, no www.reuters.com/world/us/jus...
Another troubling sign for Republicans stemming from last night's special election defeat in Iowa: AdImpact reports that the GOP outspent the Dems in advertising, yet they still lost a Trump+11 district by 10 points. x.com/adimpact_pol...
They're so incompetent they cannot indict a ham sandwich www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Tapper's face is like, lower taxes for rich people like me sounds good to me
AI will eventually turn humans into batteries
Rifles now come with a rake attachment
"ICE Gives No-Bid SUV Contract to Republican Donor with a History of Fraud" The $2.25M award for ICE recruitment vehicles seemed to go around normal contracting procedures. Read Jason Paladino's latest scoop for Zeteo:
To be clear, Trump's reassignment of law enforcement from investigations they are experts at to writing seat belt tickets is not being tough on crime -- it is allowing more crime to take place
Real heroes bear rakes
Be glad we can’t see the bruises on Trump’s ass from all the forceful ass kissing that happened in that cabinet meeting
Cracker Barrel will now have a 10% Trump steak in the company
Always seems a fail when you have to explain a joke
The Texas re-redistricting is a sandcastle that will be washed away in the coming Blue Wave
Sure hope the media will remember who allowed DOGE to access social security data. This all goes back to John Roberts and his MAGA #SCOTUS - and the media not mentioning that part is not telling us the whole story. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
I invite the coastal elite conservative influencers to go to the Deep South and call White people “crackers” to find out what happens next
JUST IN: A federal judge rules that a lawsuit against Elon Musk and his America PAC — alleging they broke a promise to pay voters for signing a political petition — may proceed. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
They’re not making the slightest pretense of doing anything but weaponizing a federal agency against Trump’s enemies, and the New York Times’ response is “Well played, sire!”
We all know that our media will say nothing, but this is the moment history will say the U.S. became a dictatorship
Witkoff was later heard pounding the top of his head on the underside of the table in front of Trump
Especially the 14 year old girls who Trump will send to an island with a freed Ghislaine Maxwell as their warden and where he'll conduct on-site inspections
What's particularly maddening about this is that law enforcement whose expertise is in a wide range of crimes are being taken off their tasks to give out seatbelt tickets. Trump's allowing more crime to take place so he can have showy walking the streets
Big Balls provided support to a cybercrime ring that deals in stolen data, Reuters reported. Not hard to connect the Big Ball dots www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
DOGE staff at Social Security have put the sensitive data of hundreds of millions is at "high risk," which could have “catastrophic impact,” according to internal SSA docs. This was not only foreseeable, but widely predicted. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
This *could* add a Democratic-leaning Salt Lake City district since it is split 4 ways in the current map in violation of the state constitution. But we have to see the remedial map Republicans will draw
The world would have been so much different if COVID had hit Republican areas first
So true
I guess. The current map divides Salt Lake City in about the most optimal Republican gerrymander possible. Hard to see how reducing the split will yield a firm 4-0 R-D map.
This *could* add a Democratic-leaning Salt Lake City district since it is split 4 ways in the current map in violation of the state constitution. But we have to see the remedial map Republicans will draw
🚨BREAKING: A state district court has struck down Utah’s congressional map on the grounds that the legislature illegally repealed 2018 anti-gerrymandering standards approved by voters. State has until 9/24 to adopt new map.
I think the White House was hoping the first arrest of a person exercising their 1st Amendment rights would be a transgendered person of color immigrant
A man, near the White House, who describes himself as a "retired disabled combat veteran," after burning an American flag tells bystanders "I am being detained because I expressed my First Amendment rights."
Kinda hoping the judge releases her order as a Newsom-style AI image trolling of Trump
Trump has probably already forgotten about it
Donald Trump is a communist
NEW: The Maryland disctrict court automatically enjoins the govt from removing Kilmar Abrego Garcia from the US until 4 p.m. Wednesday (at least for now) as it prepares to hear arguments. (This is the court’s standard policy in the Trump era.) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
JUST IN: On X, DHS says that Kilmar Abrego Garcia “will be processed for removal to Uganda.”
1) ABC/NBC should lose license or pay hefty fees because their reporting is mean to him. 2) MD should maybe lose bridge repair funds because Wes Moore was mean to him. 3) The feds should investigate Chris Christie for Bridgegate because he was mean to him.
53 cities in Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia had higher crime rates than D.C. in 2024. Despite this, these states deployed their own National Guard troops to help address D.C.'s newly declared "crime emergency." www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...
The list is very long
They gaslit you all throughout the election.
And get back on X
Breaking: Kilmar Abrego García has just been detained by ICE after arriving at the agency's Baltimore field office as part of a required check-in, according to his attorney. "The only reason to take him into detention was to punish him."
I mean, this was true in the 2000 Bush v Gore decision. And Citizens United. And Shelby County. It’s been a long obvious road where the Republican Supreme Court majority rules in favor of the Republican position on important cases involving political power
Jimmy Carter likely led a healthy lifestyle as possible and listened to his doctors
Rides come with fascist narrators
Okay. Yeah. John Bolton. While just about every minute ICE is violently disappearing a brown person with only some of it getting captured on video
By nation you mean national media
Man who claims to know more about grass than anyone and who says DC needs more grass rips out White House grass for concrete pad