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🚨 Speaker Mike Johnson says the problem with gun violence is the human heart, but global evidence shows easy access to guns and inequality — not the heart — drive violence. From Dunblane in the UK to Port Arthur in Australia, stronger laws saved lives. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
💥 Trump cuts $4.9bn U.N. & Foreign Aid approved by Congress In a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) OMB is cutting the budget without going through legislative branch Vought is using "pocket rescission" for first time in 50 years to strip U.N. of its funding including $838m for peacekeeping 💥
It’s been 38 days since Republicans shut down Congress to stop the release of the Epstein files On July 22, 2025 Speaker Mike Johnson abruptly ended the legislative session and advanced the start of the summer recess Donald Trump is in the Epstein files #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
Wait wait wait -- if the president dies in office and the VP takes over, the Speaker of the House does not just become vice president. The new president nominates a vice president who must then be confirmed by both houses. Please stop talking about Vice President Mike Johnson.
That’s really stepping up and fighting for your community. Why should Mike Johnson have any peace when he’s made life hell for millions of Americans
This is effective if it keeps growing. Confronting them where they are, dozens of people showing up, projecting a meme onto a surface. Brilliant #citizenaction
$500 a night for a room? I’d love to see the paper trail for how that was paid.
House Speaker Mike Johnson Totally Deflects When Asked About His State’s #Crime Rate He really didn’t have a good answer. newrepublic.com/post/199857/...
MAGA Mike Johnson recessed Congress early so they could not vote on releasing the Trump/Epstein Files until September Johnson hoped the Trump Epstein Scandal would die down by Sept. Boy was he wrong. We are just getting started Little Mikey.We will never give up on exposing pedophiles #ProudBlue
Man who stole from kids with Cancer says government officials must operate with the highest ethical standards.
Ahh, the pains of having someone around to cook, clean and do the laundry.
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So you don’t drink longneck beers?
Joni Ernst isn't seeking reelection in 2026. She has decided to devote more time making coats out of Dalmatian puppies.
This notion that Republicans are coasting right now and the wind is beneath the sails of Donald Trump is just not true. Joni Ernst is not going to run for reelection in Iowa. There was a special election in Iowa earlier this week and the Democrats have now broken the Republican super majority.
The bigger picture is: 2026 midterms, getting under Trump skin, wedging opposition content into the Fox ecosphere and getting enough voters to vote for Dems to get them elected and take back the majority in the house. That’s what all of this Dem Governors trolling team Trump is about.
“Meta says its own AI created inappropriate images, violating its policies” what the fuck
Try and see the bigger picture. Have a good day.
Hurrah for the Constitution of the United States and hurrah for the Article III federal courts: by a 7-3 margin, Federal Circuit in V.O.S. Selections v. Trump upholds Court of International Trade decision striking down most of Trump's tariffs as not authorized by IEEPA. Per curiam (unsigned). /1
BREAKING: Federal Circuit, 7-4, rejects Trump’s tariffs under the IEEPA, affirming the lower court’s decision against Trump. www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions-ord...
We just prevailed in our case against Trump's massive IEEPA tariffs, in the Federal Circuit! All challenged IEEPA tariffs ruled illegal, but scope of injunction TBD. Will have more to say later. Here is a link to the ruling (7-4 decision by en banc court): www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions-ord...
BREAKING 🧵: Divided appeals court rules against Trump's tariffs. 4 judges appointed by Bush I, Obama, & Biden (2) say IEEPA doesn't allow tariffs. 4 judges app. by Bush II (2) & Obama (2) - including chief - say it does. 3 judges app. by Clinton & Obama (2) say it doesn't allow *these* tariffs.
Weirdly, the pig does seem to care. It’s precisely one of two reasons why his “invade the cities with troops” rhetoric has picked up. Trump really doesn’t like getting made fun of.
Heather Cox Richardson does a great job laying out the history of the confederacy and how it was intended as oligarchy. Check out her last update. This bit comes toward the end. www.youtube.com/live/V8deJsB...
[TNR]: Are Our Oligarchs Going to Drag Us Into Civil War? The billionaires who own the GOP are now actively promoting the same sort of revisionist history the Confederacy did. That did not go very well. By Thom Hartmann newrepublic.com/article/1816... #billionaires #rayDalio #oligarchy
Yeah , it’s once again HISTORY .. bc What DESTROYED the last Oligarchy rule in USA Was basically creation of Unions & Warfare & Strikes Between Unions & The wealthy . It’s why The GOP has HATED unions Today’s GOP is basically The Confederacy .. they want free labor , & oligarchs
Oligarchy and the condoning of slavery have gone hand in hand throughout history. The initial drivers of the Confederacy were wealthy businessmen, primarily prosperous farmers and slave traders.
On this date in 2021, the House honored the work of my mentor and friend, Congressman John Lewis by passing the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to protect against discriminatory gerrymandering and other attacks on our democracy. Unfortunately, the Senate refused to act on it.
Today, with unfair redistricting, including potentially in Indiana and across our country, we need this law more than ever.
The Trump White House has been focused for weeks on forcing Indiana to engage in mid-cycle gerrymandering to help ensure that Republicans are able to keep the House next year — the prospects of which, according to some polls, are pretty up in the air, absent his egregious redistricting campaign.
Can't win democratically so they try to cheat.... apnews.com/article/indi... Indiana legislative leaders met privately with Trump to discuss redistricting
New poll shows an 81% majority of Indiana voters oppose mid-decade redistricting, severely endangering Indiana Republicans' attempts to rig their maps www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
On his social media platform, Trump accused the “activist Judiciary” of trying to strip Republicans of their advantage and demanded outrage from Utah citizens. He has since turned his attention to Indiana, discussing new redistricting pushes there.
A polling memo reveals risk for Indiana Republicans as they weigh redistricting.
Trump’s Indiana redistricting push shows his abject fear of midterm voters. The president and his allies claim he's very popular. Their increasingly desperate actions suggest otherwise.
Go Phillies!
Don’t be moronic. He’s getting airtime on Fox News every day. Go look for a job.
You literally have no idea what you’re talking about. Have a good life.
You have no idea what I want. And I don’t have the time to hang out here and waste my time with you. Just think about maybe it’s a good idea to stop constantly trolling candidates who don’t meet your Tumblr-driven political agenda.
So what? Dems have to stop bringing a pencil to a knife fight.
She saw 2 districts flip in special elections. She knows she’s gonna lose
You’re saying that telling your constituents they don’t need healthcare because they’re gonna die anyway isn’t winning politics?
Trump’s claim that he'd stand up for workers was always a lie. He has consistently attacked the right to organize — even the already very limited rights of federal workers. More of the same from Don the Con. We will fight back in the courts.
No one can help you get help for your paranoia but you.
So you’re assuming that just because Newsum has campaign money & is making traction in media and against the far right, he’s the preordained nominee? That’s some pretty anxious, fearful and paranoid thinking.
So every politician pushing back on Trump, needs to meet your Puritanical test for far left perfection? Otherwise they are just like Trump?’ Is that the framework?
Oh get a job.
Why is the far left so fixated on Gavin Newsom as somehow the preordained nominee? He’s just a candidate—who’s actually impacting the right with his agitation. Do you not get that basic political strategy? Only very fearful people succumb to paranoia like that. Not everything is a “conspiracy.”
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FOX: *plays clip of Gavin Newsom pointing out that crime is higher in Louisiana than in California* FOX: Your response? MIKE JOHNSON: He needs to go an govern his state and not be engaging in this
“Give your kids an extra hug and kiss today.” Jesse Merkel spoke at a news conference outside Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, where his 8-year-old son, Fletcher, was one of two children fatally shot at a back-to-school Mass on Wednesday. Read more: nyti.ms/45HBSKN
NEW: A federal judge ordered an Arkansas school district to take down Ten Commandments displays in its classrooms following our lawsuit.
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The City of Atlanta is opening its first municipal grocery store today. The city is spending $3.5 million in partnership with a neighborhood grocery chain in an effort to eliminate a downtown food desert. www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
China boosts soybean buys from Argentina, Uruguay amid US trade war, sources say reut.rs/4oVKrce
Here's some good news: Catelin Drey won a special election this week to flip a seat blue in the Iowa Senate and break Republicans' supermajority.
A year ago today, Trump threatened to jail Zuckerberg for the rest of his life. Today, Trump is helping Meta win regulatory battles around the world. I wrote about everything that Zuckerberg has gotten from Trump 2.0 so far: www.platformer.news/trump-zucker...
"Voyageurs National Park in northern Minnesota is down four out of seven law enforcement rangers and had to reduce emergency services this summer to four days a week instead of seven."
Though DNC Chair Ken Martin got attention for admonishing the party for only bringing a “pencil to a knife fight,” the message conveyed to those attending the DNC meeting this week was to avoid any internal debate about the direction of the Party. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/democrats-...
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis speaks softly and carries a big schtick. @marshallglasses.bsky.social cuts through Polis' latest announcement stunt to examine his new spending reductions. #copolitics
NEW: Trump administration threatens "imminent enforcement action" against Denver Public Schools for a single gender-neutral bathroom #copolitics
JUST IN: Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia are asking a judge to gag DHS Secy. Noem and AG Bondi due to verbal attacks on Abrego in recent days. Trump's salvos are cited but no gag sought for him. w/@kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
just awful wapo.st/46aNJB0
Why would anyone want Newsom as the nominee? But you’ve got to admit he’s doing a great job getting things stirred up.
What happens when you let “people with lived experience” be in charge of managing government administration programs, rather than those who studied for those jobs. Thanks to the circus that was run by Jenny Durkan with Kshama Sawant as chief clown www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
So can you. Or maybe you would just prefer picking apart the people that might vote out the GOP in the next election. Because that’s what you do for entertainment.
I know the definition has gotten really narrowed by the Tumblr set. Try and think though.
You thought I give a crap about your opinion.
Just months short of the nation’s 250th birthday, Trump is close to batting a thousand at speed-running the very abuses of power that led the Founders to write the Declaration of Independence in the first place.
Isn’t that double Jeopardy? Just asking folks that would know…
After a grand jury failed to return a felony indictment against the Washington, DC, man accused of throwing a sub-style sandwich at a law enforcement officer in the first days of Trump’s federal takeover of the city, federal prosecutors filed a lesser misdemeanor charge.
You're not going to believe this but Susan Collins is "extremely alarmed"
"A man who shared posts on his Facebook page backing Palestine Action has told how he was hauled from his bed by police and arrested on suspicion of breaking terror laws in a terrifying dawn raid." www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
Israel’s final approval for the settlement project in the occupied West Bank, granted last week, shows how far Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his hard-right government have gone in bucking the internationally accepted parameters for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Father Michael Louis Pfleger a priest at the Sabina Catholic Church, a Black parish in Chicago's Auburn Gresham neighborhood has a message for Trump! Before you dare speak about any violence in Chicago, look into your mirror, and address the violence coming from the White House! 🔥
Don't look away.
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
G7 Pressure Mounts—but U.S. Exceptions Undermine Impact of Sanctions on Russian Diamond Trade US eases restrictions on Russian-origin diamond imports until Sep 1 2026 DETAILS ⬇️ www.onestnetwork.com/post/g7-pres...
Russia’s oil revenues decline by 30% within ONE WEEK
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Gov. Gavin Newsom tells @karaswisher.bsky.social he’s launching a memecoin — the “Trump Corruption Coin.” Full episode drops tomorrow!
The far right has absolutely nothing to do with feminists. Stop conflating and trolling females who fought for the rights you DO have. Folks who want the fascists out of office need to stop targeting each other. Time to pull it together, stop the hate.
I feel like a lot incel beliefs, terf misogyny, and other garbage views are getting regurgitated by people who think because they are queer they dont have anything to unpack
The New York Post is reporting the Minneapolis shooter was a far-right detransitioner who made TERF claims about their medical care ruining them in his manifesto
In Mike Johnson's district, not only could thousands of Louisianians lose coverage, health centers are bracing for a financial hit. They're hoping for additional funding to make up for Medicaid cuts.
“It feels like the CDC is over.” Current and former CDC officials say that the departure of several top leaders will further undermine the agency’s ability to provide reliable guidance to Americans, Tom Bartlett reports.
PHOTOS: Three senior CDC officials who resigned during a tumultuous week at the health agency were cheered by staff and supporters after being escorted out of the global HQ in Atlanta, Georgia, today.
US Senate health committee leaders question CDC tumult | via @jennifershutt.bsky.social #ksleg
NEW: Dozens of staff members and leaders at the CDC staged a walkout today in response to the internal shake-up of top federal health officials.
“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?” Dr Bill Foege
CDC employees walk out to rally in support of ousted leaders www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
There is a massive walk out at the CDC by staff unfolding right now. It is NECESSARY. I stand in solidarity with my CDC colleagues. standing up for science and public health. It is a moral imperative.
And then there’s this👇 bsky.app/profile/leah...
"Our goal, in short, is a humane alternative to genocide” - Yarvin "Yarvin’s disturbing manifestos have earned him influential followers, chief among them..tech billionaire..Thiel... one can imagine-with horror-what a receptive would-be autocrat like Trump might do with those ideas" @gilduran.com
Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
It’s an absolute disgrace. I frankly cannot understand what benefit they think they are deriving from this immature stupidity and insanity. #2026midterms cannot come soon enough!
The new head of the CDC, Jim O’Neill, has no degree in science or medicine, and has pushed unproven treatments for COVID like ivermectin. This is so incredibly dangerous.
The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)
As long as guns are easily available to crazy people, mass killings directed at so-called soft targets will continue. This is a fact. Countries where it's more difficult for crazy people to obtain guns have less shootings. This is also a fact. Do with these facts as you will.