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It’s time for these victims receive justice. It’s time for Trump to stop protecting the rich & powerful & to start telling the truth. It’s also time for Republicans in Congress to find the courage to sign the discharge petition that would force a vote to release the Epstein files. (2/2)
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)
The state of America: Cyndi Lauper changes the lyrics to Girls Just Want to Have Fun to Girls Just Want Fundamental Rights.....
As many as 100 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and other victims of sexual abuse are expected to attend a rally Wednesday in Washington, D.C. as a bipartisan Congressional effort gains steam to force the U.S. Department of Justice to make public its controversial files on the disgraced sex trafficker.
I am 76 & I have had most of these vaccinations at one time or another. Also vaccinations against Covid, Tetanus, plus Cholera & Yellow Fever when travelling in foreign countries. These prevented me catching horrible diseases & dying a gruesome death. They did not harm me, they protected me!
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
So the US is just bombing ships now?? In the fucking Caribbean? And the fucking "peace president" has the gall to say it's about sex trafficking? While continuing to try to distance himself from his friend Epstein? Where are all those isolationists now?
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
So the US is just bombing ships now?? In the fucking Caribbean? And the fucking "peace president" has the gall to say it's about sex trafficking? While continuing to try to distance himself from his friend Epstein? Where are all those isolationists now?
BREAKING: Mayor Muriel Bowser ALLOWS federal law enforcement INDEFINITELY in DC. Gift article: wapo.st/3VyXMcY
The largest SNAP cuts in history went into effect yesterday, eliminating or drastically cutting food assistance for millions of Americans. And it’s all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the super-rich. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax — it's cruel.
how did you find out that you were dead
He had to call it Rocket City because he couldn't remember why he was there otherwise
Last weekend, I retraced the steps of two of the most important moments in American (and Chicago) labor history, starting with the Haymarket Massacre. But the Haymarket Massacre wasn’t just a tragedy. It still provides a compass for us to fight against fascism today:
Today's ISM survey commentary is fun: "Tariffs continue to wreak havoc" "There is absolutely no activity in the transportation equipment industry. This is 100 percent attributable to current tariff policy. "We are also in stagflation: Prices are up due to material tariffs, but volume is way off.”
Never forget this: Working people outnumber the billionaires and CEOs by a huge margin. If workers stand together, they will win. Solidarity.
Epstein Survivors Press Conference Sept 3rd, 10:30 a.m. ET Tune in to support them.
"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.
This Labor Day (and all other days): Thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Honor the workers who teach your children. Pay all workers a living wage.
A comfortable life used to be the American Dream. Not being a financial mogul. Not fighting for the top spot on the food chain. Working to get your share of the pie with the whip cream on top. Grabbing enough food to fill your plate, but leaving plenty on the table for others. Let’s do that again.
Today's a federal holiday because on the eve of the 20th century machinists, carpenters, and people who worked in mills, mines, and factories joined together to fight for better wages and a day to honor working people. If you're enjoying the holiday today, thank the labor movement.
NEW: Nadler will not seek re-election, citing the need for a new generation of leaders. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Thank you on this labor day!!
#WorkersOverBillionaires on 135th in south Overland Park, KS! @50501movement.bsky.social @indivisible.org
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.
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
Ditto.
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.
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.
The thing I don’t get is the same press that is being kept at a distance from an obviously not hale and hearty president isn’t screaming for answers?
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
America the Scammed www.wired.com/story/cantor...
DOL is trying to take away minimum wage and overtime from millions of workers. Just thought I’d mention that.
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:
Happy Labor Day Enjoy the long weekend for those who have the holiday off, and thanks to everyone taking care of us in essential work today Remember how those before us fought for our weekends and wages And keep fighting for freedom on this side of heaven youtu.be/ArwRUmmZdb0?...
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."
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
Everything we take for granted — weekends, paid vacations, sick leave, safer workplaces, health care — exists because of unions.
You know who benefits most from antivaccine conspiracy theories as national health policy? Our enemies.
SIGNS OF FASCISM 🪧
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
The Gang Tries Desperately to Win an Award: MAGA Bugaloo www.financialexpress.com/business/mod...
Former Ukrainian speaker of Parliament Andriy Parubiy has been assassinated in Lviv. An investigation is underway to hunt down the killer, according to the Ukrainian interior ministry.
It’s time for that George Clooney Op-Ed expressing concern about Trump’s health…
They don’t care if you have papers or not. What they care about is whether you look like an immigrant from south of the border.
Everyone on Bluesky is poised like we're waiting for the DVD logo to hit the corner of the screen
The fact that there's no late night presidential tantrum story this morning is only more evidence
I’m just saying that when it happens I’m jumping out of bed, running to my window, and tossing a coin to a boy to buy the biggest goose in town
He canceled a golf trip and didn't say anything about it Bet he had the big one if he's still here
Nearly 70% of Americans support labor unions. Why? Because more and more people know that unions ensure workers get higher paychecks, safer working conditions, and a real voice in both the workplace and our democracy. It's what every worker deserves.
As you get ready to enjoy your #LaborDay weekend, remember that the holiday, and the concept of a 2-day weekend itself are a direct result of America’s labor movement. In this era of out of control wealth inequality, unions are how we tip the scales back in workers’ favor.
Working people across the DC are unified in our demands: we want these federal forces out of our city now! #FreeDC
Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, that's pretty weird, right? I wonder how many days he'll go without being in public until an intrepid journalist asks why. Might even be a book in it. Do you know anyone?
A Connecticut murder-suicide has reignited debate over how vulnerable people interact with artificial intelligence — and what safeguards tech companies owe society.
Oh, that's why Vance is so especially ghoulish right now He senses power like Gollum senses the Ring
Trump wasn't seen yesterday by the White House press pool. He wasn't seen today. He has no public events scheduled this weekend. Trump hasn't been seen in public since Weds, and it's unclear if he'll be seen in public until Tues. That's pretty damn weird.
Three cops slammed an 18-year-old to the ground, pulled his hair, and knelt on his head for riding a Citi Bike "in a reckless manner," in Alphabet City yesterday. NYPD claimed the rider ran a red light, but CCTV footage doesn't show him doing that. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/08/29/s...
Garcia: This is a great ruling by the court. Of course, Donald Trump is already overreacting, saying this is going to somehow be the destruction of the United States. I'm not sure if he's aware he's trying to do that all on his own.
Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.
A huge fuck you to everyone who told us we were "overreacting"!
NEW: Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed into law a new, deeply gerrymandered congressional map that disenfranchises voters of color for political gain. All voters deserve to be heard. This is an affront to our democracy.
This is art
Obvi, he needs an art exhibit.
Okay, one more, but warning that it’s the most… jarring. I think this one speaks for itself.
This one is one of his most dramatic Trumpinocchios; Mike Pence on the gallows on January 6th.
It’s not just Trump. Here’s a Rudy Giuliani Trumpinocchio. Zoom in on the side of his head for an at-one-time topical reference.
Here’s the first Trumpinocchio he ever did, carved during Trump’s first term. It’s about 5” - 6” high. He’s been a wood carver for years. It’s one of his biggest hobbies, along with cameras and photography.
Okay, my 101-year-old grandfather is really enjoying the responses he’s gotten here, so I’ve finally convinced him to let me share something he’s been working on for years; a series of sculptures he calls “Trumpinnochios.” Here’s one of his best. I’ll share a few more in this thread.
Reality
Blue states banding together to make up for a Federal vacuum in health policy feels like the first step into… something.
🚨BREAKING: Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) reinforced GOP power grabs sweeping the country, calling a special legislative session Friday to redraw congressional districts and weaken the ability of voters to pass laws through ballot initiatives. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
We are so fucked.
Psaki: Comer was a little slow to move forward with the subpoenas, at least in my view. Moskowitz: That’s actually his regular speed. He’s just a little slow in general.
This crime at Social Security might amount to the biggest data theft in human history. Committed by a government against its own citizens. I don’t think anyone has begun to grasp the sheer scale of corruption and institutional destruction that has occurred in the last few months. Era-defining.
Garcia: We finally got word from the Epstein estate. They're going to be providing the actual Epstein book… the estate is actually going to actually now get us that book and a bunch of other documents that they have that's actually not been reported yet.
If this oleaginous haircut thinks local crime rates merit a federal military intervention, then he should be leading the armored column down to his home state of Louisiana, which is one of the worst in the nation.
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
RFK Jr looks like he’s been sampling the diseases at the CDC
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...
RFK Jr. taps his top deputy, Jim O’Neill, to be the new CDC director. Both men appear to wear skinny ties from Otaa. Otaa's ties are made in China from microfiber, a kind of plastic that, under the right conditions, can migrate to your balls.
A federal judge has ordered Florida to shut down "Alligator Alcatraz," after the state spent a staggering $218M to build the now-vacant detention camp. Closing it will run taxpayers another $20M. An utterly cruel and costly waste.
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
Jain: We have a U.S. Attorney’s Office that is also facing a vacancy crisis. And that is at least partially because the predecessor to the current U.S. Attorney, Jeanine Pirro, was Ed Martin. He fired more than 20 prosecutors whose only “crime” was prosecuting violent January 6 insurrectionists.
Yeah the people behind these LLMs are greedy, lazy, & exploitative This is always the same story with new technologies - bad products flood the market and do irreparable harm before regulations can catch up And then we repeat it a few years later when those same unscrupulous people regain power
Meta ethics? bsky.app/profile/nanc...
Hey, mainstream media... Maybe more attention to stuff like this and less to Travis and Taylor's engagement?
When the broligarchs said "new Dark Age", they really meant it Guess they're really pro-dysentery
Lots of right-wing political pastors and charlatans about to get rich from FEMA money.
It’s time to take serious action at the State Capitol to address gun violence.
Stephen Miller: Secretary Kennedy, one of the world's foremost experts on public health, is working hard to restore the credibility of the CDC as a scientific organization committed to the scientific method
The brain worm lawyer who eats roadkill, tortured animals and people, and caused a fucking disease outbreak is not a "public health expert" because he defrauded people with snake oil medicine
Stephen Miller: Secretary Kennedy has been a crown jewel of this administration
While he throws the CDC into chaos that may not be fixable, read @kieraevebutler.bsky.social and I on what else RFK Jr. is planning to do to vaccines, and remember the artificial September deadline he's set to "discover" the causes of autism: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Excellent question.
