Difference between a husky and border collie... 👀😅🤣 #dog #dogday #bluesky
Difference between a husky and border collie... 👀😅🤣 #dog #dogday #bluesky
driftglass: To Slightly Misquote Another Republican Scumbag Named Donald... driftglass.blogspot.com/2025/08/to-s... Stiffing the military he is deploying for his Fascist Security Theater like the lawyers and contractors he spent his entire life stiffing is so on-brand for Il Douche.
So the "mini-Trump" Bill Pulte is the actual criminal & puppet of Peter Theil that flouts the Rule Of Law to shield Pulte's criminal career as he endeavors to corrupt the Fed Just as these rich elite "conservatives" all appear to operate - As if the Rule of Law does not pertain to them
What was that saying about glass houses?
It's really shocking that the NYT and WaPo have forgotten that Trump is a criminal who freed hundreds of violent cop assailants on his first day on the job. Every Single Story About Crime should lead with that.
In any other era, Congress would have opened an investigation into this. The corruption that we are witnessing is staggering. This is Ben Ali’s level of corruption and abuse of power.
New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Federal Reserve independence reflects at least the minimal common sense to put the marshmallows in another room. The kind of choice it was possible to make in an era before indoor plumbing and reading without moving your lips became “elitist.”
ICE kidnapping a mother as her child begs the officers not to take her. Heartbreaking 💔 😢
They’ve been told minorities r the problem for the problems in US. They go to bed and sleep fine. They think they’re heroes. But the only minority destroying this country are the Oligarchs that have been stealing from the working class for decades who ironically are the one’s given them the orders.
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." Nazi’s have been trained to hate brown people to escape accountability 4 those picking pockets.
5 so-called journalists, none seems to know that the LAST TIME Kash Patel and John Ratcliffe used emails stolen from foreign spies to predicate an investigation, John Durham chased Russian disinformation for four years.
Speaking of NYT failures: The other day NYT (led by right wing propagandist Devlin Barrett) went thru hoops to normalize the investigation of John Bolton. www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/28/k...
Trump's trying to help those targeting Kamala Harris. edition.cnn.com/2025/08/29/p...
In a two week period: Trump fired 7 of the 8 members who do independent federal oversight on nuclear waste. Peter Thiel (Palantir) is found to be backing the first privately developed uranium enrichment facility in the US.
As @emptywheel.bsky.social has explained very clearly, at a minimum, Putin knows exactly how and how much Russia conspired with Trump for his 2016 election win, something Trump has been furiously trying to distract from ever since. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Here's the indictment of Adrian Martinez, the kid who was brutally assaulted by agents after calling out their kidnapping of a guy he worked with. They left out his 1A speech and the assault, among other things. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Patrick Jude Michael O’Hanlon = violent racist criminal with fascist motivations and actions. He belongs in prison, behind bars, doing hard time. He is a menace to society
The LGML case came very close to being JGG redux. But just before the hearing began, the judge decided not to wait. She entered a TRO barring removal of all the children. That made all the difference: DHS already had the kids loaded on planes. One plane even took off (then turned around).
My theory is that Trump wants Roberts to act now because if the stonks crash before it gets to them, his argument for getting the MAGA 6 to ignore the law (IT MADE US GREAT AGAIN!) will evaporate.
Taxes. before the full Brunt of his mostly lower to middle-income working folks & small business Taxes Hits
In Batshit Rant Trump Seems to Beg John Roberts to Rule before Full Brunt of His Tariffs Hits www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/01/i...
Trump now routinely barks orders to the Opus Dei Court and they do whatever he commands of them.
70 years ago today, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, was brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier. When you see “MAGA,” realize THAT was the America Trumpers are saying was “great.” I want a GREATER America than that. We all should.
Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.
Troops in the streets and he thinks he’s going to get a Nobel, peace begins at home
Hey Congress – make Alex Acosta's testimony public and televised. There's absolutely no ethical reason for it to be private and transcribed. Nefarious AF. We need to hear your questions. We want to see him squirm. We need to see him squirm. Yet another sign of a cover-up.
Outrageous. FEMA staff warned that disaster response has been gutted—and instead of fixing it, they were suspended. Retaliating against civil servants for telling the truth puts Americans at risk.
“Frayed collar workers in gold plated times.” 30 years ago I issued a stark warning about the health of America’s working class. Watch and tell me what you think. https://youtu.be/8rW1kkAV-gw?feature=shared
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... MAGAGOP/Trump's ongoing war against working folks worsens
If Democrats ever gain power again, they could begin improving the situation by repealing the 78-year-old union-busting Taft-Hartley Act, superseding it with a worker-friendly law. bsky.app/profile/rbre...
bsky.app/profile/eric... “Behind every one of half of the portly & well-dressed members of the Senate can be seen the outlines of some corporation interested in getting or preventing legislation,” it wrote. The Senate, Harper’s Weekly noted, was “a club of rich men.”
Half-Baked Alaska open.substack.com/pub/greatpow...
August 31, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Ukrainians Penetrate Russian Flanks and Retake a Town!
Id heard that Cantor Fitzgerald, the Wall Street firm formerly run by Commerce Secy Lutnick and now run by his sons is one of the big buyers of these refund rights. Turns out it’s already public back in July when they were buying them at 20 to 30 cents on the dollar. www.wired.com/story/cantor...
The irony of all this is that if he manages to take down the Sullivan precedent, one of the very first victims will be the right wing social media influencers who are basically his last group of political support these days. They will get buried in lawsuits.
Make no mistake, everything that’s happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media. Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are. Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
“Jobs disappear and the markets cheer.” On Labor Day 30 years ago, I issued a warning the growing divide between workers and the super-rich. Watch. youtu.be/8rW1kkAV-gw
NEW: "Long the envy of the world…the CDC finds itself no longer able to advocate for what its scientists believe the best available research shows….The agency has since January shed literally centuries' worth of collective experience through a combination of firings, retirements, and resignations."
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
US Lawmakers Urged to Follow Merkley and Van Hollen's Lead After Senators Denied Access to Gaza www.commondreams.org/news/congres... Netanyahu, et al. have ZERO Right/jurisdiction to tell US lawmakers where they can & cannot go - Time to tell Netanyahu to fuck-off & go with Aid wherever needed=Gaza
Trump Tried to Illegally Deport 600+ Guatemalan Kids Holiday Weekend na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... "It is a dangerous moment for this country when [fascists in] our government targets & denies orphaned 10-year-olds their basic legal right to present their case before a judge"
Tulsi Gabbard, an Idiotic Symbol of our Republics Collapse www.blueamp.co/p/tulsi-gabb...
Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration’s deportation flights for Guatemalan children bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=0b... In the dead of night-Trump regime secretly attempted its blatantly Racist regime's Racist/white supremacist fascist (Miller, Vought, Roberts) agenda
Yep. And Trump/Noem lying is even too Stupid to function in Hitler/Goebbel's method of lying — how people could be induced to believe so colossal a lie because they would not believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously".. www.dailykos.com/comments/234...
This is the way
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
After Trump terrorized her city, a city council candidate fights back www.progressreport.news/p/after-trum...
Nobel Laureate economist slams attempted ouster of Lisa Cook youtu.be/h91AH_rQDJg
Hey, Mr. I Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, Tsar Vlad is still killing Ukrainians two weeks after your groveling in Anchorage. Where are the "consequences" you vowed if Putin didn't OK a ceasefire? No new sanctions. No loosening of restrictions on US weapons Ukraine uses. Not even any harsh language.
I had breakfast with a friend who works at the State Department—been there for more than 10 yrs working at a very important desk. What he described is a shambolic State: things falling thru the cracks, sporadic cooperation with other agencies at best, morale is very low, ppl retiring, etc
Evening shot of Mt. Hood. May 9. 🤍🩵☁️
It's been proposed by lots of people. Still a good idea
"RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy...it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism." Were he not a Kennedy...and wealthy...he'd likely be living his life out in a mental institution. Diagnosis: Dumb-Fuckery.
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@tyedyedterrapin.bsky.social Nowadays, due to social media, lies go around the world 10X while truth is putting its shoes on. But it doesn't have to be that way. Is it finally upine.medium.com/time-to-solv...
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
August 30, 2025
Image caring more about stopping a memorial for people killed in a mass shooting than stopping mass shootings. #Priorities
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
NEW: Federal judge signs off on DOJ and Oklahoma's sham anti-immigrant lawsuit. Judge Ronald White did not even consider a brief arguing the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the matter before issuing an order striking down a decades-old Oklahoma law. Tonight, at Law Dork:
RFK Jr must be fired. He’s too deranged and full of himself to leave voluntarily. So it’s vital to convince Trump that keeping Kennedy around drains his own political power and thus his personal wealth by so visibly endangering the health of everyone in the U.S. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
August 30, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... MAGAGOP anti-American fascism
August 29, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Project 2025 = MAGAGOP fascism
The More We Know
Medicare will begin denying claims utilizing A.I. companies that get paid depending on how many claims they reject * Medicare For All
Another big paper with an op-ed on the dangers RFK Jr presents. Write one for your own local paper. Spread the word. This man is a menace. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
The undermining of science and the incalculable value of vaccines is scary to watch - effects will be global due to the huge influence of US 💉⚕️🧪 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#NYC baseball coach confronts ICE child predators. “There's only one way to get into the cage, so my whole thing was I can control that. I was in front of the entrance and that's when I just said, you know, I may die here, but they will not take one of these kids." www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...
Indeed; Adding to Neil Katyal's court success is this from the brilliant Prof Laurence Tribe: 'Taxation without representation': Prof. Tribe breaks down Trump's loss on tariffs in appeals court youtu.be/4YRXO2oUtwU (most of Trump "tariffs"-Taxes on workers & small business under IEEPA = illegal)
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
Netanyahu is restricting aid trucks into Gaza—the best way to get food to starving people there—so Jordan is delivering some with air drops. The Jordanians said @merkley.senate.gov & I could join one of those flights to see the devastation, but Israel denied authorization for our scheduled flight.
CHICAGO…
Cowardice & Corruption: 'to Evade Accountability': Trump to Boycott UN Human Rights Review www.commondreams.org/news/trump-u... ACLU expert: this malfeasance sets "a terrible precedent that would only embolden dictators & autocrats & dangerously weaken respect for human rights at home & abroad"
Fraudulent GOP Investigation Pressures Wikipedia to Reveal Identities of its Editors Accused by the white supremacist, fascist Heritage Foundation of what both the racist republicans & Heritage are fully guilty of na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
*8/26/2025 thread of noncooperation* I'm going to start with my own thread about all the people who have resisted American authoritarianism in the past - both the oppression AND THE OPPOSITION TO IT are our history. We need to learn from it. 2/
*8/26/2025 thread of noncooperation* Officials in Kansas protecting the vulnerable 3/
*8/26/2025 thread of noncooperation* Federal appeals court defends voting rights/the Constitution 4/
*8/26/205 thread of noncooperation* The suit that led to a Florida judge ruling that "Alligator Alcatraz" must close was filed by the Miccosukee Tribe in the Everglades together w/ environmental groups. As Sarah Jackson says, "Folks who’ve been fighting fascism for 500 years haven’t given up." 5/
*8/26/2025 thread of noncooperation* Democrats at the state & local level have fought the federal government & won back money public health funding 6/
*8/26/2025 thread of noncooperation* Flipping a red district (by a landslide, no less)—you very much love to see it 11/
Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner says he won't cooperate with Trump's "frankly fascist agenda" on immigration. www.inquirer.com/news/philly-...
Philadelphia Inquirer: DA Larry Krasner says Dugan is ‘at war with the truth’ and lied when he said he wouldn’t accept Republican nomination
Powerful clip from my friend Philly DA Larry Krasner making it plain. “Trump is the public safety emergency.” Philadelphia is the “City of Love.” And we will not let Trump turn it into a city of hate and fear. We got this.
EVERYONE MUST Watch This - Larry Krasner DA Philadelphia tells it like it is when it comes to tRump&what he is currently doing with National Guard. Any news media worth its salt should be having Larry on their show. He is standing up for America just like Pritzker, Newsom & Moore. @maddow.msnbc.com
*8/26/2025 thread of noncooperation* Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner standing up for the law and against Trump's threat to send in his goons 12/
www.tiktok.com/@jenpsaki/vi... republican politicians fear allowing voters to actually vote - That is how bad the MAGArepublican politicians & its Elite 1%er & corporate ONLY policies screw over working class families - & they know it
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